The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-01

about Corslcana are unprecedented.
Land is said to be offered at very low
prices on the Colorado, about Columbus. 1t
is the richest country in the world.
j.. b. Smith, the young ranger killed in
the late fight with cattle thieves, was buried
with military honors in Brownsville.
The railroad is finished about twelve
miles beyond the San Marcos and will reach
Kingsbury on the fifteenth proximo.
Hon. G. A Grow is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York. Re said he was going
to the Black Hills when he left here.
Hardcastle, late of the Houston Age, is
cultivating quietude and potatoes at Bren-
ham. He ships the latter to St. Louis
Rev. A. E. Clemmons, of MARSHALL, has
been stirring up sinners nightly in Jeffer-
son. The Jimpleeute looks better for it.
The first cotton bloom in Sulphur Springs
blossomed on the tenth. The Gazette man
: wore it, we are told, in his shirt bosom.
The horse disease still alarms Houston
people, and ravages Houston stables.
Baer's stable lost $3.50 worth of horses.
The San Antonio Herald man thinks the
police should be uniformed. 1t sets off the
landscape of sunny street corner so much.
The calaboose at Tyler was destroyed
Wednesday by fire. The Reporter wasn't
harmed. 1t was out at the time, we reckon.
Houston is described by newspaper cor
respondents as wretchedly dull. How could
it be otherwise till the Age was resuscitated?
There is little girl, Lula Bellstedt, at
Sulphur Springs whose musical genius is
said to be as marvellous as that of Blind
Tom.
Juan Flores, the Mexican who killed Mr..
and Mrs. Swift, year ago, was hanged at
Refugio, the Telegraph tells, on the twenty
| fifth.
A Dallas lawyer paid $50 for his con-
tempt of the court. 1t was the contempt
and not the court or lawyer that was pro-
found.
A John Chinaman is wanted in Hender-
son to wash the dirty linen of the Times.
There is need for fifty about the Telegraph
Office.
The Sherman Patriot says the wheat crop
of Grayson county will be from 900, 900 to
300, 900 bushels, the largest in quantity ever
raised.
The Marshall police have arrested Jim
Mooring and others, who have been supply
ing that town with stolen beef for year
or more.
The latest sensation in Dallas courts is a
suit involving the hoo-dooing Of "another
fellows WIFE" The parties are Higgins
and Austin.
The Daily EUening Age, of Houston, is
sold at fifty cents per month. That is hard
1.cha Oh hor re
head broken.
The Rio Grande Democrat pays an elo-
quent tribute to the personal worth and
virtues of an old citizen just deceased, VIM.
d. Thomas.
The Montague Neacs tells of a head of
wheat seven inches long. The head of the
Ne,os may be even longer, but what's in it?
There's the rub.
A negro horse thief, resisting legal arrest,
was shot in the thigh, and naturally died of
lockjaw, near Lockhart, even as the Neaos
will peg out.
The excellent editor of the Erie PreSse
has returned from Germany. and they who
would hear from Faderland should order
the Erie Presse.
The Pamela Hatcltn,an congratulates sheriff
Ross, of its county, on his acquisition of a
charming wife in the person of Miss Laura
Martin, of Austin.
The Brennan Banner says the &C STATES
MAN keeps buzzing about John Irelands
heels" Even then 1t may be mile away
from John Ireland.
The Granbury Vidette is charming pa
per. 1t is fresh and clean and FULL of news
and tells everything about Granbury and
the country thereabouts.
The Prof. jose, the great schoolmaster
of Rusk, is not the individual worshipped
by John Chinaman, though his virtues are
revered by the Observer.
A male and female calf, having also six
legs, toddles about, to the great delight Of
the local editor of the Hampstead Messen-
ger. Barnum wants it.
The spiritualists are in ecstacles. They
said that Col. Anthony, of Leavenworth,
wouldn't die, and sure enough he still lives
and is almost we'll.
Applicants for places in stores in Houston
and Galveston are numberless. But they
don't crowd the farmers and mowers OF
wheat and oat fields.
Hutchins, of the st. Louis Times, is still
in hot water. The sheriff is locuns teaens
of the Times, and Gath is not Goliah
enough to hold possession.
Preparations for working silver mines on
large scale are progressing near Fort Ma
SON. The Lost creek district is rich in sill
yer, plumbago, copper and lead.
The insanity of Mr.. Leatherwood, who
committed suicide at San Marcos. cannot
be accounted for. 1t did not have origin
in the appearance of the Busy Bee.
The Baptist educational convention is in
session at Bremond. We have often urged
Austin to send representatives thither Il
done we are not advised of the fact
The Texas University, located at George
town, is in q flourishing condition. The
institution Is under the management of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
One hundred and forty-one newspapers
are printed in Texas. A sickly member OF
the family, however, dies every few days.
and sprightly youngster is as often born.
Ice is sold in Sherman at one and one
are two and half cents demanded in Aus
tin, and five cents when bought at the shops
Sarah Cornelia Bowen and George H
Neonan were married Wednesday in San
Antonio, and the whole population did
honor to the personal virtues of the happy
pair.
Rockport boys amuse themselves moonllt
nights gigging founders. That accounts
for the moral 6atness of Rockport and fol
the poprzlsar s.ddiot.,lnoes TO marbles in thu
shade.
The Bossier Banner man, an old Confed-
crate soldier, says, while laudiDg the old
Roman virtues of Braxton Bragg, Here's
: to you, old fellow, as long we have ;
nickel
The judge of the court pronounced al
) eulogium upon Sheriff Gibbs wher he re
signed, But who ever heard of sheriff