The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-19

New corn sold at Waco the other
day af fifteen cents per bushel.
New corn is selling at from % to
40 cents per bushel in Bell county.
A man was badly bitten by a rabid
mule in Marion county, last week.
A band of twelve or fifteen young
desperadoes infest Wilson county.
Eighty Irish potatoes raised in
Brazoria county. weigh sixty pounds.
One farm in Parker county has
raised this year 5000 bushels of
wheat.
They are having lots of fun up
about Denison hunting jack-rabbits
with greyheunds.
At Gonzales the post master runs
an ice cream saloon in connection
with the post office shop.
Worms have injured cotton badly
in Wharton county, so that es-
Inmates now reckon ON only half a
crop.
The railroad from New Orleans 10
Houston will be completed on the
2Oth of this month. The distance is
362 miles.
The first bale of new cotton
brought into Corsicana last week,
was sold at auction for one hundred
dollars.
The property of the Gulf Coast
Fair Association, at Victoria, has
been sold under deed of trust by
the sheriff, bringing $1,000.
Twenty bales of new cotton have
been shipped from Columbus. Cot
ton worms are plenty in that section
and planters are killing them.
In Brown county rain continues.
and cotton is as fine as can be. Some
complaint of the worm, but as yet
they have done but little damage
The cotton worm is gaining alarm
ing neadway up about Comanche,
and the crop will be greatly dam
aged. The boil worm is also doing
some damage.
4 vicious dog attacked n young
lady near Sherman. Wednesday and,
but for the assistance of parties near
by, she would have undoubtedly suf-
fered fatal injuries.
On Sunday negro boy by the
name of Maxwell passed through
DenisOn in a wagon. He was coal
black, but his hair was prematurely
grey, being almost white.
4 little child ut Houston was
bitten on the foot by centiped last
Tuesday and for time it's life was
in great danger, the leg swelling
badly, but it will recover.
\ public meeting has been called
at Corpus Christi to devise plan of
operations for reopening the arte-
sian well at that city. The old well
has caved and requires to be bored
out and new tubing placed in it.
The surveyors ON the LaGrange
branch have about completed the
work of laying off and cross sec
tioning the road bed from the end
of the old grade to this point. The
work of grading is not being pushed
forward rapidly.
l. The Gainesville Sam contains ac-
counts of two deaths from rattle
snakes in Coryell county. One, a
little boy of three years, died IN a
few hours from the bite; the other,
little girl, who died the next morn
ing after the bite.
Levi Garner, a colOred man, cul-
tivating part of Haywood Hughes
farm, eight miles from Bolton, de-
serves more than a passing notice.
During the last few years he has given
himself good education and is re-
markably proficient in drawing and
penmanship. Working about sixty
acres Of land he has only had time
to study on Sundays and nights.
The two men, COlbaugh and Sauls-
bury, arrested at San Antonio. on a
charge made by a negro, Wash
Green, that they had attempted to
rob him on the highway, were re-
leased yesterday. No evidence
whatever was brought to bear to
justify the charge of Green, the ne
gro. 1t is believed that all Green's
statements were false and I'M
founded.