The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-29
TEXAS FACTS AND fANCIEs.


Robertson county farmers are dismal
over the loss OF pork occasioned by the
warm weather.
The line OF the Texas and Pacific has
been fixed about thirteen miles south
Of Pale Pinto.
The Tribune has news of railroad
project which has Decatur for its OBJ
jecfive point.
District Judge Fleming, of Western
Texas, will resign and go into the dry
goods business.
Wheat crops in Ersth, Hill, Johnson
and Ellis counties are reported in ex-
eellent condition.
A miserable thief stole the Bible and
wster pitcher from the Methodist
church ct Navasota.
Bellville is improving rapidly, and
win be good business point as soon
ns the railroad reaches 1t.
In Arkansas county, since the late
rains, grass has grown several inches,
and the range Is excellent.
Confederate $50 bills, smeared with
green ink, have been lately passed on
grsenies in McLennan county.
Dock Finlay OF Hill county, who
was accidentally shot at wagon yard
in Waco, died of his wounds.
The Jenkins brothers, who killed
Jack Mcdonald recently, near Bastrop,
have been held to bail in $4,000.
The citizens OF San Antonio have
held 6 meeting at which measures were
taken to encourage immigration.
A man named Eden was crushed be-
tween the cars at Parsons the other
night and died in few minutes.
The BRENNAN Sentinel has been re-
Yived, and is printed from bran new
type and conducted with ability.
Nueces county has more sheep than
any other county in the state, the clip
this year reaching 30, 900 pounds.
The rsins have been general, and
hope and confidence reign sthrough-
out the rural districts of the state.
From the first of September to the
first of January, the Denison Com
press pressed SO, 276 bales of cotton.
The exodus business still RACES up
about Dallas. Sunday thirty-five for
lorn negroes left that place for Kansas.
Miss Lille B. johnson, the daughter
Of DR.. e. P. johnson, of Marshall, was
married last night to ]. Ellis, of Paris,
Texas.
Calvert has q colored military COM
pany, and the citizens over there are
anxious for the exodus fever to strike
that place.
DR.. A. 81. Wilson, charged with
malpractice and the death of Mrs. Nc
Mahan, in Hamilton county, has been
acquitted.
In San Antonio, under Its new char
ter, the council elects all city officers
except mayor, recorder and street COM
missioner.
Major Mcdonald, who was shot in
the difficulty lately reported in the
lower portion of Bastrop county, has
since died.
Fifty thousand acres of land In
Parker and Palo counties have been
purchased by French capitalist for
colonization purposes.
Mr.. Ben. Longley, formerly of this
city, and now living in San Saba, had
his right arm broken close to the Shout
der joint two weeks ago.
A negro attempted a rape on Mexi-
can girl at San Antonio, and being re-
sisted, struck her on the head with q
stone, fracturing her skull
gressional district Judge Andrews,
pronounced Republican, is to have
charge Of the census taking.
II. v. Adrlock, of Corsicans, impli-
Gated by Ham in the land fraud BUSH
ness, says he never saw or heard of
Ham before the latter's arrest.
The champion horses of Western
Texas, Rover and Billy, will run at Go
lad to-day. It is to be q match race
four hundred yards for $500 side.
The Odd Fellows of Dallas are pre-
paring to feast and entertain the dele
gates to the Grand Lodge, which con-
venes there on the second of next
month.
The blessed village of Victoria is all
agog over bear shooting that is to
take place at Cuero on the twenty
seyonth, and will go over in body to
witness 1t.
A. 81. Stevens, sixty-three years of
age, and much respected citizen of
Sherman, committed suicide at Sher-
man In consequence of domestic infe-
LEFTY.
John Deigleman, the murderer of
Antoine Stahl in Dallas county, has
been arrested by officers of Denton
county. Both men were German
farmers.
The body of the man found in Elm
Fork OF the Trinity, has been identified
as that of j. C.. Hadden. q travelling
agent Of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine Company.
Dispatches announce the death at
Bremen Of Mr.. Julius Kaufman of the
firm Of Kaufman s. Runge, Galveston.
Mr.. Kaufman had been doing business
in Galveston since 1889.
The Bolton Journal is against the
tW0-thirds rule in nominating conven-
tons. II advises that primaries IN Sc
lechng delegates instruct them either
for or against the two-thirds rule.
A little child of Mr. w. B. Brack,
an attorney of Sherman, q year and q
half ole, fell into 9 tub of water and
WAS drowned, in the absence Of the
unhappy parents, on Sunday last.
An exchange says: 'Tt has trans
pired that the speaker Of the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives OF this
state, and the chairman of the Rspub-
hcan State Committee are brothers.
W. b. Wilson, supposed to be one
Of the highway robbers that have been
operating near Waco lately, was ar
rested last week in Limestone county,
and is having an investigating trial at
Waco.
The Rockport Transcript says that
dnrng the cold snap Christmas week
hundreds of red fish and trout were
frozen to death. This smscks some
what of other fish stories We have
picard Of.
There is boat on Red River, north
Of Bonham, which contains saloon.
This saloon pays no Incense and claims
10 be subject to no law on the plea that
d is neither In Texas nor the Indian
Territory.
Some one up about Marshall, Texas,
proposes to make that place "a port OF
entry for the immense trans-continental
trade Of japan and Chins.r aud Mar
shall is happy and beni gnly smiles
upon is less favored sister cities.
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