The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-12

paired OF, ard it Is question ~petn T
be will ge' we'll or die.
Fort Worth is 70 have al ice fact ~
that will turn ut ten or twelve tons OF
ice daily. 40 artesian well is being
bored for the uses Of the compsny.
The IeleJAoas thinks since ''Chsrly"
Stewart, OF Houston, wants to be ray
ished, that the HatcAmaa can not
make out csse of outrage against
anyone.
Gen. H,wthorne, OF Weatberford,
has been ordained minister of the
gospel. He wss known few years
ago in life insurance circles in EisLern
Texas.
The people of Dsnison think the Sc
cret OF Jay Gould's plans in ol timing
control Of railways hes been simply a
desire to make Druison the greatest
city in Texas.
The Herald Commercial has been al
voc7uDR tie plan -rr on foot bJ the
Dallas exodrs'tIs 10 col,t.. z few of
the Panhandle crnnties iLslrad OF GO
ing to Kansas
Sugar MAIDEN 5 bern T. 3 quotes
about $40 pes IA sshr al 10 produce 1t,
and from one.And i half /" .~O hogs
heads eau toe m lie 10 rse ac.e, with
from $l20 to $3.50
The engineer cn'ps on the SAINTS F ?.
railway, says the journal, consisting 81
seventeen IN q, have been camping IN
Little River bottom, on the b Il coun-
ty line, awaiting orders.
Frank Glrper and Buck 5 lomor,
who love horse fesh well but NOT WISE
ly, are safely jagged at San Antonio
awaiting the pleasure Of Sheriff CO =
win, on whose order they were taken IT.
G orge Mccoy, who was sent to the
Hood county jail for safe k eI ng from
Somervel county, was taken from the
Jail by an armed mob last week. lie
had been convicted of the crime Of
rape.
Harrison county has debt of S425,-
500; the interest on which amounts to
$21 900 year. 1t is an oppressive
burden and while reputation is talked
of Federal courts loom up in the dim
distance.
The East and W,st T. x4s Narrow
Gauge railway has commenced carry
ing mails as far as Shepherd for Cold
Springs and the surrounding country,
and for offices in Polk and Liberty
counties.
Major Mehaffey, Of Willis Point, re-
ceived by express from the United
States fish commission at Washington,
twenty German carp, which he imme-
diately placed in his farm .ank north
of town.
1t is said that Jay Gould will shortly
visit Texas in the interest of his rail-
roads. He now has control of the M,
K. & T., and, it is concluded, will ex
tend it to connect witt the Texas and
Pacific road.
The Exp0sitOr unfeelingly says many
boys and girls IaIl in love aud imagine
they are distracted over dissppoint-
ment, who have never learned the diff
ference between heartache and spell
of the gripes.
The subsidy case against Smith coun-
ty has been tried in the Federal Court
at Tyler and has resulted in judg-
ment for the rsilroid company and a
mandsmus to compel the county COM
missloners' court to levy tax to pay
off.
The sap in the orange trees about
Houston was frozen by the Christmas
freeze, and the bodies of these trees
are found cracked and destroyed.
They will again have to be grown
from the root, which is Ger talnly very
discouraging.
Mckinney, who shot his wife abou'
q year ago in Sherman, is in St. Lnuis
with his wife, and is reported as hav-
ing just fought duel on the street
with one Frank Pierce, also of Sher-
man, in whlsh Mckinney was badly
wounded in the jaw.
The Herald says: :" A negro man,
whose name is Enoch Mcclure, resid-
ing IN San Antonio, is IN trance. He
has been in that condition for three
days. His friends were inclined to
bury him, but better advice prevailed
and Enoch remains above the clods,
with signs of revival.
The Sentinel says that in ninety days
the Texas and Pacific railway will be
completed to Whitesboro, and 1t Is un-
derstood that surveying party will
soon be looking along tho proposed
line of the Dsnison and Pacific beyond
its intersection with the Texas and p y
cific.
Mrs. Reed, wealthy lady OF Dallas
county, recently died from the opera
ton for an ovarian tumor. just before
the doctors put her under chloroform
she handed them 3 slip of paper, which
proved to be her will, giving all her
property to her husband. 1t is to be
contested by her relatives.
Cuero Ralletsn:: Col. Frank W.
johnson, president of the Texas Vet
eran Association, for number of
years past has been engaged in writing
q history of Texas. He is now on his
way to Vera Cruz, where he gots to
secure papers appertaining to his work,
and upon his return we may expect an
early announcement of the completion
of his book, which for reliability will
exceed any other history. We have
read many chapters of this work in the
manuscript, and found them very in
teresting.
Owing to the increased cost Of print
ing material, the F,rt Worth Democrat
and the Stevensville Empire have adj
ded twenty per cent. to their rates of
job work and advertising. The white
paper for the STATESMAN, bought from
dealers in New York, from whom pa
per for its publication has been pur-
chased for between three and four
years, and manufactured expressly for
the STATESMAN, cost now twenty-five
per cent. moro than it did in Novem-
Der last, and as yet, no Advance has
been made in rates.
Immediately after fall of rain at
White Rock, in McLennan county, a
fish about FIVE inches long was found
lying in the yard Of Mr.. Brice, and it
is said there was no water with fish In
it nearer than the Brszns river, two and
half miles away. Some said it was q
buffalo fish, others that it was . sucker,
and then II was commanded that no such
fish was ever seen in those parts before.
The Examiner thinks it tell from the
moon, but the STATESMAN can explain
the whole matter. The State has q
fish commissioners. who la'ely received
q fine lot of German carp. from the
Uuitei Ssates Fish C mm;ssioner.
These are abou; five or six inches long,
aud the fish is evidently one OF them
Our fish COMMISSIONER talks shout these
carp day. aud night. he glSries in
them, and he is said 10 be so wrought
up on the d subj c, that in fits Of