The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-02
STATE NEWS.
Gathered from our Exchanges
over the State.

Mobetic is to have u Jail.
Gonzales il trying to build a $4,000
jail.
Beaumont has n new steam fire en-
CINE.
A fire company was organized In Con
lales on Saturday.
At Gainesville there IL skating rink
for cOlored people only.
A Dallas alderman turned bully and
beat helpless lG-yenr old boy.
Gainesville has just completed its
water works. and seems well satisfied
with It.
Much damage has been done to grow
ing crops by the recent storms In Hill
county.
handle said to be very superior build
ing stone.
A new church being built In Hin
County wns blown down and completely
demolished recently.
Brennan is bound to celebrate the
next Fourth of July with an old-iash-
Toned barbecue.
A. NJ. Thomason cut Val. Peers with II
knife In n quarrel about pair Of boots.
II was In gainesville
Bastrop is agitating the question oil II
narrow gauge to Elgin, to connect ii
with the outside world.
A COW near Beaumont had calf In
the first week Of April. On the It'll of
May the same COW had another calf!
A Jcwess, Mrs. Sam Meyers, aged ~,
was tried In Gainesville recently on =
charge Of arson. She was acquitted.
The crop prospects OF Washington
county are reported very iattering, the
farmers all being busy fighting the weeds
now.
A painter by the name OF Ieckent was
bitten by a tarantula In Gainesville, and
he broke up wholesale liquor house be-
fore he got over It,
The flood at Waco last week was de-
yastating rs well ~ uncomfortable.
East Waco was under water and few, II
any, residents escaped, more or less.
An entire family, Dinninhoil. was swept
away In the house and drowned.
Two men. G. W. Graves and William
Clements, got into n drunken row In
junction City on the 18th ult., when
the former was shot and fatally wounded,
| dying In 81 hours. lie leaves wife and
three children. Clements was admitted
| to bail in the sum OF 5000.
Mrs. Sipes. wife OF William Sipes,
who lives near Brady Knob, Hin coun-
| ty, while in cow-pen milking. was
struck by lightning and killed. Her
| husband and two children were stand
| ing near, and we're knocked insensible.
but not Injured.
The grand jury, of Dallas, have
created quite n cOmmOtlOn among the
manipulators Of cards, by turning into
court number of indictments agains
| the venturesOme class of citizens
known as pokerplayers. Several arrests
have been made and others are to fol-
| low.
Judge Aldridge, of Dallas, interpreted
the sunday law to the grand jury the
other day. lie said that rs cleanliness
is next to godliness, barber shops and
| bath rooms come under the same head
with other necessaries, such as ice and
milk wagons. etc, and that they would
be allowed to remain open. But against
all other occupations and businesses the
grand jury will enforce the law as laid
down In the statute.
on the 27th Miss Annie Gilmore and
her brother and Henry Window, her in
tended husband, were on their way to
Fort Worth to procure marriage IL
cense and make some purchases. In try
ing to cross creek which was very high
the brother and sister who were In n
buggy, we're washed down the stream
and drowned, Notwithstanding the eff
forts of Window, who was unable to
reach the lady before life was extinct
Instead Of buying trOsseau. he went on
to town and bought her collin.