The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-10-06
TExAs-FAcTs AND FANo1Es

OOliin county lalr VIII open o
the 4th OF October.
The city council of Fort Wort
will contract for water works.
Much stock is being marketed be
cause of the high price of feed.
Hog and hominy will be scarce il
Washington county this winter.
Texas papers generally are urginj
farmers 10 sow all the wheat the,
can.
The Neacs boasts that San Saba i
doing more business than ever be
fore.
The Presbyterian Synod of Texa
meets in Brennan, Thursday, Octo
Der 6.
Fort Worth expects to get
branch of the Texas aud st. Louil
railway.
The cotton crop of Cherokee
county will be about one bale tC
seven acres.
There is earnest discussion at SaI
Antonio about the establishment o.
cotton factory.
A. ID. McNeeley was killed by q
man named Phillips in a gambling
house at Marshall.
Contracts for grading the Texas
and Mexican railway beyond the
Colorado have been let.
The Delta county Banner states
that prohibition was defeated in that
county by majority of sixty votes
Temple Houston has been APP
pointed county attorney of BraZo-
ria county by the commissioners
court.
The New Orleans Pacific will be
running through from New Orleans
to Shreveport by the first day of
December.
The prospect is that one hundred
more students will attend the Sam
Houston normal school this year
than did last.
w. X. Tarver, of BRENNAN, has
balanced up his last cotton account,
and has gone over the river to rest
In the shade.
The Independent says that the
crops in Brazoria. Wharton, Mata-
Rorda and Fort Bend arc fully up to
the average this year.
The first of October comes, and
there are over 400 miles of railway
completed in the state, with 100
miles building each month.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, has
been In northern Texas looking
after the trial of Colonel John Crisp
at Sulphur Springs.
An exchange says: "Governor
Roberts and staff will attend the
Yorktown centennial" Do tell us
all about the "staff."
We have waited patiently this
time to announce the second demise
Of the Dallas GdSette. We are safe
now in saying it has occurred.
The Texas and st. Louis railroad
carries passengers for two cents less
per mile and cotton 81 less for cot
ton than any road in the state.
Brentwood is all excitement over
its railroad prospects; rents and real
estate are advancing and the rail-
road right-of-way committee is
hard nc work.
The Baptist church at Mount
Vernon, Bell county, is having some
trouble in a matter of discipline,
and council of three or four other
churches has been called.
The Dallas speeches on the dead
president were short and sweet.
Seven speakers full reports occu-
pied two columns space in the Times.
Though the report has been circu-
lated that the Grimes county cotton
crop will be short, the crop will
reach, II is now estimated, $4,000
bales.
Some of the planters on Old
Caney, in Wharton county, are
making bale of cotton to the acre.
AL the crops in that section are said
to be fully up to the average.
The Texas Trunk railroad is on a
boom all the way along the line.
The first twenty mile section below
Kaufman, is about graded, and
grading will begin beyond that
point in few days.
The passengers ON the Interna-
tional, when the engine struck an
obstruction, near Taylor, concluded
1t was the preliminary work of train
robbers. The entire crew were
ready for fight.
Bryan's last great fire is very dis
couraging to the people, and the
perishing of Mr.. l.. Spring in the
flames makes it doubly sad. He
was a most respected and valuable
citizen.
The city council of Dallas has
agreed to pay $65,000 for the water
works of that city. The water dues
will pay the interest and provide a
sinking fund for the liquidation of
the sum.
The high price of seed grain will
cause many farmers to plant less
than they desire. This should not
be the case. Sacrifices even should
be made in the interest of plenty in
the early spring.
A fuss is brewing in one of the
Dallas wards. The colored people
are going to build a church, and the
inhabitants in the vicinity of the
site insist that they can not live with
the nights converted into days, with
Bedlam revived.
Two robbers entered the house of
MIR. August Hoake, of Washington
county, and ordered him to give up
his money, the proceeds of his cot
ton crop. He had, fortunately, left
bis money in bank at Brenham.
Mr.. John L. Northington, who
has resided in Bosque county a
number of years, has been arrested
and lodged in jail upon a warrant
rom wharton county, charging him
with murder, alleged to have been
committed there about fifteen years
ago.
The San Augustine iSaron gives
the details of a cruel murder COM
mitted IN the vicinity of Hamilton
and near the Louisiana line. A bow
named Sanderson, aged thirteen,
was murdered by q man named
Young. After shooting Sanderson
ne chopped his legs nearly Off with
an axe.
8reahdDl Banner: A man named
tartin, living in the neighborhood
II Lyons station, Burleson county.
was killed by Wilkerson, his step
son, who at once surrendered to the
authorities. IL seems that Martin
aad married Wilkerson's mother, |
and had in some manner abused her.
An exchange wisely says: Let no |
blade Of grass that viii make hay |
DC lost this year. Let no spot of |