The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22


Church recommended the Christian Messcn-
ger to the faithful everywhere, and that was
right and proper.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks the
Leader TOO sensitive, and then adds that it
is very sensible, which prevents another
fuss in the family.
The owners of the Mason county liver
mines are still taking out rich ores, and
miners think that gold as well as silver
sbonnds in the hills.
The last farming implement popularized
in Texas is known as the RoOsier Drill. We
have bought one to bore the Houston ''Or-
gam for the simples.
Tom Burnett, the best fellow in Northern
Texas, Is engineering a meeting of dele
gates to the Christian General Association
In session at Mckinney. l-1 l-...
Prof. Pewksberry, rare old musician,
who just spews it up, will assist Prof.
Beardslee, late of Austin, in the coming
grand concert at Dallas.
Morgan's steamers will stick their noses
into Constitution bend in September, and
then Austin proposes to go on q consti-
tutional bender with Houston
The Jimplecute can tell from the length
of each farmers face, as he joys along the
streets of Jefferson, whether recent rains
have blest his parched fields
George Craven, who killed man in Will
hanson county, some years ago, has been
brought from California, where he was in q
lunatic asylum, to Georgetown.
W. J. Gorham and family left Denison,
carrying with them, the Ne,os says, ''the
best wishes of the people," Does it follow
that they pay for extra baggage?
1t makes one shudder to read of the toll.
ing young man, Scaggs, at Kimballville,
who fell against circular saw and had his
head laid open and arm amputated.
The printers in the San Antonio Herald
Office struck because the proprietor would
not discharge the foreman, Mr.. Sawyer
Other printers have been employed.
The Enquirer is wonderfully well pleased
that Gonzales boasts of an excellent and
able literary society and library association
like the admirable society of Austin. .raa
The charming vendor of stamps at tn,
postoffice window has never ceased to smile
since the frontiersman asked for stamped
antelope and the pretty dear ran away.
1t is generally the case that the San Sabs
NeacS's cake is all dough; but, for all that
it is very happy. The wheat crop, it says
is not less than twenty bushels per acre.
A Baptist preacher named Pledger wa!
assassinated twenty miles above Waco las
week by depraved youth named JohI
Spears. Spears is imprisoned at Waco.
Jacksonville will be busted up. Hoo
sack, the great tunnel of the town, is with
drawn from it. The place must collapse
and he is going to make a big hole in Dallas
The Kaufman postoffice pays $425 pc
quarter. They are reading people owe
there, and, approaching the good things O.
this life, are especially addicted to the Star
All the COWS around Austin, we reckon
are bulls. If they were COWS, milk wouldn'
be worth ten cents per quart, while in New
York city it is worth only two and hal
cents.
They have cranky city attorney a
Houston, and call him Crank for short HI
has been winding up the bond transaction
of the wretchedly1mob-g governed and plum
dered city.
AS in Austin so in San Antonio. TIL
sunshine is hot, but the wind blows pei
petually from the sea, and the Express say
the ancient town is healthful and eminentl
comfortable.
Instead of whisky, candidates for tn
constitutional convention distribute waite,
melons among thirsty throngs over Texas
The popularity achieved is said to be IN
precedented.
The Brownsville Democrat says the negr
soldiers are most efficient and trustworth
ever in service on the frontier, and then
adds somewhat mixed" ''Bosh." Whs
does it all mean?
Watermelons in Dallas have Lizards il
side of them, and the people have them i
their boots, and the Herald Is going to sen
| one taken out of fine melon to the Phil,
delphia centennial. .....
The Goliad Guard says the crops on tn
river have suffered somewhat for rain, bu
| those on the plains and uplands have bee
peculiarly blest with abundant showers an
crops are magnificent. t
Bonham has its Jeff Davis Homestea
Association. Austin talked and few
our aristocratic fellow citizens strutte
around muchly when Mr.. DAVIS was her
but nothing comes of it. SO
Bishop Elliott has been doing good dow
at Rockport We suppose he has put b
brand on the Transcript. 1t seems we
marked. 1t looks ''like brand snatche
from the eternal burning
Most of those young gentlemen WI
| fhafnca1xyao
meerschaum pipes are now devoting the
attention to their noses. The coloring ma
ter is added to soda water.
Houston wants library. Why not bu
Col. Cushing's private collection, and NAL
him libranan9 Then Houston would ha-
the best selection and most tasteful Gust
dian of books in the South.
They have abig bell in Stephenville nov
and the people love to hear it and they rir
it all day and most of each night. It's the
first bell, and they make as much fuss ov
it as if it were new baby.
The thermometer has been standing
ninety-eight degrees in Victoria. Why
doesn't go down and rest is the myster
This thing of being on perpetual high
rather rough for mercurial people.
Nelson Jones, Ed. Mum and Dave Ne
have been arrested, and have given bon
at Bonham, to answer for The murder
Calvin Jones, who, it was said at the tim
May 26, suiclded." He didn't.
The Lincoln Colored Baptist Associate
has been in session several days at Cor
cana, and Us. Campbell, colored preache
of Galveston, has won great fame there
bis earnest eloquence and capital good sens
The Fredericksburg Sentinel says that tl
: slowest stage hne in America is Honey
Why Honey didn't continue to make we,
: gospel metbegiin for the innocents of Al
tin is the weeping inquiry of Frederick
burg.
Drunken idiots and desperadoes anu
, themselves and make nights hideous in Go
zales by shouting like Comanches and &
fying the authorities of the place. Su
incidents make men approve the whippil
post
VIM. Dlnsmore Wartwelle, of Halletsvill
received the degree of bachelor OF arts