The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-19
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIEs.

Allen Wright is to hang at Dallas
next Friday. He is the negro who
refused to take an appeal when con.
victed. He now desires TO appeal.
Conductor Charlie Williams, OF
the Central railway, found twelve
trampS stealing a ride in stock car
He had the train stopped and or.
dered them out. They obeyed him
but as the train moved on, with VIII.
liams on the ground with the
tramps, who attacked him and beat
him. He drew his revolver and
drove all away but one, with whom
he had real old fashioned fight. us.
ing fists, head and teeth. Williams
was the victor.
The Express has the use of pri-
vate letter from chihuahua. Mexico
which says the greast abundance OF
rain has fallen this season, and crops
of all kind are good. The farmers
expect to reap a rich harvest. The
week previous to that in which the
letter was written, the writer says
$4,000 worth of silver was received
from the San Miguel mine. Boss
Shepherds in the Batopilas country
The pack mules i'll the employ OF
the mine are kept constantly busy
transferring the ore from the mine
to chihuahua. A man by the name
of Geesch, who purchased u mine
near Chihuahua for $3.50 eighteen
months ago, is now taking out from
twenty to thirty thousand dollars
per week.
The result of nine assays in the
Chenati Mountains shows rich silver
deposits. The specimens were
gathered by Capt. i. C. Nichols in
his late mining expedition. The
lists show: Nichols shaft. 1888
ounces silver to ton; Honey Cone
ore, 1920 ounces to ton; Black Water
Hole. 100 ounces silver to ton: Old
Spanish mine, 299.5 ounces silver to
ton; n. W. Nichols shaft, 94.7
ounces silver to ton: Groupings,
Mineral Hill, $50 ounces silver to
ton; Russy mine, 1878 ounces silver
to ton; Seminole mine, 400 ounces
silver to ton; West Corbin's, 2 leads,
"a and So ounces silver to ton. In
addition to the above, about forty
other assays were made, running
from 20 to 60 ounces to the ton.
Gen. Grierson dispatches to army
headquarters at San Antonio as fol-
lows: "As a result of the fight of
the 18th instant, and the activity and
disposition of the troops, Victoria
and his band have again been driven
into Mexico. The trail leads in the
direction of Ojo Caliente, and troops
are in pursuit with Gilmore and his
company of infantry, and Livermore
and his scouts and Pueblos. We
climbed the rough and precipitous
cliff of the Sierra Diablo two thou
sand feet in height; this with the
march of sixty-five miles in one day,
and the rapidity with which noun
tains were encircled and the Indians
driven from their stronghold, and
the haste with which they fed fully
attests the energy, pluck and earnest
activity of the troops. Victoria
goes back into Mexico with a badly
demoraliZed and considerable les
sened force and with the loss of
from fifty to hundred animals and
of his supply camp, which was cap
tured by companies c. and X. and
consisted of about twenty-seven
head of cattle, substitute for bread
made of magnay and other plants,
berries, ETC., and large supply of
beef on pack animals. Since the
first information received of Victo-
ria's appearance, he has been heard
of three times by my troops in front
and twice whipped and driven back
across the Rio Grande."