The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-04
TEXAS FACTS AND rANcIEs.


J.B. Olive, an old and respected
citizen Of Bastrop county, is dead.
The public school blilding of Ma
SON was gift of the lamented Gus-
tave Schleicher.
Henry Pancoast. of Houston, while
in his usual apparent health, dropped
dead in his tracks.
Mexia has had 5000 fire, but the
town is receiving cotton at the rate
of 2 o bales per day.
Commissioner Walsh is at once
going to offer $4,000 acres of the
capitol lands for sale.
The Synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church of Texas meets
in Dallas November 8.
Bishop Dubois Of the Catholic
church has reached Galveston after
a visit to the Eternal City,"
The Bonham Ne,gs tells of the
ripening, in Fannin county, of a
second crop of what are known as
June apples.
Jesse and Frank James, the Kan
| sas outlaws, were seen in Kansas
City few days ago. Jesse James
wife is living in Texas.
Bremond proposes to run his road
to Mansfield. La, and The Democrat
says the people OF that section will
take $4,000 of stock in it.
An intoxicated man was run oven
and killed by the. cars on the Texas
and Pacific railroad, rear Gordon.
| on the western extension.
The coroner's investigation, at
Dallas, led TO the belief that Jesse
Harris, whose mutilated body was
found on the railway track was the
work of a murderer.
At Dallas. Price and wife, promi-
nent factors in the Ellis habeas cor
pus case, still remain in the custody
of the sheriff for failure 10 produce
those abducted.
VIM. S. Waldron, a fifteen-year-
old boy, from Kansas City, Mo-,
came to Texas with stock dealer.
His father writes and wants to learn
what has become of him.
The charter for the Rio Grande
and Ell Paso Railroad Company has
been obtained, and work will be
pushed. 1t is an extension of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
The case of r. L. Jennings, one of
the proprietors of the Marshall Hes
Senger, for killing Hon. w. S. Cole
man, will be tried December Is, in
the Harrison county district court
The Grand Commandery of
Knight Templars for the state of
Texas meets in Sherman next Feb
ruary, and the knights of that city
are already arranging to give them
first class reception.
Mcknight, who shot and killed Der
rick and Kemp with the same bull
let, in Bolton, seems to have made
good his escape. Nothing has been
heard of HIM, though the officers
have been on his track.
Two negroes, cotton pickers OH
farm in McLennan county, turned
game of tussle into struggle for life,
and Bob johnson, of Waco, had the
crimson current pass from him
through seventeen cuts in his body.
The San Antonio Express pub
fishes in its local columns criticism
on what it terms the failure of the
Austin fair, and on its bad manage
ment. Evidently the Express was
supplied with that local by an inter
ested person at Austin.
The Longview New Era says that
teachers of public schools in Gregg
county do not receive their pay.
We are inclined to doubt the relia-
BILE information of the Era, but if the
statement be true it can alone be at
tributed to the local boards.
The elopement and marriage of
one Cherry to q Miss Halfin of
Lockhart some months ago, and the
abduction OF the bride by her par
ents, was published soon after the
occurrence. Cherry has just gained
suit for ten thousand dollars DANA
ges in this case, and the court rules
| the marriage valid.
r. P. Bull, the netective murdered
| at Fort Worth the other night, had
just engaged himself TO pick cotton
withSa farmer named Vaut. 1t is
conjectured by some that he was
killed by mistake for his employer,
who had drawn money from the
bank that day. Among his papers
was a card inscribed, "Remember
your little sister Georgia Bull"