Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-23
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

BARTLETT.-Cotton sold here last week
as low as cents. The colt show held here
| on the 10Th was quite success.
CoMMERCE.-It is feared that the cold
weather following the rain of this week
will cause much corn to rot before it comes
up. The cotton acreage of this year will
be 20 per cent smaller than that of last.
Cow CREEK.-Farmers are rejoicing over
the fine rain which fell here last week.
Schools at this place are drawing to a close.
COLORADO CITY.-The city is at present
infested with impudent tramps. Business
men report business very lively with bright
prospects of a fine spring trade.
DUBLIN.-A movement by the Dublin city
council is an act making the city secretary
an appointive Office. The electric lights
just put in are convenience to the city.
DEL RIo-By reason of the late frost,
the loss Of fruit in this vicinity will be very
large.
E1e1x-A building at San Antonio
specifies 10000 Elgin brick, necessarily
keeping the brick manufacturers at this
point very busy. The Farmers Alliance at
this point is outspoken against both Hoge
and Clark, and thinks, should Wash Jones
of Bastrop allow his name to be used, he
would be elected.
HUTCHINs.-Allie Bass, age sixteen, was
arrested here Saturday and taken to Kauf-
man on a charge Of receiving stolen prop
erty.
H1co.-On April the postofice at this
place will be promoted from a fourth to
third-class Office. 1t is feared that the cold
weather of last week will prove very dam
aging to oats.
HoLLAND.-Fruit in this vicinity is
mostly killed by the late freeze.
JEwETT.-The cotton acreage in this Sec
beY fY,crf TO ma
this year. Owing to the late freeze corn in
this section will necessarily have 10 be re-
planted.
PEoos.-The acreage of alfalfa this year
will be ten times as large as that of last
year The outlook for plenty of fruit is
bright.
SABINAL.-Two train-loads of stock left
here on the nth for Eastern markets.
TEMPLE-A lodge of the knights of the
Maccebees was organized here on the 18TH.
1t is feared that the peach crop is entirely
ruined by the late cold spell.
VELAsco.-The fruit crop through this
section promises to be the heaviest for
years. The tide in the river is lower than
it has been for some time. A fishing party
claim to have seen fish at least ten feet
long in Jackson's lake on the 18th.
AURoRA-Mr. Arlington of Amarillo and
Miss Orrie Boyd of Fort Worth were
united in the holy bonds of matrimony at
the residence Of the brides father near Au-
rora on the 18th.
ITAsCA-Artesian WATERWAYS reached here
on Monday at a depth Of $500 feet.
BRAoKETT.-The freeze of last week will
prove very damaging to the fruit crop in
this vicinity.
GANEsvLLE.-There are fifteen pris-
ouers in the county Jail Garden vegetation
win not suffer from the late freeze.
KERRvuLE.-Last Friday was the coolest
day experienced in this locality for num-
Der of years.
MARSHALL. IA mad dog is at large in the
city, causing quite scare. jim Burns, an
incendiary. was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary last Monday.
SHERMAN.-A petition is being circulated
among and by the employees of the Texas
and Pacific asking the legislature to de
nounce and repeal the railroad commission
bill.''
TYLER-A number Of bales Of cotton
were sold here on last Monday. The peach
crop in this vicinity is not entirely ruined.