Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
TEXAS IN TYPE.
A Brief Record of the Great State Hastily
Cleaned From Its Newspapers.

Cleaned From Its Newspapers.
Clarendon has a dramatic society.
Pork is selling at 615 cents a pound in
Pilot Point.
Comanche is discussing a new court
house and jail.
Over 1900 bales of cottorwere received
in Temple last week.
Judge ]. L. Dariagh of San Antonio
has been adjudgeG insane.
Abilene will handle over 1000 bales of
cotton before the season closes.
Hunt county has produced million
dollars worth of cotton this season.
Bonham has a population of nearly
5000, about 500 of which are colored.
Thirteen carloads of cotton were
shipped from Dublin one day last week.
Grass and weeds are green in Shackle-
ford county and the stock is doing well i.
Shackelford county farmers usually
plow Christmas week, but this year the
fground was toe wet.
Lampasas has good system of water
works, street railway, an ice factory, a
steam laundry anu will soon have electric
light.
The Fort Worth and Denver Railroad
will enlarge the depot at Amarillo, to
accommodate the increasing business at
that place.
The total enrolment of the public
school at Mobeetie for the last month
was sixtyeight, and the average attend
ance was sixty-three.
Several Erath county farmers have
succeeded in making a superior article of
syrup from the ribbon cane. The syrup
produced readily brought 81 per gallon.
Artesian water has been struck at the
mouth of Cottonwood creek near TaScosa.
A pipe twenty feet high has been put in !,
through which the water flows at the
rate of about ninety gallons per hour.
The coal mines near Emory, Rains
county, are to be worked, says the
Emory Record. The railroad will run
switch to the mines and q number of
hands will so to work i'll the mines at
once.
A sad and fatal accident occurred at
the residence of Mr.. George Boyd, living
about forty miles northwest of Mangum,
on Monday last, the 2fth, in which a
step-daughter, a girl of thirteen, of Mr..
Boyd'S was fatally shot.
Ben Franklin has already bought 1900
bales of cotton this season. 1t will crowd
1900 awful close. At $40 bale the town
has paid to Delta county farmers the sum
of S5S 500. Ben Franklin will yet be a
good cotton market and a good town.
The Texas Fire Brick and Tile Compa-
ny, nov manufacturing at Athens, Hen
derson county, desires to remove its works
to Waco and locate here permanently,
says the Day. 1t will come if encouraged.
Waco needs everything she can get in the
way of manufacturing industry.
Two of our most worthy citizens, says
the Waxahachie Democrat, prior to COM
ing to this county disposed of a 200 acre
farm, in Cherokee county, near the town
of New Birmingham, to a cOlOred man
for $1,000. Since that time the big coal
and iron boom came and the negro has
sold $50 acres of the land, reserving
twenty acres and all the improvements,
for SIS 200, or 500 per acre.
A farmer in Wilson county, Texas, re-
ports some rather remarkable results of
experiments in cotton planting. His
purpose was to ascertain the result of
planting i'll rows of different widths
Most of the cotton was planted with the
IOho OiS5ilb ASCI SPdI fALL'A liC ICpOLIS tlldI
the cotton of this field did not cease
growing the entire year, and made twice
as much to the acre as that planted usual
width.
East Texas contains an abundance of
very fine iron ore. That fact has long
been known. Perhaps, says the Green
vile Banner, it can be protitably worked
with charcoal. If not, the coal mines in
the Indian Territory can be reached by
railroad which need not exceed $50 miles
i'll length. A few strong iron companies,
aided by the people along the route, can
build such road if needed. The iron of
East Texas will be developed.