The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
TEXAS FACTS AND fANclEs.


Sunday excursions are popular at
San Antonio.
Dallas is still worrying over the
water question.
Burglars are driving a good bust
ness in Denton.
The Dallas Land League has sent
$1,000 to Ireland.
The rains haye been quite general
throughout the state.
The Waco Telephone is advertising
for compositors.
There are a good many health
seekers in San Antonio.
The bricklayers at Corslcana have
struck for higher wages.
The wife of X. III. Small, editor of
the Palestine Nesc Era, is dead.
The amateurs at Waxahachie beat
the Chicago professional walking.
That new opera house scheme ut
Dallas is assuming tangible shape.
The Corsicana papers are booming
up the water works for their town.
The Terds Liee Stock Journal has
opened a branch Office in San An
tonic.
The First and Second Baptist
churches of Houston, have CONSOLE
dated.
The BRENNAN compress has mash
ed $4,000 bales of cotton the present
season.
The Palmer-Sullivan railroad COM
pany keeps the people of Galveston
in suspense.
A number of yOung ladies in Cor
sicana have formed an amateur con-
cert organization.
Waco offers to donate fifty acres
of land to the state university, if To-
Gated in that city.
The Dallas people are not SUBJ
scribing to Gov. Hubbard's railroad
IN very great haste.
And now the Dallas people are
worried about a quarrel over the
dumping grounds"
The city assessor and collector
the city of Houston is about $4400
short in his accounts.
The Santa Fe railway is running
excursion trains to Major PENIS
camp meeting at Caldwell.
BRENNAN is suffering from an at
tack from the great North American
diversion known as base ball.
Gas is now furnished to consumers
in the town of Paris, Lamar county,
at $3.50 per thousand feet.
Hands are being employed to open
up and work the coal mines near
Cisco on the L. & p.
The Texas papers are giving the
Atlanta exposition a good deal OF
notice, and it deserves it.
The Waco Telephone does not like
Governor Roberts refusal to join in
the thanksgiving proclamation.
A lady attempted suicide at
Hampstead. She gave as reason
therefor too much daughter-in-law.
There is some talk of the East st.
Louis packing and provision compa.
ny locating branch house at Dallas.
A case of variotoid developed on
woman at Sherman the other day.
She was recently from Philadelphia.
The volksfest at Columbus, in
| spite of the many drawbacks-bad
weather and drought-was sue
| cess.
! Public sentiment is rather divi-
ded at Weatherford as to whether
Burton should have been committed
or not.
One of the men who made the as
sault on Massey at Live Oak camp
meeting, has been fined So at Waco
by Jury.
In Dallas county E. H. Work SLAM
dered Ben North. They met to set
tie the matter. Work Is dead and
North missing.
The business men of Sulphur
Springs have contributed $500 to
sink an artesian we'll on the public
square of that town.
The Corsicana people are becom-
ing thoroughly disguised with the
sanctificationists, and some more
"rail-riding" may result.
Two car loads OF fat sheep are to
be shipped from San Antonio to
Paris, France. A previous shipment
was made and proved satisfactory.
Chickens are scarce and in demand
at Caldwell, where the big camp
meeting is going on. 1t is the con-
lecture that Major Penn gets away
with about a half dozen each day.
The Brazoria Independent says
that a thirteen-year-old boy out
hunting squirrels on the Bernard.
killed panther, thinking when he
shot it he was shooting at squirrel.
All of the Texas papers contain
advertisements for artisans, mechan-
les, laborers, etc. Truly Texas is
booming, and there is no necessity
for a man being out ofwork single
day.
Twenty-eightT Texans, arrivals dur
ing the past week, are now sojourn-
ing at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and
taking the benefit of those SilOmon-
ians waters-for dyspepsia, doubt
less,
The first legal hanging in Texas
took place at Houston in the spring
of 1888. The sufferers were two
men named Quick and Jones. The
date of the first illegal one is not re-
corded.
/ Colored longshoremen at Calves
ton who unloaded brick-laden YES
sells, struck for higher wages,
demanding fifty cents per thousand,
an advance from twenty to twenty
five cents
The Waco Examiner is of the
opinion that cooperative stores are
doing great deal of good and it
publishes list of those now in sue
cessful operation in the state. The
| list is quite lengthy.
The city and the county attorneys
of Marshall, during the empaneling
ola jury last week, gave a free pugi-
listic exhibition in the court house
which cost them each 1926 license, the
| Judge acting as collector.
| Henry Gregory, a negro COW thief,
was shot and killed while under ar
rest at Ellingen, Fayette county, by
an unknown party in the night. He
was supposed to be the leader OF a
gang of cattle stealers.
At an early day all the Texas con-
gressmen will. be invited to attend a
barbecue at the mouth of the Bra
EOS, and during the visit will be ex-
pected to make examinations of the
| work progressing there.
| Hong Kong lemonades, are popu-
lar in Dallas. They are made of
iced tea, sugar and lemons, and are
1 regarded as the most refreshing
drink ever introduced down the
Threats of sweltering populace.
The Bolton Courier suggests the
idea of utilizing the idle ponds and
tanks for raising bull-frogs. The
Brennan Banner approves the idea,
and says as table delicacy the hind
Ilegs of the bull-frog are far superior
to those of frying chickens. Uncle
Dan knows all about legs.