Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-05

The Drift OF Events In various Quarters Of
the Lone star state.

opinion among farmers as TO the amount |
OF damage TO the young wheat by the last
cold snap, Some say the damage Is very
material while others think Il light. Win !
ter oats are all killed Turnips and col
lards are killed, root and all. for the nrst
time in many years. - Greenville Ban
ner.
Oats seemed to have suffered more than
wheat; in many sections are reported
total loss. A large per centago Of wheat
is bitten down, but there Is some hope OF
its coming out.
The Mountain Echo reports that the
farmers about johnson City are enjoying
this tine weather and have commenced
work In earnest, ploughing and preparing
for the coming season.
The travel between Montague and
Bowie is Increasing
Several families with wagons and teams
passed through Montague last week on
their way 60 the northern portion OF Mon
taeue county, where they calculate set.
Ting.
DR. j. Y. Bradheld bought bale Of
cotton last week that weighed 1915 lie
paid four cents perpound for IT,. Morris
County Herald.
The farmers in Coryell county are Inn
proving the sunshiny days, and are get
ting their land iDnice Fix foranother crop.
The recent cold has killed no grain in that
section, so far as heard from.
oplcsby, Coryell county, has shipped
from this place since January l., 1885, TO
date l2l carloads of freight. tits said
that no section of our state furnishes a
better grade OF wheat than this.
The loss of sheep in McLennan county
during the late cold snap will not exceed
2 per cent, and cattle in that county
were never in better tlx.
1t Is reported from Fort Elliott that the
4 cold weather has been very destructive on
/ the cattle OF the Panhandle. 1t is estimated
that fully 100000 head Of cattle lie dead
ON the prairies within radius of seventy
/ five miles Of that place. The prairie dogs
are nearly sll dead. However, naive
cattle Will not lose more than per cent
Around San Saba farmers are now ear
nestly engaged in cutivatlng the soil
preparatory TO planting the crop of next
year.
Although there have not many Of the
cattle died, stlil the farmers about Rich
ianu ~, Us A.u' ~, =. nVNNse"i " "vi',
cnId sn,'li 800 ''
Inc brennan Dauner reports sotp'
cases Oh hoG cnoleIa ~ lts vlcluase, als'
ooons s0@ s,,,n'i los - ;s s,,nii,n. -
tbe tbroat near t6e inv when IL nav
cured by cutting the skin over the swollel
part and allowing the accumulated pus /,
escape.
The colored schoolhouse at Canton wa
burnt on the night OF the goth. Origin 0
the fire unknown.
Mr.. w, a. SAMSON shipped from Alva
RADIO three carloads OF fine beeves to Chi
cago during the past week.
, Slenn Wood, an eight-year-old boy {
Weatberford, had the misfortune to fall o
grub. breaking his cheek-bone and
share point penetrating the eye, thereb
destroying the sight.
Mr. Kidd, visiting Cleburne, says hi
father is now III wears OF age. He ha
n already added Al years to the allotted az
of three score and ten,
About Courtney prairie chickens an
wild geese are becoming more numerous
they can be seen ia large quantities In th
It stalk and wheat neids'
$ Judging from the reports of the diffe
u ent sections the cotton Is nearly all soi'
J, In Comanche county the ginning an
shipment of cotton Is nearly over.
0 At Canton very little cotton has bee
brought in Tor tue past two weeks.
ca,,or. s,n,s M hor rocaints for III
mast season At "a 200 bales
N,orrooor borob, aono bales and n
Z total sh,nment Amounted 20 6.6II bale
q Dnr,ps the late cold smell many of Il
# corn ,vere trog,n one gentleman took OF
90 al, ~ which w.ighed from four
a ai,yb, a. ,,onrds zach
" ''eD' pe-i, - - 80 NJ wots,
!. an1tnoi plopsei ~ 80 go a,,ong tha dr
ea at1 .,t INN county and Il is state
ia $500 .hS 49, ,n,,, that aver drove ten
T. "ss wv a ~ ',h"ra ono oak now stand
VI w. ~ 49, - 49,, l',l.a :, 30
,r Maj NJ. D. rarN soIu ewel.s ~ pai 49, " ~
e. toil tie osuee uay ~ az" and 1 ~ an
was 'n' "aN ''',S 80 ho,
In Deita county tne RLauu luig na
lound over nuhu,eu oiiis ~ wa ~
:, Vi eno PioniV'''O"
u About Cottonwoou tnr FARMERS aie o 80
= ing spring wheat ana preparing ioi 'o'''
ana corn
. Last Monday, Perry Gates Caught "a
I, I, Bit (of an unknown species "i'n y
- well-deYeloped horns on the 'front.' ol
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