The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-05
STATE NEWS.
Waco has q city election on hand.

The Waco Examiner is gone on
Emma Abbott.
The Corpus Christi Critic is little
but it's loud.
Menard county is to have a $4,000
courthouse.
Over $50 crop mortgages were re-
corded ID Waller county last year.
La Nueve Era is the title of a span
ish paper published at Ell raso.
W. B. Hagan, who lives live miles
west OF Huntsville, owns a siX-legged
calf.
The lumber company at Tyler is
progressing finely. Stock will be is
sued and taken shortly.
A Corpus Christi man named
Hymns, last week, married Miss
Emma Arnold of that town.
Major John Henry Brown, an old
Texan and ex-newspaper man, shows
up finely for mayor of Dallas.
Forty car loads of west bound time
freight passed Del Rio on the Texas
and Pacific on the 10Th,
The people of San Angelo expect to
have their town tapped by the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe.
AT Columbus the meat and ice
company are selling citizens good corn
fed beef at eight cents pound.
At Toyah the other night, ball
| and banquet was rendered the Pecos
Valley Cattlemen's association.
Just across the river from Del Rio
the cattle range is in splendid condi-
ton, while on the other side it is the
reverse.
The Navasota Tablet Wickedly says:
AS display of hosiery, the roller
rink is said to exceed the French
opera.
The Waco wooden mills are receiv-
ing more orders than they can fill, and
have consequently taken their drum.
mers off the road.
The report of a couple of fence cut
tiers being killed near Mason is denie
and there have been no fences cut in
| that locality.
DR.. McAlphine, of Whitehall, Grimes
county, was thrown from his horse
the other day and arose with an ankle
badly sprained.
Mr.. Henry Bluff, of Tom Green
county, sold 800 head of sheep last
week to MIR. E. r. Jackson for less
than 81 per head.
Deputy Sheriff Wayne Parks, who
killed Joe Adair at Colorado City on
| the 4th of February, IS now on trial.
He is out on a $1,000 bond.
The other night near Brennan,
thieves entered the smoke house of
Judge Garrett, and departed with
\moSt of the judges good homemade.
, bacon.
A Waco firm advertises for sale 500
| pounds genuine buffalo meat. Poor
dried beef is an excellent substitute
for Buffalo meat, and not one in five
hundred can tell the difference.
A convention of telegraphers met at
Fort Worth yesterday and formed a
state organization. Officers were
elected and bylaws and a constitu-
ton adopted.
Dan Avery, little boy on the way
with his parents from Versailles, Mis-
souri,, to Albany, Texas, was kidnap-
ped at Fort Worth, during the COM
motion of changing cars.
Mrs. Tomosa Cameros de BEHAVES
des, died at Laredo, the other day,
aged 76. She was a member of the
Benavides family, one of the most
prominent on the Rio Grande.
Mrs. Scott, of Marshall, went to
light the fire Sunday morning, lamp
in hand. Stricken with an apoplectic
fit she fell, the lamp exploded, her
clothing took fire and she was burned
to death.
1t has just developed that Jim Tile
ry, charged with the murder OF DR..
Allison, voluntarily surrendered and
has been in Longview Jail since Fri
day last. Fear of mob violence con-
strained the officers to secrecy.
Honey Grove is thinking of putting
up water works, and Bonham is ne
gotiating for the purchase of steam
er. The recent CONGREGATIONS at Tex
arkana and Fort Worth have served
to spread CONSERVATION among the
city fathers of several places.
Grarbury Graphic: Maj. Carmi-
cheal brought rose-bush to town
this week, which he says is of the
American Eagle variety, blooms tri-
weekly all thro' the year. except dur
ing February, land it cost him $50. We
would like to have scion, Major.
Five men rode up to the house of
George Robinson (colored), living near
Bolton, Friday, and after compelling
his wife to cook supper, and supplying
themselves with corn, emptied their
revolvers at him and rode away taking
two Of his horses. The wounded man
will recover.
Bowie is experiencing building
boom, and lives in hopes of an UMPIRE
cedented wheat crop from Montague
| county. The immense field of fine
coal just at her limits are receiving
attention, and it is expected that when
opened up, they will add largely to the
city's population and wealth.
San Antonio Light: San Antonio's
business prospect is beginning to
swell and bud again. The worst has
been past and the city will begin to
grow again. The outlook is very
good, provided our own people show
any vim and enterprise. Let croakers
retire, like owls and bats, to their
holes.
TheETexas Central has passed into
the,hands of Benjamin G. Clark and
Charles Dillingham;, Joint receivers
appointed by the United States circuit
court for the fifth circuit and the
eastern district of Texas. They an
nounce that the organization of the
road will remain unchanged until
further notice.
The Fort Worth & Denver railway
will extend thirty five or forty miles be-
yond Wichita Falls through Wilbal.
ger and into Hardeman county. The
terminus of the line will be the ship
ping point for cattle and it likely
that the trade of Wichita Falls, the
present terminus, will be materially
injured.
Marshall Herald: Mr.. L. W. Lloyd,
while at Big Sandy to receive the en-
CINE for the Northwestern railroad,
was stopping at the Morgan House
last Friday night when the house was
burned. He says that the fire had en-
tered his room and the bedclothes were
on fire before he awoke. He succeed
ed in escaping in his night dress, with
his clothing in his arms. with the loss
of only one sock.
Sherman Courier: From all por-
lions of Grayson county comes the
news of continued and energetic
preparations being made among the
farmers to put in their crops for the
coming season. We are also informed
that notwithstanding the compare
tive failure made in cotton raising in
1894 that mOraHc0ttOn will he Dlantnd