The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-07
STATE NEWS.


Gen. Sam Houston, has gone to Yves.
Point for four years.
Red River county has produced a
GO pound watermelon.
The Bayou at Jefferson is SO low
that navigation is suspended.
The Temperance Council at Vic.
toria is still fOurishing finely.
The Corpus Christi Valley says
competent engineers will soon sur
vey route for the ship channel.
Rev. ]. W. P. Mckenzie has ia
ken charge of Marvin college at
Waxahachie.
DeGress has appointed the noto-
rious DR.. R. K. Smith an examiner
of the teachers of Public Schools at
Galveston.
Annie Kelly, of Bryan, aged IA,
was recently burned to death in at
tempting to kindle the kitchen fire
with kerosene.
The citizens of Kendall county
call upon the Federal and State Gov~
ernments to protect them from Indi>
an depredations.
The Gonzales Inquirer says wag>
on loads of beans are being brought
to town by the negroes. They
readily command fifty cents barrel.
The following patents were grant
ed to Texans for the week ending
August Is, 1871: Ed. A. Ander-
son, Brennan, hame-tug for harness,
and to Herman Miller, Belleville, for
a steam pillow.
1t is astonishing what immense
quantities of lumber pass through
our town. A train of lumber wa
CONS is in sight almost constantly,
and even throughout the night the
tide is undated. Paris Press.
Texas has over a hundred and
fifty organized counties, and Calves
ton alone pays larger tax than the
whole State did at any time previous
to the present administration. -
Kaufman Star.
In Delta county, on last Saturday,
a Mr.. R. W. Winfrey shot and killed
one Mr.. P. A. Randall. The for
mer individual was not of a sound
mind, and imagined that the latter
sought his life.-Paris Press.
The corn crop in this section has
been greatly damaged by drouth.
Cotton has grown off. finely; the
stalks are heavily boiled, and unless
the worm attacks the crops, the yield
will be good.-Paris Press.
The Liberty Observer says that in
Liberty county alone there are now
ripe upon the vines, grapes enough
to make wine for the State of Texas.
There is no country in the world
where grapes are so productive.
The Gonzales Inquirer estimates,
from the most reliable accounts fur
nished by planters, the cotton crop
of that county will not exceed two
thousand bales, which is only about
one-third of what was anticipated.
The location of the State Agricul-
tural College near Bryan seems to
have been conditioned on the pay
ment of $4,000 by Brazos county
and the city of Bryan. This condi4
ton not having been complied with,
the committee propose to look out
another location.
Something like a tornado passed
over San Saba few days since.
We have not heard the particulars
but have been informed that the court
house, frame building, was blown
down, and one or two of the business
houses were considerably shocked.
Other out-houses were blown down.
Lampasas Dispatch.
On Saturday last a train belong
ing to Messrs. Warren & Dubose,
while near the Ward place, at the
head of Cechi valley, some twenty
mules were stampeded by the Indians
while on herd. This occurred in
broad day light. The mules were
not recovered Weathertord Times.
Newcomb said that Degener could
90 over to New Braunfels and drink
a few glasses of beer with those Ger
mans, and they would vote to man
for him. He seems to have been
mistaken, if our account from there
is corrcct.-JS. A. Herald.
John Smith, who was scalded
short time since at the Menger brewe-
ry, and who, by virtue of the mater
nal care of Mrs. Menger and others,
was in a fair way of recovery, sud-
denly became worse on Wednesday,
and died at 7 o'clock p. m. the same
evenings. A. Erpress.
On Wednesday last, the engineer
of the Trans Continental Road was
here, en- route for Jefferson, where, in
less than thirty days it is designed
to begin work on the branch road
from that city to Texarkana, inter
secting the Trans-Continental at
the latter point.-East Teras BWHe-
tin.
A messenger from Fort Sill re-
ports at Jacksonboro that a few days |
since five men and two women, whites,
were killed on farm by Indians,
few miles from the Fort. General |
Mckenzie, we hear, has not found |
any Indians, and is compelled by
lack Of water for his horses to retire |
where he can find it. Weatherford |
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