The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-01-15


$4,000, in bonds fOr the purpose Of securins
the town against fires.
A hard rain IN Corpus Christi seriously
4 injured the Improvements along the bluf
and the sidewalks of the city TIE Gazct,
says II costs money 10 puff people and /
does not propose 10 puff for nothing.
Another cotton yin has been burned nea
/ Woodland in Frcestone county, with thirty
six bales of cotton. 4 negro is suspected
and has been arrested.
The Gladiator boasts Of the wonderfr
healthiness Of the good town of Jewett.
A young man by the name of White. liv
/ ing in Palestine, has disappeared, and it i.
feared that he wandered into a quagmirC
and persisted. His hat. coat and vess were
found That does not look like il. Are
there such dangerous quagmires in Ander
son county that viii swallow man up ex-
/ cept his hat, coat and vest.
Forty carloads of ice have arrived at Den
/ ison over the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Road, weighing 450, 600 tons The most OF
/ it was eighteen inches thick. Denison can
keep cool next summer.
The editor of the Weekly Citizen, at Pilot
Point, is greatly encouraged at receiving a
/ "a I.
The man promised to add dollar when he
sold his pork.
They have an amphitheatre at jefferson.
Whether it equals that of old Rome is not
told, bat the Tribute says it is well at
tended. 1t also says that section can beat
any other in the size and quantity of its
turnips.
A tract of three hundred and twenty
acres of good prairie land was lately sold in
Kaufman county for only 5000 The title
was perfect. Who IN Texas need be long
without farml And recollect tins was
within twenty or twenty-five miles of the
great Southern Texas and Pacific Railroad.
In the District Court of McLennan county
a verdict has been given in favor of Butler
and against the noted La'Vega claim.
Dr. Beach, of Gonzales, has been making
beautiful article of clear brown sugar
saved from the drippings of his syrup. 1t
is believed sugar making may be profitable
in that section and the Enquirer recommends
1t as we'll as diversity of crops generally.
All cotton will not do.
The San Antonio Herald gives a list Of
the deaths in that city for the month of
December, amounting to twenty. OF these,
seven were from consumption. The reason
of this large number is that consumptive
people go there to die Consumption does
not originate there and an early resort to
the city frequently cures it. Hence the
number of people coming there, hut the
most of them come too late.
IT is contemplated at an carly day to
start again the Waco cotton mills. Some Of
the heaviest capitalists of that thriving
city will take hold of the matter and put
it through. The property has been involved
in litigation which is now settled.
THE Gainesville Gazette wants the school
lands of the State sold and settled. At
present they are yielding nothing, and are
IN the way of the settling up of some
counties.
1t appears from Il statement in the Age
that there are 1000 delinquent tax payers in
the city of Houston, owing from s. up to
800. The Age complains of the county
Jail as ''dilapidated old brick shantee-a
disgrace to the back yard of country
plantation.
Readings at two bits a head as peculiar to
that city. The mortuary report for Calves
ton the last year is 6S5. OF these 155 were
other States, and 1914 foreign born.
Jefferson has had another destructive fire
loss 800, 900. Incendiaries are again ut
work. The Tribune Office was burned
down.
They are burning bois dare for fire wood
in Sherman. Coffee retails in Sherman
cheaper than in st. Louis So says the
Courier.
Calvin Banister, tried for murder in the
Criminal Court of Houston, has been sent
to the penitentiary for life, which the Age
thinks very lenient sentence. He was
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Milan Messenger says that Mr.. J. W.
McCown, of that county, has imported
number of Mexicans for farming purposes,
and finds them more reliable as workers
than Fifteenth Amendments.
We learn from the Sherman Patriot that
Capt. Miner has suspended temporarily the
Chartist. He had better convert the tenn
porary into the eternal No more Radical
papers are needed in Texas.
District Attorney Piner was accidently
shot on the road from Denton to Sherman.
He was shooting coon and an extra cham
Der of the revolver went off and inflicted an
ugly wound on one of his fingers.
Flowing is going on in Dallas county.
Lake Wilmerding, lying near the centre of
the city of Dallas on the north side of Elm
street, is about to be drained says the re-
joicing Herald.
At Corpus Christi on Christmas day
vaquero, by the name of Ysidro Canter, was
killed by his horse falling on him. A
good wife interfering in a drunken broil be-
tween her husband and another drayman
came near being killed.
The editor of the Vest Terqs Free Press,
at San Marcos, records a potato SO "a
inches long and four year old beef weigh
ing 702 pounds net. We note with pleasure
the neat appearance and the editorial ability
of the Free Press.
The Iron Age has been converted into
Democratic paper. The East Ieras Bulletin
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