The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-11
STATE NEWS.
Items Gathered from State Exchanges
and Other Sources.


Kerr county's valuation is SjS,OOO in
excess OF last year.
Judge rerry's paper at Eagle Pass,
the Maverick, is dead again.
Galveston, Austin and Houston led the
state In Grant memorial services.
All State departments and courts were
closed at the state capital Saturday.
The Crockett Rifles have received
their guns and accoutrements, 10 stand
of arms.
The grading of the Sabine, Red river
and Gulf railway was begun in Orange
county.
Galveston is still wrestling with the
question Of funding the city debt $4,000
worth.
Texas, Georgia, Mississippi and Louis
lana are the cotton States that report
condition Of the crop at rs.
The value of imports through Eagle
Pass custom house last month was 800
80. Exports about $4,000.
Uvalde county pays taxes on 37S7
horses and mules, -, SGG cattle, l22,Gl2
sheep, 10, 1913 goats and 1919 hogs.
Fort Worth and Dallas are rival bid.
ders for the location of the headquarters
| OF the Gould system of roads for Texas.
The eX-Confederate reunion which
closed up at Fort Worth last week
yielded no boom for political aspirants.
Hampstead, IIearn, Ledbetter, Elgin
| and Waelder join the ranks of those who
report cotton bales of this seasons crop
received.
Nathan Patton. of Galveston, has filed
in Dallas a supplemental libel suit
against the Galveston News claiming
$4,000 damages.
EX-Assistant Postmaster Hamilton, of
McGregor, has been bound over in the
sum of $500, the amount he is charged
with embezzling.
The county surveyors of the State
have effected on organization under the
title Of county and district surveyors MS
ISOLATION of Texas,
In case the English debt is forced up
on the Mexican Republic 1t Is not un-
likely that several of the northern
States will secede.
The boys in gray at Fort Worth tele-
Graphed their cordial expressions of
sympathy to Mrs. Grant in resolutions
most eulogestic of the dead General.
FL Pasos cattle shipments reached
1000 head last week. The quarantine is
very strictly enforced, and 1900 head
are held below the city waiting inspec-
ton.
a leading physician and big saloon
man OF Eagle Pass had arranged for a
duel last Friday, but were arrested and
placed under bonds before any shooting
was done.
All Offices and shops of the Missouri
facllic roads, as far as possible, were
ordered closed Saturday by Vice Presi-
dent lloxie in honor of the nations
dead hero.
TAylor's corn crop will yield GO bush
eis per acre, cotton never looked better;
oats were simply immense, the sheep
Hooks are in splendid condition and
everyone happy,
Ianpasas has raised Sl200 for the en-
torlainment Of the iiremen at the APP
preaching tournament, and will add $500
more to the amount. Great prepare
tions are being made for that event.
Governor Ireland has called the atten-
| tlon of the Attorney-Gen to the fact
that the attempt to consolidate COM
| peling railway lines in this State is Il
violation of constitutional requirement.
sheriff Hornsby's offer OF $500 reward
for the capture of Tom Pearson ma
terialzed quite suddenly. The escaped
prisoner was found at Onion creek, seven
miles from Austin, early Saturday
morning and brought in by posse UNI
der charge of the Sheriff and his deputy,
White, by the latter Of whom the arrest
was made.
Miss Matte Rankin, aged lG, daughter
OF a leading planter of Ellis county, was
pouring some whiskey out of bottle for
her sick father, Friday night, when the
candle flame ignlted the spirit, ex-
ploded the bottle, setting her clothing
and that OF her younger sister on fire.
Both girls were burned to death and the
house with its contents consumed.