The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-06
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIRs.

Denison had big fire on the TWEEN
ty-fourth.
The Post 'sfreezes to" Frost for
comptroller.
i B. L. Keiffer, an old citizen of Cas-
troville, is no more.
Work on the new oil mills at Hous-
on has been begun.
The Standifer murder case at Cole
man resulted In acquIttal.
Leander Cannon, of Galveston, has
been stricken with paralysis.
| Small insects with black heads are
injoring wheat in San Saba county.
In Fort Bend county crop prospects
are better than for fifteen years past.
In boring the artesisn we'll at Corsi-
cana strata of hot water was di6cov-
cred.
Major Penn is making terrible in
roads npon the band of sinners at
Bryan.
The second Texas volunteer regi-
ment will meet at Bryan to elect field
officers.
And now the Currie farce is to be
begun anew at Marshall on the tenth
Of June.
Mrs. Stuart, wife of DR.. Stuart, of
Houston, is dead. She was Miss Ellen
NJ. Dart.
William Wright. an escaped convict,
disguised in female attire, was arrested
at Hockey.
Alfred Muckle, cotton factor st Gal
weston, failed, owing to his specnla-
tions in futures.
For corn, wood and coal for the
posts, Fl. B. Adams, of San Antonio,
gets seven contracts.
The International engineers have run
line from San Antonio to the Rio
Grande, distance of 100 miles.
Regular passenger trains have COM
menced running between BRENNAN and
Galveston oyer the Santa Fe railway.
On the night of the twenty-eighth
San Antonio was visited by severe
thunder storm and torrents of rain.
The wheat crop about Lancaster, In
Dallas county, has been seriously dam
aged by both rust and the chlnch bug.
Ex-Governor Davis has lately visited
Laredo, where he resided many years
ago. He made speech while there.
A lamp filed with what is known as
INSURANCE oil" exploded in Hous-
ton street car. This is tie first case re-
ported.
A low wretch has been arrested in
| Houston for displaying his naked per-
son to school children, and he wants to
play crazy about it.
Frank Green would open letters not
objected to him, and now he goes TO
the penitentiary from Judge McCor-
mick's court at Waco.
People of Columbus are conferrlng
with Col. Peirce, in reference to having
Columbus made the turminus of the
lagrange tap railroad.
The Corpus Christi, San Diego and
Rio Grsnde railroad is graded twelve
miles beyond San Diego in the direc-
ton of Laredo.
! Gen. Ord fayors the purchase by the
general government of Fort Clark, Tex
as, which he says can be purchased ut
cost of $4,000.
Miss Matte Maxcg, daughter of
Judge Maxcy, of Waco, was thrown
from buggy the other day and re-
ceived painful injuries.
Miss Mollie Sabin of Houston, who
has been studying for some time for
the stage, has made her debut at Balti-
more with considerable effect.
McLane was tried at Goliad for the
murder of Andrew Martin, and was
found guilty in the first degree. He
goes to the penitentiary for life.
The Express has heard that the con-
tractors for building the International
railway have obligated themselves to
have the grading done in six months.
Citizens of Waco haye raised the.
sum of money, $33, 500, necessary to
secure the building of the st. Louis
and Texas Narrow Gauge railway 10
that city.
The stock to the BRENNAN compress
has been subscribed and ten per cent.
paid in, which entities the company to
q charter under the general law gov
erning charters.
Hc DOHSnldASs GnC llIOld CuooCsy
of Texas are to have q convention In
Houston during the Volks Fest, which
begins on the seventeenth and ends on
the nineteenth of Nav.
F. M. Fielder brought suit for $10,-
600 against the sheriff of Parker county
| for false imprisonment, Fielder being
mistaken for one John Fielder. The
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Sam Griner, charged with murder at
Uvalde, was acquitted. the grand
jury, in making a report, paid high
tribute 80 the efficiency and diligence
Of District Attorney Wallace.
A schoolteacher named Sweet, from
Vermont, suffering with cancer on
his nose, attempted suicide at Dallas.
He has plenty of money, but disease
makes him too wretched to live.
Ellison G Stafford, of Harris county,
have started two droves of cattle, each
one containing 5000 head, on the
drive, and they will soon start another.
The cattle are in fair driving condi-
ton.
Miss. Earl Craven, who has relatives
in Austin, died the other day in Dali
las, of typhoid fever. Her remains. at
her own request, were taken to Pales-
tine for interment beside her father and
mother.
The disputed railroad bond ques-
ton is to be submitted to a vote of the
$3.50, 600 given to the Calf railway,
and the holders OF. the bonds want a
compromise.
It was reported at Houston that w.
L. Grissom, who was sent from Hous-
ton to the penitentiary for 80 years,
made desperate attempt to escape
from the officers just before he reached
HUNTSVILLE.
The buried body of baby that was
unearthed by q dog, is creating SEN
sation at Dallas. The officers are
smelling up the case with some pros
poet Of finding out who is responsible
for the baby.
Phil. McEncatt, fakir of Texarka-
ma. enticed nine-year-old girl to an
out of the way house and then COM
mitted rape upon her. The citizens
are outraged, aud Judge Lynch is
waiting to sit uDon his case.
The Brazos Pilot says: 1--WE are in
formed that the editor of the Houston
7elegrdm has been 10 three or four col
leges. The more cows. calf sucks the
bigger the calf he viii be; the more
colleges fool attends, the bigger fool
win he be-
And now i is stated that all rail