Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-23
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TEXAS IN TYPE.
Tho Drift of Events IN Various Quarters of
tho Lone star State.

tho Lone star state.
Moody, Mcclellan county, has school
OF l45 pupils.
Denison has organized stock company
to erect and run box factory.
Bolton is to have Methodist church
costing between $4,000 and $4,000.
Wild geese are abundant about Abb
lene. II Is TO be hoped they are starting
North.
Delta county sent fifty bales of cotton
to Sulphur Springs for sale on Tuesday,
Feb. 0.
A lady in Bolton was wounded by n shot
carelessly fired by some hunters near the
cemetery.
Mr.. NJ, L. Parton on Onion creek has
horse colt eleven months old, Weighing
sos pounds.
call meeting at Denison favored deep
water at Sabine Pass, and passed resou-
tons to that effect.
A little boy came near losing his life at
Wlchite Falls from eating bread prepared
with strychnine for rats.
The site selected for the Baylor college
In Bolton is near the Santa Fe depot in
plain view Of the railroad.
The stock for the roller mills at Bolton
has nearly all been taken and will be val
ued at $4,000 or $4,000
Prof. Spencer Baird is about to
place 100000 young Goldfish in the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Glen Rose has organized a manuiactur-
ing company, aud the Citizen says work
on the tannery will be pushed
Two fine thoroughbreds were brought
to Houston last week, one Norman
stallion and the other Percheron.
The San Antonio & Arkansas Pass rail
road IL now running trains TO Bcaure-
gard, ten miles south OF Foresville.
The government hospital at San An
tonic is nearing completion. The brick
work is finished, and the roof is being
put on,
The Southwestern university has
selected Mai, John d. Richardson of
Leesburg, Tex, az orator for the next
commencement.
The Palestine gin, coru-mill and manu-
featuring interests and business were
sold, under deed Of trust, on the 10th
inst. to new company,
Bonham has abandoned her old charter
and adopted the general law. This
change fixes the fire limit which was i'm
possible under the old charter.
Usage Is rapidly building up with good
dwelling houses. There Is also a good
school there, aud the BaptIsts have a large
and commodious house of worship.
| Comanche county, from recent esti-
I mate, now contains at least 5 900 inhabi.
! tants, and contains more than 500, 900
acres of fertile land, with plenty OF wood
and water.
! A teacher IN the public school at Put
nam dismissed two pupils for violating
rules OF his own department, one for
dancing and the other for accepting the
escort OF young man to church.
There is on exhibition In Comanche a
! block OF wood the perfect mold of a half
| pint bottle tits supposed the place In
the heart Of the oak was usurped by the
companion OF some anti-Prohibitlon old
eettler.
Mr.. Ellis OF Rancho de In Norla, in
Preside county, found leaning against
the fork of tree curious relic, "a flint.
lock, smooth-bore gun. The barrel bore
the address of the maker, II II. Lcman,
Lancaster, Penn.
I hbNhWNAA NNuut1 Nau ht AnuulHtu III u
little bo0stfulncss as her condition Is
nourlshing, her rate OF taxation being 80
cents on the 500; with no county debt
aud good bridges, school houses, jail and
courthouse.
A decd was died In the county court al
San Antonio with peculiar reservation,
the grantor STIMULATING that II the
grantee or her heirs ever manufactured
or sold intoXlcants, that property should
revert "a the original owner or her heirs
OF asslgnees.
\ four-ycar-old boy in Atlanta at.
tempted few days since to initiate d
straightforward exhibition by swallowing
a piece of knife handle an inch and three
fourths long, half an inch In diameter
having on the side three knots ono-fourtl
OF an inch long. AS usual, the small boy
survives
The ItaSca Signal thus signifies the long
felt want OF that town; I'VE are badly
in need of bank In this place and II Is
q surprising thing 10 us that some party
or parties with the necessary capital does
not engage in the business. The neccssi.
ties OF our people call for It, and we
/ Seiiege the trade and commerce OF the
I place Is sufficient 90 make place OF dc.
post aud exchange remaneratIve.n
The Texas Panhandle OF Moheetle
\ which has perhaps the most reliable state,
nents IN regard TO cattle losses for the
past scsson, says: "'rhe range cattl,
have wlntered tnely, aud II is not thought
that the loss Is over per cent. OF thSi
class. The castlo brought up the trail
have suRcrcd very heavy loss unusual.
ly heavy, and II Is the opinion Of good
cattlenen that OF a certain herd OF 900
head that not over 10 per cent Will come
up at roll call next spring. t
+. Geo. Betz win sell you s. article