The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-12-25
Happenings in all Sections of Texas Du
fuO tho NUaaI-

: Mckinney is ahead of other Texa.
r, towns, and has an antropologlcal SC.
u ciety.
= Rev. Dr. Franz Keiter. the noted
; German divine, has been visiting
q Waco.
o J. D. Nash, jr., was married tht
e other day to Miss Ada Gardner, at
:, McDade
: Judge A. W. May has been elected
c PRESIDENT of the Turn Verien, OF
t Houston
J At Sulphur Springs, Charles Parker
: accidently shot and killed his brother
: aged IA.
The Navasota Tablet is doing SO
well it keeps four printers steadily
q employed.
4 The Cleburne Light Guards recently
E attended ball at Alvorado and had a
D good time.
: Two bales of cotton were shipped
from Grapeland to the New Orleans
Exposition.
A stranger named Harris has been
swindlirg the negroes of BRENNAN
with brass rings.
: It's said ex-Gov. Hubbard is anx-
iouS for cabinet position, with some
show of success.
A Paris paper speaks of Miss Dixie
, Crooks, of Denison, rs the brilliant
Texas prima donna:
, A seedy il djvldual swindled a Lar
edo merchant few days ago cut of
} $40 on forged order.
: a fourteen-pound baby was recently
added to the population of San An
gelo, Tom Green county.
I. R. Gray, charged with fence
cutting, was mol. pressed by tie John
son county district court.
The Waco Examiner devotes a
leader to the Richey forgery and
scandal now agitating that town.
A man named S. r. Eubanks was
cleaned out of $475 at the Theatre
Comique, at Fort Worth, recently.
Prof E. E. Patterson was recently
stabbed in the back by two unruly
boys in the public school at Cameron.
Herman Helm, a deaf mute, while
riding near Brennan, was lassoed by
a Mexican and robbed of $15 in money.
Mrs. A. NJ. Gentry has recovered
Judgment against The Texas 81 West
ern Railroad at Houston, for 100000.
The San Antonio Express wants to
see Wampler sue the state for false
imprisonment, and make a test case
of it.
In the suburbs of San Antonio, :
tramp tried to rob butcher boy, but
the lad put spurs to his horse and es-
capped. .
Thursday, at Houston, Mr.. a. B.
| Richardson was married to Miss Mary
Bagby. The bride belongs TO one Of
the old families.
Ell Prentice was convicted of rape
in the district coErt of Sherman, and
given seventeen years and three
months in the penitentiary.
Near Del Rio, an Englishman, a pas
seoger on the Sunset train, with a
long range rifle, shot and killed deer
at 1900 yards from the train.
The Texas delegation at Washing
ton have determined TO endeaVor to
get the S7,000,0OO Eads Dill incorpora-
ted in the river and harbor bill.
Justice RAwley, Of Houston, whose
! election las been contested, makes
spirited defence. Mr.. RaWley is one
of the old settlers of the Bayou
City.
1t is proposed to carvea new county
named Midland out of Tom Green
count. one of the boundaries to be the
103d Meridian, up to the corner of
Andrews county.
The Palestine Advocate thinks that
Mr.. HOXie and the Gould manage
ment deserve the thanks of Texas for
aiding in giving the state a creditable
show at New Orleans.
At CorSicana, young scoundrel
named Bob Cubley, a notorious char.
| acter, first iDsulted an old man, A.
| McF all. aged 20, and then shot him
through the chin and neck.
Frank Mcqueen, stage driver, on
the line between Boerne and San An
tonic, had mis- team to run away at
Leon Springs, was thrown off the
stage and his neck broken.
Walker county has one colored com
missioner, who IS described by the
Huntsville Item as sort of a dude,
who wears a nice blue flannel suit,
with a standing collar and red cravat.
The Bryan Enterprise cruelty re.
marks: Love il the dark" INDUCED
in by nice young couple going home
from church last Sunday night. Sweet
words. punctuated with (. kiss, is a
luxury, Ell?
The editor of the Cotulla Ledger has,
| it seems, been forced into q newspaper
controversy with Il muchIv married
woman, one Kate Luby, of Duval
county. AS usual, the editor comes
out first best.
Mr.. Josiah Graston, aged 100 years
was in Bolton last week SHAKING
hands with old friends. His first vote
for president was for Thomas Jeffer-
SOD in 1904. Mr.. Graston has been in
| Texas Is years and came from Tennes-
see.
Mr.. Thomas j. McMurray has been
commissioned postmaster at the new
station of Hewitt, on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, about eight miles
southwest of Waco. Hewitt expects
to "boom" into village now, and
compete with Lorena and Eddy.
Telefro Aquilla has been indicted
for murder committed in 1864, by
the grand jury at Corpus Christi. I'm
mediately after the killing he ran
away and was gone five years he
then returned, and for the past fifteen
years has leen living in Corpus
Christi.
| NaVaSOta TABLET: Inc German
Lutherans, of Anderson, are pushing
toward completion a parsonage for
the accommodation of their pastor.
We draw no differences, however,
but wish our German brother all the
happiness and prosperity that a good
man deserves.
In Greenville, East Texas, on the
18th, Samuel Easel, who had separated
from his wife, went to the house and
unsuccessfuliy tried to prevail upon
her to live with him again. He then
kissed his little daughter, aged 6, drew
a pistol, shot her through the head,
and then killed himself.
| Waco Day: The Austin STATESMAN
thinks the next legislature ought to
make the State University independ-
ent of executive control, and thus be
placed outside of politics. It certain
| ly ought, ike the public schools, to be
placed in the hands of professional
educators.
Mr.. Woodruff, clerk of the ware
house of Mr.. Guy M. Bryan, jr., met
with a serious accident at Bryan,
which resulted in breaking his leg be-
low the knee. He was checking out
| cOtton and in running over the bales