The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-04
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Lloyd, colored, charged with rap
ing Mrs. Upton, at Fort Worth, has
been acquitted.
4 year old child of Mr.. James
Gage, of Hill county, died from the
effects of a tick bite.
a young man. named Joseph
Hart. was murdered by highwaymen
near Rio Grande city on the 22d.
The Sunset road. it is about set
tied, will go to Eagle Pass, and the
Southern Pacific. it appears, is work
ing in furtherance of tho enterprise
The rails on the International be-
yond San Marcos are all to be of
steel. 1t is proposed to build the
road to the Rio Grande by the end
of 1882.
j. 5. Penn, bookseller of San An
tonic, and late of Austin, has made
an assignment. Shelby Carpenter,
of Guadalupe county, has been
made assignee. Liabilities $1,000,
assets $4,000.
VS.. Price, of Hill county, whom
Mrs. Mollie Ellis charges with hid
! ing out her daughters. consented to
90 and get them and turn them over
to their mother He has gone TO
fulfill the promise.
w. &. Adams, while travelling in a
wagon near Dhanis, October q. fell
dead. He had called friend whom
he was passing, and was in the act
of getting out of his wagon at the
! time of his death.
The Marlin Bal says that it is ru-
mored that the Falls county Lder
is to be changed into religious pa
per, as its editor has been on the
stool of repentance ever since TIN
Greenback convention.
The mortal remains of Prof. Boil
have been brought to Dallas for in
terment. Great honors were paid
to the deceased. He died far out
upon the frontier, while absent on q
scientific exploring expedition.
A tramp following the Barnum
show was arrested at Columbus for
breaking the safe of Carlton &
Whitfield in Columbus. He came
near getting away with $500. and
was lodged in Jail and then made
his escape.
Orders have been issued by the
Postotfice Department to place the
railway mail service on the newly
completed Louisiana Western rail
road fromV ermillionville, Louisiana,
to Orange, Texas. This service is to
begin on the 1st of November.
One hundred and thirty Spaniards
lately came across the Atlantic to
New Orleans in the steamship Teu-
tonia. A number of them landed
| at Havana and the rest came on to
Texas. There were nearly $50 Eug-
fish and Germans, who came to Tex
as on the same ship.
+. w. Fay played upon the credul-
ity of friends at Bolton, proposing
to make his home there and abide
the result of suit, and thus he secured
bondsmen. Now he has departed,
and as delightful memento he left
a nice note, promising his bondsmen
that in the sweet by-and-by he
would see them repaid.
| And now, since the Galveston,
| Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
| Company can not induce Waco or
some other place to substitute it
more literally, comparatively, than
| Cleburne and Fort Worth, it is set
tied that the road will run to Gle
burne. The next place that must
bleed is not yet named.
Pedro Gaiuno. an old Mexican who
fought for Texas independence, and
who was badly wounded at the
storming of Bexar, died the other
day, at San Antonio, of old age, and
in destitute circumstances. He was
a brave and a true man, but poor,
and therefore only his immediate
family followed him to the grave.
G. NJ. Sargent and Mr.. Embree,
who had been to Waco selling cot
ton, were made to disgorge at night,
on the Gainesville road, not great
distance from Waco. Two other
farmers were robbed ON the same
road the same night. The work
went on in the same locality and in
the same way last year.
A new and fatal horse disease has
appeared at Waco. The animals
sicken with something like blind
staggers, and nothing tried has
given relief The Examiner says they
were completely paralyzed on one
side of the body. The best veter-
| mary surgeons examined them, but
could do nothing to cure.
Evangelist Penn struck his tent at
Dallas, and has fed from the city as
from a pest house. Shaking the dust
of the ungodly place from off his
feet and remembering the fate of
Mrs. Lot. sped away to more sympa-
least one out of twenty-four hours
devoted to the service of Bealzebub
The committee in charge of the
excursionists who are to go to New
Orleans announce that the. St.
Charles Hotel needs some repairs.
and that the excursion will be post
poned till November. The st.
Charles ought to be repaired, and
the delay is good. Let the occa-
sion be postponed until after frost,
and then it will be properly re-
sponded to by innocent Texans.
Now that Nat Q. Henderson, says
the Telephone, has good prospect
of being elected to the legislature,
some of the papers have got to styl-
ing him Colonel" Nat will please
remember that the Telephone always
treated him respectfully; that it
never spelt his name "Gnat," and
wrung in the Q. as Spurious that
is, hardly ever-and that it spoke a
good word for his nose when other
papers alluded to that useful nasal
organ as locomotive headlight.
Dallas Times: ..The scene at Mr..
PENIS pavilion, during the heavy
wind last evening, as described to
our reporter by a friend present,
was most awkward and terribly
mixed one. The audience rushed
pell-mell from under the tent
and against the barbed wire
fence surrounding it, where, of
, course, they halted. Hats flew
, in every direction, and it was
with great difficulty that the ladies
/ could retain their wrappers. Par
| ents seized their children and Young
/ gallants seized their .sweethearts,
and the latter were as happy as the
: former were anxious. The scene.
: certainly, was a very conglomerated
/ one, enjoyable on the one hand and
/ detestable on the other."
y private letter to a gentleman in
Galveston from teacher at Bayland
Orphan Home says: 1--WE have q
great deal of sickness here, in fact
almost a hospital, though we have