The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-18

OCTdllc IlckGC al the recent eIeclOQ.
The Democrat states, by authority,
that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad viii be Immediately put
through from Gainesville to Fort
Worth.
The Post learns from the Germans
that reached Houston Saturday that
500 more are on their way from New
York, coming to Galveston by
steamer.
The LaYaca Herald and Planter
says the majority of Messrs. Kin
dred and Riggs in Lavaca is about
1000 each, which places them in the
legislature.
Miss Viola L. Dickerman has been
delivering lectures on temperance in
Lamar county. Her services are
wanted here to prepare the way for
the crusaders.
Pilot Grove offered Mai. Penn $500
TO pitch his tent there, but Dallas
saw this and went $1,000, so the great
evangelist let the Pilot Growers GO
to the bad and went TO the rescue OF
Dallas.
Isaac Nicholson was buried alive
in a well he was digging for the
Presbyterian Church in, Houston.
After four hours he was dug cut,
and with proper treatment he may
recover.
Five hundred of the German i'm
migrants, who came across on the
special train from New Orleans,
were transferred, to the Sunset road
to go west. Most OF the others will
follow them.
\ train over the New Orleans
road with 900 German immigrants
reached Houston Saturday. Sunday
Morgan steamer reached Houston
with 200 German immigrants trans
ferred from New York.
Warren Sheperd was hung at
Montgomery, on Friday last, for the
murder Of Levi Conner, in March,
1878. He maintained an almost
brutul Indifference to his fate until
within three minutes of the drop.
The Scott party moves over the
Texas and Pacific railway in
special train of eight coaches. Col.
Scots special car is said to be the
finest coach ever in Texas, and it at
tracts more attention than Barnum's
advertising car.
Miss Jane Engerton, Of Chicago.
is at Dallas in search OF her seducer.
Thompson McGimpseC. lis victim
is about thirty-eight years Of age.
and it is the old story OF woman's
confidence and mans perfidV. with
$500 in cash and jeWclry as TRIM
mings.
The Patron, Crockett. tells Of
miserable tramp who built a fire by
the side of the railroad track and
lay down to sleep aud dream Of
brighter realizations. His clothes
caught fire, and his condition now
is such that he may be transported
to the land of forgetfulness.
The II. and T. G. Railway Company
are engaged in laying 1000 tons Of
steel rail on their main line. They
will receive 1000 tons about the goth
instant and 1000 in December and
January, all of which viii be put
down as fast as received. 1t is csti-
mated that the whole amount will.
when laid down, aggregate about
forty-liYe miles of track
While the little boy Of Mr.. Nose
Fred Bader was playing in the yard |
at the San Antonio Home, and |
while the sky was clear and serene,
q ball Of fire, as he and his little sis |
ter t,lls it, struck him in the face, |
binding him and lacerating MS |
face. gnd leaving him in almost q dy- |
ing condition. The theory is that it |
was electricity, and the scientists I
ought 10 tell all about it.
The cypress says that Col. Ed |
monds, OF San Antonio, has an ap- |
pie tree Of his own planting which |
has This season produced three crops /
Of apples. The first blossoms came |
early. and produced but three ap- |
pies afterwards the tree bios l
somed again, and then again. one /
crop maturing while the other wesl
coming on. The fruit produced is 1
delightful, though only about the
size Of an ordinary russell.
The track of the Dallas and Wich- I
tia, at the Dallas end, has been laid 1
beyond Hickory creek, about eight /
miles from Louisville. The track on |
the Sherman emo is laid six miles to- I
ward Whitesboro. Denton and /
Whitesboro are to be reached from
Dallas and Sherman respectively by
the 2Sth. and the entire line OF nine /
ty-three miles, from Dallas to Sher-
man. via Denton and WhitesboEc. !
completed by January !, 1881.
George Parker and Clark Arthur, |
cattle men of Eastland county. made !
a bet OF $500 IN cattle and money As .
to whether Hancock or Garfield /
would carry New York, Parker that /
Hancock would carry II. and Arthur |
that Garfield would. They quar-
relied about the bet. and Arihnr !
killed Parker with a knife. took $500 |
of his moner, Tifiy. etc, aaa fed. |
Arthur came 10 Texas three ears |
ago from the noighbOrhood of Dies |
M0ines, Illinois, and was attending /
TO Parker's cattle on shares. Parker |
was Union man, +rom East Ten |
ne,see, who had served in Virginia |
under Hancock. he leaves a wife |
and TWO young children. Arthur is /
about thirty years old, five feet
eleven inches high, black hair and /
beard; his little finger on the left
hand is cut of a1 the second joint