The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-10-13

"A farmer, near Rice, swallowed
his false teeth the other night. They
lodged in his throat, and were
iished up by doctor.
A negro named Frank Lucky was
taken from the Jail at Workman one
night last week and hanged to a tree
He was not very lucky.
There are two colored LAWYERS
practicing in the district court at
BRENNAN, and one of them has a
number of divorce cases.
The Texas and st. Louis railroad
carries passengers at three cents per
mile, and cotton one dollar less per
bale than any other road i'll the
state.
The agricultural department esti-
mates that four per cent. of the acre
age of Texas can produce enough
of cotton to supply the whole
world.
James McKeOwn, representing
NAPLES, Lingo & Co., of Denison, at
tempted suicide last week by taking
morphine. The stomach pump
saved him.
Brentwood is enjoying a boom
over the prospect OF the speedy
building of the Santa Fe road to
that town. Real estate has advanced
greatly in the last thirty days.
AT Denton few nights since an
attempt was made to assassinate Mr..
j. w. Edwards, a member of the
grand jury. Every effort should be
made to ferret out the wOuld-be as
sassin and bring him to punishment.
A Chinaman who has been wash
ing filthy buds at Fort Clark and
San Antonio for three years, started
home this week, carrying with him
the earnings of his labOrs, some
$1,000.
Within the last ten years the taxa
bic property of Orange has in
creased from $26l, 965 TO $751; ,458,
and her population from 1925 to
1898. Ten large saw mills are in
operation in the place.
Texas sells annually four hundred
thousand head of cattle. At $50
per head it fOots up grand aggre-
gate of $8,000,00O. According to
the census returns, Texas, in 1873,
cultivated 2,173,732 acres of cotton
producing 8O2,643 bales, worth $4O,-
100000.
The west Texas corps efengineers
were at Fayetteville Friday, making
survey on both sides of the town
for the purpose of building the road
and establishing a depot. 1t is
claimed that Fayetteville can ship
from 10000 10 1900 bales of cotton
yearly.
The Sunset road is now open for
travel to HOndo City, fifty miles
west of San Antonio. The track on
this road is laid across the Sabinal,
seventy-tive miles west, and it is re-
ported that trains will run regular
" to that point by the middle of the
month.
Tue .ISoO Round Docks says: A
train of sixty wagons and teams
passed through Round Rock yester-
day morning, the seventh, bound for
work ON the Austin and NorthWes-
tern narrow gauge. 1t reminded
one of army times.
Two men from Dewitt county,
James Long, alias Mason, and Mar
Gus Tyler, were arrested at Lock-
hart last week and jailed, in default
of $4,000 bond. They are charged
with the theft of 101 head OF cattle,
last spring, from V. Weldon, in De-
Witt county, which they sold to
Bill Jennings, i'll Caldwell county.
Mason has eleven indictments
against him in Guadalupe county.
Up in Ennis county a young man
named Ennis picked 500 pounds of
cotton per day; another, named
Primrose, SOC; E, A. VIM, SIS;
Tony Williams, $50; Miss Lena Lar
che, daughter of Captain S. o. Lar
che, aged thirteen years, can pick
$50 pounds per day. Lumpkins &
Atkins have ginned over 400 bales
this season.