The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-29
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Judge a. Z. Wilkinson, of Sher-
man, is a candidate for the legisla.
ture.
The population of Collin county
is 27,159. Mckinney precinct, in.
Guiding the city, 1925.
Burks, the Waco rapist, is recon.
ciled to his fate, and is prepared to
die if mercy is not extended.
A widow of forty attempted sui,
eide in Galveston on account of the
abandonment of her faithless lover
The Denton Monitor says the sink.
ing of the shaft in the Harmon cop
per mine is going on with rapidity
The Fort Worth and Cleburne
stage was stopped by highwaymen
and the mail pouches were robbed
of about 800.
Mrs. Trimble has taken charge OF
the postoffice at Rusk, and now
somebody will want to be q post
mistress attachee.
Miss Eulalie Risley of Houston, is
making a reputation at Vienna rs a
contralto. She makes her profess
sional debut in Italy.
In the absence of his wife, man
by the name of StontOn ran away
from Sherman with his neighbour
wife and six children.
Two prisoners, Lane and Hates, es.
capped from the Sulphur Springs jail
last week, by knocking the jailer
down and running out.
Mrs. America Ballinger Bolts OF
Houston is no more. She was the
wife of Major b. A. Bolts and the
sister of Judge Ballinger.
Rain storms about Fort Stockton
have greatly injured crops. Grass
and water is plentiful all the way be.
tween the Fort and Ell PasO.
There is active inquiry, at fail
figures, for bonds of the Santa Fe
railway. The workshops of the road
it is said, are to be located in Calves.
ton.
The population of Bexar county.
outside of San Antonio, is 9999. II
the enumerators had only waited q
few moments what a change in the
figures!
DIR. j. B. Tullis, of Marshall, has
been appointed by the q. S. Dental
Association to get up directory OF
dentists of Texas. Address him al
Marshall.
jeff Gibbs of Grimes county has
gone. to Kansas to close contracts
with 500 eXodusters, who are to be
advanced travelling expenses back
to Texas.
They are drumming around, al
Galveston, for a man named Drum.
mond, who, it is thought, may be
bringing Yellow Jack from Vera
Cruz and Kingston.
The samples of Nicaragua wheat
sent to New Orleans from Waco has
secured orders for fifty carloads OF
the same sort. Fifty cents per bush,
ell is offered at Waco.
Geo. W. Taylor, a penitentiary
guard, shot, but did not kill, James
Smith, in the same service, at Rusk
The cause was an insult to a female
member of Taylor's family.
Joe Cross shot a man named Pow.
ers in Brazoria county, and it APP.
pears that Cross occasionally amuses
himself in this wise just to keep up
his reputation as a shOOtist.
L. l.. Foster, editor and proprietor
of the Groesbeck Neao Era, sterl,
ing Democratic journal and one OF
the best local papers in the state, is
a candidate for the legislature.
Thomas Dodson, who shot one OF
the posse of the sheriff of Erath
county, has been discovered, him
self badly shot, in Grayson county
and has been placed under arrest.
The Courier says there is not work
ing force in Smith county to gather
over one-half the cotton crop, and
this is the complaint all over the
state. The question is, how much
cotton is Texas going to make?
AT Blanco a fourteen-year-old boy
from Galveston, named Charlie
Howe, was dragged at the end of a
rope by wild colt fully half mile
The boy was badly bruised, but it is
thought he is not fatally injured.
Young Legg, the defaulting clerk
in the Fort Worth postOffice, who
was convicted in the federal court
for appropriating some 5000 from
registered letters, has been sentenc-
ed to imprisonment for one year.
Allen Wright, condemned to be
hung at Sherman, August Goth, at
tempted suicide by saturating his
clothes with kerosine oil and firing
it. The attempt was discovered in
time to save him from much injury
Charles Gay, the pedestrian, who
walked for a wager of $500 from St
Louis to Fort Worth, in fifteen days,
was sometime ago timer, of Gal
weston. He will walk for the O'Lea-
ry belt at Buffalo, ON the 9th of Au-
gust.
The Telephone says: Every nat
urally and appropriately, we dare
say, DIR. Buckner succeeds DIR. Burle-
son as president of the Texas Bap-
fist Association. AT the late meeting
at Ennis there were 800 delegates
present.
A mules hind feet are minute ar
tilery-that is they are always ready
for the attack when chance permits,
and this was learned most sadly the
other day in Houston by a little boy
when he got too near mules hind
quarters.
w. c. Conner, candidate for comp
troller, and r. l.. West, county judge
of Dallas county, had an alteration
in Dallas the other day, when West
laid Conner in the dust, and Dallas
is an awful dusty place for such a
flooring.
At the genealogical exhibition at
Houston, awards were made the first
day as follows: DR.. Perl received a
1926 silver tea set for best floral dis
play; Mrs. Byers, SIS set of iewelry,
for second best; j. Riley, $50 cake
basket, for third best. TWENTY-FIVE
other prizes were awarded.
George Harold, one of the men
who claims to have killed Sam Bass,
is in the State of Chihuahua, north
of Preside del NOrte, and commands
a body of Mexican troops. George,
at last accounts, had presented the
scalps of three red men, whom he
had slain, to the governor of Goa
hula, and, according to his excellen-
cy's promise, had received $500 each
therefor.
A Leadville special says E. w. Fay,
county attorney of Lake county,
Colorado, has been arrested at Lead
vile on a charge of forgery COM
mitted in Texas. He is the man who