The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-19
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs

Mad dogs are reported at San An
tonic.
Col. j. r. Pickard. of Stephens
vile, is dead.
Athens, Texas, is to. have the
TrunE-Line railroad.
In Dallas county boil worms are
cutting down the cotton crop.
John Doran, for murder, is to be
hung at COrsicana next Friday.
New corn is selling in Fort Worth
for seventy-tive cents to one dollar Il
bushel.
Boil worms are doing much
damage in Coryell and McLennan
counties.
Morgan steamers are to be placed
on line between New York and
Galveston.
Will Cresap walked off Il gallery
in Waco and he lies in close proX-
unity to death.
The Central railroad declines to
take stock in Col. Lang's Southwest
ern immigration Company.
The twelve jurors in the Burks
case have signed petition to the
governor recommending clemency.
Reagan and Mills met Wash Jones
in discussion at Tyler, on the 14th.
Friends of all report themselves sat
isfied.
Charles Roberts, who murdered
Duncan w. Rankin, in 1879, in Ala
bama, has been arrested at Fort
Worth.
A Holiness campmeeting will be
held at Dallas beginning August %.
1t will be good occasion for con-
version.
Hon. Isham G. Harris, of Tennes-
see, was in Weatherford the other
day. He has a sheep rancho in Cal
lahan county.
The prisoners in the Gonzales Jail
made their escape on the 14th, hav-
ing overpowered the jailer when
supplying them with supper.
Waco, the fast PAGER, formerly
owned by Wiley Jones, was raffied
off in Galveston recently. One hun
bred chances were sold at five dol
lars a chance.
Bonnie Gross while bathing, at
Lampasas. in one of the Hanna
| Spring bath vats, was suffocated
with gas. He was resuscitated with
much difficulty.
Near Sherman Wilson Stockton
was running cattle when his horse
dashed into barbed wire fence.
| Stockton was badly cut up and may
die from his injuries.
The second expedition to the Chi
natl mountains will be postponed
until assurance is obtained that Vic
toria and his Apaches have been
whipped out of that region.
The II. and I. G.. railroad and the
Nj. h. and L. have reduced rates OF
fare for negroes wanting TO come
from points in Kansas to Texas.
This is to enable farmers to procure
cotton pickers.
+! In Rusk, Green Evans, siX-year
old boy was accidentally killed by
the discharge of a pistol in the
hands Of Lyman Houston, a boy of
II years. Death was instantaneous,
the ball entering the brain.
The storm at lndianola, on the
18th. moved at the rate of rs miles
an hour. The town was inundated
by the sea and nearly all its inhabi-
tants left for higher land. The
water reached TO within three feet
of the high water mark of 1875.
\ passenger named Parks, on the
Texas Western railroad, became
frightened at coach jumping the
track; and sprang from the car.
which coming ia contact with him.
caused his death. Had he remained
in the car he would have been unin-
jured-
The Galveston board Of health,
after the State health officer had fully
examined the condition OF affairs az
New Orleans and reported the same.
concluded such examination could
be conducted properly only by Gal
| weston authority, and two physi-
clans were therefore sent to iIiyesti-
| gate New Orleans. One of these
doctors says they were so wen
treated in the Crescent City that
| they were ashamed to ask anything
| Of the New Orleans people They
| say there Is no danger from. that
quarter. and they smoke fine
Ihayanas and chew taffy-