The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-28
TEXAS NEWS.

FROM STATE EXCHANGES.
Athens Review
A $4,000 court house Just finished
md received for the use of the people of
Henderson county.
Houston Herald
Mr.. Walter Tips, an esteemed citizen of
Austin, and brother of Mr.. G. H. TIPS,
trrived in the city this morning.
Dallas Mercury.
No paper in the state has ever improved
50 much at one jump as did The AUSTIN
STATESMAN when it changed its form to
quarto and put on its new dress.
he Daily Cosmopolitan.
1t is to cost the city of New York $780,
486,320 to run her municipal government
This year That sum would Just about
ny the two largest cities i'll Texas, and
We have expanded ideas and big expecta-
tons.
Waco Day
Ii the Post gets that corset factory at
Houston, it will be tight squeeze.
1t is little suggestive that the first
murder in Atlanta since prohibition went
INTO effect was committed in drug store
The Northwest Texan,
Fifty two thousand dollars a year rep
resents what the cattlemen in the Donley
land district have offered to pay annually
~ the state for the lease of the grazing
allds. This is the amount asked by the
statute for the privilege and refused by
the land board.
Forth Worth Mail
IT is useless to speculate or the prob
abilities but there is genuine feeling of
confidence in Fort Worth that railroad
building will be resumed from this point
within the coming spring months.
There is more interest manifested in
railroads than manufactures. One cot
ton mill with 10000 spindles would be
worth more to the city than the Santa Fe
extension and bucket and broom
factory more than the Waxahachie con-
ilection.
Cameron Herald.
In Washington county the farmers are
having corn shipped from northern
Texas. 1t brings sixty cents per bushel.
Poor management is the cause of such q
condition of things.
In order to put stop to the many APP
plications of females for positions in the
railway postal service, the postmaster
general has issued an order prohibiting
we appointment of any person under 30
Years of age. Or course this is an eff
iicient squelcher.
san Antonio Express.
The city physician reports that the
smallpox patients at the pest house are
Getting along nicely, and several of them
wil soon be in a condition to be dis
Charged.
The delegates to the Denver Cattle CON
vention did not get off yesterday morn
ing, but will go to-day over the Missouri
Pacific route. All arrangements neces-
sary have been made for very pleas
ant trip.
ryler Courier.
The rage for imported stock is dying
4it in this part of Texas. few years
Ego one-eyed Jersey COW would sell to
Texan for $500, spot cash. They are
about 400 per cent cheaper now.
Corsicana comes next and is to have
electric lights. Tyler leads and they fol-
low.
lbc Master Workman
an advance guard of 26O Ohioans. over
Che Fort Worth and Denver City railroad, |
Wilt prepare for the coming of tifty-two
Springfield.
The total number of hogs packed in the |
west last week was 225,000, against $4,000
FOR the corresponding period of last
Year.
Cherokee Standard.
a miner on the head-waters of the
Columbia river, in British Columbia, has
found, so he alleges, deserted town.
who're the billiard tables still stand in the
seioons, and letters are lying in the post
office bearing the date of 1856. Not
soul has been near the place for years.
tassTexas News.
a pound of bananas, it is said, contains
more nutriment than three pounds of
meat or many pounds of potatoes. while
as d food it is in every sense of the word
far superior to the best wheaton bread.
Although it grows spontaneously through
out the tropics, when cultivated its yield
is prodigious, for an acre of ground
planted with bananas will return, accord
ing to Humboldt, as much food material
as thirty three acres of wheaton over one
hundred acres of potatoes.
The Texan Telephone
Texas is getting large number of i'm
migrants now. They are coming from all
points of the compass. They find well
come and a fair chance wherever they go
~ Texas.
Canton is getting to be an important
town and the center of an important cOun
try that is justified in demanding recog
NIXON. If she gets a railroad, in the near
future, a good city will grow up, and the
country around it will be, when settled,
the richest and most prosperous region in
Texas. For the waut of railroad facil-
tiles, it works hardships on our merchants
and other business men in conveying their
cotton and other produce to the railroad.
with the promise of a railroad, speedy
development of the country and the incre
ment of population that would swell the
capital and Van Zandt county, it is but
justice that we have a railroad at Can
ton,
Rrenham Banner.
che Houston Post says it is almost {
certainty that Judge Terrell will be can
didate for the United States senate. The
t9lveston News has been booming Ter
leli for the senate for some time. No OBJ
lection can be raised to Judge Terrell be- l
canning q cand idate for anv Office he NAV