The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-02

The county jail, at Dallas, is cold
and comfortless.
The LiberalIst convention met Mt
Waco on the 18th.
Senator Coke and Mrs. Coke har .
left Waco for Washington city.
Daniel Shipman, an old Texan.
departed this life in GOliad at the
age of eighty.
The opinion is that coal strata
underlies most of Palo Pinto and
Eastland counties
I Out of nineteen cases tried in the
criminal court at Dallas, there were
fifteen convictions.
Bob Boykin, nineteen years old.
killed Bill BroadnaX at Cameron
He made his escape.
The missing indictment of Roths-
child has been found. Rothschild's
father is at Marshall
Work will begin on the new gov
eminent buildings at San Antonio
on the LIST of January.
Capt. J. Lee Hall has been mar
ried to Miss Bessie G. Weidman. of
Lebanon. Pennsylvania.
The International Railroad Com
panv will construct the finest pas
senger depot in the state at San An
tonic.
The Tecds livestock Journal is the
latest venture At Fort Worth. 1t is
published weekly by. Mr.. George b.
Loving.
The Corpus Christi Ledger fears
that great damage has resulted to
sheep owners on account of the cold
weather.
Mr.. McAtee. an employee of the L.
& p. railway, had his body badly
crushed between cars at Sherman.
lie is, it is feared, fatally injured.
Mrs. o. G.. Hartley and daughter,
and another passenger were injured
BY coach being ditched at Arcola.
A broken rail caused the accident.
The body of Ramon Munoz, a
Mexican musician, was found
eighteen miles south of San AntO-
MO. 1t is thought the murderers
will be captured.
Two late attempts to fire the town
of Tyler have been unsuccessful.
The Democrats of that region ought
to be ashamed of the present exis-
tence of the place.
Five tramps, that had slowed them
/ selves away in car at Kansas City,
reached Dallas, where the car was
! opened, after great suffering from
cold and starvation.
The Age, in noting that coal is
worth at Austin S12.50 per ton, says
that Mildly & Dow, of Houston, sup
ply it to consumers in that city at
one-third this figure.
The Comanche Chief can be
bought ut a bargain, and it is i'll a
fine locality for the conduct of a
local newspaper. Address Joe W..
Hill, Comanche, Texas.
Beverly, the Dallas highwayman,
is wanted in Palo Pinto county for
attempting to kill John Jones by
shooting him while the latter was in
a boat crossing the Brazos river.
Mrs. Jones, of Dallas, went trig-
gering around O pistol, and hereafter
she will depend upon only one hand,
since amputation of the other was
made necessary by her indisGretion.
The annual conference OF the
German Methodist Episcopal Church
convened at Brennan November 25,
Bishop Haven presiding. There
were thirty or forty ministers
present.
Rev. w. B. Day, who has been Il
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horter, has been convicted at Waco
for the theft of watch, and goes to
the penitentiary under four years
| sentence.
In three issues the Dallas Herald
presented ten columns on the tar. Il.
When last heard from the editor
thought he had exhausted the sub
ject. His readers were certainly
exhausted.
W. D. Meadows, of Dewitt coun-
ty, charged with murder, who has
laid in Jail, at San Antonio, for a
long while, has been admitted to bail,
on account of failing health. i'll the
sum of $4,000.
The gas company, at San Antonio,
has notified the city authorities that
they will discontinue the giving of
light, since coal and wood are too
scarce to admit of their continuing
business at this time.
A perfect deluge of immigrants is
pouring into the Texas Panhandle
from all sections, but particularly
from the Northwestern states. The
town of Pease, formerly Pease River
City, is so far ahead that an $4,000
stone hotel is being built.
Beverly, the captured highway
man at Dallas, is suspected of hay
ing committed robberies near Waco,
and he has been identified as the
leader of gang of horse thieves
that have lately operated in Palo
Pinto county.
Business in all Western Texas is
on boom. Grass is fine, stock fat,
money plenty, and the people have
the comforts of life. Sheep men
are all prospecting. Their flocks are
healthy and were not affected by the
late cold, as it was supposed they
would be.
At fernando. Desoto county, Mis-
slsslppl, mllIOu ID. kOtOhSS wants "
know of the whereabouts of Rich
ard NJ. Flynte, who is supposed to be
in Texas. Friends of young Flynte
need not fear that his neck will be
stretched if they tell on him; it is
only his mother, who knows he is
out, that is anxious about him.
The cotton buy ers at Waco have
resolved to abandon the middle-men,
or street buyers, and to deal directly
with the producer 1t is held that
the latter gets less for his cotton
when these middle-men handle it,
since they are always allowed n
profit. There has been some talk of
this plan being enforced here, and it
certainly appears as though it ought
to be.
Grain is not very abundant out
west of San Antonio. 4 lot of corn.
500 bushels, bought in Mexico for 50
per fanega, or 66s cents a bushel,
was sold at Clark for 80 cents. The
cost of bringing it to this side, in
Guiding duty and ferry charges, was
about IL cents bushel. Oats are
scarcer than corn, and in Medina
county have sold at 55 cents BUSH
ell. Pecans have nearly all been dis
posed of. The price now paid in
the west is 81 cents.
There is great excitement through
the counties of Medina, Frio, Uval-
de. Kinney and Maverick over the
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