The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-08
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State EXCHANGES,

Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.
Gussie Ritzenstein, a German girl, at
tempted to commit suicide at San An
tonic by taking morphine. doctor
and stomach pump saved her.
The assessment rolls of all the counties
except four small ones are in, and show
an aggregate increase of thirty millions of
dollars in taxable values Last year, not
withstanding the drouth.
Father Francois Derne, Catholic
priest, committed suicide at Dallas on
Tuesday night by shooting himself with a
revolver. He was laboring under tenn
porary insanity.
| John Maddox, resident of Corsicana
who had been to Mexico in search of
health, being very ill with consumption,
died in hack at San Antonio on Tuesday
morning while being taken to the Inter
national depot to take the train for home.
OF the 100000 or more of cattle in
the United States, Texas is estimated to
have 4,724,05 the value of which reaches
the sum of $66,518,860. There are more
cattle in Texas than in any other state,
but in values New York, Illinois and Iowa
leads.
The governor has appointed R. A. Cam
eron, delegate, at large, and Hon. Geo.
Goldthwaite, of Houston, delegate from
the Ninth senatorial district, to the inter-
state immigration convention to meet
shortly at Montgomery, Ala. Persons
desiring to attend as delegates should
apply for appointment.
A Thursdays special from Cleourne says:
The news reached here to- day of quite an
interesting and romantic elopemsnt, in
which two of the most prominent society
people were the principals. Miss Marie
Frymler, daughter of Mr.. B. F. Frymler,
has been in Dallas for several days at
tending the fair. Yesterday she was met
there by Mr.. Braswell, who also wished to
see the fair. This morning they hied
themselves to the Indian Territory, where
they were made one. 1t was genuine
love match, and their friends wish them
much joy.
An old Seminole Indian caused some ex-
citement in Eagle Pass Tuesday with
bag of gold dust which he exhibited and
claimed to have Graded out of sand in the
Rio Grande, thirty miles above town. He
has an assay by reliable San Francisco
firm of former lot sent off by him, for
which they paid him $16 an ounce. His
dust has been forwarded to the United
States mint at New Orleans, so the return
will show whether it is genuine or not.
gentleman who came down from the
Panhandle on Monday says il some parts
of that country there is great complaint
of the importations thereto of large herds
of cattle from the southern PARTS of this
state and from Colorado and New Mexico.
They say there is scarcely enough grass
in the country for the cattle already there
aud that the invasion by these foreign
herds is going to make it rough for the
resident cattlemen. 1t appears the
ranges of Colorado and New Mexico are
already bare, to a great extent, and the
herdsmen are compelled to seek new pas
lures. There is being an attempt made
to secure the united action of the stock
associations to keep out the INVADERS
Exchange. ...
Several herds of horses have recently
passed through Terrell, nearly all of them
going north. Kaufman county will have
several Thousand beeves ready for tn
market next spring, judging from the
amount of feeding cattle to be shipped
into the county from the west. Some
have already arrived. The arrangements
for fl eding this year will be much better
than last, and there will probably be more
cattle fed.
Mr.. Cleveland, it is said, has attended to
his registration, and will go to Buffalo to
vote. He is a warm admirer of Mr..
Thurman, and the Chicago Herald is au-
thority for the statement that he will vote
the democratic ticket-Fort Worth Ga
zette.
Well, rather!
The new federal building was quietly
turned over yesterday by the superintend-
ent of construction to Postmaster Coch-
ran, and will, as soon as the furniture can
be placed, be ready for business. The
building was designed for city OF 10000
inhabitants, on the supposition that it
would take the population of Dallas in
1880, amounting to about 10000, gener-
alton to increase 80 per cent; but while
the structure was being erected with that
caution which is eaid to be the mind OF
snail, the city dwarfed it by growing to
population of $4,000. And so with the
opening for business of the federal
building, that it has cost so much time
and treasure to erect, the complaint IS
heard that it is in every respect too small
for the amount of business to be trans
acted in it at present, leaving out of the
question the business of five years hence
when the city, it is expected, will have at
tanned a population of 100000. The
building, though deficient in size and the
massive outlines of federal structures in
other cities of less prominence and pros
poets than Dallas, is considered well put
together Dallas News.
On Wednesday evening renter Of Mr..
o. Il. Chapman, who lives in the Fifth
ward, attempted to commit suicide, under