The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-02

a. Denton. i
Judge. o. N. Roberts's history of Texas
= Il soon be published. i
..venty. five cents per diem for cotton
p erz at Marlin.
cd. Logan Roots. OF the California Stage
I c apany. Is in sea Antonio.
el.ss Ap,elia Y Perry, of Bryan, has pub
! lished a volume ef poems.
Trey have been doing Queen Esther
at rryau 10 Mr.. Marks singing school.
/ ? Geards.ee, the great musical per
lCol and tear, is electrifyng Bryan.
4 young man named ]. A johnson was
assassinated last Friday night in Denison
The jury conldn't agree in the West trial,
for murder, at Dallas, and were discharged.
I Fsrmers in Bell county are making extern
sive preparations for the next wheat crop.
Over 500, 600 has been expended in Dali
las. mis- year, for buildings and improve
/ ments.
The sweet voiced Henderson Times has
been running the East Texas Singing Con
venuon.
i. Haggart, an enterprising Dallas merchant
Is SttpBlts5 bhO SNR tOdtS VI ntlcdl QdllN 10
Europe.
The Commercial says hotel boarders in
Dallas were rejoiced when the hungry
Gpngers left.
Corsicana sent the first wheat to ST. Louis
last year, and this year it sends the first
cotton bale.
The SrArEsMAN's biggest watermelon
weighed sixty-slx pounds. The Palestine
A,jrocgte's fifty-two.
They are arresting Migrants voraciously
in Houston and the Telegraph man hides
out prudently and cautiously.
Mount Pleasant has been recently blest
with glorious rains and considerable re-
vival in the Methodist church.
Tidad Gantieres, for rape, the victim ten
years old, comes up to Ward, Dewey 6 Co.
for ten years from Brownsville.
Rev. Wm. Carey Crane breaches this
morning. at Hampstead, and the Messenger
will be better for it next week.
The temperance apostle, DIR. Young, has
: been numbering away at Marlin, and the
9 ball " is still moving"
The high school at Columbus, Texas,
, said to be the best in the southwest, will
begin operations September thirteenth.
To get all the newspapers to advertise for
a nothing, medical colleges can well afford to
6 give away few dozen scholarships.
Major Sellers and command and DR.. Tay.
lor have reached San Antonio, and were
e warmly welcomed by soldiers and people
Mayors of Texan towns are making them
selves useful by scattering lime in alleys
y and sinks, and in enforcing hygienic meas
y ures.
f Bishop Garrett is going to lecture in Sher-
: man on Darwinsm, that those people over
= there may know something about their fore
e fathers.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks that the
e State of Texas will hereafter be supplied
c from mills OF that city with an abundance
r of bread.
Il The lightning struck lawyers Office in
= Hampstead but he was a hard case, and it
: went out like flash, and the lawyer flashed
. out like lightning.
r. Galveston merchants do not and st Louis
Is merchants do advertise in the interior pa
d pers, and, therefore, St. Louis wins and
Galveston loses.
= The Bolton Jou,Ral tells that Henry Thur
n Der shot Schufeldt in the abdomen at Moffat.
IS Schufeldtt has not been arrested, and Thur
r Der hasn't quite died.
It The justices of the peace in Red River
? county have been fined 800 each for not
publishing the reports of county affairs as
= required by law.
j. Eight prisoners escaped from the Paris
+ Jail last week When Paris reconstructs
Al the institution, it will be self-sustaining and
become a work house we are told.
!. poor woman having property in Dallas
/ has been the Object Of cruel persecution by
! her brother, who would relieve her OF the
,r trouble of managing her own affairs.
r, Dallas is very happy now the trials OF
y Gilleland, for killing Stevens, md of Stone
n and Garrett for the murder of Cox furnish
y ng pleasing episodes between drinks.
J Striped coats are digging at the railroad
i embankment in the suburbs of Henderson,
and we may now concede the early compile
!, ton of the Henderson and Overton TAP. y
Texan cattlcmen are importing many Dur
!. ham bulls from Kansas City. The market
- is overstocked with paternal ancestors oi
At mules. They even edit newspapers over
# there.
s. A young fellow named Dinkey was in.
n weighed into marriage with venerable
lie widow of forty summers named Gru6bs, in
:? Hopkins He viii have stumpy road to
es grub and grade.
AZ The increase in Texas of acreage in whea
this over last fall will be not less than for
ie ty-five per cent. 1t is easier TO "pick
lie and "pack . than cotton, and there ism
es as much colored labor invested in it. 4
fl The Dallas Herald is delighted that tn
he old soldiers of all the wars in which Texa
III has been engaged are to have reunion q
Up PROVIDERS Springs, near Dallas, on tn
y sixth day of November next.
10 Capt. VIM. Birch, living at New Hop
VS. Church, in Cook county, was mortail
$. wounded. on Friday night last by some uu
Je known person. who shot him through tn
is lower part of the bowels with Derringe
pistol.
at Rev. Mr.. Pitts states in the Sherma
N Co,frfe,, that festival will be given in SheI
of man, the proceeds to be appropriated Z
We having freight on a car load of seed whea
it for the Missouri sufferers in the grasshoE
e per district.
ne One of Frank Leslie's weeklies copies th
\, STATEsMAN's wild boy local and illustrate
=. the capture Of the boy. The illustratio
~ has him gallopIng through the woods, wit
~ two men pursuing on ponies and THROWN
=, lassoes over him.
d The good housewives of Sherman Al
II. canning much fruit The women and ii
country are alike very fruitful this yea
nd but despite the prayers of the good dan
in the story of Wilhelm Melster, it's eli
fruit alone that grows on the trees
h~ The Sherman Courier says: Miss Nett
fl Power Houston, the gifted poetess
~ Texas, and one of the most noted and
M complished literary ladies of the day, q
TX companies the editorial excursion IN
of leaves JeiTersOnon the first" She left Au
tin yesterday afternoon for Jefferson an