The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-31
STATE NEWS.

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Peaches have been selling in the
northern counties of the State for
twenty-five cents bushel.
The surveyors have arrived at
Columbus to locate the railroad
between that point and San Antonio.
The oat crop is fine in northern
Texas, and the corn is also turning
out very well.
Texas cattle are said to be strewed
thickly all the way from the Rio
Grande to Kansas. The market is
glutted.
The proposal submitted to the
voters of Galveston to donate $780,
900 to the Central Transit Railway
Company, has been defeated.
Our devil lays down on the Aus
tin Gazette and covers himself with
the "Herald;;" he says there is
GOODNESS between them.-San AatO-
mo Erpress.
The new iron steamer "City of
Houston" Capt. Partridge, belong
ing to the Mallory Line of New York
and Texas steamers, sailed. from
New York on the 18th inst, on her
first trip to Galveston. II .t
Two hundred ready made buildings
have been shipped from Chicago to
Colorado recently. They are said
to be the easiest things put up and
the readiest things to blow down
that can be we'll imagined.
The City Marshal informs us that
real estate assessed in Columbus
amounts to the sum of $264,090.
The ad valorem tax is twenty-five
cents on the 100 dollars Colorado
Citizen.
About seventy five thousand dol
lars have been subscribed to the con-
struction of the Huntsville Tap Rail-
road, which is to connect Huntsville
with the great Northern line some
eight or ten miles east of Huntsville.
GoLD.-Mr. Ed. Braden stepped
into our sanctum Tuesday and handed
US "nugget" of gold, worth about
So so, which was picked up in Llano
county, on the San Fernando creek
upon land belonging to Mr.. Lawrence
Miller.-,S. 4. Herald.
The data at the Post Office
Department warrants the estimate
that 10000 people have settled in
Texas during the year. Perhaps
the data in the War Department
could tell us about how many have
been settled in Texas by Indian ma
RAIDERS, in that period.
George Kalteyer showed us day
or two since rawhide bag full of
ore taken from the earth in Llano
county. 1t is part lead and part
silver, and will eventually be obtained
in great quantities, we have no doubt.
He estimates that it contains 100
dollars worth of silver in every ton
of Ores. 4. Herald.
The Steamship Fire Fly left this
port last Thursday, bound for Phil
adelphia, with full cargo of slaught-
cred beef, kept fresh by the refrige-
rating process. She had on board
about $50 tons of ice, to be used in
keeping the meat cool and fresh.
This is new scheme, and we sincerely
hope it may succeed. Rockport
Transcript.
The subjoined items are from the
Huntsville Item.
The sheriff of Ell Paso arrived
here last Friday with some convicts
from that far west country, distant
1000 miles. The transportation bill
was $1,000.
Judge Sabin is reported to have
resigned the Judgeship of Galveston
anu DIdLOIld COuuGlGSs
The sherifalty of Harris county
is worth $25, 900 year.
The Liberty Gazette says cotton
picking is going on briskly in that
section now, and that cotton and
corn promise fine yield.
Corn is also good-much better
from the accounts given in our ex-
chanes, than in most parts of the
State. This section did not suffer
for rain like the country west of the
BRACES. In fact, East Texas is a
much more certain farming country
than either West or Central Texas.
1t has much better seasons, and is
much less liable to drOuths.
Galveston has always boosted of
the fine fish and oysters to be enjoy
ed there, but it seems that they are
now suffering from too much fish.
The papers state that the harbor is
full of dead fish, that the shore is
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of their putrefaction is intolerable.
It is supposed that the cause of their
death is in the waters distant, per-
haps from volcanic eruptions further
south in the sea, which may have
turned boiling water upon them, or
by conclusion destroyed them. At all
events the fish are dead in countless
numbers, and the shore gives forth
impure and noxious Civilizations
Houston linton.
Two workmen employed in the
Menger Brewery were badly scalded
yesterday morning by hot water
escaping through a faucet. 1t is
feared one of them will die, although
the best of medical aid was promptly
in attendance. The names of the
unfortunate men are John Schmidt,
Polander, and Mr.. Reininger, a
German. Late in the evening, we
visited the scene of the disaster and