The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-08
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

McLennan county negroes do not
know whether Kansas or Liberia is
their promised land.
There is no.reason why the fig crop
Of Texas should not be one of our most
Important fruit crops.
The ounce is much esteemed and
valuable fruit, and can be easily culti-
waited in western Texas.
The Washington county poor farm
IL sill in applepie order, and the county
paupers are going to occupy ii Imme-
diateIy.
Mr.. Munro, Of Marion county, from
the " Munro grass" has made SIX tons
Of hay to the acre, and this, too, in 8
dry season.
The commissioners court of Falls
county have purchased carload Of
corn, to be distributed among desti-
tute persons.
Bryan puts in claim for the big
gest hog. 1t was two years old and
weighed 500 pounds, which lets the
Professor out.
The Brenham Banner has attained
the fourth year of its existence, and If
energy and good taste has its reward it
viii live on forever.
The Courier is unhappy about one
killing in Waller county occurring out
mde OF Hampstead. IL was HOCKEY
this time that made reputation.
But one legal hanging has ever oc-
Cured in Navarro county. The second
IS announced TO take place in Febru-
airy. John Henry being the subject.
The Banner learns that the grading
on the Santa Fe railroad from the
Yegua 20 the town OF Caldwell, Bur-
leson county, will be completed within
q month.
The climate of western Texas is ad-
mirably adapted to the almond. Plant
3 few nuts this fall on rich low land.
The trial will cost nothing and will
yield large results.
At Victoria and Indianola there are a
number of date palms in full bearing.
In well protected valleys the date will
grow JezdilSSsnd WIN yield largely in
this section of Texas.
An artesian well near Brownwood,
~ -OoV ACCt NSSpJ anu iuO duEot uao
E4ne eight hundred feet through hard
slate. The boring continues at the
rate Of four feet per day.
Sergeant Smithers and six other men,
guards for convicts, took their Christ
mas III Isusk, and carried things with
such d high hand that all the stores
and saloons had 10 be closed.
Navarro county has organized an i'm
migration society. 1t is intended to
circulate documents, and to put an
agent in the field to secure settlers.
And now what will Travis county dol
A lady and her daughter, living near
Waco, make living, and have bought
farm, by cutting and hauling cord
wood. The Telephone mentions the
case as an example to masculine loafers.
Says an exchange: 1t appears no &C
ton OF the State towards utilizing the
poor remnant of our public domain can
b iz1,eosp without raising up a host OF
~ STAT. pafSs sharp enough to foil the
rses empress.
piD;to zsk,Sge entertains high
.oh Of n VIM. Brueggerhoff,
nsh ie>Tenects upon how happy he
4ade those seventy-six blind pupils,
and the ninety odd Teutonic sprigs II
the German-American school.
d. A. Smith, of Johnson's Bayou,
East Texas, has half acre of ground al
an orange grove, and last year his profits
from his oranges amounted to five hun.
dred dollars. A thousand dollars pei
acre should satisfy anyone, yet Texas
orange groves are very rare.
Tho body of young American wal
found near Marion. A bullet hole il
the forehead Indicated that he haC
been murdered. The deceased haG
been in San Antonio a few days pre-
Yious, and stated that he was farming
between Marion ana Seguin.
A baby, only few weeks old, wa
found wrapped upIn shawls and blank
Its inca thicket near Whitesborro
Kind people took in the little wsif
and saved it from the wretched dealt
that would have been meeted out to i
BY an unnatural and brutal mother.
party of juveniles were plsyin;
volcano al San Antonio with powder
loaded bottle. They buried it in tn,
earth with fire about it when present.,
the youngest and most enthusiastic o
the set lost part of his vlsage, snC
then went howliD0 after his mamma
Col. Peeler replies to Gen. Lewis
malicious attack upon my character
IN column advertisement in the Dial
las Herald Commercial Col. P. quote
poetry twice, and now If Gen. L. will
nsf run off into blank verse, the live
81 two most valuable public men ma,
be saved to Texas.
Dick Hardeman, Texas desperate,
vas killed by party of twenty men a
Lincoln, N. M. He was Tom Walker
Of McMullen county, who fled thu
State FOR the murder of man at Cor
pu8 Chflsti, and FOR a murderous as
eaut on enc Carter, at Buffalo Gap
Iaylor county. He died with his boot
on.
The persimmon is peculiarly south
ern fruit, and no Texas farm should b
considered complete unless few choic
persimmon trees are planted in favor
able locality on il. North Carolinan
should know this, and Georgians tina
.goobersn grow well enough in tn
rich soils of Texas to make excelien
grahbiug.n
The Houston 7slegram says that 8
Rosenberg Junction, where the Sun
set and Santa Fe roads intersect eacl
other, the latter road took away fror
The former a whole carload of Calves
ton bound passengers. The reason is
The Santa Fe road is two hours shorte
than via the Sunset and Galveston
Harrisburg and Henderson route.
The Fort Worth Dsmovat, unde
The hesd of personals, says Horac
Tong, Of Kansas is autographed fo
breakfast at the FL Paso,n and tina
Mr.. Smith removes the s'snpeIflous mus
cnlsr tissue OF the bovine from its an
moving proximity to his dental devel
epnents with 50 Fl Paso tooth pick,
and the notices so through quartz
Of column, and the main object seem
= b 70 advertise hotel.
Two years $50 old man Daniel I
Alexander WAS convicted of murder i
She 6fet degree, and the punishment
vac committed 10 imprisonment "a
life. When he committed the deed
IVES IN the prime OF life, but whe
c9nvicfed 90 years later, he was oil
md mfrm, and but little was left Q
st1 once vigorous murderer. He she
krd killed Aikard in Lamar county
whsle AikaFd was irving boards. Gal
enc witness saw the deed done an
HAT Ua1 Aiksrd's Little boy. Alexar