The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-22
TEXAS -FAcTs AND FANoIEs
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of large capacity.
The cotton crop of Bandera coun-
ty will be an average one.
About Sweet Home land is chang
ing hands at from 80 to $15 per acre.
In the neighborhood of Sweet
Home Il is thought half of the cotton
crop is ready for market.
The Waco Examiner admits that
the defeat of Waco was for the good
of education ia Texas.
Fires in Medina county have been
quite destructive, and much grass
and fencing have been lost.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will
run trains and sleepers direct from
Waco to st. Louis by the 10Th.
Mr.. Pierce has accepted the prop
osition of the people of Gonzales to
build them tap from his main line.
The Cass county fair will be held
at Atlanta, in that county, commenc-
ing October ~, and continuing three
days.
Mr.. James Duncan, of Castroville,
had his arm torn literally off by the
machinery in the Francisco mill re-
Gently.
Burton and Washington, combin- |
ed, gave Austin 1876 votes, Tyler II,
Waco 9, Lampasas 4, Galveston 124,
Houston 35.
The Sunset track is now complet- |
ed to a point seven miles beyond |
D'hanis, which, is nearly sixty miles |
from San Antonio.
Mr.. Arthur G.. Chapman offers |
$500 reward for the arrest and con-
viction of the murderer of his |
brother, II. p. Chapman.
John G. Owens, well known at
torney of Corpus Christi, was
stricken with paralysis while con-
Quoting case in court.
A San Antonio dealer has manu-
featured 1000 gallons of mustang |
grape wine, and it is pronounced to
be equal to the best of claret.
J.K. Rankin. of Dewitt county,
is ninety-one years old. He reads
without glasses, walks erect and
gives promise of living many years.
The cypress is now the finest look
ing paper in the state. 1t is the |
same size as the Galveston Neaos,
aud admirably made up and printed.
Those people who dilute milk for
the Dallasites are catching it; that
is, the road agent is relieving them
Of their change. Those about Aus
tin should take warning.
The LiUe Stock Journal is trying |
to discourage farmers from coming
to northwest Texas, says another
exchange. Stockmen cannot pros
per there il the plow does not stay |
out.
Other places might follow the ex-
ample of FlatoDia in offering q re-
ward of $26 for evidence that will
insure the conviction of any one un-
lawfully shooting within tae corpor-
alton.
The standing corn in the field of
Mr.. John Stokely, Lamar county,
caught on fire, and the shucks and
blades were 30 dry that the fire
spread over the entire field, consum-
ing the crop.
Q. l.. Watson q Bro, of Mexia,
have sued the Texas Central railroad
for $4,000 damages for alleged fail
ure of the company to ship their cot
ton in its regular order. Other
similar suits have been filed.
BRENNAN Bonner: complaints
are becoming common throughout
tbs state Of the inadequate facilities
offered by the Western Union tele-
graph company, whose offices are
now over crowded with business"
On the 18th Houston was visited |
by q terrific thunder storm. The |
lightning killed son of Mr.. Mem
bug, and at another place three little |
children of Mr.. Baligethy were pros
trated. Several houses were struck
by the electric fluid.
Tar. Edward Mildly, one of the
most accomplished young merchants |
of Houston, died few days ago in |
Philadelphia, where he was under
going treatment for pulmonary COM
plant. He was ofthe firm of Mildly |
4 Porter.
or the five men hung at Fort |
Smith, Ark, on the ninth, one was O |
native of Smith county, Texas,
named George W. Padgett. He was |
herder for Stephens, of Comanche |
driving stock to Kansas, where he |
killed Stephens, near Fort Smith. |
The murdered man was brother of |
Hon. John d. Stephens.
The vast amount of old corn held |
over from last year is now so yalua- |
BILE as to be carefully husbanded,
and will be found important in fill |
ing up the deficit of this year. !
Farmers should at once prepare for |
the planting of large small grain |
crops for winter grazing.
The Sun says: Gainesville is in
need of railroad, a good school,
more water and better water, more |
public spirited men, more christians |
and fewer sinners, more working |
men and no loafers, more liberal |
men and fewer stingy ones, more |
business men who advertise and
none who do not.
Erdminer. The total vote of
governor last year was in round
numbers 264,000. From present in
dications not over 10000 votes will
be polled on the location of the uni
versity. Consequently the success
full candidate must receive about
$4,000 votes. Austin is the only can
didase which has the hope of cleo
tion, aud she may fail to get the re-
CURED one-third of the total num-
Der of ballots cast.
An old Texan in Coleman county
voted on the 9th for governor, his
choic7 being Sam Houston. A can
vasser for Houston, over in eastern
Texas, on the 9TH, sent an order for
election tickets, stating that he
would be able to carry certain
town solid for that city. A COM
mercial traveller made speech for
Galveston in Wharton county on the
9Th.
Gen. Pope, an authorized military
inspector, has been in El Paso and
reports favorably on the geographic
cal position and railway advantage
IS supply depot for the distribu-
ton of stores for Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona A committee, with
Judge Blacker at its head, will go
east 10 confer with Gen. Sherman
and the secretary Of war upon the
subject.
Afr. J. B. O'Brien, Of Washington
county. was met by three highway
men. who took Sis from him.
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