Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-26
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Tho Drift OF Events IN Various Quarters OF
tho Lone star State.

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tho Lone star State.
Lands are being taken very fast In
Hardcman county.
Mexia has up 10 date handled not less
than 10 900 bales Of cotton
Around Gainesville the wheat is said TO
be uninjured, and is looking beautifully.
Germans are settling In Robertson
county, and as always are thrifty emf
grants.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
at Colorado IL nearly completed and said
to be handsome structure,
Fine grazing lands were sold for taxos
at Castroyllle for quarter of u cent per
acre, the lowest price ever reached In the
state.
There died In Taylor, February 10, MIR
Paul Foster, who had reached the ripe age
of nlnety-one years, and had been resi-
dent Of the state eleven years
According TO the Standard, Rusk viii
soon have u plow factory, $4,000 of the
stock having been already taken, $1,000
being needed to complete the subscrp-
ton.
There Is now being put Into shape for
cultivation in the Immediate neighbour
hood of Taylor something like 10000
acres Of new hitherto uncultiyated lands.
Texan.
The new town of Quanah llardeman
county, just laid out by the Fort WORTH g
| Denver City Railway, IS 80 miles of Ver-
non, near GroesheCk creek aud on the sur.
yey OF the above named road.
In the Licson mountain ~ miles south
OF III Paso two good seams OF coal have
just been discovered, said to be the best
yet opened, being respectfully forty one
aud thirty Inches In thickness,
Rain is badly needed in Medina county.
In some neighborhoods stock water Is
very scarce, Fires are quite common,
destroying much pusturage; 5000 acres
were consumed In one body q few nights
since.
A negro man supposed to be 40 years
old, died recently near Butler Though
blind and nearly deaf his memory was
remarkably he remembered being
brought from Africa, and died on the farm
OF his former master.
There is a lively demand for stock cat
tie IN Northern aud Western Texas. In
Colorado City steers one aud two years
old are strong at Sl2 TO SIG and it Is thu
Judgment OF well informed cattlemen that
tho price will advance to Slf to SIS insid,
OF sixty days
4 A man blowing near Taylor turned az
a large Mexican spur, evidently that OF
some officer. The ground II was picked
up on was the site OF "a hard fought battle
between Col. Burleson and the Comancht
Indians, IN 1885, as IL well known 10
many old inhabitants OF this country. II
Is right IN the forks OF Mustang ant
Brushy creeks.
The county commissioners of Hamilton
are In favor of erecting a COURTEOUS,
valued at $4,000 or $50, 900, Hico Is OF
course anxious TO secure II. There Is
project on foot which Is meeting Will
considerable favor, to form new count,
from that part OF Hamilton county nortl
OF the Leon river, and corner Oft OF each
OF the counties OF Erath and Bosque.
The Independent feels quite jubilan
over the future Of the city, as the follow.
ing Will shows llenrietta's prospects were
never brighter with 4 United States
court esta )llshed here, railroad connec.
ton with Gainesville, giving us quiol
communication and transportation to tn,
East and North, and nine points of tn,
game Ia our favor for trunk line direct
from Kansas City TO San Antonio, we have
every reason 60 DO cheerful and FUN ol
hope for n prosperous future. In ter
years from to-day Henrietta win be The
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