The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-12
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

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Between 600 and 800 cases of diptheria
are reported in Paso Gel Norte, with a
heavy mortality.
The farmers around Marion are laying
! in a supply of poison so as TO be ready
for he worms should they come.
! The cotton worms have commenced
their de- trOying work in the cotton fields
around Cuero. Not more than an average
crop will be made.
The United States mail coach was
robbed on the 4th about ten miles south
Of Fredericksburg by one man. He
obtained nothing of value.
The oat crop in the vicinity of Menard
will average sixty bushels to the acre. ST.
yer ore and coal have been found within q
short distance of Menard.
Only one death reported in Austin last
week out of a population of 25,O0O. No
clty on the globe can show better re-
cord.-Blanco News, June %.
1t is Iumored that Commissioner
Waldo will probably tender his r, sigma
ton at the Denver meeting of the Traffic
association on the 10th instant.
Sam Stanford, colored, shot Henry
Owens, also colored, fatally at Ell Paso on
Sunday. The shooting was the result of
a quarrel over the possession of gun.
grass widowers club has been formed
in San Antonio, and consolation meetings
will be held twice week during the sum
mer months. Austin might follow suit.
The body of an unknown man, with the
left arm missing (apparently cut off with
a swor0), was found the other day on the
oank OF the Rio Grande, near Brownsville.
New wheat is coming in quite lively,
and is of very superior quality, though the
yield per acre, as rule, is considerably
below the estimate preGicted.-We Gather
ford Sur.
Crops in the vicinity of Benton City
are better than ever known before, and
there is greater acreage planted than
ever before. Corn will yield thirty bushels
per acre.
An appeal has been taken in the case of
Bob Hines, set fenced to be hanged 1t is
thought he will have to hang, and the
popular sentiment IS that he fe nd should
stretch hemp.-Texss Iron News.
At the third trial the voters of Hallet's-
vile decided TO incorporate that village
and put it in the way of becoming one of
the commercial centers of Texas. Already
a street car line is being talked of.
Take all the other fools in the world and
condense them into one and he will be
dwarf when stood up beside tie one who
thinks he could run newspaper that
would be universally admired Elgin Times.
The Waller County Watermelon associa- !
ton finished loading its tenth car with |
melons Monday afternoon. Some of the |
cars were sent 10 Denver, Col, and others |
TO Kansas City and various other points.
John d. Hart, of Texsrkana, was gal |
Looping through the streets and yelling |
Saturday night, when an officer sprang |
out and seized the horse by the bits. The |
stoppage was so sudden that Hart was !
thrown from his horse and killed.
The idea of breeding range cattle with |
buffalo bulls is secuted by cattlemen. It |
is possible it is said, TO cross domestic |
bull with buffalo COW, but the result will |
be mongrel beast with the worst CHARGE
teristcs Of its progenitors.
The republican nominations give gen.
eral dissatisfaction 70 the republicans Out
in Tom Green, and while Of course the G..
0. p. don't give fig for the opinion of
Texas republican, still this feeling will
cause the Texas democratic majority to
reach 10000 as easily ard inevitably as
sparks fly uPward.-San Angelo Standard.
Our leading merchants, by q common
agreement, close their respective places of
business every evening, except Saturday,
at o'clock, and We trust the public in
general will make their purchases previous
to that hour.-Hsys County Times.
An excellent rule for the long dull sum-
mer months.
The hard wind last Sunday evening
blew down good deal OF corn, but not
to injure it. Sorghum suffered more on
account of rask growth and heavy top.
On some farms it is badly lodged, but not
so much so that it cannot be saved. The
crop promises to be the heaviest one in
many years -Blsnco News.
The st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rail
way has just put on the Hillsboro branch
of the road first-class new wide gauge
coach in place of the old narrow gauge
coach they have been using. The Cotton
Belt management contemplate in the near
future putting on a regular daily passen-
ger train from Hillsboro 10 Waco via
CorsicBna.
The loss of cattle and destruction of
fence posts by lightning by the general
use of wire fencing has become a matter
of such Importance as to demand consid-
Grafton. 4 plan outlined in an exchange
is to attach piece of wire occasionally 20
post, extending above it aud running
into the ground. A small SUN invested
this way will save both cattle and posts, it
is asserted
General Manager Meek, of the Pauhsn-
die route, says the immigration 10 the !
Panhandle is very encouraging, and that |
during The fall months hundreds OF fami- |
lies sill locate on the line of the road. |
The company is doing a very good bust
ness and tourists are beginning TO seek |
the watering places of Colorado, which !
Will make passenger travel still better
At l O'Clock on Sunday morning, Is
Oscar Lauglett, a bsrkeeeer at E Pasn, /
WAS going home, man approached him /
IN the dark, as he says, and ordered MIN
TO stop. Lauglett thought he was trying !
to hold him up. and therefore shot him
dead. The deceased was identified as
Jim Elliott, drunken rsi'rOad mplove.
sud Il Is not believed that be gcco,tsd
l5nglet, with any criminal intention.
certain prominent gentleman OF Is