The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-20

Texas News and Comments.
The Crisp family are playing at Fields
Theatre In Dallas. Seventy persons
from Middle Tennessee arrived at Dallas
last Thursday. They are prospecting for
future homes and settlements, and are all
of the right sort to make good citizens We
should be clad Of some in this direction
For the past two weeks protraeted
meeting has been going on at Gainesville
among the Presbyterians. Business is said
to be brisk in that frontier town.
A census of Galveston is to be taken.
The Nelcs thinks the population Of that
city will turn out to be more than is gener-
ally conceded.
The Waxahachie Democrat reports line
hunting in that vicinity. The beautiful
new Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Ennis was dedicated last week.
The total deaths in Galveston during the
last week were only eleven, decrease from
thu week previous. Fifteen hundred bales
OF cotton were received on the eighth inst
The Howard Association of Shreveport
have issued circular stating that persons
can safely visit that city by coming in at ten
o'clock and leaving before shutdown
The Denton Monitor informs us that the
Kansas Pacific Road has just gotten decis-
ion of the court, giving it a right of way
through the Delaware Reservation. J. d.
Ferguson has been elected Mayor of Denton.
The Catholics of Houston are preparing
to give a grand concert, the proceeds of
which are to be devoted to the building of a
Convent in that city.
The San Antonio Erpress saws that the
Indians have been down about the region Of
Medina county. It is reported that they
killed ono Mexican. The Fort Sill treaty is
doing wonders.
A Mr.. N. s. West, who brought the tea
plant from California, has been raising it
successfully here in Texas, as we are in
formed by the Waco Examiner. II grows
freely without much cultivation, and our
soil and climate seem adapted to it. Why
should we not raise our own teal
The Gonzales Enquirer saws that the ac-
counts from the cotton crop are discourage
ing The freedmen in many instances are
leaving their own crops and hiring out to
pick the crops of Others The crop is
plentiful, but the laborers few.
A beef packery in Denison turns off from
fifty to hundred beeves a day, shipping
mostly to New York.
There was strike among the Merchants
Cotton Press men in Galveston few DAYS
since, in consequence of reduction of
wages.
The Mexia Ledger says that large amounts
of freight have been arriving at that place
during the last week. Business brisk.
The Denison Netcs says that the number
of immigrant wagons passing through that
city is increasing daily. Sweet potatoes are
selling there at fifty cents bushel Why
should they be so much higher here?
The Cuero Star has been enlarged and
makes qnite handsome appearance. This
paper is well conducted. and is an honor to
the new railroad town.
In Denison, on the eleventh inst, by the
falling of scaffold on the new cotton press
building, Mr.. Starr was Instantly Killed
and three Others seriously injured.
Old John Robinson telegraphs to Sherman
that he has between 500 and GOO uncontrol
able men along with him, and desires the
town police to be on their guard. This il
pretty shrewd advertising.
The Southern Patriot, a rather new panel
published at Mount Pleasant, in s.itu.
county, says the cotton crop of that county
will yield 1000 pounds of seed cotton pei
acre. Corn is short of expectation, pota
toes heavy yield, hogs few and the mast
abundant
In Corpus Christi, little son Of Mr. +,
G. Lane, three years old, was missing, and,
after search, was found in a tank.
drowned. He had evidently been playing
on the bank and had fallen accidentally
in says the Gazette.
The Texas ObserOor complains of tolera
bly, tight" times, but thinks a better day
is dawning.
We are sorry to learn by the Dallas Her,
aid that Mrs. Crutchheld, the mother-in
Law of Mr. ]. w. Swindells of the Herald,
is lying dangerously sick.
The Fayette County Record says that
cotton is coming in slowly, owing to the
low figures at which it is rated. The heav-
lest rains Of the season fell there on the
first and second instants
The colored Methodists of San Antonio
have been having quarrel and law suit
about church, and much bitter feeling pre-.
walls.
The Williamson county Reoofd notes the
decrease of crime in that county. A horse
now is rarely stolen. The last grand jury
had little to do.
The Burnet county Ezponeat speaks en-.
cOu1geingly of the silver mines in that
county and Llano. The yield is said to be
$3.50 to the ton. There IS talk Of putting
up large hotel in Burnett
Bexar county has registered so far 3055
voters. A negro made a most murderous
assault on q negro woman on the night OF
the fourteenth inst. He had not been ar
rested, having fed. The woman is in q
very precarious condition.
On last Tuesday eight wagon loads Of i'm.
migrants arrived at Denison from Illinois.
More are expected to follow.
One negro killed another with a hoe in
Milan county last week and fed. The be.
can crop is said 70 be very fno IN some part.
Of the county.
The gin house Of Nessrs. Hubbard and
Beasley, seven miles from Gonzales, wa
wholly consumed By FIRE on last Tuesday.
The entire loss i estimated st $27O0 a
protracted meeting Of the Cumberland
Presbyterians is going on il that toyED-
The Lampasas Dispaiek saws that cTsa.
many Indians were IN Llano and San Sab,
last week. and carried Of a great NAM
horses. The peace policy IS working ike
charm for the Indians.
4 Mrs. Flyn. IN attempting TO 60 on
hoard one Of the Morgan steamers ct IL
dianoIa. fell IN the wafer and W5uld hay.
been droWaed had Il not been for the gal
lautry Of Dir. sanburn, the teiegrsphic ope
rator.
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