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Celebrated Re-Election - School Tax Vote - Magnificent Residences on Showy Bluffs - Tune Him Up

5 DEC 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The mayor celebrated his re-election by taxing Geo. Malone five dollars for an election drunk. Peter Erza five dollars for another of the same species, James Alexander five dollars for disturbing the peace and Ed. Montgomery $25 for carrying a pistol.

The total vote on the school tax is 826, of which 597 are for and 229 against the tax, giving a majority of 368. The tax in order to carry had to receive two-thirds of the votes cast, which would be 550, so it has carried and has 57 votes more than the law requires.

If the county purchases the new bridge, as it is said it certainly will, and a line of street cars is extended to the other side of the river, quite a number of prominent citizens indicate their intention of building magnificent residences on the showy bluffs across the river.

Jim Organ and a woman of color, Fannie Whipple, had a lively time yesterday. Jim worked hard all day Monday and got his patriotic nature so wrought up that he took a stick and began to pound the dark skinned Fannie over the head and shoulders with the aforesaid club, inflicting several wounds upon her neck and breast. Miss Whipple did not fancy being whipped with that sort of stick, nor did she like the kind of music that sort of Organ gave her, so she forthwith went to the fat justice and filed a criminal charge against Jim Organ aforesaid. Justice Tegener will tune him up lively this morning.

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Coffin In Washout

25 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

A Coffin Unearthed by the Rain.

Judge Tegener yesterday found a coffin lying near the road, in a slight “washout” on West Pecan street, near Judge Moore's residence, and he took Dr. Cummings and impaneled a jury of inquest. The coffin contained the remains of a white child in an advanced state of decomposition. Dr. Cummings judged it to have been six months old at its death, which occurred about 12 months ago. The front of the skull was all broken in; but the doctor could not tell whether this was done by the concussion of the coffin in being carried along by the water, or before death. The coffin was a fine, black covered coffin, with silver-tipped fastenings; but none of the city undertakers remembered to have sold any one like it. In accordance with these facts, the jury returned a verdict of death from an unknown cause of an unknown infant, and the remains were buried by the county.

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Avenue Hotel - Costs For An Assault - Telephone Wire Break - Great Walking Match

10 JAN 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The Avenue hotel, under the direction of the manager, Mr. Winn, promises to be a very popular home for the wanderers in many lands.

In Judge Tegener’s court yesterday Julia Daniels was fined $5 and costs for an assault, in default of which she went to jail. Charles Domske was fined for swearing in a public place.

 A new telephone wire being stretched on West Pecan St. yesterday afternoon broke and fell on the team in front of Barnes & Raymonds and they came very year running away.

Don't fail to see the great walking match at Smith's opera house, commencing Saturday, January 13, 1883, at 1:30 PM and ending the same date, between C.F. Reynolds, American pedestrian; Madame LaBelle, French pedestrian, and Miss Emma Zimmerman, German pedestrian, for the Champion silver cup.

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Local Beer Interest - Paid the Mayor - Considerable Sensation - Peddling without a License - Population Estimate - The Floating Palace

4 OCT 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

IT MAY BE A MATTER OF LOCAL INTEREST to state that cablegrams received at St. Louis announce that the highest award -- a gold medal -- was given to the Anheuser-Busch bottled beer at the Amsterdam World Exhibition.  Seventy-three Germans and a large number of Austrians, as well as other European breweries of note, competed for the prize.  As this is the beer largely used in Austin, the fact has considerable local interest.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The hydrant across from the post office is looking badly, and the water is creating quite a pond.

Peter Greggs, Dug Wood and Lottie Stotts paid the mayor $5 each for drunkenness and disturbing the peace.

A Miss Johnson was before Justice Tegener yesterday for using that kind of English not found in the dictionary.  Her bad English cost her $5 and costs.

Quite a considerable sensation was created in the city yesterday over the statement of leading lawyers that Gov. Ireland had vacated his office by leaving the country without leave of absence from the legislature, and it is said the lieutenant governor will take the oath of office and assume the duties of governorship.  There is probably no truth in this part of the story.

Sullivan Joseph was complained of for peddling without license several months ago.  He got information that such a charge would be made and left prematurely.  Yesterday he thought he could return with safety, but Officer Johnson still had a warrant on the old charge.  He will have his hearing tomorrow.

The new city directory contains 4300 names outside of the names of firms.  The canvass was made in the summer, when a large portion of the negro population was absent.  Only heads of families have been taken, and the usual estimate is six to one.  Some cities go higher than that even.  The very lowest ever made is four to one, and this gives us a population of 16,800.

