The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Sheet music Children crying In
bed.
a discovery of excellent coal At Sc
gum is reported.
San Antonio pAtronizes Sunday night
theatrical performances.
The Presbyterian Church at Rrer-
hsm is nearly completed.
More plows have been sold in Hemr-
ST al this season than any previous
one.
The Sunday law will soon come be-
fore the Supreme Court, now IN session
a. Galveston.
Austin county Jurors draw scrip for
services rendered, which is at once
paid in cash.
Colonel J. S. Parker, one OF the
prisoners OF Eastern Texas, died al
his home near Palestine on Tuesday.
Nineteen exoiusters, weary, frozen n
and dIsgusted, reached Dallas on Satur-
day morning, bringing gloomy ac-
counts of suffering among the Kansas
negroes.
The blackberry cultivation is made
profitable in the vicinity of Denison.
Mr.. Stonemsn sold last year 214 quarts
of berries from one row OF bushes 375
feet long.
The Georgetown Sun calls this q
feeling period. Papers are feeling, in
dividuals are feeling and parties are
feeling, all to find out who are to have
the offices.
Examiner: A friend thinks we treat
religion fllppsntly in the matter of the
Dallas church row. Good gracious I
that row ish't religious, but buHesque
on religion.
The San Antonio San says colony
of people from Lynn, massachusetts,
are coming to West Texas to settle
and have already bought land and
laid out q town.
On the tenth William s ell, of Ham.
'ltcn county, was way iari and sssassi-
mated. VIM. Kemp and Walter p.
Bush are suspected of the CRIME, and
have been arrested.
Hampstead Courier: Colonel Lang is
talked of for Governor. In our opin-
ion the PEOPLE OF Texas do not want a
Governor who is committed to the in
terests OF any one class of people.
At the rcqueit of disappointed ex-
odusters, many of those who went
from Washington county to Kansas are
beirg supplied by the planters with
means to return to their old homes.
The fifth member of the Fort Worth
stage robbers association has Just been
convicted and sentenced for life to the
penitentiary, there to ruminate on the
efficiency OF Texas law aud Texas off,
GERS.
The penal code declares that il any
person shall get drunk, OF be found in
a state of intoxicatiop, in any public
place, be shall be deemed guilty Of
misdemeanor, and on conviction be-
fore court of competent jurisdiction,
meC ire fined in a sum of not more
than 500 for each and every offense.
The Republicans are billed for a
state convention, to be held at d alias
on the twenty-fourth inst. They pro-
pose to harmonIze all tho elements of
the party. Greenbackers and sore
head Democrats can find plenty of
room in the Republican camp; they
will be allowed to vote, but will be
given no offices.
The penal code declares that il any
person other than peace officer shall
carry any gun, pistol, bowie-knife or
other dangerous weapon, concealed or
unconcealed, on any day of election,
during the hours the polls are open,
within the distance of one half mile Of
any poll or voting place, he shall be
punished by fine of not less than one
hundred nor more than five hundred
n IBrmer IIvTHg Ucur UUuz1rru ru-
forms the Inquirer that for eighteen
years he has planted corn the last of
January, and during that time has
failed but once to make crop. Last
season was the most disastrous one on
account of the drouth, yet all who
planted early and cultivated well were
quite successful in making a crop.
Early planting should be the order
this year.
The Memphis Ledger says that Gen.
VIM. Wallace, late Attorney General of
Tennessee, aud now of Austin, Texas,
is engaged ia writing book, in which
is to be given a complete history of the
feud and resulting tragedies arising
from dlsegreements between the men,
bers of the firm of Bolton, Dickens &
Co., negro traders. The Ledger says
that if true history of the feud is
published 1t will make q book more
entertaining than uncle Toms Cab
H." aud not at all creditable to the
people of the section it representa-.
The Age boasts of the liberality OF
the Houston hanks. They haYe ever
been -four ready to advance money 10
enterprises for the city's good. In
this connection, the STATESMAN is re-
minded that the late frefzs has killed
much of t5e small grain IN the section
about Austin and m t, in many in
stances, farmers ere Dnt able TO pur-
chase seed for replsaiing. Are the lib
eral and far seei Q OF this city meeting
an emergency which, II not looked to,
will tell to the extent of tens of
thousands, probably hundreds of
thousands, upon our con inunity next
| season?
II is now stated again that Texas Re
pubiicans will hold STATE convention
in Dallas on the twenty-fourth Of this
month and endeavor to harmonizs all
their party dissensions. II they would
harmonic, and organize to that degree
that republicanism could sfford DEM
ocracy a lively, healthy contest in
Texas politics, we do not krow of any
one who will object The Democratic
majority has been 10, large TO make
STATE campaigns inter s;irg. 1t he's
likewise been too large to be whole
some for democracy Itself. Those
states where parties have to make act
i've fights for supremacy are the best
governed states.
The three bandits who have been
rObbing on the highways wee. Of Waco
were last heard Of 10 Coryell conoiy.
They had az that time gathered IN
5000 The Examiner has this t. cay
ol treIr personsl: .'The leader of
e t.io is descibrd as a msn of twcp-
'y-eisht years, sandy complexion, with
a heavy red mustache partially died
black and twisted at the ends, full ak
feet IN height and weighing about one
hundred and sixty pounds. He rides
: large bald face sorrel horse, of which
so much has been said. His comrades
are 6escgibe1 ss beardless boys under
twenty years Of age, aud small Of sta, :
no ono rsItuna a hov o.d ff.a nfko~ :.