The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-22
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More smallpox IL reported ~ Corpus
Chiisti.
Waco has bigger run Of business than
ever before.
Bonner'a steam mill. IN Angelina county.
has blown ~. The fireman was killed
The taxable property of the State Of Texas
amounts to 1907 4s4 $50
People are trying to build up towns 20o
miles west Of Graham. ut the very foot 81 the
staked plains,
The last span OF tho railroad bridge over
the Sabine at Orange has been swung into
position.
Cotton In Fort Bend county has averaged
three-fourths Of bale to the acre. Sugar
cane has yielded remarkably well.
A sudden and big rise is reported In the
Neches river after long low water, enabling
timbermen to float their RATS and run saw
| mills again.
Nineteen egodustera weary, frozen and dis
guated reached Dallas on saturday INCOMING,
bringing gloomy accounts of suffering among
the Kansas negroes.
The Weatherford Trosea gets up q sensation
about n horror In their jail M there, ten pris-
oners being In cell TSo feet, oyerrun with
| filth and vermin.
| Al old negro woman who has been on the
pauper list of Lee county FOR many years.
| was frozen to death In shanty In the suburbs
| Of Giddngs on Christmas night.
The three bandits who have been robhing
| on the highways west OF Waco were last heard
OF In CoryeI county. They had at that time
gathered In $4,000
MANY farmers In the Brazos bottom find It
very difficult to get labor for the present
veal, on account Of the great exodus OF
/ negroes. Many OF them, however, are return
| Ing.
| II ID now stated again that Texas Repuh.
| LEANS will hold State convention In Dallas
on the twenty fourth Of this month, and en-
Ieavor To harmonic all their party dissen-
aions.
Dallas 10 getting scared about the Kansas
i Pacific road II fears the Trans-Contlnental
branch will be adopted as the main line, and
II this be So, Dallas will certainly be greatly
Injured
There ta talk Of establishing n sugar re-
finarv at or near Ilatirange Some capitalists
| rF .IanpsvlI Wis., are corresponding Win
gentlemen at LaGrange with q view TO suct
an establishment.
Spectators are gobhling M land certificates
aud planting them upon oil the mountainous
Districts Of the Chenati range, thus securing
silver. gold or copper mines. which may ~
occurred for a mere song.
! AT Douglass, Nacogdoches county, VIM. II
Finley sntcided by cutting his throat In the
wooda near his home He was followed ny
his wife, who, in vain attempted TO get the
kuife away from him.
At Cambridge, Clay county, North Texas, {
/
N La,ld and shot md killed him lie thet
went 10 Samuel Tuhh's residence and sho
him fatally. and then blew his own brains out
Three families are left Ia helpless condition
d A Columbus telegram Of the tenth state
that John Johnson, a young man living Nv
or ak miles west oF Columbus, left home tina
NJ morning with wood for town. About o'elnel
-four reports Of a gun were heard johnson
4 waa subsequently found hrutally murdered
three foutths Of a mile from town. No clu
/ to the aasasslns.
The Kockport Transcript says. .We wer
i on Wednesday permitted hyCol. q. w Fulto
i Ia 500 a map Of the survey If Arkansas las
and bay made by Engineer Collins year hefor
/ last, aud which certainly exhibits tayoiahi
!, condition for our pass, The Inside harho
y contains all almost uniform depth Of water
or about 80 feet which ia maintained ny Va
g channel until directly between st Joseph an
\ Mustang Islands. The shoaling Is very aud
= den to seven feet, and for q very short die
lance the Intervening space between ~ Zee
I of water Oh the inside aud % feet ON the ou'
l. eide heing much less than milo. This sul
\ vey and plan embraces the closing 81 Corpu
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