The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-29
TEXAS rAcrs AND Eaxc1Es.

Inc lotal pOpulatlon OF Naller
county is $685.
Lieutenant Savers spoke in Gal
weston on the Goth.
Capt. j. c. Hutchinson of Houston.
is spoken of for the legislature.
The prospect for large cotton
crop in Wharton comtyis good.
The formation of a Liberal
League" is going ON at Denison.
Mrs. Robert Atchison of Grayson
county, fell dead of heart disease
The Texas and Pacific track is be-
ing laid rapidly west of the BrazOs
river.
One farm in Parker county has
raised this wear 5000 bushels of
wheat.
The road between New Orleans
and Houston will be opened by Au-
gust 10.
The county of Rockwell instructs
its delegates to the state convention
for Lang.
In Van Zandt county the grain
crops are good. while the cotton
crop is superb.
The corn crop i'll Colorado county
is very large, and worms threaten
the cotton fields.
Wheat is making from ten to tif-
teen bushels to the acre. around Sa-
voy, Fannin county.
Milan county is agitated politi-
cally, and the farmers would like to
have just little rain.
The new Dallas court house has
been formally turned over TO the
county commissioners.
A young man named McFatten
was thrown from his horse. in Tar
rant county, and killed.
No trace has yet been discovered
of the parties who committed the
double murder at Morgan.
The Colorado Citizen says the new
academy building in Columbus, is
being pushed ON with vigOr.
In one more week the r. & p.
railroad will be completed thirty
miles west of WeathertOrd
The Knights of Honor have paid
$4,000 on the life policy of Al Burke.
jr., deceased, of Brazoria county.
1t is told that not death has Oc-
Cured in FortWorth for one month.
Such thing is not unusual in small
towns.
, A Mr.. Reddick in Grayson coun-
ty has raised this year from seven
and a half acres of land, 2000 bushels
Of onions.
The green-eyed monster got hold
of Mike Ration of Galveston, and
Sam Robinson wa; shot in conse-
quence thereof
DIR. William {. Swanson, residing
near Caddo lake, who died the other
day, was the wealthiest person in
Harrison county.
In Grayson county the corn and
millet crops were never better.
while wheat and oats turned out on
ly about half a crop.
The election to decide whether Il
school tax should be levied in the
corporation of Cleburne. was de-
cided in the negative.
The Sherman Chronicle says Dali
las is slow town because it took
seven years to find out Mayor Thur
monds true character,
The mayor of Fort Worth has in
vested in q ten-pin alley, and has
converted it into street-crossing.
He could do good in Dallas.
A negro answering the description
of the one who committed the out
rage on Mrs. Jansen, of Austin
county, is under arrest at Belville.
The independent Blade says the
thing that can be urged against Gen.
Hancock is the fact that Tom Ochil- |
tree has concluded to vote for him.
Look out for Jim Currie, He was
in Dallas the other day, anu while |
there was closely watched by po-
iceman. He left, probably for Aus
tin.
A DR.. Stewart, at Cold Springs,
Tarrant county, has crop of Vir-
ginia white corn, which is estimated
to yield one hundred bushels to the |
acre.
Mr.. Henry Martin, while attend
ing a meeting of Knights of Honor
at Weatherford, was fearfully burn
ed by the explosion of an alcohol
lamp.
The value of taxable property in
Atascosa county has fallen off up
wards of 100000. This depreciation
is attributable to two years ofsevere
droutl, pt
The merchants of Bonham have
raised 800 TO be awarded as u pre-
MUM for the first and second bales
of cotton from Hunt and Fannin
counties.
DIR. l.. N. Bruce wants to come to
the legislature from McLennan
county, and his political manifesto
in the Telephone occupies 500 worth
of space.
In all the counties except BraZoria
and Matagorda the cottoniUrops are
reported good, while in the middle,
eastern and northern counties they
are excellent.
DIR. C.. b. Stewart informs the Nav
asota Tablet that he and three
others are the only survivors of the
signers of the Texas declaration of
independence.
Thirty-six counties in Texas show
a population of 423,722. The same
counties in 1870 contained 1854 in
habitants. The increase is. there
fore, 2O3,sS1, or about 92 per cent.
Major Thurmond announced that
he would speak at night in Dallas in
explanation of charges against him,
but learning that he would be rot
ten-egged, he failed to come to time.
The English immigrants who have
settled in Gaudaloupe county pub
lish circular in the Times COM
mending that county to their coun-
trymen as a good place to find homes
in.
The census return gives Houston
1852, while private enumeration
gives her 23,405. The STATESMAN
Is not at this time engaged in max
ing up an increased enumeration for
Austin.
The jefferson JiHptec,ae says the
crowds of Greenbackers going to at
tend meeting at Mineola on Fri
day last, was so large as to break
down the cars. causing a delay of
six hoursll!
a family of Canadians were lately
discovered, near Plano, in a starving
condition. They were taken to the
town and provided with all that
was needed. but the mother and one
child died.
Mrs. Jansen, a widow lady of
Austin county, was set upon in her
yard BY a negro, who with knife
drawn over her throat, after he had