The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
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bad health.
The doctors should read E. II. Cushing's
Nescs Litter.
A party will leave Dallas soon, en- route
TO the Black Hills.
Game was plentiful in GAINESVILLE during
the late snow storm.
Looney's high school at Sulphur Springs
numbers 16s pupils.
J. NJ Pangborn, of the Kansas City
Times, is doing Texas.
Governor Hubbard and Hon. Webb Elan
Dagan are in Galveston.
Mckinney breathes freely. The men
eRgetis has disappeared.
George Meilersh, the poet laureate of Dali
las, is once more at home.
They have organized a strong immigrants,
aid association at Groesbeck.
w. B. Terrell was shot, perhaps fatally,
near Corpus Christi last week
The fruit crop is only slightly injured in
Jefferson by the late cold snap.
John Henry Brown is a candidate for the
State convention in Dallas county.
Several wild fellows of Denison are go
ing to the Black Hills gold diggings
The State Geologist gets $4,000 and the
Immigration Bureau $4,000 per annum.
DR.. Fancher, shot in the shoulder few
days ago by Mr.. Mitchell, will recover.
A freeholder is a householder for one
year or longer, as the term is commonly
used.
The Ledger condemns the violence OF
Rev. r. c. Burleson's assault upon ]. B.
Link.
Corsicana boasts of twelve two-story
brick store houses just finished at cost OF
$50, 900.
Langdon, an insane gentleman, was sent
to the asylum here last week, from Corpus
Christi.
There are two camps of Mexican thieves
and American robbers just above Mata-
moros.
Horace Cone, an admirable gentleman
and scholar and writer, is now editing the
Telegraph.
The auti-liquor traffic convention sits
erect, straight and sober, in Dallas on the
sixth proximo.
The Emory Star is to be published. Il
will polish the natives and then SHINE lus
trously itself.
Jim Cooper confesses that he alone poi
soned the old German at Brennan. HC
wanted money.
Bishop Gregg will go for the gregariou
sinners at LAGRANGE on the twenty-eighth
Easter Sunday.
Everybody and Austin are invited to
grand ball at LAGRANGE on the twenty
fourth instant.
All our Texas exchanges are copying Mis-
Nettie Power Houston's address to tn
Texas Veterans"
The Galveston board of aldermen con
tains five Irishmen, three Germans and
four Americans.
A. B. Norton, the new postmaster a
that place, is very clever editor and gen
tleman of Dallas.
Will Ferguson, sheriff of Jasper, welded
Clara White, and she says he shan't go
court-ing any more. 80
Waco is so utterly collapsed that the cit!
marshal cannot capture more than twenty
five hogs per diem.
A correspondent writes that Wills Poin
prospers, and farmers in the vicinity ar
busy in all directions.
T. R. Burnet, of the Christian Messenger
Bonham, is the poet for the year of tn
Texan Press Association.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette is, perhaps
unjust to Governor Coke. Be patient, an,
we reach wiser conclusions
No court held at Fort Worth this term
and the lawyers over there are drowsy ant
dull, and litigants impatient.
A special meeting of the stockholders o
the International Railway Company on tn
twenty-ninth instant is called.
II. Ledbetter, of the Senate, tries t
annihilate Capt. L. w. Moore, in tn
pages of the LAGRANGE Nea0 Era.
Miss Annie, daughter of Col. ]. NJ
Morphis, of Marshall, was married to job
Gardner, of Jefferson, last week.
DR.. ]. S. Cutlaiff, a prominent physical
of Shreveport, and well known in Texas
died at that place on the twelfth.
Farm labor in Red River county was TEN
porarily suspended by the heavy snow
Corn will not be seriously injured.
Houston mud has jerked Alderman Kirk
little legs out of fix, and he is bed-ridden
They call it rheumatism down there.
Miss Houston will be requested to Civ
public reading from her poems at Sal
Marcos. The Free Press suggested it.
They are building stone and brick house
on the square at Comanche, and the CHE
is strutting itself to death in front of them
The con-can at Houston was buried be
meath bouquets tossed upon the stage b,
the infatuated youths of the ancient car
ital.
Baker, of the Denison Times, was cooke
up before the grand jury few days ago
BE had been criticising the conduct of tina
pious body.
The Kansas editors viii be here with thel
wives on the tenth or twelfth proximo, an
the city authorities should not forget tn
/ pleasing fact.
Rockdale has spewed up the gamblers
and gambling bells no longer roar and Ter
der hideous the charming terminus of tn
International.
The murderer of w. J. Murphy, and O
Tillar, one of the pursuers, near Texal
kama, was killed, and $500 of the stole
money recovered.
They had spiritual seanee down at Mexi
but there was nobody there and the Mex
ans didn't like spirits Of that sort and th
show was aifailure.
A long list of good people want Mr.
Schenck, not of the ''pOker" family-thi
one looks like pair of tongs-to be a
alderman in Dallas.
Crock Fence" wrote q song for tn
STATESMAN which never reached us. w
suppose 1t had reference to Jordan as
''Hard road to travel"
Harrison county claims the finest lookin
sheriff in the State-except Travis W
would give the name of ours, buthe woul
blush himself to death.
"The pretty gIrls Of LAGRANGE" the Ne
Era tells, ''were most charming at the ma,
auerade ball" It wasn't because they wei
masked. We never said it.
DR.. James Young is to be arrested on
writ dc lHnaticO ingUireIld0. Il is alleges
that he was found making a temperanc
talk TO the people of Dallas.
i Crooks, of the Courier, takes It straight
/ and says he viii stick to Sherman anyhow
snd the Missouri, Kansas and Texas roa
may 60 to the 49, and Austin.