The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-10
TEXAS PRESS aLEANINGs.

Comanohe is discussing a new court
house and Jail.
Over 1900 bales of cotton were received
in Temple last week.
Thirteen car loads of cotton were
shipped from Dublin one day last week.
Grass and weeds are green in Shackle-
ford county, and the stock ia doing well.
Hunt county has produced $l,000,000
worth of cotton this season.
The coal mines near Emory, Rains
county, are to be worked, says the Emory
Record. The railroad will run switch to
the mines, and number of men will go
to work in the mines at once.
Water is to be had in all parts at depths
varying from two to two hundred feet,
and of the very best quality.
The Texas Fire Brick and Tile com
pauy, now manufacturing at Athens,
Henderson county, desires to remove its
works to Waco and locate permanently,
says the Day. It will come if encouraged.
Waco needs everything she can get in the
way of manufacturing industry.
Several Erath county farmers have sue
ceeoed in making a superior article of
syrup from ribbon cane. The syrup pro-
duced readily brought 81 per gallon.
Artesiap water has been struck at the
mouth of Cottonwood creek, near Tascosa
A pipe twenty feet high has been put in,
through which the water flows at the rate
of about ninety gallons per hour.
A sad and fatal accident occurred at the
residence of Mr.. George Boyd, about forty
miles northwest of Mangum, on Monday,
the oath, in which girl of -, step
daughter of Mr.. Boyd's, was fatally shot
A farmer in Wilson county reports some
rather remarkable experiments in cotton
planting. His purpose was to ascertain
the result of planting in rows of different
widths. Most of the cotton was planted
with the rows eight feet apart, and he re.
ports that the cotton of this field did not
cease growing the entire year, and made
twice as much TO the acre as that planted
the usual width.
Temple, not satisfied with its sweet
briRht-eyed girls, is talking of starting
sorghum mill.
There was a petition gotten up to-day
and signed by all the BARRIERS of the city
urging the next legislature to pass law
requiring all barber shops to close at u
O'Clock Saturday night, and remain closed
until ~ o'clock Sunday night. The petit
ton will be given MIR. Murrill with the
request that he use all his effort to cause
the passage of such law.-Gainesvill
Register.
San Antonio is hard at work getting up
another grand exposition for this year.
In the United States court at Galveston
judgments were rendered against the
Southern Oil Mills company, of this city,
in favor of Allan Cleveland aud Gus Far
mer, both negroes. The Judgment in
Clevelaud's favor was for $1,000 and that
in favor of Farmer for $500. They had
sued for damages to their persons, on &C
count of injuries from scalds by the burst
ing of boiler at defendants mill.
Professor George Penrose, assistant
state geologist, and2Professor Hill, State
university geologist, and Mr. Gannett, of
the United states geological department,
have been inspecting the ores in this
vicinity for several days past. These sci
entific gentlemen, as well "a all other ex-
perts who have examined the ore, agree
that the ore found in Cherokee county in
quantities has no superior
anywhere. The party we're the guests OF
Colonel Ramey on Monday, and il is need
less TO say that they had a good dinner at
the penitentiary.-Rusk Iron-Clad.