Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-13
TEXAS MEws NOTES.

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The Salvation Army is very active
at Sherman.
AN abundance of rail- in the Pam
handle country.
Seguin, the city OF live oaks, is
steadily improving.
Austinites are Worried by class
Known as sneak thieves.
The Brazos river is ''full, - oven run
ring over the low lands.
Generally speaking the farmers are
well advanced with their work.
The governor has appointed Il. Ca
rey branch pilot at Sabine Pass.
M. L. LaFrance has been Jailed at
Hillsboro on charge of forgery.
The teachers of Dallas county re-
rently held very interesting institute.
A stranger was robbed of $40 at the
junction at Longview the other night.
T. s. Lilson; dealer in dry goods al
Farmersville, Collin county, has failed.
Tom Jackson, colored, in Jail at Nc
Kinney, attempted suicide by hanging.
Luling has u lyceum and a splendid
programs are rendered by local talent.
There are many new farms being
opened in Calhoun, Matagorda and
Wharton counties.
The retrenchers of the Dallas city
government propose to lop off $37, 900
Of annual expenses.
A man at Hearne, less than % years
of age, says he has read the Bible
through eight times.
Jim Cakes, a negro, was shot in the
head the other evening, at LaGrauge,
by Deputy Sheriff VIII Loessin while
resisting arrest. Loessin stated that
he was compelled to do it. Cakes is
not expected to live.
Something over 600 head of hogs
have been shipped from Hutto Will
Hanson county, to Fort Worth this
season. They averaged 800 pounds.
Hog raising is receiving great dea!
of attention in that county.
The following letter from Land Com.
missioner Baker to State Treasurer
Workman, explains itself: You are
respectfully advised that all state
school lands sold under the act of 1887
and acts amendatory thereof and re-
ported by you to this department as
delinquent in interest for the year
ending August /, 1894, have been for
feited as required by law, except such
claims on which you wye since accept
ed interest payments Nd filed receipts
in this Office
A Sister of Charity connected with
the Texas and Pacific hospital at the
Marshall hospital, by the name of Sis
ter st. John, forsook the order to be-
come wife. She was marwied few
days since in Palestine to H.. A. Nun
nelly, who was the druggist at the
hospital. Sister St. John quietly slip,
ped away from the hospital at night.
She was assisted in her escape by Mr..
Nunnelly's brother who took her to
Palestine, where she was followed the
next day by Druggist Nunnelly and the
marriage ceremony followed.
The state treasurer reports land
sales for the month of January: Lease
public school lands, interest, $14,104.-
81; sale public school lands, interest,
! 1928, 226.92; sale public school lands,
principal, 24,90551; lease university
lands, interest, SPILL 0 sale univer-
sity lands, interest, $113.7S; sale uni
versity lands, principal soc; sale deaf
Ia, nd I. lo ;,,+n
08; sale deaf and dumb asylum lands,
principal, $5O4.35; sale lunatic asylum
lands, interest, $685. sale lunatic
asylum lands, principal, $32l.75; sale
orphan asylum lands, interest, $91.73;
sale orphan asylum lands, principal,
s24 sale blind asylum lands, interest,
S119.6S; sale blind asylum lands, prin-
eipal, $47; sale public domain, act July
IA, 1879, 50. 20; sale public domain,
act March 30, 1887, $691.9S. Total,
1854, 976. 80.
AT Dallas few days since Will Pc
ters and Albert Krugle, young wheel
men IS and 20 years old, fatally stab
bed an Italian. They were arrested.
At Nacogdoches the epidemic of
measles continues to create great dis
tress and no little CONSERVATION among
The people. Several deaths in the
country have occurred, but none in
town.
Near Victoria, recently, e. l.. Dun
laps hay meadow took fire and burned
off 800 acres Of uncut hay and about
| 300 bales of cured hay, two presses