The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-08
TexasFacts and Fancies.

maJOT cnn II WHOOplnS up tnt
sinners about San Marcos.
Work on the Trinity and Sabine
railway is about to begin at Hunts
vile.
Col. j. n. Thornton, of San Anto-
MO, has been offered the presidency
of bank at Kansas City.
There was an. attempt TO burn the
depot of the Texas and st. Louis
railway. at Tyler, a few days ago.
Small grain is reported rs looking
well all over the state. Much wheat
has been sown for winter pasturage.
The Brennan Banner always
comes nice and newsy, and the
STATESMAN draws 1t in at pleasure.
Col. John II. Baylor has secured a
license 10 practice law. There's
room for few more in the profess
sion.
The people of Hayes county are
engaging in n county seat contest,
the antagonist of San Marcos being
Hayes.
Waco's cotton shipments this year
will. probably, not reach $4,000
bales. Last year they were twice
this amount.
Seventy Danish immigrants ar
rived at Navasota the other day.
They will engage in farming in
Grimes county.
Gen. Albert Pike has been visit
ing the Alamo City, spreading the
influence of the great order in
which he stands so high.
Jennings, the convict, who es-
capped from the train, while enrOUte
10 the penitentiary, was captured at
his home in. Bastrop county.
In building n railroad from San
Antonio to Fredericksburg it will
be necessary to tunnel. At present
there is not n tunnel in the state.
Eighty Bohemian families have
lately settled IN Washington county.
Typhoid fever prevails in Dallas
10 an alarming extent. Over $50
cases are reported.
The grand lodge of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor is to meet in
Houston in 1882.
Mr.. Sam McGill, OF Meridian, died
few days ago from an over dose of
morphine.
At Graball, in Washington coun-
~, one Key and u companion, NOR
tally wounded Joe Baker.
The San Saba NetoS urges the
planting of pecan orchards. They
certainly prove most valuable in a
few years.
Pure stone coal has been found
in inexhaustible quantity on the
Rio Grande, sixty miles above
Laredo.
The STATESMAN has improperly
credited an item to the Jefferson
Democrat. The Democrat SAYS so
many good things, one is prone to
do this way.
The junction of the Southern Pa
ciflc and the Texas and Pacific, is al
Sierra, Blanco springs.
The Fort Worth papers refuse to
believe that the Texas Pacific head
quarters are to be removed to Dali
las.
The people of Dallas are going to
work to get up an excursion over
the Texas trans-continental line TO
San Francisco.
j. Nj. Black, once postmaster at
Meridian, was killed not long ago
by Indians, out west, on one of the
railway extensions.
A young man named Ross while
riding from Temple to his home
near Oenaville, Bell county, last
Saturday, was thrown from his horse
and instantly killed.
The Telephone says that Tyler will
probably secure the services OF
Captain Herndon, of that place, and
Colonel John Henry, of Dallas, to
prosecute her claim to the univer-
sity.
The citizens of McDade have pub
lished card, in which they say that
drunken rowdyism and pistol shoot
ing must be stopped. Law-abid-
ing citizens are determined to keep
order at all hazards.
The Journal tells that the last le-
gal execution in Galveston was on
Friday, March 5, 1858, when negro
woman was hung for murder.
Since that time a hundred murders
have been committed, and not one
of the murderers has been hanged.
Commenting on q paragraph
copied from the Telephone, the Gal
weston Journal says "the people of
Texas will never consent to its dis
memberment for the advantage of
any political party. Her history
belongs to her as an entirety, and
who of her citizens would exchange
the name of Texan for any otherI''
Mr.. S. w. Park, of Columbia,
Texas, is exhibiting his beehives and
the honey taken from them, ut the
Atlanta exhibition. The ConStitU-
ton says the display attracts much
attention.
Mr.. Sawyer, large sheep owner,
drove 1900 sheep out of Pleasanton
towards his ranch, in Medina coun-
~. After driving them a short dis
tancc many of the sheep grew sick
and over 1900 of them died in
few minutes. 1t is supposed they
were maliciously poisoned.
The commissioners court of Dali
las county are agitating the ques-
ton of purchasing the toll bridge
over the Trinity river at Dallas.
That is the plan which should be
carried out as to the bridge across
the Colorado between Austin and
South Austin.
Houston Age: Col. Fred Grant,
president of the Texas Western,
has been in the city for nearly a
week, but has been so closely en-
gagged in his office, and with the
affairs of his company that scarcely
a dozen men have seen him, and the
newspaper reporters have been BAT
fed in all attempts to interview
him.
The wool growers association OF
Kerr county, after much discussion
and calculation in their September
meeting, decided that it cost 10@
cents 10 produce n pound of wool
in that county, from sheep that
would shear four pounds per head
This conclusion was based on the
assumption that the increase in the
fiocks with the increase in the value
of land, would or should equal the
interest on value of amount of graz
ing land required, which was put al
live acres per sheep, with taxes on
same.
In describing the exhibitions
made by railroad companies at At,
I, lanta, the Railroad World says
The Texas and Pacific railroad
shows that the soils of its lands are
doubly rich. The sections of woods
cedar, cottonwood, red and blacl
walnut, wild china, southern pine