The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
TEXAS FACTS AND fANclls.

The Baptist church at Waco en-
joys revival.
The fruit in Wise county is I'M
injured by the cold.
They are preparing for the San-
gerfest at Galveston.
The oil mill at Bryan has a -capa-
city of 700 gals per day.
Tile knights of Honor of Terrell
will celebrate their anniversary on
the 31st. ,.. 80 -
Remember that the State Sunday
School Convention meets in Austin,
April "a.
Bonham is improving more rap
idly than at any other period of its
existence.
Wheat and oat crops are reported
as looking well in Bosque and Erath
counties. .... .... .
Mr.. L. l.. Burkehad, an old and
highly respected citizen of Terrell,
is no more.
The district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
meets in Terrell in June. 100
During church service at Waco
roughs take the buggies of the deyo-
tionists and have frolic.
Alarm for the condition in society
IN Texas is expressed in consequence
of the increase III divorce suits. d
n The increase of the sheep lfoeks
about Uvalde this year averages 80
per cent, the largest known for a
long time. ...,t
Will Howe, a railroad hand, was
killed at Ferris by bar of steel fall
ing upon him while car was being
unloaded. ..i.. .u,-.I ,Da
DIR. A. @. Sloan, agent, of the Cor
sicana immigration society, is to
visit Europe in the interest Of, his
company.
Decatur has raised the money
necessary for the building Of the
Fort Worth and Denver city rail-
/ WAY to that place .,...-.-t .
A Methodist church is to be erect
ed at Palo Pinto, and the other de-
nominations will be invited to use
the house for worship. .t.
At Brennan, Will Allen, for kill
ing Will +. Garrett, was acquitted |;
Frank Cole, for stealing a pair of
oxen was sent to the penitentiary.
Colorado City expects to have a
population of 1000 inhabitants with
in the next six months. 1t is situated
in Mitchell county, ON the line of the
Texas & Pacific.
Mr.. d. G. Bennett, of Fort Worth,
has an artesian well and he is going
to cover an acre of ground with a
pend of pure water. three feet deep,
in which to raise fish. ..l.-
The commissioners court of Lime
stone county appointed w. III. Rich
ardson, of Mexia, tax collector, to
fill the vacancy OccaslOned by the
death of Capt. Stephens. ..-..
In north Texas the peach crop is
partially injured by the late frosts.
Pears are killed, while apples are
only slightly injured. The balance
of the fruit crop is uninjured. 'l
Milt Lewis, a printer of Houston,
got tired of the click of type
in his stick and listened to the
click of his little pistol as it sent a
bullet into the region of his heart.
There is such business boom and
Improvement mania at Laredo, on
account of the approach of rail-
roads, that carpenters, stone cut
tiers and laborers are in great de-
mand.
The editor of the Fort Worth
Democrat, was a member of the late
Legislature, and he is now writing it
come corrupt by being about leg
islature.
BY the fifteenth of this month it
is expected that the tracklayers on
the Texas & St. Louis railroad will
reach Corsicana. This road will
then be over two hundred miles in
length. .aa .'aas.. s..
If the course pursued by colored
church at Corsicana. prevails, there
will soon be not colored Christian
left to tell the tale. Eighty MEM
bers were expelled because they
! went to the circns- - -, /
| Train Wreckers have been, at!
tempting to throw trains off the
track near Sherman. The strange
part of the affair is that they resort
ed to such device with the track
of the Central railway. ..,a /
Mr.. Barklay Martin, of Round
Rock, was elected mayor of that lit
tie burg. f. M. Kent is marshal
| and B. F.. Yates, ID. &. Tanning, G..
I'll. Peter. A. w. Crosby and A. j.
Miller. are aldermen. Round Rock
is Democratic to the backbone.
The point made by certain ply
sicians before the State Medical AS
ISOLATION was not, that q railroad
might not employ q physician by
the month, or year, but that some
physicians take such contracts upon.
terms that lower the dignity of the
profession. lris I
The editor of the Gonzales En-
qutI'eT Is bachelor, and wants
somebody to court him bad. He is
always telling it in his columns that
the gentler sex are more entcrpris-
ing than men. He is a backward
young man aud wants to give his
girl little backbone. sult ~
The old benson and Pacific road.
now a branch of the Missouri Pa
cific, is to be extended from Gains
vile, Cook county, 100 miles south
west into Baylor county, to tap the
main line OF the Texas Pacific. The
line has been located and grading
forces are at work. .. ....
The San Antonio free schools, for
March, show an enrolment of 1876
pupils and an average daily attend
ance of 1l76. If'this be true some
body gets school money without
having complied with the law,
which says that IS per cent. shall at
tend to entitle the teacher to pay.
A wife in Lockhart is reported as
having taken advantage of the law
permitting the wife to protest
against the sale of intoxicating
drink to the husband. Every wife
and mother and sister in the state
aggrieved by the work of whisky
should follow this woman's course.
The Gainesville extension of the
Missouri Pacific is to be immediate
ly pushed one hundred miles north |
west into Baylor county to an inter-
section of the Texas Pacific. Grad
ing forces are being transferred from |
the Greenville and Mineela line as |
the work is all completed, except |
finishing up track laying. I'd - 10 |
Extensive beds of coal, six feet
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