The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-29

D. Wood.
THE people of Victoria want the
machine shops of the Palmer-Sulli- |
van roads.
The Observation-Disclosures in Lamar
county will not contest the recent
local option election.
The contract to build the Gonzales
tap road, to connect with the " Sun
SET" has been let.
A survey of the st. Louis, Texas
and Gulf railway has been COM
at Marshall.
Divorce cases among the colored
gentry of Washington maintain two
colored lawyers in Brennan.
A new Methodist college has been
at Fort Worth, under
the name of the Texas Wesleyan
University.
A base-baller at Bonham had his
arm broken. Another has just
been reported killed by wild ball.
Such is sport.
There are fOrty-one prisoners in
the Sherman Jail. All of them arc
young men, not one being over thirty
years of age.
Texas sells annually four hundred
thousand head of cattle. AT $40 a
head it foots up grand aggregate
of $8,OOO,000.
Colonel John II. Crisp, who is
wanted in Texas for killing man
in the state, eighteen years ago, is
candidate for state senatorship i'll
Missouri.
The Columbus Citizen says Il
Wharton county man has an inycn-
ton by which wood in any sort of
exposure can be kept firm and sound
for hundred years.
"Gregory Springs" is the name of
the town to be at the junction of the
Texas and st. Louis, and the Mexl-
can, Camargo and Santa Fe rail-
ways.
The Age, which has right, ex-
presses itself as it pleases, says {:
1.-THE understanding is that the
equinoctial storm is over and Gal
weston is safe for another season"
Hon. Seth Stewart was elected
member of the legislature in the fif-
teenth district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Cen
eral w. ii. King, the present adju-
tant-general.
The district Judge OF Comanche
has adopted plan for doing away
with the necessity of levying taxes.
In one week he imposed fines to the
amount of $4,000.
BRENNAN has q census population
of 1900. She collects free school
tax of So, 60618. and her citizens are
freely considering an additional levy
to erect $4,000 school building.
An idea of the magnitude of sheep
raising in Texas may be had by the
fact that one firm in San Antonio have
5000 head on their range, and as we
write; are expecting drove of 5000
more, and will have 5000 head by
the fifth of October.
Tom Moody is in durance vile at
San Antonio, charged with being
the "tall man" of highway notori-
ETY.. A number of charges will be
brought against him, rs it is figured
out that he has been doing land
office business.
The Sherman Chronicle repeats a
rumor that money, appropriated for
the reconstruction of the normal
school at Huntsville, has been mis-
applied. Those to whom it was en-
trusted can tell if the rumor be based
upon fact.
Engineers and flremen of the
Texas and Pacific western division
are on a strike. The company re-
duced wages from four to three and
half cents per mile, and they say
they cannot live on il, and drink
beer in the bargain.
San Antonio is without a city
council, and the city is saving money
thereby, and getting along admira-
bly,. The councilmen resigned to
avoid mandamus of the federal
court, ordering the levy and col
lection of tax to pay a railroad
subsidy.
Whissen, who was appointed
postmaster at Dallas last June, has
never got possession of the office.
He is waiting for a commission,
Postmaster DeGress' commission
was signed by President Garfield
ON the day before he received his
fatal wound. Whissen was not so
lucky.
Last night about half after eleven
o'clock, Bob Bassett and Albert
Graham, two colored walters at the
FL Paso Hotel, became involved in a
difficulty, when Bassett drew knife
and cut u fearful cash on Graham's
face and neck under the right ear,
and also one on his side, which pene-
trated to the city, and his intestines
were exposed.-Fort Worth Demo-
Paddock has been taking lessons in
anatomy from DIR. Bliss9 If so he
will please explain more fully the
course of that knife.
Texarkana lies partly within Ar
kansas and partly within Texas,
W it'll O broad street marking the
boundary. IL has two mayors, and
the state laws governing one side
have no blnding force ON the other
against the free sale of fire arms
whereupon the hardware merchants
moved their stores to the other side
of the street, thus going into Texas,
where the sale of revolvers, like theiI
use, is free. The Arkansas mayor
issued a proclamation against the
sale of liquor on Sunday, greatly to
the advantage of the saloon men in
Texas until the vendors on the other
side moved over and regained theil
customers.
The International and Great
Northern railway company has pre-.
pared for exhibition at the exposi
ton at Atlanta display eff Texa,
products, which wlll rival anything
heretofore attempted in that line
IL will include cereals of ALI vari
cites and samples of soil wher,
raised, cotton in all conditions O
culture, wool and wooden good
from New Braunfels, stone, miner
AIS. ores and marble. Every section
of country along the line of tn,
International win be represented
IAe fruit region will display sam
Piles Of what has been raised at va
rions fruit farms, and bales Of cot
ton ginned in different portions Q
the country through which the roa'
runs. General Manager Hoxi
has taken deep interest i
the matter, and no effort or expens
viii be spared to make it credit
able and worthy display.