The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-09
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State EXCHANGES.

State Exchanges.
Ninety-three thousand dollars worth OF
imports passed through the Laredo Gus
tom house for the month of July.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
at Dallas was burglarized and robbed o.
its clock and silver service.
Campbell Taylor, for more than forty
years a resident of Bastrop, is dead. He
was member of Capt. Jose Billingsley' S
company in the battle of San Jacinto.
Rain is badly needed in Eastland county
| the livestock are having to be watered
from wells, the water having dried out OF
the principal watering holes. With good
rains soon there will be an immense yield
of cotton.
A Mississippi woman not long ago fell
into mill pond and when her husband
rescued her a ten pound catfish was found
ensnared in her wire hustle. He wanted
to throw her in again, but she naturally
bjected.-Brenham Banner.
Congressman Sayers has been invited
to stump Indiana during the campaign in
the interest of the democratic ticket. The
Banner is proud to note that tbs congress
man from the Tenth district is appreciated
abroad as we'll as at home.-B Brennan Ban
ner.
Capt. j. B. Boyd, a pioneer citizen of
Calvert, died at that place of black jaun-
dice and was buried from the Baptist
church. He was captain in Hoods
brigade during the war and was a brave
and fearless officer.
Reports from Denison say a scheme is
on foot in that city to grade drive leo
feet wide to Sherman. The center strip
of the drive forty feet in width, will be
macadamized. A race track is to be es
tablished at Cooper's wells, midway be-
tween the two places.
The Pullman company is using a new
device on a number of its cars running on
the large roads, by which occupants of
upper berths are protected against the
possibility of being thrown out. 1t con.
sists of netting resembling hammock,
which is fastened from the edge of the
berth to the top of the car, and can readily
be adjusted at moments notice-Ex-
change.
Sunday night, while dancing at bail
at the house of Francisco Ramirez, in the
lower part of Matamoros, a young man
named Edwardo Garcia fell dead from
the arms of his partner, the blood stream
ing from his nose and mouth and stain
ing her white dress. The cause of his
death was the bursting of an aneurism of
the heart.
During the month of July 1884 acres
of school and $40 acres of University lands
we're leased. The grand total of land now
leased at 4 cents per acre is 6,518,615
acres. The total amount sold out of leased
lands up to date is 35,701 acres. The total
sales of land for July recorded at the gen
eral land Office is AZ, $50 acres school, $50
University and 100 asylum lands.
While A. j. Coffee was SEEMING last week
near Eastland he caught large water
moccasin Of the most poisonous kind in
his hands under the water. Thinking 1t
Yves large channel catfish or an eel he
held fast to it and while making his way
out of the water he was bitten on thu
back, arm and hand before realizing what
1t was he was holding. He was promptly
treated, but ulcers have broken out ov,
him from the virus remaining in his sys-
tenn.
The directors of the board of trade of
San Antonio met Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of taking some action
toward the selection of delegates to the
Texas deep water convention to be held in
Denver, Colo, this month. The directors
were not certain as to the method pre-
scribed for the selection of delegates, and
consequently postponed defnite action
until conference between President
Mayor Callsghan aud County
Judge Wurzbach can be held. 1t is under
stood that San Antonio will be entitled to
fifteen votes in the convention,in addition
to two delegates from that senatorial
district.
The public takes relatively small risks
in railway building. The city of Chicago
never subscribed a dollar to railway con
strUction, yet witness its enormous obi
cations to railroads. The public clam
ored for railways until they got them, and
now clamor, perhaps, more loudly against
them. Town, county and state bonuses
were offered to secure their construction
but, the roads once secured, legislation,
forgetful of their benefits, restricts them
as it restricts no other ventures, until at
present the rights of a railway seem
narrowing to those of protest and loss.
The Interstate commerce law enables
large shipping interests to con-
centrate theiI traffic, and de-
press rates and induce a senseless rail-
way strife, from which they reap harvests,
without defensive remedy to the rail-
ways by pools.-Exchange
The Post-Dispatch, of St. Louis, offers
a prize of $50 for the biggest and
most beautiful lie of the season." the
competition being open to every body.
The Post-Dispatch processes to have
noticed with unfeigned regret that
a decadence of the beautiful art
of lying has set in and that
there is no longer that luxuriance of liars
that marked St. Louis as a center of
mendacity some years ago." With a view
to reviviug interest 10 the industry of lie
building, the prize is offered. The lie
may be of any class, fish lie, hunting
lie, a travellers lie-only "the campaign
lle' Is barred; and it may be of any length
from ten to hundred lines. The contest
closes at noon, August Is. Lies are to be
addressed to the editor, the corner of the
envelope being marked Liars Tourney"
Waco Evening News.
Austin competitors are not barred.
Brother Blaine is on the bounding bill
low already half seas over, on his return
homeward. He will probably reach New
York early in the comiDo ,rool H. l.