The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-11
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.


D.. chas. 3. Berry, OF D,n'son, is
no more.
General Grant is to DC invited to
VISIT Dallas.
/ Tse fnsnces of Sherman are not it,a,
healthy condition.
/ Montague caua;y has ORES of silver,
nickel aud cobalt.
one-half the Ian. in san Sab4 County
Is To be sold Tor taxes.
The city council ci Fort Worth will
not let Mayo Bsck-zm resign.
Hampstead IS to 90 through the de-
ghtiu. sensation Of municipal cleo
ton.
|. There have been 715 marriages in
Waller county snoe it was organized
ill2,3.
It is said the Texas and Pacific will
st ike the Central extension in E5ath
county.
The artcsian yell near Ennis is down
Eve hundred and fifty feet and dry as q
bone yet.
A Mexican child was killed and on
other horribly msnglei 10y ferocious
dog st. San Marcos.
Ninety thousand grape cuttings have
been shipped from Houston vine
yard to France this spring.
T B. Whse'rr, of Breckenridge. is
menti"uca IS the successor of Judge
fleming in the IL b jIjic al district.
A special train OF twenty cars,
loaded with lager Ter, has passed
over the Iron Mountain road for Texas.
Matthew Dow has left Bolton to set
tie in Austin, and we are wondering
what Judgment is being exercised upon
our people.
Hous. Holt was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree, and five years
In the penitentiary way assessed against
HIM. This makes accumulated SEN
fences 104 years.
Capt. G. G. Perrin, engineer of the
Central construction company was
painfully injured in the foot at Whit
ney. Il was caused by fiat car upon
which he was standing being run into
by train.
Two large and well patron;z ID sa-
looms of Corsicana paid, on the record
of the bell punch, in February, re-
spectively nInety-one and seventYone
cents, while a small saloon doing
poor business paid Sc 20.
| Galveston boys, with a keen sense of
the grotssque and artistic, when they
find a'drunkeD man slowed away in an
accessible place, ornament his face with
streaks aud stripes of red ochre and
lampblack, and daub his nose with Ak
lie grease.
Rockport, in addition to its large
beef canning establishment, has also
fish canning factory, where the red fish,
sas bay and neighboriug waters, are
slowed away in two pound cans and
find ready sale.
The Fort Worth Democrat places pa
triots at discount when it says some
of the aspirants for the gubernatorial
chair may have caliber enough to make
good governors for the state of Rhode
Island, but they are altogether too in
tinitesimal for great state like Texas.
Galloway Maddox. the murderer of
Gus Pridgen, in 1877, was tried and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life,
but the Court of Appeals got his case
in hand, and now ne is moving around
Cuero as happy as a surfower. He
thinks the members of the court all
daises.
Most of the state papers, says the
Telephone, appear to derive gratifca-
ton from the fact that Gen. Eckert
accompanies Mr.. Jay Gould to Texas
1t Is accepted as an Indication that the
wires of the American Union Tele-
graph Company will, ere long, be eX-
tended into this state.
The Fort Worth Democrat: "The
secret is out. The proprietor of the
Houston Post is Republican. He ran
for the Legislature as an Independent
and was elected. OF course he natu-
rally feels independent of party dis
ciphne. Great is Johnson of the
Post, and Barlow Is his profit"
Gen. A. T. Monroe of Crockett, has
brought suit against W. L. Denman
of Angelina county for defamation of
character. Damages laid at SO 600.
One of the propositions to be submit
ted to the jury in this case Is, whether
Confederate money was legitimate food
for hungry rats, or otherwise-Den-
man haYing published q card stating
that Monroe raised rats to eat up Con-
federate money.
The Express should look at it's copy
of the State Constitution and under
stand that legislative appropriation is
necessary for the payment of debts be-
fore it again says anything Sc absurd
as this: "The available school fund
of the State is exhausted the fund for
the payment of clerks and sher1ffs is
exhausted; yet we boast of our pay as
you GO policy, and hurrah over the
piles of money in the Treasury"
Sherman Chronicle: 1t is said that
the most important witness in the
Hous. Holt trial just concluded at
Gainesville, was half-witted boy who
4 looked through the window of the liv-
cry stable Office while Holt murdered
Powers In cold blood, and while the
poor victim was on his knees and with
uplfted hands pleading to his murderer
to spare his life. Il is said he tells his
story with unwsvering fidelity and
without single difference during each
narrative of the tragedy.
Walter johnson, who as a deputy
United States marshal, committed out
RACES against citizens of the Pan Han
die and who was discharged from duty
IN consequence thereof, turned up in
Memphis the other day where he was
arrested for carrying a concealed pis-
toll. He claimed the night as Uni
ted States marshal, but this would not
stick and he was sentenced TO the
workhouse for sixty days. He ap-
pealed and plsnked up the cash as &C.
curity and that was the last heard of
him in Memphis.