The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-10-13
Texas-Facts and Fancies


BRENNAN is to have an ice factory.
Lampasas now has brass band.
Smith county has a heavy acorn
| mast.
There were eight deaths in Dallas
| last week.
Pickin. cotton i'll Pamela county is
about over.
Very heavy rains have fallen in
northern Texas.
Brenham received last week 1898
bales of cotton.
Groesbceck's new hoIel has reach
ed the third story.
Major Penn is conducting a meet
ing ut Weatherford.
About fifty Polish immigrants
recently arrived at Hearne.
Burglars are working Longview.
Boy burglars have been operating
i'll San Antonio.
The San Antonio fair offers mag
niticent premiums.
Sorghum is i'll demand at McKin-
ney, at IS cents per gallon.
Up about Mckinney, ram has
damaged the cotton crop.
MAJOR Penn commences a meeting
ut San Marcos October 20.
COmanche county has seven camp
meetings going Oh at once.
Hogs are in poor condition on the
Trinity river. No mast.
The total value of property in Will
hanson county is S4,291 ,045.
Cotton seed are selling at $40 per
ton i'll Washington county.
Troupe has a colOred society called
the Knights of Wise Men,"
Fort Worth is improving rapidly,
and business is brisk up there.
The grand jury over at Crockett
returned seventy indictments.
Sherman will have several els
terms built for the fire department.
Typhoid malarial fever prevails
in several Of the northeast counties.
Wheat for seeding purposes sells
i'll Kaufman county at $l.75 per
bushel
The cotton crop of Dewitt coun-
ty will be much larger than it was
expected.
Liquor dealers of Fort Worth
have been indicted for selling liquor
on Sunday.
Mont Hill, an escaped convict, has
been arrested, and is in Jail at Nc
/ Kinney.
j. w. Gray shot and killed Butler
Kennedy, nj jamestown, near Tyler,
last Monday.
Prohibition was carried in pre-
cinct No. z, of Henderson county, at
the recent election.
Up about GAINESVILLE there is con-
siderable sickness of fatal charac-
ter among the colored folks.
The expenses of running Bell
county, tor the quarter ending Sep
TENDER 80, were $2,342.34.
The first shipment of 16, $50 pounds
ofcotton yarn has been shipped from
the Cuero excelsior factory to New
York.
There was n frost at jefferson on
the morning of the 10th of Septem-
Der, the earliest ever known in that
latitude.
John Brooks and Colman Will
liams, two notorious cattle thieves,
were captured Friday night near
Huntsville by sheriff w. ID. Adair.
A negro boy, working on the Lee
noir farm, i'll Falls county, went TO
| get a gun to shoot "A hawk and shot
and killed himself instead.
Z. NJ. Graham, late census super
visor in Texas. and formerly the
largest wholesale merchant i'll JEFF
ferson, died there last week.
Cotton seed have become SO valu-
able that %inners i'll some parts of
Texas are offering to gin cotton tor
the seed. Oil mills have done it,
Nearly all the saloons i'll the state
are now running under the new law
and the sound of the bell punch will
be heard i'll the land no more for
ever.
For ten thousand dollars MeXia
can have Q complete and efficient
system of water works. The ques-
ton is, how to raise the money.
a young man by the name of
Turner was horsewhipped in San
Antonio by young lady. He had
been circulating evil reports about
her.
John Frederick Rinjwald. re-
Gently from Britzengen, in the grand
duchy OF Baden, Germany, suicided
at Houston Saturday by hanging
himself.
Cameron has five brick stores
four erected in the past three
months. Since the first of Septem-
Der she has received 800 bales of
cotton.
Grading on the International is
completed to within about six miles
of Laredo. Track laying has been
finished I06 miles west of San An
tonic.
AT Hondo City, the new town on
the Sunset extension, about fifty-five
miles west of San Antonio, seventy
two lots sold for 1891 last Satur
day.
W. III. jackson, o. farmer residing
on the OlmOs, six miles northeast of
San Antonio, Notwithstanding the
dry season, has raised thirty-five
bushels of corn to the acre.
Mr.. S. w. Peck, well known
stockman, was killed in Mitchell
county Oh the 9th ultimo, by light
ming. The unfortunate gentleman
was taking a bunch of cattle from a
roundup ell Deer creek TO his ranch,
when he was killed.
Two hundred and fifteen students |
have, up to date, arrives at the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college, |
and they are still coming in. The
faculty are much pleased with !
the classes of students, especially |
the state appointees.
f. N. Mcclure. son of Il. N. |
Mcclure, of Denton county, near
FrankfOrd, was severely injured by |
being caught in Fernoe's gin. His |
hand and .arm were feurfully larce- |
rated. He is doing well under the |
skillful treatment of his attending
physicians.
When Captain Oglesby, of the |
frontier battalion, was in Fort |
Worth last week, he was presented
with a very fine six-shooler and |
bowie knife. The present was
made by a stockman out west. This |
shows how high the captain stands |
in the esteem of the stOckmen.
AT PIttsDurG. CamD county. on