San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-05
State Items.

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az a wool market
Del Rio will vote ON the incorpon
ton question soon'
Bolton will DO fully equipped with
fire apparatus this week,
Fifteen brick business blocks are
in course Of erection at Tyler.
At FRO Canon they boast hailstones
weighing fifteen pounds.
Dallas companies are training daily
for the drill at tho New Orleans Fair,
A baby show was a prominent
feature Of q picnic at Whitney re'
Gently.
Wbitesboro will vote on the local
option question within n few weeks
The Fort Worth Democrat gives
Tarrlnt County population OF Al
900.
The Rio Granle ia nearly two miles
wide at San Marcial during tho pres.
ent rise.
The closing exercises Of the Hood
Seminary at Austin occurred last
week.
Galveston is going to have variety
theatre 10 add 10 the attractions Mt
tho beach.
Corpus Christi has q permanent
bicycle organization and good cinder
racing track.
Tho new Methodist Church at LIN
Grange was dedicated by Bishop
Parker.
The Texas and st. Louis Railroad
will run q special Pullman train to
the Chicago Convention.
The Mayor Of Lampasas vetoed
the ordinance permitting saloons to
keep open on Sunday.
Milan County wants q new jail.
Four prisoners escaped from the
present cage last week.
The Nolan County Record says
there are 19,31G,482 prairie dogs in
Western Texas. Avery exact census.
Wednesday was reported by the
Galveston pilots to be the toughest
SEQ ever known on the bar.
The military fever at San Antonio
has taken shape The San Antonio
Rifles were organized in due form.
The San Antonio City Council have
under consideration an ordinance to
the sale of liquor in any
variety theatre
Several large shipments of cattle
have passed through Tel Paso the last
few days from West Texas, bound for
Pueblo, Col.
The Choral societies at San Antonio
lnder their new Director, Carl Beck,
will give four concerts throughout the
season.
Five hundred people attended the
Iai-Fest at Scranton Grove last
Friday. Only one shooting scrape
during the day.
Jacksonville and Sherman are the
ast places to catch the military fever,
md companies at both places will be
leard from soon.
Corpus Christi has arleady put in
. bid for tho military headquarters,
n case they are removed from San
Antonio, as now threatened.
Dallas, Denison, Waco, Denton,
Sherman, Gainesville and many other
owns will send delegations to the
Firemen s Tournament at Fort Worth.
San Antonio is going in for street
now in wholesale
ashton. Commerce street, among
,thers, will be paved with stone.
A tumor weighing 100 pounds was
emoved from Weatherford lady by
wo San Antonio physicians this
week. Death resulted soon after.
Mr.. Fisher, of the Matador Laid
nd Cattle Company, paid tho State
State Treasurer 800, 2OS for rent on
eased lands in Floyd and Motley
Kendalia town lots seem to be
rood property. A gentleman there
efused 100 per cent advance on the
rice he paid for some lots, six days
fter the transaction.
A writer in the Southern Live
stock Journal advocates the planting
4 the bush cactus for hedges, to take
he place of barbed wire fence, and
twenty-oight advantages
or it.
Work was commenced ON the 4th
Instant on the railroad which is to
the bay of Topolobampo, on
no lower gulf coast of the Pacific
ocean, with Norfolk, Va. The road
viii cross the Rio Grande Mt Eagle
Pass.