The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-19
TExAs 80 ANp PANCIEs.

TEXAS FACTS AND EANClESs
Horses have la.esy sold Of Bolton as
low as s..
w. K. Foster, viii s.sTs ths Reporter
az Round Il OK.
Hon. a. J. Evans returned 70 WACO
from Austin Ia bad hcsit3.
Indians are reported as haFing lately
ralded into Kim0le county.
a war against mad oogs has been
waeed n Washington county.
The court house ct Dallas will be
replaced at g cost or not over 10000.
Burmuda grass about Nsvssota has
Afforded good grazing al the winter.
A larger acreage OF smsll grain than
last year has been sown IN Williamson
county.
The Bell county sanctifcgtionists
are growing IN numbers aud they have
got II bad.
Track laying on the Santa Fe rail-
way is completed to Bsiiyille, IN Aus
tin county.
Denison win have TO pay her school
bonds. Fhe federal court has SO de-
cided. They amount to $4,000.
The wheat crop OF Texas promises
better this season Of the year than for
any time within the last ten years.
Died, in Washington county, Febru.
airy 5, Hon. II. p. Kerr, aged 20. He
was al old citizen and Texas veteran.
The commissioners court Of Mason
county want the Inv prohibiting the
carrying OF arms in the county en-
forced.
The burning Of the Office of the Col
orado Citizen entailed loss upon Mr..
Baker of about $4,000, with only $500
insurance.
The GatesYille San wants $4,000
raised for tho first railroad company
that will push q working line into
those digglngs.
When the robbers recently broke
into the Fulton stores, they handled g
pass book containing $500, but never
discovered the money.
The city Council Of San Antonio are
about canceling the contract with the
water works company for alleged nom
compliance Of the latter.
Jinks Doyle was shot in most
cowardly manner in the. dGrk, in Falls
county, by Neil Reed and Tom Coos,
and has died of his wounds.
The Tri- Weekly Agdlaaehe is the
name Of new sIx-colUmn paper just
started at Cleburne. Major A, J. Byrd,
ex-msyor of Waco, is the editor, and
AIr. J. 2. Ford, the proprietor.
john Jordan, young man who has
lived in Bryan some time, attempted
suicide by shooting himself in the head.
He had borrowed and lost diamond
ring.
The next session of. the State Medi
cal Association viii b. held at Bren-
ham on the first Tuesday in April, and
promises TO be q very important meet
ing.
Duke Flemming, Of Saa Antonio,
would smoke a Cainaman's pipe and
tobacco with opium IN it and the result
was he went 10 sleep never to wake
again.
The death IS announced at Browns
vile, Texas, OF Col. George Sykes, of
the Twentieth Infantry. He was a
native OF Maryland and West Point
graduate.
Joe Britton, who has been terror
TO lAw-sbIdiDg citizens IN Atascosa
county for some months past, has at
last como TO grief, and is now safe
within prison walls.
The Jasper Clarion of February 4
has Just found out that John A. Huling
is mixed up with land fraud matters.
Parson Huling and family moved from
Sabine county many years ago to Lam
pssas.
The railroad surveying party OF the
Santa Fe Company, after running
about twenty mIles@ hBypnd Cameron,
returned and went into headquarters.
Indications are that Cameron may be
the terminus OF tho road for at least
one season.
Mr.. J. @. Peoples, of Falls county,
ff,s.sss-shippcd six bushels of umbrella
china berries to Hon. VIM. LeDuc,
Commissioner of the Agricultural Blu.
reau, Washington, 1t being the first
shipped from tins section, and probably
the first from Texas.
John Taylor and Gabe Fielder, oil
Chapel Hill, imbibed too freely oil
whisky, and naturally resorted to the
use OF six-shOoters, which resulted in
Taylor being shot through the head
Just below the region of the brain.
The whisky may keep him from dying
A fellow in Denison attempted e
force himself into the room of Mrs
Malcolm, and only by threatening tC
shoot him did she DIVE him away. He
said it was wizard oil that was the
matter with HIM, and this indicates {
heretofore hidden effect Of this Invig
orator.
The other day Pierre Calhoun,
young man of Hampstead, had diff
Guilty with o negro named Jerry Smith
Nothing was thought of the matter un
til next day, when he went to the fielC
where the negro was at work and, us
ing shotgun, killed the negro in
~ ssantly.
4 peculiar kind of corn, native o.
Africs, which it would be well Cor on
Western Texas farmers to look after
is described at length in the DeAve
3Fi6ale. II is found to thrive on tn,
arid plglns of the continent. A Mr.
HOLSTER, OF Chicago, is reported a.
having been successful in growing i
the past year.
In spite of Houston's indebtedness
and other discouraglpg surroundings
the city is not dull, There are nearly
900 buildings being erected in differ
ent portions of tho city. And wheI
the New Orleans road is finished ar
impetus to lie and business will be in,
sugRFaesd in the Bayou City nevel
known before BY its oldest Inhabitants.
Dallas has done her DUTY so Tar as II
was imposed in the matter of the Gle.
burne railroad. The contract for the
construction has been signed and the
road is an assured fsct. The question
OF route will be held in allegiance for q
few days IN Difference to the wishes
and interests of bur neishboTing towns,
OPilia aud LaaSastcr.- L}allaS Herald.
Ranneis county viii soon 10 organ
izsd, and, Gays the Comanehe CaSef,
BalfAlo Gap, which is now the county
seat Of Taylor county, is actually in
Runnels county. TINS Is strange, If
true; but it IS well known that the
county Hres OF all new counties made
By the Fifteenth Legislature, says the
Gag, were only marked eli on paper
at austin, aud no actual lCgsl survey
was ever made, and such , 1a.ssake Is
highly probable.
S,esfnes, for completely with
the Jones brothers in the murder of
Morse st Calvert last yesr, was acqnit-
ted. Il is said that tbe jury was pack
Cd and the friends Of Jones openly
boaste6 Of this fact. There was con-
es,,rars- II Se esS7 4, cpfs.st he ends of