Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
TEXAS SPECIALS
Weekly Resume of the Gazette's Daily
Report from All Over the
State.

SAN ANGELO, TEX, Dec. 21.-Infor-
nation by wire has just been received
from Fredericksburg of the fatal burning
day before yesterday of the wife of Judge
A. w. Moursand, district judge of that
district who at the lime was holding
court at Llano. Mrs. Moursand was at
tending to her domestic duties, and her
skirts caught from the fire place, and
before it was possible for it to be extin-
guished she was burned beyond recovery.
A telegram was received here by ] n.
Austin, a young blacksmith from San
Saba, Tex , this evening stating that his
mother had just shot herself and died in
few minutes. The cause of suicide is
attributed to insanity, brought on through
the numbering of one of her sons three
years ago.
The first two bales of cotton ever raised
in Tom Green county sold for
Zoe. A bonus of $50 was
contributed by the merchants to
the raisers, John 7. Hubble and J II d.
Bugg. The cotton was raised on two
acres, and the parties STATE this year was
only an experiment, and they intend
planting a large quantity next spring.
An old cotton grower with forty years
OF experience, from Grayson county, was
heard to remark that this soil was espe-
cially adapted to cotton growing, and it
would be only matter of a few years
before this will be the greatest cotton
growing county in Texas.
AUSTIN, TEX. Dec. 21.-The district
court of Travis crunty to-day deposed
from office Hon. J. NJ. Breckenridge,
county Judge, reelected at the last cleo
ton on the county ticket. The DISPOSE
ton is on the ground of Judge Bracken-
ridges taking fees to which,
it is alleged, he was not
legally entitled and for which he was in
dicted and found guilty. A new trial
has been applied for. Judge Bracken-
ridge, though a moderate Republican, is
very popular, and nobody believes here
he had any criminal intent. 1t is be-
lieyed the judge will get out of the scrape
somehow.
WILLS POINT, Ten, Dec. "a AS the
east bound Texas and Pacific train came
III last night at II O'Clock it struck q
man, killing him instantly. Mr.. Lind
sey of this city, was on the train and
heard the man scream when struck. Es-
quire Sanford held an inquest over the
remains, but could elicit no facts as to
how he came to be struck. From papers
on his person it is supposed his name was
Bunch Walker. He had worked at Cor
sicana and came from there here, and
had been from some of the old states
only short time, as letter upon his
ppson appeared to have been written to
some one back there, telling him about
Texas and the amount of wages he re-
ceived, and the people. He was about
nineteen or twenty years of age, neatly
dressed. He was buried here to-day by
the order of the railroad officials.
Many people were in town to-day.
SAN ANGELO, TEX, De" OF. A.
WiIkerson, immigratioL az, It for the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railroad,
who brought party of Northern CAPT
talists here last week has sold the Powell
colony to them, consisting of $50, 900
acres of land situated in Crockett county,
about fifty miles from this place. The
new purchasers will send about sixty
families on their return to settle on the
land. The terms of the sale are not
known.
BELLvILLE, TEX. Dec. 25.-A mar
rage occurred on the southbound Santa
Fe train between Lyons Station and Gay
Hill this evening mt $50. The parties
were Mr.. Thomas Carter and Miss Edith