The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-12
TExAs PACTs AND FANCIEs.

The Telegram calls s sick man coos
fun-blighted blossom.
Arrangements are being made 10 bore
an arteslan well at Bolton.
Col. t. S. Parker, sn old Texan, died
at Palestine the other day.
A public meeting Is called at Bren-
ham to stop distress in Ireland.
One Rose has a judgment against
the city OF Debison for $50, 900.
Milan county Democrats, it is said,
are for Seth Shepard for Congress-.
John MeCulIoch commences weeks
engagement in Galveston on February
ninth.
San Antonio is in as great furore
"a ever Austin was over narrow gauge
railroad.
Fort Worth is used as base of sup
ply for the construction force Of the
Texas and Pacific.
The entire county of Wichita is said
to be located by the Houston and Tex
as Central Railroad.
Professor Cevor, the balloonist, Is
repairing his air ship to make an as
ceDsion from Houston.
Col. Parker, of Sherman, has been
delighting Paris audience with one of
lis humorous lectures.
The Lutheran Church recently sold at
Denison, Texas, for debt, is to be con-
yerted into a variety hall.
Galveston insists on deep water.
Her city council has appropriated $780,
900 to bore an artesian well.
Lieut.. Arlington and fifteen men Of
the frontier battalion pursued gang
OF Indiana into New Mexico.
-Four companies of United States in
fantFy recently landed at San Antonio,
under command of Col. Huff.
one thousand men and $50 teams
Will make things lively along the line
OF the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Matters at the Sierra Mojada mines
are not lively. There is hardly any
water, poor ores and much distress.
"A national bank with 500, 600 capi-
tai has just been organized at Dallas,
with A. L. Hardie as its president.
The wife who utilities her husbands
shoe brush on the cooking stove,
opens the door to the divorce court.
Mexican money ia worth SO cents in
Corpus Christi and drunk on mean
whisky is valued by the recorder at
$i4.95.
Flour and meal have been so scarce at
Mason that Kibbe, of the Nel0s Item,
was forced to come to Austin to get q
square meal.
Ard now you may begin to know
; candidate for Office by his firmer grip,
and his solicitude about the "folks"
and "craps."
The Albert Leeper case, on trial in
the Gatesville district court, resulted
in a mistrial, and goes over to the May
term of the court.
The Central railroad bridge over the
B.azos on the Central railway extern
sion has been thoroughly tested and is
pronounced perfect.
An American named Beattie escaped
with his life near MatamoTos from a
band of robbers upon the intervention
of faithful Mexican.
The Wills Point Local very sensibly
remarks that the people should begin
to look about for suitable material for
the Seventeenth Legislature.
Dallas has lost its court house that
cost $3.50, 600, and the county court had
persistently refused to put dollars in
snrence upon the building.
Anderson is blest with good private
schools, the public affaifs having failed
10 answer the purposes for which mon
ey is expended upon them.
some proceedings in a Burton
iustice's court, Charles Elder attacked
Lawyer Kenada with a knife and was
shot at by Kenada but not hurt.
The Comancbe Chief learns that
nearly all the bees in the country are
dead. Starved to death on account of
the drouth last summer and fall.
The work of grading on the Santa
Fe railway Is being pushed ahead, and
the grading is nearly completed across
the prairie, southwest of Caldwell.
The statement is made that a COM
pany with 81, 200, 600 capital has been
formed in the East, to establish and
operate car-works at Marshall, Texas.
The Gainesville Register says some
sleek sooundrels have been imposing on
the merchants of st. Louis by taking
up collections for starving farmers in
Texas.
On Monday morning there were
twelve inches of snow at Mckinney,
eleven inches at Dallas, and only one
inch at Deaison, forty miles north of
Dallas.
The Odell boys, recently captured in
gang, arrested in Liberty county few
days age, have been sent to Houston
fer safe-keeping.
The earnings of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas Railroad Company for
the first week in January, 1880, were
$50, 4S5; same time in 1879, $37, SAG ;
increase, Sos, 5S7.
The press of the state agree that the
mammoth edition of the San Antonio
ErPrsss of the FIRST OF February is the
most comprehensive publication of its
sort ever made in Texas.
The other day negro boy dropped
his little pistol from his pocket ut his
school, three miles east of Bonham.
Result, another negro boy shot through
the eye and manned for life.
Wash Powell, who was under four
years sentence to the penitentiary,
died In jail al Calvert. There are up
wards OF fifty prisoners in the Jail and
several OF them are quite sick.
The girls and young men of Hous-
ton are indignant at Bro. Penn, be-
cause OF his assertion, in a recent ser
mon, that nine-tenths of the young la
dies who indulge IN the modern dance
20 To ruin.
The Sunset road will have an ar
tesian well bored at Converse station.
ThSse wells are succeeding all over the
Safe, and it only need be determined
in this section 70 have the water prob
lem solved to its everlasting benefit.
Gibbs, Of the Colemao Telegraph.
was r0bbed on the road between Waco
snd Coleman. Tie robbers got num-
Der Of nnrsceipsed claims against its
DELHI quent subscribers, and one super
annuated railroad pass. mot transfer
able.
Danisop has centenaTian, Mrs. Oh
lvcr, who is in her one hundredth year.
She reads without glasses. while her
general faculties are nnimpaired, and
she bids fair 10 live some time yet.
She Is native Of one Of the West In
siia islands.
Lcwisville, Denton county. has had