Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-03
pounds more than they did at the same
season last year.
TEXAS IN TYPE.

The Brown county roller mills are kept |
busy day and night
There is now daily mail from Car
rizo Springs to Eagle Pass.
The Methodist church at San Marcos is
now lighted by electricity.
Marble, said to be of a fine quality, is
found in the hills near DenisOn.
A movement is on hand for the speedy
incorporation of Moody. Bell county.
Amarillo is said to be doing big
lumber trade with neighboring towns.
Cotton wrapped in cotton bagging has
been received by Cuero merchants.
Farmers in Erath county expect to
make half a bale Of cotton to the acre.
Thomas Rose, one of the first settlers
of Civil's Bend, died last "Wednesday
night.
The Bastrop county bank has been
succeeded by the First national bank at
Bastrop.
A Young Englishman, Charles Monday,
was drowned while in bathing in creek
near Gonzales.
W. J. Halford of Hood county was
adiudged of unsound mind, and restraint
recommended.
Thomas Muse of Mckinney has raised
and marketed over thousand bushels of
onions this year.
The Laredo improvement company are
rushing their work on fine business
| block in that city.
A contract will be let this week for
! digging an artesian well on the Heights,
part of Laredo.
The house of W. NJ. White, six miles
south of HicO, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 9th.
A prairie fire il Haskell county last
week caused the destruction of large
territory of fine grass.
Good pure water has been struck on
the plaza at FL Paso. at depth OF a
little over a hundred feet.
The increase of valuation in Wichita
county as shown by the assessor s roll IS
25 per cent over that of last year.
Estimates made of the cotton crop in
Van Zandt county place the average at
about one third the usual amount.
Mr.. James Wheeler of lola, Grimes
county. lost his house and its entire con-
tents by fire last Wednesday night.
The contract has been let for building
an iron bridge over the Trinity, by the
|
Farmers in Parker county estimate the
loss occasioned by the boil worm to be at
least two-thirds the average cotton crop.
Gustave Renthinger, a lad of ten years ,
was instantly killed at Corpus Christi on
Monday, by a pile of lumber falling on
him.
specimen of paint rock found in
Grimes county has been exhibited. 1t IS
said to be of excellent quality aud album
dant.
There has been an interesting union
revival meeting going on at McGregor;
nearly hundred conversions are re-
ported.
Eight blocks of ground were purchased
on Friday by President Lott Of the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass at Houston
for depot privileges. :
Mr.. H. F. Keller, clerk of Potts
county, set a trap in his melon patcAtt
catch 'possum, and caught panther
measuring seven feet.
The first shipment of cotton in LIZ
Sale county was made at Cotulla on the
25th of August: the first bale ever put III
there weighed $50 pounds.
Hughie, ten-year-old son of L. D
Camp, Corpus Christi, was killed Mon
day by falling from dray, the whee
, passing over his head and crushing tn
skull.
. The Haskell Free Press says 80. 90
5 acres of the best land in the county ha
changed hands within the past tw
mouths, the most of it having been pur
chased by actual settlers. sg5s
Ed Lundy condemned to six months i
the county Jail at Laredo fOBe0btainin
/ money under false pretenses, made hises
cape during the excitement over Ham
mond, McCoy's murderer.
A son of Mr.. G. w Kiker was.foNR
in a diving condition near Jacksbofo.
was young man about nineteen cal
; of age 1t is supposed he was pnlle
from his horse while attempting to roT
) a steer.
g Suit has been entered by the old tow
company of Amarillo against Price
@ johnson of Corsieana for the sum of $40
d 600, for violation of contract agreenei