Burnet Tidbits
in the Austin Paper

Burnet, February 11.  --Yesterday evening as Briton Smart, son of Jno. Smart, proprietor of the Burnet mill, was attempting to throw off the belt which runs the gin the mill, with a stick used for that purpose, he was caught in the belt lacing, throwing his hand against the sharp edge of a scantling, cutting off his middle finger near the second joint, and almost taking off the forefinger near the joint.

A. S. Rutherford, of Austin, was in the city yesterday, quartered at the Central Hotel.

J. W. Wilkerson, road overseer on the Austin & Lampasas road, filed his annual report yesterday.  Thirteen men on his road; recommends Earl Barton and Tom Hall as his successors.

Maj. W. W. Harding, of Houston, was registered at the Central Hotel, in this city, yesterday.

Since the late rains in this county considerable oats have been planted, and farmers are busy breaking up their land.

Mr. D. W. Ritting, of Mason, is stopping at the Burnet Hotel.

From Dr. W. H. Westfall, president of the Burnet National Bank, and vice president of the Austin & Northwestern railroad, we learn that it is the intention of the road to organize a surveying corps during this month for the purpose of making a survey of a line west from this city towards Mason.

Mr. N. T. Wilson, a prominent citizen of Junction City, took dinner at the Western Hotel yesterday.

The examination of Miller, charged with the killing of McRay recently, at the quarry near this city, was begun today.

Capt. A. N. Leitnaker was in the city yesterday, receiving the ties that have been delivered at the depot.

Mr. B. F. Gotchen, overseer of the Burnet and Bertram road, has sent in his report; 11 men on his road and recommends J. G. Andrew as his successor.

Yesterday evening the little son of Mr. Emmett Watson, four year old, of this city, was playing with some bottles in one of them was Fowler's solution of arsenic, of which the child swallowed about a tablespoon full and came very near dying before medical aid was had.

Lieutenant Douglass Smith of the Granite Rifles, and Mr. W. Levine, left today for Tacoma, Washington territory, where they will make their future home.