The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-17
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

a bone factory Is TO De eetaDllentsox u
Rockdale.
Mr.. McEwen is going to start q. pa
per at Decatur.
Stone coal has been discovered IN
Grayson county.
A military company is to be organ-
lied at Hutchins.
The Cuero Star says that Prof. Hun
t;r was "gelded."
The Telegram says: ''Ssyers Is still in
the field; so Is Lang"
The Currie case consumes thu time
of the court at Marshall this week.
A Cathoilc church is to be erecte d
at Ben Ficklin, Tom Green county.
Trout fishing is fsvorite pastim e
with the people of Coleman county.
Horses have been purchased in Bos :
que county for shipment to Indiana.
The enrolment of students to Add
Ran college this season numbers 206.
The funeral of Col. Coleman was
the largest in Marshall for many yesrs-
Kerr county lands are going off rap.
idly at ssle In settlement of tax claims.
Quite q number Of horses have been
driven THE season from Texas to Colo
RADIO.
The experience of Hunter should be.
lesson TO school teachers amorously
inclined.
It is denied that Sheriff Crutchfeld,
of Jack county, is hiding from officers,
of the law.
A little girl fell from a second story
window in Dallas last, and was picked
up unhurt.
james Fl. Robertson, OF Round Rock,
has announced as candidate for thes
Legislature.
Bonner, charged with the murder of
W leeler, at PGris, is out of Jail on q
$4,000 bond.
The Seventh Day Adventis.s are try-'
ing to raise money to put up church
edidce in Denison.
Ed. DowdX was shot and mortslly'
wounded by Sam Glenn, in Jackson
county, last week.
Four men, charged with stealing cat
tie, were hanged by s mob in Brown
county on the 10th.
The court house at Fort Worth has 9,
cupols 100 feet high, giving fine view
of the surrounding country.
Capt. Martin, of the Gainesville Beg.
lister, is candidate for the state Sen-.
ate. Judge Barret opposes him.
A couple of counterfeiters were ar.
rested At Dallas g few days ago. Thee
proof against them is said TO be good.
And now it is denied that Mira. B. i.
81. Davis, of Bryan, has returned tD
Texas and is at the home Of her father. .
The international railway will be-
connected with the Sunset road by o.
tap between New Brsunfels aud Sc.
gum.
Ira B. Sadler, lawyer az Brown.
wood, and once member OF the Texas
legislature, has been stricken with par-'
alysis.
The coming Fourth Of July ceIebra--
ton at Sherman - expected TO be the
grandest event of the kind ever held
in Texas.
Many citizens OF tlctofia are ANXIOUS
TO subscribe literally toward the con-
[ struction of the Galveston and Camai-
60 railroad.
The little SON Of Mr.. Tom Wilson,
living near Corsicsna, shot and killed
himself by the careless handling Of =
pistol last Monday.
Iron has been purchased for complet-
ing the Central road TO Dublin, in
Ersth county, And the work will be
pushed vigorously forward.
II is now said that the junction of
the Texas and Pacific and the north
west branch Of the Central viii Be
near Buffalo Gap, in Taylor county.
z. B. Norris, county judge Of Baylor
county. was shot and instantly killed
in the court house IN Seymour, Bsyler
county, by W. A. Taylor, saloon
keeper.
Col. VIII Lambert writes 10 the edi-
tor of the Beaumont Lsfnberm1z, de-
clinlng to allow bis name 70 be used
IS . candidate for the lieutenant gof-
ernorship.
William r. CoWser was killed e
Hearne on the 11th instant By Q car
passing over his body and cutting hiE
Absolutely In two.