The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
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Inc dallas paper mill venture is defunct.
Wheat is sold for 81 per bushel in Nc
Kinney @tVVT FFr~1f
The Chronicle fattens on grapes grown al
Cleburne.
California raisins Are grown successfully
in Dallas.
Wheat is worth sixty -fve..cents in John
son county.
Crowds of immigrants throng the streets
of San Saba. -ss ar.sl-
The Waco Examiner swings to Coke, and
lets Lang slide. cIFs -r
The horse thief. b. V. Giddings, is in
Jail at Gonzales. a...
Wise county has the finest crops ever
produced there
Horse flesh is cheaper than ever known
before in Dallas.
Lawrence, Texas, is to have a newspaper,
called the Times.
Sherman boasts of melon weighing
ffty-seven pounds. -aar
If the Hutchins House be finally shut up,
houston Is gone up.
DR.. Young's Friends of Temperance mum
Der 30, 900 in Texas.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, has PAIR of twins
with the heads of snakes. '
Bananas, plantains and melons are drug
in the Brownsville market.
Cattle are suffering for water on the
plains about Corpus Christi.
8 Prof. T. L. P. Holloman is to give dra-
matte readings at Gonzales.
A venerable mule died of the bite of 8
snake, last week, in Bonham.
Mrs. Disney and daughter, of Cincinnati,
are sojourning in Stephenville.
Desperate thieves and burglars are doing
the innocent town of Cleburne. a. . -.. ...-
Croson, who killed jeff. Franklin near
Bonham, has not been arrested.
TRAINED four days almost without cessa.
ton, last week, in Stephenville.
The Montague Neaos is perfectly blest in
the absolute perfection of crops.
The Enterprise thinks the number of cen.
tipedes increasing in that county.
Hill county is perfectly blessed in abund-
ant rains and unprecedented crops
Denton is nightly pleased with its jolly
postmaster, one Johr N. Dickson.
Cleburne and Alvarado will be enriched
by good crops, especially of cotton.
H. B. Boston, clerk of the court al
Cuero, died last Thursday of dropsy.
Lightning struck three places in Bonham
last Sunday. 1t will get the Neaos get.
Elder Sweeney is running powerful re-
vival at Brewer Prairie, near Freestone.
A little boy in San Saba was burned to
death by upsetting a kettle of hot grease.
Terrell wants several German gardeners
to supply vegetables for the town market.
The Express says the mesquit bean crop
about San Antonio is the largest for years
L. x M. is informed that we haven't any
alarming degree OF faith in the Keely mo-
tor.
The editor Of the Montague Neaos is
dreadfully opposed to the burning o.
witches. ..E.r.. --
Superintendent Hoxie lives IN the finest
house in Palestine, and isn't stuck up a BIZ
about it. --, .... .. .
The Hill County ExpOsitor says cotton is
unusually promising, and the crop will be
enormous. ... .....
Charley Ferguson and Verde Yale have
been arrested in Dallas for stealing a finger
ring in Austin.
Rockdale received its first bale of new
cotton on the third. 1t was grown by
Charley Martel.
Shang is his name. He sang at the fash,
ionable Dallas dance house, and is the stal
on those boards. ""'' ff .. -i
The wheat crop of Coryell is simply enor
nous and cotton magnificent Corn thirty
bushels per acre. #i t4HI ae7-ss.1 at
Stephenville wants to sell its college
building. A great bargain is offered to 6
good pedagogue. .sG.r .-..s.4 ..I 81
Dallas finances are in terrible tapgle,
and deficits are painfully in order in corpo
rate governments. .. bad. ....
Two bushels of wheat pays for the Nc
Kinney Journal and the fellows ought to
give good measure. a'a' 80
Calves and hogs have been bitten by mad
dogs at Cotton Gin, and there is much dis.
tress at Cotton Gin. slo.e teal ' .-
Governor Hubbard speaks about the
'Tap" to-day at Gilmer, and on the
twelfth at Pittsburg. .e,5.
The Cuero Star deplores the death of Mrs.
Frances Means, wife of Col. VIM. Means.
She died in San Patricio.
The thermometer at ninety and refreshing
showers ever recurring and glorious crops
make Granbury blissful. ...
Five hundred dollars will be given to the
captor of Jack Post, who shot John Spence,
at Honey Grove, Tuesday.
Seven Indians killed Henry Dell, IN Ma
son county last week, and wounded another
of his party of herdsmen.
1e Judge Wofford sold the Kelso place, OF
500 acres, partly improved, near Cuero, last
week, at six dollars per acre. .ral a.#
Whitehurst, of the Savoy Democrat, broke
his arm fooling with horse Tuesday. He
had better stick to the tripod. -r
The wheat croplabout Little Elm, Denton
county, is twenty-five bushels per acre, and
the cotton and corn admirable.
Sherman transmitted consignment OF
twenty-five Williams of high and low degree
to Ward, Dewey s Co. last week.
; Kaufman county, the Kaufman Telegraph,
a first rate newspaper, says, will make corn
enough, and first rate cotton crop.
They have CLOSE communion" carriages
advertised for the use of fashionable
gents" and mademOiselles in Terrell.
Messrs. Callan s. Hurt are making the
Fredericksburg Sentinel capital organ OF
Western sentiment, taste and opinion.
Henry shot and killed Constant Sheen neal
San Antonio last week. Constant was toe
constant in his devotion to Henry's wife.
The San Saba Neses says the banking
house of c. r. Johns & Co. is the best
known and safest banking firm in Texas.
Election news from all the western coun
ties will not be received till next Saturday.
We can only get it through the newspa
pers.
Rev. R. F. Taylor is lccturing on RevelA
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