The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

IA; lard firm.
Cotton dull-middliug upland 294; Orleans
2O5; sales $50 bales; stocks steady and firm;
Government bonds steady and dull State
bonds dull money easy 3 per cent; gold
steady at II; exchange long lO4, short log.
STATE NEWS.
BUSINESS is represented as brisk
at Indianola.
A SEVERE drouth is reported in
Tyler county.
THERE will not be half crop made
at Gainesville on account of the
dr0uth.
THE Mckinney Enquirer reports
only half crop of cotton planted
in that section.
Mrs. R. COHEN, of Houston, took
an over dose of laudnum last Satur-
day, and died the next Monday.
GEO. W. Cook accidentally shot
himself IN the brain at Gatesville and
died. He was carrying prisoner
to BOsque county.
A GOOD evidence of the rapid in-
crease in population of Coryell
county is the large number of strange
faces seen there every day.
Partial rains have fallen recently
in Northern Texas, and this fact to.
gether with the large area planted in
corn, will make that important crop
abundant.
THE Gainesville Gazette learns
there are now 20, 900 head of cattle
on that route, all of which, save two
droves, will cross Red River opposite
Gainesville.
DR.. G. J. LINDSAY, who killed a
Mr.. Smith at the Ward Hotel in
San Antonio, about a month ago,
has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life.
THE freedman, Henry Miller, who
was sentenced to be hung at the last
term of the District Court of this
county, will be executed. to-day week
Friday, 18th of July.--BrsRhdm
Banner.
A PRIVATE letter to the editor of
the Shreveport Gazette states that
the crops in Grayson and Collin
counties, Texas, are very fine. A
very large area has been planted in
grain, and but little in cotton.
DALLAS is to have new courthouse,
10 feet long by &c feet wide, two
stories, with tower and dome. 1t
will be one of the finest public build
ings in the State.
Houston is growing about the
proposed extension of the Texas
Central to Galveston. The growl is
needless, as it is a laughing matter
down this way.-Flake's Bulleton.
FRANK BAILEY, Charles Patrick
and a man named Brown were
arrested near Kansas City, recently,
for attempting to rob an emigrant
named Weir, and also attempting to
commit rape upon Mrs. Weir. They
we're cattle drivers in the employ Of
a Mr.. Hill of Taxas.
Gov. THRoCKMoRTON, the Texas
Director of the Texas Pacific Rail
road, has agreed with the city Of
Jefferson and county of Marion, that
the road shall be completed from
Jefferson to GAINESVILLE within twelve
months, on condition that Jefferson
and Marion county donate three
hundred thousand dollars to the COM
pany, which said city and county
have finally agreed to do.-HOust0n
Union.
THE line of the proposed Missouri
Kansas and Texas Railroad enters
the State at Preston, on Red River
in Grayson county, passes down neal
the Texas Central to the corner o
Kaufman county, where it forks
sending one limb down the valley o.
the Trinity on the east side, to Boil
var Point on Galveston bay. Thr
principle towns on this line ar,
Kaufman, Athens, Palestine, Crock
ct, Sumter and Livingston.
The amount of cotton shipped
north has far exceeded our mos
sanguine expectations, and the ship
ments are still going forward a
rapidly as ever. The .Arkansa
ferryman told us that one hundre,
teams had crossed, and we counte,
| ffty-six as we came down. Doubt
less we passed as many more durin
the night. Most of the wagons ha
eight bales, though some had on a
high as ten. The company ar
highly pleased with the success G
the neutrality-suspicious. Courier
DURING the past week we hav
conyersed with farmers from a
parts of the country, in relation
the effect of the present drout
upon the crops. The opinion is ger
orally expressed that the corn croE
though greatly injured, will, upo
; the whole, be equal to last year
crop. Although the yield per acr
will be much smaller, the number {
acres in excess of last year will max
! up the deficit. Some of our farm
ers claim that they will gather thirt
bushels per acre, while others VII
planted late, or failed to cultivat
, properly, will not realize ten
Bolton journal.