The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-09
STATE NEWS.
Wool is coming in at Laredo.

WOOL Is coming In at LAREDO.
Hondo City voted for a hog lava
to 5.
A young man at Aquilla stole his
fathers horse.
A Chicago female drummer is tray-
cling through the State.
sour Dick" is what all the Texas
editors are now calling him.
1t is stated the Santa Fe will build
100 miles west of Lampasas.
Mr.. J. A. Gray, of San Felipe, is
six feet, eight inches high.
Lampasas is so healthy the doctors
ar. ali having a holiday time.
Brownsville boasts that there is not
agamblinb house within her limits,
Galveston, last year, spent 81, OOOOCO
in new buildings and improvements.
) Rhodes the brutal wife murderd of
: Galveston, will hung on the 22nd of
May.
Sheep shearing in Central Texas is
! expected to commence now IN few
/ days.
| State papers are all both happy
and jocular over Gov. Hubbard's ap-
! pointment.
The Greenville Banner says gold has
been discovered in Hunt county which
| assayes ninety per cent.
| r. o. Denton, the new postmaster
at Gainesville, Is a brother-in-law of
United States Senator MaXey.
A Mexican sonora at Laredo, has
been arrested and bound over, for prac-
/ tice medicine without diploma.
r. H. Bogars, d. D., of Houston,
is soon TO be called to take charge of
the Presbyterian church at Beaumont.
The residence of Mr.. Barrett, at
Pearsall, was burglarized the other
night and fine gold watch and chain
stolen.
Reddick Brown, negro, recently
broke into country smoke-house,
near Waco, and stole 500 pounds of
bacon.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette in
vites the editor of the Black Jack Post
to come down to Sulphur Springs,
bring his knitting, and spend the
day.
In Fort Worth, the other day, Abe
Turner shot at Ben Poole three times,
bat missed. Turner had struck Poole
with a chair. Poole is put down as
miserabIy poor shot.
Pearson, the evangelist, took in and
revived 100 sinners at Marshall. He
is going to tackle Fort Worth sinners,
who are, however, not so stepped in
sin as those of Marshall and Dali
las.
The Rural boasts of a physian in
that country who treated, in the past
year, 400 patients and not losing a
single case.
The mining interests around Ell
Paso are gaining in importance and
ed in a snort time.
At Palestine, the other evening,
John Knight was given ten years for
numbering Conductor Frazier. He
obtained new trial, and is out on
$4,000 bond
A stranger was found ons the Bed
los Creek, Grimes Countp, sitting up
against tree, dead, and with several
pistol balls IN his body. 1t is sup
posed that he was hunted down by
parties from distance.
Last Sunday a negro boy who had
recently stolen horse, bride and sad
die, six shooter and Winchester
rifle from Sheriff Wheat, of Edwards
County, was arrested near the head of
Concho river, by Mr.. John Blllingsly
and others who were in pursuit of the
thief.
Seguin Times: In one column of the
Huntsville Item, the editor Is discuss
ing the subject of an early matrimo-
NAL alliance calls on Bridges of the
LuliDg Signal, to know if there was
any pretty girls in Lul1ng, and in the
next column rejoices in the fact that
he is grandpa. The sly old coon, just
hear him.
Denton Monitor: Mrs. Bette Sa-
ter, wife of John Safer, who lives in
the paint house between the square
and the depot, ran away from her
husband last week, returning to her
people in Newton County, Mo.
She carried with all her effects, in
Guiding bedding, etc., and forty dol
lars of her husbands money, which
she had been keeping for him. She
warned her husband not to follow
her, as she did not propose to live with
him any more.
Bolton journal: Justice A. II. Ray,
of Y oungsport, was in the city on
Tuesday. He says that Bob Riley,
who killed. j. @. Bolland in an alterca-
ton near there a few days ago, was
placed under $1,000 bond to appear
befC re the district court. Bolland was
young unmarried man, and was
working for Riley. They had some
words which led to blows, and while
| tho mplaa waq in DrOOrpss RilaV stah-
bed Bolland, from the effect of which
he died. Riley is a son-in-law of
Eugene McBryde.