The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25


railIoad accident - , Isoo.
The business o. 81. III ais, aDlilas
merchant has been taken charge Of By
the sheriff.
The Texarksna compress is working
day and night, and mas already com-
pressed neatly % 600 bales.
The Telegram boasts Of the strength
and respectabihty Of The Kniglt Of
Honor organizations Of Houston.
Thomis K. Tyson was aoc,1eatslly
killed in II lam county, by falling
from q house on which he was a.
work.
Cotton 10 Fort Bend county has av-
eraged three-iaurths Of a bale 20 the
acre. Sugar cane h.s yiciied remark
ably well.
On the sixteenth inst, SIX wagons
loaded with families from Missouri,
passed through D.nison on their way
70 Austin.
The Santa F. railroad ia open to
Richmond, and an excursion to Gal
weston has been planned far tAe twcn-
ty-frst.
Eve hundred dollars, the proceeds
Of a grand bali, have been added 10
the fund OF tic Jewish congregation
at Waco.
Al artesian well at Sherman is being
discussed. Tae couaty commissioners
have not decided whether they VII
help the pr j G. OF nor.
Calvert will nc longer be The county
seat of Robertson county. At the late
election it was decided TO move it to
Morgan. on the International railway.
Tie LongYiew Neso Era wants to
see joint stock company organize a
cotton factory in that town. There
are two or three regiments of people
Mrs. Burk of Rusk, and Mrs. Eli
son of Dallas, sisters, aged respec;-
lvelY eighty-two and seventy FIVE years,
met the other day after 2 separation of
fifty-four years.
Nose Wiley, county attorney of
Wheeler county, who had the Pan
Handle prisoners released, has been
by Federal Judge Mccormick.
The Telephone, in trying to push the
Waco "boom," says that an elevated
street railway, constructed on the
same plan of the New York elevated
railways, is absolutely being built in
Waco.
John Bland, James Jackson and
William Thompson, murdereis of Con-
stable Brooks near Henrietta, while In
the discharge of his duty, have been
admitted to bail in four thousand dol
lars each.
The Daily Reporter, at Brenhsm,
lived six days, aud died an lnglorious
death. Now there is room Tor some
enterprising fellow who wants to make
fortune with newspaper. BRENNAN
is the place to do it in.
In Madison county, Gabe Sweat, the
murderer and thief vino recently broke
jail at Marlin, assaulted with a six%
shooter posse who attempted his ar
rest. He was shot and killed, dying
as he said he would, with his boots on.
1t is understood that Judge Flem-
ing, of the twelfth judicial district,
will soon tender his resignation. The
announcement will be received with
universal regret by the bar and people
of his district. He has made a good
Judge, and his place will be difficult
to fill.
The Courier says that II. L. Rankin,
of Hampstead, raised two crops of ap-
Piles on the same trees the past season.
The second crop is just now ripe, and
q small specimen of this fruit was lett
at the STATESMAN office day or two
ago by Judge Waller, late of Hemp
stead.
Some fellow has been testing apothe-
carries scales at Denison. He found a
difference between maximum and min
imum weights of 1874 grains in an
ounce and a half. This is awful
rough on the sick people, who depend
upon the doctors to prescribe existence
for them.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks the
Texas papers that so maligned Mr.. Cur
RE for merely shooting the travelling
show people at Marshall had better
tone down. Mr. Currie will soon be
able to De about agsin-wIth bis little
pistol. But that isn't what's the mat
ter with the Herald.
The Sanctifcationists at Dallas were
instructed to build q temple. The
holy spirit with an eye to business,
named DR.. Fdrguson, who is man of
means, to do the work. The Doctor
is willing to ''shell out" for the cause,
but his relations have taken legal
steps to prevent such disposition of
his property.
Thomas d. Hale, living seven miles
south of Lockhart, was born October
2, 1896, and his wife, Eliza V. Por-
ter, was born June 90, 1897. and they
were married March 20, 1919, which
would make them respectively in their
eighty-fonrth and eighty-thIrd years,
and have been married over sixty-two
years.
Dallas needs new fire engine, but
its economical mayor, who Is also
Sort of sanetificationist, says he won't
permit its purchase. II the town
should catch FIRE and burn up, because
the fire force is not sufficiently effect
i've, he may lose all his chances OF 60
ing to Washington, and may have to
change his aspirations to Halifax.
And now comes the New Orleans
PicayURe, which says: "The govern
ment. is about to spend $50. 600 for the |
armament and defense of Galveston
haroor. This appears to be useless
waste Of money. So long IS the doc
tors OF 6 Aiveston are allowed to keep |
a\Qusraatine against all the world no
forSgn power Is likelv to get over the
sandSSr.
The NFederal grand jury at Dallas,
After ABOUT fifty witnesses were brought
500 miles irem Wheeler coaaty,- at q |
l,eaSs expense, failed TO inaict the !
Uaifsa Srsses Deputy Marshal Johnson,
Who originated the w661s trouble. The
charge agsinst him was e3nsp.Esez- ~
defraad the government out OF fees
illegally obtained. The motion OF the |
United- States District Attorney for /
Johnson's removal is still pending.
Arthur B. Coffee. of Georgetown,
was lately killed By accident in WYoul.
ing. BE snd his brother started from |
their arauches to visit their D9rcnts In |