San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-13
State News Condensed.

its track to Commerce.
Outlook for cotton and corn crop at
Rockdale is promising.
Mrs. Jane Hamilton dies at Rich
ardson aged 95 years and one month.
One of the hardest rains this year
fell at Greenville, July 8.
The East Texas Horticultural fair
at Tyler closed July y.
The Colorado river at Bastrop has
risen 2S feet and is still rising.
Cotton at Bryan has been greatly
d damaged by the excessive rains.
The receipts of domestic wool for the
week have been 1876 bales.
Five hundred people attended the
ball at the Arkansas hotel in Rockport.
Paris city council votes $4,000 for
street improvements.
Dallas real estate transactions for
June aggregated 81, $4,000.
Eagle Pass cattle trade with Mexi-
co is about 1000 head every month.
Shelby county farmers are about
through work for the present crop
Corn is big yield.
The entire staff of state Officers at
tended the Tyl er Horticultural Fair.
Dallas talks of inviting the s. A. P.
to extend it's lines from Waco to that
city.
Houston complains that the trash,
barrel waits too long for the dirt cart
The body of German is found on
the line of the H. & Il. c. railroad
eight miles from Houston.
Jefferson Loan and Investment Co..
shows a net gain of 2 IA per cent per
month from time Of organization.
Jackson county, heretofore regarded
as stock county, is now making
rapid progress in agriculture.
The vertebra of huge mastodon,
picked up in the Red river bottom,
north Texas, weighs 1-2 pounds.
Mr.. J. Dewitt Miller has finished
his series of addresses at the George
town chautauqua.
Oxford Hicks. a cotton broker of
Houston, is arrested on complaint Of
Blaisdell & Co., of Chicopie, Me.
A planning mill, with steam lathe
and planery, is destroyed at Atlanta.
Loss 5000, no insurance.
Major A. NJ. Jackson, the venerable
reporter for the court of appeals, has
died in Austin.
The s. A. p. construction forces
will cover the entire ground between
Waco and little River by the Is inst.
Some patches of Hamilton county
cotton have been abandoned to the
weeds.
The Texas alliances are pledging
themselves not to use jute bagging
where cotton can be obtained.
Brenham postoffice is raised in the
scale, the salary of the Office being
increased. Corsicana and Denison
are decreased.
Prairie Grove cotton reports contin-
ue very fiattering, as they do all over
Limestone county. Estimated yield
for the county 40, 900 bales.
n man named Frisha, of Dallas, is
taken to the hospital with bullet in
his brain, put there by himself, he
claims accidentally.
Galveston city council by a vote of
to refuse to permit the Galveston
Wharf company to violate the ordin-
ances of the city, which privilege
they had petitioned for.
Gillespie county fair and exposi-
ton will open September 2Sth and
the rules governing the same have
been published.
Greenville ordered out 80 men I'm
each ward for street work this week
and kept them at work from Wednes-
day until Saturday.
Mr.. Nelson, while attempting to
cross Turkey creek at Ballinger, lost
his team and a third horse not his
own.
The bonus raised at Texarkana to
induce the construction of the Texar-
arkana Northern has been accepted
by northern syndicate.
The last soundings at the mouth of
the Brazos report Is feet. They ex-
pect to have 20 feet by December if
not earlier.
J. II. Price is arrested in Paris for
stealing S39S from DIR. Kyle, of New
Birmingham. The money was found
on his person.
The Southern Pacific and the Texas
Pacific roads agree to haul cotton
bagging for the same rate per 100
pounds as jute. Cotton being much
lighter jute is at disadvantage.
Wednesday was gamblers day at
Dallas and hundreds of dollars were
turned into the treasury. In some
cases twenty SO dollar fines were inn
posed.