The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-14
IExAs EAcIs AND EANClEs.
Gainesville is; improving with
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great Tdpiully. .
"A horse ii San Antonio has died
from htdrophobia.
Cotton picking goes on at a lively
rate in Gonzales county.
The x. and VI. College opened
with seventy-fve cadets.
The Supreme and Appellate Courts
have begun their term at Tyler.
The ease of II. W. Crawford, for
murder, is on trial at Hampstead.
Caldwell is made lively. by the
noise of the saw and the hammer.
Judge1r- J. Deyine is presi dent of
a Democratic club ut San Antonio.
Richard Allen, colored, hopes to
be elected assessor of Harris county.
The TRANSIT ontinentalw viii be com
pleted to WhitesbOro by November
| first.
The authorities at GALVESTON are
ready to slap quarantine on against
New Orleans.
Capt j. c. Faulkner, state senator,
for Robertson county, is the old II.
X +. &. railroad man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tolle. of New Braun
fcls. will celebrate their diamond
wedding in few days.
The Brownsville COSmOpOijfdR re-
ports over one hundred cases of
smallpox in Matamoros.
| Woouson Coffee. an old citizen of
Colorado county, dropped dead on
the streets of Columbus.
st. Mary's Catholic Church al san
Antonio has just been elaboratcly
! frescOed and Ornamented.
Ii is said jaw Gould owns both. the
[ T,fbuneand the JFoHd. one Rcpub-
lican. the other Democratic.
Iron is on. the way to Galveston
for the Trunk railway. twill reach
Kaufman by the end of the. year.
I Louis VaIbroth, of San Antonio.
was kicked by a horse, and in conse-
quence he died of congestion of the
brain.
Ten car loads of horses, raised in
Western Texas, We're shipped from
San Antonio on the sth to be sold in
Georgia. - 49, ..
prof. Jacob Ball, of Dallas, ma
turalist of wide scientific reputation,
died !. few a lfalyf ago, in Wilbarger
= Tho late Investigation az Meridian
|
Wright with the double murder at
HAt one end Of the line the Calves
ton docket has fifteen applications
for divorce, while at the other, Sher-
man., there are thirty-eight such
cases. -. 49,. q
And now it is said the Santa Fe
I Authorities are having the line be-
tween Fort Wogth and ClebVrpe
located, Uncertain people make I'M
certain items. ~ !'"i ~
H A duel between drummers at Dali
Has. was 10 have taken place, but
probably they have not paid the
Elicense, and ARE hiding from the col
Hector and from each other.
1 The Waco Examiner says: Mingo
Austin, "a colored dwarf tive 'ty
years old, thirty inches high and
weighing sixty pounds, was an object
of some interest ON the streets YES
lterdGy.f '"':
Capt. sessie Bnlingsley, who late
" breathed his last at his home in
McDade, was commander of COM
pany in the battle of San Jacinto,
and was y member 0f the Fret Tex
as Congress, -l......
/ Since the Old Aicalde offered re-
ward of $50 for The detection of
shirking drummers, the collectors
have been doing lively business
among the most pretentiouS portion
of these gentlemen.
Tho assessment rolls of BcXar
| county show in real estate. S6,427.-
| = a.
merchandise, S903,OlO. Total amount,
SS,426.556. This Is an increase of
Sl47. 349 over last year.
Mrs. Ball and her daughter Annie,
and Mrs. Thompson. all of Calves
ton. and others, We're poisoned by
eating wild parsnips, at the home
of Mira. rh0mps0n's father. Hon.
John Ruggee, in Wisconsin.
COrsicana has $4,000 i'll cash and is
going to issue 10 per cent. bonds to
raise $4,000 more. with which to
put up a $4,000 school building.
We have one which cost a little over
| that sym which can be had for half
prine. a.-. -H..
The west hound train To Dallas on
the 9TH brought 1c33 immigrants
from the Middle States 10 locate be-
tween the Trinity and BraZos rivers.
They are well.ta-da farmers, and
the advance guard of 300 families
from their sections. .tl ,...ssl.
. After tile circus street parade, at
i Dallas. one, Of, the elephants became
i enraged, and knocked one of the
Keepers down, but the animal was
mastered before any harm was done.
| The man struck was badly dis
| figured about the face, . d. ,r
! They, are bothered in New York
/ as, to how Young men and young
women make ends,meet. Down here
| II is the simplest thing imaginable.
| IT has been .practiced i'll Austin I'M
| tiff is reduced to u science. .,ApyIof
the grocers Or dry goods men can
tell MI about IL. - @tl'''''i -.
A man who devotcs hinselfto the
service of the church Is certainly en-
titled t0ihis support. At least this
is the way Father Blum, OF Shcr-
man, thinks about it, and Othermin-
listers should follow his example.
He refuses TO give Spiritual consola-
ton to the members of his congre-
Cation until they have settled up
with cash
i The Cleburne Bulletin tells that
the effort to'secure the fight. of way
. for the Santa. Fe railway. through
johnson county. has been met with
little or no response land owners
with few objections, refusing to let
/ the road pass unless they are prom
ised pay for'it:: Free right of way is
one eff the conditions for building
the road through the county.
| The compress. hands at Houston
are all ON a strike. THIS mania for
| striking at Houston was started by
| the Post in an attempt to injure
other papers. 1t succeeded, by a
1 double movement, against the Tel
egrum, but the Age. as firm as the
rock Of ages, defies such puny at
teInpts, and it will live to see The
Post decay into nothingness. Such
is retfibution, and the terrible thing
lis Inevitable.
i Two. hundred thousand bags of
peanuts, averaging four bushels to
the bag, were received in Norfolk
for the year ending October l, 1880.
Were il not that a goodly supply of
this chief staff of Georgian's life
may be found on the streets of Aus
tim, we might soon count Capt.
Billy Pitts. Col. Whitehead. Hugh
| HARRISON, Mr.. Rutherford and some
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