The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-23
Porferio Benevides has been elect,

| II IL CSllIudlco ll1ht L1C P0O1A WY
of the state will sell for $4,000, 600
this year.
The value of real estate has
doubled in Dallas within the past
five years.
A telegram was sent from Bolton
TO San Francisco, and in three hours
the reply was received,
There are twenty-seyen artesian
wells in Fort Worth, and the deepest
is said to be only $50 feet
One and half to two hogsheads
per acre is the sugar yield on the
Brazos river and Oyster creek.
Governor Hubbard says the Texas
& St. Louis Narrow Gauge railway
will run to Corsicans in February.
The Baptists of Bolton are deter
mined to retain Rev. NJ. V. Smith in
the service of the church at that
place.
knights OF the road have been
operating about Weimar. They re-
lieyed several persons, but got no
bonanza.
j. T. Devices, of San Antonio, has
brought across the Rio Grande from
the interior of Mexico 1900 head of
fine cattle.
A young man. stranger, sick and
unconscious, was taken from the
cars at Marshall, and put in the wait.
ing-room. He remained there near
~ a night and day and died.
Mrs. Davis, by the destruction Of
her baggage on the cars the other
day, lost gold watch that was worn
by Gen. Forbes Britton, her father,
during his service in the Mexican
war.
| Maggie Louise, once known as
Maggie Richardson, variety actress
was tired of life, and by the aid of
morphine she passed away from
cares and sorrows that beset her.
here.
The Telephone says: Railroads
ripen, like fruit, and then drop into
jay Gould's hands. The 81. & 7. G.
ii a great, big, luscious pear-it does
not seem to be hardly ripe yet,
though.
The Sanctiticationists of Dallas
starved themselves into sickness,
! and the doctors have divided them
out among themselves, and they may
hasten their journey to the delight
full hereafter.
| Hat. &. r. II. shares advanced,
on the 18th, from IS to rs cents.
Second mortgage bonds are MS; In
ternational firsts 106; 7. & p. incomes
rs: do. Rio Grande div 96, and
shares 4S5(94lt.
The Examiner asks wouldn't mil
lion and half addition to the old
fifty thousand dollar capitol build
| ing be a good deal like FIVE dollar
patch on a six-bit pair of breeches7
We only ask for information.
Benavides and Vackes, Of Laredo,
quarreled about woman, and fought
with cold steel. Afterwards they
met on the street and the latter shot
the former through the heart. and
then rode away to the other side of
the Rio Grande.
Regular daily passenger trains
now run on the Texas d St Louis
Narrow Gauge railway, between Ty-
Ter and Texarkana. They are max
ing time and no delays, and connect
with the night express trains on the
Iron Mountain road.
Last week T. A. Mcdonald, coun-
| ty Judge of Madison county, shot and
killed John Christian in the court
house at jacksonville. a suit insti-
tuted by Mcdonald against Chris
tan for the hire of county convicts
was the cause of the homicide.
The editor of the San Marcos Free
Press has been in Austin, and tells
it through his paper that the dull
ness of the Capital City is due to
the lack of energy among its people.
He saws bad roads and loss OK trade
from the northwest makes a vast
difference between Austin as 1t is
and as it was.
LaGrange journal: "The cars are
nearing our city. and on Saturday
the tracklayers werc close enough
to town for some of our citizens to
hear the whistle of the locomotive.
Major Converse says the first engine
will run into LAGRANGE on Christ
mas morning, and brings eight kegs
of beer as a Christmas gift. Let her
come; we are ready for the beer"
Mr.. Jauger, of Dallas and Mrs.
! Angelina Perry, of Weatherford,
agreed to be made one, and Mrs.
Perry was so much in earnest about it
that she came over to Dallas, and the
twain were legally made one. They
passed one night together, and next
morning the bride went back home
in a huff. 1t is reflection on the
bridegroom, and he is muchly NOR
tilted.
The proposed narrow gauge road
from Tyler to Sabine Pass connect
ing with Bremond's road, is GER
tainty. Work commences early
next year. Hons. J. P. Douglas and
w. i. Herndon, are moving things.
They propose to put down third
rail on the Houston and Galveston
road. and secure connection with
Galveston for the narrow gauge
railway system of the state.
The GALVESTON opera house has a
new manager, and to prove his pluck
and capacity he is negotiating with
Manager Abbey to play the Bern
hardt one night in Galveston. She
is coming TO New Orleans, and n few
thousand dollars made up and paid
to Manager Abbey in advance would
probably bring her to Galveston.
viii not Capt. Millett have her ap-
pear in Austin during the sitting of
the legislature?
| Examiner: The Texas Trunk is
running to Sabine Pass; the Pacific
to FL Paso the NJ, X. i T. to Lare.
do: the East Line out west; the
New Orleans westward; the Inter.
national TO the west; the San Anto-
Mo road to Arkansas Pass; the Cor
pus Christi road to Laredo; the St
Louis Narrow Gauge to Waco and
other roads and all the roads every.
where but to Galveston. The city OF
the sea is doomed unless she gets
deep water.
The Anglo american Times, OF
London. November 19, in lengthy
editorial on the Galveston, Harris.
burg & San Antonio railway says
"The bonds of this railway have beer
I. rising steadily on the English mar
ket. Three years ago when placed
here they were at 80; now the pei
: cents are at los with an upward ten
, dency due to two causes, the MAR
one being the growth Of settlement
along the line and the sound loca
traffic being developed IS q eonse
! quence. The other is, the proposed
$ extension Of the road to Join The
I Southern Pacific at FL Paso.h