The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-05-27

Telegraph IN obsequIousneSs- The Telegraph
win have to look to its lAurels.
The Bryan opera house has been fur
nished with new seats and everything about
the theatre is in apple pie order.
The Fort Worth Democrat has had libel
suit instituted against it, and the whole
country is rallYing to its support.
Corn is tasseling in Coronado county, and
the Citizen is whetting up an appetite for
roasting ears. The crops are fine.
The Marshall Herald announces that the
81 world is governed too much" That
paper gets of some very wise saws
Indians have been in Mason county.
They killed a negro girl near CANDLES
ranch, and got of with some horses.
\ Immigrants are coming into Lampasas
county. A large number have Just reached
there from Benton county, Arkansas.
The Rusk tramway is now completed,
and regular daily trains have commenced to
run between Rusk and jacksonville.
The Jefferson boys beat those other fell
lows from Shreveport in great foot race
and the Leader is very happy about it.
The business of driving stolen cattle
across the Rio Grande and into Texas still
progresses delightfully."- and peacefully.
The clergymen at Tyler are generally in
disposed. The Blade says that chicken
cholera is the cause of this indispositiOn.
1t became necessary to organize an armed
band to stand guard at the execution of
Frank Hammond at Bryan the other day.
From the papers of North Texas we
gather that the wheat crop will be greater
this year than at any time since the war.
The corn about Bremon6 is beginning to
wither for lack of moisture. The farmers
present the same appearance as their crops.
The city authorities are purifying, so says
the Neps, the little city of Denison. The
Nesos editor is to be embraced in the pro-
cess.
A band of outlaws are at work on the
Sabinal, seventy-fve miles from San An
tonic. The Kiowas are also in the same
region.
Four Oranges have lately been organized
in San Saba. District Deputy Grand Mas
ter Haynes has been swinging around the
circle.
Noel says that Downs knew all about the
secret circular before it was sent out, and
Downs has denied it. Noel must keep his
grit up.
The Herald thinks Mr. Davis will settle
in Dallas. Houston INDUCES the same
hope, and so do halt dozen other places
in Texas.
Judge W. T. G. Weaver is the coming
man, if Judge Ireland says so, for the State
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district.
The notorious Illinois criminal, Joseph
McClusky, was captured in Rockdale and,
after being guarded for several days, has
escaped.
A lightning rod man at San Antonio has
been diligently inquirihg after Col David
Crockett, to whom he wanted to sell one of
his poles.
The position into which the Telegraph
has thrown itself, in its printing contro-
versy, Is amusing to outsiders like the
| STATESMAN,
The crop prospects in Tarrant, Denton,
Wise, Jack, Parker, johnson and Hill
counties were never better. So says the
Ellis Ne0s.
( The farmers of Burleson county are in
high glee over the crop prospects. It is to
hoped their bright anticipatlons may be
fully realized.
Judge W. H. Hord, near Dallas, has al
ready commenced harvesting. What do the
people in the cold and barren Northwest
think of thisG
Everywhere from Northern Texas comes
the grateful news that wheat is to be more
plentiful than ever since Joseph bought
grain in Egypt.
A band of cattle thieves, who have been
Unfortunately killing cattle for the HOus-
ton market, have been arrested by Sheriff
Ashe and posse.
An organization has been completed in
Houston, the object of which is to erect a
monument in that city to the memory of
Gen. Sam Houston.
Oak Grove, in Denton county, has an
item of interest to publish to the world
ten mad dogs at once, and everybody crazed
out of their wits.
The East Line Railroad scheme is as
suming proportions. 1t will become sue.
cess, for some of the best men in Texas
have taken hold of it.
The general assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church met in jefferson on
the twentieth instant. Ministers M there
from all parts of the Union.
The Rio Grande Democrat finds that
Brownsville has fallen into the hands of the
Philistines, and is ravaged by the rabble.
chosen masters of the place.
The Waco Daily Reporter has taken as its
motto 'sMan wants but little here below, q
and consequently is published on a twelve
by eighteen sheet of paper.
]. G. McGrew, who killed a man inTlGa
son and then broke Jail, has been recaptured
in Comanche county, and Sheriff Wilson
has taken him back to Mason.
The International and Great Northern
Railroad Company is improving its prop
erty at Palestine. Headquarters are to be
established there next month.
G. Washington, of st. Joseph, Missouri,
is at GoIiad to bridge the rver there. Mr.
Washington owns that little Ratchet, bu
doesn't build brldges of cherry trees.
The Wacoites are puzzling their brains
over conjectures about the cause of the re
cent fire. They want to originate some
thing historic, like the Chicago COW.
Since the death of the boy Fisher, al
Rockdale, from hydrophobia, crusade has
been made on the ours of that place-morI
than was ever made against the infdels.
Two miles have been run between Rock
dale and Austin by the International sur
veying party, and another will be gone
over SOON It is hard to tell the result.
Louisianians are taking possession Of
CorYell county. They don't want an,
more savage, rabble, local government, anC
favor q reformed Constitution to a man.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette likes JohI
Ireland muchly, but doesn't think any con
vention necessary in those parts. The peo
pie viii make wise choice Of wise men.
Two fifteenth amendments have beef
shooting at each other down at Goliad
and one Of them is expected to change hi
present habitation for amansion in the skies
The Dqi7v Advocate acruaaa the Houakor