The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
TExAs FACTS AND fA l,clI:S;..

+ The late frost killed the ,post-oaks
IN Gonzales county.
The present mayor of Tyler is serv..
ing his eleventh term. g.
Mai. Ben. III. Davis, of BRYAN.
will remove to Ell Paso.
II. E. Harris was arrested at Paies-
tine with stolen horses.
w. c. Calvert, a lawyer of
Weatherford, is no more. $500
Col. Ferguson of Tyler, died at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
| The Republicans are going to
start state organ at Dallas. ri :
Ell Paso has two weekly newspa-
pers-the Herald and the Times. "
Hon. b. I'll. Davis will change his
residence from Bryan to Ell Paso.
| Large numbers of Merino sheep
are being imported into the state.
And now the fire boys over the
state are going TO have a state tint
FORM -.i.'
The Texas & st. Louis Narrow
Gauge railway has reached Corsi-
cana. .,....l .,.. ..,..e, % -. q.....
The Texas State Dental Associa-
ton meets in Austin on the fourth
of May. ~
The city council of Palestine has
ordered special election for mayor,
May 8. F.u 1affr tnl 4ii:u
The grading on. the Sunset extern
sion has reached Sabinal, in Uyalde
county. ..,1 ..-
The penitentiary force is just now
serving term with mumps and
measles. 80 1fa,i
Major Penn has booked 100 Pales-
tine sinners for the best place in the
hereafter, poi. ....... .,....a. a...
The frost killed all tender yegeta-
ton in northern Texas. The soil,
too, is exceedingly dry.
Waco is to have an opera house,
costing $4,000, which ought to
makea very handsome little thea
| ter. -..4 -s,.. q. -........ ymr,s
George E. Rawlins,i the Thorp
Springs postoffice robber, has been
bound over to appear at Dallas
bond $500.
The sentiment appears to be pretty
general that the legislature should
have allowed the people to vote on
prohibition. ..-.., .f...r...
Major Doremus, of the Galveston.
NeUS, is going to practice law. The
papers tell of his admission to the
bar at Bryan. .s %. :
Harry Rainsforth, said to be mar
ried man. eloped from Luling with
thirteen year old girl. He was cap
tured at Hearne.
Griffin Cole was shot dead by
Floyd Sherman while working in a
field near Lovelady. Both are col
ored. Sherman was arrested.
Railroad questions affecting the
future of Bolton have not yet been
decided. 1t is not yet known where
the Missouri Pacific will strike.
One thousand men are at work on
the western end of the Texas and
Pacific railroad, building at therate
of one and half miles per day.
The East Texas road has been
graded to Village creek, about thirty
seven miles from Beaumont, and ties
have been laida great part Of the
way. ir4-,ri7
The discharge of the city marshal
OF Huntsville was on the ground, of
incompetency. There should be a
power to thus control the conduct
of all officials. ''' .'. '''f''
The motion for change of venue
in the Koop will case, at Houston,
was overruled in the county court
and the case will come ON for trial
in regular order.
Bolton Journal: The location of
the state university will perplex the
voters of the state at an early day.
Let Austin have the prize. 1t de-
serves something good. ....7
The Galveston Journal SAYS that
the Santa Fee railroad managers will
make an effort to induce the Palmer
Sullivan interests to reach Calves
ton by third rail on the g., G. and
S. F. t.. g..
Ayoung man named Gillespie, In
Uvalde county, while running stock,
was dashed, with his horse, into
well'85 feet deep. The horse was
killed, and the man was but slightly
injured. .... ......... ...t....@ ...t.
The Vanderbilts,. the Goelets and
Astors of New York, have their
new palaces with nothing American
about them. The stone and every
thing else, even the workmen, are
from Europe. ,.. - ..s. .....-.
And now they want to be called
the Houston Press Club instead of
the Houston Bohemian Club, The
absence of the small part of the or
ganization admits, probably, of the
distinction. -...-. -. ...
Major Penn has closed his meet
ing at Palestine, and shipped his |
tent to San Antonio, where he will
begin n meeting. The number of |
conversions at Palestine was nearly
two hundred. ... .r.-. -
A man was found murdered near
Fort Davis on the 9th inst. He was
much decomposed but supposed to |
be one Gleason, of party of engi- |
neers, who had been paid off end |
discharged. -. ,.. |
Ell PasO Times: DIR. Alexander has |
orders to ship east all the wine he |
can make, upon the completion of |
the Santa Fe road to the river. |
There are fortunes numberless for |
the grapegrowers here. ., -..... |
A little girl, with her mother, was |
at work in field in Cook county,
burning stalks, when the little girls |
clothes caught fire. The mother at
tempted to save the child, and both
were burned to death. s..es J
Forty citizens of Dewitt county
have been attending court at San
Antonio for years, at great expense,
as witnesses in the Brassel murder
case. They refuse to go any longer,
unless taken by the officers. ... /
The contract for building the first
twenty miles of the Chicago, Texas
& Mexican Central Railway, be-
ginning at Dallas, has been let. It'll
is proposed to put. twenty-seven
miles in operation in sixty days,
The Hillshoro Mirror says Mr.. A.
r. Francher has a flock of 800 sheep,
which is being improved every year.
Last year the profit of his flock
10 $500, and he expects to
get AT least 200 lambs this season.
A suit has commenced in the
United States Circuit Court, by the +
United States, against the Central
Pacific Railroad Company for the
raoaua.xy of tO0A 1Q7 orraoro "a 80, i