The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-09
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES,

| 1870 NAOP - Aoi
. IN Navarro county. -t
y The Ecening Tribune is the nam
OF a new daily paper at Denison.
: Corsicana had a fire, last Monday
2 which destroyed five frame build
' ings.
I Decatur is reported full of stran
! gers--going there to take a look a
The taxable value of property, q
assessed, of Dallas, is nine million
9 dollars. 20,
Wise county exported over 25,0O(
bales of cotton last season, and so,
I 900 cattle.
So far, Bexar county has the
! largest list of delinquent taxpayers
! in. the state.
A constable at .Waxahachie was
seriously cut while making an arrest
a few days ago. 90. a. :.
In Hamilton county, Dan Began
and David Kemp are. held for the
murder of 4. A. smith. '-.,...
The new mayer of Dallas is en-
forcing The Sunday law, and the
wicked boys of that city feel out
ragged.
Judge w. J. Darden, prominent
citizen and eminent lawyer of Co.
lumbus, is dead.
Major Penn has, folded his tent at
San Antonio, and will appear at
Gonzales on the 9th. >
McLennan is the sixth county, in
wealth, in Texas, and the Examiner
81 Dragging a. good deal over the
fact.
Two young boys, Peter. Brother
ton and Walter May, were drowned
while bathing at Galveston, Mon
day.
On June z, the cornerstone of
the Pythian temple will be laid at
Fort Worth, with imposing ceremo-
MES. = 49,
/ Good crops are reported all oyer
the state, The difficulty will be to
harvest thom, owing to the scarcity
of labor.
A Milan county man who re-
Gently plead guilty to robbing man
of So, was given eight years in the
peniteniary. RI, . .. 49,,
On Saturday last Gainesville was
visited by a cyclone which tore
| down number of frame houses
nobody hurt .--4. 20. ...sI . ..t.... I!
n,Dimmitt county has had plenty of
rain, and cattle, sheep and stock of
all kinds are fat. Crops are in SPLEEN
did condition. ... .sa.s, .4z Il
The bridge of the Gulf, Colorado
81 Santa Fe railroad, over the
Bosque river, was blown down last
Saturday night. j. ~ s -,..-.-. 1
Reports from North Texas state
| that many farmers will have to
| abandon their crops, on account of
grass and weeds. : = .~-. #.
Cotton worms have appeared on
several farms in Palo Pinto county,
and are causing great uneasiness
among the planters.
The Bryan Pilot, of last week,
makes strong appeal. in favor of
the early establishment of a cotton
factory at that town. .,- ,..-'..-
The corn in rAtascosa county Is
very fine. Fhe cotton is not doing
SO well ~ in consequence. of the
worms that are at work thus early.
Fort Worth is to have an artificial
stone factory, a st. Louis firm, who
are patentees of the process, having
decided to operate at the former
place. -.: .-,s..,. .. .. 2:
The Express says San Antonio
is losing thousands of dollars every
day because of the lack of sufficient
and suitable hotel accommoda-
tons. 90, '.- .,.,-- go ...-..-.
AT Bracket. the county seat of
Kinney county, at the recent term of
the district court, one hundred and
forty-six bills. of indictment were
found. -. -,.;.- .,-t.,-.
The Caldwell county Agricultural
and Industrial association has de- |
cided to hold its next annual fair at |
Lockhart on the 18th, 18th, 18th and |
18th of October. next -.. ..
The coal excitement continues |
undated in Wise'county, five veins, |
from tw o to four feet in thickness, |
having been found in. several To- |
calities on and near he.DenVer rail- |
road. .r, -.--- .. .-.,. 8
A solid mountain Of, fine red, |
brown and white sandstone has been |
discovered near Reagan, on the |
Texas and Pacific railroad. Experts |
pronounce. the stone 10 be equal to |
any in America - ~. ..,.., 80
Quite hurricane visited Taylor |
on Saturday evening .abont 9 O'Clock. |
which lasted about forty minutes,
doing considerable damage to, prop |
erty in town, and, tits feared, totally |
destroying crops and trees in the |
vicinity. - --- 49,. ,.. ,..s4....
Mr.. Trawk,' a druggist of Mar
.quez, put up morphine by mistake
for quinine.i 1t was given. to an in
aS.k IN ax oil IN &
Trawk's children. lone child is
dead land at'last accounts the others
were i'll d pfecariOas condition. -,
1.-The prospects for a, corn crop in
Camp county are fifty per cent less
than theySwere this time last year.
Too much rain is the cause. Cotton
is looking well frLit will be scarce.
while sorghum cane, potatoes and
other vegetables are in excellent
{ -i,,~ 81 q. . ls.-..
= Waco Telephone: .iFNot discour-
aged at their loss, the farmers IN Bell
county who had their cotton de-
by the tornado, went to
work Monday replanting, and some
of the industrious ones thought the
Lord would forgive them under the
circumstances and went to work on
- v-... 20 - ~ ,t,s- =.
=. City statistics show only twowhIte!
in Brennan, between eight
and fourteen that can nOtread, and
these are eight. years old. There.
are three hundred and seventy-twoI
white. and hundred and forty
children in BRENNAN be-
tween eight and fourteen. s,s-!t -.,--~'
: AT Bryan, Tuesday, the manafac-
turers exhibited to- "a crowd of ginlI
MEN a new attachment or gin breast,
consisting, of rollers 80 arranged. as
to receive and feed the.'cotton with
out choking. A hat and other thingsl
were thrown in to ebstruct it, butt
failed to do so. Hiis claimed that
1t requires third less power than
the old gins. -----I'' -
A dispatch from g GONZALES, of the
30th, says: "a railroad meeting of
citizens OF this place, to-day; deVel-
oped the fact that a tap frdfif HAIR
wood to this place was preferred to
a through road from Cuero. or any
other point, unless said through |
road would extend to Austin. "A |
committee of five was appointed to |
confer with Mr.. Pierce and learn
the lowest possible sum, for which /
he would build and equip a tap -
The Denison Tribune, of Tuesday, Il
gives the particulars of the killing h,
of Sam Meredith and brother. and |