The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-26
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

Hon. Fl ram A. Wilson of Tyler is
dead.
The polls were not opened at Plan
tersville.
The McLennan county Republican
delegates are solid for Grant.
Runnels county has just been organ
lied and county officers elected.
A Martha Washington tea party Is
what has Giied II innah st San An
tonic.
Mr. VIM. NJ. C mpbell, living near
Beaumont, has planted $500 young
orange trees.
The International railroad will go in
on the east instead of the west side of
San Antonio.
SIX prisoners have just escaped from
the Hallettsville jail by cutting the iron
b Is asunder.
There is fourIshing temperance or
ganization at Beaumont, and the town
is improving rapidly.
Honorable L1ke @. Wilson of, Bon
ham, has been after leg islatlve honors
as fiOster for his district.
T. w. Friar, of Bill county, took
concentrated lye by mistake, and his
life has been saved with difficulty.
A young man named Vernon suicld
ed in Henderson, because he loved q
Miss Boggess, who did not return his
love.
Col. Forbes, of N cogdoches, aid
de-camp of Gen. Houston at San ia
clnto, died last week, aged eighty-four
years.
The Austin correspondent of the
Express thinks Major SAyers is the
preference of Travis county Democrats
for governor.
A gentleman in Robertson county re-
Gently gave dinner to the Chinese
living in the county in honor of their
New Years Day.
Rockdsle has a historian, who has
been engaged for the past five years in
writing a history of England, and is
now on his fifth volume.
The town of Cleburne ia rejoicing
over the early completion of the Dali
las, Cleburne and Rio Grande railroad,
which is now a fixed fact.
1t Is reported at Dallas that Marshal
Norton's son, MIN. Norton, has COM
mitted suicide. He has disappeared,
and he had declared that he would
take his life.
Farmers are doubtful, says the Nc
Kinney Enquirer, about the coming
season being a good one for any but
small grain, en- account of the earth
under the surface being so dry. Many
are planting largely of oats to take the
place of corn as feed.
The election IN Navasota stood
Buchanan 100, Gibbs 1876, Mills %,
and Fisher 6. At White Hall, Gibbs
received 81 and Buchanan Al. Court
ney gave Buchanan 46 and Gibbs 30.
At Anderson Buchanan received 21S,
Fisher So, Gibbs and Mills Q.
Mrs. McWhirter, the chief high
priestess of the Bolton Sanctifcstion
lists, has received a very threatening
anonymous letter, In which she is told
to leave the county with as little delay
as possible. And now it is reported
that the Dow brothers are insane. Are
not all of them insane9
Within the last three weeks there
has been one rape and two attempts at
rape at Fort Worth. A white man
raped girl only years old a negro
attempted to rape a white girl 10 years
old. and the other day negro sttemp-
ted to rape Judge Marklee's mother, a
lady mere than 80 years old.
]. d. Moore, charged with adultery
and in jail in Blsnco, tried to burn
himself ont, and not succeeding in it,
but on the other hand, discovering
himself about to be roasted alive called
Justify for help. The fire was extin-
guished, and Moore is much subdued
man.
The Monitor tells that at the Radi-
cal pow-wow at Denton Aleck Robert
son wanted Grant made the last choice,
meaning first, last and all the time. 1t
was then resolved that "we conjure
the principle of state rights, +" and that
the "fsith of the government must
monetarily be desired )" and then these
patriots said amen and adjourned.
A touching scene, says the Courier,
was witnessed lately in the Sherman
Jail. The wife of Mr.. R,lston, who
is under seven-year sentence for horse
stealing, came in and babe him good
bye. At the fiual parting he told her
she was divorced by the laws of the
state and advised her to mary again
and forget him. But with that char
acter:stic persistence that makes q wo-
man cling to the man she loves, even
though he be the vilest wretch on
earth, she vowed to be faithful unto
death.
Lucien Nofsinger, q young Virgin
ian, living In Gainesville, loYed q
country gir,, who married young
man named Kline. Stung with disap-
pointment and jealousy, be went to
the cabin where Kline and his wife
were sleeping, about two months after
their marriage. aud while they were in
bed sleeping N ,fsinger emptled load
of buckshot in his head. he was aided
In the murder by one Gardner, who has
been sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentlary for life, while Nofsinger
is doomed to hang. The murder oc-
c Tired two years ago.
August Spellman, of Houston, some
twelve months ago, was told by his
wife that . valuable fortune had been
left her in Germany, and be supplied
her with money to 60 over the Allan
tic and take possession OF it. She left,
and was not heard Of until few days
ago, when an old acquaintance met her,
naturally enough, in Dallas. Il turned
out that Spellman had . pirtfer in
Houston, named JacGb He,holz =, who
had been intimate with his wife, and
that she had deceived her husband and
joined this fellow in Dallas, instead Of
going to Germany, the story about q
fortune being false. On being discov-
cred, Herholzsr shook Dsl,ss dust of
his heels, and the strong part of the
story is that Mr.. and Mrs. Spillman
may become reconclIed add live and
love ~ Of old.