The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-04-08
TEXAS FACTS AND FANC1Rs.

Texss has 1740 miles of telegraph
inca valued It ti2a, SO.
Sherman has received this season
nearly IS. COO bales of cotton.
Hon. Morilz Maedgen is again q csn-
didate for the legislature in Bell
county.
Capt. ]. w. Pickens, & Waco law
yer. died recently while on q Iisit to
COrinth, Mississippi.
A qusrautina convection is to be
held in Galveston, on the call of the
Governor, on the fifteenth.
DR.. Chas. Murphy, of Waco,
weary of life, blew the top OF his head
of with Winchester rife.
81. Lowell, builder of Galveston,
overtaken by fnsncial endorsements,
suicided to get rest from bis creditors.
Farmers of Bell county have formed
manufacturer association, and are
talking of investing in Clement at
tachments.
The new jail at Stephensville. which
has just been finished, is said to be the
largest, nestest, and best built jan in
Northwest Texas.
Felix Chensult, q son of Judge Che.
nsult of North Texas, has been sent to
the state asylum on account of violent
insanity caused by unrequited love.
A million acres of university lands
were recently located west of Ersth
county, which are said to be so poor as
to be hardly worth the price of locat-
ing.
Major Penn has purchased circus
tent that will hold $500 people, and
he Is going to show therein how easy
fellow may vault into hell instead of
into heaven.
A witness In the Nolan-Swift muir
der case, named Long, is missing, and
1t is thought foul play causes his dis
appearance. The case is being tried at
Castroville.
1t lie pretty generally conceded that
the mschIne shops of the s nta Fe rail-
way should be located in Bolton, bur
Brenham Is taking steps looking to the
capture of the prize.
The students OF Baylor University
intend celebrating the battle of San
JacInto on the tWenty-first of April,
IN honor of the forty fourth snniversa
~ of that great battle.
The press of Southwestern Texas
have organized against N 'rthern ad-
vertisine agencies, who have been here
tofore paying extremely low rates foI
the publication Of their advertisements
Another unfortunate girl, the victim
of m splaced confidence, leaps from
the iron bridge at Fl puston at the dea0
hour of midnight, and goes to that eter
nal rest where there are no deceivers.
Coopmanscbap, the Chinese immiprs-
tionIst, has just brought to Texas 400
Cinnamon, who will be employed OIL
Brazns plantations. They passed down
the Central in a special train of nine
cars.
Through trains from New Orleans to
Vermillionville over the Morgan road
make the trip. The time now fixed
for the opening of the line from New
Orleans to Houston is the middle OF
,, June.
Bill Martin and Tom CowsD, the
murderers of old Mrs. Holt and her son
In Lavscs, are sill IN jail In Lime
stone county. The sheriff has notified
the sheriff of Lsvaca county of their
arrest.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad Com
pany has finally concluded to submit to
the law +, quirlng thirty minutes stop
at Texarkana, and is now hauling tim
bers to make first class passenger de-
pot at that place.
AS an evidence that sheep raising
pays in Bell county, the Journal says
SIlas Paggett. some two years since,
purchased 900 head of sheep, for which
ne paid $4,000. He has already sold
wool taken from them to the amount
of $3400, and has twice the original
number.
R NJ. Chinn, editor of the Bolton
Courier, drank aqua ammonia for aqua
distIllsts, and it was a most serious
condition into which he was thrown in
consequence. Had 1t been the stomach
of the editor of the Nat @ Irious Rec
ord, the ammonia would have been put
to shame.
| j. I. Holbert, city marshal of Bel
ton, and Will Lyons got into shoot
ing scrspe in Bolton at night, and
Lyons was shot through the neck.
The city marshal says the row began
because of Lyons shooting at street
lamp, and Lyons says lie is out, and
81 'lbert says there amt, and there's
where it all rested when last heard
from.
Chief Huarite, who is now on his way
to Washington as an Apache delegate,
is clad in red flannel from head to heel,
his face being daubed with green paint
and his legs cased in buckskin leggins,
the out side seams of which are orna.
mented with feathers from birds of rare
plumage. On his feet are beaded moe
4sins and his hair is tied with SOUR.
ribs tails.
Our meek and gentle Savior, say
Justice in the Dallas Herald, the good
book tells US, forgsve the very thief or
the cross for few moments repentanc,
over his crimes, and awarded him
place in Paradise. Such 10 the hu
name lesson taught by the laws o
God, and We humbly commend the SAM
to the careful and tender consideration
# those who denounce Governor Bob
erts for spsrlng the miserable lives o.
few fallen and doomed men, by con
signing them to tomb Of living mis-
| eFv for life