The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
Peter,sl Picture.
sAN sABAl october as, d


Editors Democratic 9Stdtesman The road
from Bolton to- Lampasas is fifty miles long
and traverses a poorer region of country
than we thought could be found in that
portion of the State.o There is not q house
of any -pretensions on the road and not
more than dozen cabins. The only thing
of interest that we met with on the whole
way was il osa odt ffi9 b9i0v egef tsa..-
5n.a1 t.si A MODEL YOUNG NAN. a.. III, tos
He is a native Texan, a cowboy twenty
one years old, and has never tasted drop
of liquor, coffee or tea; has never used to-
bacco, and has never uttered an oath. We
could get neapositige assurance that he had
never told a lie, but we saw no little hatchet
or cherry tree. BE should be sent to the
Centennial, any way. 'ass a15 80 y stifls
AT Lampasas we stoppedwith Major Hig-
don, who keeps the great hotel believed TO
be the most deiightfui plaeeinthe west du-
ring the hot months, Q. You must only be
careful that he does not put you IN q room
next to one occupied by a newly married
couple, as he did your Correspondent, and
young Butler from Galveston. u You Of
course know, Capt. Ed. ,Milican, late Of
Austin. He keeps the livery stable at Lam
pasas, and treats, horses so we'll that great
numbers which have passed d day with him
have been known to slaugh and grow fat.p
ua113 ssDoUBBE .ANcHoRv COTTON. altlb
Mr. George Scout, of Lampases county,
planted one acre of cntton called the
'sDouble Anchor and has gathered three
bales of very superior cotton. One of these
bales took the, premium at the Lampasas
fair. We were disposed to regard this state
ment as a-hoax,- -the-tFuth of it was
confirmed by Messrs, IHigdon and North
ington, two OF the leading merchants of
Lampasas.
A few miles from LampAsas we had the
good fortune TO step at the house Of Mrs.
McCrea, who took the premium at the
county fair for the best corn bread. We
] would certainly award her the blue ribbon
! for the SPECIMEN she gRve US.
We attended an old.fashioned country
been favored with AN invitation, but found
the house crowded to its utmost capacity.
1t seems that the report Of the coming dance
had spread for miles around, md the ave-
/ rage country youth does not wait for an in-
vitation to attend SO rare festival On
kthis occasion many came with their reyol-
vers buckied on them, ready to make good
| their claim to polite Consideration. Hap
PLY, the young ladies were amiablc and
lssniiied upon all alike, and all went merry as
a marriage bell. The Jealousy Of an enyi-
Gus swain, vexed at some fancied slight.
caused him TO turn loose zll the gentlemen's 8
horses. As many Of them had come ten or
twelve miles to the "party, it was nolight
joke. f,5alalas 5iss -
3 s53t4 QUEER coFFEE.
A family Of seven persons were found
dead = FIVE setting al the table and two
| lying on the floor = In Bufnet county. An
investigation disclosed the ERcEthat a cent?
ede had cIaUIcd into the kettle and
bad been boiled with the coffee. On
drinking the beverage death was instan-
taneous "a warning 10 al house wives to
clean their cooking vssseEs.
Yesterday, having lost the road, we
spent the dag exploring the head
OF Coon creek in order 10 ascertain the
renson why there Is no annual Overflow Of
that streams mystery which has long puz-
zled the savaus of this regioa. The tsue
reason is. that there is n0s sufficient ram
fall en- the bead Of Coon eneek to cause
food. in fact, the lack Of rain Is the nsip
reason why it Is dry 1s bone most OF the
year in places where Il d zlFy.- Please pre-
sent our claims 70 distinguished eonsids :
ton at the hands OF the &C enfific and p. o
graphical societies, which should. OF course.
include few public dinners good ones-
10, the poef Indian, has been Riding
neu Fort Concbo. Repq1 saya be killed
, ten herders and carried of 4 los Of stock
Judge Turner Is noa holding court here.