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

A council of the American Legion
of Honor has been organized at
Mexia.
The Medina river has been higher
than was ever before in the memory
of man.
Surveying for the line of the Sun
set road, west of San Antonio, has
begun.
Boil worms are committing great
damage in the cotton fields of Dallas
| county.
A large spider placed in bottle
with a king snake, at Houston,
killed the snake.
In the Bal-Heacock poisoning
case, at Wills Point, the defendants
were refused bail.
Beaumont Buck has been reap
pointed by the secretary of war, as
cadet to West Point.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Honor met in Waco on the 18th,
with 200 delegates in attendance.
In one week it is estimated that
boil worms have destroyed one-third
of the cotton crop of Collin county
The people of Indianola, since the
late inundation, are utterly dis
heartened, and will leave the fatal
place.
Lottie Campbell, Dallas negress
gave birth to a monstrosity, which
she says is the offspring of her own
father.
The population of Fayette county
is 2S,173. By the census of 1870
which, however, was most imperfect
it was 1862.
| Four schooners were wrecked III
the late storm at Rockport. The
contents of 5000 are sent to the bot
tom every day in Austin.
Allen Wright, who is to hang at
Dallas on Friday, is trying to make
peace with his Maker, and the Time,
makes an earnest appeal that some
minister in Dallas call on him and
give him consolation.
A general fire was kept up upon
American citizens on this side the
Rio Grande by Mexicans on the Other
side, in the attempt at Laredo to re-
capture the prisoners who had es'
capped from the Jail on this side.
A New York paper says Tom
Ochiltree is putting on no end o.
style at the seashOre resorts. He re.
Gently gave a select dinner that wa:
one of the prettiest things of the
kind seen this year at Newport.
w. B. Bonner, who killed Editor
j. j. Wheeler year ago, at Paris
has at last been admitted to bail, and
yet he waylaid Wheeler and killed
him without any immediate provo.
cation, and only to satisfy his NAL
| ice.
Mrs. johnson of Houston, wife OF
Judge j. w. Johnson, mother of Gal
B. johnson, proprietor of the Post
and daughter of Gail Borden, de.
ceased, well and favorably known
breathed her last at her home in
Houston on the 18th of August. She
was As years old.
| A child, ON Dallas street railroad
car, preferred a place in front Oh
the platform, instead of ON the in.
side where he should have remained
quietly seated, and the result was
that he fell to the ground and the
car lassing upon him his body was
severely lascerated.
A little spec of a railroad war i:
agitating the public down about
Houston. 1t is between the g., III. &
II. and the g., C.'& S. F. railroads
The latter road has put an ugly foo
forward by forcibly taking from the
yard of the former cars belonging tC
the II. & T. G. and the NJ, X. Il L.
The prisoners in the Giddings jai
escaped on the night of the fifteenth
They cut through the cage and dug
through the walls of the building
They are Jessie Ballard and Eugene
Glasscock. held for theft, and Fletcher
Harris, alias John johnson, held fol
murder committed in Frio county.
The Republican district conven.
ton, held at Richmond, nominated
w. M. Burton of Fort Bend, col
ored, for state senator, A. G. Temp
kins, white. of Waller. and Dock
Lewis, colored. of Wharton, for rep
resentatives; w. HI. Burkhart fol
district Judge, and r. E. Hanney fol
district attorney.
The city council of Dallas at theil
last meeting addressed Mayor j. w
Thurman out of his office for want o
confidence in him. There was onl!
one vote against the proposition
and it met with public approval, bu
Thurman is going to fight through
the courts. Suppose we import sucl
live fellow for mayor of Austin.
Bill Smith. who has been brough
to Austin by deputy marshal, ha
been in confinement at San Antonio
for some time. He has been undeI
arrest since January, 1877, having
been taken in on the charge of rob
bling the mail between Austin anC
Ell Paso, While under confinement
he asserts that he has been tried un
der twenty-one charges of theft.
/ George Mclean, of New York, ha
entered suit against the Houston
and Texas Railroad Company TO
the recovery of 480 shares of tn,
-company's stock. The stock is val
ued at $4,000. Some years ago h,
claims he purchased 60 shares o
stock of the road, and that since h,
obtained legal right to them the!
have been Increased, by the water
ing process, to eight times thi
amount.
The Comanche Chief tells of MI
w. B. Wheeler, who, it says, is can
| didate for the district judgeshiI
The Chief says in this connection
that "we have also heard that a maj
by that name once lived in Austin
and, after playing out POLITICAL,
there, moved up into northwes
| Texas for the purpose of running TO
office. We have also heard that b
was not as fond of conventions dow
there as he is up here" And nov
the STATESMAN is puzzled to under
stand who is referred to.
Gen. Bvrne of Fort Worth, wei
known in Austin. died at Santa F
from wound inflicted by Indian
in recent attack on the mail coac
between Quitman and Eagle Springs
He was in the employ of the TeXa
and Pacific railroad, and was o.
business for the company whel
wounded. Two stage drivers and
Mexican were killed in the same at
tack. Gen. Byrne. at the close of tn
war. was the youngest brigadier gen
eral in the Union army. He wa
: sent to Texas, and when he retire'
from the army went into the servic
of the Texas and Pacific RailrOa'
4 Company.
Burks has another respite of min
days. The Telephone says: "Fo
|, several days past the prisoner ha
been calm, cheerful and hopeful, an
: the news yesterday inspired hiI
with fresh confidence, and he think
his chances for communication. if nc