The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-06

Wheat looks well in San Saba
county.
Typhoid pneumonia prevails mp
at DenisOn.
Willis Point i troubled with q
cotton blockade.
Heavy SHOWS have prevailed III
East and North Texas
The mercury was only six degrees
above zero at Palestine.
Red river Is >o-low in many places
that il can be fordcd on foot.
Quite 4 number Of children have
died with diphihcria on the san
Saba river.
The usual numbers OF ailraye and
killings are published ii the papers.
Cause, whisky.
Four hundred bushels of Bois
dare seed were shipped from Bon
ham last Monday.
The smallpox is raging at Malta
Inoros and Brownsville. Sixty eases
are reported i'll Brownsville and two
hundred and forty in MatamOroS.
Ben. Studer. the man who shot his
son in San Antonio the other day.
waived an examination and was add
mitted 10 bail i'll the sum of $1,000.
4 jury over at Denton decided
that dead negro came to his death
by the excessive use of alcoholic
liquors, and exposure to the weather.
Harrison county has population
of 25,125, of whom 1929 are col
ored. Grayson county has Il popu-
lation of 38.l0S, of whom only hos
are colored.
Many of the farmers living i'll the
valley in Kimble county will be COM
PEELED to buy corn the coming sea-
son, their crops having been washed
away by floods.
The Corsicana HtdepeadeM esti-
mates the loss by the recent fire ut
100000, and i'll another paragraph
il proposes to stand somebody off
for 4 load ofwOod.
A son of Judge MaXey had an eye
severely hurt by n fire cracker on
Christmas day, at Waco. A son OF
Mr.. S. w. Mabry also had his eye
hurt in the same manner.
To-day the Denison Rifle Club
will engage in Il grand shooting
tournament. Some thirty turkeys
will be inundated, thc shooting to
be two hundred yard off-hand.
In the recent robbery, two miles
east of BrownwoOd. one of the pas
sengers handed q $500 check to a
robber. who, after examining it, re-
turned it, saying he couldn't use it.
And now the Central railroad is
having trouble. The wife of Milton
Bader, colored, is suing the company
for ejecting her from the ladies car.
She was going North to spend the
summer.
Two small boys down at Houston
fixed up to have little fun with
three pounds nf powder. 1t was in
a room of the house when another
small boy conceived the brilliant
idea of firing off II tire-cracker. 1t
exploded the powder knocking
down the chimney, badly shattered
the house and severely, but not
dangerously burned the small boy.
Two men were hunting hogs in
the woods near Collinsville, East
Texas, Tuesday. One was armed
with shot gun and the other with
rifle. One accused the other Of
hog stealing. They concluded to
shoot it out They fred. one at the
other. The man with Il shot gun
was shot through by the others
rife ball and killed. The rifle man
was shot but moi killed.
The green-eycd monster in the
form Of Abe Dickson, cot in some
terrible work "Wednesday night on
Aleck Jefferson, n Louisiana darkey,
aged about twenty-five, who was
found dead on Main street, near the
Baptist church, butchered about the
neck and breast. Abe was OVertaken
in his flight by Sheriff Langham and
is now in durance vile. The woman,
for whom the killing was done, is
black and of hideOus micn.
Down about Navasota large
force has been at work on the IL. 81
Il. G.. road for the last ten or fifteen
days taking out bad ties and laying
steel rails. About three miles of
the road ut this place is now laid
with steel rails, and the improve
ment is going on all along the line
of the road. The management of
the road are having it made first
class as rapidly rs possible.
At A. NJ, Sunday, the Waco
distillery, situated on the river bank,
north of town, was detroyed by fire,
it is supposed of incendiary origin.
The property, which belonged to
| " m. Hayner, was insured for nine
! thousand dollars, and the grain
which it contained, the property of
IC. Hayner, for five hundred dollars.
There was seven hundred bushels of
wheat, 300 of corn and 1900 OF cot
ton seed in the building. The prop
erty was valued ut from $4,000 to
$4,000 Ii had been running up to
Christmas Eve, making $1,000 gal
Ions of whisky per contract for
Marx Il kempner, Galveston.
Dallas has coal famine and is in
| trouble. There is not a pound for
fsale, and the mercury was down to
| zero this morning. The roads are
in such a condition that wood cali
not be obtained. and there is much
suffering for fuel. Information from
! the mines in the Indian territory in
| dictates that an increased supply will
be forthcoming in a few days. y
few car loads from the Central rail
road are expected tonight, furnish
ed by the superintendent of the
road for temporary relief. The gas
company threaten To shut otfgas to-
| morrow night unless coal can be OBJ
tanned. The cause of the famine is
said to be a strike of the miners in
the Indian territory.
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