The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-24

There are 054 enasss in Texas.


Apples from Arkansas are sold in Hender-
son.
Our exchanges all boast Of the wheat
crop.
Marshall has a population of FIVE thou
sand.
Ellis county is attracting many immi-
grants.
tits spelled s'me1quit" down in Corpus
Christi.
The ubiquitous Mr.. Downs is down in
Houston.
The Galveston Cirilian is now an excel
lent weekly.
Several Durham cattle have been brought
into San Saba.
Hamilton county is rapidly occupied by
immigrants.
The Grangers are wisely building a cotton
mill at Jefferson.
Major Hogan, Of Rockport, died sud
denly Tuesday.
Rev Fl. n. Dickey has removed from
Rusk to LadOnia.
The Rusk Observer thinks Texan statutes
should be codiied.
Taxes arc promptly paid in Rusk and
Henderson counties.
s. G. Borden is building huge beef
factory at Sharpsburg.
There are $50 postofices in Texas. There
were only four in 1867.
They now have a nice little gift enter
prise of their own in Bryan.
Smallpox prevails in the Mexican and nc
gro suburb of Corpus Christi.
Judge Walker has declined to enjoin the
collection of the school tax.
0tway Bird Nance. of Dallas, died few
days ago in his SEVENTEEN year.
The raiders about Brownsville are Of the
first families of .Tamaulipas.
The November term of the District Court
of Fayette county cost $2022.
General J. B. Robertson was speech
making in Hampstead last week.
A famous steamboat captain, V. B. Bar
rance, died Tuesday at Jefferson.
Waco wants the road to New Orleans, and
Dallas is not pleased about it.
T. W. House is president of the Houston
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
Z Judge Ferris, a banker at Waxahachie,
favors the passage Of an usury law.
The Ne,c Era Justly boasts of its nineteen
columns of excellent reading matter.
Rev. DIR. Young, the Texan Temperance
apostle, is lecturing in Galveston.
Representatives of the State Grange meet
at Marshall on the twenty-frst instant.
The Times says Galveston is growing rap
idly in population and in splendor.
Santa Anna may attend the San Jacintc
Anniversary Celebration, in Houston.
Waco sends nine disciples of crime tC
the penitentiary at this term of the court.
The sheriff of Grayson county received
$15, 900 in payment of taxes in q single day
They are to have a new gas company in
Galveston to destroy the present monopoly,
The Wilkins Grange wants the conven
tional rate of interest fixed at 10 per cent
Stoddard s. Co., bankers, of Little Rock,
have suspended. No harm done in Texas.
W.. J. Owens, for the murder of the
Truitt boys at Granbury, goes to prison fol
life.
We congratulate the Telegraph on the &C.
cession of George w. Ranck to its editoria
force. at
There is only one police to each 1900 in
habitants of Galveston, and the Times il
happy.
The enterprising BRENNAN Banner issues
an extra edition of 500 for its Christina!
readers.
Bastrop, " at this court, " sends fourteen
Adventures, white and colored, to the pen
ltentiary.
]. w. Scarborough, of Denton county
who recently disappeared, has not beer
heard from.
The Pamela Waterman earnestly advocates
the construction of q road from Marshall II
Sabine Pass,
J.W. Hays, living on the bayou four mile
above San Patricio, has mysteriously dlsap
peared.
The assessed value of property this yea
in Nueces valley shows an increase Of one
eighth. 1l
Southwestern and Corpus Christi stock
men arc arranging cattle drives" t.
Kansas.
James Leach, district clerk at Bolton, il
dead, and the town and country alike ar,
grieved.
The Denton Noritor says the school to K il
sixty cents on the one hundred dollars II
its county.
The San Antonio Herald says Miss La
coste, of that city, is the most skillful plan
ist in the State
Sam Shock, the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad man, is coming to Austin to opel
an agency.
Seguin has begun to improve in cOntem
platoon of the early completion of the rail
road to that point.
Judge Kendall. of Richmond, Texas; o
whose sickness the Statesman told, die'
on the fifteenth.
Henderson College, the RnsE Count
Times says, will open with three hundre'
undergraduates.
The Corpus Christi Gazette says it is 'stel
ribly reconciled to the death Of Fox
marked Bennett
Rogers was elected mayor Of Corpu
Christi, and Brewster, Hirsch and Loven
skiold, aldermen. -,
The Messenger says Rockdale is as livel
as grass widOw-who ships 1900 cOtboI
bales per week"
Thirty-seven newspapers won prizes o
various denominations in Fosters prize con
cert at Houston.
They are going to have brass band il
Peoria to help the cats keep the peopl
awake o'nights.
The bonded debt of Galveston is S771,
900. The city governments income for tn
year is s154, 200.
There was a brutal, filthy prize fight
witnessed by brutal, filthy people, at Gal
weston last Sunday.
The Denton Monitor is the prettiest paPe
in Texas. Il is only blurred by that i'm
mense advertisement.
Houston chickens wore Grape on thei
tails during the recent sitting Of the Con
ference in that city.
The Georgetown Democrat saysits reader
will all help the road. broad or narrow
from Austin TO Lampasas.
Two hundred and fifty labOrers are q
work on the Houston Narrow Gauge, ana
Austin still SHORES.
From Thursday to Saturday last, the,
had no mail in Corpus Christi, and yet th
dear people survived.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception