The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03

Cotton fields are brilliant with blushing
blooms in Brazoria, and then how snowy
white it soon becomesl as pretty as little
woman in pink and pinafore.
Horse thieves ravage the country about
Marshall. Col. S. d. Rainey lost mag
nifcent bay last Sunday night. There are
bands of gipsies in that vicinity.
J. ]. Mcintosh is trying to dam up the
food tide Of whisky that flows through Bel
ton, and gathers the people for this purpose
over there on the fifteenth prox.
A glorious rain, last week, made glad the
bounding heart of Lampasas, and bright
sunshine makes the country smile in gener-
Gus gladness and peerless beauty.
Mr.. Davis said that the best picture, the
most artistic and truthful, ever made Of him
in America or Europe, came from the hands
of an Austin artist, Capt Marks.
Hon. G.. A. Grow doesn't run the ''Inter-
NATIONAL Sunday school now in session at
Baltimore, and Hon. John Ireland doesn't
mention the fact in any of his bulls.
The Dallas Commercial says the Bremond
Sentinel stole the CousmereiaEs press on
which the Sentinel is now printed. Stolen
James Higgins, deputy sheriff of johnson
county, was accidentally shot and killed
last Monday in Cleburne. Cleburne is a
lucky place for first class sensations.
Judge Appling, of Georgia, becomes a
citizen of Texas, and his selecting a home
near Sulphur Springs makes the Gazette
sing out, show we applings swim 7"
John A. Hogg has married the accom-
plished Sarah A. Tubbs at Elmo, and much
domestic bliss must result. A cooper of
the place has quit making ''piggins.'
There is great deal of nlggcr-dness
illustrated just now in the boarding OF
nickels by boot-blacks. They have heard
that a wheezy old circus was coming.
Waco has been praying. through its
churches, for rain, and there only came q
small shower of advertisements about the
constitutional convention from Austin.
Two men, Shannon and Carothers, both
hitherto supposed to be good, industrious
citizens, have been arrested near McKin.
ney, as robbers of the Cleburne bank.
VIM. A. Workman, late of the Legisla
ture, gentleman of excellent fame and
intelligence, now shapes the fortunes an6
conduct of the Sulphur Springs Gazette.
The Methodists, are conducting lively
revival at Sulphur Springs. If it were tn,
Baptists it would be because there's ''mucl
water there, but it seems to be sulphur
An artificial fish pond, near O2eleka
Alabama, yields $4,000 per annum. VIII,
not have one as an incident to the waite
works near the summit of Mount Bonnell
The Georgetown Democrat loves to reaC
Mrs. Sallie E. Ballard Maynard's poetry
and therefore prints the verses addressed
by this admirable lady to Jefferson Davis
The Hockey and Montgomery Railwa,
Company has L. M. Montgomery as presi
dent, and G. Amster as treasurer. Tn
treasurer is the main man in railway build
ing.
The Denison News thinks the State Fai
at Austin will be the most popular institu
ton that has blest the fame and promote,
the intelligence and iberalized the preju
dices of Texas.
Harry Mccarthy "has jined the cavalry
lined the cavalry" and is in the ''leg
business with Thompson at Dallas. PropC
sitions were made to Blind Tom but h
couldn't ''see it.
The San Antonians have $4,000 organ
and when it gets off very lively melod
the sanity Antonians, fred by soul-stirrin
minstrelsy. hpse into st. Vitus's arms an
dance devilishIy.
The English excursionists, Col. Mozart
ct ais, have gone to England from Den
son, but will return and open mines an
build railways. and are nightly please
Corn wears ''silks" and cotton brigl
blossoms as it "stalks" away in the ia
fields about LAGRANGE. The people al
happy in the fact that they will be we
corned and clad.
Roasting ears, the Journal says, will 500
bless Bolton breakfast tables. The ,Journ,
can supply full-grown crop at any m,
! ment, but it is the fellow that pulls thel
that gets roasted.
Mr.. Swift, whose wife was murdered b
Mexican villain, one Juan Flores, not +,
from Refugio, paid Cortina subsidy, an
has thus secured possession of the villaiI
who will soon hang.
Many Californlans aremigrating to Texas
Mining is not profitable and proftabI
farming impossible. Mr.. Stapp, for tweI
tyrseyen years of the Golden State, hl
bought home near Denton.
The San Antonio Herald is 'fnclined [
believe that old man Logan who stru
about it like turkey cock with its featE
ers all spread, is entitled to the honor
giving paternity to the Herald.
Joseph McCluskY, the Illinois counte
feiter, arrested last week at Rockdale, hi
escaped after an Illinois sheriff was notife
to come and get the rascal. We are curiol
to see some Of McCiusl1y's cigars.
The San Antonio Express treats Maj,
Purnell very unjustly in insinuating thi
Macsrtney's escape was nothing more tina
what might have been expected, after b
had fallen into the maTshal's hands.
Pill pedlers proposing to practice the a
of Galen and Gum must get their license
! TO practice about Stephenville, on the Sc
enteenth proximo, when DIR. BurrOugh
board of examiners viii be convened.
They discovered recently, in POmpeii,
woman making fire in cook stove, viii
her husband and the baby still slept. 81
You see that singular female has been sleel
ing ever since, and hasn't yet got even.
A white youth, eighteen years of ag'
supposed to be German but now an Il
dian in language, manners and memOrie
escaped last week from indians that Ia
made an incursiOn upon Fort McKavitt.
The company organized to cut a can
from Red River to connect Gainesville vii
Houston and Galveston by water is rich
endowed by the State, and promises
complete the great ditch at an early day.
Corn crops in the Northwestern counti'
of Texas are magnificent, and immigran
into that attractive region about Weathe
ford will find bread very cheap. Corn b.
gone down to seventy-ive cents even nov
There are 50 many mad dogs in Dento
county that people won't send their CHI
dren to school, and people riding ab0I
o'nights ride like Arabs on dromedarie
crossing their nice little legs in front
them.
They didn't advertise the attractiveness
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