The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-08

Five thousand dollars IN silver blocks
was received in Las Cruces from Silver City
last Wednesday.
uuhAAfee6 tisfnds at work on the Corpus
Christi Railroad. e
There is. no epidemic of yellow fever in
Havana or Key West, and need be none in
the cities of Texas.
Capt. William McCune, for years of the
st. Louis house of Marmaduke s. Brown, is
expected in Austin.
Howard Conner and Wallace Harris, both
colored, got into row at Smoky Town,
and Harris was killed
Col. VIM. Falconer has become an editor
of the Bryan appeal, already one of the
best of our exchanges.
The Lampasas is to be bridged at Lam.
pasas on the line of survey of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road
The colored people seem to be disturb
ing element in Galveston. Street rowdy-
ism prevails alarmingly.
All the prisoners have escaped from the
Palestine Jail, and the court will be busy
some days in reflling it. a'a' 30 en-
A son of DIR. Cole, of Fannin county, was
accidentally shot in afeld, recently, by his
brother, who was hunting.
It is a great convenience in Galveston,
the Mercury seems to think, that the street
cars run to the cemeteries.
Past Grand John L. Miller, of Corsicana,
will deliver an address before the Odd Eel
lows at Houston on April 20.
Sulphur was found IN quantities in Gal.
weston cutters after the last rain. The ID
will get the wharf company yet. ii" 1t
The Baptist Herald is not published at
Dallas because there is "much 9oater' (pOll0
udatG) there. 1t is not any Enon.
Ellis flour mills turn out 400 sacks OF
ninety-six pounds each per day and boast
that they can turn out 500 as easily.
The Ennis argus has horror of ''rings, y
and yet innocently says Governor Coke's
message 'wrings' of the true metal"
A deadbeat, named Heath, six feet and
two inches high and slightly gray, has been
doing innocent people about Henderson.
The Bolton Journal says that Governor
Coke should declare war If Grant fail, and
protect Texas against predatory Mexicans.
The Jefferson Leader has decided to live
a week longer. Its continued existence de-
ponds on increased support from the public.
The Bolton Journal asserts the untruth-
fulness of the publications in the New Or
leans Times, denunciatory of Ward, Dewey
8 Co. sasE.
Red-headed children, the Times says, are
fashionable now in Henderson. We don't
know why. The Tiuses's head is always
level.
The Ne,oS is mistaken. Senator Dryer
never was, as far as the STATESMAN is ad
vised, in favor of the subdivision of
AeAas' b. b.sa1g 7s-is svali t,f1
If we have Congressman Sat large, +" why
should the San Antonio Herald object to
newspapers, the Age for instance, at
s'SmalIs1 er Do'l d II q
w. W. Lang, PateF Primus of the
Oranges, is expounding again ''the great
of the Order" It is interesting
but not new
Hon. w. S. ,Herndon, having abandoned
schemes Of ambition and folIies of Wash
ington life, is in the spelling match bust
ness at Tyler. hit,e.g lit d
Houston and Great Northern Railroad
bonds sell at ffty-eight cents, at auction,
in New York. Why don't they try the
Austin market2
: Col. Atkinson, recently appointed Com
missioner of Pensions, is in Mexico, and, the
San Antonio Express says, never heard of
his appointment,
The Jasper NeiDS6Og strikes fires of orig1-
nalitY when it is electrified with delight be-
cause of "Governor Coke's fiint-like reso-
luton (resoluteness p. g
Burnet pays $1s, 600 for court house.
Who manages the finances of Burnett Peo-
pie of Travis county want to know how
these things are done.
Emmett and Pat Lum and a negro man,
suspected of the murder of the Englishman
Williamson, in Trinity bottom, were cap
tured at Little Cypress.
The late frost in San Antonio has de-
stroyed the vegetable crop, and fears are en-
tertained that the pecan, mesquit and oak
mast win be total loss.
James n. Smith, who had been clerk of
the county at Cuero from the date Of its or
ganization, died few days ago. He was
from North Carolina in 1899.
The Roanoke CollegiGs contains an in
teresting and well written biographical
sketch of that admirable gentleman and
lawyer, Governor Stockdale.
The Henderson Times tells that it is a
ss1a L would be very BAD to turn
some Of them loose. -
The press and people Of Texas EiiI-re-
greet, if it be true, that Major Baylor
has Withdrawn from the editorial manage
ment Of the Dallas Herald.
The Victoria Adrooais never knew till the
trial began and Bessie Turner told Of the
uniFel ality of kissing, why Beecher's
churchwas called plymouth.
Enoc Arden, Ike the wandering Jew.
Is on BIZ travels. His last appearance was
in Gal-eston, under the name Of George
Henneo The other fellow also trausIs.
The rost at Ennis, Thursday night was
rather nugh, but did not kill any veqefa-
bles orcandidates for the constitutional
eonvenlon, as was painfully anticipated.
One toussnd head Of cattle were stolen
last We< and driven into Mexico from the
eountrybetWeen Laredo and Brownsville.
So the eiegrqpts correspondent thinks.
Corns seventy-fiYe cents per bushel in
Ellis. here are no attractions 70 iu7ni-
grants quail to cheap food, and seneibIe
farmerlnd people win flock to that county.
Thies and burglars are 90 intolersble
in Deuon that the vagrant act Is riridIV
enfOrc and half the blessed city QoSern-
ment hy Be calaboosed at any moment.
Fres the counteffsiter at Dallas. con-
lessedend was incarcerated, and poes
down Ward, Dewey g Co. for Ten vesr5
he va De 80 very fresh when he CONES
out
Thsferrrrv sary that nnr... .5-;.
eonfrIfhc story that veiInw fev., -,-.-sI-
At Key est and urges that the mayor t.fe /
precauns 70 preVent its reaching ca
weston
ThofEho DO not bnf ezptct and intend
to oWproperty ia town nrs ne ~r-~