The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-18
Texas-Facts and Fancies.

A4O"Sil AhJulCu 1T OdlN0SlOu.
a burglar, only fourteen years of
age, has been arrested at Galveston.
A young lady is to have charge of
the telephone exchange at Fort
Worth.
a Kerosene lamp exploded in a
saloon at Luling, and came near
causing very serious confagration.
The keel of the man-of-war Bru-
tus, recovered from Galveston bay,
Is being manufactured into canes for
distribution to Texas veterans.
Mrs. Gardner, of Wills Point,
killed her child by giving it strych-
nine for quinine.
Some agitatOrs in San Antonio
want that city to come out for the
university location.
The Guard says the cotton crop
of Goliad county will not be near
so large as that of last year.
The county judge of Milan coun-
ty is required to give $4,000 bond.
as custodian of the school fund.
A new town is being laid off on
the line of the Santa Fe railway,
near Meridian, in Bosque county.
A Corsicana clerk was taken out
snlpe hunting the other night and
held the bag until 2 O'Clock in the
morning.
The Age says 100000 bales is not an
eXtravagant estimate of what Hous-
ton cotton dealers will handle of this
years crop.
1t is understood that Gonzales of
fered Major Converse, of the Sunset
Route, $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in
property for the tap.
A negro preacher stabbed and
killed one of his brethren at Nc
Kinney few days since. Verdict
OF the iury-justifiable. homicide.
There was a collision between
freight trains on the Santa Fe road
near Cameron last Tuesday. Con-
siderable smash up, but no lives lost.
Shooting galleries are voted a
nuisance in Brennan and suppress
ed. They let base ball have its way,
however.
The mayor of Waco refuses to
sign the contract extending the
lease of the property to the Waco
water works company.
The water company of Dallas has
refused the offer of the city to buy
the works for 100000 cash. The
company wants 100000.
The Knights of Pythias of Dallas
give a grand midsummer picnic on
the 18th INST, and have invited
lodges from the surrounding towns.
A young lady at Gonzales saws
her town is splendid place for
manageable young men to locate.
She suggests that they must be hand
some and sweet and treat to ice
cream every night.
GoIad Guard: The railroad sur
veying party are still encamped at
Goliad. Numerous lines, we are in
formed, have been surveyed into
town, but no one knows which of
the routes will be adopted by the
managers.
Cuero BuLLetIn: We learn from
Yorktown, Concrete, Meyersville,
Clinton, Terryville and Thomaston
that the cotton crop is in a fair con-
dition and that picking the staple
has now been entered into with
vim that must result in large weld
of cotton.
Lockhart Register: Mr.. Sam An
derson, who lives on Jerry's creek,
five miles east of town, tells us that
of a two acre watermelon patch he
has this year sold in Lockhart 800
worth OF melons. This is more than
the same amount of land would
have yielded in cotton, and the
melons are raised with much more
ease than cotton.
HicO Times: "There are resident
within the borders of Hamilton
county only four negroes, appa-
rently phenomenal fact in q south
ern state. The absence OF colored
people, however, brings about
state of affairs vastly different from
that in the Brazos and southern
counties. There is only one Repub-
llcan vote cast in the county. The
two facts may or may not go to-
gether."
The EUening light makes a pro-
position which Mr.. Mack and the
Telephone and Examiner would do
well to consider. 1t says: If Aus
tin is the immoral spot that Waco
and ThOrp Springs would make
it out to be, we will dare any Wa
cote or Thorp Springite to throw
the first stone. They don't dare do |
1t. Austin attracts more scrutiny, |
but that il is more immoral, accord |
ing to its opportunities, than Waco,
we don't believe word of it.
An exchange gets off the follow
ing, which the village schoolmasters |
OF Texas can read, if they have q |
mind to: "Mr. Teacher: Dot poy |
Of mine vos absent de oder day ven |
he shtaid out. He got one big
colt NIT in bis neck vat make him |
much trouble all the vile. Please |
don't give him some punishment ven
he was late in the morning. He |
wOult got there shust in time every |
lay, but he is not himselfto blame
he is got no mother. She vos dead |
en years ago. / am this boys pa
rent, by his mother, before she was
lead"
The four following incidents oc-
cured in Wood county last week,
Ill in four days, and in an area of |
four miles apart: l. Two men got |
INTO a difficulty which originated be-
tween their wives. One killed the
other with shotgun. 2. A gun in
The hands of man accidentally dis
charged and killed little girl. 8.
man went into a well, and being |
1rawn up by his wife and brother,
IN reaching the top he tainted and
ell back into the well, the fall kill
ng him instantly. 4. Two boys out
ishing took shelter under a tree
rom a shower of rain. Lightning
struck the tree, killing one of the
boys and iniuring the other beyond
recovery.
The following persons were elect
I'd officers of the state firemen's as
ISOLATION for the ensuing year, by
he annual convention just adjourn
ID at Sherman: President, w. G.
Jonnor, Dallas; vice-president, o.
;. Conner, Paris; second vice-presi-
lent, Tom Forbs, Jr., Sherman;
bird vice-president, L. Coen,
Gainesville; fourth vice-president, |
Viii Jones, Waco; fifth vice-presi-
lent, A. p. Alisbury, Hampstead
ixth vice-president, Frank NARROW,
seventh yice-president,
!. L. Moore, Brennan; eighth vice.
PRESIDENT, w. b. Brush, Austin
ecretary and treasurer, j. w. Col
edge, Waco; assistant recording