The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-24
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIeS.

The little town of Ferris, is 10 have
a soap factory soon.
San Antonio has organized an
electric light company.
Tracklaying on the Sunset road
beyond San Antonio has begun.
People of San Antonio are looking
after the electric light question.
At Fort Worth the earth is sink.
ing. Were Paddock there it would
be no phenomenon.
The constitutional amendments
proposed by the present Legislature
will be voted on in September next
A. ID. Landrum, editor of the San
Saba Necs, has passed in his last
copy. His disease was consumption
The Santa Fc railway will run
through Morgan, and it is thought,
Meridian, in Bosque county, will
have similar luck.
John b. Harmed, of Burnet county,
killed himself, accidentally, with a
shotgun in his own house in the
presence of his wife.
In 1910 Texas produced 10000 bales
of cotton; in 1870, 100000 bales, and
in 1880, over 1000, 900, more than half
bale to each inhabitant.
1t is stated that jay Gould has or
dered a survey for q railroad to be
made from Waco to the mouth of
the Brazos, with branch to Gal
weston.
The sanitary condition OF Calves
ton, as represented by Mr.. John,
and he tells the gospel TRUTH" is
worse than it has been for twenty
years. Mr.. John is one of the city
"dads."
Mrs. Tabitha Mckinney declares
the State owes her an escheated es-
tate worth $1,000,O0O. She is from
Virginia and is "a years old. She is
on charity and will be apt to con-
tinue so.
Miss Flora Tourney, of Paola, Kan
sas, has just been admitted to the
bar, after searching examination.
She is a handsome blonde, highly
educated, and accomplished in mus
ic and painting.
Col. HuRgerford, vice president of
the New York, Texas & Mexican
Central railway, is at Richmond and
will at once, so it is reported, let con-
tracts for grading between Rich
mond, on the BraZos, and Victoria,
on the Guadalupe river.
The Texas and Pacific through
mail and express trains. now run to
Sweetwater. two hundred and thirty
four miles west of Dallas. The Col
orado river will DO reached next
month and the town Of that name
will be division terminus.
Willard Payne and John Gray,
friends and relatives got their blood
stirred up with Dallas whisky, and
then they differed, and Gray let out |
Payne's life blood, instead of the |
bad liquor, through many fatal cuts
made with pocket knife.
A divorced man and wife, named |
Lanton, after fifteen years of legal |
during which time both |
we're married, and both, in time, be-
reaved by deaths doings, met and |
agreed to remarry /;
and they were speedily remade one.
AS an evidence of the power of
the press, even in new fields, it may
be stated that a printer named |
working on the NewYor
Herald, has lately had a boy-child |
born to himself, which weighed at |
birth 21A pounds. The STATESMAN
typo. who lately launched into the
matrimonial business may ponder
over this fact.
The Express declares there is no
use in commencing to store away
any bottles or demjohns of whisky
TO be in readiness for prohibition.
The question may not be submitted |
10 the people; and if submitted may
be defeated; and if carried the clause
will be imperative until the next
of the legislature thereaf-
Ter to provide penalties, and for car
wing the..new law into effect. There
will be plenty of time in which to
taper off,"
Touching the Hubby commute
lion discussion the BRENNAN Ban
1er says: of Governor Roberts
'eally desires to keep the peace, he
will henceforth refrain from afford
ng a text for this free lyceum of de-
bate. The Governor and Hon. w.
<. Homan haYe been heard on one
ide and Judge Spencer Ford and
IN ex-sheriff of Milan county on the
'ther side. The people of Milan
county, who should know most
bout it, do not side with the Gov
,rnor. Others are free to form their
'wn opinions.