The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-09
TEXAS FACTS AND FANClES.

at Morgan, was arrested at Bastrop.
An artesian well at Cuero, flows
seven gallons of water per minute.
Persons have left San Ant onio for
Mexico to secure 500 cotton pickers.
1redell, Bosque county, will be the
next station on the Central extern
sion.
A flight of cotton millers east
ward is reported from Browns
vile.
Farmers on the lower Brazos will
not make over half n bale of cotton
to the acre.
ID. r.. Robinson, the opponent of
Col. Epson. is a sheep man. He had
better be looking after his flOcks.
Rev. w. Il. Bagbey, Of Waco, has
been appointed to missionary duty
in the province of San Paulo, Brazil.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop
of Lamar county will be cut short
at least one-third by the boil worm.
Capt. John Delaney, commercial
man well known in Texas. was
drowned at Long Branch the other
day.
The sugar cane crop in Fort Bend
county cannot be excelled. The
yield will be two hogsheads to the
acre.
Lynch, the missing Houston tele-
graph operator, has been heard of
on his way TO New Orleans via Gal
weston.
The Dow brothers are again in
Bolton, working at their trade. So
says the Bolton Courier in an adver-
tisement.
A man was found sick in the
woods near Houston. He had eaten
nothing but three small potatoes for
ten days.
The star of Waco declines, not
a candidate being chosen from the
hub. Gen. Jerome Bonaparte Rob
ertson must retrieve the character
of the place.
TheUnited Brotherhood of Friend
ship, a well known organization of
colored people, is holding its Grand
Lodge in Dallas. \ large attend
ance is present.
George Washington Jones, col
ored, o namesake and political
friend of our fiat candidate for Con-
gress; shot and robbed German,
near BremOnd.
The line of the railroad from
Shreveport to New Orleans is to be
located Mt once. Chief Engineer
Green has taken the field to organ
ize for the work.
1T is charged that the city finan-
ciers of Houston are having scrip is
sued to themselves, at 25 to 80 cents
on the dollar, for advances to run
the city government.
The G. G. u S. F. railway is erect
ing an iron bridge over Little river,
twenty miles south of Bolton. The
structure is over 1000 feet in length
the longest on the road.
Mr.. Sam Belts, a young man Of
johnson county, was thrown from
his hofse. The animal then sprang
upon him, when Belts got up to get
away, and then he immediately fell a
corpse.
The house of Judge Faulk, of
Athens, was struck by lightning.
The electric current passed through
the room where members of the
family were sleeping, but nobody
was injured.
The rascal who at night cut the
ropes that held up Major PENIS tent
while he was holding service at Bel
ton, should be turned over to a Sc
lect committee of preachers for spir-
itual conversion.
Look out for clergyman of me-
dium size, fair complexion, smooth
face. very light moustache, and
about thirty years old. lie is the
Rev. c. L. Crowther, a swindling ful-
gitive from Finlay, Ohio.
Waco spitefulness is shown by the
following observation of the 1eIe-
phone: If this Mr.. Hurt up nj
Dallas is going 10 be elected, the
O. 4. had Just as well appoint him
and let him be learning his work"
b. G.. Williams. OF Williamson,
committed suicide, and left letter
to his mother explaining that the
loss of wife and children had led him
TO the point OF taking his life. He
shot himself through the brain.
The murder of Matte Woods and
\. j. Hodges in tent near Morgan,
is at last explained. Many acts of
violence have lately been committed
about Morgan, resulting in the ar
rest of Frank and Sam Fossett, and
Joe Wright and Ed. Nichols. They
were suspected of this double muir
der, and Wright, it is said, has
turned states evidence, and says
the qua-tette planned and executed
the deyilish deed. He says one of
the F0ssetts fired the first shot at the
sleeping couple, himself the second,
and Nichols third. The other Pos
sett remained outside the tent, They
also robbed the tent of four hun
dred dollars belonging 10 Hodges.
Wright saws further that they had
planned 10 rob the treasurer of Bos-
que county aud the railroad agent
at Morgan but were afraid. There
is great excitement at Morgan and
Meridian over the arrest, as the par
ties are connected with The most re-
spected families OF. the county. The
FOssetts, in particular, are highly
connected. Nichols IS brother of
s 5. Nichols, who sold the Central
railroad the land on which Morgan
is, but all four are in jail at Meridi-