The cypress lumber for building the floating palace of the Austin Athletic Association arrived yesterday from Morgan City, La.  The work will now be let out on contract for constructing the barges or pontoons.  The architect, Mr. Nixon, has prepared suitable drawings for the same, the whole so novel and unique as to present a very attractive and beautiful designed arrangement for all its many features.

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Novel and Instructive Entertainment - Von Rosenberg Engagement - Camp Meeting- Lady Robbed - Mr. Seth Custard - He was Jane Thompson

10 AUG 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

City Matters in Brief.

A novel and most instructive entertainment for the benefit of the reading room may be expected at the senate chamber next Friday evening, being microscopic revelations as to what we eat, drink and breathe.

Wm. Von Rosenberg, Jr., and Lula Rohder, of La Grange, have issued engagement cards, one of which fell into the hands of a Statesman reporter.  So the able justice of the peace is about to go the way of all the world.

M. E. (colored) church camp meeting began yesterday at the old camp ground, about four miles east of this city.  It is under the charge of Rev. H. E. Snow, of this city.  Sunday will be the big day.

One of the leading ladies of the city was robbed of her jewelry Wednesday night.  A burglar entered her room and took the articles mentioned.  We withhold her name for reasons known to the police in the interests of justice, but the full particulars will be given in a day or two.

A Mr. Seth Custard met the highwayman as Deputy Sheriff Boyce was bringing him from Justice Tegener's court to the county jail, and after giving him a grip said to him, "Be of good cheer, you will come out all right on the trial, and if you do not, remember you have lots of friends and they will take you out any way."  He walked along by the side of the prisoner and talked in a low tone to him for some of the time.  The whole purport of his conversations, so far as Mr. Boyce could catch it, was to the same effect as that given.  The two men seemed to know each other well.  May be he is Jane Thompson.

Wednesday evening just after the highwayman had been put under $10,000 bond a stranger came into the courthouse and anxiously inquired if Mackinson's friends were to deposit $10,000, or give bonds in that sum, if they could arrest him afterwards.  He was told that it would not release him at all, but he could be arrested and tried any time afterwards.  This man seemed to be greatly interested in the prisoner and asked a great many questions about the case.  The man was a perfect stranger, and did not seem to have any business at the courthouse other than inquiring about the prisoner.  Can it be possible he was Jane Thompson?  He certainly looked like Jane.

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Succesful Burglary - The Fangs of the Curse of Austin

6 JULY 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

Bold Burglary.

The first burglary that has been successful in Austin for some time occurred yesterday morning.  Mr. Keller, of the Siftings saloon, is the victim.  The thief entered by way of the stairs leading up to Mr. Smith's office.  He forced his way into the rooms up stairs, where Mr. Keller was sleeping and without arousing the occupants, stole a gold watch valued at $150 from a vest pocket.  He then rifled the pants pockets of their contents.  Then he went down the back stairs to the saloon, and forced open the bar till and took about $80 from it.  The burglar then unlocked the door and went away.  Officer Morris came along about 4 o'clock and found the door open.  He instituted an investigation, and found Mr. Keller's coat and hat.  When he went up stairs he found Mr. Keller sound asleep, and wholly unconscious of what had taken place.

City Matters In Brief.

State vs. Wm. Cooper for abusive language, will be tried in Justice Tegener's court this morning.

Our colored base ball club met with better luck than the Red Stockings.  The "Light Weights" won the base ball game on a score of 14 to 6.

An interview with several real estate men yesterday developed the fact that that class of property never was so brisk in Austin as at the present.

James Brown, a gentleman from the country, informed a Statesman reporter that Marcho Flores was seen by him south of the city yesterday.  He claimed to have talked with him, and that the Mexican said he was wounded in the arm.

A gentleman said to a Statesman reporter yesterday while walking in the northern part of the city, "I was aroused by the scream of a little negro girl, and, turning around, saw a fierce dog running after her.  I threw a large stone, which luckily hit the brute on the head, and laid him low for a few minutes, the little girl thereby escaped the fangs of the curse of Austin, because the dogs are no doubt the greatest curse that Austin has a present.

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Mischievous Monkey - Mescalero Indians

11 MAY 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

The monkey going around with his Italian master here bit a piece out of the face of a little negro girl named Francis Hubbard.  The Italian was arrested and will be tried before Judge Tegener.

Several Mescalero Indians went through on the International yesterday.  They were en route to El Paso via Fort Worth.  The experience of railroading was as novel as it was new to them.

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Duff's Partisan Rangers and the German Texans

Duff’s Partisan Rangers and the German Texans

The history of the American Civil War not only includes major battles like Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Siege of Petersburg but also the internal civil wars within places like northern Virginia, the Missouri-Kansas border, northern Mississippi and the Texas Hill Country.

The internal civil war in the Texas Hill Country took place between Confederate partisan rangers and…

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