The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

ne hhFdI Ie1da properly nourlsnetn.
Dallas is slaughtering msniacal CANNES.
Dallas mills nay one dollar per bushel for
wheat
Mckinney now wants steam fire engine
badly.
Smith county has JUICY fruitgrowers'
association.
The Express calls its Jail the Black Hole
of San Antonio.
Wheat is worth one dollar at the great
mills at Ennis.
Corsicana is paying ten cents each for
fine watermelons.
Let each of our exchanges, each week,
tell of the crops.
Oats are selling in Fort Worth at thirty
FIVE cents per bushel.
W. P. Withers has sold the Rockwell
Banner to j. b. Butler.
Croquet by moonlight alone @ is the
delight of Austin bellies.
The Hampstead Messenger has tarantula
las large as the open hand"
Hillsboro is very proud about its new
court house. 1t cost $4,000.
Crops are admirable about Waxahachie,
but corn begins to need rain.
The cotton worn is worming itself into
the finances of Ellis county.
Thomas Chubb is terribly denounced by
G. w. Salad in the MO0ing Ball.
The Burnet Bulletin thinks the school
system of its county nuisance.
Isaac Fulkerson wants to tumble the
flimsy finances of brazen Brazos.
The grasshoppers have appeared in de-
structive force west of Mckinney.
That lively rural rooster Anschicks went
up for twenty years from Calvert.
The average wheat crop about Waco is
twenty to thirty-fve bushels per acre.
Odd Fellows and Masons together will
celebrate st. Johns Day in Navasota.
Marshall sends, this term of the court,
fourteen victims to Ward, Dewey & Co.
The Tribune tells that one Brown shot
one Sparks in the elbow, near that place.
Oakville bee-gums are rich with honey
except the one worn by the Tribune man.
Jake Levy, colored, of Sherman, is going
overland with an ox-team to the centennial.
Gen. N. H. Darnall is the Independent
constitutional convention candidate in Tar
rant.
Dallas is shipping potatoes to Denver,
and is justly boastful of the farmers enter
prise.
The Comanche Collegiate Institute begins
lts career with 40 students, male and fe-
male.
The colored people celebrated emancipa-
ton day with great good humor at Circle
VILE.
The FrecStone Herald wants only one more
rain to make the biggest crop of modern
times.
The Corsicana Immigrant saysit has three
tomatoes weighing one pound and fifteen
ounces.
| Waco boasts of the biggest man in Texas
as its liveliest citizen. His weight is AGO
pounds.
One hundred and forty-fve thousand cat
tie have passed through Fort Worth this
season.
Cotton is more than three feet high in
Navarro county, and every cornstalk has
| two ears.
The Mckinney Enquirer thinks the corr
/ crop in that immediate vicinity injured by
drought.
The foury editorials of the Vidette ar,
ascribed to the fact that its subscribers PAL
in wheat.
Fifty thousand dollars have been gath
cred in Dallas for the erection of colleg,
building.
=. The murderer Crockett, the Decatu
Guard says, was pursued one hundred ant
fifty miles.
Camp county sunk $1,000, and Shreve
port $4,000, the Jimplecute says, in the Deni
son lottery.
The southern and southwestern portions
of Rusk county have been blest with album
dant rains.
El Progresso,. of Matamoros, says tina
gold is swept down with the sand of tn,
Rio Grande.
The stephenvile Eclectic is we'll pleased
with menagerie, an antelope and pair o
prairie dogs. -
The Cleburne Chronicle is brimful Of
piety and in tears because of the departur,
of Bishop Garrett.
And now Dallas has its Charlie Ross. H
is twelve years old, very small, and has beel
missing two days.
Denison closes its bar-rooms at 2 A. NJ
during the week, and at midnight Sundays
It's pious place, 49,
Col. G. w. Matthews, late Texas immi
grafton agent at Chattanooga, is now
fruitgrower at Tyler.
The Hill County Record says Mr.. Herrin,
thinks his wheat fields will produce abou
forty bushels per acre.
Gum chewing is no longer fashionable
the little misses have found it out and quit
and take candy now.
The newspapers praise without stint tn
poem which Miss Henry read before Hood
Brigade at Huntsville.
Do Lewis is out in a book. 1t win b.
the death of the Leader. 1t is entitled
prohibition Failure"
i Showers fall every day in wide or marrow
districts about Fort Worth and Mckinney
and plenty blesses the land
Until crops are sold nothing will be doini
in Texan towns. The police alone manag
to scratch around very lively.
San Antonio celebrated the Fourth b.
one of the grandest professions and display
ever witnessed in that locality.
| Howe, Waldo, and Duxbury of the Cen
trail Railway, have been taking drinks al
round with a Dallas alderman.
There are no crops growing in fifty mile
of Sulphur Springs. In any event the Ga
sotte tells nothing about them.
''For Governor of Texas, W. W. Lang
of Marlin" are the flaming words at tn
masthead of the Moving Bal.
The Waco Agricultural Association vii
hold its next annual fair from the nineteent
to the twenty-fourth Of October.
In Austin, Fort Bend and Wharton coun