The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-28
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.
Black jaundise .issrspsEledz in the

| at Il.
Castroville has a cotton gin with
all the latest improved machinery.
Three hundred bushels of pccans
were brought into Fort Worth on
the 21st. --- -..i
August Hodde. charged with
murder has been tried and acquitted
at Brennan. =
Judge b. r. Thomas, Texas vet
eran. whose home was at Chapel
Hill, is dad. ..r
Five hundred and fifty bales OF
cotton were received at Waxahachie
on the Goth.
Four cases Of felony against Geo
A. Haswell, at Hampstead, have
been dismissed. rTtf
Taylor Morris, farmer, near Bias
trOp. had his arm cut up by the saws
of his cotton gin.
| Hons. o. l.. j. Storey and j. II. Me-
Leary address the people of Co
manche on the 23d. f-
Twenty-three physicians attended
the North Texas district medical
convention at Paris.
Gen. j. b. Jones stopped few
days at Corsicana on his way 10 in
spect posts and troops.
Seventy-one thousand dollars
worth of cotton changed hands in
Fort Worth on the 21st.
The Southern Pacific railroad
party was at the terminus of the
Texas and Pacific on the Goth.
The LlanO county records have
been destroyed by fire, supposed TO
be the work of an incemdiary.
"Lombriz," the new sheep disease,
is killing great many sheep in the
southwestern portion of the state
The Examiner wants a state re-
formatory institution, and would
have punitory laws better enforced.
John Henry Brown, of Dallas. has
been showing up the record Of A.
B. Norton, the maligner of Texans.
Jessie Evans, the notorious out
law. was sent to the penitentiary for
ten years from Preside county for
robbery. p
On the 21st, at Waco, Judge Nc
CormicE adjourned the United
States district court until after the
election. .......
Gnat Curious took the people of
Liberty Hill by storm in a labored
speech of one hour and half. He
is ten-striker.
The Texas and Pacific railway was
completed to Eastland On the 18TH.
Tracklaying goes on at the rate of
one mile day.
William Baxter and Ed. Davis.
while playing Il game at Orange.
got into dispute, resulting in the
Immediate killing of Davis.
Persons claiming to know state
that Boyd Ellis, concerned i'll the
shooting of George Gleason, was in
San Antonio few days ago.
AT Laredo, Jesus Reise. Mexican
siXty-five years old, was convicted
of rape on six year old girl, and
he is condemned to die tor it. r..
The 7. and p. Railroad Company
will have town to be called Abe
line, six miles west of Eastland. d It
viii be cattle shipping point.
Gonzales has been struck with the
railroad fever. 1t wants the Morgan
road extended from Cuero and is
willing TO aid in the enterprise.
Col. G. S. Longcope, an old citi-
zen of Houston. is no more. He
seventy eight years old. and settled
nj Houston thirty-fivc years ago.
The work of building the jetties
at Galveston entrance is gong on,
and Major Mansfield counts on OBJ
tanning twenty-five feet of water.
The Post tells it that Col. Lang
has gone to Europe. lie was in the
office yesterday, looking
as happy as could be- The Post is
always. correct. --. .4E45 s-..t-
At the Republican rally in Bren-
ham to-day there will be present as
speakers y. j. Evans, VIM. Holland,
William Wallace, Julius Schultze
and \. ". Quincy.
The murder of a negro woman by
another negro woman is reported
near Calvert. n dirk was used and
the blade penetrated the heart. Ar
rest has been made.
d, ID. Pearson, farmer, who had |
been to Ennis selling cotton. was
halted near Ennis. while returning !
home ct night. and was relieved Of |
several hundred dollars.
The failure to place the flag on
the Capitol at half mast, in respect
to the memory of Judge Duval, was
not, as the Longview Era says. the
fault of Governor Roberts.
An artesian well for the Pierce
railway ID being bored ten miles to
the eastward of San Antonio. 1t is
expected that q flow Of water will
be reached within 500 feet.
Two farmers in McLcnnan county,
named Howard and Calvin, had a
dispute about calves drinking wa
ter, and it ended in fight, in which
was instantly killed.
Owing 10 two Democratic candi-
dates and two other white candi-
dates for the legislature, in Guada-
.upe and Caldwell counties. negro
named Walker may be elected. 81
And now it turns out that Brother
Penn failed to effect reconciliation
between the Linkites and the Buck
nerites at Dallas. Why can not these
dwell together in peace?
Mr.. E. p. Smith, son of Capt. Tom
Smith, who was killed at Tyler by
4 railway train, has been appointed /
and has qualified as clerk of the
Court of Appeals, succeeding his
father. E....
Corn is selling at Bastrop for thir-
" cents u nushel. At some points
N North TeXas twenty cents is paid.
Prices at Austin will probably keep
up until the rush of cotton picking
S over.
Mrs. Alleys babe, in Lamar coun-
y, got its legs in the fire and they
we're burned TO a crisp as high up as
he knees. The child seems not to
suffer, and has never cried. but it
AN hardly live.
Ed. Richardson, of Arkansas. has
been arrested at Dallas for recent
murder at Grand Junction. Tennes-
zee. He was arrested for offering to
PAWN lot ofwomen's and children's
apparel for drink.
In the Marshall county Republican
Henry Moore. ,olored.
vas nominated for the state senate
md Peter Choice, colOred. for rep
Shack Roberts was the
opponent of Moore.
Hurley. q merchant AT Cause. was II
90 much married. He had a wife
md children in Tennessee. and a
wife at Cause. and one night two !,
zig brothers of the Tennessee wife
'ut in an appearance in the little
own, and Hurley Immediately left
wife No. > for new fields. where
here NAV be manageable misses.