The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-30
TEXAS FACTS AND EANcIEs.

Rusk is to have railroad, and is
much rejoiced
! The Corsicana people are talking
of water works.
Work on the new round house at
Longyiew has begun.
Fort Concho will be a money order
postoffice after July LIST.
Thomas Foley's restaurant at Dem
lson was robbed of S2,240.
Robertson county's grand Jury
has found ninety-six indictments.
Dallas county prisoners are sent
to the poor farm TO work out their
fines. s.
Major Penn made two hundred
conversions at the Gonzales camp
meeting.
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association takes place at
Corsicana to-day. rn
The libel suit of County Judge
Williams, against the Galveston
NeacS, has been decided in favor of
the defendants. ......... IT
The Northwest Texas Wool Grow.
ers' Association will meet at Ora
ham, in Young county, on Tuesday,
the I'd of August. 700 -
Water is getting so scarce in Sher-
man that it is peddled blythe barrel.
There is no beer famine there, how
ever, and Sherman is quiet. ot
The Central railroad conductor
l. o. H. \ =
the United States court, at Dallas,
tor violation of the civil rights
bill W ere acquitted. .u.
The San Marcos Nutshell tells of a
little child that fell into the river at
that place last week, and was res
cued by Newfoundland dog, which
boldly plunged in and brought the
little one to shore. .t-..
The following was one of the
toasts at the Hood reunion banquet
Wednesday: "The honest men on
both sides of our unhappy struggle;
they have never lost their self-re-
spect nor respect for each other"
The Paris Banner says the people
OF Smith county will all vote for
Austin for the location of the uni
versity in preference to Waco, be-
cause the Waco papers said some
thing about Tyler that was not
pretty. .....--...,
Perfectly splendid" will no longer
be heard issuing from the thin, rosy
lips and finely curved mouth of the
beautiful maiden. 1t has been
changed, and is now used about as
follows: ooh, George, it is too ut
terly utter"
A correspondent of the Seguin
Times has been travelling west of
San Antonio and tells that paper the
poorer farms belong to Americans,
and those with whitewashed fences,
rock houses, farms, and straight
clear rows belong to Germans.
Groesbeeck Nel0 Era: "The Woot-
EN- wells, at Bremond, are having a
big run. 1t Is said that those who
drink the water lose desire for
whisky, tobacco, etc. If so, the state
ought to buy the place and turn it
into an inebriate asylum"
The Navasota Tablet of June oath
says: "The corn crop of Grimes
county is ruined past recovery; there |
will not be enough left to feed the |
people and stock. The cotton is not |
yet injured, but it is blooming very
rapidly, showing that it is not grow
ing much"
The Dallas papers announce that |
the Missouri Pacific road is refusing
TO pull sleepers brought to Denison
over the Central road. The result |
Is that the best class of travel going
north is forced to take the Gould |
roads, either by way of the Iron
Mountain or Missouri Pacific routes.
The Franklin Ph9nir reports a
case in Robertson
as follows: "a white man,
William Turnage, was arrested on
Tuesday, upon an indictment for
Miss Emma Scott, col
'red lady. The happy couple now
peep thro' the iron bars of the Rob-
,rtson county bastile, being unable
o give bond. They were united
'nly a few days ago, and ere the
honeymoon is over they awake to a
ealizatiOn of the stubborn fact that
III their marital troubles are not lit
lie Ones"
Dallas Herald: Representative
of Medina county, has a 4
,uxom, beautiful daughter, and Otto
IOn Wartensleben loved her. The
I'D man did not like the schoolmas-
er and forbade him his house, for.
lie vowed no school teacher ought
o be allowed to marry the daugh-
er OF member of the 18th legisla.
ure. Otto played Romeo, and a
ew nights ago, stealing up to the
window of his lady love, removed
lis shoes and climbed up through the
a regular ''tassel gentle" to
njoy for a brief spell, loves sweet
lalliance. But the wide-awake rep
sentative heard q noise in the
Dom. and suspecting something, |,
vent i'll and he and Otto had it hot
nd heavy. The old man downed
ION Wartensleben, who begging
Justify. was let up. No sooner was he
Up than he tackled the old man |
gain, who striking him across the
rm with a siX-shoOter, broke it, =
nd it is his arm Otto now carries