The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
DALLAS.
New CottOn-POlitlcaI aud Rail.
road DOts-The Water supply,
Etc.
Especial to The Statesman.l


DALLAS, August 4.-Thomas Fisher,
planter, near this city, to-day brought in
the first open bale of cotton for north
Texas, this season.
Norton's Intelligencer, the only Repub-
llcan daily in Texas, to-day comes out in
advocacy of A. P. Mccormack, OF Dallas,
Judge of northern Texas United States
district court, as a candidate for governor.
Judge A. B. Norton, late United States
marshal, is editor of the Intelligencer,
and refuses to support any Independent
movement, but insists on a straight Re-
publican ticket. He says, editorially, in
the Intelligencer:
A man that could be elected
over John Ireland, IN our judgment,
is Judge Andrew z. Mccormack. 1t Is
meet that an actual Texan be placed in
the gubernatOrlal chair. A native of old
Brazoria, the cradle of Texas colonial
ton, would make a fit governor for the
Empire State of the Union.
Republicans who favor the support of
the Wash. Jones Independent movement
assert that this scheme of Ex-Marshals
Norton and Russell to get Mack out of the
judgeship to run for governor and then
induce the administration to give Wash.
Jones some good federal office out of
Texas and supercede Mccormack as dis
trict judge by Norton.
The g., c. and st. F. railroad waited
patiently until the Texas Central, Mis-
souri, Pacific and Texas Pacific manage
ment got through their mysterious ma.
noeuvres and left town. Last night the
surveying corps wagons and outfit ar
rived in the city and camped near the
Santa Fe depot. This morning they set
to work to find a suitable route to come
into the city. They have have their eyes
on five different streets by which they can
come Three are in the western part of
the city and two in the eastern. The
property In the western part is controlled
principally by the friends and agents of
the Gould system, and the Santa Fe folks
say that the cost will be $4,000 more to
build through there than through the
eastern part. No matter which section
they choose they will make common cause
with the Texas and st. Louis Narrow
Gauge against the Gould system and the
Texas Central.
The report of the Dallas postofice for
the past month shows that il is the most
important 1 n the state. The number of
letters and packages mailed average per
day Il, 1000, aggregatlng 400 200 per month.
The sale of stamps reach 1920 per day,
and one day last week it went up to $500.
The amount of mail that comes in is as
great as that which goes out, which will
make the number of letters, packages and
bundles each day twenty-eight thousand,
and during the month eight hundred
and forty thousand. A good showing for
. city and suburb of twenty-five thou
sand people.
The three cents per mile law went into
effect on Texas railroads August 8, and
trouble in making change at such odd fig
ures. II they charge one cent or any
fraction of one cent more than three
cents per mile, they lay themselves liable
to fine OF fifty dollars for each offense.
If man wants a ticket for eleven miles,
WHICH, Will COm0 w Jill -buI06 CcuLo,
they have to sell it for thirty cents OF lay
themselves open to fine. Four of the
principal roads entering Dallas (the
Texas Central, Texas Pacific, Missouri
Pacific, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fey, report the daily loss thus far under
the new law from S25 to $50. Arrange
ments are now being made to supply all
the roads with copper cents.
The lack of water works capacity of this
city has prompted the formation OF COM
pany to sink artesian wells. Request has
been made that the city assist in develop
ing experiments for finding vein. The
city declines to spend any public funds
with the experiment, but has Informally
agreed If the company finds sufficient
water to supply Dallas that the city will
purchase the well or pay fair rental per
gallon. The artesian well company is
now having the machinery built at the
Dallar car factory.