The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-21
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIEs.

1
There is considerable malarial
fever at Fort Worth.
The railroad boom is striking east
Texas, about in spots.
Waco is coquetting with Calves
ton on the university question.
A cOlored man, so it is said, was
sunstruck in Dallas on Sunday last.
Sunday amusements in Galveston
are more literally attended than are
the churches.
The Jefferson papers say Guiteau
was once in that city in the charac-
ter of fortune.teller.
A fire at Jefferson, Wednesday,
destroyed the old compress building
and two store houses.
The Galveston Journal publishes
q long list OF premises that are in
bad sanitary condition.
We are in receipt of the Cisco
Roundup, sparkling little paper
just started at that place.
The grangers around Caldwell are
taking steps to organize and estab-
iish CO-OptTdllfc slOTe.
Over a thousand saw mill and
timber hands can now get employ
ment at or near Beaumont.
The old settlers reunion of Wise
county was fine success. Senator
Coke addressed the assembly.
The holiness band are making
things lively at Corsicana with their
street praying and preaching.
Mrs. Robert Lyle, of Dallas coun-
ty,gave her child laudanum through
mistake for cordial, and it died.
The Waco Examiner is showing up
the inhuman way in which prisoners
are treated in the city calaboose.
The Houston papers claim $4,000
population for that city. What a
growth since the census was taken
Petty thieves in Victoria steal
wood even in the middle of summer,
and the AdoOcdte prescribes buck
shot.
The reunion of Parsons brigade
takes place at Corslcana on the Sd
of August, and grand time is ex-
pected.
Hands are being employed to
open up and work in the coal mines
near Cisco, on the Texas & Pacific
railroad.
In Ell Paso eggs sell at fifty cents
per dozen, frying chickens at seven
ty-five cents, and grown chickens at
one dollar.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is ex-
pected at the reunion of Ector's
brigade, to be held at Henderson on
the 18th prox. .
At Fort Worth the officers refuse
to arrest violators of the Sunday
law, and the saloons are again open
ing in the city.
A man was arrested by the depu-
ty sheriff of Washington county one
day last week for crime commit
ted sixteen years ago. as -..
The first bale of cotton of this sea-
sons growth, sold last Saturday at
auction, In Houston, brought an
even dollar per pound.
A Bohemian named Hans Nimtz
was found dead near Schelaick's
gin, Inquest and verdict: Effects
of drink and excessive heat.
The Galveston journal says
~Who says Huntington has not the
CentralP There is but q shadow of
doubt remaining that he has"
The prohibition excitement in
Lamar county has reached fever
heat. Both the newspapers there
are warmly supporting prohibition.
Rev. Mr.. Collision, the gentleman
who recently resigned from the
Methodist pulpit at Houston, has
charge of the Episcopal church at
Bolton.
j. NJ. Stewart, a mail-rider be-
tween jacksonville and Huntsville,
was kicked in the face by a mule at
Madisonville Friday, and died in a
few minutes. a
| The Bolton Courier calls attention
to the fact that Nicaragua wheat is
successfully cultivated in that vi
cinity, yielding fully one-third more
than ordinary wheat.
4 The arrest of that female deputy
sheriff, as detailed through the local
columns of the STATESMAN, has Gre
ated quite a sensation, and gives the
papers something to talk about.
| Postmaster Donaldson, of Sher-
man, charged with abducting Lille
Rutledge, a sixteen-year-old blonde,
pretty and petite, has stood his trial
and has been honorably acquitted.
| Judging from reports from all
parts of the state, the corn crop, upon
the whole, has suffered terribly and
will be cut short. Cotton has not
been hurt to any serious extent.
| The Waxahachie Mirror asks: DID
any of our exchanges ever publish
or see the card of q hotel that did
NOT say the "table is always supplied
with the best the market affords 7"
BRENNAN Banner: Sanitary or
dinances and sanitary boards are
usually total failures. Nearly all our
exchanges complain of the bad sani-
tary condition of their respective
| towns" -lfra
| Dallas Herald: "If the health au-
thorities will not or can not get the
streets cleaned up, they ought at
least to come out of nights and do
their share of the smelling of the
fearful stencil from the cutters.
San Antonio Express: Palestine
mourneth the loss of the headquar-
tiers of the International railroad.
They have been removed to ST.
Louis, and we suppose San Anto-
MO will come in for the hlndquar-
tiers if 1t gets anything at all"
Abilene ought to erect monu-
ment to the prairie dog that exca-
waited hole at that place. A game
of base ball was going ON there the
other day, and was brought to q
sudden close by the ball bounding
into that hole and disappearing for
| ever. -l.- ~. I'D.
Last week a Polander living near
Anderson, Grimes county, sold q
horse for $38. On Saturday while
he and his wife were at work in the
| field some one went to his house,
murdered his 7-year- old daughter,
stole the money and escaped. A
bad negro named Dowd Neblett is
suspected. fad g.l-
Mr.J. X. Street has been travelling in
the interest of Waco for the uniTer-
sity. He has returned and reported,
and the Telephone says: "What Mr..
Street accomplished, or what he
learned during his absence, the
friends of Waco win readily under
stand should not be told to Austin
through our press.n All right
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