The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-18
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIES.

Horse thieves infest portions of
Washington county.
On the 10th wool sold in San An
tonic as high as 26tc.
Flatonia ships about 1900 bales
of cotton this season.
The cattle shipping business at
Gainesville is immense.
Boy horse thieves have been Ope-
rating at San Antonio.
Wellborn, for congress, got 5000
majority in Collin county.
4. A. Wolf, dry goods merchant
of San Antonio, has failed.
A man recently died in San An
| tonic from cotton worm poison.
A boiler at Oakville exploded and
seriously iajured three persons.
Mrs. Ellis obtained the order OF
court giving her children to her.
Bledsoe was elected district judge
over Brown by majority of $50.
The town of Paris gave Hancock
4S4 votes, Garfield POI and Weaver
So.
The commissioners court of Colo
RADIO county are "'alf an 'alf" i'll
color.
The North Texas conference of the
NJ. E. Church South is now in session
at Dallas.
Judge Woods, ofthe United States
circuit bench, has opened court at
San Antonio.
The Greenbackers of Lamar coun-
ry made a complete failure with
their county ticket.
The Dallas grand jury has found
indictments against twenty-fournon-
tax-paying drummers.
A McLennan county farmer has
this year made 120 bales of cotton off
of $50 acres of ground.
A great deal of cotton will be lost
in Colorado county in consequence
of the scarcity of pickers.
Major Penn has saved Dallas, and
now he is going to pickle down
Houston souls in salvation.
The people of Bolton expect to
excurt to Galveston over the Santa
Fe railway about Christmas.
Tyler is to have gas works. A
Joint stock company. has been organ
lied for the purpose of building them
Ed. Terrell, contractor on the
Central extension near Dublin, was
robbed of $1,000 in silver the other
day.
Major Penn's ministrAtions at
Dallas have proven religious boz
nanZa to the Baptist church in that
city.
Rev. &C. Chaplin's house at f,ren-
ham was robbed of much of that
which the psrson loves well-eata-
bles.
On the 10th, about the fourth day
after epizooty broke out in Dallas,
near one hgnhred horses had died of
the disease,
A horse violently attacked with
the Opizooty, in Dallas, was immedi-
ately cured by the use of snuff placed
in his nostrils.
\ moving circular saw in the Eagle
mills at Beaumont broke, and fly
ing fragment severely injured Ike
Duffcy, laborer.
The perfect inefiectiveness Of the
Houston fire department was shown
the other day when cotton was burn
ing at the compress.
Polk Gillen was fatally shot at
Taylor by Ben Arlington. The
shoOtist is safely quartered.. in the
Williamson county Jail.
The bank loss by robbery at DIAL
las was small. The robbers did not
reach tho money deposits and bonds
before the alarm was given.
Ben. Milam's grave, at San Anto-
MO, is marked by a rough stone slab
by the roadside, and wagons drive
over a portion of the grave.
The negro who murdered Adams
at Hampstead, had lately served out
a five years. sentence in the poniten-
tiary for killing another white man.
\ violent form of epizootic has
attacked the horses in Dallas. Fiji
teen of them died in that city on
the 9Th. The disease kills in a few
hours.
Another ship has reached Calves
ton direct from Bremen with lot of
German Immigrants, who go to
Schulenberg, San Antonio and
Huntsville.
\ pelican measuring eight feet
six inches across the wings was kill
ed near Marlin last week. Its pouch
when stuffed could hold nearly half
bushel of bran.
1t is reported from Washington
that Gen. E. o. Ord's retirement is
anticipated, and that Col. n. Miles,
of the fifth infantry, will be promot-
ed to the vacancy.
Edgar Hightower of Marshall,
while engaged with the shrriff in
trying to Quell q riot among some
negroes, received dangerous pistol
shot wound in the head.
The boiler at the cotton seed oil
mill at Bryan exploded Tuesday
and several men were seriously in
jured. Jere Nichols, the foreman,
is dead, and others may not live.
An Englishman is at San Antonio
looking after Texas horses to be
shipped TO the other side of the At
lantic. Another is talking of ship
ping Texas hay in the same direction.
While o. A. Seward and l.. A.
Hodge, of Washington county, were
attending a party in Burleson coun-
ty, row was raised and it ended in
Seward being stabbed several times
by Hodge.
Guthrie McDougal, Michael Kav-
anaugh and Bob Thornton, cOlcred,
and Jack Nichols, injured by the
explosion of the oil mill at Bryan,
are dead. Jack Champion is not ex-
pected to live.
\ fire in tbs yard of the new cot
ton compress at Houston has de-
stroyed outright about 200 bales of
cotton and damaged about 500 more
The loss is about $4,000. Covered
by insurance.
The terrible horse disease al Dali
las may be conveyed over the state
by the moving of horses from the
races which occur at Dallas next
week. 1t is a serious question and
comes home to US.
An ice factory, says the NeIcS, will
be in operation in Denison inside of
ninety days. From present indica-
tions il may be in even less time than
this. A very cold spell is apt to oc-
cur about Christmas.
p. III. Ellis of Dallas county has
been judged insane, and has been
sent TO the asylum. The poor man
has the splitting mania, believing that
he has been fed upon ground glass.
and that he is thus relieving himself
of it.
Jim Conway of Longview has
been carrying a conical ball in his
thigh for sixteen years. He has
lately suffered much in consequence
of il. and Mt last it has worked to
the surface, and he has been relieved
of il.