The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-02
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.


The district court of Coz zales count
has just adjourned after securing eleve
felony convictions during the term.
The Medina county News, week.
paper published at Hondo City, has SUI
pended publication, and will not be T,
yived again.
1t is expected that as soon as the Texa
Pacific railroad is out of the hands of
receiver it will be built from Mlllsap t
Mineral Wells.
Hiram Bennett, the oldest man in Dalla
county, al at Mesquite the o'htr da!
ag' d 90. He was surrounded by fou
= neratlons of his descendants.
The citizens of Corpus Christi ar
making an effort again to revive tn
telephone exchatge, which was discon
tinued some time ago on account OF IN
sufficient patronage.
A number of lawless characters have beef
for some time infestiug Texarkana, anc
thsre is talk of the citizens organizing
committee TO drive them out of town, al
public feeling against them is becoming
loud and strong.
A new banking firm has just been
started in Ell Paso under the Lame of the
Merchants Exchange bank, with capital
stock of 100000, by W. B. Merchant
| formerly of Kew Orleans, and prominent
capitalists of Laredo. They will carry or
general banking exchange and broker
| age business.
A mas meeting, under the auspices OF
tn churches, was held at Dallas on Sup
dy afternoon, for the purpose of agitat
ny the enforc ment of The sunday and
gambling laws, to which end the speakers
suggested the organization of law and
oder movement. Re,olu ions were adopted
supporting law and order candidates.
The crop of Uvalde county is 100 per
cent better than last year. Corn will
make the biggest crop. Seasonable rains
have Continued to fail throughout the
year, and all the land ever cultivated has
been planted this year. The acreage has
been Increased about 10 per cent.
Monday, Mrs. Garner, who lived ten
miles east of Rush, was drowned few
miles from home. Her husband was
driving, and attempted to cross the ford
at HatchetU's ferry, on the Angelina river.
The water was too deep, and foated the
wagon bed. The deceased jumped out or
was thrown on, and was drowned. Her
body has not yet been recovered.
On the 22d Cipriano Seguro was
stabbed and killed at the San Mateo
ranch by Lazaro Saldovar, who made coed
MS escape. Both we're youths and the
lay before had had fight in which Clip
'iano, who was the smallest, gave to the
,ther a sound thrashipg. Lazaro pom
Tered over his whipping eli night, and
ext morning crawled up behind SECURE
nd plunged knife under his heart,
producing fatal wound, from which the
rounded boy died Monday.
Astronomers of late years have been
much interested IN the question whether
he moon has a satellite, and the late
clipse was looked forward to with great
interest because it wonld present an un-
Usual opportunity for observation. AS no
eport of a satellite has yet been made to
he world, we may conclude that more was
aud our nightly luminary per-
l6ps pursues its solitary path around the
earth in dissolution and without an at
.endant of its own,-Waco Day.
The Houston Age is in trouble. It's
ocal reporter says:
"Some people may imagine that it is
very easy-going thing to gather local
news these dull times. But with the per-
spiration rolling down Jour spinal column
like a branch of the Mississippi it is no
amusing business to stand on a sunny
corner and loJk out into space aud gather
facts
There are seven lunatics confined in the
Dallas county Jail, three of whom are
locked up with prisoners for want of bet
ter accommodations. The sheriff has ap
piled to both state asylums to admit them,
but has received replies that both are full.
1t is reported that lunatics are thus accu
mulating in the jails of all the populOus
counties in north Texas, with no hope of
relief from the state. One of the lunatics
imprisoned was arrested last May, and her
case, for want of treatment, has passed
from mild to an incurable form of in
sanity.
A rare exhibition of horsemanship was
on the street in Silver City re
Gently, says an exchange. A cowboy who
had filled his tank with liquid lightning,
offered to bet $50 that he "could ride any
thing that wore hair" Another cowboy
took the bet, and brought forth cayuse
famous for bucking. The drunken cowboy
was not slow in mounting, and while the
@ yuse was rearing and pitching, crossed
bo:h his legs around the horn of the sad
die, then quietly rolled a cigarette and sat
and smoked as contentedly as though he
were in a rocking chair. When the horse
ceased to pitch the money was turned
over and most of the boys took theirs
straight. As the rider drained his poison
he quietly remarked; "Well (hic), thought
you had something hard to ride"
On last Saturday Mr.. Aaron Chinn, en-
ployed on Hennessey d Thomas ranch in
Calhoun county, was seriously gored by
an Infatuated bull. Chinn, with others,
had roped the bull for the purpose of
saving off his horns, and was pulling ON
4 rope fastened to the bulls horns trying
to throw the animal. The rope broke,
and, the other parties becoming fright
ened, let go of the rope, when the mad
dened bull charged Chinn, gored him il
frightful manner and finally threw him
over the fence of the pen, which undoubt-
eddy saved Chinn's life. He was carried
to Victoria and placed under doctors
care, and is doing very well, with the
chances in favor of recovery.
For the first time yesterday the stars
and stripes ran up the staff of the United
States court house and postofice build
pg. Postmaster Gerald received the de-