The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-12

Richard Evans has been acquitted |
Of the charge OF murder at Fort
Worth. -
Mr.. R. II. Tisdale has been elected
Worthy Master OF Round Rock
Grange.
A BrephaYi man has been fined So
FOR shooting off his pistol in his own
house.
Young rowdies Of Navasota amuse
by breaking out the
church windows.
John Callahan killed R. L. Gray in
a personal difficulty, near Kerrville,
one day last week.
A grand masquerade ball is to be
given at San Marcos, on st. Valen-
tines eve, the 18th inst.
DR.. }. II. Baker, prominent ply
stefan of Navasota, died the oth-r day
and was buried near Plantersville.
The Dallas Herald has map of
Galveston harbor which would aston
ish Maj. Mansfield.
The young folks of Mexia recently
turned masquerade bali into Moth
er Hubbard party.
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hanged at Houston, on The 9th, for
murder.
The Ell Paso Star says the dynamite
fiends must be suppressed, but does
not say how.
In Cameron, the other day, a man
hltched his horse to mis- dog, the horse
ran away and kicked the dog to death
The Galveston News says thirt,
miles of rail are in readiness for the
extension of the Santa Fe west from
Lampasas.
Near Milano a few days ago, the
five-year old child OF Henry Hill was
bu. ned to death in th5 absence OF the
parents from the house.
Millsap has both the veteran Texas
editor, Joe Kirgan, and merchant
named n all. Kirgan now runs the
'MilIsap Press
James Lackey, employed by an East
Dallas merchant, departed the othel
day, and $35 of his employers money
with him.
The Black Jack Post explains why
his town is on boom, and attributes
it in part to it's situation in rict
f'rming country.
The sheriff of Bee county went witt
the recent Baptist excursion to Mon
terey, though, of course, not in his
official capacity.
The pecan trees in the creek bot
toms were very seriously injured dur
ing the late sleet by the breaking Of
limbs aud branches.
Two suits are to be filed in Austir
against the Galveston News for libel
One Judgment for $4,000 has jas
been rendered.-Fairfeld Recorder.
The San Marcos Free Press say:
it hopes to find good neighb0r il
the new editor of the Kyle News
whose name happens to be Neigh
! bors.
The place where the robber who
last December robbed Dr.. Cooke, neal
LaGrange, was captured, was on tht
Rio FRO, twenty miles from the town
of Uvalde.
A man living on the Bots dare
Fannin county, received notice The
other day, signed by his neighb0rs, Il
leave the community. No reason il
assigned.
In. the city of Dallas one hundred
and seven poor families are being re
lieved by charity. Dallas county ha:
forty-seven county convicts on he
poor farm.
A man from Live Oak county state!
that the cattlemen in that section AT
! feeding their cattle upon prickly pears
Trey burn off the thorns by placing ar
| oil crown un1ar the nlaDt
The Seguin Times man strongly ad
vises the farmers to the adoption o
mixed husbandry. Some farmers
however, haze an idea that they know
as much about their own business al
editors.
In 1>76 jim Raby, sheriff and collec
tor of Coryell county, left between
TWO DAYS. A few days ago he was at
rested in Indian territory and brough
back. He says he will clear every
thing uR.
The editor of the Corpus Christ
Critic has had q big scraps with chick
en- thieN es, whom he pursued so swift
ly that the rascals dropped one fin
gobbler. Both pursuer and pursued
made good time.
Mr.. Muller, of Homer. was sitting
in his house with his baby in his arm
on the goth inst, when some miscre
ant shot at him through the window
wounding the baby slightly. No cleV
to the perpetrator.
The tramps who shot and kille
Conductor Frazier near Overton, Of
the l. s. q. N. railroad, for attempting
to put them off the train, have bee
arrested and identified. They oagh
to pull hemp, and doubtless will.
William Wellborne shot and kille
DR.. S. B Allen at Alvarado on Satul
day night. They were brothers in-laW
and quarreled over an old settlement
Both were heeled drew their guns a
the same time and fired simultaneous
ly. Wellborne, who was uDhuTt, mad
his escape.
The Colorado Clipper says hat car
are humbug, but that if the legisls
ture viii pass law prohibiting sein
; ing and blasting for fish Texas water
will soon have good supply of natiy
fish, which are far superior to tn
German carp.
Mr.. G. Is. Patterson filed in the dii
| CQuIJ al w ctCO, q ou1b I'll
Missouri Pacific railway company fo
$4,000 damages. Mr.. Vim. Benedic
a German farmer. who resides in Be
: county, is plaintiff in the case, an
2 the claims are based on his being ru
over by train and sustained serior
> damages thereby.
!, The Uvalde West Texan says b
town wants wool-g gro |ers' associ
l ton, live stock association, wo'
and hide warehouse, bee keeper
f association, a downtown telegrap
office, telephone exchange, a refrii
Grated meat establishment. a stree
railway, reetimprovements, increa
D ed banking facilities and agood tailo
b Tyler has curiosity in the perso
: of a negro who eats glass for IL
c amusement of spectators. Old DO
. ties, window panes and the like l
seems to relish. it is said, as thong
!. they were dainty dish, His stoma(
t viii no doubt be proof ag int b
: lead when he gets to the 9TH
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