The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03
TExAs-FAcTs AND FANc1Es

fiend.
A good sober printer CD is wanted
at Floresvllle.
One B. j. Kopp perl, of book and
stationery fame, has been seen up
about Blanco City.
The fire that started in the Gen
saloon at Dallas destroyed the en-
tire block, valued at $4,000.
W. W. Settle, of Schulenberg, has
a rifle which was presented to his
father by Gen. Stephen F. Austin.
Cyrus W. Field is notified that
there is a man down here i'll Texas,
named Garfield, and that he needs a
fund.
The Waco cotton exchange died,
because Waco was not the place for
the successful operation of such an
institution.
The Burnet county sheriff is still
wanted. He has been heard of in
the Indian territory and at Ell Paso,
but not where he is wanted.
They continue to fight the NUM-
cipal tax at Brennan. Judge Nc
Farland dissolved the injunction,
but an appeal has been made.
The young man Kirk, of Houston,
who committed suicide in Virginia,
loved a girl but not wisely; and
that was what was the matter.
The Star VindicdtOr is pleased at
the settlement of the university
question, and is satisfied no place
can afford to contest the decision.
Houston is making an organized
effort to secure the shops of the
Sunset route, and it is equal to any
undertaking, except the payment of
its bonded debt.
The Star Vindicator ais under
obligation to Senator Maxey for the
Congressional Record" The STATES
MAN is not, and it is its own fault
that such is so.
A Chinaman died in the poor
house at Waso the other day of
heart disease. His hands had been
badly burned while resculng a child
from burning house.
The way of the horse thief is hard.
He is being condemned in almost
every court in the state, and after a
while Texas, it may be hoped, will
know him no more.
Governor Roberts, in his ''little
book" says that the mesquite grass is
more permanently valuable to west
ern Texas, than all the cultivated
crops that can ever grow upon the
high lands.
Jack Post, hung at Graham, on
Friday, for the murder of L. B. Nc
Druitt, protested his innocence to
the last. He was a native of Geor-
gia, had lived in Texas eleven years,
and was 20 years old.
Though the preliminary evidence
showed that Thomas Love was not
responsible for the killing of his I'M
Gle, Colonel r. D Love, still he was
held in a bond of $500 for his ap-
pearance at the next term of the
district court in Blanco county.
Sheep are declining in price. A
lot of ewes that last spring could
have been sold for $3.50 were sold
a few days ago in Blanco county for
$3.50. 1t is not because sheep are not
as good property as ever but that they
have been held at fancy figures.
Graded sheep have been higher in
Texas than full blooded sheep in
the north and northwest.
1t will be remembered that about
a year ago, in Houston, one Matt
Bankston. a hoodlum, shot and
killed Greiger, a car driver. Bank
ston's case was lately called for
trial in the criminal court. and,
upon application of defendant, has
been continued, this being the third
continuance. He wants to prove
that he was crazy when drunk.
Wesley Sutton, aged about sixty
five years, and an old citizen of Fay
cite county, was arrested the other
day near Cameron, and taken to La
Grange and placed in Jail, on the
charge of completely in the murder
of an old negro in Chicken Grove,
near Round Top, in 1868. The head
less body of the negro was found in
a well.
A lady correspondent of the
Chronicle, Katrina Holfenhausen,
gets off this beautiful poetic scrap
Dot Dress club hat Gosling small,
Vich vas quite broud und dandy,
Ven py his dali dey put dot salt,
Und fed HIM taffy candy.
To dot brunswick hause he vent Won day
Dot silyery tongued young gander,
Und Schmidt did make him pay dot bill
Vich raised dot Gosling's dander.
In 1870 the congressional district
which is now represented by Wei
born was the smallest in population
in the state, containing only 1867
population. The fourth district,
now represented by Mills, contained
the largest number of persons, be-
ing 163,315. Wellborn's district now
has the largest, or 338,742, while the
first, represented by Reagan, was
next to the largest in 1870, it is now
the smallest, containing only 1922
1913 population. The sixth district
contains now 1885, 1896. With ten rep
resentatives in congress, 159, 900 will
be the number to each congressman
How sadly the 1900 candidates con-
template these figures.
Speak gently to the cowboy, when he's
"off of Bitter creek"
For then he's "wild and wooly-softly,
gently speak.
Filled with red-eYe he's "war boss u
and ruffled is his hair.
And he I" smells just like wolf" startled
from his lair.
He's "off the head of Bitter creek" and
on that stream, you know,
The folks get "worse and wOrser," the
higher up you go.
He's "hungry hip'potamus," without a
mark or brand,
That wants a little fresh meat to mix in
with his sand"
He's circus and menagerie all combined
in one,
And he ''totes" dangerous varmint"-
his ivory-handled gun.
FOREIGN NOTES.