San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-05-08
State Items.
Houston Post.

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State Items.
Houston Post.
Corsicana has q colored brass band
Del Rio is blessed with only one
old maid.
Texas has 80 daily and 3l2 weekly
newspapers.
The first circus OF tho season has
struck Alvarado.
Denison has nearly two thousand
children Of scholastic age.
The Corsicana Cottonseed Oil Mill
has closed for the season.
Four Austin huntsmen recently
.bagged 257 ployer in one day.
San Jacinto Day was generally
celebrated Throughout the State.
Several brick buildings will soon
be in course OF erection at Alvarado.
A large limekiln has been estabi
shed on Judge II. Y. Kinds place,
near Bolton.
The citizens of Big Springs had n
slight sprinkle of snow during the
late cold snap.
Rockwell is the smallest county in
the State, having an area OF only $50
square miles.
The Alvarado military compuny is
duly organized and has about forty
names on the roll.
Sixteen store houses and IN opera
house are now in course OF construc-
ton at Lampasas.
Louisiana has q hen which is 80
aristocratic that she refuses to ''set
on goose eggs.
It is said that business is stagnat-
ing in San Antonio, although the
building boom continues
Colorado City is trying to solve
the servant problem and longs for
100 omigrants from the Emerald
Isle.
Cleburne claims to be no longer n
village, and talks of paved streets
and othermuch. needed improvements.
Comanche citizens raised $1,000 for
a Touring mill at that place, to supply
the loss Of the one recently burned.
Fifty thousand dollars have been
subscribed to the Baptist University
of Texas, which will be located at
Georgetown.
The In Grange Journal states that
the citizens of that place have become
imbued with tho spirit OF improve
ment.
Rossville has a baby boom and
chronicles the arrival of two pairs of
twins in one week and single ones
too numerous to mention.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist Church ut Cleburne re-
Gently Melted $65 at nm entertain
ment for the benefit of the church
A Corsicana citizen has diminu-
tive clock of beautiful design, an
accurate timo-piece and of Partisan
make. 1t can be covered by nickel
A prominent banker of Gonzales
badly crushed horse by letting his
foot fall on tho, it was his foot
which was crushed by the horse fall,
ing on it
The Congregationalists Of Clebune
are to erect a handsome church in
that place. The structure will be of
wood in the shape Of cross G0x60
feek.
The Fort Worth Democrat adver-
tises for IA cook and gardner. plain
or colored." Probably the meaning
is that the colored help is ornamental,
as it is rarely useful.
The Cleburno Telegram sensibly-
PHILOSOPHERS that if the City Council
waits until the town is entirely con
sumed by fire there will be no use in
providing fire engine and necessary
apparatus.
Mustang School House. in Hill
County, was struck by lightning.
knocking down the brick chimney.
A number Of the children were
bruised, all badly scared, but none
seriously injured
An old paralyzed bogga., in Corsi.
cana. was recently taken 10 the
calaboose ON a dray too drunk TO
know anything. Charity ccvercth a
multitude Of drinks, moralizo the
lCOrsicana Courier.
A young fellow teadcrod bad bill
IN payment FOR liquor drank IN a
Buffalo saloon on Snnd1y. and he was
arrested fOT i We notice. however.
that the saloon keeper va not a.rlsi-
ed for t1e proisnatJn u TIE sabbath
lof winch De- s-as gsliiiy. LOT lof giis..ig
ID nlan had EquOr 20 b,gln with.