The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-25
TEXAS FACTS AND fANclES.

Snow fell at Brennan all day on
the 18th.
| About Waco horses are dying
from blind staggers.
The congressional vote in Austin
county is: Jones 1893, Shepard 11l7
A fire at Marlin on the 18th de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property
The oil works at Columbus turn
out about $50 gallons of oil per day
Sadie Pike, a cyprian, died al
Fort Worth from morphine poison
ing.
Between San Antonio and Pleas
anton there is an exhaustless bed OF
coal.
The Central road have q gang OF
Mexican section hands at Hemp
stead.
A state medical journal Is to be
started at Galveston, wsth DIR. Heard
as editor.
The Dallas Herald computes the
bar-room profit on every barrel OF
whisky at 1924.
The government il going to build
quarters for the officers of the army
at San Antonio.
At Willis. John Tolbert was shot
and instantly killed by his cousin,
Thomas Prindle.
Ellis Oglesby, colored. OF Victo-
ria,while attending church, dropped
dead of heart disease.
The ObseI'reI'-Inder is now issued
as daily paper. Mr.. G. Z. Miller is
editor and proprietor.
The Italian opera troupe were Sc
riously disagreeing among them
selves while in San Antonio.
In Colorado county Jones received
1876 votes, Shepard 1869. The Off
cisl majority for Jones is 779.
AT the Dallas races, first day.
Tramp beat Bonnie Lee. Our Friend
| beat Wild Moor in mile heats.
Hines, the thief who stole Major
PENIS Bible and hymn-book, is a
| Sanctified Massachusetts, man.
James Wright, the man whose
scull was broken by negro in Hvus-
ton, has reached comitose state.
The highway robber, killed at Dali
las, was Oils Curley, who has lately
come to Texas from Nashville, Tenn.
Bishop George F; Pierce, of Geor-
gia, presided at the North Texas NJ.
E. church conference, held at Dallas.
The Smith county vote for COVER
nor is 1916, Davis 1892, Hannah $50.
Reagan's vote was 1918, Withers 1871.
The German immigrants who
reached San Antonio few days ago
have all succeeded in getting en-
ployment.
Eight lunatics have been confined
in the Galveston Jail for months,
there being no room for them in the
state asylum.
In johnson county the official
vote is: Hancock 1880, Weaver
$50, Garfield ?, Roberts 1888. Ham,
man 518, Davis Q.
The official vote of Brazoria coun-
ty for Congress is: Jones 1885, Shep-
ard 248. For state senator: Duff
1886, Stubs 213.
DIR. Caldwell, of Texarkana, was
killed by George Ford. The diff
Guilty leading to his death arose out
of horse trade.
Unofficial census returns put the
total population of Texas at 1885,
438, as against sls,246 at the census
ten years previous.
An immature infant, lying around
loose, has been discovered in Dal-
las, and the papers are trying to
trace up its parentage.
johnson county will receive ST.
O00, 900 for cotton this year, which is
$50 per capita for every man. woman
and child in the county.
In precinct l, Guadalupe county,
half dozen white men wanted 10
be constable, and with all these in
he field negro was elected.
The Age insists that $1,000 is suf-
ficient salary for any county officer,
and will urge the next legislature to
take action on this proposition.
Near kerrville Mexican gather
ing wood was murdered in cold
blood, and nobody has any idea who
committed the dastardly deed.
Hardy Thomas, sheriff elect of
Grayson county, is not quite twenty
three years old. and the youngest
sheriff ever elected in the state.
The proceedings of the north
western district of the n. Z. Church
South Conference closed at Waco,
10 he reopened at WaXahachic next
year.
The official vote of Washington
county gives Hancock 1877, Garfield
2S4S, Weaver 16S, Roberts 1885,
Davis 2770, Hamman 1872, Shepard
2512. Jones 1864.
The official vote of Washington
county is: Roberts 1888. Davis
27l7, Hannah 1872; Shepard's major
ity over Jones 14S; j. b. McFarland's
majority over Broaddus for district
Judge 1884
On Saturday. the court of appeals,
in session at Tyler, reversed and
remanded four criminal cases.
There is where the trouble comes
in with the administration of the
criminal law.
The Galveston Ne,cs says that the
unfortunate man, Jake Wiley, at
Dallas, was dangerously wounded
in the yard of the road" We SYM
pathize with the paragrsphist as
well as the poor man.
The official vote of Bexar county
is: Roberts 1888, Davis 1880. Ham,
man 9, Storey 26SS, Siemering 1874
McI-eary 2497, Hutchinson 1879
For county judge Felix Smith re-
ceived 2S4S, Paschall 1S45.
The giving away of n bridge on
the Dallas and Wichita railway pre-
cipitated car filed with railroad
hands. Three were killed outright,
two were MORALLY wounded, and
nine were seriously injured.
The late freeze has frozen all the
sUgsrcane, and the result will be that
only that part of the crop already
ground will make sugar. The dam
age is most serious to the sugar in
terests of the coast country.
Four coaches of a special train,
carrying four companies of the Six
Kansas, to San Antonio, were
ditched near Corsicana. Between
twenty and thirty were wounded.
In Guadalupe county the official
vote is: Epson 1881, Roberts 1l72,
Davis S95. Hannah 40, Storey 1875,
Lubbock 1875, Walsh and Brown
both 1889. For the state Senate
Burgess received 1888 and Cochrane
GAG.
Mr.. John A. Wayland has sent to
his sister-in-law, Mrs. r. Y. Kirkpat-
rick of Sherman. twigs of bullrushes
and a few flowers plucked from the
waters edge where Moses is said to
have been found by Pharsoh's daugh-
ter IN the Nile.
In Shearn Church, Houston, they
use the eornet instead of an organ.
We mention this in the interest of
harmony in church in this CITY.