The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-07
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

| Corsicana had an ice famine last
week.
Ii. d. johnson becomes post
master at Houston.
The state teachers association met
at Corsicana Wednesday.
Dallas is considerably agitated
about the water question.
Dallas holds an election for city
marshal OH the 9TH instant.
Waterman Bynum, colored, an al
derman of Brennan, is dead.
a colOred church was burned in
Galveston last Sunday morning.
1t is reported that Huntington has
gained control of the Texas Central
road.
Morrison a. Fourmy are now
working up the San Antonio city
directory.
Fort Worth sends jim Logan to
Huntsville for two years for a slight
case of burglary.
Miss Fannie Rakestraw, one OF
the most popular young ladies OF
Corsicana, is dead.
A false report of yellow fever at
Galveston got out Monday, but was
promptly corrected.
A German, recently from the old
country, fell dead at Longview from
exposure to the sun.
The measles at Palestine have pre-
vailed as an epidemic. Many per-
sons have relapsed and died.
A negro man and child, near
NavasOta, died from the effects of
strychnine, taken through mistake
| for quinine.
Major Penn now has big camp
meeting in progress near FlaIonia.
About 1900 people are camped ON
the grounds.
A Nueces county man shipped a
drove of horses to Kansas and dis
posed of them readily at an average
! of $22.50 per head.
I The railroad company has gwen
employment to whole regiment of
accountants, mechanics and labor
ers, at Corpus Christi.
A Tyler man has invented ma
chine for planting and chopping out
cotton. The Democrat thinks it will
revolutiOnize the business.
The present seasons Oat crop In
Smith county is the largest ever
raised. The farmers are taking
more interest in small grain.
Gov. Hubbard has promised the
people of Bolton to visit them the
next time he comes to Waco, and
confer about extending the narrow
gauge to that place.
1t is thought necessary by the
Dallas papers each week to describe
the many scenes incident to the en-
forcement of the Sunday law on
the Sabbath previous.
An old italian at San Antonio
named l. Scream was found drunk
with 5000 in his pocket. 1t doubt
less cost him the odd SO to get out
of the clutches of the police.
The Fort Worth Ecening Ne1oS
says the women CT the town are vir-
tually licensed by the city authori-
ties, being pulled once month and
charged 1925 for being Migrants.
Apropos of "the comet" an old
negro woman at Sherman says "it
means wor, kase we Amt seen none
for forty years, and then they had
the biggest kind of an injun fight"
Wool is the novel name of a jour-
nal shortly to be established in San
Antonio, in the interest of Texas
wool-grOwers. Ii will be the only
paper of the kind in the United
States.
The growing thrift and prosper
ity of Brennan is illustrated in the
fact that the city assessor this year
reports 1,489,7 07 of taxable values
in the corporate limits--a large in
crease over last year.
A correspondent of the Brazoria
Independent says that John Lang
last year made 1877 hogsheads of
sugar on seventy-seven acres of land
and sold the sugar for $9728.75. The
mOlasses paid all expenses of the
crop.
Three important conventions con-
nected with the Baptist church of
Texas are to be held in Waco ON
July goth. They are "the deacon's
convention, the Sunday school con-
vention and the general associa-
ton"
The BRENNAN Banner says it is
more likely that the free race-en-
trance fee announcement; purse,
city assessor and collectors office
will bring out quite a number of
candidates. 1t will be a go-as-you-
please affair.
The Gould system is now running
Pullman cars direct from st. Louis
to San Antonio, Galveston aud
Houston over its own lines. The
route is via Denison, Greenville and
Mineola After the first of Septem-
Der the route will be via Waco.
Bellville Times: Cotton in this
county never looked more promising
for large yield of its staple. Corn
as yet is not much injured by the
drouth, but begins TO need soak
ing rain. Longer delay in the COM
ing of good rain will materially
iniure the crop of corn.
The cry comes up from all portions
of the state to haye the insane asy-
lum enlarged so as to accommodate
that class of individuals who are
proper subjects for such institutions.
There are many lunatics now con-
fined in the jails of the state because
there is no room for them in the
asylum.
The Mexia Ledger gives glow
ing account of the closing exercises
of Trinity University at Tehua-
cana. This closes the twelfth schO-
lastic year of the university, which
has grown to large proportions.
Though not sectarian, the institu-
ton is under the control of the Cum
berland Presbyterians
The masons of Mckinney had a
grand celebration on st. Johns day.
Many masons from Dallas and other
adjoining villages attended. Hon.
j. III. McLeary, present grand mas
ter, and other distinguished masons
made addresses. There were 1000
or 5000 people present to partici-
pate in the pleasures of the occasion
Castroville Quill: From various
portions of the county we get en-
couraging reports of the cotton
prospect. Sheriff Niggli is Just from
the New Fountain and Quihi coun-
try, and reports it waist high and
looking well and "Bocs" Galbreath
informs us that the crop promises
an abundant yield down on the
Francisco,
Immigrants are pouring into Ban
dera county. The Bugle says an old
resident, born and raised in the
county, said to it the other day,
that two years ago he knew the
name of every resident in and
around Bandera, '.but now" he said
with a smile, ''there are so many