The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

Michigan. The services of an immigration
agent about Adrian, in thar State, would
be very valuable.
The mail rider from Rio Grands City to
Conception has been missing ever since the
last raid from Mexico into that region. The
presumption is that he had been murdered
aid he mail taken by the robbers.
Robbers and burglars are going through
II .ston. The thieves who annoyed dwell
il in Austin last winter would do well to
r. in now. 1t would be healthy, and peo-
p could empty pistols growing rusty.
MIS- Bergman had triplets at Cuero.
Hans the old man, hearing of it, was
speechless half day, and then slowly re-
covering his senses Inquired, show many
bees dey, didn't none of dem git awayf'
We congratulate the Examiner on its re-
election to the honorable Office of organ
ship for the Oranges, the place it has
hlled with fidelity and ability and age only
adds.to ITS virtues and strengthens its capa-
city.
Revs. Rogers and Palmer are running
glorious Methodist revival at Windsboro,
and Elder Dickinson (Christian church) Is
pumping piety with peculiar penetration
INTO those psragons of peecadilloists at
Minneula
Gen. John r. Baylor, with his brother,
Col. George W. Baylor, are preparing to
establish sheep ranch in that part of
Uvalde county where the Indian fights re-
Gently occurred. The red skins will hear
from them. ..
The piety of a country editor = that is,
his aversion to hotter climate illus
trated by his grateful eloQuence when DIR.
nj. x. Taylor sends him = chunk of ice.
It's member of the YIN. e. A. who now
runs the Nelos at San Saba.
The appearance of the yellow fever at
Pascagoula, Miss, alarmed the people of
Galveston. The Neaos does not think there
Is sufficient cause, and pledges itself to
sound the warning as soon as the disease
makes its appearance in that city.
At RobinsoAville, near Waco, while the
minister was preaching, two young ladies
had hand-to-hand struggle and fist-fight.
During the same services a Quiet. ORDERLY
young man was called out of the church
and brutaey beaten by two unknown ruff
| fans.
Reliable information has been received
that enough tickets have been sold by the
Houston Monumental Association to insure
the success of the enterprise. Capt. Nat
T. Turner is doing good service in the en-
terprise, and no doubt the success Is due
to his efforts.
One DR.. Jones, of Galveston, recovered
judgment in the United States court for
many houses and lots in Corpus Christi, he
claiming under some grant of which the,
people know nothing. The Federal mar
shall failed to GUST the inhabitants, resigned
his office, and he and Jones have gone back
to Galveston.
Mr. Chas. Cowart, young lawyer of fine
ability. died suddenly in Dallas Monday
night. 1t is supposed he took an overdose
OF opium, which he was accustomed to use
to allay nervousness. Mr.. Cowart was a
native Of Georgia. He leaves wife who
is inconsolsble.
Snakeskln shoes are made in The moun-
tains of Tennessee and the .implecute thinks
that these hides might be profitably used
in Texas. Then we might make pipcush-
ions out of tarantulas, gloves of centipedes,
boot heels OF hornedfrogs aud boots of alli-
gator skins.
DIR. Arthur K. Taylor, whose card adorns
a place in the STATESMAN, is one of the
most sklllfui surgeons and physlcans of the
United States. He practiced thirty years in
Memphis with distinguished success, and is
now foremost of practitioners at Hot
4 Springs, Arkansas.
An expelled member of Rev. H. II.
Brooks's Reformed Episcopal Church, in
Houston, is said to have threatened the
reverend gentleman with personal violence.
We commend the wrathy gentleman to the
great guardian of public morals and de-
cency, known as the Age.
The story goes that two drunken white
men attended negro camp meeting in
Bosque, and fred their pistols. The ne
groes shot at them, and they then fired
upon the blacks, and killed one and fed.
They should be hanged. But the facts are
only stated as rumor gives them. m
mad COW and calf were about to scare
some of the Changers and Grangeresses out
Of Dallas Thursday, and the policemen had
to kill them the COW and calf. The milk
from such COW would be invaluable in
making punches to make jim jams come.
The cow had been bitten by u mad wolf.
+ S. L. Jones killed monster rattlesnake
on the Bosoue the other day. 1t measured
six feet seven inches. He skinned the rep
tile and brought it to the Examiner, at
Waco, for inspection. The snake had six
teen rattles, and from appearances must
have lost several in the operation of killing
and skinning.
4 A Granbury sportsman shot buzzard the
other day. The bird was neatly attired in
white domestic suit. The Vielette wants
to know where he halls from. We always
heard that the editor of the Meas Echo was
a bird. and we reckon that's it. Its column
rules will be turned up next week.
Madame McMshon is proving very sue
cessful in collecting subscriptions for the
sufferers by the French foundations. She
has received already about So 500, 900. The
Viceroy of Egypt sent $1,000, and Prince
Henry, brother of the King of Holland.
$500; and San Antonio, Texas, honors
itself by contributing $1,000.
At the railroad meeting at Pittsburg last
Thursday, $500 stock was subscribed on
the spot to the Tyler Tap Railroad. We
have net yet heard the result from Mount
Pleasant and other points, but If they
raised as much stock in proportion, the
amount required by Mr.. Douglas, president
of the road, will be made up.
If the Hin County Record and Montague
Nescs would only have the best population
of the negro-rayaged states indicted into
Texas, why not let it be known that
counties and towns in Texas are exempt by
State constitutional law from such calami-
ties9 Why twitter about a poll taxi II
doesn't meet the difficulty at all.
\ J. T. Chidester. the old stage line mana
ger, continues, like the red men, to &c
West. One'hundred years go he was run.
ming stage line in Georgia, and now he il
in Dallas. He viii soon be after q contract
from Lerdo or Cortisa. He has been SC
long Highway that he would pre-
fer deal with cortina, we reckon.
| Rumor hath it that gentleman near
Mountain Home, Bell county, who was
bending the twig while IL was yet small,