The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-10-06
Texas-Facts and Fancies
Rockport has a bone mill.

UalVeSlOu mas contributed about
$1,000 to the Michigan sufferers.
Corn is retailing at one dollar per
bushel in Gonzales county.
The Tyler Courier is still bother
ing itself figuring on the university
election.
The value of property in johnson
county, as shown by the assessment
rolls, is $2,643,471.
Beaumont is infected with a gang
OF "sixshooter roughs" who defy
the officers of the law.
Work upon the coal mines in Ste
phens county progresses satisfac-
torily.
7. S. Neathery suieided ut Gle
burne last week by taking lauda-
mum.
About two thousand bales of cot
ton have been received at Mckinney
this season.
The Seventh Day Adventists will
commence a camp-meetinga at Dallas
on the 9th.
Jack Post, for murder, is to be
hung at Graham, Texas, on Friday,
October 28th.
For the year ending September l,
the receipts of cotton at Jefferson
were 80, 344 bales.
There is some excitement in Mon
tague county over the discovery of
copper and silver mines.
The amount of wool shipped from
Corpus Christi for the year ending
July 81 is 100000 pounds.
The grand jury is in session at
Lockhart, and up to Saturday had
returned twenty indictments.
The Rio Grande has been on a
boom recently, and caused some
damage by overlooking near Ell
Paso.
Major Penn has coralled big lot
of sinners at Weatherford, and will
not take down his gospel tent until
October 10th.
The manufacturing interests of
Sherman are in a most prosperous
condition. They have all they can
manage in the way of business.
Mr.. Samuel ii. Boren, an old and
respectable citizen of Tyler, died
suddenly last Wednesday of heart
disease.
Mr.. Wash King, of Coryell county,
on eight acres of land made 224
bushels of wheat this year, an aver
age of % bushels to the acre.
A young man named Eli Ferris,
recently married, was killed by
James Butler, near Daileyville, Will
son county, last Monday night,
week ago.
Last Friday Mr.. Jones, living near
Magnolia Springs, Jasper county,
while attempting to put timber in
the river at Ford's Bluff, was crushed
by logs falling on him and died from
the effects of injuries received.
At Dallas, on the oath of Septem-
Der, Willie Edwards, a boy eight
years old, attempted to light fire
with coal oil. The can exploded,
and the little fellow was horribly
burned.
On the 25th ult. the cotton gin Of
James Wells, six miles west of Ferris,
Marion county, was burned, to-
gether with forty bales of cotton.
Loss, $4,000, covered by an insurance
of $1,000.
The citizens of Fairfield, Freestone
county, want the governor to par
don an old man named Jones, SEN
fenced TO the penitentiary for theft
of hogs. A petition with 400 names
has been sent to the governor.
The Texas and Mexican railroad
has made a proposition to the citi-
zens of Victoria to establish the
junction of their Galveston and Ty-
Ter branches at that place in consid-
Grafton of $1,000 bonus.
Bud Higgins, one of a gang who
robbed the Lampasas mail stage
some time ago, was captured near
Groesbeeck. Friday, by w. E. Smith
postoffice inspector, and Constable
John Klmball. He was taken while
at a dance.
William j. Cannon, living on Oys-
ter creek, Brazoria county, about
seven miles from Vetasco, died at
his home last Friday night at 10
o'clock. He was one of the old pio-
neers of Brazoria county, and a
Mexican war veteran.
The assessed value of real and
personal estate in Gonzales county
in 1870 was 81, 548,365. In 1880 it
was 1895, 2S3-nearly double. In
1870 the population was 1851; 1880
it was 1880 an increase of $3.50.
Bowden, who was indicted for the
murder of Mrs. Hester, in johnson
county, in March, 1877, was taken to
Hood county on a change of venue.
The trial came off last W eek at Gran
bury, and resulted in his conviction
and sentence to the penitentiary
for life.
The Southwestern University at
Georgetown opened last Monday
with ninety-eight students, and the
young ladies school with ffty-three
names enrolled. This is an increase
of twenty-one students in the male
and twenty-five IN the female depart
ment over last year.
A couple of Chris tians, one Bap-
inst and the other a Christian, by
the name of Cole and Harrol on
going home from Rev. Manning's
meeting, near Hope, Victoria coun-
ty, got in dispute about the SER
mon which ended in Cole being cut
and seriously wounded by Harrol.
Lycurgus McCracken, on his way
home from the penitentiary, where
he had served two years and eight
months, he being released four
months before his term was out, on
account of good conduct, was ar
rested at Luling last Tuesday, on
charge of theft.
Burr Couch, aged IL years, SON of
James Couch, who resides near
Italy, Ellis county, picked 3O1
pounds of cotton in one day and
stopped picking an hour and q half
before sundown-this too in cotton
that had been picked oyer once. On
the same day Billy Erwin, aged Is,
picked All pounds in the same field.
Friday, at Palestine, the money
desk in Matthew's stable was broken
open, and large sum of money was
stolen. Investigation by City Mar
shall Rogers proved that one Comp
ton, employed by Matthews, had
opened the desk, stolen the money,
relocked il, and then smashed the
hinges TO excite suspicion of rob-
berry. He confessed, and was sent
to Jail.
Mike Dean, in the employ of the
Sunset, was stopped Friday evening