El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-25
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
A stock company with SlOO, 900 CAPT.
tai could build a railroad from Browns
Vile to San Antonio or Corpus Christi.
There is no doubt of it. Why not try
lit?--Sherman Register.
| The Texas watermelon season Is fast
drawing to q close and the record Of all
previous time has been smashed. About
o., III, 600 melons have been pulled and
disposed of. Texas has been q very
happy state this summer.-Galveston
News.
American cattle dealers have
been making extensive pur-
chases in Mexico, especially
in the northern, section of the
republic, and considerable shipments
from there may be expected saortly.-
San Antonio Light.
On account OF Sept. 5th being La
Dor Day, legal holiday, the city pub
lie schools Will not open for the fall
term until the next day, the 9th. Ex-
animation for entrance to the High
school will be held August 20, 30 and
3lst.-Sau Antonio Light.
Now that Hon. w. S. Robson has
been nominated for Congress from this
district the Democrats should work for
his election. 1t is true that he has q
hard fight to make, but if the Demo-
Gratis in the district will give him their
support he will be our next Congress-
man.-Esgle Lake Advertiser.
There is q school election to be held
next Tuesday and the question to be
voted on Is that Of incorporating the
city of Victoria and ad joining territory
for school purposes. Very little is be-
ing said ABOUT the matter and unless
more interest is manifested Tuesday
will be dull day in Victoria.-Victor-
la Advocate.
Some young corn stalks just begin
ming to tassel eighteen feet high and
two and one-half inches thick at the
fourth joint from the root have been
sent from Navarro county to the
Omaha exposition. They were raised
near Rice on the farm of w. d. Hay
ME. Under favorable conditions it is
thought that the field will produce 80
to 90 bushels to the acre.-Pecos Val
lev Clippings.
z. Dudley took to Gonzales a tobacco
stalk about three and one-half feet tall
that was handsome specimen of the
weed. Mr.. Dudley says he has about
100 plants like it and that his patch is
as fine tobacco as can be grown any
place. He is raising it for his own use,
and has been doing so for years. He
says there is no doubt but that tobacco
can be probably grown in Texas. The
sample shown bears him out In the as
sertion.-Pccos Valley Clippings.
Machinery is being moved to the
hills west Of the bosque, beyond Waco,
for the purpose of drilling wells, the
parties engaged in the enterprise be-
ing so much Impressed with the pros
pect of striking petroleum in paying
qualities that they are putting con-
siderable money into the explorations
they are making. Experts are there
from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
Virginia, and they all agree that the
prospect is very COMMUNICATIONS
Valley Clippings.
Mr.. w. z. n. Sloan has Plymouth
Rock hen of remarkable egg laying
properties. This week she laid q
double eRg-a large egg, 81 .inches
long and large around in proportions
ard inside of it another perfect egg of
ordinary size. II is surmised that the
hen read the notice in last weeks Tex
an about our merchants sending to
Kansas for eggs and that she spread
herself 10 a patriotic effort to help
grand old Texas supply the home
market.-Tsylor Texan.
Col. Wash Jones in an interview
upon the issues of the day, says that
the Dingley bill has done great good
to Texas by putting q tariff on wool
and hides. Col. Jones might have
gone further. a tariff on lumber has
benefited this state. A tariff on sugar
has benefited this state. A tariff on
cattle has benefited this state. All
these commodities are now fully pro-
tected and Texas gets more direct ben
eft from the ''robber tariff than any
other state in the union, except il
should be in Pennsylvanis.-Velasco
World.
Texas Farmer tells of case where q
boy was tried in a Justices court at
Oak Cliff for stealing watermelons and
fined one cent and costs-the latter
amounting to $40 so, The county at
torney's fee was so, the Justices $3.50,
the constable's $3.50, and the jury's
81. so. 1t suggests that to the Justices
fee should have been added: Wear
and tear on seat of trousers while slit
ing on case, so cents, mental anguish
| for the boy, 5000, removing quid and
long breath before and after each Off
cial act 81. Testing aside, there is
something wrong in our cost system.
They should bear some relation to the
penalty imposed. In the case cited, if
the jury deemed the offense so trivial,
there should have been neither fine
nor costs imposed Williamson County