The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

The knights of Pythias are build
ing a hall III Fort Worth. ~~.a
z. Z. Edmonson, editor of the Ar
gus, is mayor of Flatonia.
+. Richter died of foul air in a
well, in Washington county.
A company will soon begin the
manufacture of ice at FL Paso.
Castroville is about to vote on a
proposition to abolish the city char
ter. go
Meningitis has run its course at
Fort Worth, and the city is free from
disease.
Bolton pollcd a total of three hun
bred and nine votes at her late city
election. -''
The annual Reunion of Hoods
Brigade takes place in BRENNAN,
June ed. - aa.
Col. T. w. Peirce will soon live in
his own residence in San Antonio.
1t is being built. q Hct .saI
Ham White, ON a writ of kdGedS
corpus, has been admitted to bail III
the sum of $500. '. 81
In the county court at Caldwell a
man was fined $3.50 for keeping Il
disorderly house.
Postmaster Manning of San An
tonic has been placed ON trial in the
committing court. e.s.l..
The fruit probabilities will be dis
cussed after the present cold spell
has expressed itself. s.f
The fool killer is wanted at
Gonzales. Newspaper men are OK
empt from execution. rtf- T.
Fay, of Bolton, the land forger, is
taking lessons in the art of decora-
tive painting at Huntsville.
The Texas & Pacific is finished
to Colorado, Mitchell county, 200
miles west of Weatherford.
The sulky plows going into Bur-
net and Lampasas counties show
that the farmers prefer to ride.
Somebody started the report that
small pox is raging in Waco, and the
Waco papers are disproVing it.
Davis, Kercheval and Newton, cat
tie herders, were assassinated while
asleep in camp, in LaSalle county
A German farmer and his wife
named Reideman, were robbed on
the Cibolo, not far from San Ano-
| tonic.
Medical experts have been called
in at Weatherford to decide whether
the murderer, William Burton, is in.
sane.
The per cent. of increase in hocks
of sheep in, the west is reported in
some instances over 100. 1t will av'
erage 95. -..-..-
Three horse thieves who had beer
operating in johnson county were
lately captured in Hill county and
hanged.
Major Penn has determined tC
snatch the sinners of Harrisville, Bel
county, from the flames Of future
perdition.
Contractors for work on the
Mexican Central railway are now a
Ell Paso for the purpose of begin
ming work.
The Southern Pacific and the AT.
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe railways
are striving to see which will reacf
FL Paso first.
a printer in Houston, suffering
from disease, attempted to kill him
self, instead of trying to find conso
lation in matIimony.
| Sara Bernhardt will publish ;
book on her experiences i'll America
| No doubt she will tell some "burn
ed" hard stories on us.
| George Rawlins, arrested on til,
charge of robbing the mail in HOOD
county, is in the Dallas Jail, awaiting
the pleasure of Uncle Sam.
Engineers of the Texas & Pacifi,
railway are at Ell Paso, preparing tt
do office work there. The grading
from El Paso eastward has begun.
G. c. Clark, a musician, com
mitted suicide at Dallas. He sho
himself there that he might have
the most pleasure in leaving Texas
King Fisher, the once noted des
perado, is living quietly on farm
on the Nueces, attending to his owl
business, and taking no more scalps
Sam Ballard White was convicted
at Hampstead, of assault with inteD
to murder, and punishment was as
sessed at two years in the peniten
tiary.
The Lamar county district docke
has ten eases of murder, one OF rape
two of manslaughter, one of poi
soning, and twenty-eight divorce
suits.
During the past two weeks only
two marriage licenses were issued il
Gonzales county and yet there is 1
pilgrim there who ought TO be
father.
| The International railway will
thirty-siX miles above Laredo ant
cross the Rio Grande at point abou
connect with the Mexican Contra
at Durango.
| A. calf belonging to Mr.. Carleton
of Bonham, was weighed at eigh
months old, and tipped the scale
at 545 pounds. tits a cross between
q full blood Durham and Jersey.
The Florian residence at San An
tonic, has been burned to tn
ground. Several attempts to burr
it failed, but at. last the incendiar.
carried out his diaboIical purpose.
The Texas Western Marrow Gaug
railway is. to be built 200 miles west
ward this year. Col. Fred Gran
and his father-in-law, II. III. Honors
have been at LAGRANGE, looking alto
| the proposed route. ...-1
At Fort McKavetta white woman
named Emma Hall, was shot ant
killed by negro woman nance
Theresa, lately from San Antonio
HallIwas a fallen woman and hat
given the negro home at her house
The Western Union is beginnin.
the construction of its line alon;
the Texas and Pacific extension
The same company is extending it
line westward from San Antoni,
along the line of the Internationa
railway.
Mrs. Cross, of San Antonio, holds
on to the Thousand dollars obtained
from Feltman. the man who died il
her boarding house. An Austil
l furniture dealer has Just had
mortgage upon furniture sold he
satisfied; "and no is happy" sN
4 Cattle buyers in Kimble count,
are paying from IS to 50 for year
/ 1ings, SIS and SIG for dry cows ant
/ $50 for large, fat beeves. In De
Wilt county the prices are: Year
lings, 81; two-yeaf-olds, $40; three
year-olds, $12 and fours $I4.