The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-10-02


The neighbors, alarmed rushed in and
found a lOOkingglass shattered in pieces
the poor fellow had been firing at his own
reflection and looked q little crest-falien at
the exposure
The Stephensville Argus complains of q
set OF "dare devils" who are killing the
stock Of that vicinity for their hides This
IS cheap way Of making q living, but
very dishonest one. We trust the rogues
may be caught and punished.
OF the interments at Houston on the
twentieth, we notice i've put down as the
result Of congestion and one as typhoid
The total interments for week were TWEEN
ty-two.
The Rev. Carey Curry has brought to the
Rockport TFansaips stalk of corn with
five well developed ears. The same gentle
man had sea island cotton growing, the
stalk Of which, though large, was COM
pletely weighed down with bOlls.
We learn from the Examiner that the fam
lily of Col. Battle, supposed TO be poisoned
by drinking water caught from a painted
roof, are all recovering.
1t is now believed, says the ENQUIRER. that
the cotton crop Of Gonzales county will
equal two-thirds of bale to the acre.
The San Antonio Herald speaks of some
fine Egyptian and golden prolific cotton,
raised in Atascosa county. Fifteen acres,
it is thought, viii produce ten bales. Hith-
erto but little cotton has been raiied in that
county.
A cOuntryman was greatly frightened the
other day by finding many of the stores at
Galveston closed, and concluded the yellow
fever was prevailing. He was not satisfied
with the information, that it was the jew
ish New Year, which the Hebrew brethren
were keeping as holiday. He said he was
not fool enough to believe that it came the
middle of September and he made tracks
for home.
The Fort Worth Standard reports a great
many visitors to that place, looking out for
homes or places of business. 1t says there
is talk of its again becominga military post.
The dwelling house of Mr.. M. s. Carson,
at WaXahachie, was entirely consumed by
fire last week. Loss 81, 500. The fire orig
mated in store room in which some hot
ashes had been deposited. A protracted
meeting has been going on at the Methodist
Church jim that place.
The Henderson Times represents the health
of Rusk county improving.
Mr.. Collision, living in the west part
of Grayson county, went down into well
he was digging and did not return His
wife became alarmed and sent for a neigh
Dor, who came, when she insisted on being
let down into the we'll. She found her hus-
band dead, and, feeling sick herself, she
called out, and was drawn up nearly to the
top, when she fell back and both were at
last taken out dead, the effect of foul air.
The San Antonio Herald records the
death of a Frenchman living in that city,
but absent in Atascosa at the time of his
death. His horse run away, and, in run
ming after him, he struck his neck against
the limb of tree and fell dead His name
was Gregoire Clouset. Officer Solomon
White, bitten about two months ago, by a
mad dog, has died lately Of hydrophobia
A man named Russell was drowned in the
Brazos, near the mouth of the Bosque, while
bathing. The AiOdnce says that some of
the darkies, at the colored Methodist
Church in that city, could be heard mile
Of-even the sisters Our colored friends
are generally loud" on religion.
The Scriptural days of old are returning.
They have had genuine fall of "manna''
in Hill county, in the beautiful valley of
Ash creek. The ErpOsit0r says, it re-
manned in a gummy form, after all damp
ness was dissipated by the morning sun, and
was as sweet as honey and of s more deli
cate flavor l. is said to be no uncommon
thing in that region at this season of the
year.
Gen. J. B. Hood is in Sherman, where he
will remain few days on business. The
Trans-Continental has three locomotives at
Sherman. The Catholics are about build
| ing a church there.
They have Darwin lecturer at Paris, by
the name of Peterson. He will prove that
iIU descended from monkey. The North
Teran complains of the arrangement of the
school trustees there. The Baptists are
holding protracted meeting there.
Parson Rawley, whoever he is, has in
formed the Houston Age that he no longer
associates with the scrubs about town y
A wise determination, worthy more noted
man than Rawley.
The Lone Star Mills at Denison are turn
ing out one hundred barrels of superior
flour daily. Corn is said to be scarce in that
market. -
The Fayette County Record says the rains
have injured the cotton crop there A great
deal of sickness in the county, but the
health of LaGrange remains good.
The local of the Houston Telegraph think.
it hard that, after all the putting he ha.
given his friends, they viii make fuss
about the misspellIng of their names Il
is pleasant thing to find fault with an edi
tor. Other people never commit any errors
There was a grand barbecue and plenty o.
Nratory at Denison on the 9th, the ami
versary of the location of that place-only
one year old ard a population of five thou
sand or more.
The Denison Nelcs says Col Thos. Lips
comb and Henry Riley, implicated in tn,
shooting of young Fitzhugh on the It'll
inst, waived an examination before tn,
justice there and were turned over to Sheriff
Mcdowell and taken to Sherman on TIT
18th.
Ben. Good, one of the late city official
of Denison, has been sentenced to threl
years in the penitentlary.
The Dallas papers complain of that cit.
being infected with gamblers. Please tel
us the place that is not.
Our SICK PooR.-Our attention has FIRE
quently been called of late to instance
where sick and destitute persons have lain
upon the streets and in out-Of-the-way place
uncared for. The excuse for such a state o
affairs has in every instance been that tn,
hospital accommodations are inadequate
We ask, why inadequatel A city which car
boast of the finest public buildings in tn,
South; city whose churches are most liber
ally supported, and whose steeples reach ia
into the sky cannot we, in the name o
humanity, provide for its poor, its need,
and its sickl Let US have hospital like Al
omnibus-where there is room for ALL lie
us not ask where the poor sufferers com
from. Common humanity should impel u
to care for the sick, and afterward look 70
the Teward.-Ifoust0a Mercury.
From the Mercury we learn that in Hous
ton business is dull; politics lively; tia
Democratic clubs are being formed; tina
pretty girls are in abundance; huntin,
game around the city has played out; AM
that the city clock over the new Housto
elephant was to be illuminated on the nigh
of the seventeenth in honor Of some marke
house affair. The Democratic noniinatin
convention for members of the Legislator
from, that district will take n1aea on III