The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIeS.

Waco expects 10000 bales this sea-
son.
Cotton in Comanche county will
turn half bale to the acre.
The International railway iron is
The Santa Fe railway pushes on
with vigor towards Bolton.
Work on the proposed artesian
well at Galveston has begun.
now laid beyond the Blanco.
John r. Mcmahon, of Menard
county, was drowned the other day.
An artesian well, only sixty feet
deep. in BOsque county flows freely.
The price of corn IN Robertson
county will be twenty-five cents per
bushel.
Business prospects at Round Rock
are more hopeful, and the town I'M
proves.
William Gilleland fell beneath the
cars at COrsicana and lost an arm
and leg.
The Point Isabel and Brownsville
railway will be in working order in
few days.
The Link-Buckner war was ac-
lively revived in the late Elm Fork
Baptist Association.
The local option election at
Brownsville resulted 65 for, and 161
against prohibition.
The COrsicana compress has been
put in operation. 1t compressed its
| first bale to nine inches
Dallas has strong board of trade.
Austin had one, but it has long since
passed into forgetfulness.
There are now in this state. free
frem all claims and subject to loca-
ton by certificates, about 100000
acres of land.
For local passage, the Santa Fc
railway charges four and halfce
per mile. All the. other Texas roads
| charge five cents.
w. j. Wooten died at Bryan from
injuries received in fist fight with
one Gallager. Gallager had one ear
bitten off, and was otherwise used
up. ..r.4
a child, with whooping cough,
| followed by fever, in Dallas, has
gone twenty-one DAYS without TAX
ing one thing into her stomach eX
cept medicine. ..
The Telegram Publishing Com
pany's affairs will most probably he
turned over to receiver.
In an attempt to arrest horS
thieves Deputy Sheriff Gleason of
BeXar county, was shot at four times
and badly wounded.
The st. Louis and Texas Narrow
Gauge railway is moving with rapid
strides upon Corsicana, and then it
| goes onward to Waco. -..la
Galveston takes advantage of the
statute of limitation on city scrip,
not presented in time specified for
funding in limited debt bonds.
| Fabian Kimling of Galveston, is
in trouble, but when the average
husband learns that he had two
wives he will not be surprised ut
this statement.
Il sewing machine agent, named
Frank j. Smith, engineers the hide
pendent canvass in Harris county.
This being so, the ticket ought to
have the solidity of brass.
In Fayette countya negro poisoned
a well, and I'll, Wooten and family
and j. w. Rabb and others were
seriously affected by drinking its
waters. Mrs. Wooten, it was thought,
would die. ..--.. .,..
The Independent ticket put forth
at Houston is j. G. Tracy for fioater,
DIR. Burroughs and w. E. Hutch
inspn for representatives. Hugo
Lehman for county judge, William
Gaven for district clerk and c. G..
Beavens for county clerk.
| Major Penn's residence, in Hous-
ton, for which he paid $500 not
long ago, has been destroyed, with
all its contents, by fire. This is the
second house he has had burned in
| Houston in twelve months. Old
Harry, it appears, has special
grudge against the great evangelist.
MIR. j. +. Love, q young man q
years old, and. Mr.. f. G.. Brown
about the same age picked cotton on
a wager in Dallas county. They
picked from sunrise till sunset, with
half hour given for dinner, and
the contest ended with the first
having picked 517 pounds and the
| latter 446. fa. ii.4a7I
Two hundred and. eight English
immigrants passed up the San An
tonic railroad on the 9TH, to locate
about Luling and San Antonio.
They are mostly agriculturists,
and yet the denomination of. Gov.
Roberts has been made known
abroad. {qt Hs
Walter, Brown, 4 Co.'s Boston
wool circular of September /, quotes
Texas wool as follows: Eastern. fine,
29(a31c; average, 26(d39e: Eastern,
medium, Sl(d34c; average, 2S(9S0 (;
Western, fine, 27tG29c, average, 25(d,
&c; Western, medium. 28(G30c 3 av-
erage, 25(G2Sc; Mexican improved,
22(G25c; average, 20(G22c; Mexican,
17(d20e; average, l5(G17c. u..if
Some of the weekly exchanges
are endeayoring to induce their sub
scribers 10 pay by promising to pub
fish roll of honor. which will con-
sist of the names of those who have
paid their Just dues. Newspaper
subscriptions should be paid as
promptly as any other debt. and be-
cause they are not is why so many
papers fail 10 meet public expecta-
ton. e'tf'i ffif
The Texas giant, Col. III. c. Thurs
ton; standing eight feet and one inch,
Is billed to appear at Honey Grove
next Monday. giso the turtle ne
groes. mother and child, being dos
titute of knee joints. and having tlTy
tie claws in lieu of hands and feet.
The natural or unnatural wonders,
viii probably put in their appear
ance at our state fair. Col. Samp-'
SON is looking after them.
In Waco cotton is sold on the
plaza before il is unloaded from the
wagons. Among other buyers there
is a father and three hopeful and du-
tiful sons. They surround the wag-
on, and if a bale of cotton is worth
ten cents q pound the old man bids
nine, the first SOU goes a quarter
better. the second son bids . half.
and the third one raises il to nine
and five-eights. The others sll#ink
nj the seller and he sells and Is sold.
The buyers make three-eights OF a
cent apotnd by their little game.
Joseph Goertner. of Fayette
county, came home drunk and at
tempted to bin his wife. She got
away nom him and went 70 neigh
boris house. He then got hold Of
bottle of sinide OF potassium, and
properly enough cOnceiying II To be
strong drink, Quatfed the fiery LIQUID.
snd in another minute passed in his
checks FOR eternity,s..n4 -. 4,
DIR. T. l. Vim. of wins Point,