The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
Especial to The Statesman. |

DALLAS, Jan. 8.-Sheriff Douglas,
of Grayson county, passed north to-
night en- route from Tyler to Sherman.
with Sam Johnson, a white man cap
tured at Tyler on Saturday last.
johnson waylaid and outraged a
young white woman near Van
Alstyne, last November. The feeling
in Grayson county is very bitter
against him.
The creditors or their representa-
tives of Fain, Peere & Shelton, who
recently failed at Denton, with liza
bilities of $4,000, met in Dallas to-
day to arrange compromise by which
the firm might resume business. John
A. Gillian and L. Z. Baker, represent
ing the st. Louis creditors; j. Farley
the Galveston creditors; Judge Carroll
the aSSlgneeS, and other citizens OF
Denton were present. The firms as
sets are about Sl5,OOO.
The following gentlemen are in
the city adjusting old business mat
tiers OF the Chicago, Texas and Next
can Central railroad: ID. u. Hamilton,
OF Chicago, pres dent OF the Chicago.
Texas and Mexican; Cyrus Bent
ley, OF Chicago, attorney for the
same; Walter Gresham, OF Galveston,
attorney Tor the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa F'e road; James X. Simpson,
resident attorney Of the Anglo-Amer-
lean Land and Claim Association OF
EdlnDurg, Scotland. The latter COM
pany has some claims for conStruc-
ZION OF the Chicago, Texas and Next
can Central before it was purchased
by the Gulf, Colorado and SInta Fe.
Mr.. Simpson arrived home to-day di-
rect from Europe, and it is believed
that final settlement OF the compli-
cations OF the unfortunate road is at
last accomplished.
Samuel Wear, calling figures at a
country dance at Milford, in
Ellis county, night before last,
fell over dead. He was a
highly respectable young white man,
III the bloom of health. Heart dis
ease was the cause.
A woman living near the city limits
last night gave her child laudanum to
put it W sleep. She found it dead in
bed this morning.
The zeal OF certain Republican enc
mics OF Postmaster WhiSSen to get
him removed from office has finally
kicked up serious trouble. On Satur-
day evening last Wentworth Manning,
d 1Ormer deputy United States mar.
Shal, made atldavlt before United
States Commissioner Bentley that his
mail was being systematically robbed
and withheld from him at the Dallas
poStOttice, and that he was the only
Wentworth Manning or w. Manning
receiving mail at tins Office. To-day
Postmaster Whissen made atfida-
Wit before United States Commits
sioner Bentley charging Manning
with perjury, and papers have been
Issued Tor Manning 5 arrest. The post
office matter will undoubtedly bloom
out in full flower.
There is not doubt but NJ. L. Polk,
late treasurer of Tennessee, who re-
Gently defaulted and abScOnded from
Nashville with S4OO,OUO OF public
money, passed through Texas yeSter-
day, Via Houston, san Antonio, and
Laredo, EN- route to Mexico, and is 10y
this time in the interior OF that coun-
try. am indebted for this news to
one OF the most reliable gentlemen in
Dallas, whose word would not be con-
troverted by a man OF this city, who
knows him.. w. Thompson, Esq,
the partner OF the prosecuting attor-
ney Ut Dallas county. Mr.. Thompson
returned yesterday from Nashville,
via New Orleans and Houston. He
went to Nashville few weeks ago to
visit a lady relation at college, and a
Nashville lady returned to Dallas with
him. They remained several days i'll
New Orleans, on Saturday reSuning
their journey by the Texas ana
New Orleans railroad. Just before
the train started tive gentlemen en-
tered the coach in which Mr.. Thomp-
son and his lady companion were and
took seats together. She at once
recognized them as NJ. Il. Polk and
Van Polk, gentlemen she knew in
Nashville. The party Travelled to-
gether as far aS Houston, and on the
trip the conversation developed the
fact that Van Polk had contemplated
going to Mexico for several months
past, and had now started, having
succeeding in inducing NJ. L. Polk, to
accompany him. Mr.. Thompson nor
the lady had heard about the Tennes-
see treasury Swindle, and therefore
their suspicious were not aroused and
none of the party mentioned it. Sat
urday afternoon NJ. L. Polk busted
himself studying map and history of
Mexico, which Van Polk had bought
in New Orleans. The party sepa-
rated Sunday morning at Houston,
Mr.. Thompson and the lady taking
the nOrth-bOund Houston and Texas
Central train for Dallas, which makes
close connections at Houston, and
consequently saw no more of the
Folks. Mr.. Thompson purchased a
newspaper on the train, and for the
first time, and to the utter astonish-
ment of himself and his lady friend,
read the account OF Treasurer Folks
big dedication. The Folks undoubt-
edly went straight on via San An
tonic and Laredo for Mexico, nut it is
barely possible they have gone to
Galveston and shipped for Vera Cruz.
LATER A private telegram to-.
night from San Antonio says a man
was arrested there to-day as NJ. Il.
Polk, the absconding and defaulting
Tennessee treasurer.