El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.
Texas.

Houston is to have furniture fac
tory.
A new oil mill is being built in
Taylor.
The Texas State Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION will meet in Waco, May 10th,
18th and 18th 1899.
Abilene is having an epidemic of
mad dogs and no dog is allowed to go
on the streets unmuzzled.-Cleb
Herald.
The Polytechnic college at Fort
Worth has been closed on account OF q
case of smallpox which developed in
the school,
The indications are that the scope of
the summer normal school which is to
be held in Brennan will be larger than
at first intended.
The Texas legislature seems deter
mined to undo all the good the Texas
newspapers have done for the state in
the last two years. Elk.
Engineer w. G, Coleman, charged
with killing his fireman, 81. Lagow, at
Marshall, has been placed under $4,000
bond.-Sherman Register.
J. w. Carpenter, farmer residing
near Elmo, killed in his barn in
one day 1913 rats, fifty of them coming
out of one hole,-Pecos Valley News.
The late spring will cut short the
cotton acreage in North Texas, in all
probability. and will therefore prove
something of blessing.-TucsOn Her.
aid.
In q partial canvass of four hours at
San Angelo q self-constituted commit
tee collected over 800 for Buckner
Orphans house near Dallas.-Ex-
change.
The Waller county bar has Endorsed
Hon. Presley K. Ewing of Houston
for associate justice of the supreme
court to succeed Judge Denman.-
Houston Post.
The new Matthews Memorial church
at Albany has been dedicated, the SER
mon being preached by DR.. 81. S. Lit
tie, D. D., of DenisOn. assisted by the
local pastor, Rev. French McAfee.-
Elk.
VIM. Ellsworth killed dwarf pen
gum in a stock pond in the north SUI
burbs of Sherman. It is the first bird
of the species ever seen alive out OF
captivity in that vicinity.-Denison
Herald.
r. G. Mitchell and Miss Bessie
Woodland of Mudding, Hunt county,
were married at Greenville. The
groom, who has just entered upon his
fifth matrimonial alliance, is.72 years
old, while the bride is 23.-Pecos Val
ley News.
Rev. J. n. Bennett has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the First
Baptist church of Rockwell. MIR.
gelist of Arkansas by the Baptist
mission board of that state and by
the state convention.-Pecos Valley
News.
The citizens of Hamilton met and
decided to have the wool-prowers' six
teenth annual picnic on May IL. They
raised the necessary fund in q very few
minutes. There was a large crowd of
business and professional men at the
meeting, and all subscribed.-Ex-
change.
Henry Norwood and his wife, chsrg-
ed at Gonzales with causing the death
of an orphan boy IL years of age who
made his home with them, were on
| their examining trial placed under
$500 and $3.50 bond respectively, sthe
| wife being placed under the large sum
fisherman Register.
Charley Kennedy, a farmer living
| east of Argyle, was held up near the
| southern limits of Denton on the 18th
| ultimo. by two men, one of whom
| leveled big pistol at him and, in a
gruff voice, babe him throw up his
hands. Instead of obeying the COM
mand, however, Kentucky drove the
spurs into his horse and escaped
| Houston Post.
Houston is right in her contention
| it is to be hoped the work will soon be
under Roadway on that all important
| work. Perhaps we could not be so per.
| sistent were the benefit all Houston g.
but we need it here, we need it every
| where in Texas unless it is at Calves
| ton, and they don't want it-at Hous
| ton.-Lockhart Post.
New Mexico.
Frost has damaged some of the frui,
in Grant county.
It cost Albuquerque 81 1902 last yeal
to suppress small pox.
A Sunday school has been .organized
| at Jarilla by n. S. Church.
| There are forty children of schoo
age at Jarilla and the camp is building
a school house.
The Methodists are building large
| and commodious adobe church at Ala
mogOrdo.
The Santa Fee has built new bridge
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