The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-25
Texas and Fancies.

Texas-Facts and Fancies.
Luling is troubled with burglars. |
Waxahachie is to have a new bank. |
Waxahachie is troubled with scar
let fe-Ter.
Mexia has a new paper, called the
Enterprise.
VennOr is catching it from the
Texas papers.
Falls county reports taxable values
at $3,305,4S0.
The printing business promises to
be good at Laredo.
Waco, not to be outdone by Dallas,
is having water famine.
Henderson county will vote for
Austin for the university.
The Record wants a bank estab.
lished at Georgetown.
Mack got off some of his abuse of
Austin at Waco, Tuesday.
Dallas seems determined to have
that narrow gauge railway.
The trial of the stage robbers,
Wilkerson and Smith, is in progress
at San Antonio.
The San Antonians excurt to Me-
dina Park nearly every Sunday.
A man was found guilty of embez.
element at Dallas, and jailed for one
hour.
The burning of a chicken coop
aroused the Dallas firemen at mid
night.
Alex Casee killed Joe Beal at
Cameron, Friday, by striking him
over the head with a fence rail.
Both negroes.
The Laredo boom is increasing.
The place is to be the great entire
pot between two'great and thriving
countries.
A brute, for numerically whip
ping his wife, was jailed at Dallas.
His name is Lipson; do not forget
the name.
Mr.. Harry Smythe, editor of the
Weatherford Times, who was prose-
cuted for pergery, was honorably
acquitted.
| TeXarkana is one of the most
thriving towns in the state. 1t sup
ports handsomely three newspapers,
one of them daily.
The bondsmcn of the sheriff of
Grayson county have withdrawn
from his bond, and it is thought he
can not make a new one.
A jealous Mexican at Laredo killed
his wife, and then, in attempting to
swim the river to escape, was
drowned.
COrsicana is troubled with bur-
glars. Several sleeping rooms have
been entered recently and watches
and jewelry stolen.
Wyatt, the ex-sheriff of Burleson
county, it is reported, has been ar
rested, charged with being a de-
faulter in the sum of $4,000.
| The Bolton Journal says it was es-
timated that 10000 people were on
the grounds last Sunday at Penn's
Willow Springs campmeeting.
The Galveston NeaoS has received
favorable reports from all parts OF
the state in regard to the cotton
crops. The corn crop is not SO good.
Houston claims to be ahead again
She has made the first shipment OF
new cotton this year that goes out OF
the United States, having shipped
100 bales to Liverpool.
The Dallas Herdld'S presses are
now run by gas engine, a machine
that works without wood, coal or
water, the burning gas making the
motive power.
Henry Hombert died rather sud-
denly in Galveston last Saturday
night. His life was insured for $4,000
and there is some suspicion that he
was poisoned.
AtDallas the police made a raid on
a lumber yard that had been con-
verted into a lodging house they
captured seven tramps who had con-
verified boards into beds.
1t is reported at Fort Worth that
the Texas and Pacific railroad will
haul no more lumber, except for rail-
road purposes, until January. Lum-
Der has advanced in price.
The Corsicana Independent cele-
brated its first birthday by big
edition, and an eight page form. 1t
is good paper, and the STATESMAN
congratulates it upon its success,
A gang of ruffians assaulted Spe-
cial Officer Robinson Cole, of Long
view. Cole was trying to check
rowdyism. Six men assaulted him.
He whipped the whole party and ar
rested three,
The Judge of the county court OF
Palo Pinto county, Texas, ordered
his court adjourned for two hundred
years last week, in order to give the
attorneys ample time to secure the
attendance of their witnesses.
Gov. Hubbard says that his road
has made money by reduction OF
passenger fare from five to three
cents per mile. If the Texas and St
Louis railroad can make money at
these rates why can't the other roads
reduce?
Dallas must be all awful dirty city
The Herald says: "What action is
the board of health taking in the
matter of dirty, disease-breedine
; streets and cutters? Hadn't they
better invite some of the city fathers
to take a tramp along them, either
during the day or at night? 'Theil
offense is rank, it smells to Heaven
Brennan Banner: Campmeetlng
season is now at its height in Texas
This class of meetings was invented
in 1899 on the banks OF the Red river
in Kentucky. These meetings were
intrOduced into ENGLAND bV Rev
Lorenzo Dow, but did not prove
popular. A few years after being
started in Kentucky they were in
troduced i'll the eastern states, but al
this date are not as popular as in the