The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-19
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Mr., VIM. r. Baker, of Houston, is
dead.
Mr.. Mcdaniel, of Hoover Valley,
aged so, is dead.
The Hood fund bale OF cotton sold
in Liverpool for $50
TIE artesian we'll at Wills Point has
reached depth of $50 leet.
Mexican lions are reported in the
BrazOs bottom, near Waco.
The Waco Examiner will please give
US rest on "a. J. Davis"
HighwaymeD have been operating
between Terrell and Turner's Point.
A nephew of Jim Blaine, says the
Chronicle, is attending bar in Sher-
man.
Mrs. Biker, the wife of Gil. VIM.
R Baker, of Houston, has been sirick-
en- with paralysis.
Mr.. Sam Walcott of Laredo will psy
$4,000 for flowing artesisn well on his
ranch near the Rio Grande.
Henry Shaffer has been sentenced to
be hung at Marshall, May IA, for the
murder of Houston Hurd = both
negroes.
Charles Buckley, an escaped convict,
has beens arrested st,Fort McKavett,
by Sergt. Seeker, Of the frontier ba-
tallion.
The Telephone says: "Granger Lang
wants it understood that he doesn't
play second fiddle to anybody this
year-not to the Old Alcalde. even.
Frank Thomas, says the Burnet Bal
tetin, likes the Nicaragua wheat go we'll
be will try it again this year. Il bears
large grain and makes nutritious
flour of delicious fl4vor
Alittle boy was dangerously wound
ed in WestAsfford few days since, by
being shot ith pistol ball. The
pistol was in the hands of lady, who
says she was aiming to Kill cat.
George and John Traylor, charged
with murder ten years ago at Muir
phresboro. Tennessee, have been ar
rested in Fannin county, where they
have lived for some time.
Theodore Elschlep, school teacher,
charged with habitually violating the
persons of his female pupils, has been
arrested in Guadalupe county is
arraigned on those charges at Seguln.
A little girl OF w. L. Hancock.
while playing near a burning BRUSH
heap. got her clothes ignlted aud they
were literally burned from her, leaving
The surface of the girls body a crisp.
T. W. Wells, of Prairie Grove, con-
cluded he was too Old at fifty to en-
cumber the face of the earth any
longer. and he took poison, and the
doctor found it out and pumped him
on to his legs sgaln.
1.-THE Galveston Msrdi Gras, says the
Age, "or Molly Grsw, as Houston boys
call it, Is over; and the feeling is very
generally expressed that those who
we're at the expense OF going to see it
got precious little for their money"
At East Bernard station, on the San
Antonio road, they keep an old gun
lying around, which somehow charms
3 fellow into seeing how decently be
may commit suicide. Two men have
dellberately taken their lives with it
within short time.
The Denison Hersh thinks Col. Gull
berson has injured has political pros
poets by serving Rotbschild with so
much zeal, and the Telephone is right
IN defending him. BIT the Telephone
is published in Waco, where Judge
Clsik lives.
Land titles IN McLennan, Falls, Cory
ell and some Of the other adj ,iniag
counties are beeoniDg beautifnuT
ciouded. 8Irs. Eliza d. Bryan Of New
York brings suit Tor eighteen leagues
in MoLennan and Fslis; Vincent vi
aida for eleven leagues in Limestone,
Freestone and Anderson couAties, aud
John Goss for 40. 0C0 acres in Cornell
county. - - -tee
w. c. Miller has been tried in Waco,
on a charge OF selling whiskey to mi
nors. says the Ezamip<r, and IS In the
case OF bismarck on the day before,
the jury failed to sgree. Afterwards
Miller plead guilty to the charge, and
Was fined SIS and costs Several cases
OF . ike character are pending In We
CO. They are cases in which indict-
ments were found BY the grand jury.