Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06

| Hdleu tudt lltkle over Out-Hhii iuo Siop
is harvested. The compress has handled
| TO November / % 1864. To the same date
last yeur II handled only lG, 1856. During
. Octo er 1889, it compressed ID, $50 bales;
| during October, 1890. compressed Is, 577
These figures give some indication of the
freight business done by Paris railroads.
Consi derable stocks are on hand at all
| county points.
| RAvENNA, Oct. 29.-Two light frosts
| have touched in this section but did no
| injury. The cotton bolls are all full
| grown and opening. The yield will eX-
| coed that of last year. Corn is turning
| out much better than was anticipated +,
| while turnips and fall cabbeges are the
| finest for years. Wheat and rye are
looking splendidly. The weather is fine
for picking cotton now but the pickers
are scarce. The crop Is about half in
and will not all be gathered before Janu-
| airy.
Iowa PARK, Oct. 3I.-A bale of cot
| ton came IN this week from Greer county {.
! There IS no gin further west than Iowa
| Park. The gin sere has already put out
! about seventy-fiye bales, most of il be-
! ing raised in this immediate community.
| This is the first year for cotton from this
!
100 bales shipped. If the absence from
town of the :nester' element is any ill.,
| dication of the amount of wheat being
| planted the acreage will be enormous.
| The business men are now having their
holidays.
CISCO, Oct. 81 The mild weather pre-
vailing since the rains has brought up
| good growth of grass, aud cattle are do
N hu 81
10 develop. Receipts at this point are
| unusually large.
/ SwEETwATER, Oct. 3l.-Cotton con-
| tinues 10 come in at the rate of twenty to
thirty bales per day. Receipts are about
| 600 bales. About three-i fths of the
| crop has been received. Wheat is about
ali planted and up and growing beauti-
| fully. The acreage in Nolan and Fisher
counties, tributary to this market, Is
largely increased over last year.
The cotton crop has already put about
5l00, goo in circulation here, and 1t is
only about half marketed, says the Tay-
lor County News.
Many Jack county farmers are taking
their last bales to market, which is much
earlier than usual.
The report comes from Hutto, William
son county, that picking il about over
for the season, with a yield not quite up
TO the average for that section.
Cotton in Henderson county is much
better than was thought before picking
began. The crop IS nearly all III.
The Vernon Guard runs a column de-
voted to certified yields of wheat in that
section, which range from thirteen to
twenty-uine bushels per acre, with an
average of about twenty. This Is with
the shortage that existed all over the
| United States.
The Luling Herald: Our corn is good,
better than 1t has been for years, along
the river, and am astoDished how cot
ton is turning out. All ia not picked
yet. l see plenty yet to open.
The pest which hurt the wheat last
year is again reported from different
places, and is injuring the young plaLt
quite seriously in some localities.
In the vicinity of Tascosa, Oldham
county, the crop of small grain will be
fully doubled next year.
COLEMAN, Nov. Cotton is still COM
ing in and the crop in this county will be
1900 bales. Pecans are selling for nine
cents per pound, and the crop gathered
is estimated at 49,, 900 pounds for this
county. Weather cool and pleasant.
TEAS SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
III company with some capitalists,
Professor Sanders of Kansas City is in
Greenville for the purpose of establishing
n large normal school there.
Sinner, Lavaca county, is to have
fine Catholic church. 1t Is already under
way aud will be one of the finest in the
county.
The Methodists of Weatherford will
complete their church at once. 1t is to
be an imposing structure.
The fine school building at Mountain
Peak will soon be completed.
Benjamin, Knox county. is to have a
new Methodist church. The arrange
ments are already made.
RAvENNA, Oct. 29.-The Baplists here
expect to build Il new church very soon.
The cornerstone of the new Catholic
church ut Palestine has arrived. 1t is a
handsome piece of masonry, aud weighs
nearly 1000 pounds.
Ground is being broken for the erection
of magnificent Catholic church building
at Sinner, Lavaca county. The struct-
ure is TO be 40X60 feet, aud when COM
pleted will be an ornament 10 the town.
The new Methodist church at Tyler is
looming up, and shows a very tasty de-
sign and fine work.
Iowa PARK, Oct. 3l.-The new Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be completed
in n few weeks. 1t will be dedicated the
latter part of November. College work
has been moving rather slowly, but it
has been chiefly owing to the fact that
teams and laborers have been employed
sowing wheat and picking cotton. The
foundation is laid and large mum Der of |
brick are on the ground.
PANHANDLE, Oct. 3l.-The NJ ethodist |
Episcopal church, South, will commence |
the erection of $500 church on Decem- |
Der l. Our school. the Panhandle |
academy, has doubled its number of pu- |
pills since opening, and the prospects are |
for it to double lis number again before !
New Year.
The Methodists of Pancake ranch, in |
Coryell county, will soon commence the |
erection of n new church.
The Mount Lebanon Baptist church,
five miles east of this city, says the
Hesperiau, was united with
the Wood biue church, with Rev. J. II.