Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-12-08
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General Interest.
Gathing & Cage shipped today six
carloads of steers to Hin county to be
fed
The fatal horse disease still fingers
in Harris county, but is not as severe
as at first.
Large shipments of vegetables We're
made from Hitchcock during the past
week to northern markets.
A public we'll will he dug and a
! windmill erected ON the square of
I Bercar within the next month
Tracklaying on the road into North
Galveston is progressing Slowly, but
the rails;will soon reach the town.
Henry Sinner of Beevi,le last week
brought in from his ranch for ship
ment to market two carloads of mules,
said to be the finest ever raised in this
section.
w. S. Fleming shipped thirty cars of
steers from Beevlle last week to a
point on the Southern Pacific west of
San Antonio. The catt.e will be put
on the range there.
The Buchel dam at Cuero is rapidly
nearing completion, The turbine
wheels are being put in, ana the struc-
ture looks more like business than
anything in southwest Texas. A large
area will be irrigated in the spring,
al of which Messrs Bucbel Bros.
have rented at high prices.
! Il
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass rail
way immigration association is in ses-
sion with twenty-five members pres
emf. Much business of Importance will
be transacted. The people Of Hallets-
vile rendered them reception at the
opera house.
Some of the older orchards around
Alvin are white with bloom, and seem
ingly the spring blooming will be cut
short, hut the pear tree can spare a
large portion of its bloom and have
enough left, as the tendency is to over
bear. Strawberries are booming free
ly and will be ON the bill of fare by
Christmas.
All populists of Lavaca county have
been called upon by the powers that
be to meet at their respective voting
boxes on Saturday, December ii, for
the puipkYe Of recognizing the party,
while the ~ehairmen Of the various pre-
cfnets are. to meet ms an executive
committe li Ilalletsvlle January s,
1898.
The past few weeks have been very
favorable for the garden and straw
berry planters around Webster. The
acreage in strawberries will be larger
than was expected several weeks ago,
but not near as large as last season. A
great many are now in bloom, and
some half-grown berries are to he seen.
If the weather is favorable there will
be plenty Of berries by Christmas.
The Huntsville city council in called
session last week purchased a lot from
Colonel s. It. Mckinney on which to
erect the waterworks standplpe, and
also received the profile and plans
from Consulting Engineer j. f. Weed.
1t Is proposed to run the mains very
nearly over the entire city and supply
water at Il low price. The standpipe
will be back of the Normal building
and will afford additional security to
that property.
County Judge McEachin of Rich
mond, Fort Bend county has issued
an order revokinS his previous
thought had disappeared has again
order for an election upon the incor-
4 poration of Rosenberg next Tuesday
The first order was made upon pc
tition representing that the town con
tanned a legal number of inhabitants
The opponents of the scheme repre-
scented by petition that such was MOI
the case, and produced satisfactory
evidence to that effect whereupor
Judge MdBachln issued the revokins
| order.
@. w. PErliln. a prosperous farmer
from the l9rthern section of Bel
county, was hNleeyllley yesterday anf
: exhibited a specimen of lime wblcl
lie burned on his 'Rlace. IT was mucl
whittier ana finer Nhan the lime OLD
tanned from the lilSe house here a
great quantity Of lime rock exists II
{ the section where NM Putin lives, ant
! he believes lie can make as good lim'
MS can be made anywhere in the world
Al that is wanted is a market, aud i
is probable that q great idustry cal
,, be developed. The inatter is worth.
Of investigation and experiment
Fifty teams ACCOMPANIED by larg
| grading outfit passed through Sabln
Q Pass Saturday evening bound 70
e Mesquite Point They go to join tn
{ already large outfit which Contracto
Lindsey of the Pee Gee road has a
that place The feontractor has fin
lshed seYeral haNlinrs AZ That nnini