The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-25

ates more property than any misfor
tune.
Both the Sunday law and the bel
punch law have been declared consti
tutional by the highest courts of tn,
state.
A man should have fortune wht
thinks of marrying ballet dancer,
because 1t is next to impossible to keeI
her in clothes.
Capt. Tom Brown, lately law part
ner of Governor Throckmorton, is
candidate for district judge in the
Sherman district.
Milan county is excited over the
county seat question. Rockdale wants
the county seat removed from Came
ron to Rockdale.
At Dallas on Monday morning there
was four inches of snow, supplemented
by elect OF sufficient thickness to beal
tao weight of a man.
Sam Myers felt satisfied his sentence
would be committed. He was executed
yesterday at Cleburne, and mothers-in'
law are having feast of glory.
At San Antonio on Monday there was
Q severe freeze, thermometer %; Vege.
etables, corn and growing crops ruined.
Severe Losses in stock are reported.
Martin Mavek, who resided neal
Wesley, in Washington county, went
to his stable to feed his stock at night
as usual, when he was shot dead by
some one unknown.
Mrs. Maria Van Alstyne bas filed
suit in the district clerks office al
Houston to recover $50 shares of cap
ital sock of the Houston and Texas
Central railway, valued at $50, 900.
Carl Wegner, who died recently al
CastroYille at the advanced age of 80,
had lived in Texas for 30 years. He
had once been great favorlte at the
courts of Germany, and was political
exile.
There is now talk at Dallas of hay
ing large car manufacturing compa.
ny, employing at present in New Eng
land 600 men, located at that city. Il
is too late. Marshall got the bulge or
this industry.
Telegram: The Galvestonians are as'
itating for deep water. It is quite APP
parent that our ''nstural advantage
friends have been driven into it by the
spectre of Sabine Pass, which rises up
before their excited imaginations.
MR.. E. NJ. Adams, OF Uvalde, has
been missing since the fifth, and
there iano doubt that he was waylaid
and murdered. Mr.. John Bowles oil
the same place, was fired at from an
ambush by the roadside on the seventh.
A Kaufman county man has invented
portable stool designed to give rest
to the backs of cotton-pickers, but Q
Sherman man has invented cotton.
picker that will do away with the work
of twenty men, and so the world moves.
Jefferson received 10000 bales OF
cotton the past season, and the cotton
buyers of that place have agreed to
chip 100, 900 bales to Galveston oYel
the International, provided that COM
pany will extend their read from Long.
view to Jefferson.
A. F. Bryan shot at negro woman
at Texsrkans on the tenth instant, and
IN return some unknown party shot al
Bryan, woundlng him so badly that he
died Saturday. Bryan was from neal
Center, Shelby county, where his pa.
rents reside.
A little girl of ]. J. Ramsey, oil
Johnson county, fell into o we'll fifty
feet deep, and was uninjured. She
had presence of mind enough to get
hold of the we'll rope, but remained in
the well three hours before her where
abouts was discovered.
Col. r. D. Westcott, a retired Jour-
nalist, so it is said, will soon start q
newspaper st Houston. Houston al
ready has three dailies, but there is no
end to fortunes to be made out of
newspapers. Scores of them have been
made in Houston and in Austin.
Mr.. Ed. P. Marshall, after he left
the Baptist church at night, in Dallas,
was closely followed by two men, who
AuOChCO 0ONA WIN Oldcc
aud robbed him of his watch and
chain, but failed to fiud some money
that ives in his pocket. Msrshall's
forehead was badly cut.
Tom Eckert was shot and instantly
killed at Brownwood by Dave Con-
nell. They had just shaken hands
over an old misunderstanding, and then
went to q saloon to friendship. The
fiery whisky flew into their veins, and
in few moments they drew revolvers
on each other with the result named.
Buffalo Gap Is a handsome little
town of 500 Inhabitants, the county
site of Taylor county, and is in three
miles Of the exact center Of the county.
The voting population Of Taylor
county is at this time GOO, but as the
soil is fertile and the climate salabrious
il is settling up. A late attempt to in
corporate Buffalo Gap failed. There
were ten to one votes against the prop
osition.
The Waco EzGaiaer says that w. T.
Lynch, one of the jury before whom
the OuIkS Case was IlCOs SAYS ne
would sign a petition for commute
ton. he is satisfied OF guilt, but he
thinks the child victim Of Burks' as
sault was fated By her surroundings TO
q life the same as her mother. which
life must have commenced naturally in
year or two, and Burks therefore il
not 30 entirely inexcusable as he might,
under different circumstances, have
been.
The Telephone says it is TO be hoped
that the people Of Houston viii moi
make fools Of themselves because Of
the coming Of Grant. Should the dis
tinguished gentleman stop here, there
are plenty to receive him who know
how to tender those courtesies which
are appropriate and agreeable smons
gentlemen. But Houston l. in no con
ditEon to make fuss over anybody
nor 10 invite too close an inspection o
her situation.