The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-15
STATE NEWS.
Items and Comments Culled From
State Exchanges.

The cearings of the Galveston banks
during the month of October were SlO,-
252, 7S9, being an increase of 1926, 6O2
over the clearing of October 1887.
J.H. Campbell, of Victoria county,
raised nine bales of cotton on seven acres
of land.
The people of Pecos City are consider
ably stirred up over series of bold bur
glaries which have been recently commit
ted at that place.
Colonel Goodnight, the csttleman, has
100 acres of Ewheat in Donley county,
which looks beautiful at present and will
be test of the county, being the first
wheat ever sown there.
Fort Worth and the Tarrant county
democracy are all right. There is where
the Yidettes, the non-partisans, the union
laborites and all the opposition elements
made their strong fight against democracy
and they got beautifully showed under
Brennan Banner.
The Livingstone Pinery, Polk county,
says that A. B. Taylor reports that few
days ago his little boys, aged 10 and Z
years, heard the dogs bsying something in
a thicket, and upon arriving on the scene
found large eagle withstandipg the dogs.
The little fellows armed themselves with
sticks and rushed to the conflict and sue
ceeded in killing it. The eagle measured
six feet and half from tip to tip.
The county commissioners court of
Rusk county has contracted for a neS
court house, to cost $19,495. The old
court house will be sold December l, and
work will be commenced on the new one
January l., with Dobson d Dudley, of
Waco, architects in charge.
The Texas Medical college and hospital,
at Galveston, was formally opened on
| Saturday, and in commemoration of the
event a reception was held in the build
| ing, which was attended by nearly all of
the physicians in the city and other local
| citizens.
A newly made grave with headboard in
| proper position has been discovered in the
court yard square at Athens, Tex, with
the following inscription or epitaph there
on: "Gone home: sacred to the memory
of the L. L. p, died November 6, 1885"
Hundreds of visitors have visited and
viewed the grave.
freight train going west was wrecked
Monday evening about two miles west of
Black Jack, in which the engineer, Louis
Horner, was seriously hurt about the head
and back, and the fireman, A. L. Ragiand,
was hurt in the hip. Raglsnd's injuries
are not of serious nature, but Horner is
badly hurt. Four cars and the engine left
the track, and the engine turned over.
Physicians from Black Jack attended the
wounded men and they received prompt
medical aid.
A negro man named j. B. Mccullough
was found dead in a pen of cotton seed
near Roxton, Lamar county. He recently
went to that neighborhood from Austin
and had been picking cotton. When last
seen alive he was drunk audit is supposed
had gone to sleep on the cotton seed and
froze to death.
Turner Long went out duck hunting
near Cslvert,on Saturday, and, in passing
along Walnut creek, discovered the Ie-
mains OF mulatto boy lying parity out
of the water. The body was identified
as that of jerome Mitchell.
Logic is logic. Our venerable friend,
Reverend Doctor Burleson, says that there
must be ninth plank inserted in the next
democratic platform d clsring that the
late election is finality on the tariff and
whoever sgitates the subject will be no
longer considered democrat. Logic is
logic.-Waco Day. Such logic like figures
can be twisted to serve any end.
The Houston Post says the most dis
gushing sight it ever witnessed was seeing
some so-called democrats who knitted
Stewart, going about denouncing and con-
demnlng the treachery of Tammapy and
the county democracy in New York city.
There are some Of those fellows in this
city. While condemnipg Tammsny in
bitter terms they overlook their own fault
in trying to defeat Mills.-Brenham
Banner.
At O'Clock Monday morning Maj. A.
Ruttkay, prominent cotton buyer and
former director of the Houston cotton
exchange and board of trade, died at his
residence, corner Rusk and LaBtanch
streets, Houston, after a protrscted ill
ness. Deceased was AZ years old and was
the sole surviving nephew of Louis
Kossuth, the reno wned Hungarian patriot.
He was born at Pesth, Hungary, and came
to this country at the age of years. He
leaves an aged mother, at present resid-
ing at Turin, Italy, and a wife and three
small children to mourn his death. During
his few years residence in Houston, by his
strict business integrity, noble traits of
character and genial disposition he COM
manded the respect and friendship of
large circle of warm and true friends.
Considerable excitement was caused in
Corsicans Monday morning by the body
of dead man being found in an alley
east of Beaton street. The unfortunate
man was d. A. Fulton, who was recently
employed as fireman on the Houston and
Texas Central railroad. He was q mem
Der of Unity lodge No. 3744, knights of
Labor, Palestine, Tex, but was supposed
to be fro m Kansas, as papers found in his
clothing showed CORES pOndence with rela-
tives in that state. He had scquaintanees
in Corsicana who state that he was very
drunk Sunday night, and refused to go to
his boarding house. There were nomarks
OF violence on his person, and from the
attitude in which he was found it is sup
posed that he had laid down to sleep.
The remains will be buried by the city
authorities. His personal effects con-
sisted of papers, photographs, pair of
new sleeve buttons, a pocket book and
one nickel.
An Interesting Wager.
A presidential camnaiun eIac,ior ia not