The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-14
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIEs.
Dallas now has four daiiies.

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Corsicana is 20 haye water works.
j. G. Arnold was elected marshal
of Dallas.
The carpenters at Galveston struck
for $3.50 per day, and got it. -
a San Antonio firm offers 800
for the first bale of new cotton.
The city council of Gainesville has
decided to erect a $4,000 school
house.
The Galveston Ne,cs thinks Texas,
in 1900, will produce 100000 bales
of cotton. -... -.
Mr.. Whissen, the new postmaster
at Dallas, takes charge of his Office
this week.
A Corsicana man has patented a
new switch, which is said to be ga
good thing" est
Galveston mourns over her rail-
road prospects. which are not the
brightest just now.
The Age took a holiday on the
Fourth, and the people of Houston
were crazy for news.
Waco held a university mass meet
ing Saturday night, but nothing of
importance WAS uO0e.
Dallas is infested with burglars, and
the citizens are disposed to organize
a vigilance committee. ..f.
In Fayette county all corn on the
uplands not killed by the frost will
make fair average Yield. "a
Mrs. Z. w. Pierce is dead, and the
depots, engines, etc., on the Sunset
road were draped in mourning.
The Telephone denies that Senator
Coke will make speeches in favor of
Waco for the university location i.
A druggist IN Houston has a losus
nature in alcohol in the shape of a
turkey Matched with two necks and
heads. .'-a
Three prisoners made their escape
from the Sulphur Springs Jail last
week. Jail deliveries are common
in Texas.
An old man named Morgan, sc
years of age, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years at McKin-
ney for horse stealing. ...
The city of Dallas and the water
works company do not agree upon
prices, and the city is without water.
Beer supplies its place. -ta .LY
Mr.. George p. Miller, of the Cor
sicana ObSerUeT-I ndeT, has purchased
the Athens Journal, and now the
parson will edit two papers.
A mineral well has been discov-
cred in the corporation of Bremond,
which is said to excel the WOoten
wells in excellent properties.
The Waco Examiner is to have a
new dress. After it gets its new
clothes on, it is to be hoped it will
quit handling mud and learn to keep
clean.
A Texas sheriff gets one dollar for
arresting horse thief, and twenty
dollars for arresting a drummer who
has failed to take out license. SO
says an exchange.
One of the strongest friends Aus
tin possesses in the university race
is the Mexia Ledger, and it gives the
very strongest reasons for its preii-
lections in that particular.
The Uvalde Hesperiab gives a
favorable account of the stock pros
poets in Edwards county. New
settlers are arriving in force. The
grass and water are good.
The Tyler Courier is one among
the best weekly papers in the state,
and that is saying a great deal, for
the country press of Texas will rank
with that of any state. in the Union.
The W AGO Telephone says the Tex
as & st. Louis road deserves the
credit of beng the first road in
Texas that has voluntarily reduced
passenger fares to three cents mile.
At San Antonio two men are to be
arrested on a charge of stealing
water from the United States gov
eminent. They tapped water pipe
between the springs and the bar
racks.
They are having quite muss on
the street railway question in Hous-
ton, because of the laying of new
track. The health ordinance was
invoked against the new line, and
several arrests made.
The people of Fort Worth could
get no news from the wounded pres
ident on the Sunday following the
attempted assassination, and the
Democrat charges the Sunday law
with being the cause.
The complicated litigation as to
the title of Sour Lake having at last
been settled, it is to be greatly i'm
prGoed in the way of commodious
buildings, and made to become a
popular watering place.
From fifty acres of ground Mr..
Spencer Grand, ofMcLennan county
threshed three thousand bushels of
oats, all sound, bright and heavy.
He has been offered thirty cents per
hushel for them, delivered on the
cars.
The Examiner says the "press OF
the state is gradually turning to-
wards Waco" abiding to the uni
verslty question. There is no cause
for alarm on the part of Austin, as
no one but the Examiner has found
it out.
Mexia Polytechnic institute will
reopen for the fall session on the first
Monday in September, with a COM
petent corps of instructors. During
the past term 1913 pupils were matric-
ulated, and the institution enjoyed a
very fair degree ofprosperity.
A beautiful milliner, from st.
Louis, went to Palestine and turned
the heads of the boys. She became
engaged, it is said, to one of the
first young men of the place, and
judge of the disgust excited when
she eloped with pill peddler.
Beaumont B. Buck, the young
Texan who shot his hazing tormen-
tor Thompson last year, has sue
cessfully passed the June examina-
ton at West Point, Notwithstanding
his troubles. His rank in class is
thirty in total of sixty-four cadets
The holiness band of sanctification-
lists have broken forth again at Cor
sicana, and are affecting that people
with another one of their campmeet-
ings. The comet, the hot weather
and these crazy fanatics all at ono
time is enough to run any people
wild.
Gen. Maxey made a speech on
deep water at a meeting of the men,
bers of the cotton exchange, Calves
ton, on the 9th inst. He said that a
statement from the cotton exchange
would have more effect with con-
gress than any statement made by
senators or representatives.
While a San Antonio jury was
getting supper, one of the members
slipped out on business. Itwas dis.
covered, aud the judge fined him
800, Diminishing the case until next
September. ft-H 81
A feature ofthe Baptist protracted
meeting, at Brennan is the number