The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-29

All the babies in Mckinney, the little
and grown-up, have the collie. The Journal
says it's watermelons. Stomach pumps
should be added TO the water works OF the
progressive town, which will resort to the
Holly system.
jefferson must do something or curl up
and quit. The East Line road must be built
and direct access by rail to New Orleans
and to Memphis will make Jefferson great
city, despite the treason of the penitentiary
locating commission.
The murderers and robbers of Ricardo
Flores and Jose Maria Aquila are both in
prison at Matamoros. The Express thinks
they will be extradited. A9uila murdered
the poor schoolmaster, who hadn't drawn
has pay. VIM. F. Mshsn.
Msjor c. r. Johns has written from New
York that the emigration from the colder
States into Texas tins fall will be enormous
Such are his opinions from what he sees
and hears in railways, in newspapers and
while on Wall street.
Gardens in Longview are now being
freshly planted. Drought killed the first
crop, and there is time enough before frost
for another to mature. Can't Austin gar
dens adopt the idea and let us have album
dant vegetables till December
If p. F. Brannan don't go home and keep
things straight that wild man he has turned
loose among the ''ads" and ''eds" and SO
calls" of the Weatherford Times or ''things
temporal will become things eternal, and
Brannan's bantling will be dead.
The Galveston Cipilidn is hardly satisfied
that the big fish will not soon swallow the
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city. The concern is worth $4,000 or
more and can't raise $10 900 to make prep
arations for the next exposition.
The Denton Rerieao says that glorious liz
telligence comes from all parts of the
county, of fine crops. Halford Prairie,
Elizabethtown, Little Elm, Pilot Point, and
the surrounding vicinities have had good
rains and crops were never better.
James Raymond, of Ellis county, strange
ly disappeared last May, when he started to
Waco. Perhaps, after getting there, he
was appointed to Office in Austin. But, Sc
riously, the man has gone up, and his fam
| lily are anxious to hear from him.
The Eclectic promises to be a better pa
per now. The Baptists have begun the
erection of church over there in Stephen
vile. When we reflect, too, that there are
ten Oranges around the town, it's no won.
der how wonderfully it grows in piety.
The Waco Daily Reporter is now of the
size of the DAILY STATESMAN, and if it
isn't as good paper in all respects mOdesty,
that marvellous modesty which the Messenger
talks about, forbids statement of the rea-
son. But there is no better paper in Texas.
Dallas has great enterprise, and is now
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tory.-SteUe's Empire.
Many barrels are first rolled out and in
before the elevation" is perceptible; but
those Dallas people are always tolerably
high.
The religious spirit that invests Tom Bur-
pett's paper, the Texas organ of the ''Chris-
/ TAM Church, is not so profound or solemn
that it renders the excellent publication
melancholy or otherwise Objectionable. 1t
is an admirable paper in all its incidents
and aspects.
Since it has become fashionable in Sher-
man for the nice young men to shave their
heads closely, there has been excited an
unusual degree of interest in the study of
natural history, and every fellow keeps a
microscope to examine animalcules and
fishes for 'em of Sundays.
The Moving Bah, besides toting Lang, has
taken up one Chubb, and recites his mis-
deeds If Chubb's conduct be truthfully
recited, he is the foremost villain of ancien,
or modern times. Chubb's robbery of his
daughter, once the wife of Gen. Chambers,
is unparalleled in vill,iny.
The suggestion that Ashbel Smith be
made president of the constitutional con-
vention Is widely approved, and now the
Paris Press properly proposes that Judge
Wright be made chairman of the judiciary
committee as Judge Reagan should be OF
that on Federal relations.
People around Denison are irrigating
their pretty farms from artesian wells. The
water comes in exhaustiess quantity to
within sixty and eighty feet of the surface.
A windmill finishes the job and browns the
grasshoppers and makes the corn gloriouslJ
green, ds those people are not.
The Denton Rerie,O says that ''the wheat
crop in the vicinity of Trinity Mills was
never better; many crops yield thirty bush
els to the acre. The average will be about
thirty bushels. We had fine rain Monday
night and Tuesday following" Come, i'm
migrants, TO bread without price.
The Mckinney Journal is doing good ser
wee, and will give bread and clothing anC
self-reliance and good morals TO the poo
if it can only succeed in establishing tn,
: cotton mill. 1t is the very next thing to
, church in promotion of morals and a yer!
bonanza to the poor women and children
Education is eminently desirable, and tn,
people of Mckinney are wise in organizing
library association, the best of schools
Everything depends upon the taste and wis
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books. Few have become successful jour
nalisis, and few have gathered excellent
libraries.
The Denison Cresset says horned frogs arr
shipped by the carload to Baltimore, anG
are there used in making a patent medi
, cine. The fellow would be patent" thai
swallowed one, especially il it went down
backwards, and isn't it a wonder the doc
tors never before thought of them as deter
gentsl
: Con Rector was righteously killed in
Borland's saloon in Sherman. He was
, bully and fsticuffer. He knocked a maj
. down; both fell, and when they rose cree
Rector was rectifed and his bullyisn
washed out IN blood. He ran a short dis
|, lance and fell dead, and the grand jur'
were we'll pleased.
Rev. w. ii. ID. Carrngton preached clio
quently to the batrachians of Bastrop las
Sunday. They go in ''ker chug," ant
therefore this Is thus. Rev. Mr.. Hillye
has also been rousing up sinners in the sam
town, and Bastrop is better place than he
fore. Both these men are able, learne'
and eloquent.
: The Vidette is such sweet paper. 1t
. especially sweet on Abe Landers, who's
sorghum fields produce 400 gals " pc
acre. They don't grow that thick down Il
these parts, but fewer in the hill, and thu
sweeter and juicier by all odds. Anyhow
{ the Austin girls are hard to beat. Sorghum
a isn't circumstance in these parts.
; Highwaymen about Brownsville hav
been cutting the military telegraph. Som
c morning the rascais will awake and fin