The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-15
TEXAS FACTS AND faHuts.

The population of San Antonio ii
30 200.
A German daily paper is 70 be start.
ed at Brenhsm.
The population of Lee county is e.
timated at 5000.
Hunt county il cursed With 9 ganl
OF horse thieves.
A buffalo calf was caught ct BlancC
canon last week.
Three men were sunstruck 81 Came
ron 8 few days ago.
The exact population OF Dallas ID
now given at 10 400.
The new court house 1t Dallas viii
500 u be complete d.
Sulphur water was recently found in
9 we'll dug near FlstoBis.
The cotton crop Of Falls county ID
estimated at 10 600 bales.
A large crowd of health and pleas.
ure seekers are at -Four Lake.
Denison "a shipping peaches and
other fruits 10 sill parts Of Texas.
The Texas trunk railroad surveyors
are between Jacksonville and Rusk.
Prof. and Mrs. Carrigsn, of Hico,
Hamilton county, attempted suicide.
The cotton worm has appeared on
several farms in the vicinity Of Bryan.
Cotton worms are committing rays-
ges in the cotton fields about EsgeLake
Over a half million pounds of wool
have arrived this season at Fort Worth.
The barley crop has not failed in
Limest, n couoty for twenty-five years.
Peaches are drug en- the market at
Denisoo, selling at twenty-five cents q
box.
G. W. Wilcoxen, OF Denton, hss q
Leicester ram that will weigh fully 800
pounds.
Mr.. william Arto, o. Houston, WAS
drowned at Galveston while bathing
in the gulf.
John G. Sullivan, OF Csstroville, an
nounces himself Is candidate for the
Legislature.
Il has bean concluded at San Anto.
MO, says the E1press, not to hold 8
fair this fall.
NC. Quinn, of Galveston, fell from
a wharf while fishing, on the 9Th, and
was drowned.
Grsyson county cotton planters ex-
pect to raise bale and half of cot
ton to the acre.
Governor HuGbsIdis return to Tyler
was celsbra ed by . reception and the
firing Of anvils.
Stalks Of millet five feet ten inches
high are among the products of farm
near Tehuscana.
Gens. Ord and Trevino sre srrang-
ing campaigns against the Indians
along the border.
Tobacco With leaves two feet long
and fifteen inches wide 10 growing in
Gonzales county.
Drunken negroes attempted to burn
the town Of San Augustine, but the
mob was dispersed.
Nearly one hundred snd fifty con-
verts, SO far, at Major PENIS camp
meeting at Luling.
A. J. Boyd, Of Bryan, attempted
suicide at Houston, but the poison
taken failed to kill.
The Republicans in the third con-
gressiousl district are going TO put q
candidate 10 the field.
The widow of President Gathright,
deceased, has just received $4,000 from
the Knights OF Honor.
Governor Roberts spent the fifth In
BRENNAN and spoke while there to q
large number Of people.
A box car from Houston, on being
opened at Corsicans, contained the
body of murdered man.
It is stated positively that Hon. F.
B. Sexton Of Marshall will be candi-
date for attorney general.
Carl Oscar Forsgard, youth of
Waco, died from INJURIES received
while bathing in the Brs1os.
The lumber mill of A. K. Morris, in
Orange county, makes an. average of
40. 600 feet of lumber per day.
Too much rain aud scarcity of la
Dor Is complained of by the farmers of
Grimes and sd joining counties.
In sinking 9 well &C Fort Griffin,
vein of copper eight inches wide and
two inches thick has been found.
About 800 students have been IN at
tendance ct Trinity University, Lime
stone county, during the past session,
Hugh Allen, of Burnet, has thirteen
children. and OF children, grand chill
dren and great grand children he has
40.
Fort Bend county has q population
of 10000. The scholastic population
shows 191 white children and 1885 coll
ored.
A large tract of land has been pur-
chased IN Archer county for party of
English immigrants, who will arrive in
Q short time.
There Is q musical prodigy IN Dem
ton county In the shape Of young ne.
gro, who bids fair TO rival the celebrs-
ted Blind Tom.
Miss Ella Rives, the sweet singer of
Marlin, it is said, has 40 engagement
with Max Straikosch for the coming
operate season.
The Dallas, Cleburne and Rio orande
railroad has been rsorganized, and
corps Of engineers are to commence
surveying CT once.
The 81. d T. @. and the G.. C. & 8.
F. railways have sgreed to build il
Brenssm one of the finest passenger
depots IN the state.
4 monstsr cave filed with glitterlng
stalsetic skeletons and sll other first.
class cavern appointments has been
iound in Kerr county.
Bud 6ecrest, one OF the supposed
murderers Of Rsgsdaie near Scbuleu-
burg, has committed suicide by shoo,-
ing himself IN the head.
W. W. Watkins, Q young man frcm
BRENNAN, went 70 Leadville, got rid Of
his money, contfaeted bad habite, and
finally comhitted suicide.
Mrs. Wardlow Of Grapevine Prairie,
Dallas county, gave birth to double
headed, clnb-footed child, which
breathed but few houfs.
Il IL expected that the opening Of
direct railroad communication between
New Orleans and Texas will be com.
meneed inside Of two weeks.
Parson Lscy, accused Of the murder
Of one swsnk, In Bosque county, hes
been tried on ehsnge OF venue. ct Gle
baras, and be vas scquitted.
VIII the San Antonio papers ples 90
consummate that marriage between
Gen. Trevino snd Gen. Ord's daughter
and let ne have an cad of il.
Henry Wilson, TraEis county con-
vics, ovefpowered peaissntisrV guard
ia Robertson county. and, taking his
gun and horse, made bis escape.
Mr.. Barrymore and Alss Cummins
have both inside engsgsfntnts to play
in Galveston aud other Texas cities
during the coming theatrical season.
One Van Taylor uas discovered IA
tally shot near his residences in Dallas.
A woman IL &C the bottom " the trou.
ole. and he refused to tell Who DID the