The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-29
rExAs-FAcrs AND rANorrs.

: Major Penn begins an engagement
at Corpus Christi this week.
: Texas exports more than So, 900. 900
worth of pecans every year.
1t costs $1,000 now to become a
member of the Galveston cotton
: exchange.
The city of Houston taxes her
boot blacks 50 per head, and makes
them wear badges.
On Senator Marion Martins
plantation in Ellis county there are
twelve cases ofsmall pox.
a Mexican lion is roaming about
in Waller county doing much dam
age to sheep and young cattle.
The st. George hotel property AZ
Dallas sold few days ago for $751;
600.
The Waco hammer and Ieic-
phone is now as large as any paper
in the state.
Texas Wool says the sheep inter-
ests have suffered less from the
dronth this year than ever known
before.
| Considerable excitement exists at
Dallas over the killing OF Chambers
by Freeman. Public opinion seems
divided.
Hon. w. III. Pope, of Fort Worth,
late ofJetlerson, is being mentioned
by his friends for attorney general
next year.
From all over the state come re-
ports that stock on the range is
winteriDg finely, and Keeping in ex-
| ccllent condition.
At Luling the colorcd people have
a secret organization, known as
brothers of the Eastern Star aud
Sisters of Wonders"
United States Marshal Norton
says all the government patronage
in the south can't make Wash.
Jones governor ofIcxas.
The FIRST term OF district court
over held in the newly organized
county of Jones was begun on
Tuesday last.
At Crockett, on Tuesday morning,
one negro stabbed another. killing
him instantly, the blade of his pot
metal knife entering the heart.
We notice from the papers that
farmers of the state evince deter
mination TO plant more small grain
next season than has been customary
heretofore.
The Victoria Adcocate says that
farmers in its county have q fair
stock of corn on hand, and that no
northern corn will be imported for
some time TO come.
Tie stage between Kerrville and
Boone, was overhauled by hIgeway-
men. One passenger lost $3.50. A
commercial traveller in the same
community was relieved Of $3.50.
Robert Rowley, United States
prisoner, died in the San Antonio
jail Sunday. lie had been sentenced
to ninety-nlne years in the peni-
Tertiary, for mail robbery.
Here is a"pointer" for some Texas
Greenback paper: "Why is paper
money more valuable than coin
Because you double il when you
put it in your pocket, and when you
take it out you find it increases"
Mr. G.. NJ. Wooten, young man
from Maryland, cultivated land in
Falls county and raised twelve bales
of cotton and other products, and
| yet he seeks employment ut the end
of the year in the town.
One San Antonio land firm has
disposed, i'll six weeks, of $4,000 of
land in Frio, Medina, Karnes and
La Sale counties, purchased for
both agricultural and grazing pur-
poses. The price paid has been
from fifty cents to So per acre.
Major Seth Mabry, Captain Dris-
kill, Doc Day, Major John G. Lewis,
John Blocker and other gener-
Gus gentlemen will see that every
thing is we'll arranged at Austin for
the meeting of the stockmen's con-
vention.
Texas has taken in special pre-
miums al the Atlanta exposition
among them corn, wheat and corn.
Kansas competed strongly for corn.
but Texas took the premium. The
grand premium, of five hundred dol
lars, for the best general collection,
was divided equally between Texas
and Kansas. The Texas display
was made by the Gould railway or
ganiZation.
| A fight between desperadoes and
six freighters in the northwestern
part of Clay county resulted in the
death of two ofthe frcighters, Albert
Boland and George Armstrong, ~
negro cook. One of the robbers
/ xuntn1nA lint frof oh fos
had 10 retire and their horses were
taken into the nation by the despe-
radoes.
Dallas Times: The cars hadn't
gone mile after they ran over Mr..
DinkiDs, the fish commissioner OF
the state, and killed him, before
there were about one hundred APP
plicants for his position. In many
instances, these applicants don't
know whether minnows are born,
and nurse rs colts or pigs. or
whether they are Matched from
eggs.
i The annual meeting of the Texas
State Wool Growers Association
will be held at the office of the sec
rotary, Mr.. Z. j. Moss, in San An
tonic, Tuesday, January 10, 1882.
1t is important that each county
association in the state should send
one or more representatives, and in
counties where no organization
e exists, any wool grower of such
county will be recognized at the
) meeting as representative of such
: county.
Mr.. John Harris. for some time
past one of the principal and m OFT
successful sheep owners of Tom
Green county, has sold TO Mr.. j. Il.
Hodgson his entire flock Of 1000
head of fine graded sheep for $50, 900,
trip to California and England, and
, on his return, il is said, will stock
: his fine 10000 acre ranch with i'm
: proved cattle. BY this purchase
Mr. HodgsoD. already a large owner,
became one of the principal sheep
men of Texas, and with valuable ex-
perience already gained, will UNI
doubleday make grand success Of
his enterprise.
A SToCKBIEN'S CoNvENTIoN.--The
looming convention at Austin on the
; fourteenth day of 4 ebruary will be
q stockmen's convention. 1t might
have been, or be, inferred that IL
was intended as exclusively q cattle
mems convention. On the contrary,
stockmen-cattle raisers, sheep rails
ers, horse raisers, drovers, buyers,
shippers, in fact, every man in Texas
interested, directly or indirectly, in
the stock business, is expected to