El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-13
Little Items From Live Papers
TEXAS.


The comptroller today registered
So, 900 worth OF Edwards county cour
house refuuding bOnds.-Exchange
Corpus Christi is putting fine mules
and thoroughbred horse sock on the
Houston msrket.--Pecos Valley News
Hampstead, it seems, is DESTROYS o.
having 'lady" clerks of elections il
the state law will permit.-Ssu Anto-
MO Express.
A syndicate OF the leading moneyed
men at Texarkaua has been formed
for the purpose of building modern
opera house, to cost S35, 900.
Opening day at the state fair was
witnessed by 5000 to $4,000 people
have been the largest in the history OF
the fair.-Exchanges.
The farmers of Fannin county will
try the div srsi6cation of crops on q
bigger scale next year than ever be-
fore, and they will be the better Of
for it-Bonham News.
Quite a good shower OF rain fell here
Thursday night and reports from the
Antelope Springs country Is that q
heavy rain fell there, filling up ali the
"oNCA 4NcW Era.
South Carolina is to have q carpet
factory. Texas is full of sheep as vel
as of yellow cur dogs. Let her kill off
the latter, increase her hocks for wool
and also put up WOODEN factories.-Dal-
las Times-Herald.
Sam Jones is running q very success
full show at Palestine, and draws
against the Dallas state fair very con-
splcuously. Sam Is too pious for the
circus and too much of a circus for the
pulpit.-San Antonio Light.
y strang malady has attacked the
cattle in the vicinity of Caldwell. II
begins with severe Inflammation in the
ey rs, and in q short while q white film
seems to come over the eyeball, which
produces blind ness, and they lose flesh.
Alpine Avalanche.
Sol. and Ike West have purchased
$50 two and three year old fine Durham
steers from Henry kothe at $50 Der
head for January delivery and some
Hereforo's bulls for spring delivery
but the terms Of the latter sale are pri-
vate.-San Antonio Light.
There are two matters of vital in
terest which the twenty-sixth lepisla-
ture should take up. Oue is the road
question and the other is the libel law.
Good roads and a free press are two
things which should come with ad-
Standardization Herald.
What Texas needs about as bad as
ard other one thing Is more people,
Houston county alone can accom-
modate some 700 more without
elbows even, and this is the
year for them to come, too, as crops
NJ oil Ii de aA
a gratifying feature of Texas, sd-
Tance is the annually increasing atten-
ion given to orchard and truck farm
ng business, the coast country and
cast Texas being especially prominent.
All around Dallas are superb oupor-
uuities in the same line.-Dallas
rimes-Hersld.
Sidney Webb, the. wealthy cattle
nan of Bellevue, is in the city. Mr..
Webb has recently attracted national
attention in the livestock world
through published reports that he in.
ended TO embark in the cattle bust |
lees on large scale 10 Cuba.-Ft.
Worth Register.
The largest persimmon ever grown
n Harris county was sent to the Hous-
on Post yesterday by Mr.. Gus T. |
;auter, and can be seen at the |
ounting room. 1t has the extraor-
inary weight of over one and a half |
POUNDS and was raised at Mr.. S.uter's |
lace on South Main Street.-Houston |
Post.
Texas has reached that stage of |
evelopmeut where q state board of |
appraisers has become necessity.
IN examination of the tax rolls of the
ifferent counties will convince sny
ne thstit is time for the creation of a
tribunal to correct the
Many abuses possible under the present
lethods of sssessinR.property.--
'ribune.