The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-05
TEXAS FsCTs ASD PANcrEs.

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Psul B smond's narrow geulse IS GO
iLg TO T5isr.
A lead nine has been discovered II
Dsnson county.
The Sherman cotton seed OIL mill is
ready for operst.oD.
Fig trees in San Antonio are now.la-
den with yourg fruit.
Tee STATE Gfsod Z de-, I o o z,
Il in session a. D alas.
Property in DsHa. coU1ty decreases
1901, $50 in Yaiu= &c 1879
RunDells County Contains more cattle
than any otbtr equity IL the State
Tie Turner's of Cuero ara epiug to
improve the grounds about their hall.
Graham will lie forty miles north of
the line OF the Texas and Pacific rail-
way.
The first company that means BUSH
ness will get substantial aid from Gle
burne.
Mt marriage license has been is-
sued in Cobcho c; unJy since lis organ
;zI.ion.
The exodus fever shout Dallas cou-
tinues. Thirty i've neGrots left for
Kansas in one Gay.
The people of Mine ols are moving il
the matter OF connecting their rown
by rail with G;eenville.
The newspapers Throughout the state
are hsppy over the recent rains, which
| SET n 10 have been general
Properly in Hui county shows IN ir-
crease IN value 70 the. txeut OF SOL, :
$50 in the yesr jast ended.
Judge Clark, of Greenville, has been
very sick, but be is an oflice-holder,
and, const lenIly, got well.
Another blew up on the Central road
near Corsicans .ditched nine cara and
seriously injured a brakeman.
Denison viii have to pay her school
bonds. Tae federal court has so de-
cided. They amount 10 5000.
Willie Carleton, of Sherman, who
got his head crushed while coupling
cars near Jefferson, died at Marshall.
A. meeting of the business men of
Dallas it was resolved to donate $15,-
coo 20 the Dallas and Cleburne railroad.
Joe Carson, late keno man, OF Der
isoQ, was shot and killed recently in
Los Vegas, while acting IS city mar
shall.
The murderer who leaped from the
Missouri, Kansss and Texss train last
week in the nation. has probably made
good his escape.
The Waco Examiner says that G en-.
X ,ss is not Candidate. and bas no ss-
pirstions whatever, IL the dir ctIon of
the goveruOrshlp,
Antonio sthrele. charged with the
murder of John D4glemID, 10 GraTson
county, oyer three weeks ago, has been
arrested and brought forward for trial.
Suite involving the title to forty
| eight thousand acres of land IN Coryell
county hsve been transferred IN the
United States circuit court at Waco
The mills at Orange are busy, and
times are brisk, says the LunabermGn
New buildings are being erected, and
IL is said the college has 100 pupils in
attendance.
Ia Tennessee there sre two newspa-
pers EDITED by negroes, In Louisiana
three, in North Carolira six. and in
Virginia, Alabsm', Mississippi and
Texas one each.
Col. Lang is the choice of the Tyler
Courier, for Governor. WhIte people
over in this part of the Safe think
Capt. "BIlly" Pitts is just the man to
succeed Col. Darden.
United States Marshsls Ru sell,
Phillips and Morton are gong to
Huntsville to see how Cunningham &
Ellis treat the prisoners entrusted to
them by Uncle Sam.
In view of the construction of $50
miles of the Texas and Pacific railway
line in the next two years saw mills are
wanted along the line of the L1ugview
and Sabine Valley railway.
On Monday, the twenty-slxth of Jan
uary 2i7 cars passed south from Deni-
son, on Tuesday 1T, and on Wedues-
day 10. 1t Is said more than half OF
these cars were loaded with grain for
Texas farmers.
DALLAS Times: Saul, when sought
for to be made king, was hunting asses.
Grant can discount the ancient Israelite
and beat him fading the loug-eared
ANNALS A cavsllard of them are bray
ing for him at Galveston.
Marshal Sam Ball who, while irving
| TO preserve order in house of ill fsme
in Sherman, shot and killed ALI Johr-
son, and who was himself shot
through the lungs by some one Of
Johnson's crowd, will probably recoY-
er.
The M K aud T. having purchased
the d ,nlson aud Pacific, it is thought
this branch will be pushed forward.
4 corps of surveyors were in Montague
county q few days ago, and it Is
thought the road will pass through the
northern portion of Jack county and
on to B ,lknsp.
Mr.. A. w. O'Hsir recently killed
ten hogs which averaged four hundred
and twenty-seven pounds each. None
OF them were more than one year and
two weeks old. He killed one that
weighed four hundred and fifty pounds
on the dav that it was one year DID,
Gle6urae Chronicle.
During the session of the Texas con-
ference, the district court, in session
in the town, adjourned in order to give
the judge and lawyers chance to at
tend the conference. This is the first
case of the kind on record, and the
Christian Messenger hoped it would be
repeated, adding that '.even the Meth
odIst gospel might be benefit to some
of the judges and lawyers of Texas"
MISS Ida Cock, daughter of Judge
Gustave Cook, was married to Mr.. E
W. Kyle, at Houston, Tuesday The
bride is granddaughter of G Gorge
Randall Jones, leading defeRder OF
the republic of Texas. Mr.. Kyle IS q
grandson of Gen. s iwsrd G. Burle
son, one of the soldiers of the repnb
lie under Sam Houston. The marriage
possesses S ate interest as uniting these
TWO distiu guIshed families.
And now s'uce Brothers Link and
Bnckher set Old Nick to work in the
Dallas churches, he has taken hold
of the affairs of the colored Baptist
church, and its membership is split
wide open. The deacons are divided
agsiDst the preacher, and the latter
says there is no doubt about the fact
that bis satanic msJisty is personally
supervising things IN Dallas. There is
a big church scandal, too, in which
the '.slsterin" are, as a matter OF
course, implicated, and everything is
at such fever heat that the sheriff had
IN interfere to prevent violence. On