The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-19
texas FACTs ANn FANcIts

Highway robbers are at work up
about Waco.
just at this time Dallas Is having
lively fuss.
They have had heavy rains up |
about Tyler
The crops over in Eastern Texas |
were never better.
The boil worm j. damaging cotton |
IN McLennan county.
Mexicans are stealing horses down |
about Corpus Christi.
The Pecan crop OF San Saba will
be the largest ever known.
During the past year $50 houses
have been erected in Dallas.
The Waco Grays will attend the |
military encampment at Houston.
The Central railroad broke ground |
within fourteen miles of Comanche. |
There are forty persons in the Gal
weston jail, nine of whom are luna
tics.
The assessed value of property of
Hood county is three million dol
lars.
tits estimated that San Saba coun-
ty will make 5000 bales of cotton this |
season.
They are having a good deal of |
local political fun up about Wealth |
erford.
c. w. Thompson, unattended and
alone, died of too much whisky in |
Houston.
Much sickness prevails among the |
negroes ut Paris, Texas, attributed |
to their nightly revelries.
The frontier papers contain reports
of excessive rains on the Rio Grande,
and destructive overfows.
The Texas Pacific railroad bridge
over the BraZOs west of Weatherford |
was washed away by high water.
Young Buck, of Texas, who tried
to kill John G.. ThompsUn's son, has
been re-appointed cadet at West |
Point.
a nine-year-old boy in Bowie
county weighs 100 pounds and meas
ures thirty-nine inches round the
chest.
Forty miles of iron for the Trans
continental road has been purchased.
The extension is to be made west of
Sherman.
y Sherman man made a bet of
500 that DIR. Tanner wouldn't hold
out for forty days. He paid it Sat
urday afternoon.
Joe Blackburn, the man who killed
Special Policeman Charles Scott at
Gainesville. has been bound over in
the sum of $4,000.
At Chappell Hill the cotton worms
are destroying the cotton fast, and
farmers are trying TO destroy the
worms with arsenic.
San Antonio is the second largest
city in the state, and the ErpreSS is
happy, while the Houston Age is
correspondingly dismal.
The fruit shipments of DenisOn
this year will foot up i'll the neigh
borhood of 10000 boxes. Not a |
good year for fruit either.
1t is stated that the cotton worm
is doing great damage to the crop
in the upper part of Fort Bend and
lower part of Waller counties.
Last Saturday Drs. Williams and
Pitts of Sherman extracted from a
man in that city tape worm 302
feet lOng-so the Sherman papers |
say.
AT Gainesville Saturday a cow
boys horse, escaping from its owner.
ran full speed against the end of a |
wagon tongue and killed itself al
most instantly.
The cotton crop of San Saba is
booming; some persons predict a |
yield of one and half bales per
acae. In many places there is no
signs Of worms.
The cotton worms have appeared
in various portions of Montgomery
county, but, up to date, have done |
but little damage. Planters have |
used Paris green to stop them.
The Pittsburg Magnet got into Il |
drunken row not long since and was |
shot in the knee and missed an is
sue. 1t says hereafter it will be |
careful how it gets into free fights.
The Gainesville Sun states that if |
the cotton crop of Coryell county |
turns out as it now promises to, the |
labor now in the county will not be |
able to pick it out and save more than |
half of it.
There are 225 counties in Texas. |
OF these 154 are unorganized. In |
1873, 1914 counties voted for Cover |
nor. Since then nine counties have |
been organized, making in all 164 or
ganiZed counties.
One day last week man named
Edwards stole wagon and pair of |
mules from Mr.. Wicket, who lives |
about three miles northwest of Pa |
ris, Lamar county. WickePs wife |
elOped with Edwards.
Tuesday five prisoners escaped |
from the Houston Jail. Among them
were the celebrated Odell brothers, |
John and James. This is the third
time they have escaped, and they |
boast that no Jail in Texas can hold
them,
w. NJ. Goss, a well-to-do freedman,
living pear Tyler, was shot i'll the
breast and seriously injured Tues
day by his son-in-law, John Jeflers,
who was intoxicated. Sheriff But
Ter captured the assassin and lodged
him in Jail.
Near San Antonio Saturday night
four men and n boy, ut the point of
a pistol. robbed Ed Tewes, store,
east of there, of $1,000. Two of the
robbers were caught in San Antonio
the next night. The officers expect
TO get the remaining three.
The wheat crop of southwestern
BQrEet has averaged very well. Mr..
Roper, at Marble Falls, has so far
threshed outsome 5000 or 5000 BUSH
els for his neighbors, with several
thousand more engaged. The aver
age per acre is five or six bushels.
On Sunday evening, in Houston
| county, young man named Gabriel,
while riding wild horse near the
residence of Mrs. Aiken, was thrown
against a stump and killed. His
ribs on one side were crushed in
and he only survived few minutes
The preliminary examination of
the case of the State V. W. p. Allen,
charged with killing Deputy Sheriff
Garrett. at Brenham, has been con-
cluded. The justice decided to hold
the defendant in bond in the sum
of $500, to await the action of the
grand jury.
Sunday night. on the TeLuacana,
twelve miles from Waco, three men
rode from the bushes and surround
ed Mr.. j. a. Foreman, who was trav-
cling, and with drawn pistols COM
PEELED him 10 hold up his hands.
| They then took from him twenty
two dollars and passed on.
Tuesday last, at Palestine, Chesly
Thomas. a negro, shot another negro
by the name of Straw, in the back,
infiicting a serious though not fatal
wound. Straw was drunk at the