The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-23
rexEs rGcTs AND rARcIEs.

in a war ON mad dogs.
BRENNAN city scrip Is worth only
eight cents on the dollar.
Mrs. Ruth 4. John, wife of Rev
j. Il. John, of Galveston, is dead.
The late fall Of rain in counties
west of Austin, has been immense.
The cotton market at Bolton is
said TO be one of the best in the state.
Air. Eli Cole, of San Antonio. is
making soap from the roots of bear
grass.
In Galveston chickens command
from $50 $50 per dozen with none
in sight.
On Monday last BRENNAN shipped
500 bales OfcOttOn over the Santa Fc
railway.
Deputy Sheriff Gleason, OF San
Antonio, shot by horse thieves, is
getting well.
The artesian well boring at Cor
sicana has gone down between zoo
and 800 feet.
The association of free thinkers OF
Bell county have held their fifth an
nualreunion.
Another man was shot at Bolton
the other day by the careless hand
ling of a pistol.
Capt. b. B. Paddock OF Fort
Worth is the Democratic nominee
for the legislature.
The Sentinel moves from Brown
wood TO Brady City, and becomes
the Brady Sentinel.
Local option was adopted in a pre-
cinct of Palo Pinto county, by ma
jOrity of twenty-five.
The sheep market at San Antonio
and other points in the West has
been very lively of late.
Joseph Haynes, of Ellis county.
from too much thought given 10
salvation has gone mad.
Mr.. Townsend keeps the best and
most popular hotel in San Marcos.
1t is called the Exchange.
Waco still suffers from a peculiar
fever that has prevailed there, at in
teryais, i0r many months
The Seminary school lands of Fay
cite county will be sold November
9, in the town of LaGrange.
The Corpus Christi and San Diego
railroad has purchased enough iron
IN extend its road to Laredo.
The Republican convention at
CastrOville was so small tpat il did
not presume to make nominations.
Mr.. Joseph Stavinaho, of Fayette
county, was called out of his house
ut night and shot at. He escaped in
jury, 'u
Houston has had small coAfla-
frra ion anI thu Dot x,x(a..
the inefiieiencg of the fire depart
ment.
The main line of the Central rail-
way is said to be in wretched con-
dition, especially since the late
rains. .-r
The Eastland branch of the Texas
Central Railroad has been completed
to panblin, twenty-five miles be-
yond Hicco. .at
|. Mr.. Burgess. Democratic candi.
date for State Senator, made one Of
his rafting speeches at San Marcos
on the 14th.
Gordon, forty-three miles west of
Weatherford, is now the headguar-
tiers of the Fort Yuma pnd Fl Pasp
stage company.
Some fiend placed an obstruction
on the Central railroad track, near
Waco, and succeeded in causing q
partial wreck of a train.
John ID. Hunt, whose case was set
far trial at Columbus during this
term Of the district igErl; has gotten
another continuance.
The earnings of the Texas Pacific
for the fourth week in August lasl
increased $ll,0l7 over the CORES
pOnding month last year.
Farmers are paving in wages and
board about 500 per bale for saving
cotton, half the value Of the cotton,
outside of ginning and packing.
AT Buffalo Springs, Clay county,
seven men received gun aud pistol
shot wounds in D fight about q hog.
Ii was h0ggish affair all AROUND.
The Santa Fe railway limo has been
surveyed as far as Brentwood. 1t
is said the Dallas, Cleburne and Rio
Grande railway will touch Brown
wood.
A fire originating in saloon in
Columbia laid almost the entire
business portion of the town in
ashes. Tho loss is over $4,000, no
insurance,
A careful estimate shows 35,080,D00
sheep in Texas, yielding 1OO0O0,O00
pounds of wool. Who will saw that
Texas is not wool growing state
after that?
David Kinney, of Jefferson, IA
miliarly known as "Old Pap" took a
vial full of chlorofOrm, became in
sensible in FIVE minutes, and died in
one hour.
In Waco. Ellen Cotton, fraii
woman of only % years, became
tired of her life of shame and ended
it in blissful forgetfnlness by taking
morphine. ri =
The distance from Houston TO New
Orleans by rail is $50 miles. The
round trip costs 1926. and the trip
from one city 10 the other is made
in IS hours. 'a.-r.
Ray Phillips. the bigamist, is
abroad in Texas again, after two
years i'm the penitentiary. He'll want
two or three wives shortly, and he
NAV have them.
p The "Ielegyum'S troubles" as re-
ported by the Post is getting mo-
notonOus, and il begins TO appear as
though the Post is some how mixed
up in these troubles. -t. hfa 4
Atthe annual convention ofthe ma
tional association of fire engineers.
Henry A. Hill, of Dallas, was elected
secretary, and Mr.. w. T.. CoRnOrs, of
Waco, vice president. Ioltss1f
L Tho -anffnn Nrnn nf (.raNsnRa has
been cut one-third short of expecta-
ton, but the acreage is forty per
cent. greater than last year, which
will make larger crop. ..rta
The grand jury, at Morgan found
bills against Joe Wright and Ed.
Nichols for the murder of Matte
Wright and n. j. Hodges, in tent
near Morgan, some months ago.
Louis I. Valentine, of the firm of
Valentine 4 CO., of San Antonio, has
heen arrested, charged with incest.
lie waived examination. and both
parties were put under bond of
$500. rlg
The byciclists Of the state are pre-
paring for the grand contest under
the auspices of the Capital State
Fair Association at Austin. The
fair begins October 10 and ends ON
the 23d.
Waco people sigh ut the prospect
OF the Santa Fe railway passing
within eighteen miles of the place.
They would weep. however. ut meet
ing demands necessary To secure the
road.
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