The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17
OVER THE STATE.

The number of commission mer-
chants in Brennan are increasing.
In the Panhandle crops are promis-
ing, but grazing not so good as
year ago.
Thomas Hogan, at Decatur, sui
cided the other day by disembowel-
ing himself with a troWel.
A Dallas county man caught an
alligator i'll Mud creed and petition
ed the city council to buy him.
A band of respectfully connected
young men in the vicinity of Athens,
Henderson county, are developing
INTO desperate outlaws.
The people of Sulphur Springs are
much interested in having the Paris
branch of the Houston and Texas
Central pass through their city.
The cry comes from north Texas
that there is not enough labor to
take care of the enormous crops,
and that it will have to be imported.
Only half dozen white men at
tended the Republican county con-
vention i'll Bastrop. Davis was en-
dorsed for congress, and Jones for
governor.
AT Burton, on Monday, Mr.. James
FL. Holt fired a couple of shots at
colored politician named Cheek,
who had insulted him. Cheek
skipped without getting hurt.
w. II. Chiffon, of Houston, has
invented new stamp for posting
lattarc Or for rouanua Tnrn0caS Tho
popularity of this stamp is, that
after being used once, it can never be
used again.
Crop prospects were never more
fiattering than now on all the Dove
Creek, Tom Green county, farms.
Oats all harvested and threshed,
turned out well, and weighed tEir-
ty-seven pounds to the measured
bushel.
A general court martial is ap-
pointed to meet at Fort Davis, on
the fourteenth day of August, 1882,
at 10 O'Clock a. m, or as soon there
after as practicable, for the trial of
such prisoners as may be brought
before it.
Messrs. H. L. Bentley and r. B.
SandersoD, of San Angela, left this
week for California. They will
bring back with them, by rail, a
large flock of fine California Merino
ewes, which have already been con-
tracted for, delivered aboard cars.
The Sulphur Springs Echo says,
because certain circus visiting that
place failed to advertise in the col
umns of the local paper, it denounced
the thing as obscence and induced
fully five hundred more people to
attend than would have done SO.
A cowardly murder was. commit
ted at a colored protracted meeting
in HillsborO, by young mau, Thos.
| III. Varnell, who raised a row with a
young negro, drew his pistol on him,
and then shot him in the back for
running away. Varnell then ran
away himself.
The Herald and Planter says John
Williams is engaged in securing the
right of way for the Palmer-Sulli-
van railroad through the Williams
burg section of Lavaca county.
Present indications are that road
will not 90 to Victoria, but will cross
the Guadalupe above CuerO.
A man claiming to be w. J.Lyons,
going around San Antonio begging
for charity, on certificates very like
ly written by himself, got OH his ear
recently because merchant refused
him aims. He was quite abusive i'll
his language until policeman ar
rested him and locked him up in the
cooler. He is an original looking
specimen, and was very drunk.
At Henrietta Monday a foul mur-
der was committed. Three cowboys
are implicated. A man by the name
of Irby, master of dance hall west
of the depot, was shot and killed by
one of the three cowboys. 1t is
thought they belonged to Worsham's
rancho. The boys attempted to ride
through the hall and were inter
ferred with by Irby. Four shots were
fired, one taking effect in the breast
and two in the leg. Irby shot a
horse branded "R. O." The parties
made their escape.