The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09


tina's thieves, who are swarming out of |
Matamoros since their master has been taken |
away.
A lively revival progresses in Marshall,
and the Presbyterian preacher there makes
1t point to notify Col. Loughery of the |
fact. He will be better man for it, no ,
doubt, but can't make a better paper.
G. w. Alexander translates from she |
Enead Queen Dido'S lament, and versifies |
it well. 1t appears in the Gainesville Gu |
sette, and does infinite credit TO the taste |
and scholarship Of phillips war-Hke son.
Rev. d. c. Kennard, of Waco, has been |
engineering a glorious revival at Perry. |
Forty professed, and when Mr.. Kennard !
broke down the MeIhodists and Baptists
took charge of the great throngs Snd tho
good work still progresses.
Mrs. Jones, of Bastrop, is ninety-four;
her son. Judge p. II. Jones, seventy-dve,
and he has two daughters forty-fivc and
fifty years old, and grandchildren. People
needn't die in Bastrop unless it's convenient
and the like, the AdpertiSer thinks.
When Josephine Simpson was figuring
last week as ropewalker down about
MeXia, the boys said it wasn't worth seeing,
and the poor girl is left helpless and pennI-
less. She is very thin and pale and weak,
aud much sympathy is excited in her behalf.
The San Saba Netos applauds with infinite
earnestness the eloquence and ability illus
trated in DIR. Dodge's sermon pronounced
there last Sunday. DR.. Dodge is one of the
foremost preachers of the State, and uni
versally beloved and esteemed in the Capt.
tai
W. A. Martin was killed on Mud creek,
Indian Territory, last Saturday. Martin
was sitting by tree when his assassin shot
him four or five times, killing him instantly.
He was from Eastern Texas. He is known
in Gainesville to be an honest upright young
man.
The Long Point campmeeting continued
eleven days. Twenty converts. The preach
ers were Archer, Pitts, Littlepage, Buck
| ingham, Stone and others. The people are
hard cases in the -Four Counties vicinity,
or the meeting would have produced richer
| fruit.
DIR. James Young, the famed temperance
lecturer, and now Supreme Primate of the
Supreme Council of the United Friends of
Temperance of the United States, had re-
markable success on his recent tour through
the section of the country about WaXa-
hachie.
Dick Wilson, the youth who killed Ed,
munds in McCulloch county, went up for
only two years. His youth and the provo
cation, and perhaps little whisky, that al
ways takes a hand in murderous affairs,
apolosized for his deeds. He was tried and
convicted at San Saba last week.
The Brownsville Democrat says that two
schooners are reported inside Arkansas Pass
from Pascagoula, Florida, where the yellow
fever exists. The people of Corpus Christi
have taken steps to keep them out of the
bay, even if they have to hang the captains
and burn the vessels. A yellow fever scourge
is not at all desirable to them.
o. L. DAVIS shot and killed II. N. Has
we'll, near Whitesboro. He then entered his
room, defying the sheriff, wrote his will,
determined to die there. But Sheriff Nc
earthly entered suddenly, pistol in hand,
and putting his arm around Davis's neck,
held him till help came, and the bloody vii
lain is in Jail in default of &c., 900 bail.
The Waco Reporter shudders while it tells
that last Saturday Mr.. Smithson, while
working at the machinery of Kellum's MILL
was caught by the hand, whirled over the
shaft three or four times, breaking both legs
below the knee, and shivering his left arm,
nearly tearing it from his body. The ply
sicians have little hopes of his recovery.
The Free Press, while the camp meeting
over there was grinding on for two weeks,
only attended once, and then tells of it that
he was invited again and again to dinner
and nothing more. He went and it was
good thing. That mans idea of heavenly
delights must involve sausages, juicy steaks
and fried onions, of which he tells in abso-
lutte ecstacy.
Rev. James Young Is trying to straighten
out the Waco Reporter. Its big job. But
he went through Dallas safely, and while he
lessened the volume of drinks, couldn't re-
duce the number. This slight measure of
success in Dallas gives hope of thorough
reform in Waco, and the Reporter already
looks better. In fact it is always looking
better.
The Gainesville Gazette says ''Bishop Gar
ret, of the Episcopal Church, preached an
| eloquent and useful sermon at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, in Gainesville,
last week, in which he didn't go into the
maddening mysteries of bdptidso, and let
Philip and the Eunuch severely alone" We
don't know so well about the propriety of
his conduct towards Philip, but the other
fellow was inoffensive, we reckon.
Some of the denizens of the Cypress pre-
cinct, Harris county, still believe that a
man in that neighborhond recently buried
his decrepid and sickly wife alive. Was
her life insured Was she old and ugly
Why accuse the poor man till these facts
| are inquired iLto +? If it were worth as
much as $4,000 to put her out of the way,
then let her body be exhumed and the mem
branes of the stomach examined for poison.
Rev. J. X. Gutheim, formerly of the
French Hebrew synagogue, on Carondelet
street, New Orleans, and afterwards of the
Temple Emmanuel, New York, is to he the
orator on the occasion of the dedication of
the new synagogue in San Antonio. He is a
finished scholar and eloquent speaker. We
shall be delighted SO see him in Austin
Rev. Mr.. Rosenspitz will be the officiating
minister on the occasion referred to.
Beware of Charles Evers, the professional
perpetrator of rape. He is thirty-fve or
thirty eight years old, five feet eight inches
high, light complexion, hight hair and
beard, eyes blue and inclined to squirt,
pug nose, speaks the English language flu
emily, ana may attempt to pass himself for
a newspaper reporter, as he has had some
experience in that line. He is plausible
scoundrel, that deserves hanging, says the
Houston Telegraph.
we spoke ounoay oi an olu CITY u1scoV-
cred not long ago in New Mexico. 1t is
older than the pyramids, no doubt. A
sandstone wall, only eighteen inches across
the summit, has crevices six inches deep
worn in it by the rainfall of countless ages.
The place was founded, we are told, by
Anna Dickinson, and Gov. Bill Allen, OF
Ohio, was founding that there fell into
Annals embraces. We state the facts that
the country may know the extent Of its in
debtedness to Anna.
In Tarrant, Wise and Denton counties
crops are excellent. Corn is abundant.
Cotton looks well, and In valley lands will
make bale per acre. Stock of all kinds
is fat, bringing good prices, and of ready
sale. A large immigration is already pour
ing into WISE and filling up. as in Travis.