The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-24
reIa.-FacI. and Faneies.


Hempstead's one-legged railway stands
still .............
The Democracy about Ennis seems to be
all "cheek." 1 afs .a3.a :s.sut lo ..
Burglars still annoy the good people of
San Antonio.' .''@"' ' .N .'-.
Corn is worth twenty-five to thirty five
cents in Seguin. gtsfs. .aite-. .u.
The Goliad GUards-thermomete was at
1O6 Q on the fifth instant.
The first through train over Tom SCOTS
road reached Texsrksna Sunday
They have big cheese factory at Deni
son, and rats invade the Nesos Office.
Dallas will ship rs, 900 cotton bales next
year and Austin not less than 85, 900.
Lee Hall, late sergesnt-at-arms to the
House, becomes lieutenant with McNelly.
One hundred thousand buffalo hides will
be sent east this winter from Fort Griffin.
Belle Boyd has been electfifying Calvert
with recitals of her adventures as Conted-
crate spy. 'f'''
People walking the streets of San Antonio
at night are now and then knocked down
and robbed. 0ar lu.lI felL. fis,g
Many districts in counties out west are
voting out the grog shops under the local
option law.
Dallas, while whisky is at eighty-fve
cents per gallon, concludes not to have any
water works. q Is stI
The Dallas papers are still full of the
/ e ~
cuted for rape. JOS H'hI "'
The ''Christians' are erecting proper
edifice at Ennis and DR.. Darlington is ex-
pected to preach now and often, over there.
A carpenter, who built the hotel at Card
we'll Springs. was murdered in Lockhart
Friday night. He was a stranger IN the
place. '.i- VT" .' t'.a -
The deficit in State revenues n.-It year,
it is estimated, will be about $500, 900. 1t
will be hard road that Richard II, must
travel 90 &c
1t seems that Woodson Elliott James and
two other young men, who left Denison foul
months ago for Arizona, were killed by In.
dians.
! A good carpenter is wanted in Oakville,
aud the prices of tooth carpentering II
Austin are enormous. More competition
would do good. ,.s-srr. i.,I-..I. sIrset5.
1 McNelly's company are encamped neal
Oakville, and the Tribune says they are
nice fellows, and the people are glad to
have them around. ~ !sJA
The coming State Fair at Austin will
have, private letter states, several of the
finest Northern horses here TO compete Will
the Harper stock. -no''- n
Lee Hull has gone to fight Ipjuns with
Horace Rowe and McNelly, oye- abou
4 Oakville, their postoffice address. Both o
them promise TO write to the STATESMAN: g
i One Cox killed one Carey with a knife
h Sunday at a campmeeting at Bremond, bu
as neither was black, it is all right boil
with Grant and Coke, but for different rea
sons. .iad ~ ~ 131tt naAl heih7 ..'''
Joe Farr, late editor, of the Courier, il
constable of Hampstead, Editors goin.
thither, OF course, have the freedom of tn
city, and Hieronymus will now keep out o
Jail. t.l ts.5. aG st Il aaaII
, Passengers on Longs coaches leayini
, Austin &C . A. NJ. leave Round Rick aftc
I dinner, and breakfast next morning Il
Texarkana, saving twelve hours on tn
route 20 St. Louis
They are hauling, houses bodily iron
! Denison, aud setting them up IN, Sherman
aad Representative Martin struts aud tell
J about il. He thinks Tom Scott is dvni
this job for the two towns. I'll a,,.uis.i,,-.
ri Eds IS about TO get his first pay
ment from the treasury. He has, it
, alleged, twenty feet Of water between HI
jetties, but this depth is aloug very nal
row channel, which must be widened.
a Granger 10 the { gisiAture told US tbs
I he was = farmer only nominafiy, bus
Granger, and that he had only learned boz
4 90 destroy widows weeds BE Away
asked, wilt thou I" and they wilsed, III,
The.Ssrtk Issaa Chat lAs, word will nj
Loughery) says that Culberson has di
. Charged his duties in ''quiet, busy maj
! I nrfsi-a an expression delicate, and yes q,
| forcible. II would fif any good old dam,
The sheriff OF Goliad is tryihs 70 aFrel
Hugh ssapp and Felix James aad o.
Freeman. rough riders OF those parts 4
: Dallas paper SAYS that Hugh etapp h
, taken up ais residence in the lAll OF 81
{ town. ses IS scr sslaiN oot,
; When the sober second thought Of ii
!. people comes round to the fronl -
: surely win. the Bonhsm Nsrs and SENATE
3 Grace and Mr.. Coleman will be the mo
: popular Institutions in Northern and kAs
cru Texas. .Hsaf
g Hy T. Peake, Of the Traus-C Continents
z has his headquarters At sherman. BE Is
/ great and good nam He viii Be the hes
! devil Of the Tom experimentation, and VI
!. manage i wisely and we'll He Is Sou
: cArolinizn.
4 contemporary lsnd.ng, ard justly, 10
khs 0aRins and personal uorfh o. Sea -
I Grain. ssgs his 'sensationalr carer p
; been chsracfsri1ed By much abilify. Il