The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21

1t is reported that Mr.. Henry VIM
ninhoff, formerly of San Antonio,
has been killed by Indians i'll Mex
CO.
Wheat near Waco is in the most
fiourishing condition. One farmer
has three hundred acres over a foot
high.
DIR. Haden, of Galveston, was Of
fered the Superintendency of the
Lunatic ASYLUM, and the offer was
declined.
Gen. ii. p. Bee is at Taylor, at
tending upon his son, Barnard, upon
whom horse fell, causing confusion
of the brain.
Temple Houston, son of Gen. Sam
Houston, will soon start paper at
Brazoria, to be known as the
Southern AdcdRce.
No other state in the Union has
ever, or probably will ever show
such rapid railroad construction as
Texas can show at present.
\ young man named Edward
LeDec, living on the Medina, was
bitten by a rattlesnake, and the
poison was sucked out of the wound
by his sister.
Machinery is now being taken to
Galveston for the manufacture of
cotton ties, and the coming crop of
cotton will be partially bound with
Texas made ties.
The Bolton Ark Lodge, /. o. OF
will give a grand ball at Bolton on
Tuesday evening, April 26. The
STATESMAN acknowledges receipt
of invitation to attend.
Mr.. John III. Jacobs, while run
ming after cattle in Goljad county.
was either thrown from his horse
or the animal fell upon him, and he
died from injuries received almost
Immediately.
The big day of the Seangerfest at
| Galveston will be the twenty-first,
when the "sogers," the firemen, the
singing societies and all the rest of
the people will be in procession. 1t
will be observed in the Island City
as general holiday.
One hundred and twenty-five
miles of new steel rails have been
laid on the main line of the Central
road, principally between Denison
and Hearne, and by the end of
summer the entire line will be relaid
and made as good as new.
The people of Brentwood are
moving in the direction of securing
| our broad-gauge eX-Governor's mar
row gauge railway. The Texas &
st. Louis will soon be finished to
Waco and then it moves westward.
What do the people of Austin have
to say about it? .-
| G.. ii. Hinchman, of Philadelphia,
President of the Texas & Mexican
narrow gauge railway, is on the way
to Corpus Christi TO look after his
new interests in Texas. He is ac-
companied by several persons of
considerable wealth from Pennsyl-
vania and Massachusetts.
The Orange Tribune says that
from all indications more timber
will be put in the Sabine river this
year than during any Two years past.
Yet, even if the supply is equal to
the capacity of the mills, the demand
of lumber and single consumers
cannot possibly be met.
A young man named Lindsey be-
came slightly mixed on local option
and a beef trade in Lancaster, Dali
las county, and thereupon he did
cut his throat from ear to ear. The
discretion of the young man was
apparent. however, when 1t was dis
covered that the wound was only
skin deep.
The New Orleans Democrat says:
The contract for the completion of
the grand trunk line to Marshall,
Texas, insures through rail commu-
nicatiOn with San Francisco within
the year. The contractors are the
most responsible railroad builders
in the country, and are at work at
four points on the line already.
Hon. George Washington Jones is
cunning chap. He wanted to
open the next Greenback canvass,
and the county erected a little
bridge, and he met the people there
10 celebrate the fact, and then he
put in his political tongue. and the
people listened to him. las they always
do to Wash Jones in old Bastrop.
A writer in the BrOWH County
Banner proves that the law govern
ing the catching of fish is farce,
since it prohibits the use of any
thing to take fab except u hook and
line, at which shad and other salt
water fish, running up stream to
spawn, will never bite. He says
further, that schools of shad have
been seen ascending the Concho
river, f-r
1t is said that one of the proposed
schemes at the coming Atlanta Cot
ton Exposition is to have its Presi-
dent, Mr.. Brown, appear in a SUIT
of clothes, the cotton in which was
growing in the field the day before,
the picking, ginning, spinning and
weaving to be done before q COM
mittee. A cotton-feld, illustrating
the various methods of cotton cul-
ture, will be another feature of the
exposition. $50 tyt..
The Missouri Pacific engineers,
who made their initial point of a sur
vey at Virginia Point for the pro-
posed extension of the Missouri ex-
tension of the Missouri Pacific south
ward from Waco to some point on
| IlC y ull, nave run llnC lIOlll IL :
ginia Point to Sandy Point, thence
to Random station on the Sunset,
and are now engaged in surveying a
road south from Random to the
mouth of the Brazos river. As soon
as this is completed they win COM
mence a survey ON the main line
north to Waco.
The Ell Paso Herald CLAIMS pre-
sent population for the town pro-
per of 1900, but that within a radius
of one mile, including Ell Paso,
| Mexico and Fort Bliss, there are no
less than 5000 people. There are at
present Two tirst-class hotels, five
restaurants, two bakeries, eight
\ general merchandise stores, one
: iewelry store, two printing Offices,
two meat markets, one general pro-
duee store, two wholesale liquor
d houses, United States custom house
and signal station, one, bank, one
lumber and brick yard, two black
smith shops, one tin shop, one car
penter shop, three tailor shops, one
hide and pelt store, two news depots,
a soda factory, two feed and sale
corrals, a grist mill, six saloons and
/ the inevitable dance hall. .ta,
4 A correspondent of the Castro
| vile Quill writes from Fort Davis
about mineral deposits in Presidio
county. He says: "The grass is