Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-29
TEXAS IN TYPE.
The Drift OF Events IN Various Quarters az
tho Lone star state.


Denison is to have electric light.
Comanche's trade is steadily increas-
ing.
the 81.
CircleyilIe is to have depot aud ticket
office.
Lockhart has five churches and good
school.
Henderson wants a tannery and wagon
factory.
clemmonds, Waller county, now has
postoiiice.
Plano expects an elevator in time for
the grain trade.
Good sprinkle OF cotton visible last
week in Denlson.
Tho disincorporation of sweetwater IS
being discussed.
The public school OF Sweetwater ia in a
iiourishing condition.
Nolan county has plenty of room for
the man with the hoe.
In Rusk county indications for big
fruit crop are good.
In the Panhandle the cattle are reported
looking sleek aud fat.
Coleman's voting population has
doubled since November, 1884.
The Henderson Mutual Insurance com
pany is doing big business.
Sweetwater Is overrun with strangers
and big demand for dwelling houses.
In the vicinity of Lockhart c compliant
ing will soon be the order OF the day.
The Methodist Sunday school at Gran
bury has Just received handsome organ.
Mr.. Robert Gray, living near Jackson
vile, has been confined because of lunacy.
in Collin county the farmers are jubi-
liant over the prospects of the wheat
crop.
The farmers around Hampstead are too
busy with spring work to loiter about
town.
One gin in Bowie county has turned
out nearly 400 bales OF cotton during this
season.
Throckmorton has literary society
which is well attended aud ably sus-
tanned.
Smith county estimates give her 5000
bales OF cotton more than any county in
East Texas
One hundred and flfty-six bales of cot
ton for sale IN Dodd City, Wednesday,
January 20
Quite number of bales of cotton were
sold at Sulphur Springs ON Thursday,
January 81.
In Medina county the cattle are in good
condition, there being plenty of grass
and water.
In Kaufman county the recent cold
snap has injured the small grain crop to
some extent.
Clio anticipates large cotton crops; the !
farmers are laying in big supplies of
wedding hoes.
There has been a seminary recently es-
tablished at Crockett for the education of |
colored girls.
Every business house in Itasca is now |
occupied; only four months since a num-
Der were vacant.
This has been considered the, mildest
winter on cattle that Nolan county has |
ever experienced.
The stock In Blanco county is reported
in good condition, Notwithstanding the |
late severe weather.
In Coleman work on twenty-five or
thirty buildings has been delayed by the
ulsaeIeeaDle Weouner
In Rockwell county the late freeze
killed all the fall sown oats but wheat was
no. seriously injured
citizen near Coleman City has over
100 acres OF prairie broken on his farm
three miles from town.
j. b. Scarborough has sold his ranch |
three miles north of Sweetwater to the
Cole boys for SO per acre,
Corsicana Roller mills now mapufac-
ture their own barrels, having inaugu-
rated tirst-claSs cooper shop.
In Tom Green county spring is advanc-
ing. Around the courthouse at San
Angelo the trees are budding.
The citizens of Friendship have lust
completed a school-house, the best in the |
county except the one at Rockwell.
Around Collinsville the farmers have
been blowing some All seem to be in
good spirits. Plenty of hog and hominy. |
In Coleman county it is expected there
will be an extraordinary clip of wool, |
unless the spring should be unusually
late.
Cages for the new jail at Arson are en-
pected every day, and prisoners from
Jones county in other jails will soon be
removed there.
Parker county holds out inducements
to the immigrant, such as fine farming
lands, the best OF artesian water, good
schools and society.
Willy Ellis captured near Hockey an
immense golden eagle which measured
seven feet four inches from tip of wing
to tip of wing.
Rev. A, Nj. Munison of Edinburgh,
Scotland has taken professorship in
Thorp college, and will bring his family
from the old country.
Bracket is clamorlng for a system of
water-works, public hall, church and
hotel--all essential to comfort, cultiva-
ton and cleanliness.
The contract has been let Tor SIP 900
courthouse to he built in Morae, the
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