The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-12
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average in the Brazos bottoms this
season
Jefferson is TO have daily Dem
ocratic newspaper. edited by Col
f. W. Loughery
A farmer in Hill county who had
600 acres in broom corn SAYS that he
will clear $4,000.
The machine shops OF the Texas
and ST. Louis railroad will be estab-
lished at Tyler, Texas.
One hundred and twenty Texas
counties show a population OF $685.
066. as against III OPS in 1870.
Hon. W. III. Williams. colored,
Greenback orator from Massachu-
sets. Is stamping East Texas
II is estimated that the money
paid for Texas cattle during the
past five Years amounts 10 $IS0.000,-
600.
William Kennedy, assistant fore
man of tracklayers for the Santa Fe
railroad, died of congestion at Cald-
well.
Judge A. Z. Wilkinson. of Sher-
man, is formally announced a can
didate for state senator from that
district.
Comanche is now connected with
the outside world by telegraph.
The frontier line reached that point
recently.
Miss Mary Carter, the young lady
i'll East Waco who gave herself an
accidental pistol shot. i rapidly re-
covering.
Robinson an,l McCarty. two horse
thieves, were arrested III Jefferson
ON Wednesday on telegram from
Mansfield. La.
The Dispatch thinks the new jail
at Lampasas a good one, and would
prefer to see all county prisoners
kept at home.
The vote at Sherman on the ques-
ton of levying one per cent. tax
for municipal schools was defeated
by ten to one.
Measles are raging in Floresville,
and there has been some deaths. y
great deal of sickness among chill
dren and some deaths.
Sickness is prevailing to some eX-
tent among the laborers at Arkansas
bar. The use of brackish water is
thought TO be the cause.
Planters from GraysOn, Grimes,
Falls. Washington and other Texas
counties are going TO Kansas to Sc
cure labOrers to pick cotton.
Saltwater is used with success in
Wharton county in killing worms.
Let the cotton worms alone. They
are needed in some cottOnlields bad
ly.
The corn crop of Texas will be I'M
usually large this season, and the
wool clip the largest ever realized.
The cotton crop is estimated NJ
100000 bales.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spray and one Hamp
johnson had a row over about Kerr
vile, the other day, in which Spray
was shot and killed. Mrs. Spray and
johnson were arrested.
About 1900 or 1000 persons attend
ed barbecue at Hallettsviile last
Monday. Seth Shepard, Democratic
nominee for Congress from the fifth
district, delivered an address.
Miss Rives, accompanied by her
father, DR.. Rives, and by two female
relations, and the justly celebrated
young pianist, Mr.. Francis. will give
a grand concert at Fort Worth.
Five prisoners broke Jail at Eagle
Pass. a sheriff7s posse pursued them
and a fight ensued which resulted
in the killing of one of the posse and
one prisoner. Another prisoner was
captured.
The Ball-Heacock poisoning case
at Wills Point seems to be exciting
considerable interest. SiXenteen
days have been spent in the exami-
nation of witnesses for the prosecu-
ton alone.
Down about Cuero, since the rains
of last week, many cotton worms
have appeared in different sections
of the county, and farmers are pois-
oning where the worms are likely to
do damage.
Mr.. L. B. Green, living in Dewitt
county, found on his premises fam
lily of rattlesnakes numbering TWEEN
ty-two. One of these carried nine
teen rattles representing nineteen
years of age.
The stock men i'll northern Texas
have rebelled against the charges of
the railroads in shipping cattle to
Eastern markets, and have returned
to the former custom of driving their
cattle through by land.
The latest sensation is u petition
going the rounds asking Governor
Roberts to grant Burks.a full and
unconditional pardon. We have
heard that such paper is being cir
culated, but we have not seen it.
Frequent rain storms IN the neigh
borhood of Fort Stockton have caus-
ed great loss to farmers. Three of
the principal men engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits will lose at least
1900 bushels of wheat. oats and
barley.
Governor Roberts has issued a
proclamation declaring Eastland as
being no longer frontier county,
and that the law regarding the car
rying of arms should be enforced in
sixty days from the date of the proc
lamatiOn.
In the neighborhood of Victoria
it appears that an epidemic has seiz-
ed upon the jack rabbits, as numbers
of them are found dead on the prai-
ries. Epicures should be cautious
in serving them for the table until
the fatality has ceased.
A number of darkies working the
public road near Texarkana recent
" became involved in dispute
which closed with a general row.
Axes and spades were used freely.
One negro was killed and several
others severely injured.
The prisoners confined in the old
rookery called jail, situated in the
city of Hampstead, became tired of
the mOnotony of retired life, and
made break for liberty last Mon
day night. Their break was success
full. Two unsophisticated darkies
refused TO leave their free. lunch
quarters.
Bolton Courier: According to
Bell county's reputation for not al
lowing extremists to flourish in its
borders, il is fortunate for DIR. Tan
ner that he undertook his forty days
fasting frolic in more congenial eli
mate. If he had held forth here he
might have been coerced into eat
ing a peck of COW peas, hulfs and
all.
Capt. Lee Hall and Mr.. Buckley,
the well known wool buyer of Cor
pus Christi; with some fifteen men,
wagons, etc., are en- route 10 Crock
EFT county, whittier they go pros
pecting for some ranges for some
large focks of sheep. They will sink