The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-08
ExAs FACTS ANp FANcIEs.

Cotton has begun TO open n Con-
zsles county.
It is stated as false that Major Penn
Is q reformed drunkard.
The crops in the frontier counties are
the finest for many years past.
Waco has compromised her bonded
Indebtedness with the Central rail-
road.
The mustang grape crop in Washing
ton county is very large and the wine
makers are busy.
The crop prospectsIn Colorado coun
ty were never better, and yet the cot
ton worm 10 dreaded.
@. N. McCrosky, clerk in Sherman,
took morphine, and the sleep he took
was an everlasting one.
The survivors of Ector's brigade are
to hold reunion on August 1s at Long
view, Gregg county.
Hardy Pace, q citizen of Texas since
1928, died recently in Jasper county,
Texss, aged 70 years.
A tap road from Terry, on the T. &
N. o. r. r. TO Jasper, will probably
be built at no distant day.
Bexar county has n population of
30, 600, of when 20, 900 live in San An
tonic. So says the census.
A stone mason named Goblin, living
at Greenville, Hunt county, has fallen
heir to $50, 600 in Vermont.
Tracklaylng on the Central extension
beyond Morgan has been progressing
at the rate of four miles per day.
Allen Wright, colored, has been con-
victed at Dallas of murder in the first
degree. He killed Jessie Wicks.
Mr.. C. C. Beavens, of Houston, is
commended by the local press for his
charitable conduct to poor boy.
The Dallas Herald and the Marshall
Herald are almost crazy to see Mr.. W.
G. Conner made state comptroller.
Judge Reagan was received at Mar
shall with much form. Hon. R. A.
Reeves received him with an address.
The Dallas Herald is defending the
protectors of Curne. Two columns of
one issue were devoted to the defense.
Frank Pierce, who killed Barksdale,
in Harris county, gave himself up TO
officers ard was released on $500
bond.
j. A. Carter is to be executed at
Huntsville on Friday, the Governor
having refused to interfere with his
sentence. o .Hct
Hon. B. NJ. Baker is being called
upon by citizens of Pamela county, to
become candidate for reelection to
the Legislature.
A five year old son Of Mr.. Carroll
was killed at Bryan by the accidental
discharge of gun pointed at him by a
loating negro boy.
Robert Phillipson OF Galveston had
his legs and body badly crushed be-
meath q falling safe, and his recovery is
considered doubtful.
]. D. Stephens died IN FannlD
county last Monday. The attending
physicians pronounced it Q case OF
genuine Asiatic cholera.
And now kind, good-hearted men
want their mothers-in-law to take trips
on the Central railway. They hope to
see them converted into angel.
Charles Gay, who engaged to walk
from st. Louis to Fort Worth in If
teen days for wager of $500 has fin
ished his walk in the time named.
Lady Alice Cshir, Countess of Glen
gall, Scotland, is at San Antonio. look
ing for lands upon which to locate some
of the poor people of her province.
The Democracy of the seyenty.third
representative district will hold a COM
vention at Fredericksburg on the 18th
of July to nominate q candidate for
representative. =
Dock Wells, an old and well-known
stableman of Bexar county, while tax
ing up q lot of hay to give to horses,
was bitten by rattlesnake, and died
from the poison.
Democratic enthusiasm in Round
Rock Iuns high. Major Bsrkley Mar
tin, Judge Lyle, and Judge s. s. Mum
ger went far ahead in demonstration
of the Austin brigade.
The Santa Fe track has been laid to
Caldwell, and it will be finished to the
line of the International by the 18th
of this month. 1t will reach Bolton
by the LIST of October.
w. r. Ragsdsle was killed near
Schulenburg by Bud and Scarce Sc
crest, Wick Dickerson ana Short Day,
with two negroes Bill Miller and Dan
Cannon as accessories.
Dallas, on the 2sth ultimo, was the
center of q great rain, which reached
from Marshall on the east, westward
unknown, and from Muscogee, I. T.,
to Hearne on the south.
A terrible murder occurred at Pilot
Point Sunday at q singing school. Two
young men quarreled about young la
dy, and Fred Ballinger plunged knife
into the heart of John Malone.
The Seguin Times wants the con-
gresslcnsl convention held at that place,
and the Express wants to know how
large 9 hall and how many saloons Sc
guin possesses to entitle it to such
honor.
The National (Tyler) Ind4s says that
prominent gentlemen OF Tyler have
about perfected financial arrangements
IN Boston and New York necessary to
insure the building of q railroad from
Tyler to OveFton.
In Denton county, the step-dsughter
of John Yates had an ilIegitimste baby
and buried it alive. A negro saw her
bury it and dug it up. He notifed a
justice OF the peace, and when he went
for the baby it was gone. W
1t Is reported that Currie, not salts
fed with numbering Porter, win bring
suit for damages for false imprison-
ment. For the credit of Harrison
county this man should be shipped back
to Pennsylvania, whence he came.
Charles Montague, chairman OF the
Twenty-fourth judicial district has
been unanlmously instructed by county
chsirmen not to call convention to
make party nominations for Judicial
officers. BE Eill be governed accord
ingly.
Phillips, thirteen-yeAr.old boy, an
orphan living in Bell count5. attempted
TO poison q woman, in whose family he
was living. by giving her al onion top
with striehnine in il. He WAS searched
and strychnina was found in his
pocket.
A young man named Bnksdale was
killed outright bv Frank Pierce. in
Harris county. Barksdsle wanted to
look ct gun IN Pierce's hand, and be-
ing refused, Barksdale drew his six
shooter and shot Pierce. Pierce emp
tied beth loads OF ais gun into Barks-