The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-31
Te1a.-Facts and FancIes.

Inc circus Teadlng IN the JtmptecUtt
is the most interesting from that quar-
ter we have seen in many, many long
years.
1t is claimed that if Bill Longley had
been worth $4,000 he could have slipped
into eternity otherwise than from the
scaffold.
Work on the telegraph line from
Fort Davis to Ell Paso at last accounts
was going on with push. Il is the
military line.
Simon 3. Jones is wanted at Noun
tain Home, in Bell county. He sold
cotton and got away with money that
did not belong to him.
The Dallas Commercial says when
the courts become clearing machines
for criminals, the people will take the
law in their own hands.
Some of the farmers in Young coun-
ty have raised the second crop of corn
this year, some of which will make
thirty bushels per acre.
"Nat O." proposes to play the agree
able to all editors who attend the
Georgetown fair, which has been post
poned to the twelfth of November.
The Governor is trying to induce of.
ficers to do their duty by increasing the
reward for the apprehension of the
Lynch murderers from $500 to $1,000.
The Washington county Greenback-
ers are going to white over-zealous
candidates down to strait stick, and
the unsuccessful ones will break ranks.
When a Robertson county man goes
into the woods and calls out ''Gover-
nor" Gen. Hamman pokes his head
out of bush and replies, Hello here
l am"
The Fort Worth Post says Dick
Hubbard's "be4utiful eratory NAV
bury with roses the skeleton of bis
acts as Governor of the State OF
Texas"
The Sherman Register says Denison's
handsome school house has done more
for her than her cotton compress and
every other enterprise of which the
people are proud.
Capt. Alfred Evans lives at Mountain
Home, in Bell county. He command
ed company under Jack Hays in the
Mexican war. He is 6S years old, but
is full of vigor.
DIR. William Cage, formerly of Co.
lumbus, Mississippi, and late of
hrlT DF Aln
Texas. Yellow Jack will send 10, 900
people to Texas.
Jack Coans, of Waco, has taken the
stump against GreenbackIsm. He has
so long been operating against fraud
that he holds it as duty to go rough
shod for the flats.
The laundering of the Mallory
steamer, City of Houston, from New
York to Galveston, which occurred off
the Florida coast, was not attended
with any loss of life.
ChIlls and fevers are reported in San
Saba county, and in some cases the fe-
vers are protracted and stubborn. San
Saba county has heretofore been unex-
ceptionably healthy.
The Telephone still talks for itself,
as well as reproduces the best thoughts
of others. 1t is McCollum's and not
the other fellows instrument we are
talking about. 1t wakes up Waco.
Loughery, of the Marshall Herald,
now concludes that the hanging of a
few gentlemen in Texas in necessary
for the morels of Texas, the safety of
her people and our good name abroad.
Tae Bulletin says Sheriff Miller has
taking a lively interest in rounding
up" the herd of land sharks that COL
lected in Burnett county; while at
tending to the stock he saved his Ba-
con.
The Houston Telegram speaks of
the Galveston ,Neocs as sour Radical
contemporary" Probably the Tele-
gram saw its weakly edition. The
daily was half and half some ten days
ago.
San Augustine county hasn't Green
hacker within its limits, and a still
small voice upon the street corners
whispers that there is an asylum where
the American citizen may not be talk
ed to death.
So it is "ma,arial fever" that has
kept Dick Hubbard from scattering
that 'gali" Tom Bowers has been
talking about. The ''gan" struck in
wardly, probably, on the twenty-sec-
ond of July.
Mr.. w. A. Bennett, of the banking
firm of Bennett, Lockwood & Thorn
ton, San Antonio. died at his home in
San Antonio on the night of the TWEEN =
ty-thIrd. Mr.. Bennett married niece
of j. d. McGary, of Austin.
M. A. Darrell, proprietor of the
stage line between Dallas and Waxa-
hachie, attempted suicide at Dallas on
the twenty II he isn't satisfied
let him take a trip over the line with
a pocket full of rocks"
-Four Counties: "The tracklayers
on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad are only nine miles from Rich
mond. They will be here in two weeks
at the tarthest. The road Is graded
some fifteen miles above this place"
A Chattanooga drummer was arrest
ed for quarantine infraclion IN Jasper,
and was fined fifty dollars and thrown
into Jail; but pretending to have pains
in the head, was turned out IN a jiffy
and told to ''git"-and he ''got."
The officers of the Houston Fair As
sociation are active. They work at
every point, and now the New Orleans
road has agreed to carry anything for
exhibition TO and from the fair gratis.
The fair commences November 10.
The hope is generally expressed that
the next Legislature will take steps to
purchase the Alamo property, to be
forever held, owned and kept in a
good state of preservation By the
State. Sach a course will no doubt be
pursued.
Dan MeGsry, of the Houston Age,
has the family Bible Of Hugh McGary,
and it is SAID to be the first Bible that
was ever in Kentucky. Its remarxa-
BILE preservation in the hands of Major
Dan is one of the best evidences of his
extreme piely.
It is suggested that the Governor set
apart some particular sabbath" on
which all ministers of the gospel
preach from the text, Thou shalt not
kill" This may be followed by ar
other, Thou shalt not stealr-any
more Texas real estate.