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

drought.
Mrs. s. c. baltimore is associate editor of
the Noriag Bill. It's this terrestrial sphere
she helps to move. But women have always
done this.
Collin county wheat averages from
twenty-five to thirty-6ve bushels per acre,
and corn is alta discount. People can't dis
pose of it.
4 letter-writer says: kaufman county
has very much the appearance of Illinois,
but is more rolling; have not seen slough
in the State.
The Texarkana Democrat, engineered BY
Judge Ed. Bancroft, is just on 'tother side.
and Bancroft does not honor Texas with his
citizenship.
Norton's Itc3igaicer, at Dallas City, says
the rot is playing the wild Irish pota-
toes, and sweet potatoes are suffering from
being too hot.
John G. Gibbin threshed 2O7 bushels
from five acres of wheat near Waxahachie,
and this is not the largest crop grown in
that vicinity.
The Her0}d man thinks the recorders
court cant muse the people while the boys
and lawyers have gone to the Fredericks-
burg convention.
The Goliad Gudrd man went to see Juan
Flores hanged. We hope he enjoyed the
delectable entertainment more keenly than
did the fiorid Flores.
Dallas, too, will have tournament and
Olympyian games The last is proposed in
ness at Philadelphia.
The Rio Grande Democrat ascribes all
honor and glory won in the fight with rob-
bers and thieves on the Rio Grande to one
Rock, an old ranger.
Why did not Ennis have the Waxahachie
Tap Railway connect with the Central at
Ennisl The branch road DIVORCES three
miles from hapless Ennis.
Two-thirds of crop of corn is already
made everywhere in Northern Texas, and
rains now falling sporadically will augment
this volume of production.
Rev. w. H. ID. Darlington has been at
tracing many to the fold of the Christian
Church, over at Bastrop. But he can't get
the Ad0ertiSer man straight.
A magnificent meteor swept over Gle
| burne few evenings agone aud exploded
like a bombshell we threw into the State
House day before yesterday.
j. II. McLeary won't know his fellow.
members of the Fourteenth any more. He
San Antonio debating society.
Plums, peaches, grapes and pears abound
as never before everywhere in Texas. The
-Four Counties says the fruit crop about
Richmond is unprecedented.
The Waco Reporter doesn't think there
will be, despite the great quantity, more
than wheat enough to feed Texas and i'm
migrants of next fall and winter.
Waco has invested less than $4,000 in it
fair grounds, and the Reporter feels yer!
bad about it. The most of Waco is at Aus
tin, and that's what's the matter.
Paris in Texas has prayer meetings fol
the conversion of Peterson, who attend
and listens and then ridicules the perform
ance in his Tom Paine newspaper.
Trinity University, during the last collie
giate year, matriculated four hundred anc
eight students, and closed out with thre
hundred and thirty in attendance.
1t cost Collin county last year $S13.27 t.
assess the county taxes. What does it cos
Travis county to have this job done, ant
how much to assess the city's wealth?
Over in Tyler hopeful boy, not stron
enough to spade up small onion bed TO
his One-eyed mother, will dig over te
acre lot any Sunday morning for fish bait
The temperance people of Texas will hav
great convention at Bryan, July Z. How
ever deep the interest of the people an
eloquent the orators, it will be a dry affair
Five Indian horse thie~ce made rni
} into San Saba county last week, but carrie
away only the horses they rode. The
weIe ambushed and only frightened terri
bly,.
Newton, not long ago Dallas gambler
has been sentenced to the gallows in New
Orleans for the murder of Bourdonnay
whose heart he cleft in twain with bowl
knife.
The Baptists and AIethodists are boil
preparing for heavy assault, all along til
line, upon the devils works in Burleson
Two camp meetings will soon be in flu
array.
Cooke county farmers have an anti-cattl
and horse stealing association which, III
like Towards association in cities, nurse
, none besides thieves, and stands by theI
to the last.
The Reporter lectures us for sending it
I blurred copy of the STATESMAN 1t is hope
the Reporter will never. retaliate, and thu
deny US the pleasure of perusing it's admire
BILE columns.
The editor of the Marlin Ball is about t.
be married. Since, when discussing Stat
affairs, he is often at sea, we don't under
/ stand why he doesn't call his organ tn
'Marlin-spike.
The Texarkana DemocrGt weeps over I'll
destruction of an illicit distillery in thos
parts. The Democrat will reach it sreadeI
on time now, and have better standing i
|, the community.
The Crockett (Texas) Patron says til
; crops are magnificent, and watermelons tie
cents. But the meanest knaves in christei
dom live about Crockett. They absolutel
steal watermelons.
The appeal tells of many improvement
progressive in Bryan but the paper itsel
, in its ''ads" and ''locals'' shows how th
city prospers. No town grows whose mel
chants don't advertise.
Ed Danley and Mike Williams had a ROY
in Bolton, and Tom Roberts separated them
Soon afterwards Roberts was shot aud daI
gerously wounded, and Danley has bee
arrested and will be tried.
Joel w. Robertson, the Bastrop Adcsl
tiser says, captured Santa Anna at San il
cinto. He is Georgian, like counties
} Others of the best citizens of Texas, an
came to this State in 1881.
: Wilcox, the thief at Georgetown VIII
5 stole $50 from 8Tr. Wills, was identified q
the thief, because he passed twenty five
cent piece, dated 1916. which Mr.. Will
had owned for thirty years.
A desperate negress sentenced to Ward
; Dewey & Co., at Marshall, attempted t
escape and fought on the railway train wit
razor. A guardsman was forced to shoe
her. She died instantly.
On the twenty-ninth of July, when tn
GREAT barbecue and bran dance occurs nes