The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-09
TEXAS FACTS AND FANClES.


war on the dogs.
A case of sunstroke is reported as
having took place at Galveston.
1t is expected that trains will be
running between Waco and Fort
Worth by the fourth of July.
Galveston is beginning to open up
a very considerable grain trade with
ports along the coast of Florida.
w. III. Price, a justice of the peace
at Dallas, has had articles of inn
parchment preferred against him.
Northern capitalists are to erect a
fine opera house at Dallas. The city
certainly needs a building of this
kind.
Forty-five thousand quarts of
Strawberries have been shipped from
Denison this year, averaging IL 1-2
cents per quart. .-.,
Burnet county held an election
last Saturday on prohibition, which
resulted in the defeat of the measure
by two to one.
Subscriptions were opened few
days ago in Galveston for stock to
the Galveston and Pacific narrow
guage railway.
At Houston the colored people
are preparing for the most extern
sive emancipation celebration ever
held in the state.
Every county, in which 500 head
of sheep are assessed, is entitled to
a sheep inspector. The law was
passed by the last legislature.
Madame Dupree won the walking
match at Houston. 1t was fifty
hour stroll, and the madame beat
her opponent by twenty miles.
The Mckinney AdUOcdte publishes
a note from Hon. j. w. Throck-
morton at Hot Springs, which says
his health is greatly improved.
The Huntsville Item says that
Norton's hatelligencer has hardly a
correctly spelled line in it, and
that it is a disgrace to a respectable
craft.
Sloan FAINT, a negro, tried at Co
lad for committing rape upon the
person of a respectable white lady of
that town, has been sentenced to be
hanged.
The following are Major Penn's
appointments ahead: Gonzales,
June 9th Flatonia, June oath; Cald-
well, July 14th; Burnet, July 25th ;
DIR. Russell's, Bell county, August
18th; Hamilton, August 9th.
Col. Paramore, of the st. Louis &
Texas narrow gauge road, informs
the people of Dallas that if the
proposition submitted by ex-Gover-
nor Hubbard is accepted, he will
have the road in operation from
Mount Pleasant to Dallas inside of
twelve months.
Some idea of the cattle trade OF
Texas may be imagined from a sta
tistical item picked up at Fort Grit
fin. 1t is stated that 1914, LA head had
been driven through that village
during the season to May 20. And
for the same period 1884 had been
driven over the same trail.
Brennan has five newspapers, and
the Banner tells of a new opening
1t says: "If there is a job printer
anywhere in the state with a snide
press and few oyster cans full OF
superannuated job type, he should
come to Brennan; he can make q
fortune right here, as there are only
five job offices in the entire town.
San Antonio Express: "Texas is
being more thoroughly advertised
this year than ever before and a good
portion of the advertising is the
work of those who until recently
had persistently traduced the state,
but who now, after personal obser-
walton and inquiry ARE doing justice
to the greatness of the Lone Star
State. This is peculiarly Texas
year. t...
A telegram from Dallas says
"The city papers are filed with ac-
counts of the alleged row between
Brown and Hoxie, of the Pacific
road. 1t is said they quarreled
about changes made by Col. Hoxie
in the officers, the location of the
offices and shops, and other matters,
which were pretty generally chang
ed and shifted. Both rendered their
designations and have been sum-
moned to St. Louis by Gould to set
tie the matter"
A telegram from Texarkana, of
Saturday, says: "The west bound
freight train of the Texas q st.
Louis railroad ran Off the track
about seven miles from here this
evening. The caboose was COM
pletely turned over, killing one
brakeman outright and injuring two
others, it is thought fatally. The
name of the dead man, as reported
is Turner, of Illinois. The train was
badly wrecked. Ii was passing rap
idly round a curve at the time of
the disaster"
ii. A. Locke, an old time printer
of Houston, died last Saturday. The
Post says of HIM: Gle had worked
on the cases in this city at intervals
for the past % years, and during
the war was one of the leading COM
positors ON the Houston Telegraph.
His death is a matter of sincere re-
greet to the printers of this city who
knew him, and all join in an express
sion of sympathy for the sorrow of
the four little ones who are left or
phans by his demise, but who are
well cared for by a brother of the
deceased, who resides in New
York"
San Antonio Express The Inter-
national will name its station on the
Chicon after w. w. Wallace, better
known as Big Foot" from having
slain the chief of the "Big Foot" In
dams. Mr.. Wallace now resides on
the Chicon, and not far from where
the international passes. The con-
trains are even now about
at his place. This man is noted for
his heroic deeds in the early days of
Texas, and his acts and fame have
passed into history among the more
heroic adventures of the brave piOn-
GERS of this country in the long
ago. There is scarcely school-boy
or girl who has not heard tell of
big Foot" or read the novels that
have been written, based upon his
life ID