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

A. l.. Matlock, of Montague, has
consented 10 run for the legislature.
The Houston Volksfest comes off on
the eighteenth and nineteenth Of May,
and every editor in the State is expect
ed to attend.
Hal Geiger, charged with bulldozing
in Robertson county, is giving an &C
count of himself before Judge McCor-
mick at Waco.
Ellis Cummings was caught in some
planning mill machinery at Dallas, and
horribly mutllated. He lived one hour
in .grest agony:
Dallas, has doomed in Leadville to the
amount of $3.50, 900, and prospect of
another mining boom.
Officers of Gonzales county have sue
ceeded IN arrestlng band of escaped
| convicts, who were being harbored at
the house of one Thurman.
A storm of wind, rain and hail passed
oyer Grapevine Prairie, in Dallas coun-
ty, on the twenty-fifth, dong much
damage to crops and forests,
The veterans of San Antonio resolved
to do all in their power to assist the
Alamo monumental association IN erect
Ing monument in memory of the he
roes of the Alamo.
Crop prospects in Walker county are
excellent, but rain is needed. Six
thousand one hundred and ffty.one
bales of cotton have been shipped from
that section the past season.
Ike Smith, the cotton broker who
skipped away from Denison with $4,000
that he improperly obtained from the
bank there, has been arrested and
brought back from Arkansas.
HELEN Waters, of Corpus Christi,
white woman, had an ssssssin's knife
drawn across her throat and was fear
fully cut, but she will not die. Her
screams prevented her murder.
The citizens of Kaufman have pledged
$14 500. and given twenty-five acres of
ground, for a depot to the Texas
Trunk Line railroad, which will be
built from Dallas to Kaufman by next
fall.
Mrs. Barrow, wife of Henry G. Bar
row, late an attorney of San Antonio,
has taken position as beer jerker in
the Vaudeville thester in that CITY.
Her daughter Maud has resorted TO the |
stage.
Tom. Bowers has gone back to the |
Wdtchman's tower from the Galveston |
convention, and is contemplating how
he may eat crow with good grace af- |
ter the nominating convention is con-
vened.
Capt. Geo. T. Olmstead is charged,
before the United States court at Waco. |
with getting away IN 1s69-70 with
$4,000 OF Uncle Sans money while act
Ing as Indian agent 10 the Indian Ter
rltory.
John G.. Gates, charged with land
frauds, wss captured the other day in
Trinity county by Sheriff Baine and
Mr.. T. r. Chandler. He is already
lodged in the Travis county Jail, the
process having issued from his county.
Chintz bugs have attacked the W heat
in certain localities IN Dallas county,
and the crop will be failure. These
sively to the wheat. They have not as
yet attacked the Greenbackers.
DR.. Warren, whose conviction has
been accomplished at Sherman, is said
10 be the possessor of q half dozen or
10 aliases. He was charged with forg-
cry in three cases, and is rewarded
with six years of labor in the peniten-
iary.
Bruce Gerald, of Waco, boy If
cen years old, must necessarily prove
hat he could step from one street car
% another while they were passing, and
he result is that be was badly crushed,
Iud maybe he may carry evidences of
his folly to an old age.
The two horse thieves killed in Will
on county were Mexicsns, and the one
Who escaped was q negro, who fed as
Don IS the fight began. Mitchell and
oressnell, stock ralsers, were wounded,
he one through the breast nesr the
lesrt, and the other hsd slight flesh
wound. The deputy sheriff was un-
lurt.
The Cleburne Clroniele Is trotting
ut candidates in lively style.
there is S. ]. Chapman and L A. Pat
on for Representatives, and q host Of
fher fellows, all excellent men ana
ToEthy Of places. They are after let
ing themselves be known, for il u
bus their names become household
lords.