The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-29

j. w. Ward has received the appoint
ment of postmaster of Corpus Christi, rice
Horace Taylor, removed.
The Rusk O6serrer praises the orderly con
duct of the freedmen Of that county; also
their industry and honesty.
Rowan, Of Peoria, Hill county, sells good
flour at four dollars per hundred, decline
Of one dollar per sack.
The Granbury TIdette sees its court house |
on wheels and is in agony of fear lest 1t
stop at the wrong place.
The negro who killed the children of Mr. |
Neigkbors, of Comanche, was pursued and /
killed on the twenty-fourth.
Santos Benavides, of Laredo. proposes to |
go into the midst Of the fight in behalf of |
the frontier and Of Corpus Christi.
The Salado Neses-Letter is brimfull of bliss |
when Boosting Of boons of providence and |
telling of the glorious wheat crop.
They are organizing and cquipping, at
private cost, forty men 70 "go for" Mexi-
cans and other thieves, at Oakville.
4 fine banquet was properly given in
honor of Hon. Roger Q. Mills, at the
Hutchins House, on the nineteenth.
And the RockdaIe Messenger calls him the
",Sage of Seguin." The Democratic tea
party will all take Sage IN their'n.
George Mexican was shot and Tony
WINFIELD killed on Peach creek by the
brothers Abe and Joe Baker last week.
The Houston Sunday school picnic was a
grand success and the urchins were glori-
Ously happy. Let Austin do so, too.
Lieutenant Governor Hubbard will ad-
dress the Changers at the grand State bar
becue at Kaufman on the first of May.
Trinity river is forty feet deep at Dallas,
and a few people are now and then per-
suaded to take mixed drinks over there.
w. II. Bernard, who was blown up by
gunpowder explosion in Texarkana, died
on the twenty-second from his wounds.
The town of Midland, in Hamilton
county, was laid off, Monday, by Col. w.
A. Taylor. 1t is SAID to be fine location.
The Enquirer thinks the citizens of Con
zales have the epizootic. 1t isn't because
they cough when Senator Ireland sneezes.
J. NJ Hibbler, of Dallas, has again APP
pealed to the Supreme Court at Austin, and
we hope he will come again and just stay
here.
The county court at Waco Is catching it.
1t won't show its hand and may lose the
deal, and people will begin to suspect foul
play.
The rains last week made Huntsville
happy and the fields to smile. The people
"smile " whether there is any water around
or not.
Waco is down with the spelling influenza.
It's got 1t very bad and can't sleep o'nlghts,
and spells in its dreams and has dreamy
spells.
Col. Stevens, and his associates in the in
terest of the Red River and Rio Grande
Railroad, arrived in Denison on the nine
teenth.
Chicken cholera in Bonham. The Nesos
has the pips, and it's such delicate, tiny,
little thing-just pinfeathering for immor
tally.
John beats, inspector of hides and ami
mails of Gillespie county, while near Squaw
creek, was shot at several times by three
rufians.
Corpus Christians are delighted with the
energetic prosecution of work on their rail-
way. 1t will precede the International to
Laredo.
The murder of DR.. D. D. Lowell, and of
Julian Rita and son, excites the utmost ex-
ASPIRATION among people along the Rio
Grande.
The correspondent, observer" of the
Bastrop Advertiser, has capital good sense
and knows how to illustrate the fact IN a
newspaper.
The Mexican thieves and robbers were
near Mesquite, at latest advices, in consid-
cradle force, and General Ord had sent SOL
diers in pursuit.
The mayor of Pilot Point exchanges salu-
tations with mis- honor of Denison through
the new telegraph Office just established at
the former place.
George MhitqkeF aas Gu 8RggFRhse il and i Of
course, itfired off, sending half ounce ball
through his hand.
Two horse thieves were caught near Bel
mont, in Gonzales county, Monday. 1t
is not healthy locality, either, for cap
tured horse thieves.
3 Several papers of the State send out
travelling agents. We have two in the field,
and one an estray, for whom we will pub
fish an advertisement.
The WdtehndR really believes that two
men passed through Carthage on the
twentieth, with Charley Ross, bound for
Marshall. We hope so.
The Fort Worth Standard must be edited
by a tasteful doctor. 1t is, in any event,
in absolute ecstacies over Miss Nettie Power
Houston's medical poem.
The Baptist church, of Dallas, contem-
plates erecting a college for males and
females in that place. It is getting to be a
nice moral town you see.
Burnett is pleased to see the growing
walls of the new Jail and court house. It
denotes many coming rows among lawyers
and peace among the people.
The debating club at Waxahachie not
only gives intelligence, but occupation and
rational amusement to the people, and sup
plants billiards and whisky.
steamer from Havana has lust taken q
cargo of cattle from Rockport, and the
wharf company at Galveston is disguised.
Rockport has no wharf company.
Swinging signs and tin roofs sport airily
around Dallas when Texas zephyrs breathe
playfully about the city. Then the roofs
and people alike go on blenders"
A new private hospital, on large scale,
will soon be started in Dallas. Keno room:
up stairs and dance house in the cellar
would give it a deal of patronage.
Several cows have died in Columbus Of
hydrophobia, and there is much anxiety
among the women folk over there, and they
are much cow-ed down about it.
Rowdies insult and assault the marshal Of
Victoria in their drunken frelics with per
feet impunity so far, but he is getting awful
mad, and somebody will get hunt.
Who in Galveston is responsible for the
fact that a human body has lain unburied a
Edwards Point until its bones are picked
almost bare by the birds of heavenl
The deputy sheriff of Henderson county
has taken Rob Souther, who escaped from
his guards on the Overton and Henderson
Railroad, back to the penitentiary.
The Waco Register manifests a deal o
sympathy with the murderer, Hunnicut
who must have been a sIceet pattern of
boy, though spoiled In the cutting.
Alfred Reese, colored, surrendered him
self to the authorities of Navasota, saying
he had shot and killed George Alexander
also cOlored for threatening his life