The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-09
STATE NEWS.

u There are no vacant houses in Deni
son.
The first of the spring clip has beer
sold at Laredo.
Corn is 81 bushel and millet 800 {
ton in Young County.
Farmers in Lamar County report &
splendid stand of oats.
Col. Stillwen H. Russell has decided
to locate at Denison to practice law.
Milan County has a place called
Liloc, which is anything but flowery
residence.
A Rockdale doctor has named a
recent addition to his household "Bel-
va Lockwood"
Abilene is debating the establish
, ment of a wooden mill. It is fine 10
cation for one.
Waco's egg shipment to Kansas
City this season amounts to upward
OF 5000 dozen.
Fort Worth has sold $4,000 of her
bonds in New York. They sold at
9815 on the dollar.
A two-year-old grapevine in Cole
man County bore seYenty-fiVe pounds
Boston capitalists are examining
the facilities for building wooden
mill at Laredo, Texas.
San Saba County sent some fine
specimens of marble and building
stone to the Exposition.
The citizens of San Antonio have
raised fund of $4,000 for the widow
| Of Marshal Hal Costing.
The other day a Laredo hack-driver
ran over a little child in the street, Sc
verely injuring the infant.
Major T. G. Lee, a Texas veteran
eighty-six years of age, died on the
10th instant near Harwood.
Not bale of cotton remains ih
Gregg County, one buyer having
made clean sweep of the staple.
The merchants of Greenville are
going to form an association to pro-
tect themselves against dead beats.
A band of burglars has been ar
rested at Longview, and it is expected
that house breaking will close for the
present.
An election on local option was held
at Fairfield, last week, and Prohibi-
ton was carried by an overwhelming
majority.
Lavaca County farmers are planting
an unusual large crop of cotton this
year, and will make desperate effort
to get even once more.
The Pamela Watchman complains
of "brawling and fighting" in the pub
lie streets OF Carthage.
Rockdale, too, has got it.
The Tryon-Sampson-Floy Tank
ersly-bucket shop black mailing affair
is being editorially discussed in all the
State papers, and Tryon and Sampson
are catching it."
The spring poet of the Palestine Ad-
vocate spells Texas with small st"
makes it rhyme with "Yex u.s." signs
his name bottom side up and does
other unaccountable things.
Ell Paso Lone Star: On Wednesday
last an adobe hut occupied 10y Geo.
P6tzmaier, near II. s. Lyter's brick
yard, about two miles from town, was
entered by plunderers, who robbed the
occupant Of about IS and a coat and a
pair of boots, and, as a token of graft
tude, struck him over the head with
some blunt instrument, which
resulted in his death yesterday.
Talk about fishing and "big
catches" and, in fact, everything that
belongs to the "scooping in" and Mr..
Henry E. Lockett carries the medal.
Last week Mr.. Lockett caught fish
in the Bosque weighing thirty-tive
pounds, and that, too, with common
troll-line, while fishing for trout
Clifton Sentinel.
The Clifton Sentinel says: For its
size Clifton has more law-abiding citi-
zens to the square yard than any other
town in Texas: does larger business
in farm machinery than any other
three towns of its size in the State;
that many of the farmers Whereabouts
say that the prospects for a good wheat
crop are splendid.
Several of the most extensive Pan
handle ranchmen are preparing for
the planting of johnson grass, sor-
ghum, millet and other forage crops
on a large scale. If it pays
to feed few cattle, 1t will pay
to feed them where they are
held by the thousands at less
proportionate expense-and there's
millions it it. A few OF the ranch
men experimental IN this direction to
some extent last year, and this winter
have blessed the day and wished the
number of acres had been multiplied
by at least ten.