The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
Te1as-Facts and Faneies.

Mr.. Lii, an old citizen of San Saba
county, Is dead.
Round Rock ships large quantities
of lumber to Fort Concho.
R. w. Crawford refused SO, 200 for
his horse, George Quinan.
Judge Fleming is terror to evil
doors in Shackelford county.
The Waco Maifest, on the tenth in
slant, is to be grand affair.
A dog fight in Gainesville collects as
large a crowd as circus in Austin.
Pierce's road may soon be extended,
the Era says, to Castroville and Uval-,
de.
Society among the Hebrews of Dial:
las has been lively and agreeable this
season.
Wet land in Erath county is prevent
ing the working of crops, and weeds
are in the ascendent.
A fierce rain storm has visited Gran
bury and done much danger to fences
and some to buildings.
DR.. Ditzler is preaching in Dali
las, and his interesting lectures are
attracting large audiences.
Rev. John w. Baylor is rusticating
among the mountains of Western Tex
as, desiring to improve his health.
Major Jones's men have captured
twenty three of the worst desperadoes
in Kimball county, and hold them IN
der guard.
Paine s. Grafton, attorneys, Wash
ington, D. c., report patent issued to
Waream, of Galveston, for car brake
and starter.
A pretty girl told US yesterday that
by putting bashful lover under blue
glass; he could be made to propose at
the first sitting.
They fine people in Mason for swear
ing on the streets, and we are thinking
about sending some of our people 10
Mason to learn manners.
DIR. Erhard, of Bastrop, says shat the
young men of that place GO to church
only to look at the girls. In this they
are very singular fellows!
A detachment of State troops, under
Sergeant Watson, has been doing good
service in Goliad county during the
term of the district court.
The stockholders of the Central
Railroad meet on the seventeenth of
May to elect new officers. The meet
ing will be held in Houston.
John D. Morrison, the successful
schoolmaster, has organized an acade-
my at Benton City TO prepare boys
for the junior class in college.
In Caldwell county. the grasshoppers
have committed no damage on the
black lands. The grain crops promise
larger yield than ever before.
The Terrell cemetery is full-not
room for another grave-and yet the
living Ksufmanltes insist that people
never die in Kaufman county.
Walter Tips s. Co. and Bruegger-
hoff & Heidenheimer are reported in
the Neacs Item as having some response
BILE drumming done about Mason.
Sunday school scholars in Mason who
bring another member into the class
receive two rewards-one from on high,
the other handsome present here.
Coles great menagerie and circus Is
coming to Texas. Prices of admission
have been reduced from one dollar to
fifty cents; children, twenty-five cents.
A beef transaction to the tune of
$91, 900 has taken place at Fort Griffin
between John A. O'Neil, of Willis
Point, and Capt. Millett, of Taylor
county.
Mr.. Culbersos, of Caldwell county,
has taken q fleece from one of his
Cotswold sheep, which weighs eighteen
pounds, and he calls it genuine gold
en- fleece.
There is plenty of time before the
next State election for aspirants to be
killed off either bodily or politically.
In two years the foremost now may be
forgotten.
, E. B. Keith, of Erath county, was
arrested on charge of illicit disabling
and while his bond was being prepared
he jumped the marshal, and has gone
on his way rejoicing.
Mr.. L. Woehrman, near Fort Clark,
was murdered and 1t is said he was
forced to sign checks on banks where
he had money deposited before the
fends took his life.
Andrew Jackson Hobbs IS the name
of the boy lost from his parents while
on their way to Western Texas. His
fathers name is Lsbsn Hobbs, and he
would like to find the boy.
The ffty-sixth anniversary of Odd
Fellowship was celebrated in Grsnbury
in q style-that would have done credit
to any city. The order there is said TO
be 10 9 most prosperous condition
A fierce storm, with rain and hail,
passed over Mason county, doing great
damage to fences and crops. Near
Mason Mountain the hail accumulated
to the depth Of three or four feet.
We are generally opposed to mob
violence. but the next fellow that gets
up sooner" in poetry and reads to Us