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ABILIXX, - • • ■ * TEXAS. | caa 1Texas State Jcwi Items.stlt;Si—d FromTOsur BidtttstiFort Worth waats cheaper coal.Bowie is;expecttug£to grow rich‘and prosperous on her coal mines.Johnson county has a matrimonial epidemic this winter.Waco lays claim^to being the fourth cotton market in the state.tefoadheteio\ionSteps are being taken' at Coleman toget a new roller flouring mill.The new fenoe aronnd the courthouse ! orraipathlt;at Brown wood coet $1,000.There was a fourteen-inch snow-fall in*the Panhandle last week.Henderson has shipped overall,000 bales of cotton this season.frlt;thiwiThe burnt district of Galveston isbuilding up very rapidly. { wiJthiTown lots in Sherman are worth twenty per cent, more this year than last.Geo. B. Ixving and others intend starting an evening paper in Austin soon.McGregor in McLennan county will soon have a first-class flouring mill.lit!pe:TitiiThe recorder of San Antonio took inr$145 for fines on the morning-of the 2'th.The Beaumont iron* works were chartered on the 2*th nit., with a capital of£30,000.Mobeetie, in Wheeler county, pays $11 a cord for wood and^$40 a ton for coal.Goldthwaite is onlv three months old and has a population of over 500.8bus51:tLlitpaClGiW]v;ital wlt;CLThe country all along the line of the f frt Santa Fe railroad; extension is probably the richest in Texas. iThe Concho Cattle Company have added $25,000 weS-tb of stock to their capital.All the business houses in Paris closed on Christmas and the whole city went to dinner.All the churches throughout the state seem to have delighted^the' little folk with Christmas trees this year.boea:fia'LaCbiProspectors are now engaged examin-; ing the lands of Howard county with a j an view to settlement.is\vfThe salt works company of Colorado J jcity increasing ltB manufacturingcapaci- ; cb ty to 250 bushels per day.There is a movement on foot to establish a sanitarium at El Paso for the accommodation of winter tourists.CbItcu:PaotSeveralTennesseans arrived in George- I l0 town a few days sinc^with a view to settling in Williamson;county.meI’cfc\Galveston is rising from the ashes. At least $2,000,000 will be invested, in re- krlt;building the burnt district.Levy Kemper, a bar-keeper at Terrell.suicided the other day by taking fifteenmehojMr‘•Igrains of morphine. bet
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Abilene Taylor County News
Abilene, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 08, 1886
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