The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-16
TEXAS FACTS AND FANClES.

Bell, the patricide, secures new
trial.
Real estate business is lively at
Fort Worth. q
Alabamians and Mississippians
are moving into Ellis county. -
Frederick Dolphin, a brakeman,
was killed by the cars at Ennis.
The GTeen6dck STANDARD is the
title of new paper at Greenville.
Rangers have been sent to Ed
wards county TO suppress outlaws.
The mail line to Blanco is to be
changed from Austin TO San Mar
COS. %" ,''i
w. c.. PoweH's gin house, with cot
ton. were burned near Bastrop. Loss
$4,000. t.
Chas. T. Kavanaugh, of the Bren-
ham Reporter. is no more. His
death was unexpected.
Gen. ID. S. Stanley has assumed
command of the Texas military de-
partment vice Gen. Ord retired.
The work of gathering the cotton
crop all over the state goes ON brisk
ly during this beautiful weather.
From December, to 10, 1882 i'm
migrants entered the state via the
Iron Mountain railway, at Tex
arkana.
1t is said fifty miles of grading for
the Sunset railway extension, west
of San Antonio, has been let to con-
tractors.
Col. Darling starts out at once
from San Antonio to locate the line
of the Sunset road as far as tho Rio
Grauue.
Near Navasota Alice Baker, col
ored, was assassinated at night, it is
supposed, by negro named Frank
Marshall.
A. r. Renmick, Greenbacker,
| of Burnet county is elected repre-
sentative instead of Roundtree,
Democrat. ID
The Missouri Pacific machine
shops at Parsons, Kansas, will be
moved to DenisOn at an early date
says the Ne,cs.
The talk about another railway
line to the gulf is agitating San An
tonic. The movement may result
in narrow gauge railway to Rock
port. ~
The Std1- VindtcdtOr complains of
the wretched condition of theroads
| between Blanco and Austin, and adj
vises shippers to try the San Marcos
route.
The county commissioners of
Bexar county have abolished the
contract plan for feeding prisoners,
| and place a man III charge at fifty
| dollars per month.
A little boy named George Creigh-
ton, while riding with others ON a
turn-table at Houston. had his bow
| els torn out of him. There is q
bare possibility of his recovery. ?
| The Pacific strikes Fort Worth one
day, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
the next, and now the Transcuntinen-
i tai from DenisOn to the Fort has
been let, the road to be completed
by March LIST. Hi'i- 'e- ~
Capt. Murrel,with fourteen, assist
ants. has taken the field to locate
the NJ, X. & Il. from Denton to Gle
burne via Fort Worth. He will run
| a preliminary line thence to the
| Mexican border Fs4-.. a.
The Dispatch, noticing the con-
struction of the Santa Fe railway,
saws "a railroad within fifteen
miles of Lampasas is liable to hurt
our town considerably in 8 CONNER
cial point of view sr
AZ San Antonio man named
Dick Miller, while drunk, ran his
horse into Gen. Ord's family car
rage, and it was overturned and
| the occupants were thrown into the
/ T. lat 4 I, lf
| $500. -
r. III. Neal, who was arrested at
San Antonio for crookedness in
handling the ftss-is .41v itV1Hc
Building and Loan Association
there, gave bond and his sureties
have had to put up, since Neal was
non est. j. s1lu9s ala .psliiloE 4
Near Dexter, Jack Hill and VIM.
Hill had a misunderstanding about
two dollars, and the latter, without
| any further pfovocation. drew his
six-shooter. and, shot the former TO
death. The murdered man was n
quiet, unoffending citizen. 80
| II is thought the cold-bloOded as
sassinntion of the Russells, at Post
IOak, in Jack county. was the ont
come of an. old fcHd in Georgia.
The Russells, three years ago, moved
from Carroll county, Georgia. Mrs.
Russell was fired ut, but was not
| hurt. fais -
The United States authorities in
vaded Polish settlement eighteen
miles south of San Antonio, and
made plumber of arrests for illegal
i voting. The Poles, though residents
for about forty years, neglected to
declare their intentions of becoming
citizens.
The Colorado Citizen says a con-
Wet fell from a moving train at
Eagle Lake and that his head was
cut from his body before the engi-
neer knew it. The further informa-
ton is given that the manner OF
1 death did not cause the victim
much pain fes u
| Express "A call is being made
by several papers for the committee
appointed at the meeting of the
Press Association at Houston 10
memorialize the legislature on the
subject of public printing. There is
certain amount OF public advertis-
ing fhat should be in the interest OF
the taxpayers, and the committee
named should bestir ITSELF