The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-04
TEXAS FACTS AND fANcIEs.

NaVasOta has received her nrSt
bale.
The Collin county fair begins Oc-
tober 4th.
p. B. Soffold is now editor of The
Giddings Lone Star.
The knights of Honor meet at San
Antonio next Tuesday.
The grangers of Ellis county had
celebration last Saturday.
Quite a number of buildings have
been erected at Laredo recently.
Last week all the prisoners in the
Beaumont Jail made their escape.
The Fort Worth Democrat is to
put a steam attachment to its presses.
The Texas-Mexican road is receiv-
ing heavy supplies at Arkansas pass.
Boil worms have appeared III
some cotton fields in Collin county.
Nearly every paper that is picked
up now has the head line, "the first
bale"
There was fine rain at MeXia
last Saturday, the first in eight
weeks.
''Knocked down and robbed" is a
common heading in the Dallas
papers.
They pick up a floating dead man
in the bayou at Houston every now
and then.
Sugar-cane in Montgomery county
is doing well, and prospects are fair
for good yield.
Another precinct heard from. A
farmer in Clay county claims that he
discovered the comet.
New York parties are in San An
tonic investigating the advantages
for competing water works.
A gentleman of Tyler has peach
limb eight inches long that contains
seven large Chinese cling peaches.
Mrs. E. Tullis, poor white lady,
committed suicide at Dallas Wed
nesday. Poverty and low spirits the
cause.
A farmer near Kosse has a cotton
stalk four feet high, and containing
one hundred and fifty bolls and
squares.
VIM. Burton, who was recently
committed by Governor Roberts,
has been sent from WeatherfOrd to
Huntsville.
A man was run over and killed by
train at Marshall, Tuesday. He
was stranger, and no one knew
anything of him.
Burglars continue to worry the
Dallas people, and the police are
arresting all suspicious characters
found on the streets.
The state meeting of the Christian
Church was held in BOnham last
week, and well attended. The church
has membership of $4,000 in Texas.
A negro III Montgomery county
was recently killed by lightning.
He was sitting in house with sew
eral others, none of whom were hurt.
At the celebrated female college
of Elmira. New York, Miss Hender-
son, of Tyler, Texas, was awarded
second art prize. There were 300
competitors.
A penitentiary convict, aged
eighteen years, working in the saw
mills near Phelps, shielded the other
day. He said he would rather die
than be a convict and he died.
The drouth in Collin county came
to an end last Saturday, after hav-
ing lasted fifty-seven days. Men and
women were seen crying for joy as
the big drops fell thick and fast.
The ladies of Waco being an
noyed and worn out by the ineffi-
cheney and impudence of colored
servants, are making arrangements
to import white girls from the
north.
BRENNAN Banner: Governor
Roberts son Bob, who has been bag
gage master on the international
road, has been promoted to be sta
ton agent at Pearsall, west of San
Antonio.
A man and his son were bitten by
a huge rattlesnake near Dallas the
other day. But Dallas whisky being
rank poison was found a most per-
feet antidote. Why does not some
one try 1t for hYdrophobia?
1t seems that Dallas is about to
fail to make up the $4,000 required
to secure the narrow gauge branch.
The Herald says the people are very
willing to give the right-ot-way and
depot grounds, but nothing more.
| An old hunter informs the San
Antonio Express that the new game
law, as applied to deer, is of no eff
feet, as it permits the killing of deer
in the summer. He thinks no deer
should be killed before the 1st OF
September.
| Quite a sensation has been Great
ed at Denison. The Herald intimat.
ed that several doctors there have
been protecting young women who
had no right to be mothers. The
M. DIS. are wrathy, and an investiga.
ton will follow.
A dandy negro from the north is
on duty as a custom officer at Lare
do. He made himself quite efficiou:
in capturing a bottle of mescal from
the bosom of a Mexican woman
The Laredo Times thinks that if the
negro values his bacon he will pull
up stakes and leave.
Greenville Independent 1.-THE
corn crop of Texas, owing to the
continued drouth, it is estimated
will be almost failure but as O
superabundance was raised last
year, and as in almost the entire
corn section of The state there is a
good supply of old corn on hand, il
is hoped there will be no necessity
of importation.
Charles 5. Morse, deputy grand
sovereign inspector-general for
Texas, of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, was
in San Antonio last week working
in the interest of that order. While
there he conferred the degree OF
sublime prince of the royal secret,
the thirty.second and highest degree
of the Scottish Rite, upon P. B.
Freer, John III. Bolton and j. ii.
Smye.
A st. Louis Globe Democrat
special from Dallas speaks of curl
Gus instrument that was abandoned
in the road eight miles east of Rock
wall, four years ago. 1t is thought
to be some kind of an astronomical
instrument, and the old man in
charge of it was murdered for what
effects he had with HIM and on his
person. The correspondent puts
the value of the abandoned instru-
ment at $4,000. He says no man in