The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-01-15

STATE News.

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STATE News.
Happenings in all Sections Texas Dur
ing the Week.
Typhoid fever prevails at Workman.
Fannin county has village named
Lone Pecan.
Last year mercantile firm at Kosse
shipped 20,C0 eggs.
The Waco Day has inaugurated the
cash-in-advance system.
At Groesbeck, the citizens defeated
the hog law by vote of IS to Is.
Trains are again running regularly
through from Texarkana to st. Louis.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette wants
the saloons of that town to close for
ever.
During the recent freeze three per
sons were seriously injured by falling
on the ice.
Sherman has thirteen churches, with
an average attendance of fully three
thousand.
J. w. Proctor, an old and widely
knoEd citizen, died IN Anderson
county recently.
| The San Antonio Express and Eve
ming Times are having spat. Let us
have peace, neighbors.
Thomas Scurry has been unani-
mously reelected captain of the fam
GUS Houston Light Guard.
During the rain storm at Beaumont
last Sunday Pine Island bayou rose
thirteen feet in two hOurs
Mr.. c. B. Dorchester personated the
Widow BedCtt at masquerade ball
in Sherman, the other night.
Superintendent Herin, of the Gould
system, gave big New Years din
ner to his clerks at Palestine.
At Bolton, the other day, All Moon,
Chinaman, and Belle Hudson, coiored,
were married 'likee Mellican man."
The weeklies throughout the state
have, seemingly, not yet got over
their Christmas and new year egg
nog.
The taxpayers of Waco are exer-
cised over the question of issuing
bonds for the improvement OF the
town.
The Whitewright Eagle claims that
town has shipped more cotton than
any town of its size on the Missouri
Pacific.
The Fort Worth Mail says the Dali
las Herald is opposed to deep water at
Galveston, but favors whisky rather
than water.
Tom Warner, bad colored citizen,
has been arrested for burning stores
and houses at Independence, Washing
ton county.
Mr.. J. q. Kidd, at the recent INSTALL
ment of Knights Templar, took his
seat as Eminent Commander of Ruth
ven Commandery.
AT a recent leap-year party at Pitts
burg, east Texas, the young ladies
were dressed to represent phantoms,
and thus escorted the young men.
The Mason News asserts the birth
in that town, recently, of 13-pound
baby. The editor, of course, is aware
that nine FOUNDER is a tremendous
big one.
A sherman paper alludes to that
town as the "stale old crossroads
town of North Texas" but which, it
says, may yet rival Dallas and Fort
Worth.
East year the Houston City Street
Railway carried 1898, 1913 4Esengers,
an increase over the year previous of
49,, 100. The old board of directors
have been reelected.
Last Monday vote was taken at
the town of Mineral Wells to decide
whether or not the corporation should
be dissolved. More than two thirds
| of the votes favored dissolution.
DR.. AcLane. from North Carolina,
came to Salado on the first day of the
year, and before any person was aware
of his mission, married Miss Johnnie
| Woods. and departed for his home in
the old north state.
Since the management OF the Gould
southwestern system has deVolved
upon H. n. HoXie, he has announced
that no new depots would be built
on the East Line until the road Is
changed to broad gauge.
San Antonio Times: Jesse w. Camp
bell, of Cotulla, has been supplying
the San Antonio market with venison.
and since the 10th of October has
killed $50 deer. Before the close sea-
son begins. January 20, he expects to
kill at least 100 more.
Lampasas Dispatch: Mr.. s. P. Wat
son, while at Bolton, heard that he was
wanted in LampaSas, came over and
gave bond in two cases-charged with
setting Lampasas on fire last July,
bond, $1,000; embeZzlement bond,
$3.50. He had no difficulty in finding
suretieS.
Limestone New Era: The young
ladies took charge of our friends Mr..
Jas Anderson aud Mr.. Joshua Wood,
at the leap year ball, and
danced them down to frizzle, so a
young lady informed us. Both of them
complain of not having danced so
in forty years before
Beaumont Enterprise: "W. W. Ly-
on, sheriff of Hardin county, informs
Us OF a horrible sight seen at Sunset
evidently recently-born child, with
both arms torn from the body and its
breast literally torn open by hogs
of-the-way place and dragged it into
sight"
A letter dated Rossville, Atascoss
county, 29th ult., says: Cattle wealth
cred the cold all o. k. Horses are still
dying in all sections. Wild turkeys
are plentiful and selling at so cent;
each. Venison in abundance. Fat
hogs are drug in the market; no ont
buying, There are 300 head for salt
around here and no offers to buy
Last season butchers from Monterey
came in and bought several carloads
which advanced the price. AS yet NJ
buyers have been around.
Remarkable Experim outs with. Arsenic
Some important ;aeriments were
made by Doctors Va Z. han and Daw
son, with the view 9 scertaining i
arsenious acid, if IN cted into thu
mouth or rectum, aft Il death, would
7diffuse through the b,nly. Not only
81 it found that such Is the case, bu
the diffusion is very extensive. ant
these facts are regarded as having f.;
very important bearing on the subject
of arsenical poisoning. Thus. says
the Lancet, it can no longer be con
tended that, because arsenic is founC
in quantity in tho fluids and tbs
suns nf the hOdV therefore death wa,