The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-10-19
STATE NEWS.

Inc AICAiuHty MtSStuSeI Says
ten or a dozen free schools are in
successful operation in Collin county,
The Denton Monitor of September
30th, says a regular passenger hack
runs regularly from Denton to Sber-
man.
The Court House in Bosque coun-
ty was burned recently. 1t is said
to be the work of an incendiary.
The records were mostly saved.
One Car mandatory in Houston,
has completed and delivered seventy
cars to the International Railroad,
and fifty to the Great Northern.
A negro man, charged with muir
dering a negro woman in NaVasOta,
was arrested in a ball room in this
place last Tuesday night Bryan
Appeal.
The cotton crop of Colorado, will
overrun 1900 bales. The corn is
better than was anticipated. So says
the Colorado Citizen.
This years cotton crop, as a gems
eral rule, says the Brennan Banner,
will class grade higher than that of
last year.
At the last term of the District
Court in Victoria county, three freed
men we're sentenced to the peniten>
tiary.
The lessees of the penitential y
have made an improvement in the
dress of convicts. The new dress is
something similar to the Sing Sing,
New York prison fashion.
The Huntsville Republican, of the
9TH, states that considerable cotton
came in town during the last week,
which rapidly brought II cents per
pound.
Col. A. NJ. Hobby, of Galveston,
is to address the Agricultural, Me,
chanical and Blood Stock ASsocia-
ton of Jasper, at the Fair in Octo>
Der.
The Huntsville Item says: Gov
ernor, another walk round the State
House may do you good, just now.
The democrats have carried every
district, and the districts need purir
flying!
Joe Long, a negro policeman, shot
himself recently in Waco-acciden,
tally. It is thought Joe's time has
come. A later date says it has
come.
The Mckinney Enquirer says -
Sergt. V. A. Bond, formerly of the
State Police, and stationed at this
| place, has been sentenced to the penr
itentiary for term of three years,
for robbery.
The Waco Examiner says: A per-
feet hegira of "Yankee school
marms'' is reported from the North
ern States to Texas, where the pay
is nearly double what they have been
able to command "tO hum"
The Brownsville Sentinel in speak
ing of Gen. Tom Thumb Quick, says:
"If Munchausen was living in these
days, be would surely give him the
/ premium. He can beat Tom Pep-
per, whom the devil kicked out of
h-ll for lying.
4 countryman, by the name of
King, was seriously injured by a
freight train near the depot in this
place, last Saturday evening. He
had some difficulty in getting his
team to cross the track, was run into
by the train, and had both his legs
broken. He was taken to the drug
store of Messrs. Howell & Webb,
where he received prompt and eff,
cient medical attention. Ib.
VIM. Long, of Weatherford, re-
Gently addressed letter to the Pre-
sident touching the Indian troubles,
and received in reply the assurance
of W. II. Belknap, Secretary of
War, that the department is cred
IDLY informed that there have been
no recent raids about Weatherford.
To which the Times says: Then the
Department has been most miserably
lied to, for hardly week passes over
our heads that does not witness In
dian incursions."
Big Tree and Santana have not
been placed in the penitentiary.
The officer in charge of them at
Jacksboro refused to give them up,
claiming that he held them subject
to the order of the U. S. Govern
mcnt. 1t is thought the Indians will
redeem these Chiefs, paying for tbem
in horses, which may be stolen from
the people of the frontier. If the U.
S. Government value these chiefs at
5000 horses, those animals will soon
be scarce in this region.
The Paris Lamar county, Texan
reports: General Geo. P. Buell.,
chief engineer of the Texas Pacific
Railroad, paid Paris flying visit OH
Wednesday last, and remained until
Thursday morning, talking railroad
with cur citizens. He is using his
influence to get permission from the
President, Marshall O. Roberts, to
employ about $50 or 500 hands on
the road between Jefferson and
Clarksville, in order that he may be
able to push the work across Sui phur
before the spring rains set in.
The Gazette, Cooke county, gives
the following: We believe the wheat
yielded more than half crop, while
the oat crop was never better, and
from all points we can hear of an
abundance of mast that will guaran>
tee cheap bacon. Corn is selling,
delivered in town, at IS cents; and
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