The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-02
TEXAS FACTS AND FAN cIEs.

! Cuero had a mad dog scare the
other day.
Coup's circus is coming to Texas
this summer.
Waco is enjoying the wonders of
n ghost show. ''
George Gray, of Waco, has been
adjudged insane.
Denison ships 1900 quarts o.
strawberries weekly.
A Knight of Pythias lodge has
been organized at Ennis.
The American Legion of Honor
has 2S4 members in Dallas.
The Texas IL Pacific track is now
laid 324 miles west of Dallas.
The Journal says Galveston is
nearly as quiet as graveyard.
Seven two-story brick buildings
are being erected in Wills Point.
The Sunday schools of Bolton will
have a union picnic next Friday.
All the prisoners in the Wise
county Jail escaped the other day.
Tuesday COrsicana had the heavi-
est rain ever known at that point.
Drew d. Prendergast has been APP
pointed postmaster at Groesbeeck.
A temperance convention will be
held at WaXahachie on the 1st prox.
New peaches are being placed on
the editors tables in southern Texas.
Collin county people are deter
mined to maintain their county fair.
A man named Isaiah Burks is ON
trial at Hearne for raping a six
year-old child:
Madame DuPree is in Galveston,
but, so far, has failed 10 get up
walking match. ..r-
Dallas seems to be in earnest
about securing Gov. Hubbard's mar
row gauge road. 3t. t.'s a
Crops in Limestone county are
reported as looking well, though too
much in the grass.
Mr.. W...D. Cleveland paid the ex-
penses of the Houston Light Guards
to and from New Orleans. .r
Blackberries are rapidly ripening
in Southern Texas, and walking is
now good for tramp printers. ,-
1t is rumored that-the Central will
purchase the WaXahachie Tap rail-
road, and extend it westward. ..
Several of the Dallas aldermen
have resigned, and new elections
will be held to fill their places.
Major Penn, up 10. the present
time, has succeeded in converting
about fifty San Antonio sinners.
There are only forty delinquent
tax payers in Bandera county, near
ly half of whom are " unknown"
MFR. Charles l.. Frost, prominent
railroad man IF Fort Worth, fell
dead Tuesday from heart disease.
The Herald says that never before
in the history of Dallas was there
such demand for building mate
rial.
The statement is made that Gould
has bought the e., Ill. & III. railroad
the line between Houston and Gal
weston. .,...., i...
t The Mckinney Enquirer wants to
hear from Ed. Rowe, of the first
Texas battery. He lost a leg at
Franklin. ,... ...E
Col. Fred. Grant is expected in
Houston by June LIST, when the
Texas Western railroad will be re-
| organized. ..s
Unless the river rise shortly the
Beaumont saw mills will have to
shut down, as the supply of timber
is running low. ''''..'.
Some of the Dallas Republicans
charge Postmaster Cochran with a
want of loyalty to the party and
want him removed.
The Dallas Times thinks that city
will not comply with Governor Hub
bard's proposition to secure branch
of the narrow gauge.
| The Weatherford Herald says the
Farmers Alliance" is constantly in
creasing its membership in Parker
and the adjoining counties.
Abner Tibbetts, the newly APP
pointed collector of customs at Ell
Paso, is Minnesota man, said to be
a pet of Secretary Window.
A Waco dispatch says Rev. w. E.
Hall continues his revival services
at the Christian church with furOre
and success that rivals Major Penn.
The Fort Worth Stock Journal,
having proved a success, is about to
have opposition in the shape of a
similar paper soon to be started at
Gainesville.
The Galveston NeicS claims that
fby far the largest portion of the
book entitled 'Texas, her Resources
and Capabilities" is made up from
a special edition of the NeacS.
| Deputy sheriff Mccoy was bru
tally murdered, a few days ago, by
a band of stock thieves in LaSalle
county, and an armed posse of de-
termined men are in hot pursuit.
The Waco Telephone says the
Methodist Episcopal church pur-
poses the early establishment of a
state college at Fort Worth, to be
called the Texas Wesleyan college.
A man has been arrested in Collin
county who is charged with the
murder of q man in Kentucky six
teen years ago. He was taken to
that state by son of the murdered
man.
The G., C. and S. f. road will sell
town lots at Banks on the eighth OF
June. Banks is just sixteen miles
west of Waco, and the Santa Fe
lpeople say it will control large
| trade. 81.
The city council of Weatherford is
debating the. propriety of issuing
$4,000 worth of bonds for the i'm
provement of streets. The matter
will probably be decided by vote OF
the taxpayers. sr.
Waco Examiner: deputy Sheriff
George Oglesby has returned from
Austin. lie speaks in terms of un-
measured praise of the courtesy OF
Comptroller Brown, in fixing up his
claims outside of business hours"
| The county commissioners of San
Antonio, in levying assessments on
the different occupations, have
physicians and lawyers pay tax OF
So each, and dentists $40. The ar
rangement has called forth severe
criticism. -. b.
Teachers and school directors who
have old claims against the state for
services rendered, should forward
their claims to the Comptroller at
once. Unless presented by the first
of July, they are forever barred.
In San Saba county wheat and
L Oato GRO vary fine Wild rye oats