The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-19
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIES.

snerlH IN me stale.
The Bryan Rifles will attend the
Houston Volksfcst.
And now ii is Denison that is TO
have a new Republican daily paper.
Reese Wilson, of Pamela county,
is now editor of the Center Cham
piOn. ~.
Ii is expected that the Texas &
ST. Louis railway will reach Waco
by the oath.
| The Greenbackers of Limestone
countyheld meeting ut Groesbeeck
last Saturday.
j Houston has a new weekly paper,
the German Post, published by Mr..
i Charles Medlinke. q.
The Tyler Courier makes the
Smith county cotton acreage this
year less than last year.
There are thirty-two brick bust
ness houses now under contract, to
be built at once, IN Corsicana.
| The "poker-dicc legislature" is
what the Castrpville Quill cynically
dubs the Seventeenth Legislature.
The Democrats are holding pre-
hminary meeting, and getting ready
for a new election for mayor in Dali
las. ii,
The BraZoria Independent reports
work on the jetties at the mouth of
the Brazos- AS progressing satisfac-
tOrily.
The extension of the Texas & Pa
ciiic road from Sherman to Fort
Worth is now completed and open
for business. 10 80
Galveston is represented as being
in a very uncleGn condition. As the
sickly season draws near, this fact
attracts attention. tI
At Texarkana they are prose-
cutting saloohists and gamblers by
the Wholesale; many convictions
haVe been secured.
Cleburne, johnson county, is max
ing an effort to have the Chicago,
Texas ~ Mexican railway pass
through that town. .. a..
There is n scarcity of hogs among
the farmers of johnson county.
Corn is plenty, and the farmers have
no hogs TO consume it.
V. G. Frost, president of the Fran
CO Texas Land Company, has abb
seconded from WeatherfOrd with
about $4,000 of the cOmpany's funds.
=. l. Edgas, of Dallas, the Texas
pedestrian, is now in Chicago TO take
place in the approaching SIX days
walking match for the O'Leary belt.
Next Monday the Houston Age
win be ten years old, and Uncle
Daniel proposes to celebrate the oc-
casion by issuing ten thousand
extra copies. 4
j. X. Goodwin, an educated and
cultivated man, who has recently
come 10 Fort Worth from New
Hampshire, was the other day ad-
judged lunatic. t -,
Simmons, the husband of the wo-
man and father ofthe boy murdered
near San Antonio some weeks ago,
has proved that he was at San Mar
cos on the day of the murder,
The Houston Age says the g. G Il
). F., is kicking up merry thunder
with railroad passenger rates be.
tween Houston and Galveston. Last
~ was Ouf1 lWtnLI-lfNt
cents for the round trip.
The Dallas Times says: "Mr. Glynn1
Nj. Baker, superintendent of the
Southern Division of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was
kicked by ahorse' and had his left |
leg broken one day last~week."
Hon. Geo. w. Julian, o. Indiana,
an ex-Republican. congressman, has
been spending some time in Texas,
and writes letter to a friend al |
home in which he speaks in highly |
complimentary terms of our state |
and people. .-14E
The conservation of Father j. G.
NeraZ, rs bishop of the diocese of
Western Texas, took place at San
ami, for elaborate details,
extent and scope of ceremony, and
Importance as a church event, has
never been exceeded in Texas. /
A great manybuildings are now in
course of erection at FL Paso. The
principal material used i'm the con-
struction is adobe. Some of the
business blocks have brick fronts.
Lumber used there comes from
and sells at the yard at
S75 per thousand feet.
San Antonio Saxon: "A pine tree
was felled in Jasper county recently
that was over 200 years old, hehce
il stood in all the proportions of a
majestic pine when America was
discovered. We have seen it often.
Ii was'.about eight feet in diameter
three feet above the ground" |
A former Mexican resident of San
Antonio, Colonel Manuel Sabariego,
OF San Luis PotOsi, who lett San
Antonio in 1884, has arrived i'm that
city for the purpose Of establishing
his CLAIM to eight acres of land now
ln the heart of the city and worth
several hundred thousand dollars.
Major Penn and his vile, with the
aid OF many friends, celebrated their
silver wedding at Palestine, on the
S0th. The list OF presents from all
over Texas, sent as tokens of appre-
citation, were numerous, represent
ing things useful in the household
The only present sent from Austin,
in the published list, was
from Mr.. and Mrs. b. Q. Wells. L
The Orange ISIbHne SAYS that
at this season OF the year
the lumber mills are saving aud
piling. up lumber for the winter
trade; but this season the~demand
Tor lumber is so great that the mills
ere considerably behind with orders.
rhe Tribune anticipates an advance 4
m the price of lumber, and thinks
hose who are needing it had better
buy now. .,. hsa.Guti-. '.t.ii II
e The house of Mr.. III. A. Adams, of
county, was struck by light
ming, and the room and the hall
through which the electric currents
passed showed many evidences of
heir destructive power. The cleo
richly melted various implements
IF metal andtore the walls and par
inons to pieces, and yet four per-
IONS, around whom the electric cur /,
'ents passed in closest proximity,
'eeeived only moderate shocks. II
In the neIghborhood of Sardis
amp ground, in Ellis county. there !
8 organized "The Peoples Protec-
i've Police" Any person of good
'epute can become a member OH 4
payment of 81. The society has two
,ailiffs, who are authorized to call L.
belonging to the society, to
ollow horse thieves. -All'expenses |,
re to be paid by the society. The
is expressly to arrest
md bring to legal punishment all
blenders. I.ynching is prohibited
BreahQM Bonner. Mr. n r.