The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
TEXAS fAcIS.AND .sARcIES.

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They arc about to- ,experimcr
beach. ~. -.
Immigrants in wagons are dali
passing through Sherman for th
western counties. rrr
Since October 1, 1880, Anderso
county has received about six huI
dred immigrants. 1-.
Light frosts have fallen in man
portions of the state, but no damag
results from them.
David Fish, boy of San Ante
Mo, is missing, and his mother want
to know his whereabouts.
Grading parties are scattered 70
two hundred miles on the Ell Pas
extension of the Sunset road.
Thomas Floyed, of III II county
charged with horse stealing. died il
the Dallas Jail, of meningitis.
| j. N. Griffin, living near Griffin
accidentally shot himself in boil
legs and one had to be alnputaied
Bolton expects more building thi
year than ever before. There is al
unprecedented demand for real es
tate.
The boys at Waco have beer
treating a stranger to a "snip,
hunt" 1t is fine amusement thes,
fine nights.
James Pitts, a blacksmith, wa
killed by the cars at Texarkana
John Hunt met with the same fat,
in Hunt county.
The artesian well boring progress
ses slowly at Galveston. 1t is though
that fresh water will be found 160I
feet below the surface.
A movement is on foot at Dalla
looking to reunion of all the Mis-
souri, ex-Confederates in Texas, q
Dallas some time in May.
John Arden, a prominent sheer
man of Tom Green county, commit
ted suicide, at Concho, by shooting
himself with Winchester.
The Galveston gun club is paying
25 cents a piece for good, strone
flying pigeons, to be delivered be
tween April 10 and May 1.
Grading is completed on the Mis-
souri, and Pacific between DentoI
and Fort Worth, and cars will bC
running by the 25th of April.
The present estimates on Texa:
immigration puts it al 1000 souls pei
day and yet the "Alcalde" lives and
rules the destiny of the state.
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where opium smoking is INDUCED
in after the manner of the Chinese
men and women patronizing them.
There are two candidates for
mayor at Dallas, Judge Good
Democrat, the present incumbent
and John Stone, nominee of the Re-
publicans.
The Houston Age thinks a number
of physicians will withdraw from
the State Medical Association. 1t is
not stated what is the cause of the
dissatisfaction.
Gen. Grant and party passed
through Marshall on the S1st on their
way to Mexico. A crowd gathered
at the station and observed him
Out ulu not enlnuSe.
Four convicts being moved in a
wagon from Dewitt county to
Huntsville, Overpowered the guard
and the driver and made their es-
cape near the Guadalupe river.
A disease among the horses and
mules about Gonzales is killing
many animals. They swell under
the throat. the respiratory organs
seem to fill up, and they dwindle
away and die.
A number of efforts have been
made to damage the machinery used
in boring the artesian well at Gal
weston. The average Galvestonian
is opposed to any kind of water ex-
cept deep sea water.
And now it appears that Jim Cur
rie, the murderer of Porter, is not
the man killed at Las Vegas, New
Mexico. 1t was James II. Curry
formerly resident of Houston. The
Post is thus informed.
Williams rancho, Brown county, is
maturing splendid crop of babies.
Five mothers there have lately given
birth to eleven children, and from
appearances this will be discounted
before the season is over.
The Wizard Oil Company has sold
Mr.. Robert Il. Owens, of Navasota,
the Norman Percheron stallion,
Louis Napoleon, for $500. He is
seven years old, weighs 100 pounds
and is seventeen hands high.
The grading for the Missouri Pa
cific and the Texas & st. Louis rail-
ways, is nearly all completed to
Waco. The Grading on the M. p.
will begin at once southwest of
Waco. This road will be opened to
Austin by October. .. .
Il. w. Graham induced a Knox
vile, Tenn, girl to elope with him
for the purpose of marriage. He
induced her all the way to GrOesbeck
where the girl became suspicious
of his purposes, and she Indignantly
abandoned him. She went to Dali
las, and was there supplied with
money to return to her parents.
During 1880 there were driven
from Texas into Northern states
394,684 head of cattle. With two
exceptions, this was the largest
number ever driven North in one
year since 1860. In 1871, 100000
head were driven. and in 1878 about
100000 head. About 100000 head
have been driven from Texas in fif-
teen years. ...'"t .'
Mr.. j. p. Foss, the secretary of
the State Wool-Growers' Associa-
ton, reports 100000 sheep in
Texas. This number will probably
be increased 20 per cent. during
this lambing season, bringing the
number up to $4,000. Valulng the
sheep at $3.50 each would make the
total valuation of sheep in Texas
SlS,S00,000.
A reunion of the Missouri ex-Con-
federate soldiers residing in Texas,
is to be held at Dallas in May. The
gentlemen having the affair in hand
say the attendance will be up in the
thousands. Missourians who have
not been conferred with are re-
quested to correspond with Col. E. G..
Bower, ofDallas. There is nothing
political in the movement.
A man, named Jarvis, in Ander-
SON county, made a deliberate at
tempt upon his wife's life. They had
disagreed, and he whipped her,
when the wife went to his fathers
to-day, Mr.. Babe. At night the
husband came to the house and fired
at her head through the door, but
as fortune would have it, the ball
barely missed her head.