The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-25
Texas-Facts and Fancies.

There are 400 visitors at Wootan
Wells.
Dallas is still quarreling over the
water question.
Palestine has received about TWEEN
ty first bales"
y prisoner died in the lookup at
Denison from heat.
The telegraph operators at Dallas
had picnic yesterday.
The fence around the Dallas Jail
was burned the other day.
The contract for the new $4,000
Jail at Dallas has been let.
The Marshall Messenger is done
with advertising agencies.
The Register says Gainesville is
thriving as lumber market.
Marshall is excited over the Mar
shall and Sabine Pass railway.
The Galveston policemen will pc
tition for All increase in salary.
About $2O,OOO worth of lots were
sold at Hubbard city last week.
Bolton is counting heavy on the
big trade which it will do this fall.
A grand union passenger depot
at Houston is again being agitated.
III. A. Pratt, drummer from
Georgia, died suddenly at Marshall.
/ A merchant of Black Jack Grove
was badly shot on the 18th by cat
| tie man.
The superintendent of the Fort
Worth street railroad died few
days ago.
The Fort Worth Democrat and
Adcdnce do not dwell together in
harmony.
The Tyler people think the Mis-
souri, Pacific will reach that town by
, Christmas.
A negro named Perkins was run
over and killed by train, at Hearne,
a few days ago.
The number of school children in
Dallas county, according to the as
SCISSORS roll. is 3O3l.
The Texas Pacific company will
lay three miles of track per day to-
ward Ei Paso hereafter.
The excursion of the Waco Crews,
a military organization, to Corsicana
to-day, is to be a big affair.
The newly discovered mineral
wells at BRYAN, are to be fixed ND
and opened as a health resort.
The Meridian Blade thinks Hon
Charlie Stewart will go to congress
if he be not elected governor
The Brennan Banner calls him
''H. G.. Mack, striker for Thorp
Springs and abuser of Austin"
The Fort Worth saloons were all
closed last Sunday except one That
one did Gland office business"
The Herdld-NelcS says the Deni-
son calaboOse is a disgrace to any
town that pretends to be civilized.
The Commissioners court of Hunt
county, at its late session in Green
vile, decided to have a $4,000 court
house built.
The Young folks of Marshall have
introduced the high-kicking''raquet"
and the Messenger thinks they ought
10 be ashamed of themselves.
The Corsicana Messenger (Metho-
dist edited by Rev. NJ. ii. Wells,
one of the best men in Texas, agrees
with Governor Roberts on the
thanksgiving subject.
The San Augustine Saxon says
We regard the STATESMAN as one
of the strongest Democratic papers
in the state, but of liberal views,
always giving credit where due"
Says the Thorp Springs Student !:
"Maxey foams, froths, raves and
rants over the resolution passed by
the citizens of Tarrant county, CEN
surfing him for his star route bust
ness. The shoe is pinching Maxey
badly. And that deep water
sheet, the Galveston NeaUs, says
Maxey's ranting is direct and
manly"
The Jasper Southeast Tecdn says :
There is not single advantage
possessed by Houston or Galveston,
as set forth in their respective add
dresses to the voters of the state on
the subject, as proper location for a
medical school, which is not, or will
not, IN the near future, be possessed
in an equal degree, by the city of
| 61uStlhs
The Waco Telephone asks: "DOes
Governor Roberts expect to live out
the century as governor ~ To which
the Jefferson Democrat replies
"Our impression is he does not. but
if the mass of the people find that it
is especially annoying to the Repub-
hcans and the pseudo Democrats,
and the so-called Independents,
they may insist on his being gov
ernOr until 1900"
Here is II paragraph, from the
Galveston Journal, for Austin TO
think about: mature has fashioned
her for health, and natures designs
can only be thwarted by the negli-
gence and Indifference of her citi-
zens. Forewarned is forearmed and
Austin as the seat ofpolitics, legisla-
ton and learning, owes it to the
people of Texas, to be decent and
healthy"
The Cameron Sentinel remarks
eff every one who has abused his
chief executive had done mis- own
thinking, it is probable not one
third of them would have uttered a
word of abuse; but there is where
the trouble comes in. AS is fire.
euently the case one man has done
the thinking for thousand. Some
shrewd politician, with motive
deep and dark, started the unchari-
table TRADE, and hundreds of others
swallowed and spewed il out pro-
miscuously. The most of them have
had no more thought on the subject
than an intoxicated oyster might
have had"
The Waco Telephone gets off this
good one on Dallas: "There is a
campmeeting going on in the coun-
try, near Dallas. Last Sunday the
Dallas beauA and bellies went out ito
the campmeeting, inst like town
folks will do. The beaux had fine
teams, plenty of ice, lemons, beer,
etc.. and the bellies had ON fine
clothes. The preacher in the pulpit
gazed silently at the crowd of visi-
tors for few moments, and then. he
opened his mouth and spake: We
have had the devil to fight all the
week and now, on Sunday, we have
got both the devil and Dallas 10 con-
tend with.''
Gnat Curious will have to stand
up and take it. The GAINESVILLE
Times says: Nat. Q. Henderson,
who does not like Governor Roberts
called a meeting in Georgetown
not long since and accepted Gov