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

were taken advantage OF in any such way
Boone FOame, youth Is years of age
was drowned on the 22d while bathing il
Beaver creek, fifteen miles south of Pales
tine.
John Rutledge, a Farnes county stock
man, shipped 1000 head of yearlings t.
Menard county for pasturage on the Kauf
man g. Runge ranch.
The entire issue of coupon and loca
tickets for the International and Grea'
Northern has been boxed up and for
wardsd to Palestine.
The ex-confederates of Sherman vii
form a society for social, benevolent and
historical purposes, and have called G
meeting at the court house for Saturday
evening at 8 O'Clock.
The electric light building at Cleburnt
is about completed, and leading business
men are having the apparatus for using
the light placed in their stores. Cleburne
will be no longer in the dark.
The Seventh regiment Mexican band
| that discoursed such sweet music in Aus
tin during drill week, gave a concert at
Ell Paso last Thursday night, and the town
| went wild over the wierd and beautiful
music.
The Galveston fair grounds have been
purchased by three racing sports, who will
lay out and put in frat class order mile
track, with a view to making Galveston a
point in the Texas and southern racing
circuits.
A strip of country twenty miles long
and quarter of mile wide in Wichita
and Clay counties was swept by cyclone
last Thursday evening. Scarcely tres
or human habltation in its path escaped
destruction.
A stocllman from southwest Texas says
that the prickly pear and cotton seed meal
make the best and cheapest feed in the
world for beef cattle, and that it cost s
just Sc for beef that will sell for 81 per
100 pounds in Chicago.
The Usage Coal company are now
working between 500 and 1000 miners. A
new shaft is being sunk south Of old and
other points on the field. Two telephone
lines now connect the mining town of
Krebs with cAlister.-Phenix.
The COrscana Observer says that the
people of the town of Fairfield have raised
$4,000 and will give rightof-way for
railroad from Fairfield to Corsicana. The
latter city has long needed such road
and will cooperate in building it.
Commissioner Waldo of the Texas
Traffic association, announces that tickets
at the rate of one fare for the round trip
will be on sale at all coupon stations in
the state on the occasion of the natione'
democratic convention at st. Louis.
The Houston Light Guard and Mont
gomery True Blues called at our institute
one day last week and presented Miss
Dingler with one of their fine ribbons in
return for signing" to them the Lords
prayer.-Juvenile Ranger, published at
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
1t is rumored that the passenger and
ticket business of the Missouri Pacific and
Texas u Pacific, which has heretofore
been conducted as one Office by w. B.
Mccullough, will shortly be separated and
each road have general passenger and
ticket agent of it's own.
At the meeting of the Fort Worth coun
Gil on Wednesday night, plans for eleven
miles of sewerage ON the south side were
submitted and the matter referred to the
finance and sewer committees to devise
means of payment satisfactory to the
contractors. The estimated cost will be
100000.
The Jefferson Boating club have ordered
small stern wheel boat to be launched in
the bayou for the purposes of both pleas
ure and profit. 1t will be of sufficient size
to accomm odate fifty passengers, and will
make daily trips up and down the river,
and, if need be, TO Shreveport and return.
1t will arrive in few days.
The Santa Fe Railroad company have
commenced the erection of new round |
house on the site of the old one at Gle
burne. They will also begin the erection
of the new $4,000 brick passenger depot
in the next ten days. These improve
mente, together with the feeding pens and
car sheds, will make Cleburne quite rail-
road town.
Next Saturday night at 8 o'clock,
meeting of Waco ex-Confsderate veterans
will be called to order in the county court
room in Waco. The object of the meet
ing is to prepare for the reunion in 1889
of Hoods brigade veterans in that city.
Hoods veterans meet annually June 81,
which is the anniversary of the battle of
Gaines mill.
N. S. Scott, an intelligent mulatto, about
SO years old, who recently located in
Whitewright, claims to be son of the late
Colonel Tom Bean, the millionaire of
Fannin county. Scott has pretty fair
education, and says that Colonel Bean
gave him money at different times to
educate himself with. He will go to Bon.
ham soon to put in claim for his part of
the vast estate.
The first steamboat which ever arrived
in Denison came in yesterday and attract
ed considerable attention. 1t WIS on its
way to Austin, Tex, and was christencd
"BelIe of Austin" Its length was some
thing over thirty feet, and it is destined to
become pleasure beat on the Colorado
river. 1t is, perhaps, unnecessary TO state
that it came by rail, occupying an entire
Hat car -Denison News.
The Denison Rifles will take part in
the ceremonies on Decoration day-May
30, and at night there will be lawn party
held on the High School campus and
given by the lady friends of the Rifles.
The public is generally invited. Refresh
ments will be served on the grounds at
popular prices, to assist the company
financially. The Rifles will give an exhi-
oition drill and general good time is
expected Del ison News.
The mutton raising business in Texas
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