The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

A. &. Stull is reported killed, near
Coryelle.
George Clark committed suicide
at Dallas few days ago.
Z. p. Hawley, editor of the Mar
shall Herald, is mayor of that city.
DIR. Larkin, of Denton county,
was thrown from his horse and kill
| ed.
Fort Worth was selected as the II ext
place of holding the medical as
sociation.
Several Canada merchants have
been inspecting the cattle interest
around Fort Elliott.
The San Antonio merchants ex-
change is to be formally opened to-
day. 7 ~ .sa.
Greenville, in Hunt county. is to
be the point of intersection between
the East Line and the Nj. X. q L.
Two men near San Saba sold their
stock of cattle the other day for
$4,000.
Phree horse thieves were summa-
rily disposed of a few days since in
Hill county by the vigilants of John
son county, ,l,q. ....-...
Track-laying OH the |. & G. n.
railroad West from San Antonio is
progressing at rate of about 5000
feet per day. .... as ...
Loekhart is glad in the prospect
of having the western narrow
gauge road completed to it within
six months. Bon. 49,
tGCapt. A. Faulkner, of the Houston
81 Texas Central railroad, succeeds
j; x. Hogan as general immigration
agent of that company. -.
The shooting of a Mexican, near
Fort Davis, by young Joe Dwyer,
was i'm self-defense. The man was
badly wounded but he will get well,
The Tankersly Hotel, at Concho,
was burned, and a stranger was
burned to death in it. Several per-
sons were slightly injured by the
flames.
The Governor has pardoned Rusk
Smith, from Rusk county, youth,
out of the penitentiary. Reasons,
exemplary conduct and adolescence.
The Tyler Courier says the late
Austin hash-house gentry are at
home, living on corn dodgers and
side meat.
Tyler Courier: If we are to be-
lieve the religious press, the boss of
the lower regions will experience
some difficulty in finding "A place
warm enough for the members of
the Seventeenth Legislature who
voted against prohibition.
Caldwell and Nicely have been
awarded the contract for construct
ing the first twenty-seven miles of
the Chicago, Texas 81 Mexican Cen
trail railroad. President Hale saws
fifty miles of the road will be COM
pleted by September 1.
The Courier Chronicle saws that
DIR. j. T. Wilson is more. than will
ling to be promoted from assistant
physician of the Lunatic Asylum to
the superintendency. 1t would be
more comfortable in two respects
dignity and pay.
1t is not often that colored people
commit suicide, but few days ago
a man in Hunt county deliberately
took his own life, in the presence Of
several witnesses. The cause of the
rash act. is not given, but we pre-
sumo that it was not brought about
by financial embarrassment.
- Mr.. III. HI. Smith of Eagle Springs.
Coryell county, has in his possession
the original muster roll of the COM
pany commanded by his father Capt.
James Smith, in the war which sepa-
rated Texas from Mexico. AS all who
served in that war, are, under the
provisions of an act of the last legis-
lature, entitled to 1880 acres of land,
it may be that some of the surviving
members OF Capt. Smiths company
will find it convenient to prove their
rights to the bounty by the roll of
the company.
:. A correspondent of the Dallas
(Baptist) Herald says that the
twenty-fifth anniversary of Major
Penn's wedding will occur ON the
3Oth of this month, and he proposes
that each congregation in the state |
where the Major has held revivals |
shall bny a handsome. piece of silver |
ware and send it to him on that day.
Uncle Dan McGary, of the Age, hav-
ing passed by his silver and his |
golden and his diamond weddings,
and feeling sad at the probable good |
fortune of another, says: at is
doubtful if Major Penn would ac-
cept such gifts. TWAS too much of
just such vanities that carried Dives
to the place of torment"
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