The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-01
IEyAS FACTS ANn fANclES,

The Tyler Courier pronounces o. d.
Roberts good four-mile horse.
The sberiffs Of Texas will hold 8
conyention at Dallas, August 5.
Cassie Howell, = small boy, while
boat-riding near Terrell, fell into tie
water and was drowned
MAJOR Penn is go well pleased with
his success st Luling that he expresses
the wish to stay there q month.
The location of the Internations
depot at San Antonio Is the subject of
contention among its property holders.
Charlie Gay, the Fort Worth pedes-
trisn, walked all the way from St.
Louis TO Dallas on wager against
time.
Nine prisoners made a break frem
the Bastrop Jail on the 25th. Six were
Immediately recaptured sDd three got
away.
Some fne-looking immigrants from
Scotland passed through penison re-
Gently on their way to Wharton
county.
Texas is ably represented on the
national Democratic committee in the
person of Lieutenant Governor F. S.
Stockdale.
Democrats of Galveston have held
an enthusiastic ratification meeting.
They are relieving themselves of the
Grant gorge.
Stock thieves are having high old
time in Dimmitt county. Mr.. L. l..
Bell had nearly 1000 sheep stolen from
him at one time.
San Antonio owes one OF her hotels
5000 for entertaining Grant ct ais. when
there. They who enjoy the music
must pay the fiddler.
Josie Wernette, OF Castroville, one
of Millett's COW boys, was shot in
Kansas, and was in a most dangerous
condition when last heard from.
An effort is being made to collect
taxes on the International and Great
Northern railroad property in Smith
county, and the question is to be re-
ferred to the courts.
On the goth a severe thunder storm
visited Dallas, and several electric cur
rents struck buildings in the city, and
several persons were shocked, but none
were seriously injured. There was
only slight fall OF rain.
Clifton Ellison, the young man who
killed his cousin, Robert Dickerson, in
Caldwell county, has been taken to La
Grange to get hearing before Judge
Moore. The justice of the peace at
Lockhart refused him bail. He is a
mere boy.
Mrs. Carrie Richards, who some
time since was granted divorce from
her husband IN the district court at
Dallas, has been arraigned in the fed
eral court upon charge of receiving
and opening the letters of her husband
after their separation.
Mr.. Martin Locke, OF San Antonio,
killed rationale sixty-six and tow
third inches in length with sixteen rat
ties. Mr.. Oscar Samostz, druggist of
Austin, would have paid premium for
such reptile alive. He wishes to Sc
cure rare specimens of ANIMALS and rep
tiles belonging to Texas.
J. T. Williamson of Kentuckytown
was driving to Waco with load of
wheat. Fire from his pipe set the
wagon and its contents on fire, and the
result was that he lost all but his horses
and harness. He was damaged to the
extent of 5000, Farmers will now leave
their pipes at home, or get insured.
James T. Harris, late of Georgetown,
has been arrested at Dallas on the
charge of swlndllng. His sccusers
say he mailed circulars to the North
asking remittances for starving people
of Williamson county. Money was
sent to him, as manager of the Bank of
Commerce to be used for this purpose.
The Sherman Chronicle says of men
who gave Currie verdict of not guilty
zone of that distinguished jury, which
turned the tiger Currie loose. had Just
been released from the penitentiary.
Another jur7man, who never was
known to have a cent, was said to be
fairly coated with greenbacks after the
concern was discharged"
The Bolton Journal reports be-
tween $73, 900 and $74, 1000 of the rail-
road dosation raised up to the Gath.
The Journal is confident that the entire
amount Will we raised this week. The
G.. c. end s. F. authorities refused to
abate one dollar of the amount, and,
furthermore, stated the answer must
be made by July l, or the proposition
to build to Bolton would be with
drawn.
Gonzales Enquirer: A short time
since we told 1t to the world, with
pride, that our county was out of
debt, her scrip at par, her employees
punctually and fully paid, and there
was q handsome balance in the treas
ury. In addition to this we chronicled
the fact that the taxes had been re-
duced from forty cents to twenty-five
cents on the one hundred dollars, and
were lavish in praise of the commits
sioners' court for the wise and efficient
administration Of county finances.
Postal cards are now in almost every
body's hands, showing that their valu-
alton OF property has been raised, and
1t is joculsrly suggested that the court
has reduced taxes and raieed the valu-
alton OF property so that there will be
no falling of Of the revenue.
The committeeman appointed to So
licit money to prepare for the reception
of the Democratic delegates at Dallas
are heartily disguised with their eff
forts. They publish a card in which
they say men worth hundred thou
and dollars, subscribe So, and others
thereupon conclude that they should
subscribe nickel. They have only
$3.50 in insured subscriptions, and that
Is all they can get, and they cay they
are going TO quit, convention or no
convention. Chairman Bower should
therefore cut a disagreeable matter
short by naming Houston instead of
Dallas. 1t is now thought that the
Opera House in Dallas, which is a lit
tie coop, will be used for the copven-
ton. In Houston every facility is of.
fered, and its people would make the
delegates Just as comfortable as could
be.
N. B. Forman, sheriff of Brszos
county, left Bryan two weeks ago, pre-
tending that. he was going to Kansas
to bring back some fugitiVes from JUS
tice, but the Pilot learns that he went
off with the intention not to return,
and that he has sent back his resigna-