The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
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+ w. C.CarHanris to be postmaster
ut Marshall, Texas- - 81 rssGg rf
| =, The international Will reaclf the
Leona in n few days'eB o. fps n o-is
i All dwellings and business houses
ut Tyler are. occupied. - - ~
Booth is back in Wise county rum
fnnL@ spelling matches. COD. 60 s
The merchants of Paris are or
ganiZing against dead beats.
| Corsicana- has organized n cotton
exchange and board OF trade. 6.af6
Wheat and oats in Bosquea and
Erath counties are looking well.
w. r. Freeman il experimenting
with electric light at San Antonio.
The. railroad work between
Whitesboro and Denton goes brayely
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4 The late frOsts in northern Texas
did not damage the young fruit
CROP i'-~-fe iE
Marx & Kempner of Galveston
are pushing their drummers into
Mexico. ~ E ~ ,ff
A eolored graduate,o of Ohio. will
soon apply for admission to the bar
at Dallas. sc A,O-.t ltlt VIZ
"Chili-con-carne" is now. put up, al
San Antonio, in air-tight cans for
the trade. ~ 5---' -g-a
ID The Fort w orth &sDehver railway
is beginning 10 assume the appear
ance of reality. -.rT 5-a ~,
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe is
offering $2.25 der day for quarrymen
on its extension.
1t looks like speck of war be-
tween the International railway and
the Sansetroad.1 Z "af ii c
The NJ. E. Church Northl is
soon to establish a-house. OF wor-
ship at Houston. -r.e- u
Augustine Toutont Beauregard
died in San Antonio Thursday last,
aged sixty-six years. h-L.L.g &c.,
Farmers should plant corn to
meet the demands of immigrants
next fall and winter. '.f
Professor Topey, the eronaut is in
Texas, and will probably give some
spe cilneus of his skill.
TIE election on constitutional
\ amendments will be held on the first
Tuesday in September. .- ,....
Bonham is said to be more rapidly
improving now than at any other
period of its existence, rn..e... "a,
At the recent term of the district
court in Fannin county, fifteen d.
vorce cases were tried.
The district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church South,
meets in Terrell in June.
The frontier battalion of Texas
now consists of five companies, num-
bcring 120 officers and men. ga.
1t was Capt. -Oglesby and men, of
the state force, that Overhauled sup
posed Oakville stage robbers
Waco boasts of an educated flea.
When it comes to energy the Corsi-
cana insect deserves special men
ton. ....-
VIM. Powell, a Z. S. soldier at
/ Fort Davis, shot and killed Il woman
named Toriba Wier. 1t was jeal-
Ousy. Ee.r l.-. -s ~. 81.
Horses brought across the Rio
Grande by the enterprising thieves
of Webb county are known as "wet-
| stock" a.a sassy t'.-
Immigrants continue to crowc the
| trains over the Iron Mountain road
to its connection with the Interna-
| tfonal. it.'
Castroville is in the midst Of fine
| farming region, and hence the pro-
liability is that it may have branch
railway. -.- -s...- -, ~
Members of 1.-The legislature are
back at their homes; that is, all who
| could leave Austin at once. A few
have to remain indefinitely. ~-a,.
The Texas & ST. Louis narrow
gauge road lis. within II miles of
Corsicana, and large force is at
work pushing the construction. ae
The Texas and Pacific railway is
thirty-fiver miles west of Abilene.
| A thousand hands are at work on
the Eel Paso end working eastward.
The Sherman postoffice is just now
q bone of contention, and it is
thought John Donaldson will snarl
the other contestants out of the ring.
| rLongvlew has a machine shop and
foundry now in active operation.
They are making farming tools
which are giving general satisfac-
ton. f-. -..'
Texas is importing large numbers
of merino sheep. 1t is said that she
has imported more the last year
than during any one of the last ten
years. -te-r ---. ia .t.-.. r-.-. q.
The wheat crop of Comnche
county, though smaller than last
year, bids fair to max large yield.
The Nicaragua wheat is mainly
planted. Il'rf.s-' p 10 ir- @ .- I'.s'f 4. .
The Gould agents will begin the
| survey to the mouth OF the BraZOs
on the tenth instant. 1t is said they
cannot, get the concessions asked
from the Galveston wharf company.
The Pleasanton Monitor calls at
tention to the fact that hundreds of
men who came to Texas just after
| the war, with nothing, are now
among the rich men of Western
Texas. pa '''
A family, from New Hampshire,
consisting of man and wife and
eighteen children, recently passed
through Denison on the way to
Southern Texas, wherethey propose
to engage in stockraising.
Martin, Senator Martin of the
Gainesville Register, went home
with enlarged jaw. 1t is humps,
but his innocent constituents think
it is development from legislative
jaw. He is great orator.
There are enough rails at the de-
pot in Texarkana to iron seventy
five miles of the Texas Pacific ex-
tension The iron is being shipped
to Fort Worth at the rate of from
six to eight car loads per day. f.
1t is estimated that the Texas cat
tie drive, this season will reach 225,-
\ 900 head and stockmen wonder
where they are all to come from.
At the present rate beef promises to
be about as dear in Texas as in, the
old states. -.,... ,.l7tr. rL.el.
Galveston JOlyRdl: We believe
we violate no confidence when we
say the sanitary condition of Gal
weston is not as goodsas it might be.
This information, however, must be
held from The outside world or else
some foreign disease might fake adj
vantage of the situation and step in.
Mr.. S. n. Pickens, mayor of Pal
estine and chairman OF Veteran As
ISOLATION committee, has issued a