The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-02

Inc Telegram says: ~Our state
exchanges during the past week
were rather dry. Come, gentlemen
look up Your sensations; something
to make our hair stand on 'eend.'f
1t is nothing but the lull after the
Dallas cyclone. II affects the Tele-
A den of i'll fame having been
destroyed in Denison it is called a
providential intervention. This
might do were the record all one
way. Even churches are burned
and the liberal way TO reflect upon
these things is, that providence has
nothing to do with il.
Thomas Barrett, alias Williams
was captured Monday evening, six
miles from Paris, by the vigilants OF
this county and Deputy Sheriff J. H.
Thompson. Barrett is charged with
theft of horses in different places
and murder in Fort Worth. there be-
ing reward of $500 for his delivery
there.
A. \. Porter left Burnet with S6QO
belonging to w. III. Westfall Il Co,
to be deposited with Bremond &
Co. He also had about two hundred
dollars besides this belonging to
others, and Porter with this money
is gone. He stood well. was score
tary of the Odd Fellows lodge. and
yet he was bad man.
The Matamoros and Monterey
road is supposed to be an assured
fact, as S2,00O,0O0 of the necessary
capital have already been raised for
that purpose. and the prelimina.
ry survey will be commenced soon
under the charge of Civil Engineer
j. j. Cooke, at present surveyor OF
Cameron county. So says the Cuero
Star.
Leopold Fries, young German
son of the principal owner of the
Hamburg-Bremen line of steamers
to America, has been appointed i'm
migration agent by the L. & p. II. r.
He leaves for Europe in a few days.
The scheme is to settle a colony OF
Germans and Scandinavians in No
Ian and Mitchell counties. and it is
believed from five to ten thousand
will be secured by next January.
The Express republished Judges
Ogden's villification of the people
of the South, lately made while on
trip North. For this the burly
Judge, who hands his name down as
member of the "semicolon court y
went to the Express office to cane
the editor and when the attempt was
made the printers and the
devil would have promptly fin.
ished him up had the editor not
prevented. The judge got away
with only a few gentle reminders
from ungovernable shoe leather.
The construction company have
gone out of sight with the Texas
and Pacific. The last heard from
the front they were in Eastland
county, from 100 to $50 miles west
of Dallas, and far beyond the Brazos
river. They have passed the outer
rim of civilization, and are now
upon 500-mile stretch Of unsettled
country, heading toward Ell Paso
and putting down an average OF
eight miles of iron per week
Freight trains passing Dallas are
CROWNED with ties and iron.
The Omaha Republican gives de-
tailed statement of this years cattle
drive, the total reaching sol 900. OF
this number, about $4,000 head will
be driven to the Union Pacific. The
cattle are in good condition, fully up
to the standard of previous years
and are mostly one, two and three
years old, very few being beef cat
tie. The drive to Nebraska would
have been larger had it not been for
the drought making a scarcity OF
grass along the road. About 25,OOC
horses are being driven up from
Texas this season, of which number
about 5000 go to Nebraska,
The Cypress tells of cave in the
tar west, distant from Preside del
Norte about eighty miles. Those
unacquainted with the country know
nothing of its existence, and even
those who reside in the country are
timid about entering it, as it is be-
lieved to be at present the retreat OF
band of sixteen desperate men.
In front of the cave is very deep
pond Of water, about forty feet
across, and just beyond this pond
lies a great stone, estimated to be
fifty feet through and extending up
ward fully sixty feet. Beyond this
stone is the first room of the cave,
and it is sufficiently large to contain
five hundred headofhorses. Thereare
unmistakable signs that this room is
,rcnl r., al, -
imal must first swim the pond OF
water, and then pass singly about to
the left of the stone. Persons, to
get into the cave, must either crawl
carefully around the pond Of water,
on the very edge Of an inclined
wall, or, like the horse, swim the
water. The sides of this cave bear
all sorts of paintings, evidently exc
cuted by the Indians many years
ago. Men hunting buffaloes and
deer, capturing trains, killing
and scalping people, ETC., are
the subjects that the artists
who painted the walls choose.
About the sides of the cave are
troughs in which stock is fed, and
chimney holes have been cut through
to allow the smoke to escape above,
Gentlemen who recently visited the
cave say they frequently saw men
on the high hills some distance from
them, and were informed by persons
residing in that section that it was
made the den of band of sixteen
desperate white men who were
operating through Western Texas.
The cave is so formed and situated
that very small number of men
could defend themselves in it against
any opposition.