The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15

Grasshoppers passing over Denton from
the north week ago filled the air.
| w. ID. Vlnson takes the CHAIR Of mathe-
matics in the Waco Female College.
Col. Swearing is erecting charming res
idence near the railway at BRENNAN.
Marcos Lund, who killed Jesus Rhodes
near Brownsville, has fed into Mexico.
Bishop Garrett is Strengthening out
things in Weatherford and Jacksboro.
The stephenville Empire says good rains
have fallen at the head of the Bosque.
More than 500 cases adorn the docket of
the Dallas criminal court. Isn't it bad9
Dallas is buying wheat at seventy-fve
cents and flour at So. so per hundred pounds
= Cotton along the Central and between
Mckinney and Plano is much injured by
worms.
The Governor has furloughed District At
torney Pearre, of Waco, because of impaired
health.
Lampasas is going to have great Baptist
church. 1t is the greatest watering place
in Texas.
Tracy & Bro, Rockdale bankers, ex-
pended on account of cattle, last month,
Burnet Bulletin is eloquent in urging the
necessity for bridge across the Colorado
| at Burnett
Mr.. Goforth, Of Weatherford, garnered
2700 bushels of wheat from 100 acres on
Bear creek.
On the third inst, Ed Lee Plumb, repre-
sentative of the International in Mexico, was
at Palestine.
Weatherford has just sent up nice little
| delegation of seven dirty villains to Ward,
Dewey & Co.
AT Oakville watermelons are worth TWEEN
ty-five to fifty cents, here from ten to TWEEN
| ty-fve cents.
T. L. Culbre, who killed Gen. J. T. Hous-
ton, near Cameron, on Little river, has not
been arrested.
Few work oxen are left by bandits to
till the fields and move farm products along
the Rio Grande.
The new court house at Cameron will
cost the people $4,000. A cotton mill would
pay much better.
The drought has not harmed the cotton
crop about Dallas, though late corn is very
seriously injured.
Chas. A. Price has withdrawn from the
chair editorial of the Granbury Vidette, and
the people regret it.
Eight murderers were convicted and sem
fenced at the late term of the United States
Court at Fort Smith.
Peas grow at Cleburne, the pods two and
a half feet long. They call them ola
Podrida, or ought to.
Grasshoppers are destroying cotton, the
Mckinney Journal says, IN the northern
part of Collin county.
The corn crops about Stephenville, the
Empire says, are excellent, and rain or no
rain, corn will abound.
The Illustrated Sun, published at Gates
vile, is unsurpassed. "Charlie" Hardy
seems to be the manager.
Heavy rains have fallen everywhere above
Dallas, and the river there is very high.
This tells of glorious crops.
From Paluxy to Stephenvillet the crops are
excellent. In portions of Parker and Hood
counties there Is want of rain.
Crops between Marshall and Shreveport
u,
aid man was looking at them.
The Brownsville Democrat, an excellent
paper, gives the latest Mexican and frontier
news in English and In Spanish.
The Denton RerieW tells of the chinch-
bug and grasshoppers as undeveloped but
numerous visitors in those parts.
One Thompson, ordered up for eight years
to Ward, Dewey & Co., escaped last week
from the prison den in Polk county.
Crops in the western and northwestern
counties, the papers say, are infinitely bet
ter than IN the eastern districts of Texas.
The people of Vernon county, Missouri,
appeal for bread to Texans. Address ]. NJ.
Bell, Duncan Creek, Vernon county, Mo.
The Waco Register thinks people should
not hold wheat for higher prices, but sell
now and pay debts. The price may decline.
The juvenile limbs of the law have a
lively moot court at Waco, preparing them
selves for the wicked ways of this rare old
world. ""
Robert J. Nesbit, fourteen years old, wss
fatally shot by his own gun when his horse
was leaping log beneath him. He lived
near Marshall.
The first page of the waco Reporter is
devoted to knocking IL into fits. We
commend it to the Reporters readers in this
blessed town.
Robert WyEe tells the Granbury Fidetts
that the grass crop is simply enormous out
West, and the cattle too fat to contain all
their tsllow.
Hobby, Armstrong, Durfee and Failing
have left Comancbe 10 locate international
Railway certificates. It's the best paying
business extant.
Since the Dallas police began to earn
their salt BY dog -killing, the sausage market
mas declined forty per cent and hash houses
lower their rates.
The Houston Age. of last Thursday, SAYS
there have been glorious rains everyvhere
throughout the State, and abundant har
vests are assured.
The oakville Tribune says some people
have made good corn with no rain. Deem
blowing Is the secret Of successful farming
On western plains.
The JisePlecsIts announces further adj
vance in collins, owing to sunstrokes. mad
dogs and mean whIsky-and from all these
come summer fights.
San Antonio viii not accept the terms
proposed by the National Water Works
Company. Two hundred and City thousand
dollars is rather steep.
The Asrsoey, because Of the magnificent
crops. wants 70 organize and get up and per
feet and make success Of grand thanks
giving county fair