The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-09
TEXAS fAcIs AND fAacles.

/ las.
Col. Belo Is back in Galveston re-
stored To health.
I Boring for water at Corsicana has
begun again in earnest.
John MurchisOn died at Palestine
of too much whisky.
John lloyes was killed by light
ming in Denton county.
II. l.. Graves, of San Antonio. is
elected county physician.
Farmers are backward in sowing
wheat IN san Saba county.
The fish are dying in the Gulf of
Mexico from poison in the water.
Mr.. FULLY. Of Austin. is going To
open a jewelry store in Fort Worth.
Bonds of the East & West Texas
railway have reached par in New
York.
For the legislature in Rusk county
Tcmpleton beat Quinn eighty-two
votes.
The continued cold weather still
saves vast deal TO the sugar
planter.
The burning of Wingate's lumber
mill at Orange, involves a loss of
$4,000.
The East Texas conference Of the
NJ. +. Church South is in session ut
Marshall.
Flatonia has shipped this season
about 5000 bales of cotton; Luling
about 1000.
Mr.. NJ. \. Henry. of Coleman
county, was murdered in Kansas for
his money.
There are seventy-five cases of
small pOX i'll Brownsville, and 300in
Natamoros.
Superintendent Gorec, of the pen
itentiary, reports over 2300 cOnvicts
on the rolls.
AT some points near DenisOn Red
river was frozen over during the re-
cent cold snap.
Mike Abbott, a railroad labOrer,
was run over and killed by a train,
near Beaumont.
Mail transportation is just now
generally looked upon as the most
perfect of failures.
The Gulf & Kansas Short Line
railroad is TO be finished without
much-delay to Rusk.
BoykIn, the murderer of Broad
max. has been remanded 10 Jail, in
Cameron, without bail.
Construction on the Chicago, Tex
as & Mexican Central railway begins
at Dallas in very few days.
The merciful man is most success
full in saving the life of horses during
the prevalence of the epizooty.
The Governor offers $500 reward
for the arrest and conviction of any
or all of the Dallas bank robbers.
Gen. Ord is going to ask for an
appropriation of $4,000 to be used
in boring artesian wells for posts.
j. II. Kingsbury, ir., of Waco, has
been hOnorably acquitted of charges
against him in the criminal court.
DIR. Greene, of Cuero, committed
suicide by drowning himself in a
cistern. Excessive drinking was the
cause.
An official raid has been made on
the gaming houses of Dallas. and
they have been closed up by munici-
pal law.
The schedule time of our railways
ought to be changed. The trains
need more running time, and they
take il.
Arrangements have been made for
excursion rates TO the reunion of the
10Th of December.
There is more than one man at
Fort Worth wanting the pOstOffice.
Strange it is how other people will
copy after Austin.
War is declared between the NJ.
X. Il L. and the Santa Fe, and both
roads are going to build lines be-
tween Fort Worth and Cleburne.
1t has been discovered that the
dead Mexican, found near Seguin,
was killed by another Mexican be-
cause of criminal intimacy with his
wife.
The wife of Milton Bader, colored,
is suing the Texas Central railway
for ejecting her from ladies' car.
She was going North to spend the
summer.
Great damage is reported, from
all points, to the cotton still remain
ing in the fields. The wet weather
has injured it until it will hardly
pay the picking.
Many horses are dying in Grayson
county from blind staggers. The
disease prevails in many parts of the
state, and it must result from the
use of rotten corn.
+. l.. Edmonson, dentist, of Gal
weston, stands charged with despoil-
ing the person of Matte Taylor, col
ored, while under the influence of
chlorofOrm in the dental chair.
Misses Foster and Beard, while
plying on the veranda at the Chapel
Hill Seminary, were precipitated tif-
teen feet to the ground, in conse-
quence of rotten railing, and were
badly hurt.
An effort is going to be made to
divert the trade of chihuahua, COM
ing from Presidio del Norte, from
San Antonio TO .Eastland, where
galveston house is going to make
the attempt.
The people of Bastrop stand
ready TO give $4,000, in cash dona-
ton. for the completion of the Col
orado valley branch of the Sunset
road to the old town thirty-five
miles below Austin.
l.. S. Collins. u constable, together
with James Darst, made an unpro-
voked assault with pistols upon the
two Burchards in their store, in Con-
zales. Darst shot both the Bur-
chards, killing neither.
I. NJ. Harwood, Hugh Lewis and
G. Ii. Focke, of Gonzales, are going
to New Orleans as a committee TO
wait on Mr.. Whitney, and secure, if
possible, the building of the Nor
gan railway to Gonzales.
4 man is ON exhibition at Waco
whose head is thirty-six inches in
circumference, while the entire man
weighs only seventy pounds. Big
headed men are not needed at Waco;
that is, if the selfish estimate ofmany
of its citizens are correct.
b. L. Scoggin, once sheriff of Falls
county. was arrested in Hamilton
county, on writ from Palestine.
charging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses. AT Gates
Vile he was seized with commissions
and he is expected to die.
The editor of the Independent has
been presented with very fine or
anges grown in the town of Brazo-
ria. The largest weighed fourteen
ounces. and measured twelve inches
in circumference; and the "printa-
torialr corps returned thanks.
The Telegram eongratulates the
citizens of Marshall on the removal
of the Rothschild murder trial from
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