The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
TEXAS FACTS AND fANclEs.

Ne Iili AT IanOla Is Stlil WlthOl
a single occupant.
The Free Methodist preaching i
Ennis still goes on.
A rabil dog has bitten a colorc
youth in Washington county.
The International grading fore
has reached the Mexican river.
The new Jewish synagogue ,
Waco is to bc dedicated in May.
The merchants exchange of Sa
Antonio has been formally opened
The artesian bore at Galvesto
had gotten down 1877 feet on Tue,
day.
n negro mail agent is. running o
the route between Orange and Ne,
Orleans.
Fort Worth is endeavoring to Ell
force the Sunday law against the So
loon keepers.
In some portions of the state feel
hands command as high as SIS {
$40 per.mOnth.
Fine rains have recently fallen i
Kinney county, and grass is goo,
aud stock are fat.
Bear in mind the. Texas Veteran
Association meets at Palestine tn
twenty-first instant.
DIR. r. ID. Wallace, of Waco, dc
livered the address of welcome Il
the doctors of Waco.
j. d. Borden was acquitted il
Crockett of the murder of q. NJ
Monday, last October. ...
Mr.. Ruffini, the Austin architect
has just had an award for the $50,
600 hotel plan for Corsicana.
The first through train from Dalla:
to Sherman, via the Dallas and
Wichita was run on the 2Sth ult.
The Dallas Times says that the
wheat prospect in North Texas is
better than it has been for years.
The electric light burns fitfully OH
the beach at Galveston; that is
when the machine can be made to
run.
During the past few months
seventeen business houses and thir-
ty dwellings have been buiit,at Cald-
well. -.
Fort Worth has donated right of
way and depot grounds to the Den
yer and Fort Worth railroad COM
pany.
Governor Hunts private coach
for use on his narrow gauge system
of railways, has been forwarded TO
Corpus Christi.
CuerO is losing trade, because of
the superior facilities of the Sunset
road for transportation over those
of the Morgan road. -r...
An infirm son of Nat. O. Hender-
son, of the Record, came near being
burned to death. tie was saved by
the presence of mind of his father
The Texas State Dental Associa-
ton meets in Austin Oh the 4th of
May, and an earnest request is ex-
tended TO the profession throughout
the state to be present.
John Sidney Hudson was tried on
change of venue, at Bryan, for the
murder of George Rowland, near
some two years ago. The
verdict was not guilty.
Mr.. John c. Story, the Secretary
Of the State Sunday School Conven-
lion, announces that its sixth annual
will be held in the city of
Austin, beginning ON the last Tues
lay in April. at 8 o'clock p. NJ.
The orange sugar came, said to be
very profitable as a sugar and mo-
asses producer, is being planted IN
he region of the gulf. 1t has the
advantage of maturing in about ten
IL twelve weeks after planting.
An effort will be made to have
'aces at the Brennan fair grounds
)n the 14th of May, the day follow
ny the fireman's parade. The races,
T they come of, will be under the
auspices of the BRENNAN jockey club.
Adam Thompson, for the MUIR
Ter of Shumaker, in 1876, has been
sentenced to be hung at Dallas on
he LIST of July. Yves. Pollard, his
died in Jail. Thompson
vas twice tried, and found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
The Columbus Times affects in
lignatiOn because our, legislature
lid not pass n law to prevent the
Dlay known rs "mumble-peg." The
legislature had so many laws to pass
prohibiting such evils as the above
hat the desire of the Times could
lot be reached.
"A twelve-year-old boy, subject to
its and insane, was found at the
louise of his parents, near Dennville,
Il n most wretched condition. lie
Iad been kept III confinement. The
'arents are poor and ignorant and
he community does not think them
culpable.
II is reported that the Galveston
VeiCS' publication office will be
moved to San Antonio. Should II
10 this, the fortune of the Houston
Post is assured, for it would then
IOld the place of both papers. Bot |
he NeicS is run by some of the
blest newspaper men in the coun-
ry.
Can anybody give us news of An
on Becht, who came 10 the United |
tates from Vienna, Austria, in lS49,
7her6 he was grocer. He was |
hen 80 years old, of medium stat
re, dark brown hair and proper
ionate features. The information |
desired by his friends in Ger
lany. .......
The Sunset forces are now at work |
II the Southern Pacific line, about
welye miles above San Felipe, or
Del Rio, Kinney county. This is the
pening To the worst grading, it is.
aid, that will have to be encount-
red on the route through to Ell
'aso. 1t Indicates that the road is
D be pushed ahead sst /
Fort Worth comes forward with
local romance where young
ouple had..been welded 'or over two
ionths, but living apart until the
Dung man should be able to make
little more money. The denoue-
lent came when the young lady
Tas taken sick and the young man
TO nurse her. l.4 Ia
About month ago Young man
rom Tennessee shot and killed a
Dad agent near Dallas, and not
moving the laws of Texas, he fled
, Tennessee. lie wrote TO friends
4 Dallas, detailing the facts, and il
as been ascertained that the rob-
er was found nextmorning by rail-
bad men and buried, thus confirm
lg the young mans story.
The Galveston Artillery Company
rs decided to accept the with
raw nj nf tho Waahinnfn,, nno.lo |