The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

The nights at Eagle Pass are so cool
that blanket is necessary.
There have been many prostratiOns in
San Antonio the past few days from the
intense heat.
The Ninth Texas infantry, ex-confeder-
ates, will hold a reunion in Bonbam on
the I'd of August.
In central Texas the ,worms are giving
no trouble and the outlook for cotton is
very promising.
There are over 1000 acres of wheat in
Wilbarger county, and about double that
amount in oats.
Fort Worth has twenty different tele-
graph lines centering at the Western
Union telegraph office.
The work on the government jetty at
Galveston will be stopped this week, the
$3OO,O0O having been exhausted.
The Ross democratic club of Lancaster
is preparing for a rousing picnic. Gov
ernor Ross will be the orator of the day.
1t has not rained in the Panhandle for
over month. Things are drying up. A
match dropped on the mesquite would
start prairie fire.
Apricots have been grown in Shacke!-
ford county this season six inches in cir
conference, and weighing one and three
quarters of an once.
George Breeg, foreman of Eagle Pass
coal mines, whose mysterious disappear
ance was recorded a short time ago, has
not been heard from.
The grape crop is looking fine at the
old Mission vineyard, RefugIo. The early
white grape known as the Malaga, is
spoiled with too much rain.
The fruit season has opened at Jack
sonville. The town is busy canning,
packing and shipping peaches, beans,
plums and other fruits and vegetables TO
other markets.
A Mexican Is year old girl, named
ROmula Mendoza, was drowned in the Rio
Grande, while bathing last Monday. There
were three other girls with her when the
sad calamity occurred.
The cotton seed meal syndicate, con-
Quoted on the Buzzard d billiard farm,
at Uvalde, have abandoned the feeding
system. Fat grass cattle bring as good
price with butchers, and is less expensive.
An effort is being made to secure the
building of branch of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass road from Comfort, a
point near there, north via Fredericksburg
to Llano, distance of about sixty miles.
1t is reported this line will be about the
next one constructed by the Arkansas COM
pany.
Quo warranto proceedings we're entered
Thursday by the Fifth ward, recently an
nexed to East Dallas, to prevent that city
from taxing it, on the ground that the act
of annexation was not legal. The case
was left before the district court last week
on application for an injunction, which
was not granted, the court deciding that
quo warranto was the proper course of
proceeding.
There has been considerable excitement
in Smithville during the last week, caused
by row at negro church. Ned Wilson
entered the church, advanced to within a
few feet of the pulpit in which the
preacher stood preaching, and fired four
times at Ben White, missing him, but
striking an old negro named Jack Scott in
the shoulder. Ben White drew his knife
and cut Wilson nine different times. Both
parties were arrested,
The Texas Live Stock Journal is
authority for the statement that more fat
beef cattle were shipped from southern
Texas during the first six months of the
current year than were ever shipped be-
fore from the same section in the entire
history of the state; further than this, the
beeves have been fully equal in quantity
and weights to the north and west Texas
beef that was shipped during the past two
years. Southern Texas will eventually
become a first-class beef fattening ter
ritory.
Owing to the constantly increasing
traffic over the Southern Pacific railroad
to San Antonio, the present accommoda-
tions at the Sunset depot in that city have
been found to be Inadequate. Yesterday
operations were commenced to construct
an addition to the roundhouse, charging
the shops and providing stalls for twenty
four extra locomotives, which will then
enable the roundhouse to receive forty
five engines. The enlargement will be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible, the
contract calling for its completion in three
months.
Major Z. I. Teele, of Ell Paso, president
of the ex-confederate association, has
issued circular changing the date of the
meeting of exconfederates and ex-federals
this year to August Is, II and IS. At the
union held last August at Dallas the date
of the next meeting was fixed as August 1,
1888, but it has been found impossible to
complete the arrangements in time. The
meeting will be held this year at San An
tonic. Last year the attendance was 80,
600. A still greater number is looked for
this year.
A month ago Joseph Foucart and his
family arrived in Waco from Paris, France,
and the husband, who is an architect, OBJ
tanned employment with Lamour d. Her
bert. A week ago Foucart disappeared.
That morning he had taken away from
the house 5000 francs and all OF his wife's
jewelry. After week of weeping and
hoping Nine. Melalne Foucart and her
children determined to start back to
France. Citizens furnished her with
funds, and she started Friday morning
for Galveston bearing a letter to the vice
consul of France.
A special from Corpus Christi says:
The sad affair of Wednesday night has
been the all-absorbing topic of conversa-
ton on our streets all of yesterday. The
fire department turned out, and one of
the largest funeral professions ever seen
in Nueces' county followed the remains of
young Walter Dove to his last resting