The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-08
TExAs-FAors AND FANo1Es

tlrely consumed by nre.
Coal has been discovered in Con
zales county at a depth of forty feet.
Horse stealing is more prevalent
in north Texas than ever before.
A coal oil lamp explosion was the
cause at Sherman of Mr.. Conally's
death.
The tax rolls of Dallas county
show a valuation of 5000, 900 for the
year of 1881.
Henry Lain, of Giddings, owns a
mocking-bird which is eleven years
old.
The taxable property of Wise
county is $3,350,0O against 81 100000
year ago.
IL is said the Sabine and Western
road is to be built from Houston to
Sabine Pass.
The Sunset road has presented the
Columbus oil mills with q pair of
$500 railroad scales.
Corsicana has established cotton
exchange. Our little neighbor is
one of the finest cotton points in the
state.
The Texas and st. Louis railway,
in reducing passenger fare to three
cents per mile, increased its revenue.
Gov. Hubbard says so.
The Bugle gives figures to prove
that n man in Bandera made one
hundred dollars per acre from his
crop of amber cane.
A German. named Theo. Eggert,
was found the other morning, stark
aud stiff, at the end OF a rope in
Houston. IL was suicide.
IL is generally conceded that corn
left over from last year is in much
better condition than usually is the
case-being free from weavil.
The San Antonio amateurs lately
rendered the German drama, "She
is Insane" ut New Braunfels, and
there is talk of their appearance in
Austin.
In the recorders court ut San An
tonic the other day, the prosecuting
witness in a fight case testified that
the defendant had struck him over
1000 times in less than q minute.
Mrs. Ella Burke committed sui
eide at Dallas because of the faith
lessness of her husband. Mrs. Car
ter, who was the occasion of this, was
then abandoned by the nice fellow
Burke, and she attempted suicide,
but her landlady discovered her con-
dition in time for life to be saved.
Major Penn has converted all the
sinners about Burnett, and has gone
10 Hamilton to try his power on
Goodson and those other fellows.
j. l.. Harrison eloped with Miss
Mamie Rutledge from Sherman, and
she was an addition to family al
ready composed of one wife and five
children.
The Henderson Times offers pre-
MUM TO the boy under fifteen years
of age in Rusk county, who will pick
the most cotton before Christmas.
A pair of lovers met in a Dallas
dry goods store the other day. They
were in hurry, and passing min
lister was hailed, who tied the nup-
tial knot then and there.
Sherman offered no premium for
the first bale this year, but after it
arrived the cotton buyers made up
purse for the man who brought it
in.
The Light says that the mud holes
and ponds all over San Antonio are
living witnesses of the excellent sys.
tenn of drainage that exists in that
city.
Several ladies of Bonham, whose
husbands and brothers take ga drop
too muchp have furnished the sa-
loon keepers written notification not
to sell them any more liquor.
A respectable young girl donned
mans attire and, in company with
her father and uncle, visited Thomp-
sons variety theater at Dallas. The
whole party were arrested and fined
by the mayor.
The Marshall Jail is empty, and
the doors are thrown open, and the
building allowed to get a good air.
ing.
Honey Grove is temperance
town, and no malt or Spirituous
liquors are permitted to be sold
there.
The San Antonio Express is conf
dent of the future of that city, say
ing that the more railroads that go
west from there the more trade they
bring to it.
Two persons were killed by the
railroad accident ON the narrow
gauge excursion from Waco to Cor
sicana. The accident has thrown q
gloom over Waco.
There is some talk of a new hotel
at San Antonio, to be built express
ly for the benefit of persons visiting
that city in search of health OF
pleasure.
The San Marcos court house is
breaking and crumbling so badly as
to be considered unsafe, and another
house has 10 be used in which to
hold court.
The British steamer, Rock City,
will take three hundred tons of wal
nut timber on her return trip from
Galveston to Liverpool. This is the
beginning of q valuable trade.
Granville Goode, the desperate
who murdered Constable Hodges in
Grayson county some months ago,
was killed IN Dangerfield while at
tempting to take the town.
The people of the town of Goliad
have been assured by an authorized
agent of the Palmer-Sullivan rail-
road, that no donation other than
the right-of-way and depot grounds
win be asked by the company. The
people are therefore happy.
The machine shops of the Sunset
route are worth $150,000 per year to
the town that gets them, and lively
competition may be looked for be-
tween San Antonio and Houston.
The machine shops of the Interna-
tional railway are quite as valuable
The Bolton Journal SAYS: 1t is
our private opinion publicly ex-
pressed that the university question
has got into a fearful muddle, but
that should hinder no one from
marching up to the polls and voting
as conscience dictates. Our con-
science seems to gravitate toward
Austin.
The Gonzales Enquirer, in re-
minding voters that they will soon
be called upon to vote ON the loca-
ton of the state university says +:
We hope there viii be grand
turn out 1t the polls. Everybody
should feel an interest in this cleo
ton. We think the university
should not he divided and that Il