The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-09
STATE NEWS.
Items ana Comments CuIled From
State Exchanges.

. flCL = re DS.L Et1-L u-@EEel II c=-t-z
. Texas and Is receiving grain from nearly
al q the LsigEbor.ug lows. CO.ss.
g1sZIy b1ziLez- il lively.
/ C1s.zrtius station rs been es.sbllsas5
b. tas state board q heath a. Ws-k0m.
eigl. mi!ss eas: o, MzEs-zl, AID cEcs.s
took charge On JAY Is.
While Charley Hsily, residing Issr
LsOLsEd, Ess going into tOvl o. lat
Friday be Ess attacked o. : sEzrZ o.
bss= zLd nearly s:uog - death.
/ A Methodist cam pusst.uy i in pro-
/ gress 2. O-sgs, Colorado county. Up 70
date there have been dtty sccsz=iOls -
the church and more sse joining nightly.
/ The Southern Pacific nss sold IL wharf
a. ROckpoft spo al it. sppur,=u srcss.
together With some land owned b! the
railroad Ct that point.
Travellers from up the county rsPor;
that the trains are pretty vel filed With
| people bound fOr Texas. Most Of them
are from the ssste.n-so7tas,u states, EnO
are in search Of hOmss where good land
can be purchased chssP.-F0rt Worth
Mail.
Abilene he's msds valuable purchase
Of tract ef land o. and between Cedar
and Lyle cresks. The purehass vas
made ~ get the ownership and control Of
the water b. the city. and the city council
deserves crsdi. fOr IL f-resight, a. their
action. p aces i: beyond the power Of phi
ysie parties = tax the city on 20 impOr-
'sut sopPly g water.
Sunday night the little daughter Of Rev.
Arthur Robinson, Of Orange, was filing
Z Lighted lamp, Tnsn the oil il the feeder
I iga'ted and the frightened child thTeE the
can 70 that the b1rniag liquid &c. fire 70
her mothers clothing, and before the
flames could be eriiug0ished the unfor-
tuas'e woman Wa dangerously burned
about the face aud body. Her suferiDgs
are e1cfucisting, Bot the physician thinks
the chances for her recovery are good.
Bury our cat in the garden, i. will
make the roses grow" There Is no non
sense, however grO.esque, that has not its
parallel ia some phase of human conduct.
Recently q n N named Munich vas Gre
mated On Long Island, and, in accordance
With his last wishes and those of his sur
wing wife. his ashes we're scattered over
one Of the flower beds On the lawn il
front Of the cremstory where his body
was iucinersted-tO make the roses grow.
Waco Day.
Rev. y. T. Byars, one Of the old land
marks OF the Baptist denomination, died
at Brentwood last week. He came 70
this state in 1925, and served az captain
of artillery in the Mexican war. The
declaration OF independence was
signed in his house in this county, and Re
was sergeant-at-arms in the first Texas
legislature. He was ordained TO the
ministry, and was the only missionary
west Of the BrazOs until 1867.
There are twenty.six different railroads
in TEXAS with a total mileage in 1888 Of
7 ,3O7.1l. This ia an increase of sG9.1
miles over 1887. Two roads show a !
decreased mileage OF u % and eight !
show $500 miles increase, while the
mileage Of sixteen remains az in 1887. !
The value Of the rolling stock on these |
roads is $G,30l,11 IN 1888, net increase !
of $7ll,OG2. Fourteen roads give a &C.
creased valuation Of rolling stock of
1861, 297
In 1876 twenty-fOur days interviewed be-
tween the nomination of Hayes and the
appearance of his letter of acce ptsnce.
Tilden took thirty-seyen days 10 writs his
letter. Iu 1880 Garfeld's letter appeared
thirty-fye days after his nomination and
Hancocks thirty-seyen days after the
dem Ocrats nominated him. B.aine's let
ter appeared forty-three days after his
nomination in 1884 and Cleveland's forty
days after. This year Cleveland was
nominated on June 6 and Harrison on
June 25.-Temple Times.
A serious cutting ARRAY, that came near
resulting in fratricide, occurred in Vic
tOrIa Monday night. A negro boy, about
II years Of age, named Peoples, had a
light with another boy and beat him with
an iron stake pin, in juring him seriously.
Peoples father, on hearing of the affair,
undertook TO punish his boy. He threw
iim down and beat him, and according to
witnesses used the boy pretty roughly.
Young / eeplss finally pulled his knife and
began carving the old man, cutting him
n several places. One wound in the
,reast is pronounced dangerous by ply
icians. The boy is in jail.
p. L. Coy, United States deputy marshal
md Texas ranger of comapny d, ar
iyed in Brownsville Tuesday morning
With Juan Cervantes and Jesus Costello,
]
lex, and brought them over TO this side
Il the river last month. Cervautes is one
II the most noted horse thieves on the
,Order and has long escaped arrest. His
ustOm was 70 hire himself out for few
lays, find where the best horses were and '
I'm them Off He operated on bo'h sides I
i the river, stealing wherever he could I
nd good horses. 8
An Eagle Pass special says: There is
of a railroad excitement here Z
low caused by the news that company /
as been formed to build standard c
'auge line from Natchez, Miss, TO this
,oint. The proposed road will run t
through Temple, Kerville and Uvalde. A a
etter from one Of the principal movers Q
vas received, asking what this town would
10 to encourage the enterprise, and r
10000 was subscribed in ten minutes by g
few OF our most liberal merchants. .
representatives of the road are expected y
lere in few days to confer with the a
,itize ms.
A man writes from the west that he will C
% at the fair with his old boots, which he 2
lesires to specially exhibit he SAYS that T
ne has worn them Tor five years continually, (
md his father before him wore them for I
light years and made several trips to Q
Texas in them before the family moved c
)ut from Illinois. They were, he claims.