The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIES.

n uuIHoeT VI WeiS III w AGO are
: going dry. e.r r
Sherman's artesian we'll has been
abandoned.
Montague county has ply scho-
lastic population.
A Clement attachment is To be
erected at Corsicana. -..i
Croquet by moonlight is popular
now in many Texas towns.
A Hebrew educational society has
been organized at Houstona.rT,
. Chris. Rogers, the marshal of Pal
: estine, is on trial for murderor5ar
Considerable sickness is reported
as existing around Caldwell
A young lady is superintendent of
public schools at Fort Worth. n.1l al.
Wool quotations in San Antonio
are about the same as In Austin. pa
1t is thought the late fire at Waco
was the result of incendiaryism. =.
The Santa Fe grading is COM
pleted thirty miles west of Bolton.
Two young men were drowned
while bathing near Dallas Sunday.
Chicken thieves still continue to
do good business IN San Antonio.
Tyler had case of sunstroke
Tuesday, the first ever known there.
4 Three prisoners were sentenced to
the peniteutiary, at Dallas, Tues
day. n DsII7I
The wheat crop in Guadalupe is
pronounced the finest ever made
there.
And now Dallas has, sure enough,
entered the race for the state uni
versity. .'a
A great deal of sickness is report
ed among the children in Austin
county,. IN -.- d..
An Austin county man has a vine
OF white cucumbers growing in his
garden.
Reports from Mckinney say the
| wheat crop is yielding heavier than
for years.
Two young ladies were killed by
lightning near Henrietta, Texas, ON
the 9th inst.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks
Austin will get the university. They
all think so. @ ....,- i---.rs
Five deaths from sickness and one
from accident occurred in Hillsboro
last Sunday. .-l...
Baskets of peaches and apples are
now rolling into the sanctums of
| Tic eAaS eu1IOfS.
The transactions in cattle at
Gainesville are now numerous, and
upon a large scale. .i- ~ s.-
| A lady was bitten by a tarantula
at Weatherford last Sunday, and is
suffering considerably. a.. an
The Taylor PhonOgrGph wants
home schools where pupils can re-
ceive classical education. t+H
| A Guadalupe county man has
raised three barrels of onions from
fifty cents worth of buttons.
President Garfield has a cousin
who is captain of a tifty-ton schooner
plying in the Texas coast trade.
Longview is said to be ON, a regu-
lar boom since it is made the ter
minus of three railroad divisions.
A shooting affray took place at a |
country church in Ellis county, Sun
day, in which one man was killed. |
Hon. Olin Welborn delivered an
Grafton before the pupils of Marvin
college, at Waxahachie, Wednes-
day. .....3.
The mayor of Corsicana lost, his |
temper in court and was about to
go for drunken prisoner with his
cane.
A Waco saloonist bought lot at |
Banks, and afterwards discovered
that local option was epidemic
there. a-t"
The Beaumont Enterprise says
there was some lively bidding for
Sabine Pass property at the tax
collectors sale. .a.e-a
The Galveston journal says Tom
Ochiltree is at Saratoga, and is sup
posed to take his daily airing in a
four-horse turnout. -f. - -
Henry Leverett, jailer of Llano
pistol; the wound is in his leg just
below the knee joint.
A leader of the demi-monde tried
suiciding the other day at Fort
Worth, but the aid of doctor frus-
trated the arrangement.
Dallas keeps up its reputation.
A bundle containing the corpse of a
boy baby was found Wednesday
in brush heap, in East Dallas.
Robert James was tried i'll the
county court of Fannin county. and
fined 800 for giving away whisky
on election day at Honey Grove. /,
Bryan is soon to have a newspa-
per, published by John n. johnson,
q colored man, which isato be de-
voted to the interests of the colered
race.
The exercises of the Sam Houston !
Normal Institute began at Hunts
vile Tuesday. Many distinguished
visitors, including the Governor,
were present. . Ii
All cononrfS ORC lSunDosn6 tn ba ,
musical, but il remained for the
COrsicana ObSeIver-IndeT to de- j
scribe a "musical concert" that took i
place there last week. '
The Gonzales Inquirer wants to
see the girls learn the art of type-set-
ting, and says it would mot only {
make them a living, but would I'M
prove their intelligence"
1t is suggested by the Sherman
Courier Chronicle that little turf !.
be thrown on the grave of the Deni-
son Republican paper, and that a !
bush be planted at its !
head. --.i.. .
The bondsmen of Andrew j: Walk
er have paid the unremitted half of '
the bond, being $500, but have had 7
it tied up by injunction. Both Har- c
r1s and Montgomery counties claim \
the money. i
Hhe removal of the headquarters '
of the United States military tele- c
graph lines from Denison to San c
Antonio has been officially an 4
nounced, and will probably take S
place about July 1st. adc,
Col. Pierce is about building an Q
home at Seguin; ! has t
$4,000 to the cotton seed 8
oil mill, and the Seguin Times wants t
some more Boston men just like
him to come that way. .e.a-4 Bag
According to the Hampstead Re- I
,ielo, farmers in Waller county are Il
very much discouraged ON account Q
Of the slim chances for a crop this /.
year. Many will think they are 1
lucky if they make half a crop. =. G
Capt. R. S. Hayes, who is now in !,
New York, has been elected first "
Vice-president of the Missouri Pacific Z
railway company, and also first vice. :,
president of the Texas e. Pacific :,
vice Mr.. Bond resigned. :,
A dispatch from Dallas says: v
Crop reports from Wise, Montague, 3,
Clay, Cooke, Grayson Denton, Tar Fl
rant, Parker, johnson, Ellis, KaufF- 10