The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-07-30

-et- Aut laDO4 OF lNc ministry were
blessed with the addition Of seven new
to the church.
The DenisOu Nescs states that the super
Of the mounted recruiting service
vas ordered on the twentieth to forward
one hundred recruits to Austin, Texas. for
the Fourth Cavalry, and all dispOsable COZ
pred recruits to the same place, for assign
nent to the Ninth Cavalry; also, eighty re
,ruits to Fort Dodge, Kansas, for the Sixth
cavalry. Twenty-one wagons loaded at the
government depot in this city on the TWEEN
ty-frst for Fort Griffin, and eighteen more
On the twenty-second.
The Galveston Mercury says that the
grand jury have acquitted young Cooper,
who, with his father. was charged with
killing by inches a young lady, his sister.
I. seems that she is really insane. and that
the bruises were caused by jumping from .
high window.
The Houston Ags states that the Morgan
Ship Channel contract is signed, sealed and
delivered. Morgan viii begin work by the
first Of September. The boats and ma
chinery which he has been using in Ber-
wick's Bay will be Immediately transferred
to Buffalo Bayou, and Morgan's vessels will
be loading and unloading in the bend be-
low this city just as soon as machinery,
men and money can open IA passage Or.
A. L. Plough is dead.
The Galveston Noes has dispatch which
says that kaufman and Grayson counties are
for Throckmorton. Judge
Hare has withdrawn from the race. Also,
a dispatch stating that there was de-
strIctive fire in Marshall on the twenty
second instant. Much damage and loss.
Quite number of houses suffered heavily,
the amount invested and the
insurance. a special from Groesbeeck states
that in the country Jack Miller shot Alonzo
Anglin nine times, while the latter was adj
vancing on him with an ak helve and a
piece Of scantling about five feet long. The
of a reduced tariff of rates,
and common arrangement between the
leading to Galveston is fixed be-
yond doubt.
The Weekly Echo states that the camp
meeting at Clear Fork closed recently.
There were several conversions and addi-
lions to the church. Work on the new Jail
will be commenced in few days. The
wheat crop of Caldwell county is not SO
large, but its weight per bushel is much
greater. "as q
The Victoria Adcocate says that the case
of Whitehead v. Nicholson, suit for posses
sion of the property known as the Globe
House, and which has attracted conadera-
BILE attention, was decided IN our District
Court last Tuesday in favor of TIE plaintiff.
Work upon the fair ground has begun.
Previous to 1861, two successful fairs we've
held in Victoria.
The Guadalupe Times has an obituary no
tice of Mr.. George Fred. Suchart, hodied
on the twentieth instant IN the eightieth
year of his age. He was a native of Got
tengen, in the kingdom of Hanover. lie
served under Lord Wellington in the Han
overean army at the battle of Waterloo.
he was good and honest citizen.
The editor of the Times has been presented
with a fig measuring seven inches in cir
conference. Not equal to the apple, which,
by typographical blunder, was stated to
weigh ten and half pounds instead Of
ounces. On the twenty-first instant, Ir.
Robert H. Brown, of Oakville, was mar
ried to Miss Amanda T. Buchannon, of
seguin.
The San Antonio Herald has letter finn
Col. John r. Baylor, announcing himself as
a candidate for Congress. he favors finn
tier protection and the improvement ofthe
harbors on the Gulf coast; believes th& it
is right to cross the Rio Grande in punuit
of the Mexican thieves. The Galveston,
Henderson and San Antonio Railroad sill
probably be finished and the cars running
to Luling by the first of September.
The track is put down at the rate Of Ialf
a mile per day. A line of stages will be
established from Luling to San Antofo
so that the trip can be made from San IN
tonic to Galveston in twenty-five no rs.
Flour will be shipped from ST. Loris to .u-
burg at $s.O1 per 100 pounds.
The local of the Hampstead Messebsr
will be held responsible for the following
by the red men: We have been trying for
the past two weeks TO exterminate bed OF
red ants, but have concluded to give itup
in despair The little things snuff Kris
green and dip their chewing gum in arsdic
they take their morning bath in scaling
water and look at you with a counter nee
overspread with "snile both childlike
and bland" and whisper, DO it bme
more" You may put your heel on on and
grind HIM foot into the ground, and like
truth he rises again aud goes on his WAY
rejoicing.
The Vest Teeas Free Press says that pro-
tracted meeting at the Presbyterian CT rich
began on yesterday evening. The BStist
Association is now in session near Plirie
Lea. A large attendance. District burt
commences on Monday. A large criIinaI
and considerable civil docket. Or. Ken
drick has returned and resumed Eelikous
services at the Christian Church. Thee is
a Mexican in Jail at this place on 6 argc
Of wife stealing.
The people about Iienpstead arc y re-
liable on the weather. The Nes1ags1says
that one week they say the crops W be
ruined il we do not have rair. It ines,
and then they say the crops win be lined
if it does not stop rainlng."
Z The Central Team gives list Of maliage
licenses issued from the clerks ofIit for
the week ending the tweuty-third infant /:
J. n. Craig 70 Mary X. Jones, Hdston
Lester 70 Eliza Knox, Jordan Wait to
Matte Lookout Wm Jordan Ia 1,,;.