El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-24
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS

Galveston is the natural outlet for a
great export trade in corn, from the
country as far back as Kansas,-San
Antonio Light.
The gin of j. M. Morrison at Bells
timated between $4,000 and $500 with
$1,000 insurance.-DenisOn Herald.
The races at Fort Worth are under
way and are largely attended. Betting
is heavy and bookmakers seem to have
fallen behind the wire in many instan-
ces.-Exchange.
Barney Gibbs final withdrawal from
the gubernatOrial handicap is already
matter with the brunette statesman?-
BRENNAN Banner.
In Dallas swarm OF bees settled Oh
trolley wire of one of the electric car
lines. Every time car passed tn
bees had to resettle, until rescued by
al Observation-Disclosures.
The Bexsr county board of equal
ization assessed a piece of properly of
I. c. Frost this morning. fronting 1O6
feet on Main avenue, at 1925 par foot.
San Antonio Light.
Children were playing in the yard
with matches and paper, which they
were lighting and tossing 10 to the air,
when the 5-year-Old daughter of DAVID
Goldman was burned to death.-Ex.
change.
There is some anxiety on the part of
the stocknlen in this county concerning
grass for the winter. The rains have
insure the best crop of grass.-Pecos
Valley News.
There were about fifty homeseekers
on the Katy today from various points in
Missouri TO points in Texas looking for
homes. All of them are moderately
well-to-do farmers. who expect to buy
lands in Texas and locate here if SUI
table location is found.-Denison He
raid.
TOyah boasts of the largest man and
the smallest man in the west-posei-
b Y in Texas. The big fellow weighs
something under one Thousand pou. de-,
and the little fellow much less than
one hundred pounds. They are both
beyond forty years OF age,-Pecos Val
ley News.
Texas cotton has dropped into the
pit. 1t is selling lower than ever be-
fore at this season, but 1t is not certain
that the lessons that this fact teaches
Will De needed, Notwithstanding they
are written so plainly that he who
runs may read. liberalization of crops
is dem anded.-San Antopio Light.
The existing libel law is menace to
the constitutional rights guaranteed to
the press. 1t protects with the strong
arm OF law the nefarious work of the
blackmailer and thief, aids the public
TO be robbed by politicians and corrupt
office holders, and gives them recourse
Tor damages against the newspaper
that publishes the bare facts that can
| be substa tiated in open court.-Lock-
hart monograph.
lThere were 539.9lI acres of public
free school lands leased during the
| month of August. The largest lease
covered 81, l20 acres, in Grimes county.
| to Scott Il Robertson, and the annual
| rental on same is S2073 70, Three sep
| arate leases were made to c. c.
Slaughter, ageregating Y, $50 acrea
which call for an annual payment of
S2lSS. 2O.-Denison Herald.
The quarantine situation remains as
II has been for three days past. The
Iexas and New Orleans is moving all
freight east promptly and local stuff
west, but not pound of freight is
coming from New Orleans direct
tumlgatiDg plants are b ing but in op-
Grafton at various points along the
line, and as far as possible every town
Is overcoming the inconvenience of
quarantine by scientific methods
Houston Post.