The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

| very SOIIE, Out our IellOW-SuueEeI VI tue
Meas is informed that the inditer of these
| paragraphs can't go with the excursionists
down East
Rumor hath it that the Texas Central has
bought, and will furnish and equip ut once,
the Dallas and Wichita Railway to the
Dallas county line.
They have hops in Dallas at the fashion
able hotels, but they are done by feas, and
at the bar-rooms are found distilled in lager
tine noPs are. ue stza tzl LLs .-.as..
After all the intolersble fuss about the
drOuth, Anderson, county will make two
thirds OF corn crop, and will have big
quantity TO sell.
The Corsicana 1mmilrant tiourishes, and
gives full reports of local facts, crops,
fights, morals, temperance and Oranges. 1t
is great institution. s-e
Cotton picking is going on very gener-
ally and prosperously about Cuero and so
with the process Of picking paragraphs
out of the STATESMAN.
The Examiner, says the outlook for
Waco is good" Introversion of the ocu-
lar optics does not produce, we infer, such
delightful impressions.
The degree of Ii. d. has been most
worthily conferred upon Hon. George
Clarke, Attorney General of the State of
Texas, by Erskine College. as2
Rufe Hutton, sixteen, is the veriest viii
lain ever produced in Bonham mere
child was the victim of his hell-born bru.
tally. If caught he will hang.
Sam Harvey, an ll-tempered mechanic,
of Terrell, struck little boy, who annoyed
| him, with a saw, and the little fellow will
die and Sam may hang for it.
The Christian College in Bonham is win
ming great fame and deserves the exalted
! opinion entertained of its faculty and cur
riculum everywhere in the West.
L big Methodist revival is progressing at
Longview. Thirteen additions to the
church and thirteen conversions, and, as the
politicians say, the ball keeps rolling on.
The Denton Monitor says that the people
of that county paid their grand jury two
dollars each member per diem to bring out
candidates for the constitutional conven-
ton. d - gao. US. ......
The Star, of Cuero, dubs Mr.. Fudge
81. CT, which, being interpreted, signi-
fies, in printers lingo, Clover case" How
| this differs from ''hard case" We are not
advised.
The story comes from Bosoue county that
a mob hanged two negroes and two white
| men to the same tree. The negroes were
hired by the white men to murder one
Smith. ....
1t is curious to observe how few ''col-
oreds" are sent to Ward, Dewey & Co. for
forgery, and the fact perhaps accounts in
part for the great number sent for other
! crimes. if. a1 n. 1858
A great camp meeting is progressing four
miles from Bonham. Dohoney and the
Neos may now be reconciled. The lemon
ade privilege, the Neaos says, will be sold at
10 o'clock.
When the Age gives credit for dozen or
two articles daily gobbled from these lumin-
Gus pages it makes the generous donation to
the Fayette County Record. See Age of
August 9.
The Palestine Aduocate, for the first time,
is in danger of being blown up. 1t is in
volved in controversy with brass band.
Wind and impudence will surely be too
many for it. ,s. N
The Waco Examiner, the Register says,
thinks that the worthy master of the State
Grange,a w. w. Lang, is in danger from in
discreet friends who are pressing his claims
for Governor. .,.-,
William Johnson goes to Ward, Dewey
& Co. for ninety-nine years for wife-murder
in Rusk county. The courts have much
faith, it seems, in the longevity of the State
prison keepers. '.-
The Rusk Observer tells the sad story:
JEFF. Thompson, thirteen years old, was
| getting over fence, and in lifting the gun
after him the hammer exploded the cap,
and the boy was killed. ,.. .. 80.
Grapes are juicy and delicious about
Brownsville, and the time may come when
another generation will make wine, and
the grape crop will be more profitable than
that of cotton. .u EsTltf
1t is reported at Hillsboro that Col. Tread
we'll, the greatest stockraiser of those parts,
was murdered last week on White Rock
when returning from Dallas, where he had
sold many cattle.
DIR. Grasty, of Austin, has been pumping
piety into the good people of Fort Worth.
They ought to be, of all Texans, the ao0rth
lest of the learned Doctors eloquent minis
trations, but amt. 90
There are in this State to day 1900, 600
Inhabitants. Of this number 300, 900
should be legal voters. Yet only little
over one-third of this 800, 900 have as yet
voted at any one time.
The Baptists preached and prayed seven
days and nights with Jasper, but only drew
into the fold two backsliders. The Mesos-
boys influence, we greatly fear, is not direct
ed in proper channel. .,... .,. -.....
| Butter costs Bit q pound in Hillsboro,
and it isn't the ordinary hash house, color
less, hairy liquid sold for forty cents in
larger towns and made from swlll milk by
queer chemical process.
The Fort Worth Standard wants press
man. Its editorial management is admira-
BILE, but the pressman made it impossible
for the fancy man. to extract an idea
from the excellent newspaper.
Judge Ireland can't deny it any more.
He is candidate He runs in very lively
manner in Luling. There he has three
votes and Haynes and all those fellows
were nightly scared about it.
The C0urier-Jouraal tells of horse that
eats every chicken. that comes fooling round
bis manger. We don't doubt the fact but
must say it is q common trick of horses
who begin life as circuit riders.
The Mckinney Journal thinks opium-eat.
ing should become the subject of attention,
and temperance folks should not forget that
the. vice grows rapidly and has now half a
| million victims in America.
Mr.. B. w. Brown, of the penitentiary To-
eating commission. is out in card in which
he says he did all in his power, after failing
to locate il at Gilmer, to secure the location
of the great den Of thieves At Jefferson.
Ears Of corn grow nine feet from the
ground at Freestone and the people there
viii have to organize shook and ladder"
company, We reckon; or they may rent
Doualdson's balloon if it comes back again
to Chicago. 49,
Caterpillars are destroying forest foliage
about Goliad. The Guard has quit climb
ing trees now and stays principally in town.
Vermifuge amt worth q cent against cater
pillars, and the -6uurd is nervous about
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