The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-16
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIEs.

back to 1892.
AT Orange. stove wood sells al
fifty cents load.
Waco had received on the 18th 81.
600 bales of cotton.
! Corn sells at - cents bushel il
Red River county.
burglars, at Calvert. tried to- gcI
into the safe of :. >. Whitnore.
James l.. NewcOmb is a candidate
for the san Antonio mayoralty.
The permanent line of the NJ. X
& T. railway is being located 10 Fort
Worth.
Preparations for the reception ol
the Terry Rangers are being made
at Houston.
Mr.. j. T. Sheppard, OF Houston
died very suddenly Of hemorrhage
of the lungs.
The -ycar-old son of Mr.. ODay
was run over and killed by the cars
at Palestine.
A bald eagle, measuring seven
feet from tip to tip, has been killed
near Graham.
The Mount Pleasant Times asks
why people are not alive to the East
Texas railway.
The Trans-Continental railway
will be pushed forward to Denton
at an early day.
Fort Worth is in want of tenant
houses, not vacant dwelling of any
kind in the city.
Work goes on vigorously on the
Dallas and Wichita, and the Texas
| trunk line roads.
Father Chambodut, of Galveston,
is no more. He came to Galveston
as priest in 1916.
The East Line & Red River rail
way is nearly completed TO Green
vile, in Hunt county.
The stone cutters of Dallas are ON
a strike against reduction of wages
from $3.50 to 1926 per day.
The track of the International
railway is completed to within
twenty miles of San Antonio.
At Round Rock the manufacture
of hydraulic cement is begun; also
the burning Of hydraulic lime.
There were siXty-one interments
in the city cemetery of Galveston
during the month of November.
1t is said that the citizens of Waco
will comply with demands necessary
to secure the NJ. X. 4 It. railway.
Col. John III. Moore of LaGrange,
aged 81 years, is no more. His name
belongs to the early history of Texas.
The OLserrei- Mder dating back
to the beginning Of the Observer
wing of the family, is twenty-five
years old.
The Bonham NetcS thinks Throck-
morton is not an egotist and report
ing him does not exhaust the font of
capital Is.
What once was the FrOntierSmdn of
Kerrville has been changed to the
BUgle, and it blows lively horn
at Bandera. F.. ...
The Guard says oranges growing
in the open air in Goliad were not
hurt by the icy winds of last weeks
cold weather.
AT Dallas, railroad agents, hotel
drummers, baggage and check men
are being arrested for violating the
drummer's tax.
The mail coach between Eastland
and BrOwHwood has been robbed
by highwaymen who did not even
mask themselves.
The liquor dealers, i'll consultation
at Dallas, concluded to ask of the
Seventeenth Legislature the repeal
of the Sunday law.
Rothschild's case is set at jefferson
for December 10th. and many wagers
arc made upon the result, with odds
in favor of honorable acquittal.
The jury in the Hawkins case at
Dallas sat six days and failed to
agree. The amount required for
bond has been reduced to $4,000.
AT Bolton child, aged fifteen
months, fell into Il we'll thirty-tive
feet deep. Wl.,"i recovered it was
alive and only very slightly bruised.
Dallas is to have second connec-
ton with the NJ. X, & T. railway via
Denton, forty miles distant. 1t will
be finished in less than two months.
Rev. Thomas NJ. Goodnight, who
figured a year ago in Texas as Il
Sanctitication preacher, is now in a
private lunatic asylum in Cincinnati.
In Gonzales county much cotton
will be lost in consequence of bad
weather and sickness among tho
people. Corn is rotting i'll the fields.
The mail coach was stopped, near
Brentwood, by two robbers, and
the passengers and mail sacks were
made to disgorge. They got about
$500.
The Tagliapietra Opera Company
experienced financial troubles at
Marshall. and were for time under
arrest. They went thence to Little
Rock.
If the people of Brentwood will
give the st. Louis s Texas Narrow
Gauge railway $4,000, the road
will be franchised, to that place
within one year.
a negro prisoner, named Fulcher,
over-powered the Bolton jailer, and
all the prisoners escaped from the
Jail. Sheriff Blanton recaptured
all except the said negro.
RUDE Boyce is reported at the
head of an armed band of despera-
does near Fort Terrell, in, Crockett
county. 1t is thought the despera-
does and the rangers will collide.
The negro troops at Concho were
paid off on the 4th, and that night
they made the town lively, and a
colored man named John Anderson
was shot and killed by one of them.
Carson and Bishop, of Grit
fin, quarreled about a child. They
proceeded to adjust matters by the
use of shot-guns, when Bishop was
killed and Carson was mortally
wounded.
The jury in the Hawkins case. at
Dallas, are still hung. The trial of
Rufus Bell, accessory to the murder
of his. fIther, has begun. He is
charged with taking Hawkins TO
and from the scene Of the murder.
DIR. Mamie, prominent physician
and merchant of Eagle Pass, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, Financial en-
,barrassment is said TO have been
the cause which led 10 the rash act.
Mr.. f. Smith. of Richmond. Texas.
wants Il wife. and advertises for
middle-agcd lady. a widow or one
never married. Mr.. Smith is a sober
man in all respects, A word to the
wise, manageable middle-aged lady.
At Peoria, Illinois, Joseph Hud-
dleston has been arrested on the
charge of mail robbery near Fort
Worth in 1873. Huddleston, so one
of the other robbers SAYS, was the
stage driver, and arranged the rob-
berry and received part of the booty.
Engineer Waiter, of the Mexican
Central railway, is at Whitney, look
ing up proper route for the Mexi-
can Central railway. What figure