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

Navasota, Of the sixteenth instant. states
that the caterpillars have about completed
their work Of destruction upon the cotton.
.. Mr.. ]. B. Noble and Miss Mollie E.
Lord were married on the sixteenth instant.
The BRENNAN Banner says that county
scrip sells easily on the streets for seventy
Jury have already found some sixty bills.
Two hundred and sixtv marriage
licenses have been issued in Washington
county for the present year.
The Denison Nescs states that nine
wagons full Of Immigrants, with thirty
head Of stock, passed through town Mon
day. DR.. Holder, living two and half
miles northwest Of the city, had two fine
horses stolen Sunday night. He traced
them the next morning 8 far as Red
River"
The Lampasas Dispatch states that Merritt
Horrel and William Bowen have both sur
rendered themselves to the officers Of the
law, and entered into bonds of ten thousand
dollars each, for their appearance at the
next district court. They came in on Mon
day. The district court adjourned on the
twelfth instant. There was but little bust
ness on the civil docket. A large number
of criminal cases were disposed Of; no felo-
ny convictions were had, but misdemeanOrs
were in great abundance. The morality Of
the county is not good. Too many Of the
young men are under indictment for of
lenses. This is lamentable Peaches are
quite plentiful in Lampasas still. =. Corn
sells at seventy-fve cents per bushel :, Mr..
Jacob Wolf Of Burnet county, Texas, died
on the fourteenth instant :. On the frst
day of September, q double marriage took
place at the residence Of Whitfield Chalk in
LamDasas county. Mr.. James w. Massie to
Miss Matte e. Chalk and Mr.. James Chalk
to Miss Lou Browning.
The San Antonio Herald says: Eve note
the departure Of our Aiend, Henry Trench
ard, Esq, wool factc1G on his annual visit to
Mexico, and his regular round to all the
focks of Western Texas. We are quite sure
that the amount Of reliable and valuable IN
formation he win obtain, personally, for his
annual wool circular, usually issued with
the new year, will be of inestimable value,
on the commercial and agricultural statistics
of Western Texas. We understand he re-
turns in about four weeks" "The total
value of taxable property in the county OF
Bexar is 81, 116, S17."
The Fdystte County Nev Era states that
on Monday, the seventh instant, Ellis
Thomas, one of the most worthy and indus
trious colored men in the county, in at
tempting to cross the swollen Buckner's
creek, was swept off his horse and drowned.
The Fdyetts County Record has this state
ment about oats: sit is fact that the
red oats will not rust in Texas. It is fact
that from forty to seventy, and, in few In
stances; one hundred bushels per acre have
been harvested this year. Il ia fact that
shelled oats have commanded from fifty ia
seventy-6ve cents per bushel this year, and
it is fact that horses and hogs 1--we it"
The Hallville Ners states that Mr.. John
Hill, Of HallviIle, while engaged in chop
ping wood about three-quarters of g mile
from town, last Thursday evening, hap
pened to receive severe and painful acci-
dent by the falling of large limb from the
tree over him. A limb several inches in
diameter, falling distance of twenty-five
or thirty feet, struck him directly on the
head, INJECTING a painful wound, and
knocking him senseless for some minutes.
The Dallas Herald has an account of q
white man trading horses with negro, and
being arrested in Dallas as thief. In vain
he protested his innocence, and stated be
had snapped his horse for the one he was
riding. So he went to Jail. But the next
day, as he was being carried to the court
house for trial, he saw the negro with
whom be had traded, and pointed him out
to the sheriff. The darkey, seeing that he
was discovered, dropped the reins, and
made tracks, but the sheriff per-
suaded him with a six-shooter to come back
An explanation followed, and the white
man was permitted to depart wiser man.
The Western Stock Journal says: 1--WE
have never seen happier faces than are pre-
sented by our stockraising friends since the
all-sufficient and timely rains Of the last
week or two. For fine fall and winter range
these rains could not have come a. more
favorable time, nor in more favorable
manner"
The Denison NeUs Of the sixteenth in
slant has an account of several thefts of
saddles, brides, harness, etc. The thieves
are getting bold, if they expect to steal
horses and ft them out for travelling with
stolen accoutrements. :. Near Caney a man
was found on the track, on the fifteenth,
with his leg mashed ard skull crushed. One
report says he was a brakeman named
Smith; another, that he was stranger steal
ing ride. a1e
The jefferson simpleeute says: ''Our
whole editorial force was down with chill
to-day. However, to prevent a misunder-
standing about the health of our city, we
remark that that force is all composed in
one, and a very common looking one at
that Some things we think, and some we
know; and one of the latter is, that this
city can boast of the most competent, as
well as gentlemanly, telegraph operators in
the United States.p
The Bolton Journal learns that there is to
be daily line established between Bolton
and Marlin. A man named Kettrell is the
contractor. :. On the tenth instant W. L.
McGhee and Miss Callie E. Denman, were
married. All Of Bell county.
A special tolthe Galveston Ne.os gives an
account Of q three days hunt on the Nava-
sofa river in which fifty-seven deer. and q
large quantity of small game were killed. :.
A special from Dallas, of the eighteenth IN
slant, states that the criminal court is still
in session, Judge Barksdale presiding;
Judges Hare and Barksdale having ex-
changed work, Harris holding court at
Waxahatchie. y. A special from Marlin Of
the eighteenth instant says that "a revival
has been progressing at the Methodist
Church during this week Much interest
is manifested, and great good has been
done" "A special from Longview Of same
date states that 9 man by the name Of
Harry Harbers was run over by the up ex-
press tram on the international Road and
seriously injured =. "A special from Trinity
Of the eighteenth instant states that Hon.
]. II Reagan, Democratic nominee for
Congress from the First District, opened the
campaign at this place in speech, from
half-past one o'clock to hall-past hree
o'clock. His arguments upon constitution
al government, and the rights OF the people
in a republic, were most logical, and met
dience
The GOliad Guard states that the pecan
crop is failure in that section. The same
paper has the following: I'VE are pleased
to note a few land transactions; one tract
sold the other day for three thousand dol
lars the tract corkained twelve or th;rtaon