The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-04-29

Al eagle, measuring seven and q
half feet from tip TO up, with claws
over an inch ia length, was killed in
Kerr county last week.
At Marlin, On the twenty-first, Mr..
NJ G Fits attempted to cnmmit sui
eide by taking strychnine. Cause, fnsn-
cal embarrassment.
JIcinto day. The Examiner didn't
have clean shirt and couldn't borrow
one and bad to stay ct home.
Four hundred and fifty Cinnamon
me into the State on one train the
Other day. They will go to work on
the Brszls bottom plantations.
The great buik Of travel TO the forts
goes through KerrTille, Kerr county.
A constant stresm OF wagons is passing
through that town going northwsrd.
Morgan, the new county site of ROB-
ertson county, wants = court house,
and the citizens are drawing up p,sDs
and estimating the probable cost.
While two small boys were out hunt
ing near R .sgan last Saturday, oDe OF
them, young Jones, accidentally shot
aud instantly killed young Hunter.
Fifteen hundred specimens of Texas
products hsYe been carried TO the \ ssh
vile centennial "a be placed on exh!-
biticn by B. T. Yoskum OF Palestine.
Mr.. Nunnelly of this city, met nine
wagons loaded with exodusters at Corn
Hill, 10 williamson county on Thurs
DAY, bound for the happy land OF Ksn-
sss.
Measles among the hogs are preya-
lent IN E ath county, and sickness
among the people is extensIvely diff
fused, though not of very serious
type.
Mr. VIM. ID. Smith, of Gorz,les,
Texas veteran, was 30 years old on the
eighteenth day of last January. he
was with Gen. Jackson at the battle OF
New Orleans.
Mr.. Cook. of the railroad surveying
party IN 3 III county, was bitten by
centipede and one of his arms is badly
.wolien in const qaenee, and he suffers
greatly from it.
Two young merchants and three
young ladies are in trouble up about
Ferris. O-e Of the former has fled,
anu there is strong talk of lynching the
other young blood.
A butcher named Rrill, vino had so
Often Witnessed gore, wanted to let hu
man blood, and because OF generous
nature selected himself as his OVID SUBJ
Ject. He is no more.
4 prisoner 10 the Gonzales Jail cent
ous note in some dirty linen implor-
ing J c.rfsia witness to keep out of
the wGy, and in case of conviction TO
arrange plans for.escspe.
The negroes about Bonhsm have
banded themselves together and
''stVuck" for higher wages. The citi-
ms, many of them, contemplate seDd-
ing Of for Chinese laborers.
Ffnm Jackson county, G. W. West
ans B.o., drove 5000 head of cattle,
L. Ward. 5000 head, A. II. Pierce, 5000
aud W. B Crimes 5000. These droVes
are composed mostly of young stock.
Mss Kate Fsv created sensation at
the Texas and Pacific depot at Dallas
over the alleged kidnapping Of her
tllcgitlmate child, which she left in the
care OF an old woman at Fort Worth.
Arrangements are being made BE-
tween the stage lines and railroads from
Houston to New Orleans, by which
mails and passengers in few days Can
be carried through IN less than SO
hours.
Several smart Aleck: III Dallas tried
their hands at speculatiug 10 cotton fu-
lures, Each aud every one OF them
csme out with burned fingers. Tia
Herald could not learn the amounts,
out they were considerable.
Monday night J. L. Gsge, constable,
WAS shot and seriously il not fatally
wounded 10y Mack Barton, negro OK
convict, %hi:e attempting his arrest.
Barton ls still st large, but Sheriff Da-
els has several psrtses ia pursuit OF
him.
Several baby skulls and bones and
'two spiked howitzers were found in 8
| well at Marshall. The we'll is on S site
formerly occupied by the headquarters
Of the Confederate ordnance depart
ment of the trsns-MlssissiPpi depart
ment.
Oppenheimer 6 Co., of San Antonio,
have failed. The liabilities are about
5000 600. They claim assets to the
vaiu. of 800 900 aud real estate to the
amount of $50. 900. Their failure Is
attributable to speculation in cotton
fu ures.
Saturday, at Weston, Collin county,
a man named Washer Chapman, aged
eighteen, shot Jake Howard, his uncle
by marriage. Howard died, and Chip
man was arrested and lodged in Jail at
NJ Kinney. Family sffurs caused the
difficulty.
The Texas Trunk engineer corps were
in kaufman Saturday,, and the whole
city was jubllant over the railroad pros
oect. the engineers were in camp q
few miles from town, and number Of
the ci,iz aus were invited to dine with
them on Sunday last.
Sslo0n-keepers Of NavssotS were re-
quIred To answer in the county court
Va several indictments each for viola
ton of the bell punch law. Only
sne indictment was sustained - that
against Cowen for failure to ugle the
bell punch. He was fined $50.
Mason is so healthy that its doctors
do not keep horses. 1t might be
lucky in other communities for doctors
to proceed slowly on the way to pa
tients as they do IN Mason, so that ma
ture might have some chance to inter-
vene 10 behalf Of poor fellows life.
There was o big meeting over at
Point f lterprise the other day, at
which Col. Lang was present and told
the Changers what he knew shout mat
ters and thinee, and the Examiner
seooped in sixty cash Subscribers, and
will now continue to run Lang all the
summer.
Up at Dallas Wednesday little fiYe-
year-old boy, SON of Mr.. D4pler, got
hold of loaded pistol, and while play
iug with it 1t went cd. the ball enter
iug the mouth of his little tbreP-year-
old sister, bresking her jaw and rang
ing down through her neck lodging in
her shoulder. The wound will probably
| prove fatal.
Dave Watkins, deputy sheriff OF
Cook county, and jailer Mt Gainesville,
| while intoxicated went 10 a house OF
ils-fame st Gainesville, and raised a
disturbance with lot OF COW boys and
female inmates NJ the house. Pulling
8 pistol, he braDdished il In a threat
ening manner, when some one shot him
in the region OF the heart.
The grand jury OF Bell county sd