San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-13
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

AND STATE SPECIALS.
Dublin is full of prospectors.
The waters of the Brazos are going
down very fast at Hampstead.
Contract is awarded for the remod-
cling of the Uvalde court house.
A Confederate Home association is
formed at Victoria.
The state prohibition convention
meet at Fort Worth today.
The Fort Worth Baptist convention
after adjournment meets again today.
The weather is again threatening at
Sealy and the Brazos is very high.
Bowie expects to startle the world
with her railroad news in few days.
The Teachers Institute of Grayson
county met at Sherman.
Kosse is preparing for big barbe-
cue.
The NJ. X. Il T. officials Will be in
Texas this week.
Some of the Baptists converting in
Fort Worth have gone on an eXcur-
sion to the City of Mexico
In a years time Archer City ex-
poets to be one of the biggest towns.
IN her SectlOn.
The ground has at last dried at
Lewisville and farmers are doing their
blowing.
Jim Smith, a negro, to be hung at
Paris for murder, has a respite grant
ed by Governor Ross till June 20.
The Galveston Sealy Rifles have en-
tirely abandoned Unelr trip TO the
Kansas City encampment.
A man by the name of Fleming is:
| killed on the trestling by train, near
| Beaumont.
Precliana Miguel, noted smuggIer,
Is wounded by officers while refusing
to halt, at Eagle Pass.
Hon. H. D. Mcdonald, candidate
for governor, will speak at LadOnia
tomorrow, the 18th.
The Main street bridge over the
Trinity at Fort Worth, is in a very
dangerous condition.
The superintendency of the Confed-
crate home ut Austin, has been offered
to Judge c. D. Barnett, of Weimar.
Eight hundred acres of watsrmel-
Ons in Waller county are expected to
bring in good harvest of cash.
The residence of Jesse Williams is
destroyed by fire at Alvin. No insur-
ance.
A public hall is destroyed by fire at
San Angelo. Two inches of rain fell
in an hour here last evening.
Jess Gwynne, OF unsound mind, is
drowned in mill pond neBr Lampas-
as.
The president has approved the act
for private capital to go to work on
Arkansas Pass.
Mr.. J. P. Frizell will be the super
vising engineer of construction of the
Austin dam.
Sherman ladies have organized 8
committee to work for the Confederate
Home.
Real estate is changing hands
rapidly at Sherman, the town is solid
and the tide is coming.
The waters of the Trinity have
been five feet over the track of the
/. and G.. n. at Houston, north of the
bridge; 200 fiat cars loaded with rock
were necessary to keep the track in
place.
A soldier was attacked ard beaten
with brickbats near the Dolch hotel
Eagle Pass, few days ago and is in
: critical condition from his injuries.
His assailants are Jailed.
The post Office at San Marcos, under
ite new management will have an
entirely new outfit of furniture, lock
boxes, etc.
Congressman w. H. Martin has re-
turned to his Texas home at Athens,
from Washington, to reset his poIiti-
cal fences.
Miss Daisy Holland, of the Central
school at Dallas has won the prize
offered by the Youths Companion,
open to all public schools IN any state
in the Union, for the best essay not ex-
ceeding 900 words in length on the
patriotic influence of the American
flag, when raised over public
schools"