The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-19

Texas-Fact. and Fancies.
Gen. Ord has returned to San Antonio.
OF 200 voters only $50 voted in Fort
| Worth. d saS i l1He
Hill county produces an unprecedented
cotton crop. cess e cess .a-
The Gatesville Suns watermelon weighed
| ifty-seven pounds.
| A great Methodist campmeeting is in
progress at Pittsville. tl
The street preacher is doing good and
great work in Dallas.
A war is brewing between the Creesett
and Sherman Register. @
Jefferson expects to secure As, 900 cotton
| The State Grange assemblies at Dallas on
the seventeenth instant.
| Wheat is sold at from sixty to seventy
| five cents in Fort Worth. 90
| The cotton crop is fine about Cotton Gin,
and corn and wheat abound. @R " fsl
| The Masons have been laying the corner
stone of temple in Waco. a.
bales of the current crop.
Charles Parker, murderer from Bastrop,
has been captured in Marlin.
Smith county will make more peas, pota-
toes and turnips than any of the State.
Shad, the Examiner states, have been
taken from the Bosque. Is it not mistaken
The Jimptecute tells of a heavy hail storm
that swept over Jefferson last Wednesday.
James j. Galloway is the Democratic
nominee for the office of sheriff at Calvert.
A terrible hailstorm has done irreparable
injury to the cotton crop of Shelby county.
Talrant county has aohiillion bushels OF
wheat, and produced ain acreage of thirty
bushels. a.it .N
Rev. Tip Hays is engineering a success.
full protracted neeting in Carthage, Pamela
county. ........ III,
Drought destroys grass, fruit trees and
grape vines at Rayville, and cattle suffer
for water.
Mary E. Scott writes admirable, soft,
smoothe, flowing verses for the Fort Worth
| Standard t9li' fHs 1f
Rev. Mr.. Chalk has been preaching CAPT.
tai sermons at the Methodist protracted
meeting near Bonham.
| A lively shooting ARRAY occurred on
| Blanket creek, near Comanche. One Cook
was terribly wounded. a5
| The Uoliad Guard describes, with siugu.
lar good taste and effectiveness, the charms
OF the country about Goliad.
The Baptisis are building $4,000 church
in Fort Worth, and the Methodists are fin.
ishing one of the same sort. 5.EaB gsrs
Fort Worth boys won all the money OF
The country round about on foot race they
had over there last week.
Giddings still grows apace and owes
much to its name and the name of the hon.
est gentleman who bears it. T.ie
James langley, who killed William An.
/ dersOn in Lee county last spring, has been
captured, has given $4,000 bond and been
released, ..,...,-s 4+
The Colorado Citizen is justly well
pleased that the erudite hnguist and elo.
qaent preacher, DR.. Collins, will estab lish
an academy at Columbia.
The county court at Waco has raised old
Harry and everybody on one side = the
eastern of the river by putting the new
court house on the other. 5l
Denison cast only 1913 votes in the last
elections. We thought from its magnitude
in the worlds eyes that the Neps Office
could have done more than this.
Where newspapers require the name Of a
letter writer, viii that of John Smith do
| The Enterprise says IT'S going to publish a
letter from plain John Smith.
The grading of the first ten miles of tie
Tyler Pap Railroad was finished last week.
The contractors, Messrs. Hunphrey & Allen,
deserve great credit for energy. st
Allison and Curtis, two sons of Ham,
burglarized shoe shop in Jefferson, were
pursued and captured, and viii soon be
domiciled with Ward, Dewey & Co.
Mr.. Albert Ball, of the banking house OF
Ball, Hutchins & Co., of Galveston, Is
dead. He came to Galveston in 1910, has
grown up with it, and been ons Of its lead
Gonzalez girls have the nerve TO respond
to notes sent them by the too fast young
men and IN very proper terms to refuse to be
seen on the streets or at public places in
their society. @ p so
One of the plans Of cheating in the
Indian supplies is TO stampede the cattle af-
ter they are sold, drive them back 20 the
contractor's corral and sell them over and
over again. - .a.a =.if
A great camp meeting is organizing a
campaign against sinners and Satan. Ac-
tive hostiIities will begin to be waged at
Groesbeck on Friday before the first Sun
day of September. AsEsE q z
c. w. Pressly. of Waco, il no more. He
borrowed all the money in sight and then
- lit OUT He IL now in Kansas City. We
commend hiIa 20 the knsFes and police OF
that blessed town.
The ruinous Hoods IN the valleys Of the
Ohio and The Mississippi suggest the policy
for farmers OF Withholding their surplus
wheat from market Tie pr.ce must adj
vance, 30 the dealers say. ~
The Thoroughfase street, Of the Repswtez
has been in hard service in Galveston. He
wasn't paved OF otherwise stoned Since
be kepi straight, there Was no reason foI
saying he was in . high old way.
The pious good mayor Of Port Worth
when lewd women are dragged into his
awful presence has the room cleared. He
H0uld not have the modesiy Of voistk.
shocked b. reeifnls Of infamy.
Rooert Tupea.was taken from Bonhn.n
On arssaisasion from LoniAiaas. He killed,