The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
Texas-Facts and FancIes.

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Denispn ships FIVE hundred local cattle in
one day. - -
Bishop Gregg will be in Groesbeck on
| .hs ihjrtieth, >, It-..t- ,~ff.s /
The Helen sDeEste troupe are playing in
| Central Texas. es ~
The North Texas Conference opens in
Longview to-day. /
Colorado county will make 20, 600 bales
OF cotton this season. $500 ~ -"
The Calvert Sentinel has moved over to
Cameron, Milan county. /
Jasper high school prospers, and is spread
ing knowledge everywhere.
Il Ia Coryell, county there is still large
amount If cotton 10 gather
Yankton, near Goliad, in the midst of a
rich couqtry, grows rapidly - /
The editor ST Tbs Benton City Bro is an
old. pedagogue asd wise one. +
The stock association meets on the first
Tuesday in December in Cuero.
Goliad is well pleased that Rev. R. G.
Horton still breaches there next year.
I Fort Worth has organized q gas company.
Doc. Adams should be its head devil.
The young men of Dallas have taken to
prayer. There is hope for Dallas yet:
fisherman had five hundred bales OF cot
ton for sale on her streets in one day.
Fort Griffin has 10, 900 buffalo hides. and
the prairies srs covered with buffaloes.
The fighting around M.tameros becomes
absolutely fearful for Mexican fighters.
Conductor Ware, of the Central, had
leg broken at Colbert's station, near Deni-
son. s.f
The Northwestern Conferences is holding
a session OF Calvert. Bishop Doggett pre-
sides.
b. 1t was not Gainesville that was involved
in the suit of John Bldridge. It was Hem
rietta:- -,..,.., ...,-..,... --....-..........
The fines. cattle from the country around
Seguin are coming to the Capital State
! Far. 80 . . go 1i-' 80 -'.1-''
Good wheat up about Denison is hard to
get at one dollar and fifteen cents: per
| bushcl.
The Longview Ntw Era says the Demo-
cratic majority in Texas will be about
7g,QeQ.Y:5 fj.:.3i. I.g;. -ls--.isi;t?
Mayor o'Riordan, of BRENNAN, is deal
ing out justice and receiving blessed per
qufsites. s5;T.T-i.,'
Five hundred dollars are offered in Bur-
ton Tor the capture OF a thief named Sam
T. Hayley.~ ,,....--. ., s,-.-..
Many people from Bastrop and Goliad-
Robert Hubbard among the rest-are COM
ing to the fair. Geo.
'-- The Collin county fair has been NOT only
| pleasant and Instructive, but success In
all other respects. -.,.,..,.......
Major Penn is conducting religious re
vlyals at Dallas, and tho reputation of the
place is IN danger '''F -. e." -=.~' 80
The apple crop in. Fannin county is very
large. Apples are selling at one dollar and
City centsa sbashel. 'zze b
spprts1nenzare having sfhe sport duck
hun fiag-tll1.irl BraBn equally So says the
Bro wnWood Gqsetke
The Dsme atsse presidential electors fol-
Tex ast are fbitnesssln this city on the first
Wedessday iHdD eeenb er.
SeSass one fired fhe clerks Office Of San
Sal sc5Uflty aor the twenty ninth, but the
aAtpes were exsinguisbsd
Pools were sold on The electiouzin Dallas,
as here in Austin, and theabetting was about
the same in the two cities.
!. .alaa ii bscSnai 1g a very sensible editor
The Reg,ster of November shows it in one
little "a itd:ial paragraph {: svf'a3
Wheat is coming up finely in Cooke count
ty, and will doeWell. The seed ahould, BE
fsoNf q 4 Gs Assgy eyerYwRefe! " g ) -
TIE Transcript thinks it wrong to attack
Brother Lang after he shelved himself as .
Granger IN theEFifteenth. ~ g"
Bigger. since he has been laid away by
Throckmorton, does not consider himself q
f" bigger man than old Grant. u a,.7
Brown county is receiving large new
popugaien.- The pecan crop will alone
bring toftsspeqple 100000 a.
The county seat contest in Lampasas
county has been settled in the late election
ia favor OF the town of Lsmpasas.
Horace Cone is going East to secure
material aid for his East and West narrow
gauge from Houston to Shreveport.
Tom Julian stabbed, perhaps fatally,
Dutch Eowder, postmaster at Whitesboro,
Friday. Dutch will die, it 10 thought.
The Athens Courier says the grasshoppers
have nearly alt,goae. The same paper says
Athens needs new church building badly.
Lerdo has condemned Cortina to death !;
Il,ut hasn't 90 bEed him yet, iaud the chances
are even thst Cortina may decapitate LerE
IFsfaefalveatSn nsjdFhy for diad,ngs mol
only shows an opposition to the bloody
shirt doctrine, but to the dirty shirt prac-
tice.
Hdrey, OF Galveston, says he viii build
the Austin and Lampasas narrow gauge
railway WITH sufficient encouragement in
lands.
Capt. T. P. Martin, for long time
cashier, of. the National. Bank. at Jefferson,
~ canning To Austin. to try and restore his
health.
Some cSrpet-bsgSe lost his carpet-bag in
dDehison,zihe other day, so says the Netes-
II contained a box of paper collars and .
! stiTES ss5Tt. Z y = = =
Bad plastcring and defective plasterins
is cemmoul y,dsc 10. the use of calcareous
instead % pure sand, and to defective burn
ing oil lme-,ii ~. 4s.,s
FOrtp-siS votes were polled in Oskville.
all for TiIden save one, and Tlden will
strut misttfiy and Hayes feel badly when
they hear about II! T'les
a. The. Sapreme Court at Galveston gives
the first two weeks OF January to causes
from the Twenty-tLird and Twenty-hfth
tJedisial Districts. fHglsf
-A-bEoem factory hes been established at
eAapft I'LL, ard Austin has not yet decided
tRiRsss sSQolnsmil that viii employ 100
operatives.
/ j, ID. Giddings has been appointed at the
mead of s commission 90 locate a branch OF
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
Tor colored Students eai 13-s a.'sz tr-.i ga
William Page Of Fort Worth. pursued
a thief named Hughes. A fight ensued and
Page wss shot in The knee and died The