The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

handsome new depot is to be erectet
by the International end Grept Nor berl
Railway company at Huntsville.
The assessor of Webb county states tina
the population of the county has increased
over 5000 within the past five years.
Work has commenced on the Jail at Bal
finger to cost $21 900, and the court house
to cost $4,000, will be commenced oil
September 10.
Work is rapidly progressing on TN
new Jail which the county commissioners
court of Williamson county contracted
some time ago.
Farmers are pouring into Mills count.
and land is selling more rapidly than TO
ten years past Work will soon begin Oh
a large flour mill and gin.
1t is said that the vast landed interests O
the Franklin Land and Cattle company
chiefly in Carson and Gray counties, is tC
be cut in small tracts and sold to settlers
An experiment at wheat growing has
been made on the L. Anchor ranch, abou
twelve miles from Amarillo and turned
out a yield of thirtyfive bushels to tn,
acre.
luo E6C6ub Thlub III SOubHHC5p iOAhF
have greatly improved the crop prospects
The Guadalupe river has risen ten feet
within the past few days and few of the
lowest cotton fields have been sub
merged.
Mrs. Hinton, driven insane by her hus
bands desertiOn, attempted to commit
suicide by jumping off the Brick wharf in
Galveston into the bay Tuesday night.
She was fished out and carried home IN
injured.
John Framer, hitherto respected citi-
zen, living in the southern part of the
county near Bonham, has just been ar
rested and placed in Jail on the charge of
higamy. It seems he left wife in Ala
bama, and, coming to Texas, married
again.
John Dalton, a young man aged %,
C ,mmitted suicide Monday night in Dali
la, by taking morphine. The cause
assigned for the act is disappointment in
love, his sweetheart having rejected him
on Sunday. The young man was native
of Tarrant county.
Give us a man who votes a straight
ticket, whether democrat or republican
MoOgrel parties and politicians have
wroughtthe country no good. They seek
the preferment of men or the advance
ment of isms over sound and time tried
principles. Bell county wants none such.
Temple Times.
The Express says: Gan Emile Rives
club is being formed in the CITY. 1t is
understood that Col. Louis j. Workman is
10 be president and Major II. S. Garfield
secretary. The colonel has memorized
the entire tragedy of 'Herrod and Mar
aimne,' while the ma or has every word of
the Quick and the Dead at his tongues
End. Their friends call them cranke, but
they are not"
If the above is true there is a question
If something is not wrong with the dis
ting gentlemen.
At 2 O'Clock Wednesday morning gen
teman by the name of j. Rankin, of
Spring Station, stopping at the Globe
Eotsl, in Houston, fell from the third story
,of that building, breaking his collar bone
.2ud two ribs, and perhaps fatally injuring
himself II is not known how the acct
dent occurred, but it is supposed he was
walking in his sleep and walked out an
open window. A physician was promptly
possible.
Between u and o'clock Monday night,
at Galveston, Henry Cos, plasterer, fell
from the tower of the new city hall, dis
tn ce:of 100 feet to the pavement, killing
himlinstantly. He had gone up into the
cupola to sleep in an intoxicated condi
ton, and rolled off his lofty perch while
asleep and was dashed to death. He was
20 years old, unmarried and his parents
reside in that city.
Saturday afternoon five wagons with
sixteen mules passed through the city,
bound for Lavaca county. The company
was an outfit for railroad construction,
aud was provided with all necessary tools.
The mules were remarkably fine and large.
The owners were Swedes; one a Mr.. Nick
son, owned the larger part. They are
going to work on an extension of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway to
Austin. The party stopped at the store
of Mr.. Digger, corner of Franklin and
Third streets, for buying feed and fodder.
Waco Day.
Professor Oscar Moore is on his travels,
A late news item in the New Orleans Times
Democrat says: "There is on exhibition
Just now at the Cincinnati exposition q
blind colored by only years old, who, it
Is said, has most remarkable memory,
and can answer thousand or more ques-
tions, some of them of difficult nature.
He is known as professor" Oscar Moore,
aud was born seven miles from Waco, Au-
gust 10, 1885. He is in charge of H. p. N.
CANNED, of Austin, Tex. The boy has
also developed, it is said, wonderful
talent for music, and is already able to
execute several pieces on the piano"
The Matamoras Cronista of Wednesday
published an article, in which it suggests
that all foreign residents of that place
who dared criticise the late farcical Mex
lean quarantine, be expelled from the
country as pernicious foreigners. The
article is sweeping, and generally directed
at the whole foreign colony. The Cronista
is a semi-official paper subsidized heavily
by the federal government. Its utter
ances, therefore, bear weight in showing
the sentiment with which the government
views foreigners on this frontier. In
Matamoras Tuesday night the meeting of
the committee at the theatre to consult
about the improving of the port of Bag
dad was very enthusiastic. Afterwards
the band and members serenaded General
Vela Don Melquiades Torres and other
prominent citizens.
Mr.. W. G. Brann, a Galveston news
paper man, is the author of tragic