San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-12
State Items.


$50 an acre.
There arc seven oranges in Collii
County.
Navarro County has $1,000 sur
plus in its treasury.
Milk was sold on the streets o.
Waco last week at / cent quart.
Home capital is building nm ice
factory and -four mill at Fort Davis
Fort Worth is going to have n mod
zeal college.
The losses from the floods at Waco
will amount to $4,000.
Fannin County did not have dozen
clear, warm days in two months.
Wooten Wells is being fixed up in
anticipation Of the summer visitor.
There are twelve announced candi-
dates for Cotton Weigher ut Mount
Pleasant.
Lampasas County sheep have
sheared nm average of seven pounds
each this season.
The Brazos rose ten feet between
10 A. M. and p. M. at Waco during
the recent flood.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad is
taxed to its utmost nowadays to
transport its cattle shipments,
The Red River National Bank, of
Gair esville, with capital of $780,
900, has been organized.
Three dollars and fifty cents per
day is paid stone masons at work on
the capitol building at Austin.
Fort Worth's claim to tho free
postal delivery system is being
Investigated, with the promise of sue
cess to the Fort.
There is complaint at Taylor of the
quality of water furnished by the
Water Works Company for drinking
purposes.
The employment of non-union men
on the court house ut Bolton has
created trouble between the contrac-
tor and union men.
Among Laredo's most pressing
needs the Times enumerates gas
works, drainage. houses numbered
and road bridge across the river
Several Britishers at San Antonio
celebrated the Queens birthday last
week by getting as full of whisky as
possible.
Tho Commissioners Of Titus
County advertise for bids for the
building of upward of n dozen bridges
destroyed in the recent freshets.
A single English syndicate owns
100000 acres of land in Texas.
Foreign capital altogether controls
an aggregate of21, 100000 acres in the
State.
The Statesman predicts $4,000
people for Austin inside of fifteen
years. Such modest predictions are
refreshing after reading tho Dallas
and Fort Worth papers.
They had terrible hail storm at
Limestone recently. The frozen
missiles in some cases battered in
the roof of buildings rs if they had
been cannon balls.
Mr.. o. d. Moulten, of Greenville,
has donated ten acres of ground, near
the centre of the town for public
park, which property the city will
Improve.
Norton's Union Intelligencer says
the Government building being cree
ted at Dallas is a disgrace to the
Government and an insult to the
citizens Of the city.
Over fifty thousand head of cattle
are awaiting shipment ut Laredo.
The railroads ere not able to furnish
the necessary facilities for transporta
ton fast enough.
The Texas Stoclman says that the
beef shipments from Texas will not
be heavy this year; but what is lack
ing in quantity will, to great extent,
be made up in quality.
Colorado estimates the damages |
by the recent storms at 100000. |
The storm there was truly awful,
hardly a building escaping some |
damage. The Methodist Church was
completely wrecked.
Cassius NJ. Clay lives quietly on his
Kentucky farm, taking little notice Of |
current politics. "Im not alone, he /
says. II have my sheep, cattle. dogs,
birds, flowers, and books, and L am
writing q book-my memoirs. '
The Stuttz Dramatic Company are
spending the summer at Corpus
Christi, and adding much TO the
attractions Of that place as a summer
resort. The town has also an organt
zed amusement association, which
gives free excursions on the bay.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, Of reaper
fame,died lastmonth, lelvingan estate /
valued at thirty-twO and a half mil 1
lions. This unusual fortune vas I
made in legitimate business. and not |
by speculation. IL IL one Of the rare /
instances where an inventor has /