The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-22
Texas-Facts ana Fanc1es.

Tilton is coming west lecturing.
Pneumonia prevails in Montague.
Crops around Crockett promise finely.
Smallpox is at Millville, in Rusk county.
The marshal of Dallas has made raid on
keno.
Innumerable grasshoppers are reported in
Waco.
There are five bran new Oranges in Polk
county.
Grasshoppers have appeared in Montague
county.
Magnolias are blooming beautifully in
Houston.
Coils. Peeler and Tillman Smith are at
Huntsville.
In Pamela the people cry for beef, and are
tired of bacon.
Bell county anticipates big crop of
wheat this year.
Scott Manning, the wounded brakeman,
died at Terrell.
Peoria has recovered from the smallpox
and trade revives.
A child of ]. G. Bussey was bitten by a
snake IN Pamela.
Live Oak Grange has been recently Or
ganized in Bastrop.
Crops are backward, though all the
girls are not, up at Tyler.
Pamela, like Dallas county, will vote sol
idly for the convention.
of T Our mayIf Of Dallas. NTH the nn'a'H'
1t was corn doctor whom Rockdale sent
into exile with many STIR pes.
Cleburne intends to have q tremendous
agricultural and mechanical affair.
Spelling matches ravage Corpus Christi,
where zennias are in full blossom.
The Brennan Banner rejOlceth IN the
prospect of an abundant mast crop.
The Every Few" gave grand masquer-
ade ball, in Dallas, on the seventh.
Several cases of smallpox are reported in
Corpus Christi among the Mexicans.
E. II. Cushing has for sale the laws en-
acted by the adjourned Legislature.
Seven horse thieves were captured in the
neighborhood of Belmont last week.
The fruit crop of Bolton has been injured
by frost. The Journal is unframed.
Josh Billings's roosters have Just crowed
in the face of the Giddings Tribune
Denison is to have comb factory, and
then won't the Neaos wool the Courier.
w. H. Striker is being tried for passing 6
So Chicago counterfeit note in Calvert.
The LaGrange Grange recommends the
adoption of the Constitution of 1s45.
The San Antonio Presbyterian church
made $3.50 by a single spelling match.
The Radicals will assemble IN convention
at Houston on the thirteenth prOximo.
George w. Newman, one of the oldest
citizens of Fort Worth, died last week.
The railroads have made rates of trave
one-half less during the fair at Houston.
John Collins was severely cut by Dan
Kirk, in GAINESVILLE, during a street fight.
Pat McNeill, and thirty others, is pursu
ing thieves OF Mexlcans below Fort Powell
Col. Jas. c. Gather is talked about as q
candidate for the constitutional convention.
Crockett county is anxiously looking on
for proper representatives in the convention
A cowboy, Horror, shot a policeman il
Sherman last week in house Of ill-fame
People are stiI digging away, the hide
tells US, into the silver mines of Gonzales
Brickmaking prospers in Longview, the
consumption in peoples hats being enor
nous.
w. D. MINIS supplants D. c. Williams a
editor of an excellent paper, the Tyler Re
porter.
Heavy shipments Of cattle, sheep, ETC.,
are made weekly from Rockdale to St
Louis.
Somerville county was so called IN homo
of q heutenant-cOlonel of the Texan revO
luton.
Col. Sid Coleman is talked about as
candidate for the State convention in Shelbl
county.
The grounds of the BloOded Stock Asso
citation in Dallas are being rapidly i'm
proved.
About fifty men are hard at work on tn
Corpus Christi and Laredo Narrow Gaug
Railroad.
They are going to have jockey club il
Jefferson, and we stake everything on th
JImpleelte.
The Texan immigration drummers wer
last hesrd from dispersed in u snow storm
in Cincinnati.
Judge Ferris viii probably be membe
of the State Convention, 50 tho Bryan 4P
peal thinks.
Victoria has 4 brass band to chime i
beautifully with mosquitoes and midsumme
night dreams.
EDwH BANCROFT, nephew Of the grea
American historian, Is practicIng law 4
Texarkana
The Odd Fellows Of the State are invite
to q celebration az Dallas on the twenty
sixth Of April.
The NcIrs-B0y calls Rev. T. n. Stoyal
the Bascomb Of the Methodist Episcop.
church In Texas.
The red devil, Lone Wolf, 2 has escape
from his captors e Fort Sill, and Is agai
on the warpath.
Mr.. J. J. Pritchett, Of Pittsylvauia, Vn
ginia. proposes 20 establish bis tobacco faC
tory q Bonham.
Crops IN Red River county, especial
wheat, are doing remarkably we'll So v
learn from private letter.
The Bonh1m Henagsr Il slill wrestlin
with the theOlogical-WrcItli,g Of Rev
Diizler and Sweeney.