The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-16
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

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Palestine is soon to have water
works.
The Dallas Gazette is now amorn-
ing paper.
Tyler is now talking of competing
for the state university.
Near Bryan, a white man, asleep
on the track, may recover.
The Waxahachie Tap road, it is
said, will be extended at once.
The physicians of Brazos county
have organized medical society.
b. X. Smith, a prominent citizen
and merchant ofLongview, is dead.
The San Antonio advertiser is the
name of a new paper just put forth.
Two livery stables were burned
at Ennis, Monday night. Loss, ST.
900.
The latest sensation is the organi-
cation of a Bible society in wicked
Dallas. ........,.
Twenty-six gay CHANDELIERS were
tried and coveted in the court at
Waco. t...r
The workshops of the Texas Pa
cific road at Marshall are to be en-
larged.
Abilene, the new town on the
Texas Pacific, is growing very
rapidly.
A colored woman stabbed and
killed man near Willis, Monday,
and escaped.
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Reports of too much rain con-
tinue to come from Northern and
Eastern Texas. -,
Sixty-eight bales of cotton were
burned by an accidental blaze at
Fort Worth, Monday.
Tborp's Springs, in Hood county,
becomes candidate for the location
of the state university.
Jim Moore, gambler, was fatally
shot at Fort Elliott, Monday, by a
bar-keeper named Sucker.
Brennan has locality called "the
jungles," and robberies are of fire.
quent occurrence Whereabouts.
The Fort Worth AdUdnce refers to
Dallas as "Our naughty exclusive
neighbor of railroad Authorizations
and busted hopes"
The Galveston Journal recklessly
remarks: "The thing needed on
some Texas railroads is not reckless
speed, but less wreck speed"
About the state university the
Houston Post remarks: "HoustOn
had better arise and shake herself if
she wishes to pluck the medical
plum"
Mr.. G. e. Gilbert, of the Navasota
Tablet, is going to start paper at
Abilene, in Taylor county. He
wants to sell a half interest in the
Tablet.
Dallas had quite an extensive fire
Monday morning. The fire occur
red on Elm street, among the bust
ness houses, and the losses will ag-
gregate $35,OOO.'
Houston Age: ''Tom Bowers dis
courses learnedly in the Wdtchmdn
of cotton raising. But Tom Bowers
in the field does not know a cotton
stalk from mule-eared rabbit"
One newspaper i'll each county in
the state will publish the proposed
amendments to the constitution in
order that the people may decide for
themselves whether they ought to
be adopted.
The Paris North Team is a little
prejudiced against whisky, and has
decided hankering after temper
ance. Its editor says he will not ad-
vertise saloon for any amount of
money, nor will he take a drink.
Advices from Jacksonville, Texas,
say: "Our crop prospects were
never better. Corn is considered
made, and the past weeks dry
weather has enabled farmers to clear
the grass from their cotton, which is
looking fine and strong"
The following tough snake yarn is
given on the authority of the Tom
Green Times: Rattlesnake stories
are now in order. Mr.. w. j. Harris,
stage MANI, killed one this week,
while out on mule hunt, fully 20
feet long and with 278 rattles on his
tail.
The Gainesville Daily Voice pub
lished an interview with Governor
Overton, of the Indian country, in
which DIR. Saunders, now on "a
Denison paper, is charged with a
very serious offense, Saunders writes
to the Voice, taking exceptions to
the charge, and the VO1ce tells him
to go to-Overton.
A special from Montague county
says: att is reported that DIR. j. Guy
Lewis and Judge Cheney, who are
working a mine in this county, have
struck vein sixteen feet wide by
two feet thick of red OXIDE of cop
i oil Tho 10
dipping downward into a hillside,
and appears to be getting thicker as
they descend. The matter has Gre
ated quite an excitement" ....
| :. The scholastic census of Dallas
has been completed, and foots up as
follows: Grand total number of
children white and cOlored, male
and female, and under IA years
of age, 1856; grand total of white
children and under 14years of age,
1892; total number of white chill
dren 8 and under IA years of age
that cannot read, 81; grand total OF
white and colored children from 8
to IA years of age that can not
read, 215.
Practical jokes are carried little
i tOO ldT SOlllcbllilcS. ~ w dCO ulopdICll
says: "Mr. Manlove, living ON
Fourth street, unexpectedly return
ed home tonight, after an absence
of six months. To have little fun,
he disguised himself and walked
boldly into the house when his wife
and children, thinking him an in
truder, became very much frighten-
ed and ran out. screaming until they
aroused the neighbors. Charlie
liWilliams rushed to the rescue, col
Jared Mr.. Manlove and shuffied him
| up lively until they reached the front
4 gate, when the visitor made himself
known to his wife. The prodigal
could not reconcile himself to his
reception until he had given Will
liams tongue-lashing, and promis-
ing settlement of the affair at q fll-
ture time" .----
/ PERSONAL NOTES.
| Marshal Bazaine is Madrid's
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