The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-11
texas FACTS AND FANuIEs.
Iefra-aon has had a 81 delivery.


been burglsrized-
The artesisn well bore at Cleburne
has descended 40 feet.
G. w. Klaeden, ~ merchant IN Bren-
ham, has committed suioide.
The Short of it is thai 400 negroes
are preparing to leeYe Shelby county.
There is vast Improvement in the
last number OF the San Marcos Free
Press.
Twenty-Five thousas9 head of cattle,
IN one herd, stampeded near Fort Nc
KeFitt.
Stockrsisers about San Antonio are
improving their stock with thorough
breds.
There is a well ct Crockett that con-
tains water only when the wind is from
the north.
A new institution OF learning is to be
established at Waxshachie, to be called
Marvin college.
The land reservation Of the Texas and
Pacific railroad is open TO presumption
by actual settlers.
There are at least one hundred and
fifty families living in tents in and
around Gainesville.
Rev. r. G.. Atkins, of Dallas conn
ty, is charged with making Illicit adj
dresses to Mrs. Lorells.
The BRENNAN Banner wants to see
Hon. J. Fl. McLeary of San Antonio
made attorney general.
The Collin county Greenbackers
have had convention and will nomi-
nate full county ticket.
II is promised that by the fifteenth
of this month the Santa Fe cars will
be rolling into BRENNAN.
- Four hundred head of stock cattle |
sold, a few days ago, in San Saba |
county, for $3.50 per head.
Mrs. Mohl, the very accomplished |
Washington correspondent of the Dali |
las Herald, is Bayard man.
In Harris county the canvass for |
county offices has opened, and the IeLe- |
gram publishes announcements.
Mr.. Charles Langhill, of Henderson,
Rusk county, claims to have invented |
a cotton press superior any one known.
There are 1872 pupils enrolled in
the Houston public free schools with |
an average attendance in February of
: 1881.
Fresh arrests have been made in
Hamilton in the Smell murder case.
Carter Kemp and Brush have been put
under bond.
A Houston and Galveston mining
company have =" struck it " in Colora-
do. The find is known as the john
Hand claim.
Brown county has had petroleum
excitement, caused, as was attempted
near Austin once, by sailing a well
with kerosene.
Arrangements have been completed
by Mr.. Paul Bremond for the immedi-
ate completion OF his road to- Living
stone, Polk county.
A gentleman refusing an offer of
marriage during leap-year is expected
to present the young lady who pro-
poses with q new dress.
John. Lanham, whose sentence was
committed by the governor, has been
conveyed to the penitentiary. His
term is ninety-nine years.
The Quill thinks the only bolt which
the Democratic party will experience
during the convention will be bolt at
times for the nearest saloon.
Four hunters lately spent two months
on the head of north Concho, in Tom
Green county, during which time they
killed only thirty buffaloes.
Jack Shields of Hunt county, is six
feet ten and half inches high and is
only twenty years old. He Is, save
one, the tallest man in Texas.
Since the advent of the new railroad
in Waxshachie, Texas, last September,
131 residences and thirty-eight business
houses have been erected there.
Owing to the thin condition OF cat
tie ea- the prairies in Western Texas it
is believed that the stock drive will be
necessarily delayed one month.
The Cooke county grand jury finds
that crime is much less prevalent than
in former years. 1t is Martins benign
influence that causes the change.
Elder Link and his friends denounce
the action OF the Baptist Association
because it recognized elder Buckner as
in good standing in the church.
A Texas Central train was ditched q
few miles south of Mexia and all the
cars were smashed up, but no one was
hurt except the express messenger.
Mr.. Ed. Loughery, in charge of
bridge construction on the Texas and
Pacific road, was thrown from a hand
car near Dallas and fatally injured.
Z. s. Gardner was found guilty in
murder of Willis Cline, and his punish
ment fixed at imprisonment for life.
Theodore Airheart, who shot Ed. |
Fletcher in Gainesville in 1877, for GRIM
inal intimacy with his wife, was tried |
and acquitted at Gainesville recently.
A dangerous form of measles pre-
walls in Grayson county. The schools
are suspended in the Cedar Mills COM
munlty, and many deaths have occur
led.
The Republicans of Leon county
elected delegates to the Austin conveu-
ton Instructed for Grant for first choice
for President and L. ]. DAVIS for Sec
ond.
The Democracy of Washington
county Will probably make no nomina-
tions for county officers. but candi-
dates viii run on their individual
merit.
Judge Abbott has passed sentence of
death on Sam II. Myers for the murder
of his stepmother in 1877. The day
of execution is March 10, at Brown
wood.
1t is reported that the storm of last
Tuesday night in portion of Grayson
county, WAS so severe that four houses
were blown down and one woman was
injured.
The first Texas cavalry regiment that
served in the Federal army during the
late war, under f. ]. Days, will hold
reunion in Austin on the twenty
fourth Of next month.
A gentleman in q ride of fifteen
miles across the praiues of Concho
county, saw not less than 900 antelope
$50 wild horses and innumerable flocks
of ducks, geese, curlew and quail.
The effort of the negro Camps to
outrage Mrs. Thornton is the ninth at
tempt in oEt-Worth of thls kind
sihce a mob was prevented from
hanging Rush Lloyd fer 3 similar Of
tense.
johnson county Greenbsckers rom
mate Stephen Dillaye, of New Jersey.
for President, and d. ]. Chambers,
tolerahly well known in their county,
for Vice President OF the United
States.
Hous. Holt is on trial at Gainesville
for the murder Of Clark S. Powers at
Pilot Point On the twenty first day Of
March. 1870. lie has been on trial
several times for murder and for other
offenses.
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