The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-28
Te1a.-Faet. and E.ne,e..
Iron fronts are the go in Fort Worth.


cess.
Cotton buyers are locating at Round
Rock.
johnson county is trading with Fort
Worth.
Mad dogs are being killed in Fannin
county.
Fort Worth is going to have military
company.
Rev. r Burleson is in Cleburne convert
ing sinners.
Titus county will make half an average
crop of cotton.
At Helena an iron bridge spans the San
Antonio river
General and heavy rains have fallen all
over the country.
They have just built an Odd Fellows
temple at Bonham.
Measles prevail in Blanco county, bat are
rot generally fatal.
Cotton is being rapidly prepared for mar
ket in Ellis county.
Jewett had shipped $50 bales of cotton
on the fifteenth inst.
All the Texas papers are advertising
H"Se's great circus.
Black tongue is raging among the deer
of Henderson county.
Sherman is building large hotel with
modern improvements.
In Brown county corn is selling for from
SOC to Acc per bushe.
no fD
Orleans is 50. so per bale.
Fannin county voters will soon lnaugu-
rate the local option law.
Machinery for the compress at Sherman
is arriving at its destination.
One boy in Cambridge put another's eye
OUT with a 'nigger shooter"
Swarms of grasshoppers blacken clouds
and fields in the Indian Nation.
DR.. L. S. bayfield, will remain in Jeffer-
son, instead of coming to Austin.
The grand jury of Limestone county is
vlgilant in the pursuit of rascality.
| Hood county will vote on local option on
the day of the presidential election.
Murray, of the Denison NeaCs, is In his
glory-the preachers are abusing hun.
The Observer is buoyant with the hope
that Rusk will be great railway center.
Round Rock should be Incorporated, and
It's citizens are moving in that direction.
Hon. D. G.. Giddings will talk to the peo-
pie at Round Rock on the sixth of October
The cotton crop of Washington county,
in spite of the worm, will be u very good
one.
Brown county has levied poll-tax of
fifty cents to be used in erecting a new
Jail. .. ..-...
! Mr.. James Gray, Of Austin county, is six
feet nine inches high. He is an old
Texan.
TThe newspapers are congratulating Aus
tin that Col. Norton supervises the Austin
State Fair. 8'
G w. L Fly hes been elected captain Oh
the Gonzales Rifles, vice T. NJ. HARDWOOD. le-
signed.
Governor Stockdale is at R0ckbridge
Alum Springs, Virginia, and is in pool
health.
The grasshoppers entered McLennan
county in countless myriads on the twenty
first inst.
Hannah Shaw, colored woman, one
hundred and four years old, died i'll Hous-
ton lately.
The cotton crop in Lamar county has
been reduced one-half by the ravages of the
boil worm.
The Examiner calls A. ]. Evans "our
jack, and the "Ad" and not the jack is
kept standing.
Will county produces half bale of cot,
ton to the acre, aud the quality of the sta
pie is excellent.
Dallas claims that 70 600 bales of cotton
will leave there this season. 1t has forgot
ten Fort Worth.
Grasshoppers high up in the air wer'
passing over Brentwood on the thirteenth
; going southwark. q. ...r
Boil worms are not yet in the cottoI
growing in the sandy, wooded portion o
Red River county.
Major A. Mcfarland has been appointed
county attorney of Lampasas county, cic
: Hamilton, resigned.
, The Gainesville Gazette is violently OPP
posed to division of the State and thu
shows Its patriotism.
Waller county is to have new cour
house, and rhe contract is to be let on TIN
sixteenth of October.
The C0mdnche CHIEF asks the grand jur
to stop the b5rning of the prairies at thi
season of the year.
Mr.. Davis living near Mount Pleasant
has made 1872 1-2 gallons of syrup from on
acre of sorghum cane.
The Waco Examiner looks upon the res
i! ignation of Coke in the light Of " great ma
Z tional calamity !
z Marion, the new railroad town on tn
: Morgan road, is becoming place of cor
: siderable importance.
5 Denton is to grasp one end of the Dalla
e and Wichita road in ninety days, and pay
= SO GOO for the Injury. "f
The mast in Anderson county is abur
= damt. but there are no hogs out of which
-, can be turned into pork.
The Fort Worth Democrat asserts III;
Dallas, in few days, will only be SUI
: per station on the railway.
Miss Ada Cook, the accomplished daugl
Z ter of Judge Gustave Cook, of Houston
II has been reading in Dallas.
o The Giddings Tribune courts the goo
r, opinion Of Changers. and makes its appea
C auce on straw colured paper.
IS A milk wagon goes the rounds of Ii
II Grange now, and its people, thereupon
place stress upon ''euf city"
Washington county takes the lead, an
will buy farm for the purpose Of takir
N care of it's INDECENT poor. r. 1906
Rev. Mr. Edmondson is q brave as we
- as good man. He is absolutely trying I
:, revive religion in ,Q'kyille.
\ p. Palm, in Williamson county, hi
Cheatham cdtton from which be has pickle
J" 100 pounds To The acre.
d. DenisOn and sherman are aping Dali
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