The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-09
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIes.

Corn, at Bolton, sells for 25c PEE
bushel.
The motto of the Holiness band i
"Texas for Jesus,
The car works ut Marshall hav,
gone into operation.
The suspension of the Houston
Telegram is announced.
The railroad fare from San Anto
MO TO Galveston is $1I so.
Since the storm there is eigh
feet of water on Aransas-bar.
kimble and Mason counties ar,
settling mp with great rapidity.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, wife of DIR. A. II
. Fitzpatrick, of Navasoia, is dead
The Gonzales jail has eleven prs
oners, one of whom is lunatic.
Texas Midland Route is the maine
now given the Santa Fe railway.
VIM. L. Maltby. editor of the Cor.
pus Christi Free Press. is no more.
Sallie Potts, a negro woman, aged
103, died at Sherman few DAYS ago
| John Greener, n laboring man
died of heat at Galveston ON Tues
day.
September MeXia had received
nearly 700 bales of the new cotton
crop.
There is talk of extending tele-
graph line from Sandy Point to Bra
zoria.
DIR. McBryde has quit the Tele-
gram and taken position on the
Post.
The holiness band ut Dallas are
snatching sinners from eternal per-
dition.
w. f. Higgins of Bastrop was
thrown from his buggy and his arm
was broken.
The first train over the Interna-
tional will go through to San Mar
cos September 20.
DIR. b. w. Bristow of Flatonia con-
templates entering upon fast of iif-
ty consecutive days.
n. p. Turner and Geo. w. Patrick,
Silver Cliff, Colorado.
l.. ID. Bradley of Fairfield, Lime
stone county, is theDemocraticn omi-
nee for the district judgeship.
The gin house of Mrs. NJ. T. Will
liams, near Waco, with nine bales of
cotton has been destroyed by fire.
That freight train salutation a
Houston was who0per. The gal
liant captains made the cannOns boom.
FL PasO is to have a very large
fort erected on this side of the Rio
Grande. Its cost will exceed $780,
600.
WIN. Haney, printer, fell from a
second story window in Sherman.
He received, it is feared, fatal in
juries.
Gen. Grierson has been directed
to make his headquarters at Fort
Davis and keep sharp lookout for
Victoria:
The New York Star tells that
John Benjamin travelled all the way
from Texas to Brooklyn on mus
tang pony.
Miss Ella Price, daughter of DIR.
Price, of Graham, committed sui
eide by taking poison. She was dis
appointed in love.
DR., 3. W. BristOn, of Flatonia
has entered upon . lifty days fast
for q wager. After eight days he
had lost ten pounds,
Pearl millet, eleven feet high, has
been grown in Parker county. 1t is
said that 1t will make a crop every
month in the season.
The Southern Pacific railways
engineers are now somewhere in the
vicinity of DeVil's river, within the
district of the Pecos.
In consequence of nigh tariffs fixed
for our division of the New Orleans
railway, the merchants of San An
tonic refuse to ship over the line.
y. c. Gray retircs from the mani
agement of the Telegram. John I.
Dickinson owns more than hall u
the capital stock Of the concern.
johnson Reed, negro preacher.
we'll known in Galveston and else
where in Texas. Is in Denver raising
disturbance among the elOred peo-
pie.
The Telegram suspended for only
one day. 1t appeared again on the
I'd inst, and it claims. to be estab-
lisbed on a better footing than ever
before.
H. w. Curfee of Limestone eoun-
ty, Texas, is cultiyating the Chinese
tea plant. He has large farm set
with these plants, and it is said they
are thriving beyond belief
In dispute between w. B. Keas,
farmer of Bastrop county, and one
of his tenants, Bill johnson. col
ored. the farmer was shot ut and
dangerously wounded III the Shout
der.
And now the season has arrived
when poor man cOnfides too much
in the sweet hum of the cotton gin
to the destruction of the human
form divine. Every day there are
reports of mutilation.
The Texas Pacific railway, running
west to Ell Paso, has asked for mil
itary escort in the Pecos district,
which ranges from the Staked
Plains to the Rio Grande. The es-
cort will be furnished, as asked for.
a Democratic barbecue is to be
held ut Bastrop September 10. Gov
ernor Roberts, Hon. Seth Shepard,
Lieutenant Governor Savers, Hon.
Wash Jones, Gen. Hannah and 9TH
er prominent speakers have been in
vited to attend.
Mr.. C.. Hoffman. manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
at Houston, is the, father for the
third time of twins. In three years
all this happened, but it ought to be
expected OF a man who is working
On lightning process.
Sheriff Moon of Dallas has re-
signed The Office did not pay him,
and its necessary duties were involv-
ing him in financial troubles, because
of non-payment of what was Justly
due him for feeding prisoners and
other necessary Service.
The cotton compress at BRENNAN
has heglp operation. Cotton is
coming in at tho rate of 100 bales a |
day, and the capitalists force the |
compress to be patropized by agree
ing that not dollar shall be adj
vanced on cotton unless stored at the |
At the burial of Mrs. Burke. in |
Nacogdoches, while Mr.. Babe Hearn |
was praying over the deceased. he
was struck by lightning and Instant
~ killed. One other person was
senseless and was exEected |
TO die, and several others were pros
frated, but not seriously injured.
The Texas and Pacific Company
have inaugurated an extensive emf
grafton scheme. Six agents have
been appointed for Northern, West
erp and southern States. 10 act ia
concert with the Southern immigra-
ton Society recently organized nv /