The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

last sensation, not in the good, moral
burg of Dallas, but in the awful city
of Denison.
Harry Allen, nurse from Texas, ar
rested in Memphis last October on a
charge of rape, has been discharged
without trial.
Bob Purnell, young farmer of Hill
county, was killed some time ago at a
dance in Montague. A brother is also
reported killed.
A. w. Wilcox, local mail agent at
Richmond, Texas, has been arrested
while in the act of opening the mails
and abstracting letters.
John Greer, the Waller county muir
derer, has been arrested IN Karnes
county. Six hundred dollars were
offered for his capture.
Three men robbed the stage at Blow
out, in Gillespie county, and then went
to fredericksburg and attempted to
rob saloon in the town.
The directors of the Texas and Paci-
fic meet at Marshall next month, and
the Denison Neeos thinks there's big
bug under the chip.
Austin Sims was arrested for horse
stealing In Missouri and was identified
as the murderer of Hansford, in McLen-
nan county, in 1877.
At Fort Worth on January 5, the
norther blew at the rate of fifty miles
an hour, and the thermometer went to
five degrees above zero.
The oldest settler of Llano county,
Justus Herber, who came to this coun-
try with the German immigration Com
pany in 1916, is dead.
Some of the Lampasas people are go
ing to Georgetown to talk up better
roads between the two places, looking
to trade between them.
Coon, wolf, wild cat, catamGunt
and other scalps, given, to the number
of 337, in payment for dog tax, were
burned at the court house in Paris.
Col. Sam T. Robb, of Trinity, killed
a hog of the Poland China breed, four
years old, weighing 100 pounds. Ex-
treme length, when hung up, eight
feet.
Jake Scmervllle, the Hearne muir
derer, whose case has been continued
three years, has been turned over to
Jail by his bondsmen, who stood for
$4,000.
The people of Denison, having coun-
ty seat aspirations, will petition the
Legislature for the formation of new
county to be carved out of Fannin and
Grayson.
The Bellville Beacon says that in less
than two years the country through
which the narrow gauge railroad has
been surveyed will be one solid line of
fine farms.
The county attorney of Hamilton
county is preparing to file complaints
against 152 persons who failed TO pay
their dog tax within the time prescrib-
ed by law.
A negro has been hanged in Smith
county for committing rape. They
didn't fatten him up at the county's
expense for the occasion-took him
lean as they caught him.
A contract has been signed at New
York, it is said, for the construction,
of the Sabine Bay and Northwestern
railway, to extend from Sabine bay to
Denison, distance of $40 miles.
Texas woods in New York, on Janu-
airy 2, were quoted as follows: Fine
Eastern, 90 to 24c; medium Eastern,
10 to 24c; fine Western. II to 100 !;
medium Western, Is to 1Sc; inferior,
ID to 16c.
August Schultz, alias Fritz Albrecht,
was hired to fire the house of Mr.. Open
burg, at Fredericksburg. He was sus-
pected and caught and has acknowl-
edged that he played the part of which
he is accused.
The press of the State is speaking
out very plainly In regard to the Agri-
cultural aud Mechanical College and
demands that it should be made to con-
form its course of instruction to the
spirit Of the grant.
The people Of a part of Lampasas
county, together with a portion of
those of Brown and Hamilton coun-
ties, are anxious to have new county,
with the court house somewhere near
or at Williams's ranch.
Young county has filled up with a
thrifty population from everywhere,
and the Governors proclamation, for
bidding the carrying of fire arms, has
plsced the county fully within the
boundaries of civilization.
The Republicans and the disaffected
OF all persuasions of San Antonio are
divided on the mayoralty. One set
under Newcomb fayors French, the
Democratic nominee. Another under
Degcner favors Ulrich, independent.
And now it appears there is another
hitch in she Texas and New Orleans
road. The final conditions necessary
to the signing of the contract can not
be sgreed upon. This is about the
thirteenth hitch in the last ten years.
The Galveston wharf company is
8 paying Institution. 1t earned during
the year ending November so, 1873,
$l61. 1900; i,s expenses were $1O9,-
246. 81. Il declared q dividend of
$45, 965.50 and has 1894. 81 cash on
hand.
Last year circular was addressed
to 435 wool raisers of West Texas,
stating the features and probable effect
OF bill before Congress proposing to
reduce the tariff on wool. Half the
wool growers replied, expressing their
10 the bill.
Cibolo creek in West Texas disAp-
pears IN = rocky gorge three miles
from Boerne, and runs underground
forty miles. In some places natural
wells 240 feet deep are found, from
which the roaring Of this subterraneous
creek can be distinctly heard.
The United States grand jury. at
Galveston, threw the case OF Rev.
Pope, arrested on the charge of tamper-
ing with the mails, out OF court. So