The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
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Inc Hill county alilance Is TO build
| 200 roller mill.
The Cleveland and Thurman club at F a
tonia is making preparations for grand
barbecue on the 25th.
Over $4,000 have been subscribed to
the capital stock of the recently organized
Laredo Building and Loan association.
Henry Clay, an old colored man living
near Cold Springs, died few days ago In
great agony from beipg bitten by rabid
dog.
The section of country around Paige
was visited last Monday night by the
heaviest rain that has fallen in several
months.
The Hopkins County Wool Growers as
ISOLATION sold 10000 pounds of wool In a
balk at Sulphur Springs the other day.
The price paid was 204 cents.
1t is a well.known fact that in the state
of Kentucky there are six counties that are
without churches, and of the six five poll
overwhelming republican majOrities.-
Fort Worth Evening Mail.
The cotton of 'S7 reached 7O17, 7O7
balea, or 504 1884 bales more than in SO
In 80, the largest production ever known,
| reached 6,992,000 bales. At cents a
pound the cotton crop of 81 Realized
| $50 $3.50.
! Mrs. j. L. Graham, the wife of pros
porous farmer living near Temple, was
thrown from wagon Thursday when only
a few miles from the city, and both arms
broken below the elbow. She was other
wise badly injured.
A in Nnrrns
Christi for the erection of $4,000 brick
building to be used by the board of trade,
the lower story being let out for stores
and the upper one for lodge Purposes.
Yet Austin isn't big enough to have a
board of trade building.
When Gidings, of Waco, and Bonner, of
Tyler, take the stand for Mills, man
whom they opposed with all the force of
eloquence last year, is it not time that
few fanatics at home would reason a little
space. and come to their senses.-Corsicana
Courier
The corn crop of the United States for
this year aggregates over 200,000,O00
bushels, which is an increase of nearly
half million bushels. The oats yield
is also the largest on record, as we'll as
they hay, and the two combined amounts
to $10O0OO,0O0 in excess of the aggregate
of last year.
A Massachusetts wretch offers to prove
by statistics that seven tenths of the mar
riage engagements that are broken are
broken by women; that three widows re-
marry to one widower, and that two wives
| elope to one husband. Wonder how many
times he has been married.; how often he
bo. I'd 60.
numerous his Opponents. Anything else
about his domesticity woald doubtless
prove interesting to the ladies.-El Paso
Tribune.
Lee Turner, yardmas ter of the utter
nOtional and Great Northern railroad at
Willis, wss killed by the cars about
O'Clock Friday morning. His foot be-
came fastened in a frog while attempting
to uncouple car that was in motion, and
being unable to extricate it, was run over
by the moving train, crushing his right
arm and leg and breaking his left leg. He
was carried home and lived until about
o clock. Mr.. Turner was an old railroad
man, and leaves wife and two children,
the youngest about ten days old.
| The municipal authorities of Fort
Worth are getting in a middle about the
collection of fees 10 the recorders court.
Here We have abolished the fees and the
court. The mayor tries cases for VIOLA
laticn of the city's penal ordinances, but
in the mayors court no fees are allowed.
| Fort Worth will do vel to follow Hous-
! ton'sPxample. In this connection it may
be well to repeat what the Age has often
urged: that the entire system-we mean
the system of allowing fees to Offices
shonld be abolished. It would immensely
improve the administration of public
affairs.-Hous on Age.
Marion Martin is one of that class OF
men who when he is crowded commences
| to cry for mpathy-plays the baby-so
to speak He went out on the stump
few days ago aud met Bailey, of Gaines
vile. In ten minutes he was blubberiDg
that he WAS no speaker, and that he was
farmer unskilled IN debate. Yet he has
been either 10 office or running for office
all his life, aud has had more experience
in debate than almost any man in Texas.
But he has never learned how to express
ideas, from the fact that he has none.
If he had ever learned anything he would
have learned to keep out of such storms
as are now blowing his way. If there is
anything the Texas people have a con-
temp for it is man who sniffles. And
Marion always sniffles and asks for SYM
pathy because he is not equal to the work
he sttempts.-Dallss Times Herald