The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-09-24

Motifs, Of two thousand eve lambs which
ne valued ct 1900. They were Of improved
slock, and had Just been separated from the
fock' Forty pack-mules left San Anto-
MO on the nineteenth for Fort Concho, 70
be used IN the Mackenzie expedition
ssCity BOnds.-We saw this morning, at
the Office Of the city treasurer, the bonds
which are TO be issued BY the city, they
having arrived from New York. There are
$50, 600 Of them. They are styled the tan
per cent, thirty-year coupon bonds of the
city Of San Antonio, the principal being
payable in A. d. 1904. The interest is pay
able on the FIRST of October and the first Of
April Of each year. They are fine speci-
mems Of typographical skill, having as q
vignette the Alamo and the Mission Con-
cepcion. and were executed by the National
Bank Note Company"
The Guadalupe Times contains a letter
from Charles Britton. q freedman, who
lives in the Freedmen's Colony, In the south
part Of Guadalupe county, in which Wash
burn and the Gesner family lived. he
does not know who molested them, but
says. ST know that Mr.. Gesrer did act i'm
prudently in discussing the civil rights bill
in Sabbath school. / talked to him about
It, and told him that the freed people did
not want politics In the Sunday school. He
admitted to me that be hal talked about Il
IN the school. There was q difficulty be-
tween Gesner's daughter and q daughter Of
Jake Rogers, freedman. There was q re-
port that Gesner's daughter and q coloFed
man were to be married, and there was, in
consequence of this report, difficulty be-
tween these families. Mr.. WashbuFn was
going about next day after il is said he was
whipped The Gesner family was not in
jured. l advised Mr.. Washburn to leave
the country. have been teaching school
nearly six years. My session is just out.
was slave in this county, and have never
been molested or mistreated by white man
since have been free. As TO the hanRino
of Jerry Webster, it is utterl7 false. Rev.
Jerry Webster lives about two miles from
my house, and saw and talked with him
on the ninth instant"
The Fredericksburg Sentinel has been
purchased by Messrs. Swilling & Hurt.
The. Denison Neps of the seventeenth
instant states that "a well known citizen Of
Grayson county, who has been living the
life of a married man in the vicinity Of this
city for some months, was rather disagreea-
bly, surprised this morning, on walking into
the parlor of one Of our hotels, by being
suddenly confronted by wife No. 1, he left
back in the States. The color Of his counte-
nance underwent arapid change, as he stag
gered out of the door. That man discov-
cred he had urgent business in another
quarter
The Cuero Star states that little white
| girl was ravlshed by q negro, this week,
at Hochheim. The brute has been arrested,
and will be committed by Justice J. N.
Edgar"
The Fort Worth Standard announces the
death of Mr.. Sam P. Living, aged sixty
three. He was q worthy citizen, q member
of the Baptist Church, and firm and con-
sistent Christian. He was native Of Hop
kins county, Kentucky. On the thir-
tenth instant, Ike Marshal and Miss Lena
Orrich were married. - M. D. Mccall and
Mrs. F. E. Allen were recently married.
The Galveston CiviliGn says that ssthe
resident members of the First Texas Cav
airy held a meeting day OF two ago, and
resolved to raise money for the purpose OF
erecting suitable monument to their brave
commander, Col. Augustus Buchel."
The Denison Ne,Os states that four wagon
loads of immigrants, with twenty-four head
of stock, passed through that town on the
eighteenth instant. :. again, on the eigh-
teenth, seven wagons fun Of immigrants
passed through " Lee, who had an ex-
animation before Esquire Kirk few days
ago, on a charge of horse stealing and dis
charged, and was subsequently rearrested
as an escaped convict from Huntsville named
Green, was put in irons Thursday morning
by Marshal Wright, who left with him on
the three o'clock train. Probably ere this
he is in his old quarters in the State prison.
We believe he was sent to Huntsville for
murder. Lee alias Green leaves a young
wife whom he married about year ago . .
The Baptist Association of Northwest Texas
is now in session at Miller's Spring"
The ELis County Ne,cs states that on the
sixteenth instant, at night, ''some parties,
unknown to any honest man, took upon
themselves the especial pleasure Of ascend
ing to the tower of the court house and
smashing our beautiful town clock to atoms.
I'VE were shown this week q Texas
cured Ham weighing near two hundred
pounds"
The Hill County EzpOsitoT states that two
men rode through that county last week
and robbed some six OF eight houses in the
daytime Of various articles. They took
sixty dollars from T. D. Gowen's house.
At another house they stole gun, at an
other, clothing. Pursuit has been made.
Messrs. Catlette & Battaile have completed
their gin and grist mill, and have COM
menced operations. -. Peaches are still
abundant, and, notwithstanding the very
dry and intensely hot summer, we have
seen in the last few days some remarkably
fine ones, very large, sweet and JUICY. On
inquiring how they were grown TO such per-
lection, while many were complaining that
the drought had ruined their fruit, we
learned that the land from which they
were taken had been kept mellow and free
from weeds by repeated plowings. Those
having orchards should make q note Of
this.
The Cleburne Chronicle states that the
district court adjourned on the twelfth in
slant. Some two hundred cases remained
on the docket untouched.
The North Team says that "among the
substantial and deserving enterprises that
have sprung up in our city, none are TO be
more esteemed than the extensive steam
Touring mills of the Bassano Brothers, now
being completed near the TRANSIT Continental
Railroad depot, q little more than half =
mile south Of the public square," def.
Buster and Green Gibson, negroes, killed q
negro on the twelfth instant, stabbing him
with knife near the heart. They were
arrested and lodged in Jail.
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A CONTEST is being waged between Will
lis and Montgomery for the county site Of
Montgomery county. The attorneys for
Willis filed, recently, in the district court,
a motion to dissolve the injunction in the