Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Nuggets of Information From All Over
the Lone Star State
As Cleaned From Gazette Exchanges = The
Crops, the Doings, the Progress, the
Efforts and the Hopes Of the People.

SOuhls
Fresh pork sells at cents per pound in
Bandera
The Methodists will build church at
Timms City.
Amarillo is talking of having system
of waterwOrks.
Corn in Lampasas sells at from 26 to
80 cents bushell
Two hundred bales of cotton have been
giHned at PearsaH.
Burpet will handle $500 bales of cotton
CT the past season s crop.
There is irew an abundance of wqter in
the railroad well at Panhandle City.
The sales of cotton at Sulphur Springs
amount to from 500 to 500 bales daily.
J. W. Jones of Callahan county killed
two pigs last week, one weighed $50 and
the other S62.
Cuero has bicycle club with half
dozen or more wheelnen, some of whom
are EXPERTS. =
A charter, has been obtained by the
Masons of Rockwell to form Royal
Arch Chapter there.
Cuero has purchased road grader and
ditcher and. it is the'intentian TO have Hle
streets graded Immediately.
1t is reported that several Webb county
ranchmeu intend to plant considerable
cotton and corn next year.
In Hidalgo county the crops average
bale of cotton to the acre, or when plant
ed i'll corn sixty bushels per acre.
Captain w. II. Dowdy near Hubbard
killed four hogs, about six months old,
last week which weighed 400 pounds
dressed.
Coal from the Upton coal mine, eight
miles east of Emory, is said to burn well.
Orders for fourteen carloads have been
received.
Eagle Pass is to have bridge and
street car line connecting it with Piedras
Negras. The first mortgage of $50 ZOO
has been filed.
The tree-planting fever is raging in
good many counties in Texas, and the
Herald would like TO see it break out i'll
epidemic form in FL Paso county.
Coleman has shipped up to date G23
bales of cotton. This Is the second year
the farmers of that county have tried
raising the tleecy staple.
Titus county Is coming TO the front as
one of the richest counties in the state in
mineral, coal, iron, lead and copper, as
they are to be found there i'll rich de-
posts.
The weight of hogs killed in Red River
county compares favorably with other
states, several lots of pigs averaging 29l
pounds, one of five months weighing 29S.
A Titus county farmer brought 4 sack
of ore to Mount Pleasant last week. 1t
is pronounced Il very valuable find of lead
ore, the richest he ever saw. =.
collecting the interest on her school lands.
About $500 interest is now due and Jun
paid. An effort is being made to resell
the lands.
The assessment of NIcLennan county in
1887 was Sl5 ,OS7 $50; this year ii is Sl5,-
204 SOP. The tax for county and state is
80 cents on 81, which MAKES the tax of
McLannan county this year S76 ,024.
Bosque made an average crop last year
of all products and yet the people are
wondering why money is scarcer than it
was last year The Meridian Citizen
says: ''This year debts had to be paid -
The new bagging factory, says the Gal
weston Tribune, viii, when running to It's
full capacity, employ not less than $50
people. 1t is institutions of that char
acter that will make Galveston great and
prosperous.
There are G25 white scholars enrolled in
the public school of Cleburne. There are
also three private schools in the city,
each of which have large enrolment,
beside the colored school, which has
siXty-siX enrolled scholars. -.
Fine stock paws better than scrub, bezsl
sides it costs no more to raise glSSfA
horse or COW thaR.,it does a sorry Me,
~, II
tention along this line is needed amons
the farmers of kaufman county. ~
The farmers of Thfockmorton osfHty
concur i'll the opinion that with tlftTfine
season now in the ground and the splen-
did growing weather that they have, that
fine small grain. crop, especially. of
wheat, next years is'almQst ee1fanttys
W. H. Hearnet a trapper who has been
al work on the Colorado river about forty
miles south of Colorado City, brought in
last Saturday twelve fine beaver skins |
and twenty-five pelts of various other an
imals, the result of a ten days catch.
Houston county people who have |
waited for Il canning factory before |
planting fruit trees, says the CrockSt$ |
Economist, need wait no longer. The |
amount of fruit now planted ~ the
county will make the canuery necessity. |
In Rusk county DR.. Neal killed two |
hogs recently; one weighed 4S5 pounds |
and the other 3O5-they lacked nine. days |
of being year-olds. Mr. : Charley. Thoinp- |
son killed four hogs about the same time,
the aggregated weight being 1877 pounds |
they were not quite year old.
The workers in the salt mines at Grand |
Saline, Van Zandt county, have gore l25 |
feet into lead of salt, but have not yet |
gone through. The specific weight of |
this salt. is greater Than any yet found, !
and the supply is practically neXhausta- /
BILE. -.
There are now twenty-seven prisoners |
in the Nc Lehman county Jail. Four of |
them are on appealN three awaiting |
transportation to fife: penitentiary, and I
three are United States prisoners. The |
remainder are arrests made since tile |
last sessions of DISTRICT andcQunty. courts /;
About 1000 bales os,,c6tton have Been
weighed by the city weighers of Gates
vile this season, and it is said that 5000 |
bales have been shipped direct without
passing through the hands of the, local
merchants, thus showing the largest slip
ment oEcottOn from Gatesyille ever made |
In one entire season,