The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

| tAAt sneg 0lscDpge her duty; interest calls
upon her, and nothing short of an entire
reputation of her most sacred obligations
will prevent her from arranging for the
effective defense of the brave people on heI
western borders.r- Waco Examiner.
Te9as1 sad E.as1s..
Many Illinois stockraisers are moving into
Denton.
There are fifty-three prisoners in the San
Antonio Jail, and more coming.
7. z. Butler is importing thoroughbred
cattle into Kaufman county.
The Goliad Guard should publish the
"Story of Golad" in pamphlet.
The Fort Worth Standard says the con.
struction of the road to Dallas has beer
provided for and is fixed fact -,
| Wild Bill, after slowing away good
deal of mean whisky, was lodged in the
Waxahachie calaboose.
1t is none of our business to defend Col.
DeMorse, but the Bonham Enterprise hard
| ly does him justice when it says: q
The graduation of the Henderson and
Overton Railway is nearly finished, and the
Times is exceeding well pleased about it.
Burleson county is surrounding its jail
with Chinese wall fourteen feet high.
We suppose it is designed to keep the PEG
pie out. t}"'o a4
The Calvert TSrdn describes the hideous
Jail and its horrors at that place. There
should be prison reform association in
Austin. Why notg
Much cotton accumulates at Bonham,
Paris and other towns along our railways,
and the price does net advance and buyers
of cultures" are Sick ii ~
The Jimplecute asks ''When will the
Convention ,hatcha That's the question.
They have set oyer six weeks already, and
we never knew goose to be over, FIVE"
They have female preacher doing good
work about Terrell. They call her Rev.
DR.. Polly So letter-writer tells us. She
is conducting a successful revival over
there 9lfsla 9aa 51 1Ie, ss f-aes
The health Of Hon. Web Flanagan's wife
is improving, and he will return in few
days to bless the eyes and endure with de-
light and counsel sweetly with the Ruta-
bagas.
The editors of the Busy Bee are preparing
perfect description of Llano county, which
will adorn the pages of that enterprising
journal, and be used and circulated every
where. ~ b's1iii'f-
Fort Worth ships flour by the carload to
Shreveport, Marshall, Austin and other
cities. This flour Isl ground in Tarrant
county nd pint In h.trrals manufactured
at home. ios3 ar5
The Henderson Times says t'ourn tailor
is making wedding suit What woman,
in these days of horrid contraction, is going
to throw herself away on a wretched news
paper man
The Cuero Star wants vigilance com
mlttee to clean out the neighborhood in
which i've men have been recently assassin
ated in that county. The last victim was
Mr.. Benton, a good Scotchman. $4,000.
The Changers haveia depot house at Kauf-
man, and sell their wheat at one dollar and
eighteen and half cents. Western Texas
wants the same privileges, the same re-
sources, and the same blessings. -
The Waxahachie Enterprise says if the
Convention takes hold of the wharf com.
| pany tit will find itself in deep water. -
Then how can we know whether fellow
was born with the right to vote?
At Goliad three crops of corn and crop
of turnips, enough to make respectable
| convention, are produced annually on the
same acres. The owner of this farm Is sell
ing his fancy cattle at 1915 dollars per
head. aF saat 81 800
The Fort Worth Democrat says in one
paragraph :. the lawyers are busy" and in
the next $ the Changers are smiling" Then
they smile together over there. Lawyers
will ''smile" when busy. No temperance
lecturer could stop 'em.
The paymaster's and quartermaster's Off
ces, recently at Denison, have been trans
ferred to Dallas, and every body in Dallas is
touching glasses about 1t and the town thus
rings with it, and thus are rings organ
lied in Dallas as not elsewhere in the
world. HIlis4s l.-n e
Col. Delaney of Columbus, who worthily
represented p most intelligent constituency
IN the late Legislature Fourteenth-has
been. spending some days in Austin He
photograph of the big Rutabaga.
The saddest men ever seen in Waco were
FIVE, poor devils made to act as Judges at
the baby show. Each fellow, we are told.
as soon as half year old was awarded the
premium. was snstched baldheaded. We
may EXPECT Gen. Ross back at any moment.
The big pecans about Cuero are ripening,
and the abundance Of the nut crop makes
the Star such acracking paper. Perhaps it
is this Ia 49, rrTv growth OF
Mr.. Diets family down there = four at a
birth. The Star tells the story.
The Denton Monitor thinks it might be
well for the Constitutional Convention to
adjourn for amouth or two and learn what
the people think and want. Some plan
should be devised by which Rutabaoaism
may collect its thoughts If it have any.
The Denton Rerieso is bothcring the
brains of its readers with the INQUIRY
whether man was born immortalY', We
kinder reckon he was, since one good
preacher says he was born branded with
the right to vote, and we will be qualified
that old Ruta is immortal
Alexander & Bro, druggists, of Austin.
were recipients of the blue ribbon at the
Waco fair for the best displa- of Texas
made medicines. Foreign newspaper rep
resentatives seem to have been amazed that
such preparations should come from the
State capital 80
We are uLder obligation to Mr.. o. o.
Leafay OF Lockhart Tor most elegant col
l ',a1 OF AN roses which were sent nicely
Rsekeu, ana reached here well preserved.
Iley ulsPisy taste and elegance, and are
only s1lpasseo ~ beauty oy that OF the fsIr
District court is in session at Roclxwall.
All Kaufman attorneys and those from Ter
Tell are these They are Iaw-abidlne up in
Rockwall. and one week Is sufficient for the
business It IL the moral force and peculiar
tiles of such people that we find embodied
IN Mr. Wade Of The Constitutional Conven-
tiou-
The Calvert 1esan ssys that Calvert could
afford to abolish the Office Of hide insnec4or
and in lien Of Il nsfnbIi.h -. 49,. - :