The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
rexas-Facts and Faneies.

LampaSas county mas q Popuiatlon
Of 1000.
Sherman is agitating the question of
water works.
DR.. VIM. Killebrew is the new Hayes
postmaster at Marlin.
The new Jail building at Lampssss is
being rapidly built.
Round Rock is shipping quantities
of grain to Galveston.
Bell county is just about to relieve
itself entirely of debt.
There will be surplus of bacon in
Bell county next season.
Terrell rats tackle grown chickens
and ge: away with them.
The Fort Worth grain elevator is
doing thriving business.
The rain of last Monday extended
from the coast to Red River.
Dir. Henry c. Thompson is travelling
for Il e San Antonio Herald.
Wheat went up from five to ten
cents in Dallas last Thursday.
Jefferson wants the Texas and PAci-
fic Railroad to move its depot.
Good -four from new wheat sells at
81 per hundred in Round Rock.
Both corn and Data are delivered n
Bolton for twenty cents bushel.
Col. Amssa Turner, an old veteran
at Gonzales, died on the twenty-first.
The war in the custom house al
Corpus Christi has been lively one,
There is considerable building, both
stores and residences, in Round Rock.
Several families from Saline county,
Missouri, are settling in Brown county.
Hampstead is organizing cavalry
company which will slosh around at
fairs.
There is come hitch about the char
ter for the Lawrence and Kaufman
Railway.
The "blind tiger" of Bolton has
been closed, and now whisky is scarce
IN the sly.
The Brownsville Sentinel has sus=
pended; the editcr says for want Of
patronage.
Henrietta, in Clay county, is now
United States signal station, so says
the Journal.
The I,ampasas Fair Association il
advertising its approaching fair very
extensively. o.
Salado, in Bell county, is no lopgel
a money order office, and Round Rock
wants to be one.
Several young men OF Roekport are
endeaVoring to purchase horses TO
shipping purposes.
The Bolton Journal is pleased tina
much of the Bell county school land
lie in Wise county.
Miss WALLACE and Miss Evans, o
Austin, have been turning the head
of fellows in Bolton.
A number of persons have beef
passing through Bolton on their way Il
the Lampasas Springs.
! Capt. Wells is on his way to the Ri
drandc with Company &, Of the Fight
Cavalry, and Ave wagons.
A man named Harris wac killed
week ago at Woodland, near Mexia
by Willie Johnston.
There is talk of building a narrow
gauge railroad from Fort Wortl
southeast to the Rra@oe.
Peaches and apples are so plentiful
in Eastern Texas that they are bein!
skipped In every direction.
! The prisoners in the Brown count.
jail have again attempted to escape
this time almost succeeding.
There are in Dallas county 012G chill
dren of scholastic age, 1857 of whom
are white and 100 cOloied.
A man caught seventy two fish il
one hour from Brushy creek, 10 Will
Hanson county, the past week.
I Mr.. Embre, of Bolton, recently los
twelve or fifteen hogs, which diec
from the effects of hot weather.
Dispatches from Dodge City, Kan
sas, report upwards of 100 hGG head o
Texas cattle in that immediate vicinity
The store of Messrs. Higgins & Gar
woods, of Bastrop, was robbed las
Tuesday night of $3.50 worth of goods
The wheat crop in Lampasas is no
good, owing to the depred9tions o
the grasshoppers early in the season
The people generally speak of tn
appearance OF the cotton worm. Tn
farmers are using poison with grea
success.
Capt. McNelly, of the frontier force
is at the American House, Boerne
Kendall county, in very precariou
health.
On Sunday last little girl wa
crushed to death in q railroad TURF
table at Houston. Her name wa
Rmma Voyle.
Jose Cordovas, a soldier under Gen
eral Jackson at New Orleans, is tn
father of parties accused of the muIde
of Bob Trimble.
Sixty to seventy bushels of barley
the acre Is said to be a common yiel
n many counties in Texas, and th
crop is profitable.
The Journal expresses its intention
to give the people of Bell county goo
local paper. But few, if any, alread
surpass it as such.
The Democrat says that Fort Wort
is in want of first class school teache
to teach advanced scholars in French
German and music.
Georgetown, Williamson county
contains a population Of 1900. an
Round Rock. in the same county
claims nearly 1000. F..
Prof. Forshey writes a long lettG
from New Orleans to the Galvesto
: Nens on the importance of geograpt
: ical survey of Texas.
Insanity is on the increase in Kau
, man county, but it has not yet reache
he editors of the Star, who publish
most excellent daily,
The Bolton Journal says judy
Alexander is winning golden opinion
for the faithful performance Of b
duties upon the bench.
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