The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-10
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Cherokee county has a holiness gan,

IN Denton county.
Rockdale is going 10 build q fine
public school building.
The people of Center are raising
funds to build college.
The largest Durham COW in Texas is
reported in Arkansas county.
There will be an immense Fourth of
July celebration at Sherman.
Daingerfeld expects to have teIe-
graph line within three months.
Brentwood is after being connected
with Waco by narrow gauge rails.
C. ]. Kloeden, of Washington coun-
ty, has been stricken with paralysis.
There is at least fourth increase in
the acreage in cotton in Rusk county.
The GreenYille Independent contains
forty-six announcements of Candidates.
The receipts of wool at San Antonio
for this season have run up to nearly
100, 900 bales.
The sinners of Waco are living in
hope of being saved by visitation of
Rev. Major Penn.
William Kuehlmenn, of San Auto-
MO, took cysnisde of potssism and
suicide was the result.
Forest Hill postoffice, in Bell county,
no longer has an existence. A depart
ment cIclone struck 1t.
Orange, lemon and olive trees, ba-
nsnas and Chinese tea plants are culti-
waited In BrazorIa county.
The cost OF borings an artesian we'll
digging an ordinary well.
Major Penn has erected tent at
Eagle Lake for his camp meeting, with
a seating capacity for 3400.
Willie Owens, a son of Drake Owens,
living near Henderson, was found uu-
der tree killed by lightning.
Temple Houston, son of the late
Gen. Sam Houston, received license to
practice law at LaGrauge last week.
Milk carts and bootblacks have ap-
peared at Orange, and its people think
the place is going TO rival New Or
leans.
The number of cattle driven through
Gonzales county this year is estimated
at $50, 900 head-30, 900 more than last
year.
An oat head, sixteen inches long,
and having over one hundred grains on
it, was recently taken from an oat field
near Kosse.
The Fourth of July is new fixed up
on to run the first train from New Or
leans tn Houston over the Texas and
New Orleans.
The Sherman cotton seed oil mill is
nearly completed, and nearly 100000
pounds of cotton seed are on hand to
begin operations with.
Gonzales county is out of debt, has
about $40, 900 in the treasury, and has
reduced the taxes to twenty-five cents
on the hundred dollars.
John Keefe, convict working on
the House plantation in Brazoria, ran
from the guard, and while swimming
Oyster creek was shot and killed.
Mrs. Hawks, who has been lecturing
at Sherman, declares that ''spiritualism
is of the DEVIL" and now it is in order
to hear from Murray, of the Denhison
Nesos. -
It is reported that the railroads run
ming to Houston contemplate leasing
the market house there for number
of years and converting it into union
depot. .
The Gonzales Enquirer says that the
religious zealot, George Butler, has
again been adjudged insane, and that
he will probably be sent back to the
asylum.
The dead body of a neatly clad youth,
about fifteen years of age, was found
on the N. Z. s. T. track, near Denison,
last Friday. No clue to his identity
has been found.
The Texas and Pacific has purchased
half interest in the East Line railroad,
and some of its officials have been add
ed to the directory. The road is to be
constructed to Mckinney.
Doctor Embree, of Bell county, has
offered to give $50, 600 to the G., G. &
s. F. railroad if other citizens will do
nate the right of way and depot
grounds to bring the road to Bolton.
Kirk Hayes, charged with murder,
at Palestine, was found guilty, and he
was given fifty years in the peniten-
tiary. The defense relied upon was in
sanity, but it was not maintained.
The large display OF Texas products
made by the I. & G. N. R. R. Co. at
the centennial exhibition at Nashville,
created lively interest in favor of
Texas among thousands of people who
were present.
And now they are apt to have no
nominating convention In the sixth
district, since the chairman has decided
he will not call it in any town where a
candidate resides. Does the chairman
want the Officer
Feeling the desperation of their
cause, the Greenbackers of Texas will
probably invite Denis Kearney and
Blanton Duncan to canvass the state.
It is thought that Mccoy has gone to
San Francisco to arrange for the pres
ence In Texas of the Sand Lot sgitator.
The Bolton Journal tells it, that the
recent survey of the line between Falls
and Bell counties very materially
changes what has heretofore been the
supposed line. Bell comes into pos
session of territory nearly two miles in
width, and about twenty miles in
length, which Falls has been deeming
it was the rightful owner of. Included
in this new acquisition is the town of
jena, which has postoffice.
Sarah L. Huff, the fve-yesr-old
daughter of Samuel Huff, was killed
by the accidental discharge of pistol
in the hands of one Wyatt. Such ac-
cidental conduct should have pun
ishment, for when men fool with old
pistols with persons about them, espe-
cially children, there should certainly
be q degree of criminality attached
to 1t.
A genuins ''goober grabber" has
turned up at Gonzales. He was green
as the pea vines, as they grow on the
old hills OF Georgia, and the boys en-
ployed him to collect drove of cats to
drive to Idaho. He entered into the
labor with zeal, and refused all other
employment, as the cat driving busl-
ness promised such magnificent results.
The people of Gonzales are interested
in the young Georgian, and are consid-
ering what had best be done with HIM.
Send him to the legislature.
Mrs. Davis, late of Bryan, and then
OF the blue waves of Galveston, wrote
to her father protesting her innocence
OF having committed any criminal &C.
ton, and expressing desire to return
tn her huahand and children McGraU