The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-05
LOCAL SHORT STOPS.
Crisp Mention of the LESS I'M
portant Local Items.

The city schools VIII close soon
Fat hogs and sheep are in demand.
The roses are beginning to bloom.
The lumber business is picking mp.
Farmers will begin to plant cotton soon
Il won't be long before the great riil
There is no serious sickness in the city.
The spring trade is opening up in earn
est.
The city needs new and elegant city
hail.
What will you do about that other
bridge?
Build good sidewalks, and you will never
regret it.
Next Saturday the base ball season
opens up.
The wood haulers were going the roun d.
yesterday.
The frost has killed the fruit in some
localities.
The city was never more hea!tay than
at presen.
The public city schools ere moving
along well.
Many people are preparing to build
this ser son.
There has not been dea'h in the city
for five days
Whatever you do, build tina. Arkansas
Pass railroad.
The Lenten season is Over, now for fun
and merrimtnt.
Now build han ds0me school house on
that arsenal lot.
Some of the farmers began to plant
cotton yesttrdy.
A branch railroad is to be built to tie
great drill grounds.
The street railroad should be extended
to the drill grounds.
The political bag is filed with woe
fully mixed up TO-.
That board of trade building should be
fine one, inside and out.
The howIers howl, but frst-class work
will go il to that jul all the same.
The bridges in the city should be re-
paired and put in good condition.
Captain Stacy's fine reeidencs, over in
the park, IS nearing completion.
Nine out of ten bald headed sinners are
married. Boys, you take warning.
If you would serve your city, aid in
building that Arkansas Pass railroad.
There is very little sickness among the
patients at the asylum for the insane.
Girls, remember this is leap-year and
you have rights not to be sneezed at.
The ice factories are about ready to
start up their all day and all night runs.
The Marble Falls boom has not died out
and, from indications, it is not going to.
Next Saturday the base ball season
opens with match game at the grounds.
Thus far the sale of privileges at the
drill grounds has been very satisfactory.
The catch of fish these days is very
good, and the heart of the fisherman is
! glad.
The prospect for crops was never bet
ter, is the saying of every farmer you
meet.
The temporary capital, it is said, will
be supplied with incandescent electric
lights.
Austin should have railroad to Llano,
and Austin will have one. Stick pin
there.
The travel to this city from northern
known.
The ladies soy the spring styles are just
beautiful, and whatever the blessed ladies
say goes.
The county commissioners refused to
be bulldozed, and that was the long and
short of it.
Farmers south of the city on the line of
the proposed railway, offer to give right
of way free.
The hub-bub over the big land suit is
dying out, to the infinite relief of real
estate dealers.
The new capitol should have electric
lights. Especially should several be put
on top of the dome.
When it comes to rustling for free
lunch the wise man don't have much the
advantage over the fool
The cavalry company is progressing
well, and they can handle their fierce
sabres like old veterans.
The health of the inmates of the deaf
and dumb asylum is good. In fact, there
Is no sickness there worth speaking of.
The boom hasn't begun at Austin yet
but you can safely stack up on this fact
that it will very soon, and it's going to be
a whizzer.
City Marshal Lucy manages to keep ths
best of order. He has as fine and rs well
controlled police force as can be found
anywhere.
"To beer or not to beer" is the question
now agitating the mind of the political
rounder as he calmly prepares to bleed
the patriotic candidate.
Samples of iron ore on exhibition al
immigration headquarters indicate that
Texas will be the great iron producing
country few years hence.
The ladies of the Cumberland Presby
terrain church are Rplring no efforts &c
make their entertainment a grand success
and are expecting large patronage from
! their friends.
There was a vision Of loneliness, grace
- and elegance in the editorial rooms the
: other night, which caused the able tele-
e graph man to blush and the meek reporter
to softly and unsteady MARBLE after he got
home
y ooh! How strangely happy
lie my heart
Turning Night Into Day.
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