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

Texas shows the largest "cash
balance" of any state in the Union.
Houston az Texas Central stock is
booming in the New York market.
The reunion of Hoods brigade
takes place tomorrow at Brennan.
The colored population all over
the state celebrated emancipation
day.
Lamar county is to have a horti-
| cultural and agricultural fair on
July 4th.
The Atkinson, Topeka Il Santa Fe
railroad reached Ell Paso last We'd
nesday evening.
The mortuary report for Dallas
last week was the largest in the his
tory of that city.
Eight convicts working on the
railroad, near Tyler, were overcome
by heat Saturday.
Web-worms are reported to be
doing great damage to cotton in the
vicinity of Giddings. -e
Major E. A. Burke, managing edi-
tor of the New Orleans Democrat, is
OH a visit to San Antonio.
There are twenty-one railroads in
course of construction in Texas, and
soon there will be others.
The oil mills at Columbus will be
ready for work the middle of Sep
TENDER or first of October.
Two new church edifices, Metho-
dist and Presbyterian, are to be
built at Dallas this summer.
1t is said Mineola is improving
faster than any town on the railroad
from Marshall to Fort Worth.
The commencement exercises OF
the A. & NJ. College are in progress,
and the governor is in attendance.
Prof. Oscar H. Cooper, ofthe Tex
as state normal school, has been
offered a professorship in Yale Col
lege.
Rev. J. r.. Graves, of Memphis, the
eminent Baptist divine and author
of the "Great Iron Wheel" is in
Texas. .--.=' .~.
GRADER, the Brennan jeweler, has
received from lady in Mason coun-
ty a number of genuine pearls. They
were found in the Llano.
Mrs Pauline Wood is the postmis-
tress at Corsicana, and now she is
about to be removed to make room
for Republican stalwart.
The wife with nerve enough to
notify the saloon keepers not to sell
any liquor to her husband, lives in
Medina county, we believe.
W. ID. Belt, formerly travelling
salesman for Shneider 81 Davis, of
Dallas, and who has been arrested
for embezzlement, is out ON bail.
The capacity of the Columbus oil
mill is to be twenty-five tons of cot
ton seed per day, of twenty-four
hours, yielding 75O gallons of oil.
The ."citizens of Galveston" are
out in a circular setting forth rea-
sons why that city should have the
medical department of the state uni
versity. :'i' f.
Charlie Hitler was stabbed by
Highnote, a deputy sheriff of Ma
varro county, at Fort Worth few
days ago, from the effects of which
he died.
The first number of the Abilene
Reporter, G. E. Gilbert editor and
publisher, is received. 1t is a neat
and newsy seven column paper, and
starts out under favorable circum-
stances. -.
The editor of the Rockport Tram
script has been presented with a
hens egg which measured six inches
and a quarter in circumference the
shortest way round, and eight inches
the longest way. 81,
Rain is badly needed in a good
many portions of the state. All
small grain is made and about har-
vested, but good deal of corn is
suffering. Some fields will prove
failures if rain does not come soon.
1t is currently reported that vice.
president John G. Brown, of the
Texas & Pacific railroad, has ten
dered his resignation as vice-presi-
dent, and that it has been accepted.
He takes charge of the land depart
ment.
Tom Everhart, of Gainesville,
went to the drug store of W. o.
Kemorne to get some quinine for
his sick child, and through mistake
he was given morphine, which was
given to the child, and it died in a
short time. -...
A dispatch from Mineola, of the
18th, says: "The Missouri-Pacific
laid the last rail to-day at l P. NJ,
amid the .whistling of engines and
cheering of the crowd. Regular
trains run tomorrow between Deni-
son an San Antonio"
The locomotive engineers of the |.
s. G.. N. that run into San Antonio
have organized themselves into a So
ciety called the Jolly Brothers, and
the San Antonio papers have an in
teresting account of q moonlight
soiree given by them at San Pedro
Springs Wednesday night. ...
Denison HeTdld-Nel0S: Another
empty gun has done its fatal work
This time the victim is little Jacob
II. Freeburger, aged nine years, of
terday by Charles Deiling, aged
twelve. The boys were playing
soldier with an old gun, supposed
to be unloaded." hob 7iI9
Brennan claims a centenarian,
and comes to the front with a col
ored woman, Judy Daily, who
claims that she was years Old when
the declaration of independence was
signed in Philadelphia, consequently
she is now ia years old, being the
oldest woman in the state-perhaps
in the United States.
AT Gainesville, last Friday, the
jury in the case of the state v. s.
Kemp, returned a verdict of murder
in the first degree, and assessed the
death penalty. Upon hearing the
verdict Kemp made q break and
jumped from the second story
window of the court house. He
was soon recaptured and placed in
Jail.
The Waco Examiner says the pro-
tracted drouth has seriously i'm
paired the corn crop of Central
Texas, and that the same is the case
with cotton, although the extent of
damage is not so great. Unless, it
says, this section is visited with
copious rains within the next week
or ten days, the corn crop will be a
failure.
The Waco medical association re-
specially request the press of Waco |
not TO use the name of any member |
of the society in connection with
any medical or surgical case. The |
press respectfully declines to ac-
cede to such a request, which is |
proper and sensible. A matter of
public interest should always be |
brought to light.
The governors proclamation up
on the subject of. carrying arms in
frontier counties, exempts the fol- |
lowing counties from the operation
of the law: Crockett, Kinney, Tom |