San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-19
STATE NEWS.
he Sabine river is down.

Comfort mas dramatic club.
There has been almost hay famine in
Terrell.
Hubbard City has paid off her indebt-
edness.
1t is proposed to build shell road
from Houston to Harrisburg.
The town of Yoakum, on the 8. A. q
A. p. r. R., will have paper soon.
Good shipments o. cattle hsve gone
from Pearssll.
Estella Love, known as Cowboy jack,
committed suicide at Fort Davis.
The artesian well at Medina Is pro.
crossing rapidly.
Burnet has had q smallpox scare.
There was case there of lady from
Mexico.
The grass lie coming up rapidly, and
cattle are beginning to improve at
Menardyille.
The next Texas State Teachers asso-
citation will be held at Fort Worth, be-
ginning June Goth.
The Greenville Loan and Investment
Co., was organized last week with q
capital of $l2, 600.
A smash-up occurred on the TT. Worth
and New Orleans railroad last Friday
near Waxahachie; no one was injured.
The great medicinal springs of Texas,
the Lampasas Sulphur springs will be
opened in May.
The building purchased for the new
bank at Taylor ia undergoing thorough
repair.
An Indiana oil company lie Boring for
oil on Walnut creek, 10 miles north Of
Austin.
Laredo Is to have a new paper, called
the Gate City;" it's first number will
appear about April lst.
Clint Killebrant, from johnson coun-
ty, has been arrested in Midlothian on q
charge of embezzlement.
Fine weather again at Minter. The
public schools there are progressing
well.
Mail service has been placed on the
Cotton Belt railroad, between Corsi-
cana and Gatesville.
Almost the entire business portion Of
Murphysville was destroyed by fire
week before last.
The new school building OF the Lqre-
do seminary will be completed and ded-
icated on the 22nd of April.
All the main pipes of the water works
are now laid by the contractors in Beau
mont.
Hondo has had plenty OF good rains
and more cotton than ever will be raised
in that vicinity.
Losses by death amount to or per
cent among the cattle In Hamilton
county, and is likely to increase as there
is no grass and feed has been exhausted.
At Longview on the 10th, Senorita
LiptZ, of Howe's circus, fell 30 feet. sus-
tanning what are thought to be fatal iDju-
ries.
The Petroleum Prospecting Oh COM
pany of New Orleans, have entered into
contract with the citizens of Nacog-
doches to lay 3-inch pipe from their
oil wells, IA miles southeast OF here, to
this place.
An epidemic of cerebro spinal menin-
gifts has prevailed for several weeks in
the vicinity of Payne's store, in Hunt
county. Ten deaths have been reported.
The Eddy, East Texas and Louisiana
railway, is in prospectus to connect
the pine regions of western Louisiana
with the fertile prairies of central and
western Texas.
1t ia stated that the Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific railroad will build
the road 10 Cisco in the next II or I6
months.
A railroad banquet was given at Cart
hage, at the depot, last week, in honor
Of the completion OF the fret railroad to
that point.
Major Moses Austin Bryan one of the
heroes of Texas, predicts that in time q
great city will be built at the mouth Of
the BraZos.
In he late commencement exercises or
the medical department of the university
of Louisville, Texas was well represented
a mong the graduates.
1t was learned from Col. W. r. McIn-
tire, of Dallas, that cattle in that section
are in bad condition and there is likely
to be heavy exodus OF stock by rail- to
the Territory.
The contract for $4,000 compress
was signed at Plano on the 18th.
A number of G. b. g. Q. cars were side
tracked at Palestine on the 18th, which
the engineers refused TO pull.
The artesian we'll at Morgan is likely
to be completed.
The first through freight train on the
Fort Worth and Denver, passed through
Clarendon on Saturday.
The s. A. & A. z. r. r, has reached
Yves Point, and runs regular passenger
trai Ds there,
An attempt was made last Thursday
night to wreck train on the NJ. z. near
| West Point.
Dallas county has now artillery, csval-
| ~ and infantry com nanipR