The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-05

Major Rowan Green OF Colorado has
consented to become & candidate for
the legislature.
Ooe hundred and eighty-fVe houses
have been erected ct Whitney, the te,-
minus of the Texas Central road.
The Waterman Gays large numbers
of negroes are etill passing through
Pamela county, bound for Kansas.
Wild lands in Cook county are worth
from two TO five dollars per acre, the
railroad to Gainesville having caused
lands to 90 up.
Hattie Bronsen, Msgdslep. died
recently at Sherman, Texas, bequesth-
ing two orphan children OF that viii
lage the sum Of $4,000.
The Brentwood Banner is silent as
the tomb on the recent silver boom at
its town. And now we begin to think
the STATESMAN may have been imposed
on.
Lyon G. Tyler. son of Gx President
Tyler, has been employed as head mas :
ter Of ST.. P4ul's Episcopal school at
Waco for some time past. He has
moved to Memphis.
Among other fraudulent enterprises
mentioned by the Postmaster General
in his reports to Congress, is the Texas
Gift Concert Association of benson,
Texas. It's receipts exceeded 500, 900.
Many Burnet people carried their
hogs to Llsno to fatten them on mast.
They took them home and killed them
during the Christmas spell, and thou
sands of pounds of pork has spoiled.
On examination, 1t is found that
Arkansas and Corpus Christi bars win
admit vessels of the Whitney line
built for that trade. The bars have
been deepening during the past six
months.
Bats, of Bell county, suspected of
having stolen SO from one Ellington,
was taken out by mob and hung, but
not to death. Bats afterward commit
ted suicide by stabbing himself through
the heart.
The Central railway extension into
Eastland county stops four or five miles
a little west of south of E4stland City,
and about half mile from the center
of the county. This seals the fate of
the town.
The Changers will not elect Grand
Master until January, 1881. just who
will take Lang's place, says the Watch
man, after he is elected Governor, is
not known, or st least has not been
made public.
The town of Paint Rock, it is said,
takes its name from strange hierogly-
phics painted on huge rocks, many Of
which are found in that section. 1t is
supposed to be the work of Indians in
years gone by.
The Fort Worth Democrat says the
Greenback party is sick; its disease is
it is slowly but surely vast
ing away. By the close of the year a
low priced undertaken will bury it in
the potter's field.
Gen. w. P. Hardeman, OF Galveston
and Mr.. N. r. Steagall, formerly of
rangers, hsYe formed a
partnership and will embark into the
general brokerage and commission bus
mess in San Antonio.
A negro in Freestone county killed
his wife on Saturday night two weeks
ago, gave himself up Sunday, was in
dicted on Monday. tried and found
guilty on Thursday, and will be hung
on Friday, March 90.
Rice Smallwood, a colored man, of
Red River county, commenced bleed
ing from the nose early In the morning.
During the day everything possible was
done to stop the flow OF blood, and in
a few hours he breathed his last.
The Texas and Pacific tie contrac-
tor advertises for 1000 men and $50
teams. ENGINEER r. P. Mccormick
leaves Fort Worth tomorrow in charge
of party, who go to survey the line
of the Trsnscontinentsl from Whites
boro.
The Galveston Netcs published Frei-
burg, Kline s. Co., of Houston, as
and they have, says the
Age, commenced suit against Alex.
Sweet, as the only man about the con-
Germ out of whom dollar can be
made.
Wipe out the bell punch and Sunday
laws or amend them, says the Bolton
Sentinel, SO that they can be rigorous
ly enforced all over the State. At
present they are not regarded in some
counties, and justice requires legisla-
ton to bear equally.
Conductor Washburn, before the
United States commissioner at San An
tonic, acknowledged receiving two
500 bills from Brown, who is said to
have robbed the Luling postoffice, but
the evidence docs not disclose his COM
phclty in the robbery.
The city of Denison, having found
the bell punch Fl 1t failure, so far as
city revenue is concerned, is about to
return to the license system. The
Banner reminds the city fathers of
BRENNAN that they would do well to
follow Denison's example.
A prisoner being conveyed over the
NJ, X. and T. railway to Texas, to an
swer to the charge of murder, leaped
from the train while it was going at
the rats of thirty miles az hour, and
instead of breaking his neck, was able
to get up and get away.
The body OF an unknown man was
found floating in Red River, near Deni.
son, few days ago. The face wss too
much decomposed to admit of descrip-
ton. The body was covered with q
light coat and black pants with shoes.
It is supposed there that he had been
murdered somewhere up the river.
Rip Porter, who has been spending
some time in San Antonio, writes to
the Colorado Cit'sea that it is his can
did opinion, founded upon observation
and heressy, that the bell punch and
the Sunday law are stupendous failures
and that the sooner they are taken from
the statute book the better. Both will
become dead letters before the next
legislature meets.
Corpus'c Christi Ledger: Dlniel Rug
giles, Of Virginia, wants Congress to
appoint a committee to investigate his
claims to RAIN producing ability of dyn-
amite. His idea is that the committee
90 up in 3 balloon and take the dyna-
mite to explode in midair. 1t would
be splendid pan to adopt TO get rid
Of useless committees il the supply OF
men of the Ruggles stamp didn't give
cut.
There viii be series Of races at
Corpus Christi, beginning on the second
day Of March and continuing for i've
consecutive days. Pursts amounting
10 $500 will be distributed and every :
shing will De conducted under the most
approved jockey club rules. Notics
has been received that many Zoe horses