The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03

The Sisters Of Charity win establish
school in Denison.
The wife and daughter Of State Treasurer
Dorm are in Bonham.
Lieut.. Bulls won the highest houors in
che late Indian fight.
Burglars and thieves are desolat:ag the
country about LAmpasas.
The district court and warm weather
make Sherman very quiet.
The "careless worm is destroying cot
ton efectually on Little river
Many wheat fields above Fort Worth
yield thirty-fve bushels per acre.
Crops are failures in California and Gen.
Robertson should visit those parts.
Crops in Rusk county will be unprece-
dented If recent rains extend thither.
Mccartney has two or three decoys in his
employment, so the thief catchers say.
Silver half dollars instead of grasshop-
pers are the currency of Western Texas
Frank Purveance stabbed Charles Norris
dangerously at Corsicana last Thursday.
John Wesley Hardin has been enjoying,
it is said, his Otium cum dig in Giddings.
Henderson Williams accidentally shot him
self fatally in Live Oak county last week.
The Montague Neus says the silver mines
of it's county yield 500 to $1,000 per ton of
ore.
Willie L., COttrill, eight years old, was
drowned while bathing in the river at Bel
ton.
The Ledger says Rryant's Southwestern
Railway Guide Book is the best thing ex-
tant
Rusk has a brass band to silence cater
wauling cats and render star-lit nights
lovely.
w. B. Munson, it is proposed, will rep
resent Denison in the constitutional con-
vention.
DeniSOn is persuaded that fish is cheaper
than beef, and therefore Denison " i'll have
ish ponds.
REV. H. C. Rogers is going to sue a
Bonham paper for libel" Did it say he was
handsome9
The Methodists are going to have great
camp meeting six miles from Bryan, to be-
gin June %.
Ward, Dewey & Co. have sins enough of
their own TO answer for. They don't own
tap railways.
zone more unfortunate, I" embodles the
story Of the life and death of Jennie Mar
tin in Dallas.
hbraham Garcia alias Caballo BIanco, a
no;ed bandit leader, was killed few days
ago near Mier.
Patent outsiders begin at last to draw
their wit and wisdom from Texas-Facts
and fancies."
Gen. Ord, as visitor at the Annapolis
naval school, has gone East, and San An
tonic is collapsed.
Bennett Blake, an able lawyer, will prop.
erly represent Nacogdoches IN the constitu
tional convention.
| 1t is frightful to contemplate, but the
young chivalry Of Corsicana are going to
have a tournament.
Religious revivaIs are prevalent, but Aus
tin is not affected. Is the fault with the
preachers or peopleG
Gen. Hoxie is building charming home
for himself and the little international
Hoxies in Palestine.
The total seattle drive" through For
OF 5USUUO yet 70 come.
Ella Harper, the Austin colt, beat Swee
Boy in two successive mile heats Saturday
Time 40 IL and 81.
/ The Dallas Commercial is full of vivacity
and enterprise and fit exponent of tn,
progressive city of Dallas.
Rusk has produced an enormous crop O
Irish potatoes, and people don't know wha
to do with the vegetables.
Sherman will be lighted with gas in Au
gust. Meanwhile, the Courier is its chief
est source Of illumination.
San Antonio day laborers are on strlk,
-ffty-six Of them. They would begiI
work ct 6 instead of TAN.
Gen. Steele and Senator Dwyer have gon,
over to Brownsville, and there will b,
peace now in all our borders.
| Cynthia Annie Parker, captured by In
dians and recaptured many years ago, afte
twenty years among the savages, is dead
The Telegraph is never forgetful of thu
hand that feeds it. It ticks it gratefully
even while comfortably licking its own oil,
chops. "
'sGeueration after generation" etc., hai
got as far through the bowels of the Texa
press, as the GOlIad Guard. it stuck ther'
May %. 4a
The postmaster at Sulphur Springs hai
innocently taken three Chicago $50 coun
terfeits, and won't take any more Chicago
in his'n.
The JImplscute says that the penitentiar,
commissioners, after their examination o
the iron region Of Marion county, are highl.
pleased.
One 7. g. Weaver weaves beautiful fan
CIes very tAstefulIy about the DOric column
Of the Plain-sPOken, prOsaic Gainesville
Gasetts. =
One hundred men for days were scOur
ing the Nayasota bottom for MeErick, tn
savage murderer. But the search wa
fruitless.
Everybody seems well pleased with thu
prismoidal railway. Il may supplant tn
oropsical sTaps" which afifct severa
Texan tOWnA
DenisOn intends 10 Gil local Offices with
the. best and wlsest people Of the place
Specuiators in Office, the Mems says, must
stand aside.
B. ". Poster briefly and thus far Sensi
| bly,, tells that be no longer edits the Sui
phur Springs Gazette. He made il good
newspaper.
They have been killing eentipsdes in th,
streets Of San Antonio, and whisky-headel
people there are very careful about falling
around loose.
Forty-six members in Jefferson hav
Joined the Methodist Church in one lay
The lamp still burns, and there Is hope TO
the JiMpleeate.
I Captain 8. Alexander and his excelleD
wife celebrated their silver wedding las
week, Is LAGnnge. THREE hundred guests
sat e the table.
GangEsne compelled the doct0rs to am
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