The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-03
TEXAS FACTs AND PANCIEs.


ing many sinners.
Rev. Msjor Penn has roped in near
ly every siEner of Bryan.
New oats are worth from 35 TO 40
cents per bushel at Fort Worth.
Rev. Major Penn will conduct q
campmeeting at Sslsdo in August.
The Gonzales county oat crop turns
out from fifty to eighty bushels per
acre.
The oat crop IN Freestope county is
the largest and finest ever raised in that
section.
The citizens OF Rockdale are moving
in the direction of public school
building.
Il is said there are oatfieIfs about
San Marcos that will yielt 100 bush
els to the acre.
An IRON mountain long known in
Lisno county, has ore yielding fully 80
pr cent of iron.
The farmers OF Houston county have
formed an agricultural and stock rais-
ing association.
Trans over the Texas and Pacific
extension will run through to Weather
foatAy June lst.
The Rockville Tribune COMPLAINS,
like the STATESMAN, of the character of
local census enumeraters.
The worm has destroyed whole
! fields of cotton in Bosque county. The
ground has been replented.
The Baptists have jnst finished and
had dedicated splendid church
building at Elm Grove, in LavAca
county.
The mustang grape cropin some por-
tons OF the state will be small. In
Travis county the crop was almost to-
tally destroyed.
w. J. Hawkins, charged with the
murder, in Dallas county, of Baxter 81.
Bell, has been at last admitted to bail
in the sum OF $4,000.
From all.parts of the state the intel
ligence comes that the range is excel
lent, and stock of ell kinds on the
prairies are getting fat
Griner & Woodruff, wool growers,
are shipping at San Antonio $50, 900
pounds OF wool direct to Philadelphia.
Texas prices do not suit them.
In Henderson two negroes got tn
wooling each other about a pisl oil,
when the thing went of and olsen
numbered the earth of one of them
r. H. Barrett, once merchant of
Houston, is reported to have blown
mis- brains oct with a pistol in New
Orleans.
An Ell Paso onion. raised on Capt.
Johu. DIx's place near San Diego, was
presented to the Corpus Christi Free
Press. which measured fye inches in
diameter.
Hon. J. Ii. McLeafy will deliver the
welcome address, and II. B. Andre VS.
the grafton at the meeting of the state
firemen's ASSOCIATION at San Antonio on
/ the 9th of June.
Galveston has sixteen-yesr old
young lady who IS practiced in the art
of bost-rowing. She has expressed a
willingness to 60 out upon the water
with any female competitor.
The interstate regatta on Highland
bayou twelve miles from Galveston, re-
quilted in victory for the Louisiana
boys, who took all the prizes excepting
one where only one scull made the
race.
For copyrights and stereotype plates
OF Texas reports belonging to the es-
tate of E. II. Cushing, W. ]. Gilbert
6 Co., of St. Louis, paid 1913. s05. 80,
about the sum necessary 10 have new
plates made.
Judge VIM. Chambers, First Dis
trIct; j. e.. Tracy, Second District !;
E. Fl. Terrell and A. Seimering, Sixth
District, and Wright Cuny, color ID,
Fifth District, left Houston together
for the Chicago Convention.
Kaufman s. Runge, of Galvest, n,
seeing the growing demand for it, will
soon establish line of emigrant stes m
ers between Bremen and Galveston.
The ships will bring emigrants TO
Texas ana carry cotton to Europe.
Mr.. Langbine, with his wife and two
children, went To Kerrville in wagon.
He left his family in the wagon on the
street and the team ran away and seri-
ously injured all three, the youngest
child, it was thought, fatally.
Mrs. II. B. Graham, murdered by
Indians in Bass canyon while on the
way to Arizona, was not long ago Miss
Maggie Lyttle, daughter of Mr.. Bryce
LYttle, of Frio. She wac regaI led
with great esteem by her girlhood ac-
qusintsnces.
A New York correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, mentions among rail-
road transactions of interest to Texas,
that money is about to be secured for
finishing the old graded line of railway
between Columbus, on the Brszos, to
Wharton on the Colorado.
Miss Sue Peacock, Gen. H. P. Bee,
Dan Bennett and Max Neuendorf have
received commissions as census enuiaer-
ators for Bexar county. A few ladies
appointed for Austin would have been
an improvement on the minor portion
OF the Austin enumerating corps.
NJ. H. McCuistisn, Jr., of Red River
county, has been discovered in large
swindhDg transactions, such as forg-
ing bills of lsding for cotton, on which
he secured money from banks, on forg-
ed notes used by him, and on forged
bond for $4,000. Toe forgery trsnsac-
tions amount to SO, 600 to $50, 900.
There seems to be practically no
limit to the productiveuess of Texas
soil. q gentleman of San Antonio Is
talking OF planting fax, to- produce
linseed OIL and lint. The prairles in
the neighborhood are covered with a
species of wild fax, and it is believed
the proposed enterprise could easily be
made to succeed.
A motion for rehearing in the case OF
Hubby, of Milan, convicted of MUIR
der, has been filed in the Court OF APP.
pesl', which will prevent his being
sentepced until the.next term. II has
not been great while since tie Court
of Appeals affirmed the decision CT the
lower court in this case. There seems,
practically, to be no end TO the laws
delay.
The Cleburne CkroRiele boasts ss fol-
lows: ''Lswis Coon, Of Grsndview,
says he will harvest this season, the
fourth crop.of volunteer oats from the
same piecs OF ground. It is thought
the present crop will yield 100 bushels
per acre. II the valley of the Nile Of
any other valley on the face of the
earth csn beat this section for oats wi
would be pleased to hear from it. !"
In April the earnings of the Texsi
4 Central railway smounted 10 $247