The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-18
Texas-Facts and FaneIes.


That awful man Barr is pokiDg barr
faced fun at poor Beecher.
A brother of Gen. Braxton Bragg is
treasurer of Freestone county.
The wheat crop about Fort Worth
will be one of unparalleled produc-
ton.
The doubt about telegraph line be-
tween McDade and Bastrop has van
Ished.
1t is said there is not an Indian, ne
gro, Mexican or tramp in Stephens
county.
There are about 200 Tonksway In
dians, half civilized, IN Shackelford
county.
Conductor Afford, wounded by the
train robbers, it was feared would lose
his arm.
E. G. Newman, an old citizen of
Workman, was killed Monday by the
falling of his horse upon him.
Ned Booth, having failed on his mo-
ton for new trial, is under sentence
to be hung on the first Friday in Sep
TENDER.
Isaac Hobbs, late sheriff of Cooke
county and a man heretofore of good
standing, has been arrested for horse
stealing.
One Chicago house shipped from
Denison last season, gia the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway, 35, 97S head
of cattle.
T. M. Crabb, postmaster at Quitman,
has been arrested for opening regis
tered packages and abstrscting the
money therefrom.
The Sabine iSdaon is the organ and
excellent representative of the taste
and intelligence of the people at
Hemphill, Texas.
Governor Stockdale won't have much
time now to devote to politics. He
has bran new baby that is remarka-
bly, precocious of nights.
The Palo Pinto Moontaineer is the
intelligent precursor of mail robbers
and other incidents of Texas civiliza-
ton and of Dallas social life away out
West IN Texas. =.
The irate Judge Borden was grubbed
up at Denison the other day, and then
he forked oyer $40 and costs to Mayor
Grubbs on account of having used
ucss words in public.
The negroes about Dodge, in Walker
county, are threatening to lynch par
ties supposed to be engaged in the
killing of the negro man connected
with the Mcclure case.
There are published in Texas three
Baptist, two Christian, one Presbyte-
risn, one Methodist, one Spiritual, and
one hundred and seventy Democratic
papers, and yet they call us heathens.
The matador in the bull fight at San
Antonio on Sunday was placed hors dw
combat. A leg was broken, and he was
otherwise injured. The two-legged
beast weighed $50 and was called Jack
Farley.
Crabb, the postmaster at Quitman,
tried to crswfish out of it, but the bills
marked were found on his person.
They had been sent in q decoy letter
and Crabb clswed it in and was caught
in the act.
Judge Bramlette, the candidate for
Land Commissioner, was at GAINESVILLE
the other day seeing how the land hes
over there. He is an old surveyor, and
is doing some responsible running and
figuring just now.
Thompson, found guilty of murder
in the first degree at Dallas, appealed,
and in consequence of bare informal
ity of the court below, the Court of
Appeals has given him new lease on
life by remanding his case.
For the year ending August 81, 1877,
there were issued from the General
Land Office to river contractors under
the State law granting subsidies GER
tificstes calling for $40, $50 acres of the
public lands; the same number being
issued for the school fund.
The total liabilities of Texas on out
standing land certificates, August 81,
1877, was 1877, "a, 033 acres Of land.
The estimated area subject to location
was 175, so, $50 acres, leaving area
against which there are no outstanding
claims, AZ, $40, 527 acres public land.
We have a copy Of Vennor's Almanac
for the current year. 1t il famous for
Its weather predictions, which have
been thus far uniformly verified, and
therefore the little book has won great
fame for its author. John Dougall 6
Son are the publishers, st Montreal,
Canada.
The Express is informed that Col.
James Bowie has niece. in the person
of Mrs. Moore, formerly of New Or
leans, now living in Galveston. Mrs.
Moore resided in Travis county for
some years. She has two sons in
Texas, one living in Galveston, the
other in Travis county.
The Georgetown SIN says: .''0f
the forty-eieht thousand dollars neces-
sary to build broad gauge railway %
Palm Valley there remains only from
twelve to fifteen hundred dollars Of
stock and bonds yet untaken, 50 that
the building Of the road this season
may be regarded as fixed fact
A correspondent Of the Sherman
Courier says: ono less than City head
Of horses are known to have been