The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
Texas-Facts and Fancies.

The BraZoria AdUance Is no more.
Mckinney has boot and shoe fac
tory.
Galveston policemen get $75 per
month.
The pecan crop in Victoria county
will be short.
Hunt county is going to have a
$4,000 court house.
The Missouri Pacific railway has
been completed to Hillsboro.
Comanche county has suffered
less from drouth than its neighbors.
At Waco farmers are asking one
dollar bushel for corn and sixty
five cents for oats.
Fort Worth has a greenback paper
called the Age Of Progress, and also
committee rooms for greenbackers.
Ex-Governor Throckmorton has
returned home from the Indian ter
ritory, with his health fully restored.
Nelson 4. Davis, the defaulting
tax collector of Houston, has con-
veyed his homestead to his bonds
men.
Comanche has established her free
schools, and several families have
moved to town in order to get the
benefit of them.
and burned no less than three pas
lures of grass for Jake Hoffman,
near San Antonio.
The Dallas Times represents the
moral element of Dallas. 1t wants
Sunday drinking and Sunday hunt
ing suppressed.
Horse raising in western Texas is
an important and profitable bust
ness. At present the demand for
horses is in excess of supply, and
horse flesh has gone up 100 per cent.
at Mountain creek, fifteen miles
west ofDallas. a train of wagons,
the owners of which had sold cot
ton, were met by two road agents,
who relieved them of $500 and two
gold watches.
1t is said Nelson r. Davis, late col
lector of Harris, is defaulter to the
tune of 100000. He was collector
four years, and was before the Dali
las convention for the nomination
for the comptrollership of the state.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
railroad has crossed the BraZos
eighteen miles south of Cleburne,
and the Chronicle thinks it will be
finished TO Ciebnrne by the 1st of
October.
There is an artesian well at York
town, Dewitt county, only about 60
feet deep. The water is pure and
sweet, and il furnishes water for all
the inhabitants and stock, and sup
piles fish pond.
The Baptist state convention of
Texas will meetin Galveston ON the
9th instant, and continue in session
five days. The attendants will be
large-Bucknerites, Linkites and all,
and no application has been made to
the governor for state troops to be
stationed at Galveston.
Il. w. Holt, of Dallas, went out on
the charitable mission of collecting
money to give decent burial to the
late unfortunate suicide, Mrs. Burke.
He got together over fifty dollars,
and, like Simon Suggs, went out to
secluded spot TO pray over it, and
has not since been seen. He has gone
west to grow up with the country.
Telephone :nAIr. w. G. Kinsolving,
who lives thirteen miles west of this
city, brought TO our Office yesterday
a bottle of water which, judging
from the taste, is strongly impreg-
mated with some sort of mineral. It
was taken from a well on his place,
and he states that there is an mex
haustible supply of it. He says its
action is marked, though mild, and
is a sure cure for heartburn. 1t
has sour, somewhat brackish taste,
but is not at all unpleasant. Stock,
owing to its peculiar taste and
smell, which is unlike that of other
mineral wells, will not touch it. Mr..
Kinsolving proposes to have the
water analysed, and thinks it win
turn ont to be valuable water for
9 certain character of infirmities.