The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27


The United States army consists of &C.
700 men, mostly officers, West Pointers,
quarternasters, ambulances, pursers and
mules.
Three hundred heroes surrounded the
black murderer and robber, Dick Allen,
near Prairie Lea. But Dick Is slippery and
escaped. T ad9aJ Ca-s 20 5lHl %.
A temporary bridge across Red River has
been flashed, and Central trains are now
regulating and distributing delayed treights
and mails.
An escaped convict from the penitentIary
was caught while committing depredations
upon the people about Beltoa and hanged
by the mob. -a1 aFdiiad m
The Fdyetto County Record declares in its
leading editorial that it is awful skepticism
not to have faith in Mansfield g. Co, Gre
ole Hair Restorer. ra.Gi7 q az
1t was a very proper castigation inflicted
upon Mr.. Brady by the Senator from Boz
ham. 1t was decently done, we are told,
and gracefully. 3i1EI 3u 90 sIabE11 tslg
The colored people of Waco are looking
round for a colored Major Penn and are
almost crazy to gstnup big revival. like
the white trash.
Anoint corns with goose grease and take
out the indurated flesh, which is in. thin
layers, with sharp pointed knife. The
process is painless. sdl o. 1854
Andrew Robert Kilpatrick's Fourth of
July history of Navasota is an interesting
paper. When may we have copy of Judge
Belts sketch of Trayis9 5e ,.,a..s .- ..
The birth of the little daily that came
bowling into the world SO noisily at Fort
Worth was perhaps premature. 1t has not
appeared for several days. aB51 -tf ta
Five thousand people" celebrated the
Fourth at Stephensville, and Stephens and
Adams wern't there, and atherei was grief
about it among the natives. ge gf;I ysas.
Regular through trains will leave Round
Rock, over the International, to St. Louis,
or Louisville, or Chattanooga and New
York on the first day OF August.
A Baptist preacher at Waco recanted his
g faith and practice >" as such while stand
| ing in the BRACES, and instead of immersing
poured the water on the converts.
| The break on the St. Louis and Texar-
mails of ten days for Texas Therefore,
we had no New York papers for week.
Miss Emma Greenwood, of Bastrop, is
said to have been the prettiest girl at the
great fair at San Marcos aud the San Mar
eos girls are nightly dlsgruntled about it.
4 Bald-headed men in San Antonio put
nnoasses on the tops of their heads that the
flies may hold mass meetings up there and
not interfere with the goings-on lower
down. .as rs.Ia" 1f, eH-. Te4 .a.. isl
Last Thursday the thermometer was at
1902 in the shade in Sherman, and at Dali
las it went to f02, and people are petition
ing Senator Jones, of-NeYadx. for an ice
mill hs14's9r e1 mo- 0uB .nWCrn Ii5H II IT,
We suppose Judge Nugent delivered the
centennial Grafton at StepheRsville. He is not
heavy on odes, and it is supposed lodged
the responsibility when requested to write
the poetry.
I Prof. Gathright, the president of Bryan
College, is lifelong practical educator OF
4 young men. He is, too, very steam en-.
4 gihe in breaches. We have known him
twenty years. s1a~ib o Ii ,sb o5 ,o afs. III,
4 Bishop Garrett is, still preaching elo.
Eauently in Daiias.- His SERMONS, when re-
Gently down East made people think OF
Texas as it is and not as the Inter- Ocean
represents it. a r.... ,., ..t ...
The prospects for the election of Mr..
Jack Cass to the legislature are supposed tc
be brilliant in South Carolina. Fellows OF
his sort generally get in and are regular
ly installed. 3dj ifhl -s-i a.'5 egaa ''s -
The Dallas Herald tells the public "that
its editorial rooms are private, and are not
the apartments of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association" It is carly piety that's
lacking, we reckon. 81 WIDOW. --''y
| The Bate that gives velocity to the
flights of the Bolton Jouraal may be
leather-winged, but ia not ather-beaded.
The JoufalaL prospers as it. deserves, and Is
the handsomest paper in Texas. y-sy ~
There are more miles of railroad built
each week in Texas than in all the rest OF
the Southern States, and yet Yankeedonl
thinks Texas devoted mainly to hanging
fellows that take life or horses. GU Di'"0
Twenty miles of iron are at the Calves
ton wharf for the International road. Trade
will be lively aud so will the demand fol
places for business when the road gets
within a,few miles of the city. .1uam5
Tracklaying is in progress on the New
Orleans Railroad between Houston and
Liberty. Houstonisns will soon be en-
abled to take trip to the Sabine by rail,
after long years of suspension.
4 There has not been sunstroke this year
in Texas, land only man is yile." knock
ing people over now and then. Maybe the
sun. is ashamed of itself, and has inconti
nently quit the business in Texas.
Dispatches received here Yesterday an
nounce the restoration of perfect order and
directness and speed on the trains from
Texarkana to St. Louis, All delayed trains
win be here to-day or came yesterday. n,
Corn is new sold in GranbuIy at twenty
five cents, and there is NO market for buf
falo horns. A wsgon-load of the latte
was left in the road by a Spectator WHIT
had gathered them on prairies further west
| Austin people at Philadelphia write hom'
the men do--thst it is hotter there thar
Z -perdition, and the blessed women say
they ARE coming home to Glitch breath, and
beaux made bresthlessf by overwhelming
besuty.dd u baB srJb1pro r9i asst 500
Senator Maxey says that white pine,
growing very scarce everywhere the worlt
over, abounds in the swamps of the Ssbin,
where classical editor swore Governor
Coke had no farm when we iunocently sen
him thither.
( tits painful to think of the intermlnabl
duliness that must sffiict the Examine
: when we remember that the State Grang
doesn't meet any more till January, 1877
aud what long resting spell there is 70
Col. Lang. --- -
The Leader having sued the Marshal
Rerald for libel. Il might be well for tn
newspapers To take stock in the quarre
and by subscription protsct the contestant,
against loss. Who will take round the hat
and who shall have the money!
We understand that Representative Coch
ran, Of Dallas, received a telegram yesteI
day, from Col. Oberchain, superintendent
, of the Dallas and Wichita Railroad, Stain;
THAT the iron for forty miles Of that roal
n has been purchased. ~ safs9r auila ABB