The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-02


Gen. SummerviIle IS the chief diguitary |
now on the Dallas chain-gaug.
Rockport ships vast quantities of horns,
hoofs and bones of cattle to Baltimore.
Crops about Fort Griffin are magnificent
and no Indisn on the war-rsth anywhere.
Thirty-pound wasermelons are sold in
Montague for Eve cents, one sixth of a cent |
per pound. A1ss
The first delegste TO the peuitsntiary
Fl, Camp county is Levi Hill (colored)
'p for three years.
Iue Texas Central shipped 500 car loads
of wheat during JAY, and viii ship near
1900 during August.
J. H. White, Of Pilot Point, had Tow
With his wife. and leaped into deep well.
The crowner's quest said it was insanity.
Don Jose Castillo died ten days ago al
his residence in Patrieio county He left
many cattle and broad acres and mustangs.
Morris, the philosOphic grammarian, is
now reforming the language, and thus the
morals and tastes, of the people of Camp
county.
John Dorchester goes out and Fred w.
Sumner takes charge Of the Sherman post
office. No cause for the change is known
to the public.
A civil rights case has been ''put up" for
the Central Railroad at Denison. The
modest and blushing Miss Williams. col
ored, was the decoy. a
One hundred and ninety six cases adorn
the civil docket at Cleburne, and 204 the
criminal. The main business of the county
is criminal, it seems.
The Rockdale Tribune, an excellent week
~, appeared on the streets of Austin every
where yesterday, aud the people were well
pleased with its appearance and excellent
good sense.
The Pamela WatchmdR is the best temper
ance organ In Texas. 1t has little bored
we'll and wants everybody to have one, and
absolutely says it wouldn't have it corked
up for $1,000.
The Peoria, Hill county, minstrels, the
Record tells it, are going starring it to Pat
tons mills, Scott's chapel and Bold spring
this season. They'll take in New York and
| Boston next. sss =
1t seems that Gems. Whitfield, Good and
Mccoy took in ell of Dallas and occupied
the principal hotel and fought all their
blessed battles DER again when they met
Tuesday in Dallas
| People will now look upon Corsicana
with several more grains of allowance.
! Bishop Garrett is going to preach over there
on the third, fourth and fifth proximo, and
the town will be metamorphosed.
Rev. Mr.. Parks has been chosen to the
pastorate of the Baptist Church at waxa-
hachie. He has been engaged there for
several days during the past week IN carry
ing on protracted meeting.
Jack Sparrow's mother, good woman Of
Dallas, is almost crazy because of his
strange disappearance some weeks ago. II
he left his boots at home he still lives. They
always die in Dallas with their boots on.
The gun boat Rio Bravo, intended for the
Rio Grande, was lost several days ago in a
gale of wind off Sabine Pass. All of the
men on board were saved The Rio Bravo
was the old Planter fixed up as gan boat.
The finest peaches are worth only fifty
cents per bushel at Denton, and protracted
and camp meetings under such circum-
stances, succeed there. Peach pies and
cobblers are indispensable on such occa-
sons 3 fse
The Dallas Herald says: cot ten thou
sand persons only one reaches the hun
dredth year, only one in five hundred his
eightieth, and only one in hundred his
sixty-ffth." Old Tige is already booked
lone in ten thousand"
The Fayette County Ne0 Era says that
Col. Lang's compensation Is not adequate
to the labors incident to his place as Grand
Master OF the Changers. Perhaps the def
cit may be filed out with honors and offices
in political life. Why nota
The Bryan appeal fippantly says that
''our friend Flippan on his tour took in the
Western cities, Michigan watering places,
Niagara and Saratoga OF course the di
gestion mills of Mr.. Flippan are in perfect
order.
They have Prismoidal Hotel in Hemp
stead. Guests ought to practice sleeping
ON fence rails before trying this sharp-edged
tavern. Instead of square" guests ge'
prismoidal meals and a little single TRACK
railroad for lunch. -. -
Cotton and corn crops between Brennan
and Chappell Hill are the finest produced
since the war. Cotton fields near Chappel
Hill present the appearances of solid sheet
of snow, and hands to gather the fsecy sta
pie are greatly in demand.
II the Language used in the paragraph
having reference to the Gainesville Gazette,
or any part of it was borrowed, the unjus
appropriation was unconsciously made
Memory sometimes plays sad tricks witt
vaunted originality.
Stephensyiile morals will be rapidly i'm
proved. The Baptist church will soon b
| H. i,aA 70 hnvN hat n1rra NM
Sankey win visit Texas. The whole countr
most needs thorough moral revolution sns
religious awakening.
People will feed preachers well. It.
force of habit, We reckon. The local col
umn of the Magnet is full Of peaches, mel
ons, potatoes and the like-thanks, yoI
know. II the editor hadn't been 9 Preache
7 he would have starved to death long ago
Mr.. Amasa Baugh, farmer five mile
west of Louisville, in Denton county, fe,
days since, while digging fer we'll, strucl
vein Of coal only twenty-six feet from tn
surface. It burns well, and Mr.. Baug
thinks the coal 10 Of superior quality. Til
D thickness of the vein il not known.
'sPatrons, support your paper is th
theme Of the tenderest, most touching n
marks that ever fell from the lips Of I'll
Ezaminer. Il rs hesrt-fslts gushing it'll
s speech, and the good Changers should rea
q il and think about il and take half q doze
b papers, the STATEsxAN among the rest.
r. C. Horn, one Of the editors Of th
Bonham Messenger. IL absent. He isn't n
e implement that Gabriel is going 10 N
e and though he himself has often bee
:; blown ND he IL never inflated. He is
e modest, excellent gentleman and writes q.
e mirabie letters-does Mr. Born.
Rev. Mr. GiIIett was induced to perfor
e bogus marriage ceremony st Clinton.
# forged license with . forged seal attachs
E were imposed upon him, and then IL q
e peared that the supposed bride was q ms
It In woman's garb. Clinton was the seer
s. Of the disgracefui affair.
a Gonzales, under the auspices Of Rev. D