The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-15
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

grand jury at Corsicana.
The Corsicana court house Is pro-
rounced unsafe for occupancy.
Corsicana has more churches than
any town of its size in the state.
The GermSn lutheran Church st
Sherman has been sold for $3.50.
Gen. G. NJ. Dodge has been chosen
president of the Texas and Pacific rail-
road construction company.
Reynolds, sheriff of Throckmorton
county, was arrested at Dallas for
drawing his popgun on a negro.
The late suicide at Breuham is charge
able, probably, to the presence of two
practicipg brass bands in The place.
Simon Thompson has been arrested at
Gainesville. He is wanted in Lime
stone county for murder committed IN
1875.
Albert Leper, the muir erer of a man
named Smith, in Coryell county, q
year ago, was arrested the other day in
Van Zlndt county.
A young man by the name of Gilly
shot and seriously wounded his sister
recently, near Tyler, with a pistol he
supposed was not loaded.
Pork sells in Taylor at four cents net
per pound; corn So cents per bushel.
Hogs fattened on mast twelve or fif-
teen miles southeast of here.
A railway is proposed from Waxa-
hachie to Cleburne. A good deal of
hoo
said the Central Railroad Company will
take stock.
Suits will be instituted by engineer
johnson aud fireman Willis and the
negro John Hicks, for injuries sustain
ed by the blowing up of the locomo-
tive at Dallas.
Justice of the peace Register, of
Hearne, was 30 drunk while trying a
case that two attorneys, one of when
represented the State, publicly refused
TO practice in his court.
One hundred and fifty negroes are en-
route to Denton county from Chambers
county, Alabama. This is the third
party which has left that county for
Denton within the last three years.
Ga the eighth the fyemen of Bren-
man had grand turnout and jolif-
cation. At night there was ball. The
Banner sums it up as an occasion of
much interest and credit TO the COM
munity.
E. NJ. Scorry, late contractor on the
Texas and Pacific extension to Wealth
erford, which is just finished, is report
ed in Dallas awaiting his forces to be-
gin grading the road from Dallas via
Palestine to Orange.
J. ]. Shumaker, an old citizen of
Hamilton county, committed SUICIDE
recently by climbing into tree with
rope, and then leaping from it with one
end of the rope tied to his neck ana
the ether to the limb of the tree.
Three highwaymen made things live
ly the other night on the road from
Waco towards Bofqle. They robbed
every person they met for miles, went
through store near South Bo, que ano
closed their evenings entertainment,
having taken in four or five hundred
dollars.
II is reported that Jay Gould and
others will extend the Denison and
Pacific road from Gaiuesyille to the
Cty of Mexico, via Fort Worth and
San Antonio. This Is also said TO be
the extension of the Missouri, Kansas
aud Texas road recently agreed upon
by Gould and the Boston management
of the road.
The cattle droYers of Texas, who
have been making annual trips TO Kan
sss City for some years past, will re-
greet to learn of the death of Col. L.
V. Morse, superintendent of the stock
yards of that city, and also of the death
of Capt. J. A. Boarmap, long coDDec-
ted with the stock yards bank, but
more recently book-keeper for Thomp-
son, Payne & Co. Col. Morse died on
the twenty-ninth ult., and Capt Boar
man on the first of January.
The Harrison county bell punches
for December recorded: Alcoholic
drinks, 10.sS7; tax, $21774; malt,
1898; tai, $35 So; total tax, $3.50 o..
As compared with November, these re
turns show a falling of in the drinks
of whisky taken of 1889, and in beer
of 5028, and in the amount of tax
$92.5S. Under the old law the tax on
the saloons now doing business woald
be $366 per month, which is SIP. 90
more than the amount collected by the
bell punch system. In connection the
Messenger says: "What stronger proof
can any one want of the failure Of the
bell punch system of taxAtionl As
saloon keepers become accustomed 20
violating the law they grow holder,
and every month the returns grow
less. Soon the bells will only be rang
for the novelty Of their sound, and |
punches %. punches) be areprosch and |
by-word among saloon keepers. Let
the next Legislature do away with
them. 81 let the law he enforced.
The San Antoine Hsrald thinks the