The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-31
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

Grayson county claims $4,000 inhabi'
tsnts.
A new town has been started in Roberts
county, IN the Panhandle.
A canning factory at Minneola is among
the improvements of an early date.
Twenty-Five cases of fence cutting have
been recently reported in Navarro county
The Marshal Electric Light and Power
company has gone into the hands of re-
ceiver.
During the month OF April Ell Paso i'm
ported 3,76S tons of silver ore valued at
$226,S34.
Ell Paso is to have a weekly mining
journal of sixteen pages, published by
Professor Chas. Longumore.
The Brush Electric Light company con-
template building works at Ell Paso for
the manufacture of water gas.
Dallas is greatly exercised over her
faulty sewers. A big improvement and
an entirely new system is being aHitated.
The Eighth cavalry, which was ordered
to Dakota, will be paid off at Son Angelo.
They will be two and half months on
the trip.
1t is reported that cotton worms are
again in the field, and if it continues rain
inI fears are entertained that damage will
be done the crops.
The wool growers at Operas Cove are
all busy shearing sheep. The staple is
longer and the fleece lighter than any clip
ever taken in that vicinity.
1t is the general opinion that the work
of extending the Southern Pacific west
ward, via Goliad, to Beeville, and perhaps
to the Rio Grande, will soon begin.
The committee for the location OF the
state grange fair has made propositions
to Cleburne. Their demands include 100
acres of ground and $4,000 cash bonus.
An effort is being made at Athens, Tex,
to establish canning factory at that
place. At a recent meeting of citizens
aud business men a committee of three
was appointed to solicit stock for the en-
terprise.
Hon. j. W. Throckmorton declines to
nomination, but his letter leaves the i'm
preston that he will accept if it is ten
dered him.
Wool is coming in freely at Ballinger.
The grain crop is now assured, and is as
fine as can be in this country. Merchants
are crowded with business, and general
prosperity reigns.
The force engaged in building the line
from Arkansas to Rockport has been
doubled. Only about nine miles remain
to be finished The opinion is that the
company will make the line from Rock
port its main line.
Reports from Laredo say that if the
present rate of track-laying is kept up
the last spike in the connection between
that place and the City of Mexico, on the
Mexican National, will be driven before
the first of September.
Mr. Leroy Trice, general roadmaster of
the Texas and Pacific, makes O complete
denial of the statement that he has been
appointed division superintendent of the
eastern division of the Texas and Pacific,
to take effect June l, and says the rumor
which is 80 widespread is incorrect, the
many substantial rumors to the contrary
Notwithstanding
The population of Texas is rapidly
growing. The Henderson Times thinks
that the census of 1890 will show a popu
lation of 100000 If the census Is moi
| taken closer than it was in Smith county
in 1880 the figures will not represent the
population by at least one fourth. Ter
Weekly Courier.
Austin was in gaily attire for six days
last week, and so resplendent was her
rsiment that it attracted the concentrated
gaze of the nation. The dedication of the
al nf T.,
the country, drew to the capital of the
state many thousands of her patriotic
sons and daughters and numerous
strangers, some of them men of distinc-
ton. Everything was on a scale COM
mensurate with the occasion. The mill
tary display was splendid, the competitive
drill superb, the Inauguration ball
magnificent, the fireworks brilliant, and
the music by the bands simply enchant-
ing.-Llano Iron City News.
In speaking of the drill contest here
last week, and the excellent company from
its town, the Fayette Light Guard, the La
Grange Journal says: "The result was
when the drill was over the company was
awarded the first prize, $3.50, in the drill
Of the Texas maiden infantry, and the
fourth prize, 800, in the State drill, be-
sides prize, a gold medal, awarded Cap
tain George Willrich as best captain.
There were seven companies in the maiden
drill, hence this last prize was, both on &C.
count of It's intrinsic value and the honor
attaching, no small acquisition. The citi-
zens of LAGRANGE FEEL proud of their mill
tary company and its achievements, and
will at all times tender them encourage
meut in perpetuating their organization
and achieving additional and greater
honors in the future"
A special from Eagle Pass to the Ex-
press yesterday, says: Another batch of
100 American workmen passed through
here last night bound for the Sabinal coal
mines. They were brought from Missouri
by Mr.. j. A. McNaught, the agent of the
Mexican International railroad, and are a
fine, sober looking lot of miners. There
was most extraordinary influx of people
into the city on last evenings train,
and the streets were thronged with
strangers. A cursory glance at the hotel
registers shows that one hotel in this town
had SO casual guests to supper, while one
IN Piedras Negras fed 40 at the same
meal. The place is undoubtedly attract
ing great deal of attention, and the fact
of its being the shortest and most con-
venient route to any point in Mexico,
makes it the more noticeable.