The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-26
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

Wills Point is the latest candidate
for the State University
The Marshall 1iremen had a big
celebration Wednesday. ......
| No Texas town is in fashion now
| without 4 baseball club.
Hampstead had an old7fashioned
"gander pulling" recently.
The artesian well ut Galveston has
REACHED II depth of 522 feet.
The II. & L. railway track is now
laid 292 miles west OF Dallas.
a good many visitors are spending
the summer in San Antonio.
Denison has. raised over $1,000 Tor
a Fonrlh-of-July. celebration.
Judge, James Benily, assistant
postmaster ut Dallas, has resigned
ID. The examination OF the alleged
mail-robbers continues at San An
tonic.
Bell county has reduced her tax
TO. twenty cents on the one hundred
dollars.
Henrietta, Clay county. attempted
TO incorporate, but missed by TWEEN
ty votes.
/ The burning of Sherer's gin aud
mill, ten miles from Rockdale, is an
nOunccd.
The Fort Worth papers boast that
their city docs 4 larger business
than Dallas. ' BOD ''.''' .- "i
Il. j. Crooks, late of the Sherman
Chronicle, has purchased the Bon
ham Ne,cS. a lEs- .
The "ltising Sons OF Progress" is
what they call! certain colored So
ciety at Houston. f ..r..-
Tho Dallas papers are talking
about dirty sewers and other kinds
of filth in that city. . ,F.-
Kendall county's delinquent tax
list makes but five inches square in
tho. comfy paper. ''.. 7
The district court at Paris is doing
a lively business. Already there has
been five convictions. .Y
Madame DuPree makes walking
profitable. She pocketed something
over $500 in Houston. . a-. Q.
The new Jail Tor Smith county has
just been completed and turned
over to the authorities. 3 up
The Western Union Telegraph
Company have completed their line
to Dublin, in Erath county.
IL is stated that the Texas Il Mex
lean railway will be completed to
Laredo about the first of July.
pei MeXia received over 10000 bales
of cotton during the season. This
iS.a good showing for that town.
The new hotel building at Corri-
cana is 10. cost %55, 200, and will be
one among tile finest in the state.
Ennis has organized an opera
house company and Steps are being
taken To build fine opera house.
Giddings is in an ecstacy of delight
at the prospect of securing the NJ
X. ~, aud real estate is advancing.
The cattle of Navarro. county are
being driven west, and soon the
county will be purely agricultural.
Cholera mOrbus and measles have
become epidemic at Waco, and the
deaths average from three to five
daily. SEA -... .... .......
The Santa Fe has drawn of many
field hands in Grimes county, and
farmers are at loss TO know what
to do. .-.- ..r .E. t...
Longview has lately passed
through mad dog scare, and the
city council has ordered the dogs
muZZled. .- f.s II
The number of German immi-
grants now coming into. Texas is
considerable. Most of them go to
West Texas. D.. '. .t. .f....:.
VIM. ROwell escaped from the
San Marcos jail, and the sheriff
offers II reward of twenty-five dol
lars for his arrest. -..
An incondiary attempted to burn
one of the largest stores i'm Whitney,
but the fire was discovered in time
and cXtinguished. -t 1s, -
Real estate business appears to be
brisk in Fayette county. The trans
fers for two weeks occupy nearly a
column in the LaCirange ,JOU1ndl.
Helton city officials are live men,
and COW boys who think to take in
Bolton. get taken iuthemselves, even
il they have to he followed into the
country. - 20 ..si re- tf...-
Some of the Waco people refuse
to pay their subscriptions to the
Texas 81 St. LOUIS road, because it
did not reach that city in the time
promised. . -.r .4
The Palestine papers, aprOpos of
the general and increasing prosperi-
ty of their town, caution property
owners against asking unreasonable
prices for property. ';- 20 'sls %
Ii is proposed to get mp a lying
match between Eli Perkins and the
Gnat Curious, of the Georgetown
Ipocp..I-f In The hasa kha Sn. pu,e,
MAN bets on Texas genius. o.. g.
The Houston Post is engaged in
the good work of exposing and con
demning cruelty tOstreet ear horses
in that city. All humane people
will endorse all the Post says in this
regard. .... -1.1 t s
According 10 the Galveston Ne,os,
there are too many lawyers and the
quality of them, rs a general thing,
is too poor. More men make a fail
ure rs lawyers than in any other
business. p; 'a -ta t.4. q
A mad dog i'm Clay county few
days ago bit number of other dogs,
several cows and II little son OF Mr..
Woods, who started at once TO
Gainesville tOapply a maidstone TO
the wound. "a gatss E.flD 2
The acreage I'm cotton i'm McCul-
loch county this year is quadruple
that OF last. Wheat, corn and oat
prospects are splendid. Horse, cat
tie and sheep interests are satisiac-
tory andfarmers are happy. E g
One of the San Antonio papers
says that San Pedro park is intended
rs a place oflgeneral public resort /;
| but that the people of San Antonio
do not seem to know that il is for
any thing bat TO drink beer i'm. .'
Reports from every section Of
West Texas are TO the effect that
farm crops, stock and sheep are in
splendid condition, and that the flu
tnre of the country never! was
brighter than at the present time. 3
The tax rolls of Beaumont for
1881 show an excess in valiies nearly
double those of 1880. The demand
for real estate is lively. Sabine Pass
| is looking up, and barges arc being
built to carry lumber down the river
for shipment at that point. - pr
Mrs, Searcey, a worthy lady
of uearne, attempted TO i'm
prove the morals of her husband,
and TO effect this purpose she took
advantage of the late law and served
all whisky dealers written police
forbidding them to sell her lord the
| fluid. .... ......,-
The, Tyler Courier tells of NOR
tai combat between a rabbit and a
black snake. The snake had cap
iured the rabbits young and the
| fi0ht was to secure its recovery-