The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-05
TEXAS FACTS AND rANc1Es.

Carl Wippricht, of seguin, is no
more.
San Augustine county has a popu-
lation of 5000.
There has been a great food in
eastern Texas.
Rain has been general and heavy
all over the state.
Again the mail between Dallas
and Cleburne has been robbed.
The town of Navasota, by popular
vote, takes charge of its own schools.
Brennan went into a glorification
over the nomination of Seth Shep-
ard.
DIR. G. X. Wilcox, of Dallas, has
been arrested on a charge of -forg-
cry.
BRENNAN, by popular vote, con-
tinues to take charge of its public
schools.
Gen. TPevino and wife were re-
ceiyed with great honors on the Rio
Grande.
c. w. Thompson, unattended and
alone, died of too much whisky in
Houston.
The late Greenback convention at
Whitney is reported almost as good
as a circus.
1t is estimated that San Saba coun-
ty will make 5000 bales of cotton
this season.
Burks will hang in Waco on Fri
day, all hope of executive clemency
being ended.
Miss Ella Rives has been delight
ing the people of Corsicana with her
charming voice.
In Cooke county, Ed. Crasson was
shot and killed by Sam Meredith,
acting in self-defense.
Jacob Koehler, an old citizen of
Bexar county, was drowned on the
18th in the Concho river.
Dan McGary, of the Houston Age,
is suggested to succeed Mr.. Lang as
Master of the State Grange.
A nine-year-old boy in Bowie
county weighs $50 pounds and meas
ures thirty-nine inhces around the
chest.
Cecil Young died at Sandy Point,
Brazoria county, after a painful i'll
ness from a wound inflicted by a
bullet.
Forty miles of iron for the Trans
continental road, has been purchased.
The extension is to be made west of
Sherman.
A $4,000 cotton compress is about
to be erected at Paris. 1t is expect
ed it will be ready to compress the
fall cotton crop.
The Brazos Pilot has heard some
how that good Brother BurlesOn
keeps pantelets ON the legs of his
chairs and tables.
Two college buildings are to be
erected at Paris, one for males and
another for females. They are to
cost $4,000 each.
Three men, supposed to be sailing
under many aliases, have been ar
rested at San Antonio, charged with
being counterfeiters.
A terrific wind storm passed down
the Brazos bottom, in Grimes county,
ON the 18th, and great damage is re-
ported done to the. crops.
Miss Alva Ireland, aged fifteen
years, the youngest daughter OF
Judge Ireland, of Seguin, died OF
typhoid fever on the 28th.
Col. j. G. Tracy, of Houston, has
struck a bonanza in Colorado. 1t is
reported that a late Investment he
has made there pays enormously.
Two little brothers, named Hugh
ey, of Cooke county, were playing
with q rusty pistol, and one of them
shortly afterwards was laid away in
his grave.
The reunion of Parsons Texas
cavalry brigade will take place al
Waxahachie, August Is. An adj
dress will be delivered by Col. d. G.
Giddings.
The Sheriff. Association meets in
Dallas, August 3. The roads, Inter
national, Texas Central, and Texas
Pacific, charge only one fare for the
round trip.
William Ehlert, of Washington
county, planted q half acre of ground
with amber cane in April, and it has
yielded him eighty-five gallons Of
good syrup.
The Houston primaries appear tC
give evidence that the anti-Roberts
element was in the majority. The
county convention, however, viii
tell the tale.
The reports of the census enumer.
ators show the population of Bel
county to be 20,624, an increase in
ten wears of lO,853, and in twenty
years of 1926.
The Globe Democrat called Currit
the hell-roaring Texas desperate,
and Currie, it is reported, has gone
on to st. Louis to decimate the CD!
editorial corps.
Mrs. Fay, who is yet bride, has
gone to seek bondsmen for her hus
bands release. She accompanied
her husband under arrest from Col
orado to Austin.
a Waco man sold standing room
on his house to witness the proposed
execution of Burks at 25c per head
Did he refund when the Governor
spoiled the show?
kilograms to Gen. Ord from Gen
GriersOn corroborates the account
of the fight between Mexican sol
diers under Col. Vale and thu
Apaches under Victoria.
Reports from various portions o
Texas show that the worm has no
been as disastrous to the cotton a
was at first apprehended, and tn,
yield win be unusually large.
The sheriff of Guadalupe count.
has been making notoriety as ;
peace officer by ranging the street
with shotgun, intent upon takin:
the life of respectable citizen.
At Quero preliminary steps ar
being taken toward commencing tn
foundation of the new factory TO
manufacturing yarn by means of tn
Clement attachment. The materia
for the huilding and the machiner'