The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-24

Prof. stanIy, Of Waco Female College, is
dead.
San Saba i, down at last vhh the speIli-
1OOtic.
Terrell, tired OF aeas, has set its police
force to dog killing.
Wewill soon have q semI-wcekly mail
from San Antonio 10 Laredo.
The Star says corn won't be worth fifty
cents this summer IN kaufman.
One Rein, Of Houston, has reined up his
earthly career by taking morphine.
IL N. Brannan's genius now illumines
the pages Of the Weatherford Times.
It Is said that John Summers, Of Calves
ton, viii take charge Of au Austin hotel.
The grand jury Of GoliAd county, at its
late term, found only seventeen indictments
They have q Jefferson Davis Homestead
Association at Fort Worth, and none in
Austin.
The Ners6Ov tells Of rapid advances in
real property In its town, and Of magnif-
cent crops.
Everybody the world over are asked to
attend the Grange barbecue at Mount Pleas
ant, July 20.
1t was hard on Abraham when he had
Hagar in the wilderness, and didn't have
grain Of quinine.
DIR. Mendows, a Practicing physician of
COchino, was assassinated few days ago
by Mexican bandits.
The funeral Of Mrs. Bonnet, in San Anto-
MO, drew q great many to the cemetery of
the ancient town.
A good, generous young fellow in Ter
rell is building pretty cottage for pref
tier girl Of Kaufman.
While the lawyers OF San Antonio are
Off at country courts San Antonio barkeep-
ers close their shops.
Farmers of Denton were compelled 10 de-
vote even Sunday to the gathering of their
enormous grain crops.
Galvestonians are rapidly taking fight
to cooler ATTITUDES and ordering the STATES
MAN to follow them.
Twepty-one families from grasshopper-
ravaged districts of Missouri were in Den
ton one day last week.
Agreat multitude was assembled in Mar
shall to hear Hubbard's and Reagan's eulo-
gies upon jefferson Davis.
Rev. ]. R. Collingsworth, of Kentucky,
is lecturing in Denton, and the ReOiep is
much edited and well edited.
Fiskville is looking up in business. Mr..
Zimmerman, the great merchant of the
place, boasts of its prospects.
San Saba sadly needs bridge across the
Colorado to render Austin accessible. Our
merchants should look after it.
Wilson Lumpkin is selling $50, 900 feet
of seasoned lumber, placed on the cars, al
$12 per thousand, at Neches.
SEVERAL ships and Federal squadroni
should go to Tyler. The Reporter says
such mast crop was never known.
Col. Ford, of Brownsville, claims the
honor of having been commander in the
last fight made by the Confederacy.
The Goliad Guard says showers of rair
are passing over the country every day, but
that they are insufficient for the crops.
The NeOS0oy tells of pretty girl over il
Jasper who is " as sweet and pretty as tao,
morning glories." She ought TO pair off
There are nine culprits of high and Low
degree in the Bolton Jail. If they were al
tailors they would constitute one awfu
man.
:; A harmless Mexican, shot through tn
head, was found fifteen miles from San An
tonic last Saturday, on the road to Cara
ranch. T
]. NJ. Gibbs, sheriff Of Grimes, has re
signed, and Munroe Cone has been appoint
ed to I'll his place. The election occurs IL
| August. -
Parker county has live immigration SC
, ciety. There should be one in Austin
Never city 50 needed proper local agenc
of this sort.
spivey, of the Henderson Times, wears
wig, and it fortunately happens that it doe
not cover that ''aching void" we sometime
read about.
Spelling matches have drifted dow
through America, coming in at Boston an
going out at Lampasas. And that's tn
! end of them.
The Navasota Tablet is not the tabula ras
the old Romans used to talk about. o
3 the contrary, It confesses that it is terribl
: ''Aea-bitten.n
San Antonio isn't healthy place fc
, Mexicans. Two of the sons of the su
. worshipers were shot at there last Sunda
very heedlessly.
Col. A. NJ. Hibbler, transferred for tris
to Mississippi, was bailed and has been pa
dOned, and is perhaps in Dallas. We col
, graduate him.
: DR.. Cochran sends to market this mont
q from Gonzalez $500 pounds of delicior
e honey. It cost him the labor of taking
2 from the hives.
The JiHaptecute has no idea of dying, bu
/, sympathizing with its readers, is happy I
say that metallic collins have declined 2
1 per cent. IN value.
Fortunes are more rapidly made by il
dustry and attention to stock, and with LEI
capital, in Western Texas than elsewhere
the United States.
The great prairie about San PatriciO wi
? soon be wholly enclosed. Stock men a
, buying the whole country with Internl
Q tional Railway scrip.
It IS q little curious that each week W
D find more to copy in the San Saba Ncrs tina
: IN almost any paper on our exchange lis
Why is this thus7 2 aar.
The San Antonio Herald calls him johns
Erin. When we reflect on his singulI
brashness we might possibly make
T ERIN 90 bragh."
b Governor Coke and the other GovernC
{ Richard, and Col. Lang, will celebrate Il
completion Of the Rusk tramway on ii
seventeenth instant.
: For the third time Judge J. II. Sulliva
. has broken the remains Of his leg PARTIAL
= lost ct San Jacinto. But il Is doing vel
!. in fact, is used to It.
. w. F. Mahan, . poor pedagogue, Wa
brutally murdered By Nexioans near Brown
e vile last week he had Q Mexican vii
and was very poor.
c Melons are high in Lampasas. In a
! event s. w. Mallons. shaken % ~ n
: Dnpdtok, is said to be upwards Of ak and
half feet in his stockingI
The dearness Of an Austin wife depend