The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-02
TEXAS FACTS AND FANcIES.


Many persons are settling in Tay-
lor county.
Athens has 400 inhabitants and
four saloons.
j. r. Davis, of Dallas, has struck
it rich near Leadville.
The hot weather in North Texas
is destroying the boil worm.
j. N. Mastron, district and county
clerk at Fort Griffin, is dead.
In Lamar county 5000 votes were
pOlled at the primary election.
Grading has commenced on the
East Texas railroad at Beaumont.
There are now 2126 conylcts in the
hands of the penitentiary lessees.
The population of Montague coun-
| ty in 1870 was $50; now it is 11,309.
The Buckner-Link Baptist diff
| Guilty at Dallas is about to break out
again.
Horse stealing is just now the
most lively occupation about Fort
Worth.
In the southern and western coun-
ties there are no boil worme re-
ported.
Wright wants to take poison and
cheat the gallows. He is closely
watched.
A road from Dallas to Fort Smith,
Ask, is beginning to be largely
talked of.
The cotton crop in Lamar county
has already been cut off one-third by
boil worms.
The Patron says that about Crock
EFT nothing has yet damaged the
cotton crop.
In Navarro and Limestone coun-
ties the boil worm is doing much
damage to the cotton.
The school at Salado promises to
prosper. 1t is proposed to ask the
next Legislature to establish nor
NAL school at that point.
The Colorado river was fifteen
feet above low water mark at CO.
lumbus on the twenty-fifth.
The Colorado county crops are
most satisfactory, but there is much
sickness of bilious nature.
The effort for the communication of
Burk's sentence at Waco has been
continued, but he will hang.
Gen. John j. Good is the candi-
date opposing the reelection of
Thurmond as mayor of Dallas.
The Touring mills at Paris are run
ming on full time and have no diff
Guilty in getting full supply of
wheat.
1t is reported that the railway be-
tween Houston and New Orleans
will be opened on Monday, the 90th
instant.
Lemp's beer house at Fort Worth
was burned, but the beer was saved.
and beer consumption is therefore
greater.
Houston has a crazy negro who
calls himself the governor of Texas.
He promulgates the theories of the
Telegram.
A negro in Fort Worth has been
fasting ten days for 1925 per day.
He engages to do what DIR. Tanner
did for $500.
A party of Eastern capitalists are
looking over the route, to decide if
they will build a road from Denison
to Sabine Pass.
A large quantity of walnut logs
have lately been shipped to Calves
ton from the interior of the state,
for expectation.
John Silmap, noted cattle thief
and desperado, has been arrested by
the rangers at Fort Davis. He is in
Jail at COmanche.
Miss Rives expects to return from
New York next February with an
opera troupe that win visit the prin-
cipal cities of Texas.
"A fourteen-year-old son of Mr..
Bean. of Sherman, was attempting
to ride calf, which threw him, the
fall causing his death.
Rosalie Lawrence, a fraii girl;
committed suicide in her lovers
room ut Denison. by shooting her
self through the brain.
The NJ, X g. T. railway is to be
run from WhitesboTro TO Dallas.
Gould is thus moving in his connec-
ton towards New Orleans.
San Antonio cares so well for the
poor and the sick that other commu-
mites are charged with sending the
destitute and dependent there.
Some of the finest looking cotton
| in Grayson county viii not make but
one bale to ten or twelve acres. oW-
ing to the ravages of the boil worm.
Ex-United States Marshal Cosmos,
charged With obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses, Is tryingto starve
himself to death u the Brenham
jail.
One bale to four acres Is the Is
innate on the cotton crop in Ellis
counfV, Before the boil worm ap-
peared the promise was bale &C
! the acre.