The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-26
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The beach near Rockport ia strewn
with cocoa nuts.
The Bell county fair improvements
have been sold 10 satisfy debt.
Col. Eldridge, the s2lritualist, is de-
liYering q series OF lectures in Calves
ton.
The wheat crop in Coryell, Hamilton
and B0fque counties is in fine condi-
ton.
Business at Rockport has improved
and money is more plentiful than 1t
has been.
Twenty-Five Thousand dollars worth
of goat skins were shipped at Corpus
Christi last week.
Rusk county has $4,000 in her treas
urY, is out of debt and owns one Of the
finest court houses in the state.
Lynchfeld Burk, the convicted "a
pist, is in the Waco Jail awaiting the
action of the Court of Appeals.
John Taylor, of BRENNAN, who was
q! OF through the head few days ago,
is getting along finely, and will get
well.
Corn in some portions OF the coun-
ties of Washington and Austin 10 up
three inches in height and the stand is
good.
Fihciana LANCE OF Fulton,is twenty
one years old, forty-two inches in
height, with foot but little over five
inches long.
The Washington county vote in the
late senatorial contest stood: Holman,
SOC; Kinney, $50 - making Romans
majority 220.
The Comanche Chief declares that
Lieutenant Governor Sayers is be-
ginning to boom as the next candidate
for Governor"
County taxation is said to be lighter
in McLennan than in any other county
in the state-only fifteen cents on the
hundred dollars.
The Brownwood mining company is
dispcsing of shares of its stock, and
enough has been sold 20 insure the
sinking OF shaft.
Tom Hurley, of Bosque county, who
it was believed fastened the death of
his wife, was shot to death the next
day by her brothers.
Mollie Ellsworth, one of the demi-
monde, attempted to commit suicide
on Monday in Paris by taking NOR
phIne. A physician relieved her.
Mr.. W. II. Cobb, farmer of Bosque
county, had his barn, containing 600
bushels of corn, carriage and farm I'M
PIGMENTS, totally destroyed by fire.
The Lagrange Journal has reached
our table. 1t takes the place of the
Record, and it is vast improvement
upon it. r. II. Phelps is its editor.
Suits for forfeiture of claims to uni
versity lands in McLennan county,
will not be brought until Novem-
Der giving occupants time to make and
save crops.
A fatal shooting ARRAY is reported
from Kent county between Bud
Browning and John Hensley, In which
the former was killed, after making an
attack upon the latter.
Sister Nisldore, of the Ursuline
Convent, at San Antonio, has beer
wearing the veil for fifty years. She
is a native of New Orleans, and was
raised from infancy by the Catholics
Paul Bremond's little narrow gauge
road runs from Houston into wilder.
ness, or at least very sparsely popu'
lated country, yet its receipts show ntt
earnings of from $4,000 to $4,000 PEI
month.
Samuel II. Meyers is to be hanged a
C!eburne on the nineteenth of March
He murdered his mother-in-lsw, Mrs
Hester, in 1877. Meyers is quite ;
young man, not more than twenty-ont
years Of age.
Tic skeleton found in the Trinity
river near Dallas recently has been iden
titled as that of James A. Harper, the
clothes on the skeleton being the same
as Harper had worn when last seen TIVE
months ago.
THE Telephone says that Texas ough
to have law protecting game, and de
clares that it would have had one, hsC
not Representative Seth Mills of Nc
Lehman county defeated it before thu
last Legislature.
The man generally who doesn'
care a cuss about what the newsps
pers say about him, somehow or othe
is the same man that squirms most o.
Is happiest, respectively, as he gets i
rough or pleasant.
An exchange says: at may b
truthfully said of Texas: There /
health in our air, medicine in our sun
shine, wealth In our soil, silver in GU
mountains, and gold in our sands, ant
millions in it generally"
The Bolton Courier denounces some
body as slow contemplate scoun
drel," because of the connection of
AIr. McWhirter's name with the Dow
castigation, and yet the Courier doe
not denounce the castigators.
A young man calling himself Loui
Austin, from Fort Worth, or Calves
ton, or some other place, as he hs
variously stated, has been caughtin tn
act Of burglarizing q safe in Denison
and is consequently in trouble.
Mr.. S. 81. Kirch of Brennan, Will
sleeping in his hotel, was chloroforme
by thief and $40 taken from his pock
ct. Two attempts have also been mad
to fire the city of BRENNAN, and il
good people are being aroused.
The Mckinney Enquirer wants I
know Of the whereabouts of john
Brock, sixteen years of age, blsc
eyes, dark complexion, round fac'
with some freckles, with q mike
Jeans suit on when he disappeared.
Buffalo Joe, after committing roll
berries at Fulton and stealing fin
horse, was followed into Atascoc
county, and he aud the horse wei
both captured five miles from his wife
home. he is in the Pleassnton Jail.
There are twenty-four persons
the various parts Of the state now III
der sentence of death. This, says a
exchange. looks like vigorous ext
cution of the laws, notwithstandin
frequent complaints to the contrar.
The case Of the State v. W. B. Boz
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