The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-15
TExAs-FAcTs AND FANo1Es

Galveston landlords are raising
rents.
The Tunes wants public park in
Seguin.
The Dallas daily Gazette has ham
ded in its checks.
Laredo is going to have a Presby-
terrain church edItice.
Galveston policemen now get SIS
per month, an increase of $l5.
Denison will celebrate its ninth
birthday on the twenty-third.
Weatherford has a compress COM
pany with n capital of $4,000.
The Hebrews of Waco have erect
ed synagogue costing $4,000.
A Dallas marble dealer is inspect
ing the marbles of San Saba county.
The cotton crop of Wharton coun-
ty is reported TO be good and free of
worms.
HillsbOro is on n boom in conse-
quence of the approach of the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
The Texas and Pacific road laid
fifty miles of track during the month
of August.
Calvert boasts of having been
spared speech on the university
ques ton.
The annual election of officers of
the Dallas board of trade took
place Monday.
Corpus Christi shipped 100000
pounds of wool for the commercial
year ending July 81.
The San Saba Net0S is opposed to
conveying lands to any but actual
settlers at a low price.
Gnat Curious was in town yester-
day, and this is why the supply of
beer gave out late last night.
j. w. Daniel, an employee of the
Missouri Pacific railway, was
drowned the other day near Hills
boro.
The Texas aud st. Louis railway
is looking to the westward, and we
are wondering what Austin is gong
to do about il.
On Tuesday, September 18th, the
San Antonio Duly Express will ap-
pear i'll a new dress and enlarged to
thirty-siX columns.
j. X. Rankin, of Dewitt county,
is 81 years old. lie reads without
glasses, walks erect and gives prom
Use of living many years.
The-steamer City of San Antonio,
which encountered cyclone off the
Florida coast and was forced to put
IN at Fernandina and Key West, ar
rived safely at Galveston.
The Baptist state convention of
Texas will meet in Galveston on the
10Th inst, and continue in session
five days. The attendance will be
large-Bucknerites, Linkites and
all.
The San Antonio Express learns
that Gonzales has offered Col. Pierce
$25, 900 in money and 10000 ties for
tap road from Harwood, and that
the tap is TO build Immediately.
Fine grapes sell at FL Paso,
two large punches for q nickel ;
large, white, delicious peaches, ten
cents dozen, and pears the same
price, all raised in the Rio Grande
valley.
Mr.. Il. b. Pegram, superintendent
of the gulf division of the Interna-
tional, has resigned, and taken SER
vice as general manager of the Men,
phis and Charleston road.
The Chicago and Mexican Central
railway will be pushed from Dallas
towards the Mexican border. Mr.
L. p. Odel, late of the Missouri Paci-
tic, has taken charge of the general
management.
In kaufman county q dispute
arose between Clayton and Pearson
about the latter watering his stock
out of waterhole controlled by
the former. Pearson shot Clayton
twice and escaped.
Pecos City, on the Pecos river, is
described as lively town of $50 in
habitants with six barrooms, all
run by men weighing from 1876 to
250pounds and muscled and heeled
according to size and weight.
The Corpus Christi Ledger is in
formed, upon good authority, that
Captain r. King will brand this year
in the neighborhood of 10000 calves.
These, at the end of one year, will be
worth $4,000.
The Houston Age says: "San
Antonio may not have as much
wealth as Galveston or Houston,
but San Antonio is no sardine. She
may not countso many dollars as
the two cities on the coast, but can
count noses with the best of Them"
Gnat Curious last Record is stale
and fiat. He is satisfied he has been
supplying the Texas press with
brains, and so he may, for certainly
none are left to poor Gnat. But he
has been good fellow and regu-
lar brain packhorse, and it is sad to
see that he has played out-petered.
The Boerne Register says that over
100000 head of sheep have already
passed through Kendall county this
year, some gong up, others going
down, the largest number going no.
where in particular, being merely
driven about the country to save the
owners buying or renting land and
paying revenue to the state.
The association of Free Thinkers
OF Bell county, of which DIR. Rus |
sell, who was whipped some years
ago by mob for liberal opinions,
is a member, will hold their sixth |
anniversary ON the 10th and 18th in
stants, near Little Rock academy,
in Bell county. A large attendance |
is anticipated.
There will eventually be no town
at the Pecos river, ON the Texas and |
Pacific road, and the people are all |
preparing to move 10 point twenty
one miles west of the river, where |
there is a magnificent spring ofl
water, and where the railroad COM
psny will establish the end of di-
vision, with round houses, turn ia
bles etc.
w. w. Ross, official reporter for
the agricultural bureau of northern
Texas, completed his crop report a
few days ago. It shows about one
fourth of corn crop. Wheat is all
threshed and the crop fair and of
good quality. Oats yield from forty
to eighty bushels per acre. Cotton
will hardly yield above one-third of
an average crop.
Within the last twelve months in
Texas 1884 miles of railway have
been built, costing $4,000. 600: the