The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-09

street robbeTicS continue III llous-
ton.
Pork sells nj four cents pound in
/ Paris.
Mrs. j. l.. smith, of san Antonio.
/ is no more.
silk worms are successfully raised
/ in DE Witt county.
The Dallas and Wichita railroad
i completed TO Denton.
Bishop Garrett Is going to found
an Episcopal female school at Dallas.
An underwriters sale of burnt
cotton al Houston melted over $780,
600.
The grand jury of Marion county
finds fresh indictment against
Roih,child.
Corsicana has received nearly
three thousand more bales of cotton
than during the entire season last
year.
The cotton seed oil mill at Shcr-
man employs over seventy hands.
and pays ont for labor $500 per
week.
The cotton wcighers at Corsicana
were not willing to close up for the
state weigher. and he appealed to
the governor.
a passenger agent of the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad has been
arrested at Dallas for avoiding the
drummers' tax.
August Rosburg, of san Antonio
has died from the effects of trichin9.
His wife and children are down
with tho tprri hlc a ffp ctinO
At Corsicana Pat Murphy, while
a little of, no doubt, on drum,
stole a pocket handkerchief. He
was committed on a $500 bond to
await the action Of the grand jury.
Jack Walker, an old stage driver,
having his home in the suburbs OF
San Antonio, was Maylaid and
killed. 1t is thought that the muir
derer is negro, and the cause jeal
ousy.
Geo. w. Jackson, retiring cashier
of the Waco national bank, is going
to establish fine stock farm near
Waco. He is going to introduce a
number of pure Jersey and HOlstein
cattle.
AT Houston man named Cordova
married the soIled dove Nellie Gee.
After two days of blissful love Mel
lie disappeared and she took 800
with her. and CordOya will have to
go to work.
The fire fiend was at San Antonio
Sunday night last. Losses sustained
affected Il photographernamcd Barr,
and Col. Prouty. OF Corpus Christi,
aud one or.twO others to the extent
of $4,000 or $4,000.
The NJ. IL. Il Il. surveying corps
are busy at work running the line
south of Fort Worth. The officials
of this road say 500 miles will be
built within year if men enough
can be obtained in the United Stat9s
TO do the work.
Coal from Palo Pinto county has
been tested, and il is pronounced as
good as the McAlister coal. A COM
pany is now taking out twenty-five
ions day, and it is being shipped
over the Texas & Pacific, which runs
through the coal lands of PalO Pin
to county.
A gentleman from Richmond, says
the Age, reports that the late freeze
and etweather will cause the death
of 10000 head of cattle between
Richmond and the Bernard river.
Previous TO that..,,tbe cattle were in
fine condition, but they are now fear
fully shrivelcd UP.
Telephone: THE Dallas Herald
calls attention to the fact that Gov
ernor Roberts can not be charged
with never appointing q Republican
to Office, for he has just..done so in
the person of Hon. j. b. Mcfarland,
appointed by him judge of the
thirty-second judicial district.
Uncle Simeon, an intelligent and
industrious negro man, of Houston,
is showing what may be done in
pisciculture. Out of q tank forty
feet square, stocked two years ago
he has already taken many fish, and
Simeon says there are now eight
dray loads of fish in the water. This
man is q staunch Democrat, and his
interest as thriving citizen make
him one.
The Dallas Times says: "The
newspapers all over the state put
down Arson Rainey, senator from
this district. as from Dallas county
and a farmer. We state for the in
formation of the press that he halls
from Ellis county and is lawyer,
and does not sell wood at $12 cord
to the town folks. This should, in
the present state of the muddy roads,
indorse him to the people,
The mining business is about to
have boom in Llano county.
Some gentlemen who went there
few months ago to prospect with
diamond drills, and are now taking
out about fifteen tons of ore per day.
of the kind known as peacock ore"
which yields 1920 worth of gold per
ton. and 48 per cent. of copper.
They are sinking shafts in various
places. and are every week meeting
with unexpected success.
No. 4 Of the Ierds Journal of
Education is before the public. 1t
is an Improvement on the previous
numbers, and gives promise that the
publication is going to be most val
liable. In fact it is to be wondered
at how Col. Hollingsworth has time
to perform the laborious duties of
the state office to which he is at
tached and at the same time to pre-
pare so good a periodical. 1t must
grow in favor and occupy, as it de-
serves, an honored place among
journals of its class.