The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11
TEXAS NEWS.
FACTS AND OPINIONS CoLLhD
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.

FROM STATE EXCHANGES.
The Temple Times will be enlarged 10
nine column paper soon.
The evangelists are still working up
Houston, and gathering lambs into the
fold.
Temple has a stock company ORGANIZED yea
for the purpose of constructing a Slo'ooo
hotel.
The Fairfield Record thinks 1.-The man
who run, j" may read that Swain is ahead
for governor.
The Victoria Advocate thinks that Ross
will not develope much strength in its Sec
ton of the state.
Warren Hinton, a young man of Hous-
ton. accidently shot himself through the
body while out hunting Sunday.
The district court convenes in Newton
county March 22d, and as there are no IN
mates in the Jail the session will probably
be a short one.
The Giddings Advocate, referring to a
statement in The STATESMAN of an IN
crease in its sale at Giddings, says of THE
STATESMAN agent Inelo'
"Jack McKowan is the said newsbOy,
and The STATESMAN can congratulate IT.
self upOn securing Jacks services, as he
is live energetic boy"
Bolton is getting to be quite metropoll-
tan. She is soon to have a street railway.
Nothing like push and energy to push a
town or city rapidly to the fore.
4 new trial was refused F. F. Downs, of
Bolton, who was fined $1,000 in the county
court, for not rendering bank stock III
full, and an appeal has been taken.
Daily stage lines have been established
from Beauregard, the present terminus of
the Arkansas Pass road, in Wilson county,
to Dallyvile Mineral city and Beeville, on
one route, and Pana Marie. Cestohowa
aud Helena on another.
The Fort Worth Compress company
have purchased, for $4,000, 40Ox500 feet
of ground between the Missouri Pacific
and Santa Fe railroad tracks, and will
erect immense buildings on the same du-
ring the coming summer.
The Midlothian News has lately taken
on some extra paper to increase Its size,
and is booming that town for all it is
worth. The News does not boom its town in
an extravagant manner though, for it
SAYS to the rash ones that midlothian
will never be as large as New York, nor
quite so populous as POrkopolis."
The salt lake IN Pecos county covers
about nine square miles, or about $3.50
acres. 1t is always clear as crystal, with
sandy bottom, from two to five inches
deep great deal of the time; and some
times it is about dry. The natural salt is
gathered up and hauled away in sacks, at
81 per sack. The yeield is Unreasonable,
almost. 1t is the property of Mexican
lady, residing i'll San Antonio.
The Fort Worth Mail gives the follow
ing, which evidences big change in
Texas newspapers:
There Is rumOr current in this part
of the happy land of freedom that in the
very near here the headqual t3rs of the
News Is to be moved from Galveston to
Dallas, and that general manager Lowe
will take command of the forces at this
end in person. The rumor runs, also,
that diverse and sundry changes will be
made in the stats of the two ends as
now organized, and that-well in fact
that there will be decided stir about all
around. Mind, the Mail only gives this
as rumOr, interesting though it may be
to some
Temple Times
The Brennan Banner is in for the man
who will make the best governor and that
man, according to the Banner, is Swain.
Texas Eagle
1t takes four things to be a gentleman
You must be gentleman in your princi
piles, gentleman in your tastes, gentle
man in your manners. and a gentleman il
your person.
Fort Worth Mail.
Gaily the candidate
Seekeh the bar,
Where the thirsty citizens
ThTODg from afar,
Singing, I'm search of thee
Hther We come,
Candidate candidate
Set up the rum"
liark tbs the candidate
Calls them by name,
Up to the parapet
Swiftly they came
And still his song is heard
All through the din
"lhiZz timez zOn me,
Semm muppagn!"
! Mason News.
Terrell, of Austin, seems to be the com
ing man for United States senator from
Texas. As he is said to be ''the brainiest
man in Texas" we can see no possible
objection to sending him to WASHINGTON
to represent the "brainiest people in the
world, the Texans. Let the boom pro
coed. The majority of the state poll