The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-15
TexasFacts and Fancies.

county, destroyed several thousand
dollars worth of property.
The jefferson and East Line road
has been recognized, with James A.
Baker, OF Houston, as president.
Major +. NJ. Smith, an old and
much respected citizen of Cameron,
finished his mortal career as a sui
eide.
In the county criminal court of
Burleson county sixteen convictions
were made before dinner on Mon
day.
Master Mechanic David T.. FitZ-
gerald was killed by being run over
by switch engine at Milano June
tion.
PleasantOn is excited over the
Texas-Mexican railroad question.
Its people are anxious to secure the
road.
The Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe
road beng flushed to Fort Worth,
through trains 10 Galveston will be
put on at once.
The Independent says the partially
constructed jetty at the mouth of
the Brazos stands the winds and
waves admirably.
The street letter boxes in San An
tonic have been robbed so frequent
ly, that the postmaster has ordered
them all taken down.
Prisoners confined in the iron
cages of the Sherman Jail suffer from
cold, there being no provision for
warming the prison.
When the Galveston journal
comes to us all torn up and defaced
we take il that the editor has been
on one of his usual "tares."
Grading ON the East Line is pro-
crossing west of Greenville, and ii
isnow asserted that the road will be
completed to Mckinney by April
LIST.
Laredo is to have a whole months
''fiestas," beginning December oath.
During the fiesta there will be bull
fights twice n week, cock fights and
horse and mule races.
Captain June Peak, of Dallas,
was married few days since to Miss
Henrietta Bail. They left for the
City of Mexico, where the captain
now makes his home.
Seven car loads of rails have ar
rived Mt Bolton for the extension of
the Sante Fe west. Ii is expected
that track laying from Bolton to
Lampasas will commence about JAN
uary LIST.
The case of the state of Texas v.
tie Western Union telegraph COM
pany, involving the right of the
state to tax dispatches, will be ar
gued before the supreme court of
the United States on the 9th of JAN
uary.
Thomas L. Mason, lately of Cald-
we'll or Bastrop county, whose pres
ent whereabouts is unknown, will
relieve an anxious and sorrowing
relative by forwarding his address
TO the Monitor, Pleasanton, Texas.
Lucien Farley, shot by Rains, at
Bolton, last summer, died at his
home in Corsicana o few days ago.
Rains plead guilty to assault with
intent to kill and was sentenced to
the penitentiary but escaped from
penitentiary guard at Hearne.
The investigation into the origin
of recent fires that have almost de-
stroyed the town of Palestine is in
progress. The insurance compa-
mics cancelled. all policies on the
stock of tho Philopowskl Bros,
as it is thought they had a hand in
the burning.
The farmers throughout the state
have about finished gathering their
crops, and are now busy repairing
fences and making preparations for
next years crop. So far rs prepara-
ton is concerned, the farmers will
be in much better condition next
year than. they were this.
lobe Bass, constable at Mineola,
imbued with the spirit of his great
Mame-sake, masked himself, and
with his sixshooter in hand, robbed
three citizens in the Sabine bottom.
He was discovered and arrested.
Bass is about 50 years old and has a
respectable family.
Col. NJ. IL. Jeflerds, of Galveston,
is still working on that railroad
from the Island City to the Rio
Grande. His Galveston and Camar-
go road fell through several years
ago, but he has now, it is reported,
organized a new company with am
pie capital to build. We will see.
The Greenbackers of Fort Worth,
wanting it to be heard that they are
still political fact, if not q force,
find q new affinity. They have
pooled their issues with certain. or
rather uncertain, element of the
Irish population, and "resolute" de-
nunciations ofGladstone with vim.
while at the same moment they an
imadvert upon the national debt
and the national banking system.
The courthouse of Wise county
was destroyed by fire q few days
ago. All the county records, in
Guiding indictments and records of
stock brands, were burned. The
fire was discovered about 2 O'Clock
in the morning and had made such
Roadway that nothing could be done
to save the building or its contents.
The loss to the county can not be
estimated in dollars and cents. 1t
is thought to have been the work of
an incendiary. There has been
much discussion recently over the
building ola new courthouse and it
is not improbable that somebody
wanting job fired the old one.
Lieutenant Flipper's servant, upon
whose person were found impor-
tant papers that he claimed to have
sent to his superior officer, explains
that she had the key to his trunk for
the purpose of putting away his
newly washed clothing; that she
lad been warned by clipper to take
special care of his papers, and that
on the morning of the arrest she
was house cleaning with the assist
ance OF person she did not trust
and, not beng ready TO lock the
trunk, she had hidden the papers il
her clothing for safe keeping. il
was shown that previous state
ment of the witness ON this subjec
somewhat contradicted her evi
dence.
The earnings of the Gulf, Colora
do and Santa Fe railway for Octo
Der were $127,421, an increase owe
October, 1880, of 72.8 per cent. DC
tober earnings Houston, East an,
West Texas $lS,S61 an increase owe
rame month last year 1913 per cent.
earnings for nine months endin:
October 81, 1881, $685. 400. Octobe
earnings of Texas and Pacific, $403,
$40, increase over October. 1886
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