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


The assessed value of property in
Dallas is $3,700,O00.
Comanche county has an interest
bearing debt of $4,000.
A fair top crop of cotton has ma
tured in all Northern Texas.
Abe Rothschild's case is set at
Marshall fer November oath.
Lewis L. Levy, of Houston, has
been stricken with paralysis.
The assassin of young Bull, at Fort
Worth, has not yet been discovered.
The state dental association is
called to meet in Houston Novem-
Der %.
San Antonio walked off with the
honors at the New Orleans Liedtafel
festival.
The extension of the International
beyond San Antonio was begun on
the 18th.
Governor Hubbard and Hon. Olin
Wellborn will speak at Brennan on
Saturday.
In some of the northern counties
they are paying 81 and board for
cotton picking.
Republicans at San Antonio are
go an awful amount of scratching on
their regular ticket.
The st. Louis and Texas Narrow
Gauge railway is to be completed to
Waco by May next.
The building of the Galveston and
Camargo road is being agitated
anew at Galveston.
A joint stock company is about
to be formed III Victoria county for
building a sugar mill.
In Brown county small boys are
being offered 500 per month and
board TO gather pecans.
The Rothschild case Will be dis
posed of at the present term OF the
appellate court at Tyler.
And now it is reported that work
on the extension of the Sunset road
beyond San Antonio has begun.
Those children. which the mother,
at Dallas, has been trying to dis
cover by law, are not yet forthcom-
ing.
The last man who sued the Dal-
las Herald for damaging his charac-
ter is doing service on the chain
gang.
Richard +. Bull, detective in
search of fugitive, was murdered
while asleep in a wagon at Fort
Worth.
The Chicago, Texas and Mexican
Central railway will touch Dallas if
its people will plank down $4,000 as
a bonus.
Gen. Wallace was hooted off the
stand by negroes at Brennan, who
would not listen to him in a politi-
cal harrangue.
Young Brock, of Houston county,
was killed by his head being thrown
against tree while riding rapidly
on horse. back.
The horses on the stage line be-
tween Waco and Comanche are
dying with a disease something like
blind staggers.
There is to be a grand racing
tournament at Dallas in November.
Many of the best horses in the state
will be on hand.
The grading on the International
extension to San Antonio is compile
ted except four or five miles this
side of San Antonio.
Mr.. Mills says that the dropping
of his name in the FL Paso district
will insure the election of Judge
Blacker to the legislature.
A first class duel with first class
funerals was anticipated at Dallas,
and the pleasure was all spoiled by
the usual interference of friends.
The race for the district jUdgship
in the Commanche county district Is
between Judge Hutchinson and Mr..
Z. b. Wheeler, late Mayor Of Austin.
Willis Jackson, convicted of muir
der in the first degree in Kansas,
escaped and came TO Texas. He
has been arrested in ia ckson coun-
ty.
Rev. w. S. Berry, of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, in the
SEVENTEEN year of his age, died sud-
denly on the road in Navarro coun-
W.
Upton. who made an assault with
intent to rape on Mrs. O'Neal, OF
Bedford, made his escape, anhhas
been captured in the Indian Terri
tory.
A Dallas clearinghouse keeper
made an attempt the other day to
commit suicide. In Austin it is the
boarder that is always contemplate
ing self destruction.
DR.. Taylor, of the army, well
known in Austin, mas been assigned
to duty in the department. Of the
East. He and his family have left
San Antonio for New York.
An excursion party, composed OF
members of the order of railroad
conductors, is doing the state. They
were at Palestine on Thursday, COM
ING from towards ST. Louis.
James Hanna, formerly a citizen
of Dallas county, suicided at his
ranch, in Stephens county, because
during his temporary absence, his
wife eloped with his ranch superin-
tendent.
The Goliad Guard, which was sus'
pended in consequence of the de-
struction of its office by the storm
two months ago, again puts in its
welcome presence among our ex'
changes.
At Bolton, Mat. Mcknight, so it il
told by the Courier, shot at JOIN
Kemp. and the ball that passed
through his head wounded Jas. Der
rick in the neck, from which it is ex
pected he will die.
Mr.. Kennedy, the great cattle own
er of Nueces county, has effected 1
conditional sale of his immense stocl
and landed interests in Western
Texas to an English company fol
the sum of $S00,0O0.
1t took Major Penn long time t,
get his apparatus set properly TO tax,
the Dallas sinner in, but il was at las
accomplished, and, like Gnat GURUS
who was snatched from perdition
so have been 200 of these people.
! An immense iron cylinder, called
rouster,n weighing 5000 pounds
has been taken to Llano county, t.
be used in smelling copper ore IL
the mines in which DR.. Owens anC
Col. TAYLOR OF Waco are interested
| Jim Williams, colored, who wa
indicted in Fort Bend county TO
cattle stealing, decUyed Alb. Lancy
colored, into the woods and sho
him in the back, and hid the deaC
body under log. Laney was
witness against Williams.
II W. C.. Daniels, street drumme
of Waco, made an attempt at self
destruction. He placed himself il
: the presence of friend, and made
/ desperate effort to swallow poison
until his friend had sufficient tim
to rush frantically TO him and snatcl
! the sensational young man from tn
jaws of death.
: John Henry. the negro vho on