The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-29

to meet aod devise plans for purchasing iron
and locomotives.
The Henderson Times pronounces the
sermon by Rev. A. E. Glenn
mons. delivered there last Thursday, mag
nifcent production.
The sweet potato crop has been sariously
injured by drought in Bastrop, sn> the
cheerful ''grasshopper sits in sadness on the
sweet tater vine"
TIE LAGRANGE Record has been d-vouring
peaches nine and s. quarter inches in cir
conference, and doesn't seem pulled up
about it either.
The Denison Meas claps its hands and
sings p;eans of praise while elistening rain
drops fall into its dusty, upturned, thirsty,
sunburnt face.
The San Antonio Herald writes learnedly
and sensibly about the necessity for tree
planting in Texas, and for its encourage
ment by legislation.
The founder and builder of the city of
Lawrence states that vast quantities of
wheat are going out of Texas to st. Louis
and Kansas City mills.
A pair OF robbers are doing the highways
that lead into Sherman. 1t is the old fash
toned game. 'Stand and deliver!" ''Y'r
money or y'r lifer"
Dallas fleas have been recognized in Lam
caster, and the Lancaster fellow SAYS the
"local" of the Commercial shan't come
over there any more.
Burglars blew open with gunpowder, and
robbed of $1,000, the safe of Bayer &
Wagner, millers, in San Antonio. But
they won't quit grinding.
At Menardville they have occasional
showers. and begin tn need " soaking
rain" If it come the finest crops that ever
grew will enrich the people.
The penitentiary commissioners, with
mileage ard spy glasses, are around San
Antonio, inspecting the old missions and
the like, lager and hotel fare.
A wretchedly poor old French woman of
Dallas found $500 beneath the floor of
her howell where her husband secreted it
and died making no sign.
The Hunnicutt trial is again continued at
Dallas. 1t will cost the people and State
thousands of dollars. and the dirty fellow
is hardly worth hanging.
A man named Edward Pagan, heather,
who shot Officer Bowles, attempted to es-
cape from the police of Shreveport. He
was shot through the heart.
They keep pet tarantulas in the Gonzales
Inder Office and put them among the ex-
changes and loafers don't bother that
editor to any alarming extent.
One Gabe tells the San Saba Neaos that
bedbugs are of the productions of that
lovely place, as if the Neps man had lost
his senses-of smell and touch.
T. W. Caskey, of the ''Christian" church,
the best paid and most ingenious and origi-
nal preacher in Sherman, becomes lawyer.
He was educated for this trade.
Corn6elds about Denison have been strip
ped of fodder by grasshoppers, but the
corn is unframed. But the Neos stands
the racket, fodder or no fodder
Jefferson has sbut 1000 children of the
scholastic age We had thought the Jim.
plecute would have given the country more
reasons to be proud of its town.
Kickapoo is not far from Granbury, and
the Vidette tells of one Thomas Jefferson
Cook, who has gathered 200 bushels oil
wheat where he sowed five bushels.
The cotton crop is excellent and un
harmed, but corn has been almost ruined
by drought at Mount Pleasant, where the
excellent Southern Patron fourishes.
The Ellis County Neaos in the absence o.
rain congratulates the milk carts and milk
men that there is water tank to be erected
at each end of the delightful village.
Fredericksburg is on its head about the
irregularity of the mails, and thinks Bro
Honey had better resume his old business
They call it gospeddling, the wretches.
One neighbor took two watermelOns from
another's patch without asking, was prose
cuted, confessed and was fined dollar
The costs, mark you, amounted to $3.50.
The Methodist Episcopal conference sit:
in Longview, and the demand for chicken.
is hot and heavy. We don't see how fel
low can pln-feather for Immortality withou
them.
And now comes the BRENNAN Banner,
and, discussing the virtues of policemen
vices they render y in heavy standing
around.
Yeatman, who killed the bully, Con Rec
tor, at Sherman, is peaceable, quiet, un
obtrusive gentleman. His character served
him we'll when the grand jury refused tt
indict him.
Coons, too, have hydrophobia, and on,
of these has bitten little girl on the road
side, near the mouth of the Wichita.
mad stone applied to the wound adhered
thirty-six hours.
The rains have blest Blanco, and tn,
people think they can at least sustain TIT
Busy Bee. It's big job, and suthin
stronger will be required than liquor dis
titled in the clouds.
Kaufman snoreth in the shady places
The lawyers have all gone courtin' at Can
ton, and jokes have lost their SAVIOR, anC
rusty decks rest idly in dusty drawers anC
Kaufman is dull.
Dallas builds houses when there are nom
to occupy them, and when new house il
built an older is left vacant, and the Com
naercidl thinks the house builders should
quit and erect an elevator.
The Montague Ne,cs thinks there is moth
ing like having fair start in the world
and, therefore, we imagine, 1t congratulate
Alonzo George, ESQ.,, on his marriage. Th'
fair bride has five children.
The nice little girls down at LaGrang
don't wear skirts like candle moulds ant
they are the lights of the world shown,
the difference between the "Greaseial
bend' and a tallow dip"
Instead of money, travellers towards tn
west will do as we'll to take along an asth
matte ACCORDION. Nothing else will be &C
cepted as collateral in the pawnbrokers
establishments of San Antonio.
Edwin G. Gresham, OF Richmond, Vii
ginia, has made the boys about San Ante
MO ''awful,mad" by taking away to the OIL
Dominion one of the fairest daughters o
Texas, Miss Fanny G. Williams.
The Montague Neses thinks that Peterson
who edits the DEVILS Tom PaiEe paper q
Paris, Texas, might be converted with
bludgeon. We think so too; but ther sur
pose Peterson dubbed the other fellow9
The Brennan Banner doesn't see why tn