The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-04
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Texas ceased to be a republic Feb
ruary 10, 1916
The Denton Monitor is authority for
SAYING that Mrs. Hayes weighs $50
| pounds.
The annual c0mmenc ment Cx1rCiJes
Of the Texas Medical College tikes
place in G ilyestln March 3
| PneumoDia aud ma'siial diseases pre-
vail in Houston 1t is charged to in
perfect drainage, especially about the
school houses.
Ridge p4schsl sits on the tripod of
the 7toO LareIos and smiles one side
in E lglish, " hile he gibbers on the 9TH
or Ill the choicest Greaser tongue.
The death sentence has been pro-
nOunced against Bill Walker, colOred,
at Calvert, for the murder Of Major
Mouroc. lie is to hang April 16.
Mary rancheros of Duval county
have sold their wool, to be delivered
in April, at from 90 TO % cents for
common Mexican, aud higher figures
for improved.
1t is now said that one John Hunt
took Part in the killing of Georgia
DR. Ike. He is some where in Western
Texas and will be picked up and made
to answer 10 the charge.
The Projected Texas coast line rail-
road from Columbia, through Braz ria
All Ms.agords counties to Wharton, in
Wharton county, is receiving good sup
port from Galveston merchants.
A dispatch states that strange cpl
demic is prevailing among children at
Knsse. II this is anything like the
dread scarlet sCourge already an
nnunced in North Texas, people ought
to know 1t.
A negro boy named Lee Randall,
about fifteen years old, died in Lime
stone county from itjdrles which he
said he received from being forcibly
elected from passenger train on the
Central road.
A man walked into the Palace Sa-
loon In Houston at four o'clock in the
evening, and drawing a pistol on the
bartender and one other man present,
reheyed the drawer of twenty dollars
and escaped.
Collins, who defended the honor of a
lady, who was Insulted in a ball room
st Harrisburg, and who was sent to the
penitentiary for wounding the man
whom he attacked for this offense, has
been pardoned.
Robert Henry, late manager of the
telegraph Office at DenisoD, is dead.
He left wife and child to mourn his
loss, and in his death the telegrsphers
of Texas have lost a wsrm-hearted
friend and an officer of ability.
Pullman palace car conductors have
been selling tickets to negroes for the
cars running over the main line of the
Central railroad. Quite a disturbance
was caused the other day because of
negro man being sold birth along
with ladies.
Four negroes are in Jail at Fort
Worth for committing rapes on white
women. These ourrages have become
so common that there is talk of an or
ganization, armed and EQUIPPED, to
look, in the future, after these law
less, brutal villains.
The LAGRANGE Journal says: Our
exchanges seem to find it impossible to
get the name of our Bohemian contem-
porary right. The name of the paper
is The Sloan, but the STATESMAN calls
it Slayop, while the NeoOs calls it the
Slovenian.
The British consul at Galveston has
called attention to the fact that the
sanctiied tourists who were recently
so harshly dealt with In Ball county are
British suit cts. He protests against
such treatment, and claims for them
the protection of the laws of the coun-
try.
There is quite flutter in political
circles in Houston, caused by the state
ment by the city marshal that he knows
that the ballot-box was tempered with
at the last election, by which A. K.
Taylor was defeated for county clerk.
He says he knows the man who tam
pered with the ballotbox.
B. B. Pearson lately surrendered
himself to the sheriff at Laredo, stat
ing that he had killed man in Missis-
sippi. The Governor of Mississippi
was notified, and he telegraphed that
he would send after the man but Pear
son took another notion, and selling
pistol made his way across the Rio
Grande.
The Herald says Mexicans are work.
ing knee deep in the San Pedro creek,
standing all day in cold water, shovel
ing heavy mud at ten cents per running
yarl. Three feet wide each way, and
eighteen inches deep, is a running
yard" Some of them make less than
so cents per day; hardly enough will
they earn, in three weeks, to buy the
cofliu they will need.
The Post says the last shipment of
over 800 barrels of sugar from the
House plantation on Oyster creek has
reached Houston. The stand of cane
this season is reported perfect, and the
prospect for heavy crop was never
better. Oyster creek, Csney and the
lower Brsz IS are destined to become q
great sugar-producing region. More
sugar is produced to the acre on the e
lands than anywhere else in the world.
Mrs. Skeen, living in Van Zlndt
county, dreamed of buried treasure in
Cedar Grove. The dream was repeated
for six nights successfully, when her
husband took chart of her vision and
went to the spot and began to dig.
Suspicion was aroused in the minds Of
others, who also dug, which resulted
in vessel being unearthed with
$24OO IN 1t. 1t was found by man
named Hill.
During the absence of q gentleman
of Montague county his wife allowed |
another to seek quiet repose In his &C
customed place, One morning she |
found this fellow enjoying the sleep |
Of death by her side, and, attempting
to hide her shame, she dressed the |
oorDsa and draoOad II into n kh;clraA
close by. She was discovered in the |
act, and now she is under arrest charg-
ed with getting away with her lover.
While Major Eldridge is in Austin /
causing spiritual manifestations, Ben |
Thompson is over at San Autonie do
ing likewise. Ben was riding along 9
street in hack, when q report Of pis- |
toll was heard in the hack. A police |
man arrested the whole layout, and |
after careful examination of every