The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
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Texas Cattle have u!nuSeu cattle fever |
over districts of Illinois
The Headlight wants hook and ladder
company for THE city,.
Governor Hubbard speaks at the JimpE5-
eute's lJetferson) fair, October 6
The commercial travellers of Texas meet
at Dallas, Friday. the Twenty third INST
GAINESVILLE is full of rejoicing at railroad
connection with the great, big, busy world
The far at Marshall was largely. attended
and the exhibitions were most interesting.
Property in Fayetteville grows valueless
because the narrow gauge does not enter
there. .,..... .....
The repose Of Georgetown has been seri-
ously disturbed by the adve of Col. Phil
Claiborne. .gr.f-.H lis.- ..
Goliad has completed new public free
school house, and it is SAID to be tasty and
capacious.
RefugiO has organized a military COM
panV,1 which is to be used Ut the pleasure
of its sheriff. -t .H -..i.e
The next State Grange is to meet in the
CITY of TYLER on the second Tuesday of
January, 1871 ....
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad
will be Finished to the Sabine river by the
first of November. ..
The Harrison county fair has been quite
success, and goodly number of people
have been IN attendance.
The black plague is devastating Servia
even as 1t has done the richest districts of
Louisiana and South Carolina.
Indians are robblng homes and farms
along the Nueces eight miles above Uvalde.
Uncle Sam boys are after them
Major Burns, now of Austin, and
capital caterer to public tastes,
is going to run fancy hotel at Round
Rock. ...-..-r id. lI.-... ...
II the donkey ridden by the chief of police
at Hearne has "wisdom beyond his ears, "
the quadruped is greater man than the
rider ' .''
What an Infinitely slow coach the STATES
MAN must be in the drearily dim eyes of the
Houston Age. 1t say We are latter Mayor
Wheeler" .. r....-r.... ...iu.y $40 ~ ,.tr
The district cnurtis regulating the boys
around LOckhart, and Major Jas H. Burts,
of this city, figures largely in the blessed
business. d,'.f' h.i r'' '' So" ''"'
The Trans-C Continental is selling round
trip tickets to St. Lnuis and return for
$25 65 good till October 10, and Sherman
buys freely. .riaa 49, menr u.-l1uso 50 re-. Z
The rebels are concentrating all their
forces to stop Quiroga and Palacios, and
therefore the evacuation of New Laredo by
the rebels. 50 1' '.. '''
L. W. Cooper is up for Congress. as a Re.
publican in the Palestine district He
wants to be advertised, and there is ne
cheaper way. .I--.m,t gru ,tI...I a.
The Knights of Pythias are requested 10y
their brethren at Savannah and Brunswick
Georgia, to send money thither for victims
of Yellow Jack.
Cotton picking is going on rapidly in
Brnz pria, and, owing to the short crop. will
all be glnned and disposed of in market
earlier than usq Il. w ... ... ..s.
Al the German shooting match last Sun.
day the marker wrote of the shot made by
which a COW was awkwardly killed, she
made the bull-sigh." ' l'
The Palestine Adoocate will be run int
by the Headlight. The Judean newspaper
calls RouDd Rock town." when every
body knows 1t is "a CITY," ura -..
Georgetown boasts of 1880 or 100 in
habitants" says the Record The number
thus f1uctuates depending on the presence
or absence Of! Col. Phil Claiborne.
Hunters are distressed that deer are dy
ing everywhere In Henderson county o
black tongge: The dlssafS gse fs.o' t" every
Iis6v. Thos. W. Wharey, recently in thi
city, has ssked leave to resign his charg
OF Briery Church that he may accept Pro
fessor's CHAR in Kings College, Bristol
Tennessee. .a 90 il"'j 10. u
Inc grasshopper river in the air flowed
over Sab Antonio Saturday. It's the onl
living stream" we have ever seen though
mlcn has been written of such water
courses, ...-, .. '..a ~
The GAINESVILLE Times says of Governo
Hubbard's Centennial speech, ''that it i
too long for our columns, yet on account o
4 its great merit we should like to give it t.
our readers" 80 - -''
A chicken thief caught in Dallas hen
house insisted that he was only listening
to the ''lay" of the last minstrel, and tin
eminently poetlcal cuss was consigned t.
the calaboose. o ~ .suIs uu -.u. D.. ...
The roughly clad John Gossman, killed
by "a locomotive near Lawrence, had $500
concealed ABOUT his person. He was asleeI
on the railroad track and demolished b.
the COW catcher. <-- '
The Headlight has taken a preache
| nh ourH Rau I -
to contemplate with exquisite satisfaction
the growth in grace of mat awful slime
who conducts that j urnal. ..
Less than one hundred new newspaper
were established in Texas last month. an,
rs long as the number doesn't go over 100
per year, each paper can be certain of I'll
teen or twenty subscribers.
Since Rey. Tucker has become of tn,
staff of the Headlight the other fellow
writes piteouSly that, Oustermilk Is in de
mand and very scqrce over there. 1t is sait
TO b. good thing to coil down on.
The Patriot, a Tanting Republican sheet
actually says that the negroes of Deniso
have gone.uut to pick cotton, simply TO ear
show money, insinuatiAg that they do no
get their daily brea hy honest toll.
The Vlllalnuus murder ana robberer, Coz
tina, issues proclamation each week to tn
effect that "laS Yankees are eager to anne
Mexico az toto, snd will never stop unit
they are successful or get whipped 10y Cor
. tina. .. ..- -... B..
The signhOard on house on Pecan stree
which read "Oats wanted. inquire within,
was hung yesterday by some ker upo
; the side of a sctawny horse that the sting,
coach owner, Long, had turned out to re
cuperate, YIN
The local editor Of the san Antonio "a
press has found bunch of krys. The,
may belong to the ill-nstured wretch VIII,
advertised Tor such property in yesterday
STATESMAN. But he needn't swear al u
for lhe suggesuQni Dob.
The wretched-uid Jrit at Richmond wa
burned and the prisoners were barely res
cued. 1t was horrible den of infamY an,
pollution aud was properly burned, thougI
the purpose OF him who Ared it was crimi