The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-21
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIEs.

suicided.
San Antonio proposes to celebrate
Mardi Uras.
The fair at Marshall is reported as
quite success.
The Methodist conference is in
session at Luling.
Scab prevails among the sheep in
San Saba county.
Matte Foot was the winner in the
best races at Marshall.
Mrs. Nunnelle. of Lamar county,
suicided with strychnine.
Alexander Ferguson was robbed
of $500 near San Antonio.
Sugar mills on the lower Brazos
have already begun TO grind.
In San Saba county taxes arc as
sessed on 10000 head of sheep.
Jones and Shepard are going to
meet at Faint Rock on the 10th.
The jury in tho August Hodde
murder case ut Brennan disagreed.
w. III. Ralstun is on trial at Bren-
ham for the killing of Robert Fin
kin.
Barnum's giraffe died while the
exhibition was going on at Bren-
ham.
T. d. Maurer has retired from the
authorship of the Texas and Pacific
railroad.
The Corsicana compress had
handled only 4S47 bales of cotton up
TO the l4th.
Pass Cavallo, leading into Mata-
gorda bay, is to be improved by the
jetty system.
@SIillsap" is a new station on the
Texas Pacific, fourteen miles west OF
Weatherford.
William r. Ralston, who was on
trial at Brennan for murder, has
been acquitted.
Mr.. Herman Kampnann and Miss
Susie Simpson, of San Antonio. have
been made one.
Mrs. Duffy. of Galveston, while in
perfect health, was suddenly pros
trated in death.
j. N. Barber, an old citizen of La
mar county, fell from wagon and
broke his neck.
1t was a carelessly handled pistol
that put an end to tho .lifo of Louis
Brognan at Paris.
Mrs. Sarah \. Doss, daughter of
Col. James Bourland, died in Gaines
vile few days ago.
From nine acres of Tarrant county
land there have been taken eight
aud half bales of cotton.
d. NJ. Williams of Fort Worth
departed this life, while suffering
from stroke of paralysis.
Hall Davis is on trial at Brennan
for the murder of Mailman in 1877,
with prospect of acquittal.
The synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church closed its la
bors at Corsicana on'the 9th.
j. j. Gosslcr, an old printer and
publisher, committed suicide at Gal
weston. He took strychnine.
Chills and fever thrive in Guada-
lupe county. 1t gave Senator a
chill to pass through Seguin.
The Hopkins county fair begins
October 10, the same day that the
Capital State Fair commences.
The fair at Marshall is being held
this week. Bachelor and Lilly are
there with some of their flyers.
Seven hundred and fifty bales of
cotton received in one day is the
last thing crowed over in Fort
Worth.
The Telegram is TO be resuscitated
and the Age promises to be in at
the funeral of both the Post and the
Telegram.
There were as many entries this
year for the first two days of the
Marshall fair as for the four days of
last year.
John Young, herder for McCar-
thy Bros, of San Saba, committed
suicide by hanging himself with his
saddle girth.
II. f. PERUVIAN was waslaid and
killed i'll Limestone county. Will
liam Wills stands charged with the
dastardly deed.
Isaiah Walker, colored. tried at
Gonzales for murder, was found
gully in the first degree, the death
penalty being assessed.
a siX-year-old OK weighing only
250 pounds, but perfect in form, was
shipped from Gainesville along with
q lot Of cattle To Chicago.
The striking business 1T Houston
has temporary lull. The Post will
wait to catch Dan McGary mapping
and then 1t will begin again.
VIII Kennedy. young white man
in Limestone county. picked in six
days 1000 pounds of cotton, or an
average of 666 pounds per day.
Rev. 4. 5. Kenan has skipped to
ports unknown. He was about Wa
co and had been charged with steal
ing cattle in Limestone county.
Owing to the fact that the Kelleys
had made too free with the name of
a lady, there was shooting scrape at
Ferris between James Beal and one
of the Kelleys.
Governor Roberts reached San
Antonio Wednesday, and became
the guest of Col. J. III. McLeary, the
Democratic nominee for the attor-
ney geperalship.
The pole-raising at Paris in honor
of n Democratic victory in Indiana,
was postponed in consequence of
the inclement condition of the polit-
ical atmosphere.
While Mai. Penn was trying to
lead aDallas crowd ofsinners into the
heavenly road, somebody stole the
horse and buggy of one of his most
susceptible hearers.
The pecan crop of Brown county
is estimated at $4,000 bushels worth
So bushel, the colt crop at 1000
bales and 100000 bushels of corn
was raised in the county.
Galveston is trying to adjust its
doubtful Indebtedness, which means
debts that were made without care,
or sufficient consideration. This is
the way profligate community al
WAYS docs.
ID. b. Robinson. Independent can
didate for Congress against Col.
Epson, died at San Antonio on the
18th inst, of congestion of the brain.
A warning to all who attempt things
too great for them.
Martin of the Register is fierce
opponent of the Greenbackers.
Whenever they begin to make fuss
in Cook county Martin takes the
field against them, and he levels
them as trees fall before cyclone.
Col. Woods Moore is in Fayette
county making the canvass for the
state senatorship. During the state
fair he will be in Austin with lot
of his Short Horns, aud some thor
oughbred colts, all of which will be
for sale.
An exchange says: lit Is rumored
that Col. Chas. DeMorse, of Clarks-
vile. win move his .StaRddrdto Dali