The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-01
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They want rain somewhat in Rusk county.
Jimmy Garrison outspells all Henderson.
Temperance Young has been blowing up
Goliad.
Freeman Walker Douglass, of Fort Bend,
Is dead. 75
Kansas farmers are shipping butter to Gal
weston.
Major c.. R. Johns was in Jefferson
Thursday.
They still have spelling matches at
Gainesville.
Wheat is worth eighty cents bushel in
Hill county.
Fifteen Kickapoos arc stealing horses
about Hondo.
The cotton worm has appeared in the
Brazos bottom.
The narrow gauge is extended seven
miles from Houston.
Foundrymen are making excellent car
wheels in Houston.
The Waco Touring mills are doing mag
nificent business
The Willis Observer will suspend publica-
ton until September.
People in Henderson are crazed by specu-
lations in stone quarries.
Rev. W. o. King, of Houston, died last
Tuesday in Georgetown.
The Rural Terdn is winning, as it de-
serves, great popularity.
The mercury stood 92o at p. NJ, in
Waco, on the twenty fifth.
The female compositor In the Texas Lead
err Office makes $40 per week.
They will have great fair, the Dispatch
says, next October in Lampasas.
The artificial fishpond at Henderson
furnishes vast numbers of perch.
The Fourth of July dinner in Cooke
county will feed 10000 people.
Williamson county, like Travis, wants
rain, and Austin is always thirsty.
The James and Younger boys are said to
be lurking about Paris, in this State.
The BRENNAN Banner thinks it will make
bale per acre if 1t don't have worms.
The GranburY F7dette weeps over the
grave of good man, ]. Fl. Goodlitt.
Rev. ". P. Petty is preaching In Gaines
vile on the conservatism of christianity.
Persons leaving the city should order the
STATESMAN to their address for the summer.
The Rusk Observer grins because plenty
smiles. The Observer itself never ''smiles"(D }.
There are twenty-one indictments for
cattle stealing against one Nelson at Cor
pus.
The Gonzales Inquirer says that crops
well cultivated do not suffer for want of
rain.
The number of visitors at Lampasas is
greater than at the same date in any former
year.
Col. Dick Westcott, the oldest printer in
Texas, sets column daily on the fascinat-
ing Age.
The population of Henderson, with all
the pretty girls, goes blackberrying each
afternoon.
Bee county is said to s9arm with sheep,
which may account for the sheepishness OF
the Busy Bee.
In the case of Schman v. Moody Meshell
s. Co., at kaufman, the verdict for plaintiff
was So, 900. Dos.
Prisoners abound at Lampasas, and the
sheriff must surrender to them the front
room of the Jail.
Andrew J. Bell--''Jack Bella success
full lawyer for forty years, of Austin county,
| died last week.
Rev. A. L. Clemmons addresses the stu
dents of Henderson College on the six
tcenth proximo.
Mr.. J. N. Bartholow, an experienced
newspaper man, Is about to start another
paper in Dallas.
A psor girl, ten or twelve years of age,
can get good home in Granbury by writ
/ ing to the Fidstte.
A poem by Miss Nettie Power Houston
entitled Natures Child,r graces the page
of SeribRer for July.
The Hillsboro E5positor thinks that nj
/ country can surpass that in its vicinity in tn,
production Of beets.
/ President Carlton, Of the Bonham Col
lege, is winning deserved fame Is an edu
Gator of young men. w
Ahc CotOtSu PcopAo ceASotetcA oA'ei Sak'e
ton DAY with infinite good humor and
good dinner at Nasasota.
The San Antonio dramatic club restrict
members to o tin-cup-ful and meets in tn
loft oil the Herald Office.
4 The Herald insists that Dallas must hav
an elevator. We thought the masses of tn
place generally high enough.
A section Of the vertebrs Of some giganti
animal was found near Brenham in 9 raj
way cut about fifteen feet deep.
The BsstrOp Adurtiser publishes an intel
esting serial, entitled a The Life and Ad
ventures of Antonio N. Erhsrd-p
Mr.. ID. ID. Locke, Of San Francisco. Is
Denison with the ticket that drew as, 00G
He holds besides thirteen blanks.
Hines Clark and n. Kenedy subscribe
$40, 600 to the capital stock Of the corpu
Christi and Laredo Marrow Gauge.
+ Morgan is asked to put another steam'
on the line from Galveston to Corpus. I,
for juleps don't last between trips-