The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-04
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

Van Alstyne has raised 500 to bore
an artesian well.
The Erath county bar would SUP
port Lang for Governor.
II is Mrs. w. r. Baker, and not Col.
Baker, of Houston, who is dead.
A colony of Eaglishmen have set
tied on Turtle creek, in Kerr county.
Judge Samuel Il. Renick died at his
slant.
Frank Henry and William Donoysn,
alleged highwaymen, are under arrest
at Waco.
The explorers OF the Chenati noun
tsIns report having discovered six ell
yer leads.
The Bastrop Adoertiser says physi-
clan is wanted at Snake prairie, Bls-
trop county.
The Orange Tribune says there are
only ak feet of water on the bar at
Sabine Pass.
In Concho county wild horses are
captured in large numbers and broken
to the saddle.
Miss MollIe Harbour, pupil at Bay
lor University, died few days ago of
typhoid fever.
There are now attending the public
schools in Houston els white and 731
colored children.
The Texas and New Orleans. and San
Antonio railways tie erecting union
depot at Houston.
Whitney is blessed with two news
papers, and there is yet room for enter
prising newspaper men.
Several thousand deer, antelope and
wolf pelts have lately been brought
into Sherman and sold.
G. A. Bonner, of Jack county, has
invented an apparatus for fastening and
keeping tight wheel tire.
A gentleman in digging a well re-
Gently near Hope, in Lavsca county,
struck fine bed of white gypsum.
Whitney's most interesting feature is
its Sunday school. The calsboose
comes next, and then its newspaper.
The scarlet fever at Sherman is so
widespread that it is lot in the power
of the medical fraternity to check it.
Cotton is still coming into Waco
very lively, and there are yet supposed
to be 1000 bales more for that point.
The citizens of Houston have raised
by private subscription $40, 900 for the
construction of bridge agross Buffalo
bayou.
An attempt to murder and rob DR..
r. A. Taylor, of Wildwood, Denton
county, a few nights since was most
dsstardly.
The war on dogs in Rockdsle is
waged with fury, and the strange part
of it is that n Ut q man has been killed
there for months.
Prickly pears grow so plentifu!ly in
San Saba county that there is said to
be sufficient to feed a thousand beeves
through the winter. fts-
1t is estimated that the State of
Texas is losing from eight to ten thou
sand dollars per month from its reve-
nue. by the bell punch.
Goliad stock men contemplating
driving cattle to Kansas and other
eastern markets are busily engaged In
gathering stock aud rigging up out
fits.
The Greenbackers of Tarrant county,
adopted resolution in favor of Scion
Chase of Maine for president, and
Geo. w. Jones of Texas for vice-presi-
dent.
There are nine counties in Texas in
which no newspaper is published
Newton, Sabine, Angelina, Tyler, Har-
din, Trinity, Polk, Liberty and Cham
bers.
A farmer can rot work his farm safe
lv without knowing all about his soil.
Every field should be studied as to the
effects of certain methods of fertilizers
upon it.
One reason for 80 many delays in the
mails on the Texas stage lines, says the
the Victoria AdUocdte, is the great load
of Congressional records containing
Coke's speech.
JULIUS Flagg was waylaid and shot
on the street in Brownwood while 60
ing to his house at night. he re-
ceived only flesh wound from which
he will soon recover.
A prisoner named Kemp on trial for
the murder of Smell, at Hamilton, at
tempted to strike one of the States
witnesses, when q scrffle ensued and
the parties were separated.
The Br0IoR County Banner notices the
departure of r. (. Smith, William
Polk and ]. d. Brock from Brown
county. They will make their resi-
dence temporarily at Huntsville.
The Sherman Chronicle says, Meri-
dian is to have picnic on the thir-
tieth OF February, at which Professor
Hogg is to make an address. Proba-
bly, it may be postponed to April 1.
Charlie GoodlDg, son Of the late
Col. Goodlng, of Gainesville, has been
appointed treasurer Of the Chirkasaw
Nation, and has made his bond and
entered upon the duties of his office.
Mrs. Babb, an elderly lady living in
Freestone county, has inherited $780,
600. She, with her husband, was very
poor, aud funds had to be sent to them
to pay their passage to the state where
the property is.
The figures on digging q ship canal
from Houston to Clinton make ones
head swim. 1t would be cheaper to
clean away the bar at the mouth of the
Brszos and build double track rail-
way to the shipping.
Albert Billups, of Goliad county,
kept sort of harem. For years he
has had for or Eve wives. Lately he
was asssssinated, and it is thought the
killing was done by one Frisby, whose
wife had gone to live with him.
1t being stated by the Telephone, the
Express declares it never has and never
will use disrespectful eplthets towards
Governor Roberts. The Express Is sat-
isied the Telephone has mixed some of
its back numbers in the Express file.
The ire of the Bell County Courier
has been aroused at the fierce COM
ments of the San Antonio Express about
the whipping of the Dows, and 1t thinks
few sancti6cationists down about
San Antonio might alter the tone of the
Express.
Il. Wenzsl aud August Kueker went
to dance in Washington county, and
having wsltzed around until too much
heated, they got into fight, and the
latter was cooled down by a copious
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