The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15


whert is candidate for the Office of coun-
" treasurer at Bryan.
TIL, Busy Bee includes itself in the list of
the respectable" newspapers of Texas. We
are we'll pleased that the STATEsNAS's name
isn't that dim catalogue.
THY have killed mad dog in Dallas.
BE vas shot on suspicion, having dashed
suddlnly out of q bar-room. Anybody Is
msd nat does so in Dallas.
county letter in the Sherman Patriot
says he corn is so far along now, that
SHOULD We be deprived of more rain no
damage would result from ii.
TIL, Methodists OF Georgia are engaged
in erecting monumental church TO John
Wesey at Savannah, and Texans are re-
guessed to assist in the scheme.
Judge Claiborne is delivering speeches
sbort education at Oakville, and the 7'ri-
6uHslikes them amazingly and the Judge
should be fattered by the fact
TIey talk about a gift concert at Cleburne
20 perfect the grounds and buildings for
theiI fair. 1t would serve, too. TO advertise
the air, and would pay perhaps.
Willow basket collins are commonly used
in England. Admirably fitted for use in a
hot climate, we commend them to the deni-
zens of Dallas-so airy and nice.
Lsnd that can be bought at five dollars
per scre yields thirty-five dollars this year
in oats. Those lordly fellows that strut
around Paris must feel their oats.
The Sentinel, of Brownsville, the old and
faithful Waterman of the frontier, is again
Gf1tu and lut aA tho CIR
day for the first time in many weeks.
The Cleburne Chronicle. man has been
cumming round in Mr.. Illness "nursery. ="
He is nightly pleased with it, and will try
and have one of his own, We reckon.
The Dallas Herald intimates that a sort
of Credit Mobilier arrangement induced
Gen. Bragg to resign his place as an officer
of the Galveston and Santa Fe road
Hearne has given Judge Battle a gold
headed cane, in commemoration of his ser
vices IN freeing the country of villains and
OF his fidelity and ability as a judge.
Col. Chandler, representing the great st.
Louis publishing and printing house, Van
Bulk, Barnard and Tinsley, famous for it,
ledgers and record books, Is in Austin.
Hon. Dan. II. Triplett has settled in saE
Saba, and formed law partnership with
VIM. Ii. Leasing, who married the highly
accomplished and talented Miss Triplett.
The East Line Gift Concert is postponed
away off yonder till December IS. WHY
not a few years later9 Say till the centen
NAL is over and people get rid of Beecher
Tarantulas are more numerous than ever
before about Stephenville. The Enspir.
steps higher in the cornfelds than it used
to, and mammas are uneasy about barefoot
boys.
The thieves and housebreakers are goine
through Jefferson. We hope they wont
steal the Leader man and tote him off. H,
is too universally useful, and ornamental a.
well.
The Jasper Neacs60y says that mortality
among the negroes, as compared with that Of
whites, is estimated by reports from Gene
teries to be one hundred negroes to clever
whites.
After its rural tour among fried chickens,
good woman of Jasper sent the stuffed
and surfeites NeoosbOy an Irish potato twelve
inches in circumference. They will kill il
with kindness.
Johnny Birmingham, by large majority
of the Dallas Rifles, was elected the I" big
ugly" of Dallas. We would like to sel
Johnny, even though it would wrench fel
lows eyesight.
Mckinney neglected utterly to celebrate
the glorious Fourth. Its head was full Of
chinch bugs, we reckon. The Enquirer
anyhow, has much to say and is awful scared
about them.
ga Connecticut man," the Waco RepOrte,
says, ''has patented an invention to hold
the end of woman's tongue" We would
like to know which end. Most of them are
double barreled.
Col. BrodowslSy, travelling under orders
of the Russian government, for the purpose
of studying the culture of cotton, arrived
in this city yesterday. He is an officer OF
the Russian army.
J Cotton is gloriously fine in Hill and
Bosque counties, and rains now falling in
that direction will assure great abundance
of corn. The wheat crop will supply al
possible deficiencies.
Austin, charged with Beechery in Dallas,
will escape conviction, and mainly because
OF. his name. It's the reputation of this
can't get over this fact.
Rainfalls have been sporadic about Rock
dale, and the Messenger thinks general
Noachian souzer would promote the putting
of its pockets and abundance of products,
pumpkins and of potatoes.
Yellow fever is reported to be in Rio, and
coffee for sale in jamestown is suspected of
lurking dangers. Advertisers should sup
press the word Rio and put In plain Rye,
and it will take stupendously.
The Busy Bee is to be transferred to
Blanco City to be whitewashed. Blanco,
we suppose, was so called in reference to
the colorlessness of hills and plains and
politics in that delightful country.
Four hundred Georgians, in twelve
months, have settled on farms in Blanco
and Llano counties, and won't COOLERS be
plentiful over Texas when the centennial
Fourth of July comes down upon us.
Dallas policemen make piteous appeal
to the public for pay. They are not doing
a staving business as witnesses just now,
and the city treasury is empty, and the poor
fellows are wretchedly impecunIous.
Goober peas enrich the land, defy
drought and make the average Georgian in
Texas happy. Nothing is so significant of
social delights that bless Northern Georgia
as the cheerful cracking of goober peas.
J. j. Davis left Weatherford with $1,000
of the county's money entrusted to him to
be expended on the court house. He left a
wife and child, and is more to be damned
for what he abandoned than for what he
stole.
Sherman is doing the great wheat trade
of Northern Texas, and Denison and Dallas
are jealous. 1t was that lottery that broke
the back of Denison and early (and late)
piety injured the moral spinal column Of
Dallas.
The Ne1 Era pronounces the Interna-
tional the best managed and best built road
on the continent, and says that Hoxie is
the unparalleled superintendent. 10 this
the Nesc Era is the mouth-piece of public
opinion.
The co4fop States conoress ,neats ~ Pa