The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-26
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIss.

The rainfall at Brownsville. on the
fourteenth. was 1909 inches.
The Sam Bass drama has been put
upon the stage at a Fort Worth thea
ter.
In GOZales county the cotton stalks
are breaking down with their load
of fruit.
Many Of the Texas papers are en-
ploying female compositors. and it
is right that they should do so.
A German farmer in GRAY
county is preparing ground for the
cultivation of the cinchona tree.
a little bright-eyed girl of Fort
Worth. i years old. Is missing. and
her fate is the subject of much anx-
iety.
The total taxable values OF Harris
county foot up nearly S9.000.O0O.
Nearly all of this is Houston prop
erty.
Rev. Y. ). Hamilton. a Cumber-
land Presbyterian preacher. died of
heart disease. near Whitney. on the
22d.
\ telegraph company has been or
ganiZed to put up Il wire from Fort
Worth To Austin by way of Gle
burne.
At Leesville, in Gonzales county.
a feud between the Littletields and
the Martins ended in the killing of
William and John Littlefield.
lsadoro Rodrigues, living near
Fort Clark, was accidentally killed
by a discharge from Winchester
rifle in the hands of his son-in-law.
\ shovel-nosed shark was seen the
other day in the BraZos at Waco. 1t
may have been Il transformed candi-
date going in the direction of salt
water.
A meeting of citizens has been
held at Brennan. in which il was
proposed to give 100000 to the
Montgomery railway TO have it come
to BRENNAN.
On Friday Doran eXpiated the
crime OF murder at Corsicana. In
most cold-blooded style he killed
William Fitzsimmons in bawdy
house in June, 1879.
The damage from the late storm
at Corpus Christi is estimated at
$4,000. At Goliad twenty-five
houses were blown down. and five
persons were wounded.
No minister, at last accounts, had
called upon the doomed man,
Wright. at Dallas. The Governor
gave respite for such ministratiOn,
and yet religion gives none.
A thief in Bosque county, being
recently caught in mans smoke
house, explained that he was there
to get out of the way Of the candi-
dates, and to avoid their importuni-
ties.
Governor Roberts gave one weeks
respite to Wright, the doomed man
of Dallas, for the benefit of his spir-
itual existence in the hereafter. The
0. A. always has an eye to the flu
ture in everything.
The Hesperidn Gazette puts it
mildly when it says "Odd Fellows
throughout the state will regret to
learn of the difficulties of r. A.
Blandford, Past Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of the state"
Some of the cruelty disposed, who
who came to see Wright hanged at
Dallas last Friday, declare they will
not vote for Governor Roberts be-
cause of the respite, which was given
Tor one week, that the mans spirit
ual existence might be looked after.
The principles Of the grand army
of occupation are set forth succinct-
ly as follows: I'VE shall commence
to acquire all territory from the Rio
Grande to Panama, and afterwards
from Panama to Cape Horn, and
finally from the great lakes to the
North Pole"
The damage by floods in the west
is great. To give an understanding
of how sudden and great rises some
times are in the streams of that sec
ton, ii is such that Sycamore creek,
in Kinney, rose over forty feet in
few seconds. Capt. Lee Hall and
Mr.. Ed. Buckley were in the bed of
the creek watering their team when
they saw the flood coming down
upon them. and, by whipping their
horses up the bank, barely did save
themselves from destruction.
Nor for Hebrew and Sanscrit
scholars. The Kaufman Star SAYS:
Dick Hubbard would not allow his
name to 60 before the gubernatOrial
convention. but he is training for the
United States senatorial race. Dick
is one Of those ungetable preponder-
osities of luminiferous political firm
ament that causes the hOmeogedeity
of infinitudinal bioplasticity to yield
before the cachinnation the imper-
ishable portion of the palpable cor
pOrosity at its prototype. There
now"
When Tom Ochiltree approached
manhood the old Judge determined
to sober him down by study. and so
took him into his own law Office,
where he kept him pretty closely at
his books for about three years.
Tom was a good scholar, made sat
isfactory progress, and was finally
admitted to the bar and taken into
partnership by his father, A few
months after this, the Judge, as he
was starting for Dallas one morning
to attend a long session of the court,
looked up at the old weather-beaten
sign which had been above his Office
door for quarter of century, and
told Tom he thought it was about
time to have new one, land TOm,"
he said, suppose you attend to it
get good sign, and have the name
of the firm painted upon it." The
old gentleman went to Dallas, and
was gone several days. Returning,
when he came in sight..of the little
frame Office, he thought it looked
strange, and riding nearer he found
stretching clear across the building
an immense sign board, on which
was painted in huge letters: ct. p.
Ochiltree and Father, Counselors
and Attorneys at Law" Tom was
at his desk deeply absorbed in work
ing up a case, and never could I'M
derstand why the old man should
have caused that sign to be taken
down.