The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
TEXAs rACTs I'D FANCIEs.
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All the COeSL COUNTY - AOtuSu WIN
water from the late rains.
Mrs. Zsdik has been cowhiding s.
L. Hart, clerk, az Decatur.
Eleven con7icts working IN fouu-
Diary at Jefferson have escaped.
Hous. Holt, the noted criminal, has
been conveyed TO the penItentiary.
The logs arc booming down the S.
b;ne in the direction Of Beaumont.
Small grain all over the State is re-
ported to be in excellent condition.
A single Beaumont saw mill shipped
in one week $50, 900 feet Of lumber.
Navarro county already has six can
didates for sheriff and eight for treas
urer.
Charles Miller, of the firm of Miller
& Landman, of Waco, suicided with
poison.
Two small boys are reported drowned
in the Brazos near Bryan. They were
out fishing.
Dallas Democrats have done their
duty in placing full municipal ticket
in the field.
Rain has fallen all over the state,
and grass and grain crops are growing
magnifcently.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has moved its main office from
Denison to Dallas.
Caps, the negro rspist of Fort
Worth, has been found guilty, and he
is gong to dangle.
It has been discovered that negro
named Albert Lindsey robbed the
postoffice at Gay Hill.
A fourteen yesr-ol1 school girl at
tempted to elope with an old man, but
the plan was frustrated.
Six-shooters are no longer worn
openly in Mason county. They rest
in the hip pocket Until called for.
The railroad line between Pilot
Point, IN Denton county, and Whites
boro is being staked of for construc-
ton.
Marsh Wall, a banker at Crockett,
has disappeared, and his whereabouts
are unknown. he was last heard from
at San Antonio.
John Beason, quiet inoGensive
man, is reported as beng killed on the
SandIes, in Lavaca county, last week
by unknown parties.
The fruit crop in South Texas was
not all injured by the late cold wealth
or. All crops down there are reported |
In splendid condition.
Warloupe and Rover both won races
at Corpus Christi. Rover's race was |
for four hundred and fifty yards, and |
for $1,000 on each side.
The Religious convictions of a Green
vile barber will not allow him to |
shave anybody on Sunday except men,
bers of his own church.
George Afford, charged with killing
Deputy Sheriff White OF Fort Worth,
was found guilty and sentenced to five |
years in the penitentiary.
A correspondent of the Nelcs from
Austin county nominstes Hon. L. W. |
Congress against Wash Jones.
The grand jury of Ellis county thinks
that, as Texas aped Virginia in adopt
ing, she ought to initiate the same state
in sbolishIng the bell punch law.
John Williams, of Washington coun-
ty, was drowned the other day by be-
ing thrown from his horse into gull
ley containing ten or twelve feet of wa
ters
The International railroad, In conse-
quence OF being sued for failure to de-
liver mails on time. carries no more
mail matter between Houston and Co.
lumbia.
The Southeastern Christian Aduocate
tells of county in Texas that last
year expended for religion $4,000, for
tobacco $1,000, 600, Tor whisky So
0OO,0O
Gen. A. G. MaIloy is to be elected
mayor of Jefferson, and the debt IN |
the hands of bondholders is 10 be |
scaled to one-iourth of Its original |
amount.
The demand for lumber in Beaumont
and Orange is almost double the amount |
that can be supplied. It is estimated |
that for the year 1880 10, 900, 600 feet |
will be wanted.
Rev. w. ]. Phillips of the st. James |
M. E. Church, Galveston, has been |
suspended on charges of intoxication,
till the meeting of the conference IN
December.
The Neics says an Indian residing |
near Blue river, was in Denison with |
checker-board containing two thou
sand different pieces of wood. He
wants $40 for it.
The Greenback convention to nomi- !
nate candidate for Congress in this
congressional district, is called for the
twenty-seventh of May. The call does
not give the place of meeting. :.
It may interest dancers to learn that
the 'tLiverpool lurch" aud the ssBos-
ton dipn are no longer the fashion,
having been replaced by the brighton
grip and the "Southsea cuddle."
At Corsicana the Republicans held a
convention and elected delegates to the
state convention. Marshals Norton and
RUSSELL were severely condeued. for not
summoning negroes to act on grand
and petit juries.
A Navasota lady has Just fallen heir
to an estate Of $50, 600, 900 in England.
And yet the Tablet does not seem in
the least stuck up, though when she
takes 1t in, the 7iG5tet msn may expect
to be made millionaire.
Track-laying on the Texas Pacific
road west of Wsatherford, viii begin
about the eighteenth inst. There is
reported qnite demand on this line
for quarrymen, carpenters, bridge
builders and other laborers.
Mr.. Meihinger, of Brownweod, was
boring well for water when he struck
vein Of coel oil ut depth OF ll5 feet.
A rag dipped in the oil burned bril-
liantly. he bored on beyond the oil
vein and struck a stoae coal bed 4 feet
thick.
Three murderers, Ben Krebbs and
James Preston, who murdered the Eng
land family Of Montague courtyard L.
n. Loftsluger, who murdered Cline IN
Cook county, have sill been recently
sentenced TO DO hung in GAINESVILLE on
the thiEtieth Of April.
r. II. Neal, after having lain in pris-
on four months and I've days, IN San
Antonio, was liberated. he called st
the Kzprsss ofice shortly after obtain
ing freedom and stated that he hsd
pIanked down the cash, $50, the bond
required. He is hopefni Of scquittal.
Twenty miles Of the D4liss and
Sabine rsiiway are under contract for
completion. Il Is thought the road
viii be completed to Ksafmaa in less
than iiFe months. The people Of Dali