The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-08
TEXAS BY MAIL.
Items and Comments Culled From
the Latest State Papers.

| Ourlng the month OF February the Gal-
weston letter carriers delivered 2S1, 1886
pieces of mail, and collected 267,5
pieces.
The San Angelo immigration commit
tee Is doing noble work. Every day
farmers from the east are settling in the
Conoho country.
1t is said Corpus Christi will invite the
editors to an oyster supper and give them
squint at the bay when they visit San
Antonio next fall.
The Texas and Pacific shops, of Marshall,
without any assigned oRuse,shut down last
Wednesday. They are expected shortly
TO reopen for work.
The West End company, of San An
tonic, announces its willingness to con
struct park for the league base ball
games this summer.
1t is said the prizes that have been
offered to individual members by friends
of the Light Guard will aggregate very
handsome sum of money in value.
Immigrants are said to be arriving at
Whitewright from the old states over the
them are coming from Tennessee and
Kentucky.
During the month of February the po-
lice of Houston made 1872 arrests, sixty
three for offenses against the state and
sixty nine for violation of municipal
ordinances,
| The committee oanvassing San Antonio
for the sale of the San Antonio Base Ball
association stock made very good progress
Tuesday, easily disposing OF about $4,000
of the stock,
IT has been decided in case against a
county Judge of Dallas county that a
county judge is such peace officer as is
exempted from the law forbidding the
carrying of pistols.
News from Galveston is to the effect
that the Sealy Rifles will commence to-
day to drill every evening at Ball square.
The Sealys are in active practice for the
coming drill at Austin.
| For the first time in many years San
Antonians will be treated to genuine
bull fight by troupe of Spanish-Ameri-
can matadors. Braden's park is the place,
and Saturday p. m. is the time.
Victoria county has fallen into line and
organized local society to work in con-
junction with the Southwest Texas Immi-
grafton association. The society will re-
nit the county's first assessment shortly.
Waco Is having trouble in getting a
water supply for purposes of putting out
fires. At meeting of the city council
there, Wednesday night, it was decided to
build ten cisterns and purchase fire
steamer.
The laying of the rock foundation for
the piers of the foot and wagon bridge
between the two Laredos has commenced,
and those in position to know say the
work will be prosecuted rapidly until the
bridge is completed.
William Merz, who sold sanded sugar
in San Francisco, laughed so heartily that
he fell from his chair, broke two ribs and
died. This is a solemn warning against
the paragraphs in the Galveston News
San Antonio Express.
1t requires something more than "natu-
raj advantages" to give strength and pros
perity to town. Natural advantages are
much to be desired, but they must be de-
veloped to make them of any practical
value.-Denison News.
The following paragraph is going the
| lOuhOo' n 1OAuo OOWOOW1 WIZ ud0 hAiCu
four or five men and was supposed to bear
a charmed life, came to his death the
other day by falling out of bed, distance
of only twenty inches"
Preparations for beginning the en-
largement and improvement of the Hous-
ton Base Ball park, near the fair grounds
has been begun under the direction OF
General Manager MacGregor, of the
Street Railway company.
The Temple Times never worded a
truer editorial squib than this "The
great drill and entertainment, to take
place at Austin next May, is progressing
most favOrably, and grand time is no
doubt in store for the people of Texas"
Reliable information has been received
in Denison the past week, to the effect that
the Frisco people will begin work on
their extension, from point in the Indian
Territory to Denison, as soon as the char
ter is granted by congress.-Denison
News.
The citizens of Palestine and of Ander-
son county have had printed 10000 copies
of pamphlet descriptive OF the county
of Anderson and its county seat. These
pamphlets are now being sent out to the
states from which immigrants are most
desired.
The Rock Island corps of engineers is
now running line from Wichita Falls to
Cisco. A line has been run through
Archer City and CROSSES the Brazos river
about one mile above Fort Belknap, and
leaving Graham City about twelve miles
to the left.
The loss in cattle this winter in the vi
cinity of Black Jack is said to have been
enormous, and many put the estimate al
30 per cent on what the loss will be before
the grass shall have risen in the spring
The longhorn is rapidly disappearing in
those parts.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail
road company is energetically pushing
the work on its large feed pens which it
has in course of construction at Cleburne
and will in the near future make thai
an important feeding point on the line in
the shipment of live stock.