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

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board oftrade.
From all parts of the state come re-
ports of excessive heat.
The usual summer exodus has
commenced all over the State.
Two mail robbers were arrested
and brought to Dallas last week.
| A man named Wittmeyer suicided
at Wills Point day or two ago.
The Bolton Journal says that
Waco's modesty is painful to contem-
plate.
The Houston Age thinks Senat or
| Coke would just fit the vice Presi-
dental chair.
An Englishman, en- route for San
Antonio, died on the cars just before
reaching Houston.
| Railroad contractors at Waco
vainly offer hands 81 per day. The
loafers will not give up their oc-
cupation.
Excursion rates are made by the
different railroads for the veterans
who attend the reunion at BRENNAN
ON the 22nd.
| Col. j. L. Barlow, late of Texas, is
now editor of the Leadville Demo
cTdt, and also clerk of the criminal
district court.
n a stockman of Austin county was
attacked on the road near Brennan,
few days ago, near Bellville, and
robbed of over $1,000.
| A Waco policeman was fined 800
and sentenced to thirty days i'm
prisonment, for cruel treatment to a
prisoner whom he had arrested.
COrsicana is inquiring about wa
ter works. The Observer Inder will
have to build river first, or drive
that artesian well little lower.
The ex-Confederate soldiers of
Missouri, residing in Texas. are MAX
ing grand preparations for the first
ANIMAL meeting, to be held IN Dallas,
August 10th. ....
j. h. Murphy, of Waco, charged
with rape, has been acquitted. This
case created quite sensation in the
state, but it is said the verdict was
greeted with Vociferous applause.
The BelIon Journal says that
planters in the neighborhood of
Waco haul their cotton to Bolton
and sell it because they like to get
a good price and to be paid in ready
cash.
Waco Telephone: Reports reach
us that the lambs on many of the
sheep ranches in the western part of
the county have been badly injured
by the barbs from the bearded mes
quite grass.
The Texas and st. Louis track,
from Corsicana toward Waco, is laid
for a distance of thirteen miles.
The straps or "fish-bars" have given
out, and some delay in track-laying
has been caused thereby.
JeffLee, a citizen of Bowie county,
got into a fight with negro last
week, and fatally stabbed the negro,
but while the fight was going on,
the negroes wife struck Lee with q
Ratchet, and it is thought he viii
die, too. f..l
A negro named Turner'S. ninety
three years of age, was married at
San Antonio June 3, after q
widowerhood of four weeks. > He
was the oldest colored man in the
city, having children who are them
selves grandparents.
Chief Engineer Waite, of the Chi
cago, Texas & Mexican Central Rail-
way, has received instructions to
prepare twenty-five more miles OF
survey for letting; also, to commence
the survey of the line northeast from
Dallas to Red River.
Flatonia argus Farmers are offer.
ing 81 day and board for hands to
chop cotton, and yet there are lazy
idle negroes to be seen hanging
| ornnnA tho o,n1 tho v-oflrAo6
depot doing nothing. The. vagrant
act should be enforced"
a dispatch from Dallas says: "a
terrific lightning storm swept over
Newport, Clay county. Miss Lizzie
Cox and Miss f. Hutchinson were
killed, and the latter's father and
two brothers were shocked. A
number of horses, cattle and hogs
were killed"
| Houston Age NAT. @. Hender.
son is in San Antonio. He is anx.
ions to have the question of title to
the Alamo settled. If Mr. Grany will
take for his claim what Mr.. Hender-
son is willing to pay, Mr.. Henderson
will give his check for the amount
and make the State present Of the
property"
According to the Burnet Bulletin,
a two pound shad was killed at the
Mormon Mills the other day. This
is proof that the governments eff
fort, three years ago, to stock the
Colorado with this favorite fish has
been at least a partial success. B
Erening Light: Complaints come
from Austin that the mails from San
Antonio are irregular. We can say
ditto to that. Sometimes about five
issues of an Austin daily will come
at once, and then there is a CORES
ponding interval during which one
might be excused for thinking the
exchange cut off.
Fred. Grant is a chip off the old
block. At Bastrop the other day he
avOwed he couldn't make a speech.
He told the people, however, that he
could build railroad to their
town. And then the crowd cheered
and the brass band played, and Bas-
trop thought it was the best speech
she had ever heard.
The Graham Leader says if Austin
is determined to build a narrow
gauge road to the Northwest, and
will extend it through Stephens
county to intersect the Fort Worth
81 Denver road in Archer county, it
will give her railroad connection
that will double her population be-
fore the road is half finished.
The Corsicana papers hasten to
explain that Hon. r. Q. Mills Hous-
ton speech, stating this would be
the last term he would represent
Houston, had reference to the re-
districting of the state, when he
will be in another district. But the
Telephone gave this same explana-
ton when Roger made the speech.
Castroville quill: Nearly all the
German immigrants that come to
Texas settle III Western Texas. Let
them come; they are the kind of
citizens we like You never hear
them growing about the scarcity of
farm labor. They work themselves
and make everybody around them
work. And they never bite off
more than they can chaw;' they get
just enough land and work it prop
erly. A German farmer is always a
producer"
Victoria AdUocate: "Mr. e. E. |
Sibley has been trying the expert
ment of ginning wool, so as to free
it of burs and trash. From sam
pie worth IL cents he ginned out a