The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-30
TEXAS FACTS AND fascIss.

church building
An immigration society j. being
formed at BRYAN.
The Bastrop .ldresfiSe,. has closed
lis tweniy-fOurth volume.
State Treasurer Lubbock l. enjoy
ing holiday NJ Galveston.
Over 1900 bales of cotton have
been received this season at Tampa
sas.
Joseph Cassagne, an old and re-
speeted citizen of Colorado county,
j. dead.
The jury in the Rothschild case
has been empancled. and the trial
begins.
\ negro boy, eleven wears old.
was literally sawed to death by Gin
at Waco.
Ia Montague county sweet pota-
toes are sold this fall at fifteen cents
per bushcl.
| Fort Worth is 10 have a religious
paper, published in the interest OF
the Methodist Church.
No cars for lumber shipments cr6-
ates much bad feeling among the
mill men at Beaumont.
The contract 10 build the railway
from Greenville, in Hunt county,
10 Mineola has been let.
Seventeen car loads of cotton
were lately burned on the Gulf, Col
orado 4 Santa Fe road near Arcola
The Texas Central extension is
now completed to Mount Airy, in
Erath county, near the line of Co
manche.
AT San Marcos Mr.. VIM. Powers,
! of Loekhart, was united IN wedlUck
T, with Miss Bonnie Ragsdale, of San
Marcos.
In San Antonio, an Englishman
named Holdsworth, dropped dead
OF heart disease. He leaves wife
and two children.
For the four months ending Nc.
vember Both Is, 19l immigrants came
into the state over the Iron Noun
tain railroad alone.
Property selling at $1s7 foot in
Fort Worth, and outside capital
pouring in to invest in real estate,
tells the tale of that city.
Work is to begin at once on the
Mexican Central railway from
Paris. Via Greenyille To Dallas.
Thence it moves southwest.
y little boy strayed from camp
in Nolan county. and. after five days
diligenl search. his remains were
found almost devonred 10y wolves.
The Post has made IN awful al
tempt Ia get npn sensation about All
opium smoking den in Houston.
The story i about a. thin as smoke.
y wood hauler. al Dallas, named
Ross, had one of his eyes knocked
onl Ky piece Of wood that was
thrown against him by lis hcin"
caught in the wagon wheel.
y farmer was robbed on the high
way near Dcnisom of everything he
had upon his body. Left. AT mid
night. on the road. naked and cold.
he was in most sad condition.
The surveying party of the CHI
cago and Mexican Central have
reached Alvarado. Johnson county,
Texas, forty miles south of Dallas
and have found evidence Of coal and
iron all along the line.
The Telephone says: Austin
prickS up her ears, shakes the tangled
moss from her eyes, and listens to
the railroad boom. But she will
drop to sleep again rs soon as her
languid curiosity is gratiiied."
Mrs. Murray, AT Hought's store. in
Dallas county. found tramp in her
house helping himself. She ordered
him out, and he returned words, and
Mrs. Murray sliced q gun and fired
| two loads of shot into his carcass.
The EvamlaeT SAYS: New corners
should not get frightened. The
num6erless upright posts they see
all over the state are not marks of
cemeteries or where men have been
murdered, but only the stakes ofnew
railroad surveys"
1t was the rumor at Dallas the
other day that Jay Gould had bought
the line of the III. & L. C.. TO IIearne.
This, with the International acquisi-
ton, would enable the Missouri Pa
ciilc cars TO run through TO San An
tonic without delay.
At Galveston Mrs. Kenworthy Sc
cured,a verdict against the Santa Fe
Railway Company for $4,000, for
killing her husband near Sealy some
time since. He was walking on the
track when knocked down and run
over by the locomotive.
Ex-Sheriff Rabv, of Coryell coun,
Lty, charged with defaulting uf pub
lie money TO the extent of 49,, 900,
left four years ago for parts I'M
known. He has lately returned and
SAYS he wants 10 see the case against
him tried and himself disposed of
as the law directs.
Saws the Blade: "There was too
much money behind Rothschild for
anything 10 be done with him. This
is the whole truth in nutshell
and there is no use in denying il.
Had he been some poor devil, with
out money and without friends, his
neck would have been stretched long
ago.
1t is said that the Texas & Paeific
railway intends TO bring from Eu-
rope during the year 10000 German
or scandinavian farmers to settle
upon its lands, and it is further re-
ported that the Atchison, Topeka a.
Santa Fc, the Union, Northern and
Central Pacific and Iron Mountain
roads are either preparing for or
have already taken steps with the
same object in view.
At the Terry's Rangers reunion
banquet, at Houston, the following
was the opening toast "The Federal
governmental has no more loyal
supporters now than those who
were once arrayed against it in
cause that they believed to be just.-
The responding speech was made
BY Gen. Thomas Harrison, of Waco,
and is said TO have been alike elo-
quent and patriotic.
The New York board of alder
men has passed, over Mayor Coop
er's veto, bill in the interest of the
New York Steam Heating Com
pany This company is given per-
misSion7to lay pipes and mains in
the streets. avenues and ALLEYS of
that city. on the payment OF three
cents for each foot. such payments
To cease when 100000 has been
paid There has been considerable
criticism of this scheme. because the
other companies are charged five
cents foot
The vaRns american Sanetilica-
Zionist al Dallas, Who has been per-
sonating Christ in the Trinity bot