The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-29
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Wheat sells ct sixty and eighty cents in
Bonham.
Rain fell Monday, and Dallas is athirst
no more.
1t has been raining in spots all around
HilIsboro.
The GAINESVILLE Times is jncund about
the crops.
Gainesville and Bonham are selling wheat
at sixty cents.
Gonzales luxuriates. Peaches and mel
ous are fine.
E. c. Boudinot, the great Indian lecturer,
is IN Denison.
The Vidette is mighty proud about the
new court house.
Red River farms produce the best crops
grown since 1860.
Lampasas is going to have glorious fair,
September IS, 1875.
Eight miles west of Dallas $50 acres give
1000 bushels of wheat.
There are wanting laborers about McKin-
ney to garner the crops.
ing mills near Hillsboro.
Excellent molasses is made on sugar es-
tates in Wharton county.
John Young Brown, the brilliant Ken
lucky orator, is in Dallas.
VIM. A. Bowen is going to start paper
at Marietta, Clay county.
Mckinney has JEFF Davis Home Asso
citation; but Austin hasn't.
A child bitten by rattlesnake died in
fifteen minutes at Monticello.
Stock in the Rio Grande Railway sells in
Brownsville at nineteen cents.
The ice house is the liveliest institution
in Jefferson except the Jimpleeute.
The Southeastern lnder is running a camp
meeting five miles from Gonzales.
Farmers about Dallas have been selling
wheat at fifty, sixty and seventy cents.
Gonzales grows in buildings and people,
and the Lnder in interest and usefulness.
The TEXAS Neao Yorker adds the name OF
SAKE Holm to the list of Texan poetesses.
The Oakville Tribune is delighted by the
eloeuence of Messrs. Stockdale and Lynch.
One hundred and sixty acres four miles
from Dallas were sold last week for $4,000.
Cisterns are growing empty in Gonzales,
and the people must take whisky straight.
The cry for bread is already heard among
the poor farmers and others about Jefferson.
Joe w. Hill bows himself very gracefully
out of the sanctum of the Comanche Chief
Northern and western portions of Co.
manche county make a magnificent corn
crop.
The wheat crop on the Cibolo averages
thirty bushels, and oats fifty and sixty, per
acre.
The Waxahachie Railway will soon be
finished and the Enterprise must become a
daily.
Merchants everywhere, except in Austin,
are advertising new -four made from Texas
wheat.
Denison boys and girls are going on a
pleasure excursion (tare) to the South Can
adian.
The Fort Worth Standard deplores the
protracted silence of Miss Nettie Power
Houston.
'.Prospectors" fill the taverns at Co
manche. They are from the Gulf States
mainly.
Six or eight hundred strangers have been
making additions at Lampasas Springs this
summer.
The Granbury Vidette boasts of excellent
cotton crops, and says the land is burdened
with plenty.
Rev. o. B. Caldwell is holding forth this
morning before the piously inclined people
of LAGRANGE.
One hundred acres and $500 bushels is
the wheat crop of James Horton, six miles
| from Dallas.
Willard D. Richardson, of the Neaos, is
still lying at the halfway house between
life and death.
| Capt. McNelly has received reinforce
ment of twenty-six men-splendid looking
scalp-hunters.
Decatur is growing rapidly, and all be-
cause its interests and morals are so admir-
ably Guarded.
The Lampasas Dispatch says that more
than 1900 people watered at the upper
springs Sunday.
Crops are magnificent north of Clarks-
vile, and better everywhere in that vicin.
ity than for years.
Diptheria breaks the hearts OF mothers
by choking innocents to death in the vicin-
ity of Granbury.
And now the Mexican suburb will be
jealous. Dallas is blissfully boastful of its
two dance houses.
At Palo Alto, in Bell county, four-year-
old cattle are sold at $40, three-year-olds
at $40, $12 for cows.
Csbell's brigade will have festival in
Little Rock, and Dallas must lose its ex
cellent mayor for time.
Sam Stone is wreathed with roses by the
Brenham Banner because he brought in the
first new cotton bale Friday.
The Baptists are running successful
protracted meeting at Jefferson. But there
isn't much water there.
The police of Denison are useful as well
as ornamental. They have slaughtered the
last loose dog in the place.
Illinois and other papers speak in most
fiattering terms of Mr.. A. R. Bennett'i
Texas immigration speeches.
The Gonzales man has been furnished 9
watermelon weighing forty-six pounds,
Can't Austin beat thst Z
The sheriff in Dallas, having little to dc
this hot weather, is arresting merchants whit
fail to pay the occupation tax.
The Montague Netcs accepts wheat al
seventy i've cents per bushel for news anC
wisdom it furnishes by the ton.
The Montague Ne'cs says the best crops
that ever grew there bless its readers. The,
deserve heavens richest benson.
If the Reporter will publish the name o
the mill that furnishes Its paper. the mil
will do better or suspend business.
The Mexican sea captain made COrtina
as state prisoner, keep below decks, ant
Cortina was very sick and very wroth.