The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

same gauge with the International.
Mrs. Mollie Rawlings, of Dallas county,
eighty-two years old, died last week.
John H. Moody, an old citizen of Texas,
died near Anderson few days ago.
Presiding Elder Conner begins quarter
" conference next Saturday at HearHe.
The colored folks are running a vigorous
and boisterous camp meeting at Calvert.
a The country about Borne is said to be
the widest and most beautiful in Texas.
Mr.. Gambia, the postmaster at San Anto-
Mo, was not imported from Senegambia.
Bell county makes only twenty bushels
of corn per acre, and feels very badly about
it.
Delightful and abundant showers have
refreshed people and crops about Mckin-
ney.
Friday, August Is, the great Baptist
meeting begins eight miles north OF Pleasan-
ton.
A brother of the mayor, Fulton, of Gal
weston, was drowned last week near Bas-
trop.
Major T. s. Lees son is lunatic, and
was sent to the asylum from Gonzales last
week.
Gus A. Schneider, of Bastrop, shot him
self in a fit of mental alteration at Selma,
Texas. .........
Abundant rains having fallen, the Bap-
fists are holding protracted meetings IN
Ennis.
Cattle are dying for want of water about
Gonzales. No rain for more than three
months.
Houston is to have a horticultural and
genealogical exhibition on the tenth of
August.
The Echo is told by Gen. Byrne that the
Texas Pacific will reach Fort Worth before
Christmas.
If the Waco Examiner had as good a
pressman as an editor it would be admirable
in all things.
Col. Frank Reynolds, of the Khedive's
army of Egypt, is dead. He was once OF
San Antonio.
The Brazos is blooming" at Granbury,
and the Vidette concludes it's been raining
nightly above.
Who knows Virginius Hendrick Tell
N. c. Hendrick, good man, at Snow Hill,
West Virginia.
Burleson is happy in its crop prospects.
Recent rains saved the corn, and cotton was
never better.
The cotton crop about Mineola promises
glorious returns for Col. Keys and the toll
Of other planters.
Rusk had its dusty face washed by a
shower last Sunday. 1t was sadly in need
of the ablution. aa r.
T. c. Belsher, famous and most success
full teacher, of Columbus, Mississippi is
travelling ever Texas.
Battle Fort, noted editor, of Columbus,
Mississippi, is doing Texas, and last week
was in San Antonio. @
Three long-horned beeves, of Waco,
weigh 5000 pounds, and the fat man of the
town one-tenth as much.
The tender-hearted, generous Jinlplecutt
still waileth that Charley Ross is no more,
and also whaleth one Beecher.
The Weatherford Times says crops over
there are excellent, especially of cotton,
and the people are all happy.
Most people who used to borrow news
papers have learned that it is much more
decent to subscribe and pay for them.
A woolgrowers association was organized
Saturday at Navarro. The ever wool-gath-
ering Telegraph was there We reckon.
Charles F. Hitler, an old and esteemed
citizen of Dallas, was killed the other day
in Corsicana by falling from his horse.
The late shower" at Dallas was only Of
tears at the old folks concert. 1t was a sac
affair, the jealous Waco Examiner says.
Max Adeler's wife-bran new-weighs
200 pounds. He did not want her to laugh
and grow fat 60 such an alarming extent.
The HutchIns House is closed, and n. P.
Turner goes to SumHer county, Tennessee,
his birth place, to spend a weary month.
G. L. Sheriff., of Chambers county, Ala
bama, killed negro last week at 0verton,
Rusk county, and is on trial for the crime
OF three negroes run over by the carr
near Henderson, one escaped with life
His head was bruised. The others shins
Hearne is blest with its excellent bathing
house and the Enterprise is the cleanes
looking paper that came in our mails to
day.
The Hillsboro temperance society grow
apace, and the town in morals and decency
and the pretty girls in sweet, winsom'
ways SIS
The corn crop about Mexia is still yer!
good, the wheat crop was excellent, that o
candidates fine, aud cotton suffering some
| what.
Recent rains have benefited gardens abou
Hearne and Calvert, and industrious, decen
people are not now confined to bacon anC
greens.
Col W. H. Newman, the faetots,a OF tn,
Texas and Pacific at Marshall, Is soiourninl
in Dallas, and it's better town than eve
before.
AbOut Trinity Mills, not far from Den
ton, farms have produced thirty-five bush
els OF wheat per acre. and the corn crop i
excellent.
The greatest natural advantage of Rusl
| is the Times, and vet the 77mes boasts 40
the natural advantages Of the place"
l isn't modest
The Tyler Dsu-evat viii soon reappear
fresh and bright and reiuvenated. from tn,
ashes Of the conhagration that swept il ou
Of existence.
The Dallas esmMevrisl protests agains
any more rain. People may get 10 usins
water and hnEt the whisky tEaae-the gres
Dnllas industry. s
The Enais c0Hnts Ssrs is happy as q BIZ
sunhower. and radiant as the first syllable o
the glowing word, because Of recent re
fEeshing showers.