The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23
Texa.-Fac.. and Eancle..

A farmer near Cambridge has twenty-five
acres in melons. io', ss5!G BOG
Fine cotton reports are coming in from
all parts of Texas df e 10
The Hampstead Courier has libel suit
on hand and is happy. asoasa F
| J. M. Martin, of the Register, should be
the next mayor of Sherman. a ' i.'1
The cclored gentlemen" of San Antonio
are playing policemen just now
Sixteen carloads of coal arrive daily at
Denison from the Indian Territory. i,i4'
Fourteen new iron front business houses
are in process Of erection at Mckinney.
Bonham has a Touring mill which puts
up fifteen thousand pounds Of flour daily.
The Sherman Courier, scratching its
head, complains of ''grasshoppersp-wh
| is strange. tasi
The farmers are making cider in large
quantities in Collin county. They are mel
low old Wings over there even yet.
The mayors court in Corsicana is doing
thriving business just now, and lawyers
there are beginning to grow eloquent.
The appeal says: "We learn that num-
Der of families-all thrifty and intelligent
farmers-will soon leave Pike, Missouri, for
Brazos county.
The Teras Northeast gives glowing &C
count of the progress of Clay county in the
| way of agriculture and the successful rails
ing of fruit. sm
A grand barbecue will be the feature at
the reunion of the old settlers of Kaufman
and adjoining counties, at Terrell, on the
twenty-third instant.
Richie, the man who poisoned himself
in Plano few weeks ago by an overdose
of morphine, died IN Louisville last week
| from the effects of it. sa 3f @ea
The young Cavaliers Of the village Creek
Settlement, Ennis, gave a tournament, a
few days since, and were generally success
full in capturing the rings. r.ezlo.fg,
The Christian Messenger says "prayers
rious preachers of Austin open the CONVEX
ton with prayer, daily, free Of charge"
A woman in Hood county, with the as
sistauce of little boy, raised 400 bushels
of corn and four bales of cotton, and cult
waited rich garden, and thus lived at
home.
Robert Miller and Tom Hopkins, two
desperadoes, well known in Northern Texas,
made their escape from the Gfeenyille Jail
few nights ago. Files and saws did the
| business. 1 asa .svt s9e bas
The policemen of Houston are yet at the
work of raiding the dens of gamblers A
| few evenings since they captured twenty
five of the .'jaryles," and +" the cry. is still
they Gomez
The Marshall Herald reports that the
/ fund raised for the Davis homestead is to
be used towards erecting q monument to
Rev. T. B. Wilson, so long pastor Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in that
city.
The Weekly Star reports that sore eyes
are prevailing extensively all through
Kaufman, aud the adjoining counties. The
disease is attributed by the physicians To
atmospheric conditions.
i The Groesbeck Democrat says: "The
editor is of on ssplurgv' again this week. y
Is that what you call itl They call it a
.ftare" in the Constitutional Convention,
and wade into fellow who goes on one.
Our Texas exchanges all feel lIsppy in
the appointment of Gen. Joseph L. John
ston as commander-in-chief Of the Kbedive's
try and therefore the bliss of the news
papers
sThey are at It IN Bryan now. A gentle.
man at the Mercantile Hotel had his peck
cts riffied few nights since Of forty five
dollars, and the Appeal calls it ''aDo;heI
II point for inhaiion," made 10y coDtrac-
/ ZIONIST.
The Appeal puts 1t ia . curious way when
uttering the following; but it Is the truth
not only Of Bryan but Of Austin: ''Thers
are some men IN Bryan who know as IItfls
about advertising their business Is q hog
does about the Ten CommandmentsiD
The reporter Of the Sherman Register viii
soon see clubs flying in the AIR. Listen Il
him " The editor Of the Denison Creeid
does not believe IN taking his kingdom
Of heaven By violence He takes his ehls
Ky any way he can get it.r II the Crsn,s'
man thinks there is heaven in whisky,
where Is his hell located, and who can de
scribe il ~
They make Koiian harps in Waco out o.
eornstalks. OF course It 10 Granger in
! atrumenf, and IT'S the sort the Esamine
plays on That il its . harp Of thousanl
strings,n and il makes sweetest melody
But i WIN be for somebody nov dancing