El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-02
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

The Grand Falls New Era reports an
unusually big mesquite bean crop.
Travis county. tax collections for the
Southern Mercury.
Stock of all kinds are doing we'll,
grass is fine and surface water abun-
dant.-Hsle County Herald.
During the month of June SIS mar
ria9e licenses were issued in BeXar
coupty.-San Antonio Light.
G. B. Rowden purchased Monday
300 head of stock cattle from Frank
Collinson.- Childress County Index.
No bridge or culvert damage is re-
ported by high water in the creeks
about the city observation-disclosures
register.
Giddings and Haynes of Corsicana,
have bought from Luke Derden 16o
two and three-year-0ld steers at $50
Stock and Farm Journal.
The Concho Herald says Concho
county shas recently had more rain
than in any season since 1882 and that
even the hills are DOGGY.
The Henrietta City mills last week
shipped $4,000 (three car loads) of
flour to the city mills of Galveston for
export to Europe.-Henrietta News.
A dispatch of the 21st from Edna,
jackson county, Texas, says: A ma
lignant disease, which no one seems
to understand, is prevalent among the
cattle.
Arkansas county court house bonds to
the amount of $4,000 have been pur-
chased for the permanent school fund
by the board of education.-Southe
Mercury.
Mr.. Lyman of Kansas City, bought
1000 mutton of ]. II. Robey at 81 40.
Also 500 from w. T. Laughlin at 81. 40,
and $50 from George Rae at $1.50-
Coleman Voice.
Don last Saturday Sayers is reported
% having carried Brazos, Lee, Harde-
man, Milan, Childress, Arkansas, Ste
phens and Leon counties for governor.
Southern Mercury.
A small boy with very large cat
fish on his back, larger than himself,
attracted attention On Main plaza to-
day. He had caught the fish in the
river.-San Antonio Light.
]. A. Mangum has contracted in
Uvslde county, with his brother, w.
A. Mangum, for HOO street yearlings,
spring delivery; theprice to be paid
is S15.OO.-San Antonio Light.
There is no tangible clue yet found
to the identity of the man who made
the peculiar attempt to carry Mrs.
S. L. Beer away from her home by
force few nights since.--Sherman Re-
gister.
Advices from Austin state that Mrs.
Erwin, wife of the Rough Rider killed
in battle last Friday in Cuba is yet un-
conscious, having never recovered
since the first shock of the sad news
San Antonio Light.
The Fort Wor tn Riding and Roping
association is company that has re-
Gently been formed with ample cap
it'll, for the purpose of giving occa-
sional entertainments in riding and
roping contests.-Stock and Farm
Journal.
City Collector Sutor during: Dthe
month of June about to close has beat
en- his own record of last year in the
collection of taxes and goes far beyond
the record of two years ago. having
collected during the present month
something over SIS, 00O.-San Antonio
Light.
During the storm of Saturday, June
18th, lightning struck an electric wire
in this'city and asffected the wire in a
peculiar manner, entirely destroying
portions of it without in any way dam
aging or destroying the cloth and rub
Der insulation which surrounded it
San Antonio Light.
The Katy has named a new Texas
station Dewey. 1t recently named a
Texas station Manila, and has Klon-
dixie in Missouri. The next station
will be named Hobson, but it's location
has not been decided upon. 1t is also
stated that Sampson is on the list for
similar hOnOrs.-Southern Mercury.
Most people who have travelled in
the far east have seen orientals burn
ing sandalwood in their houses for the
purpose of driving flies away. 1t is
odd that the plan ia not more general
ly known in this country, where it
meets with success wherever the ex-
pertinent is tried.-Sherman Register.
Out on the Whitesboro road a few
milesa freak of electricity.is reported.
A large honey locust tree is encircled
by q burned demarkation extending
from near the top branches to the
ground with path almost as regular
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