The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-11
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q settled fact.
Atascosa county has q Wool-grow-
ing association.
Duck shooting is active in Will
Hanson county.
Track laying on the Texas Trunk
railway has begun.
Work on the Corsicana court house
is progressing rapidly.
Dallas pays nine cents meal for
the feeding of prisoners.
Texas still has 100000 acres of
land awaiting settlement.
The Manroce fall wool clip sold at
San Antonio for 20 1l-l00 cents.
Shepard made a speech in Calves
ton the night before the election.
y state dental association is called
to meet in Houston November -.
Four men were carried out TO sea
ia yawl at Galveston on the first.
The sherman bell punches rang
out 81 350.50 for the state last year.
Comanche has a graded school
which is in flourishing condition.
Wallace, district attorney for the
Uvalde district, is certainly re-
elected.
The Santa Fe railway is going TO
push line westward towards But
falo Gap.
Ben F. Davis of Galveston. who
took morphine with suicidal intent,
Is dead.
Mrs. Ellis is still at Dallas attempt
ing to recover her children by pro-
cess of law.
The Baptist Church at Denison
narrowly escaped destruction by fire
few days ago.
The Santa Fe railroad is CARRYING
cotton from Cameron to Galveston
at 1915 per bale.
Minute estimates are going TO be
made for ship channel to the foot
of Nam street, Houston.
The track of the St. Louis and
Texas Narrow Gauge railway is laid
twenty miles this side of Tyler.
Richard Davis. of Dallas, has gone
crazy, and his favOrite diet is nails,
many of which herhas swallowed.
Orders for lumber from Beau
mont can not be filed because of the
scarcity of cars for transportation.
The Bolton Courier says not half
of the cotton in the county has been
picked, and laborers are in great de-
mand.
Last Sunday Major Penn washed
sin out of seventeen souls in the
'uddy waters of the Trinity, at
Dallas.
Gnat Curious has our sympathy.
His nine years legislative cXpcrienc"
will be lost to the country through
his defeat.
Jessie Cumerladder, a German la
borer, at a gin near Richmond, fel
from a platf, rm eight feet high, kill
ing himself.
And now one Saffroi, who mas
lived all. over Texas, opens res;au-
rant in Houston, next door to The
Telegram office.
The jury of inquest decided that
Frank Stevens, the brakeman who
killed George Whipple at Mesquit,
did so in self-defense.
About seven thousand corn-fed
cattle are shortly to be shipped from
Dallas county to the st. Louis and
New Orleans markets.
The life saving station at Calves
ton Island has been prepared for ac-
tive service, with a force of twenty
four strong, brave men.
Mr.. Alb. Thomas, of Luling. has
gone TO San Antonio with his little
girl to have her treated by DR.. Hcrf
for the bite of mad dog.
Col. w. 4. Taylor says as soon as
the machinery is all in working
order. he will have 200 men working
in his Llano copper mines.
The deputy sheriff of Wise county !
passed through Dallas with w. c. |
Hudson, charged with murder in
Marion county, Arkansas.
Walter Gresham has been in
Bosque county looking after right OF
way for the Santa Fe railroad. But !
that isn't all that Walter wants.
When the office of the Guard was
destroyed the citizens of Goliad, |
with liberality. advanced the amount |
of money necessary to fit up Il new
establishment.
The train that took Coils. PIERCE
and Croker and party from san
Antonio to Houston made time |
through at the rate of forty-1ive
miles an hour.
The Bolton Courier wants the
credit, and says: ''We speak out in
time, and declare that the Bolton
Courier was the first paper that
hoisted the Old Alcalde's name for
reelection"
The rough treatment of Frank
Stevens, a breakman on the Texas
and Pacific railroad, by George
Whipple. local agent at Mesquit,
led te a fuss, in which Whipple was
stabbed to death. 1sf.
Billy Whitlaw was shot,in Fort
Worth over "A drinking counter by a
drunken man Capt. Paddock was
present and tried to preserve peace.
but whisky was pppermost and rea-
son was at discount
William Preston, who was convict
ed OF arson at the January term of
the district court at Fort worth. and
to five years in the pcni-
Tertiary. had new trial granted him
and was declared not guilty.
w. Is. McCreary, late deputy col
lector of customs at Eagle Pass. was
shot and killed on the 1st by Far
row, corral master of Fort Duncan.
The killing was done in a drinking
saloon in Eagle Pass. |
Richard Duval, an employee o.
Judge Ross,.a sheep owner of BAN
dera county. it begins to appear has
gotten away with $1,000 of the
Judges money obtained at San An
tonic on the sale of wool entrusted
to him.
The state claims to have secured a
new and important witness for the
pending Rothschild trial. Ii is one
Jennie Simpson. coloFcei, who was
ut the hotel in Jeifar-
son where Rotilschild and Diamond
Bessie%stOpped. i.,s
a fifteen-year-old son of Mr.. H. n.
Davis, of Coryeh county, has pis-
toll ball in his leg, and he refuses to
tell how il got there. His father re-
fuses TO put him under the care OF a
doctor, saying. he got the bail inhhn
and he can get it out.
Those who made trial OF the am
Der sugar cane in Western Texas
this year, report that the experiment
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