The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18
Texas--Facts and FancIes.


Rev. DIR. Connor is conducting a success
full revival at Waco.
| Horse thieves are doing a prosperous
business in Collin county.
Portions of the country about Mckinney
will make full wheat crop.
Virgil Edwards, who killed Avery, in
Comanche county, is in Jail at Waco.
Plasters, who killed Parker at Cameron,
was admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
They have "Dick Hubbard silver mine
in L'ano, and it's the pure ore they dig cut
of it.
Joseph O'Neill was thrown from sta.
honary train at Mckinney Saturday and
killed.
Mrs. Matilda Fenner Mcknight, formerly
of Jackson, Tennessee, died few days ago
at Seguin.
They burned tar barrels and Illuminated
LaGrange when they heard of Coke's tri-
umph.
The head of the great publishing house
of ID. Appleton & Co., of New York is
traversiRg Texas.
Farmers prospects in Collin county were
never brighter, but the growing crop of
rutabagas is slim.
Happily for Texas the Legislature dis
cusses its wine in flowing words and not in
overlooking glasses.
The Bryan Post says it has been "thorn
in the side of the Appeal" Then it must
be only small crab-appeal-post.
Texas Central Railroad stock still con-
tinues to flop in Wall street, while Interna-
| tional stock holds a stiff upper lip.
Winnie Ream has made model of L. @.
G.. Lamar, the papers say. Several of them
have been made by as clever artistes.
The tempest at Montague blew Mr.. Row
| ley's horses and houses across Red River
and he now runs the machine ON the other
side.
Gen. John j. Good, of Dallas, has been
spending several days in the capital, en-
gagged in suits pending in the Supreme
Court.
The San Marcos Free Press devotes three
columns to an account of the free loves of
Moxa Poxy Morton. It's good reading for
those who like it.
@Aihlo o'oii h'bhlhS III pI'lSSNihS pdSoCh-
gers on stage coaches. Perhaps Winchester
rifles are not the sort to be used against
stage coach robbers.
J. w. ID. has been doing Houston and
the Fair in a very felictous manner for the
Examiner. He doesn't think the Houston
ians very succefssul.
That fossil jaw-bone exhumed at Nava-
sofa, weighing less than two tons, did not
belong to the talking member of the j u
diciary Committee.
The Hearne Enterprise says: "The gauge
be changed from Hearne down this sum
mer, as reported some time ago"
Some crazy individual down at San An.
tonic wants to exchange four Austin town
lots for several blocks of buildings and
several squares about the plaza.
The discussion of the proposition to erect
a Z" breakwater' at Galveston beg 1t lively
debate in the House yesterday about break.
ing the back of whisky in Texas.
Scandalous reports in regard to a minister
at Bonham circulated during the past week
The matter is to be Investigated at a churcl
meeting on the first of next month.
| TIC 4 tHttS W Z HdNt
never yet heard of anything that eithel
Texas or the general government proposed
to build but what San Antonio bid for 1t.
The total tax of Austin county is forty
five cents; of Victoria, thirty cents. Immi
grants observe these facts, and the Legisla
ture should look into the origin OF loca
taxation.
In December, 1878, the total vote o
Titus county for Governor was 1852. TIL,
same territory Franklin, Titus and Norris
at the recent election, polled 22S2 votes 70
Governor.
The Corsicaha IadGr seems to think, il
a modest blushing sort of way, that tn
Houston State Fair was fiat failure. How
ever Hat and stale, we hope 1t wasn't un
profitable.
BuumnOus coal has been discovered at
depth of forty feet in Jack county. TIL
thickness Of the vein is not given, am
therefore we might as we'll have heard moth
ing about it.
Rust is rulnous to wheat In Fannir
county, but the Meas aud the Messenger snC
the rank newspaper crop up there doesn'
seem affected by it. The rustiest news
paper we see is the -. Leader.
1.-The social question in the South con
tinues to he whether man shall starve o
cotton or live on corn.n Evidently tn
New York Herald never sees Souther
/ paper except those published in Dallas.
I The EramiHer tells that august Hawk
iusoq aud John Blom We're both cut in
saloon BY Carbaugh.n Carbaugh, we sur
pose, is in the service of the Sultan, VIII
may want HawkinsOn and Blom in the
present fix.
Major Fitzhugh felt good and had sevel
: al drinks in him when he poured out h
T inards in private letter TO Mr.. NJ Il
, very amusing literature, to say the least I
it, and may cause the Major to lose his of
cial head.
/, Galveston breskwster bonds bearing t.
per cent. interest would sell in New Yor
: Al eighty cents, but stock-market quou
{ tions say there are no buyers, and therefol
, the necessity of roping the State into Il
a breakwater business.
Dallas papers are grieved that Jacko,
!. parrot twenty-five years old, is no NOR
IL be had been a featherless - bird, nof Il
usual Dallas sort, and had died naturally
= bed, the event would have been unwep
: unhOnored and unsung.