The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18

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The JiD.Plecuts feels kindly toward the
eaR-cdR, and rather likes it.
Elmo iourishes, and so do spectators in
new houses aRd town lots.
The wheat crop of McLennan county. the
RePOrter-AdeaRee says, is superb.
Congress has appropriated SEQ, 900 to i'm
prove the harbor at Sabine Pass
A lady was deserted by her husband, and
left with her babe in a hotel at Dallas.
Hillsbnro will soon have the prettiest
court house in Texas. So says the ExpOsi-
tor.
Frank Phears, a mulatto horse thief, YVES
'9ost" in the woods near Brennan, last
week.
The Comanche Building and Loan Asso-
citation is erecting grand two-story front
on its court square.
Galveston denounces the ean-can in that
city, and calls on the authorities to stop
the performance.
Editorials Of admirable purpose and sim
gular force now and then adorn the pages
of the Telegraph.
Three white men and negro escaped
from Jail in Brenham last Sunday during a
heavy gale of wind.
Bishop Garrett preached last night in
Mckinney, and the Enquirer will be bet
ter paper this week.
Mabs merrie men of jefferson will dance
with the Leader and Jimplecute on the even
ing of the second proximo.
The old Jail at Hillsboro won't hold a
billygoat. They tried it, and now the
guards watch the prisoners.
The Leader, jefferson, frowns and holds
up its little handkerchief most blushingly
when peeking at the ean-cdn.
The people in Denison are in ecstacies
because of the enactment of the Red River
and Rio GraDde Railroad bill
Hentz Potter, who is suspected of being
one of the murderers of John Pennell, Is
on trial now in Burnett county
One slanderer of an innocent lady in
Waco, if he is a wise man, will leave town
before her friends settle with him.
Dallas will soon have its stomach aston
lshed by cold water. They are digging a
cistern there to hold 40, 900 gallons.
Miss Evans, now the bankers wife and
authoress of st. Elmo, ETC., was reared in
San Antonio, so says Rev. Mr.. Joyce.
IT is curious, but the men all tell us that
their wives say that Beecher is surely inno-
cent and Mrs. Tilton surely guilty.
The Galveston GERMANY Post cauterizes
the State Geologist in a very implacable
manner, which we do not understand.
The Kaufman Star Justly Iauds its special
representative in the Legislature for his
moral courage and capital good sense.
Farmers in Lee county have finished
ME Isl
tatoes and nearly ready to plant cotton.
Indians killed two white men near Fort
Griffin last week and are on the war-path
and rampage generally in all those parts.
A widow lady-she was from Northern
Georgia no doubt-made $1,000 last year by
planting ''goobers." She hired no ''helps.' .
George Levyson and Frances Reubaum
will be married tomorrow evening in New
York City. They have many friends here.
The Herald is absolutely malignant, and
shamelessly selfish. 1t is even miserly.
1t would steal the Ages Austin correspond
ent.
A large fire in Granbury, Hood county,
destroyed the fine stope court house, with
all its records, except its criminal indict-
ments.
Hillsboro is growing rapidly, and every
body is setting out shade trees, and they
propose to make it the charmingest place in
Texas
Judge Chenowith, of Bonham, proposes
to have the Necs puniched at common law
as cOnnlunis riratrir-three times publicly
ducked.
When court adjourned for dinner at
Orange, John Elliott, on trial for murder,
bn Viz
still at large.
The Age says the recorders court over in
Houston has "dried up" and we would
like to know why they don't pave the
streets with it.
Mr.. Barziza is announced rs permanently
in Houston from this day forth. He is a
good lawyer, and should not desert his
post in Austin.
The Pittsburg Magnet groans over the
presence of gossipers in its town. Does
not every town sympathise, and say Good
Lord deliver us?'
The Willis Observer publishes the excel
lent speech Of Hon. j. V. Lea on the late
railway question, with deservedly strong
editorial commentator.
The project of turning Red River into
the Trinity is as old as the senior proprietor
of the Ne'cs, whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary.
Gentlemen enjoy queer pastimes in Gal
weston. A ''person," so described, teazed
hungry hog, and was surprised when the
animal bit his hand off.
A Vicksburg man is said to have drawn
the Louisville lottery capital prize. Wait
and see If it be not held, after all, inside
the close corporation.
Peter McLelland. J. Z. Gilbert, d. s.
Wood, F. v. Hogan, Theo. Noel and Others
have charter and will soon start bank,
with 5000, 600 capital, in Waco.
It was the father, and not the little girl
six years old, that was on trial for stealing
$155 in Houston. Some letter-writer from
Houston misconceived the facts.
Two women, one white and one colored.
walked into a saloon in Galveston, called
for drinks, took them, paid for them, and
walked out coolly- externally, coolly.
"stockraisers about McKinney.v the
Enquirer says, ''are improving their breeds''
and pastures. They will soon be capital
fellowship coming race Of stoclCraisers.
Mr.. Simpsons speech revolutionized opin-
ION IN MS district, and the people about
the home Of the Nelcsboy are well pleased
with their admirable and able represents
tive.
Houston is all agog about the change Of
location Of the depot Of the narrow gauge
road Mr.. House has turned the ancient
town upside down, and raised an awful
row.
c. Anschicks, district clerk of Robert
son county, charged with issuing fraudu-
lent county scrip. has been fouSd on;Itv
and sentenced to two wears m tie ne5ifen-
tiary.
LleIe - great terror about mad dogs in
AlcAin1ey. One rabid dog bit twenty 9TH
en-, ana thecouniTy IL in . perfect urroar.
The vicinity viii noon be SAFE FOR cheer and
white people.
The coming influx Of immigrants surely