The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22
rexaEFaess ana Fancies.
Iesvy rains have blest G. INJURY.

SneImaAs neart ID glaocened oy glorious
rains.
They have discovered coal mine near
Granbury.
Foster will have no more drawings. Good
for Foster.
A. B. Small, the big man of the express,
is in Dallas.
-Four miles of the Waxahschie Tap have
been graded.
Lieut.. Stiles is buying horses for Fort
Leavenworth.
The Henderson and Overton Railway is
almost finished.
A cheerful shower has blest Henderson,
In Rusk county.
The corn crop is excellent at Palo Pinto
and whereabouts. a .-..F
A grand Democratic rally at BRENNAN on
the twenty-eighth.
The soldiers of Fort Griffin are fixing ND
splendid barracks.
Jesse Bond, of Luling, was killed Friday
by one of his tenants.
Navasota fiourisheth and is building two
story stone buildings.
Rev. Mr.. Gaskell breaches to-day at Cor
sicana. They need him.
The Goliad Guard tells of refreshing
showers in those parts.
Goliad is called the Evergreen City. The
Guard isn't of that sort.
The cotton worm has not yet put in an
appearance about Goliad
The Empire says crops and rains are glo-
rious about Fort Griffin.
Soda water is five cents in Dallas, even
with respectable Ely" in if.
All Northern and Northwestern Texas is
jubilant because of fine crops.
Girls and boys bring each their own grub
to Fannin county bran dances.
Grasshoppers are plucking corn and cot
ton ravenously about Sherman.
| The Savoy Democrat is an interesting
paper published near Bonham.
The late fire at San Antonio endangered
greatly the old Alamo building.
The Fresstone Herald says that corn will
be most abundant in that county.
Judge Hare and District Attorney Piner
are smashing knavery in Sherman.
The Grangers about Goliad hold several
thousand pounds of bacon for sale.
Rockport boasts OF the intelligence of its
youths being educated at Cambridge.
| The North Texan says corn on Red River
will make good crop if it never rains.
The Baptists "broke dirt" last week for
their new church ediice in Stephenville.
The Bastrop Ad0ertiser says corn will be
drug in the market at thirty-ive cents.
The surveyors on the International have
withdrawn from the field till September.
| They talk of starting sheep ranch to
| support the worthless ours of San Antonio.
The finest crops of corn and cotton ever
| grown there bless the farmers about Syene.
Hood county boasteth itself of wondrous
fine crops of corn and wheat, and of pretty
| girls.
The war steamer Plymouth and two
launches are at the mouth of the Rio
Grande. a. .aA a.af 51 H
Terrell grows apace, and mainly because
the Kaufman Star now shines alone for
| Terrell. o." OIL '.7
The Granbury Grange have resolved that
wheat is worth one dollar, and that's an
end ont. .n5
The country east of Gonzales has been
blessed with abundant rains, and the crops
are superb. @
The North Ienas Enterprise, of Bonham,
is winning fame and money, and both de
servedly.
They have singing school of sixty
screamers and others at Corsicana, who make
Rome howl.
In Brownsville postal card pays for 6
respectable watermelon and three cents fol
a thirty-pounder.
Enoch, of the Rockdale Messenger, is
always Breeding but mons parturiet ct nasci
tar rediculIs mus.
I Jasper has a daily mail and the STATES
| MAN goes over regularly and the Nesos6oy il
exceedingly happy.
i John Bremond, wife and mother, passed
through Houston on the fourteenth, en- rOut
for New York city. . .n.-. a.......
i Windmills are used in pumping waite
and lrrigatipg the charming country an(
|
The Enquirer says that without rain tn
farmers about Gonzales will make corr
enough to spare pile.
| The reason they won't let the Observe
sleep in the same room with them is becaus
it is somnam-bullist.
If the Moving Ball don't quit rolling
over to make people believe it is the Who'll
world it may smash Lang. ala
Nat Turner's Houston Monumental Lot
. terry tickets are sold like street railway tick
cts in Houston--byt the peck.
J The Catholic ladies of Victoria latel
held a fair and raised over 5000 for th
benefit of their church. ..-
Speeches, songs, toasts and the Declara
5 ton of Independence were all celebrated
: Spanish in Brownsville.
f Only twelve marriages last month in tn
i populous, prosperous, growing county G
o Fannin What's the matter
9 Planning mills and lumber yards are d.
ing fiourishing business IN San Antonio
. and the old town grows space.
The Weatherford Times comes careerin
over the plains full of Joy and announcin
heavy rains and glorious crops.
L Twenty miles above San Saba, the shaft
sunk by Mexlcans and Spanlards fifty veal
or more ago have been discovered.
The pioneers of Dallas county met
Dallas on the thirteenth instant. Why ne
have such an association in Austinl
Ex-Governor Stockdale delivered the con
3 mencement address before the literary 8
e cieties Of Roanoke College, Virginia.
al An the stock required has been subscribe
0 | to assure the success Of the Narrow Gaus
from Corpus Christi towards Laredo.
The Cleburne Chronicle lauds extrav
: gantly, but deservediy, the energy an
b pluck and enterprise Of Dallas merchants.
TIE oleburne ChrOniels is still happy b