The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-03
TEXAS FACTS AND rANcIEs.

whipping post estsoushed.
Harvest hands in North Texas are in
crest demand st $50 per day.
There is much improvement going
on in the way of building in Waco.
One of the handsomest opera houses
in the state is in course of construction
at Paris.
The tbirteen-year-old son of Mr.. E.
B. MCGOWAN was drowned in a water
hole near BRENNAN.
Emancipation day is June 10th and
the negroes throughout the state are
making preparation for celebrations.
Mrs. Davis, OF Bryan, not only stole
away through the dark waters from her
husband, but from three little children.
Rev. Samuel Lacy, charged with
murder, has bad the trial of his case
changed from Bos que to johnson coun-
ty.
Telegraph poles have been planted
and wires stretched along the Santa Fe
from Galveston to Rosenberg juno
ton.
Savoy, small town sixteen miles
east of Sherman, has been entirely de-
stroyed by a tornado. Several lives
were lost.
Hon. Seth Shepard delived the lit
erary address at the commencement of
the Burieson high school, at Caldwell,
on the Goth inst.
1t is now asserted that the Graham
party were not attacked by Indians,
but by white outlaws who are said to
be in that section.
The citizens of Marlin have rendered
Miss Ella II. Rives, the Texas prima
donna, a complimentary benefit on the
evening of June 18th.
-Four days ago the track-layers of the
Santa Fe road had reached point ten
miles north of BRENNAN, penetrating
the Gay Hill neighborhood.
Ore Robertson, left in charge of the
sheep rancho of Mr.. Murphy, of Clay
county, sold the sheep and with the
proceeds left for parts unknown.
The International depot at New
3raunsfeI has settled the dispute be-
tween itself and citizens by locating
the depot in the center of the town.
The fire brigade in Houston has
horse, which, when the fire bells ring,
bitches himself up and goes right along
without the least ceremony, to the fire.
Charles Hamilton, of Taylorsville,
has gotten into trouble at Washington,
Ind. He shot at one man and hit an
other, and probably he has committed
murder.
The late freshet destroyed the town
of Brackettville, and many lives were
lost. The entire section is damaged
and the destruction of sheep has been
very great.
The Bryan scandal has been for
gotten in Dallas, since Willis Adams
was discoyered in the sleeping apart
ment of certain married woman of
that deiectable city.
The approach of the st. Louis and
Texas railway make the real estate
men of Corsicana put fancy figures on
town property, and the place will GER
tainly suffer thereby in the end.
The sheriff of Jack county has just
been hunting criminals and Is now
skipping around the country to keep
out of the way of the officers, who are
to take him because of his
pocketing public money.
Near San Saba during the late storm
he family of r. NJ. Roundtree took
refuge in q cave. 1t was flooded and
two little boys were drowned and Mrs.
Rsundtree and the other children were
taken out nearer dead than alive.
The surveyors of the capitol lands
are at point fifty miles south of the
Canadian, and thirty east of the line
of New Mexico, in Oldham county.
Stockmen will probably buy the whole
survey out of which to make ranches.
Mr.. Greenwald, lessee of the Gal
weston Opera House, Is engaged in fix
ing up a Texas circuit for next year,
which already includes GALVESTON,
Houston, Austin and Dallas. Other
cities will be taken into the circuit be-
fore the opening of next season.
Telephone: ''They do say that when
Nat @. went to Washington-to Con-
gress, you know-he was ashamed to
put himself down on record as citi-
zen of Williamson county, but claimed
to reside in Florida. If this gets out
In Williamson csunty, Nat had as well
come out of the legislative race"
Two negroes were run over by the
train on the Galveston road, and their
bodies were torn almost into mince-
meat. The train stopped, and the flesh
and bones were piled together beside
the track, and left to become food,
for Yultures, before coro-
ner's jury could ever reach the spot.
Mrs. NJ. E. Holford, wife of j. F.
Holford, saved a Central passenger
train from wreck between Whitney
and Waco. She was seen beside the
track waving light and screaming,
when the conductor stopped the tram
to learn that washout was Just ahead,
into which the train would have been
plunged, with much loss of property,
and probably of life.
The Dallas Times thinks that Mrs. |
Davis, who was drowned at Galveston,
and who came to life with para
mour in New York, may receive for
giveness from everybody, excepting the |
preacher who preached that pathetic |
sermon, in which. he asserted "the |
wife and model mother" and |
''the rest in the happy land where the
wicked cease from troubling and the |
weary are at rest"
The BRENNAN Banner says: SIT ap-
pears from the Dallas Times that only
three citizens of Dallas are making an
effort to have the state convention held
1t that place, while the remainder of |
the citizens don't care fig whether it
s held at that place or not. In Hous-
ton every man takes an interest in 1t
and is working hard to secure it.
Houston would suit southern and west
srn Texas much better than Dallas, Its
location being more CENTRAL"
One of these land sharks, D. @.
Freeman, of Roekdale, who go
around the country hunting for flaws
n land titles, aud having claims
placed on file for the purpose of In
titles, went to McEennan
county and filed on a piece of land
held by Judge Gerald. Freeman pro-
.eeded to have his claim surveyed and
iefined, and then it was that the Judge
earned of the attempt to take away
rom him his honestly obtained posses
ions. The two meet soon after in
public office, and the judges ire was
reused, and he went right for the
and shark, and when he got through
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