The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-07
TEXAS FACTS AND FAEclEs.

owner, is dead.
An ostrich farm west Of San An
tonic is talked of.
There are now 2l26 convicts in the
state penitentiary.
Henderson county will make 25,-
600 bales of cotton.
Ii is fixed that the Santa Fe rail-
way goes to Fort Worth.
The flood in the Trinity has dam
aged crops in Tarrant county.
Corn in Montague county aver
ages forty-five bushels to the acre.
The Texas and Pacific will be fin
ished TO Eastland City by October 6.
Capt. j. VI. White ofBrenham, had
one of his arms torn off by cotton
gin.
The Dallas grand jury reports the
prisoners on the poor farm badly
fed.
The knights of Honor number l4o
lodges and a membership of $500 Ill
Texas.
October the name of Taylorsville
is to be changed as a postotfice to
Taylor.
Considerable sickness is reported
about Waxahachie. caused by wet
weather.
Major Penn, at Mckinney, has
snatched two hundred sinners from
eternal damnation.
1t appears, after all the rain, that
more cotton will be in Texas fields
than can be picked.
Vast swarms of grasshoppers were
passing over Jacksboro on the Goth !;
they were going south.
Senator Maxey, on the gath, was
telling the people of Fort Worth
what he knew about politics.
The Age denies the existence of
malarial fever in Houston. Why
does the local press report itY
The steamship America reached
Galveston on the goth, direct from
Bremen, with 6sa immigrants,
Col. J. B. Lipscomb of Marshall
is no more. He died of black jaun-
dice on the 28th of September.
In Smith county the colored peo-
pie are at war among themselves,
and much violence is reported.
The district court term begins in
Lamar county with seven murder
cases and twenty-six divorce cases.
The Cuero Star says the Morgan
railway has come to the town to
stay. 1t thinks there will be no ex-
tension,
A horned turkey is reported by
the Blade. Had it told of horned
editor the story would have been
credible.
Sorghum ia worth fifty cents per
| gallon in Blanco county, and there is
said to be much Of the syrup manu-
featured.
The Denison Herald says the story
of Mrs. Cline being an accomplish in
the murder of her husband, is en-
tirely untrue.
On the 27th g number of English
immigrants passed down the main
line of the Central on their way to
Western Texas.
DR.. Jones is on trial for commit
ment, at Columbus, for the killing OF
| Flowers at Eagle Lake. 1t is thought
he was justifiable.
An exchange says Gainesville will
have gas in about three weeks. We
thought it got it when the Register
went to those parts.
When a Mexican does anything
ugly on Texas territory, he takes to
the Rio Grande river IA naturally as
duck does to water.
Mrs. Quinn, of Galveston, is salts
fed that her husband was drowned
and that the report of his having
been seen in San Antonio Is false.
The "Buckner Orphans Home
has been located six miles east OF
Dallas, on the line of the T. & r
Railway, in the midst Of beautiful
and fertile section.
John Gibbons attempted rape, and
having been tried for it at Tyler, he
will serve three years inthe peniten'
tiary before he has another chance to
commit public outrage.
A little boy, at Brennan, was
struck on the forehead by bal
from a "nigger shooter" 1t went
through his hat and tore away the
skin, and gave him painful wound
The Plano runaways, Mrs. Duke
and that fascinating Hicks, were
last heard of at Dallas. Mr.. Duke
was on their heels, and if somebody
docs not mind they will be trans
ported to the sweet by-and-by.
When they have butter on the
boarding house tables in Whitney
the first boarder who gets through
PUSHES into the street and cries out
butter for supper" and they say il
is caution to see the way the hun
gry guests start for the eating house
| In speaking of the case of Robert
Crawford. charged at Hampstead
with the murder of Finklea, Col
Griffin, who is of counsel for Craw'
ford, saws ii would be clearly proven
that Crawford did not fire the shot
that killek Finklea, and that he wai
in no way responsible for the killing
And vet Crawford was reported a.
fled, but he is rich and. his case will
go through like creased lightning
R. Menger, city physician of San
Antonio, in murdered Kings Eng
lish, advises murderous assault on
the dogs of San Antonio. The most
remarkable thing told of the saga
cious San Antonio dog is that there
was "a dog which was very suspi-
cious of being affected with hydro
| phobia." That dogs life should
have been saved because his saga
city could have been used in discov-
ering al about the dread disease,
but the doctor had the poor animal
shot.
l. c. Feeder, a Jew of San Anto-
Mo, took arsenic on his sausage
and though every effort was made
TO save his lite, he died. A German
girl of the same city, named Louisa
Rahm, tired of disease and growing
mad, took six ounces of mnriatiC
acid and passed away in great agony
The one feared povery, the other in
generation in convent.
And now the proposition l. made
that If Dallas will offer as much OF
more than Fort Worth and Cleburne,
and the right of way from Cleburne
to Dallss, and ample depot grounds,
the directors of the Santa Fe rail-
way win consider the proposition
and probably refuse the offers OF
Fort Worth and Cleburne.
Mr.. Ayres of New Orleans has To-
Gated lands on good many Of the
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