The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-03
TEXAS FACTS AND fANCIEs.

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Newspaper, the TeNs.- ba9Je.
Washington county is to have a
ocky club, located Mt brenham.
CerebrO spinal nencngitis has
made its appearance in Galveston
The Enterprise j. f3chulenburg is
printed half in English, half in Ger
| man.
Texas Pacific railroad officials have
Inspected the road 223 miles west ot
Dallas.
Gen. a. q. Mallory has taken
charge of the custom house mt Gal
weston.
Senator Houston is generously
advertised by the Express, his home
paper.
Governor Throckmorton's sick
ness has been severe. but he is grow
ing better. -
Shaw, of the Galveston Journal,
is dangerously sick with typhoid
pneumonia.
Coal in vast quantities, it is re-
ported, has been discovered in Har-
flSon county.
The horses Of Company f., State
troops, located at San Diego, are
dying of disease.
John Watson of Denison, has eel
ebrated his goth birthday. He has
lived in Texas 40 years.
Julius kaufman has been recog-
nized by the President as consul Of
Austra-Hungary al Galveston.
The wreck Of Ire passenger train
on the Texas 4 Pacific, near Long
view, resulted in the injury Of 20
persons.
q. &. Murray has sold The Dcnison
NeicS to j. W. Bursou of the Herald.
The Herald Office was lately dcs-
troyed by fire.
The Marshall HeIdId SAYS The key
TO the Federal prosecutions in Har-
risOn county was the costs that ac-
cruc TO the officers of the court.
Mr.. Chiffon OF Houston, has in
vented - disinfGctant " which will
stop worms from depredatlng on
cotton to which il is applied.
WaXahachie wants fire company,
but its organization may be post
poned until the Waxahachie repre-
sentative gifts back from the Capital,
The Central Railway Company
compromised with the Strakosch
Opera Company for damages sus-
tanned by seven Of its members on
$4,000.
When it was nOised abroad, at
Dallas, that that hayward wife had
absconded, the church people fool
ishly went to looking about for the
preachers.
Judge Blacker while in San An
tonic purchased of the Mavericks 10
900 acres of land i'll Ell Paso, for the
Texas e Pacific Construction Com
pany. He is one of the sort of legis-
latOrs they will be glad to see again
Ecening Light: The press gang
were polite enough to thank Col.
Andrews for his princely liberality.
The press knows how to- appreciate
free ride and free lunch better
than any other institution in the
land.
Feeling in Milan county against
old Mrs. Hubby is severe. and were
she to show herself there, just now,
it is probable violence would be
done her. The good citizens of
that community should look after
its character.
Houston has q cotton seed oil mill
with all invested capital of $780,
600. This mill employs as hands and
runs night and day. It's product is
so barrels of oil daily, most of which
is shipped to eastern retiners 10 be
converted into the very best olive
oil.
Waco is TO have two cotton seed
oil factories, one TO cost ABOUT $751;
600 and the other TO cost not less
than $4,000. LAS is usually the case
of a live enterprise i'll Texas, the
capital for the erection of both
these mills comes from without the
limits of this state.
During 1880 there were driven
from Texas into the Northern states
and territories 1874, 784 head of cattle.
With two exceptions this was the
largest number ever driven North in
one year since 1866. In 1874 100000
head were driven, and in 1873 about
100000 head. About 100000 head
has been driven from Texas in fif-
teen years.
The law of congress fixing the
time for holding the district and
circuit courts of the United States
for the western district of Texas
gives the date as follows: AT Aus
tin, commencing on the first Tues
days in January and June; at San
Antonio, commencing ON the first
Tuesdays in March and October;
at Brownsville, commencing OH the
fourth Tuesdays in April and No
vember. 1t will be seen by the above
that the terms of court in this city
cannot continue for more than seven
or eight weeks at any one time.
The United States Circuit Court
has rendered a final decision. di-
recting the writ of habeas corpus to
issue for the release of Emile Fran
co.'s, who was sentenced to the
Texas penitentiary Tor marrying q
negro. The ground for the decision
is, that the fourteenth amendment
abrogates article $50, Criminal Code.
(PaschaPs Digest). This decision
overrules the extreme states rights
decision, III Frasher vs.. State, t3
Texas, Code Criminal Procedure.
page 276), and in Francois VS.. State
"A Texas Law Journal, page So. \
chance for old Roberts to set up an
other howl about Capitalization.
About year ago Mrs. Morton,
wife of Marshal Morton, OF Dallas,
was found in the room of a bar
tenderby the bar-keeper'sparticular
female friend, and she was thrown
down stairs without having had
time to pick up her wearing apparel
Morton was mild-mannered man.
but he could not stand this. and he
left his wife, with whom he had lived
so long and by whom several chill
dren had been reared. The wife be-
came sorely repentant, and became
a devout member of the church, was
converted in all things, and Morton
loving the woman still, concluded
she was q changed being, and he
took her to his arms again. just as
he was concluding he could close
his lite with satisfaction Mrs. Nor
ton was missing and she took away
with her all the little ones, the oldest
of whom left note for her father,
asking him to recover her from her
wayward mother. The church thai
took Mrs. Morton in is scandalized,
and naturally the good minister is
annoyed, and yet every body knows
he is innocent. ~