The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
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San Antonio receives 500, 900 pounds of
wool this season.
Henderson county is soIidly for Reagan's
denomination, we are told.
One negro killed another on the Burton
plantation near Richmond, Texas.
VIM. Simpson and 5. W. Adams, old
citizens of Lnngview, are no more.
DIR. V. o. King, of San Antonio, is com
inc to Austin to sojouru for q while.
Burglars and thieves went through the
Dallas infrmary, and half dozen houses
Thomas Sample shot and killed Arch F.
Garner, on the twenty-sixth, at Elkhart.
Miss Mary Axton, of San Marcos, nine
teen years of age, died Friday of typhoid
fever.
George Adams, who killed Charles Tur-
ner at Round Rock with knife, is still at
large.
They have a lot of paper collar darkies
in San Antonio who call themselves
"sports."
Stephens county, named, we suppose, In
honor of Little Aleck, has Breckenridge for
its capital.
The postmaster at Hampstead is said to
be faithful, homes. officer and excellent
gentleman.
A ticket from Round Rock to Chicago Is
$40, to which add So for Longs coach fare
from Austin.
The editor of the Mountaineer will take
corn in payment of subscriptions. lie pre-
fers it distilled.
Schleicher is sound on the silver ques-
ton His head, it seems, is as capacious
rs his corporosity, anyhow.
The bankrupt Southern Life Insurance
Company, of Memphis, may pay thirty
three per cent. of its debts.
j. w. Atkinson and Charley Montgom-
cry at Florence, near Lampasas, stabbed
one another, perhaps fatally, Sunday.
Thirteen of seventeen German papers in
Iowa support Tilden, and every German
publication in Texas, we believe, is sound.
Mr.. Gruber, the banker who was knock ed
down by blow with heavy pistol by the
robbers, is seriously but not fatally injured.
Fancy men and nice gay young fellows
and sharpers and FOUNDERS and dead beats
and swindlers do congregate at Round
Rock.
The creditors have attached the furnl-
ture of the LIE Grand Hotel, of Dallas. but
the tavern still flourishes, and is full of
people.
The MOuntaineer, published at Blanco by
Sam G. Craft, has made its appearance, and
does credit to the community from which
it comes.
1t was the Radical Senate that killed
Schleicher's frontier defense bill, giving us
two additional regiments of cavalry of 1900
men each.
All the loafers alb ut San Marcos have
taken baths in the beautiful river HARDLY
the village and gone to cotton picking in
the country.
Never did such crops grow in any former
year as those that now delight the people
about Longview-corn, cotton, potatoes
and COOLERS.
The Free Press says that "the Texas State
Capitol will undergo an airing, and iced
whisky fall in price. The Scots and land
owners have gone home"
The Road Law" seems to worry most
of our State exchanges; but they have
mostly got 1t down and next week they
promise to be full of interest.
Col. Ford, "Old Rip" is delegate to
the San Antonio congressional conven lion
of the first proximo to represent Browns
vile and those parts.
Reardon is an old adent- ip.-th 1abherK
4:-,'-sGru Ue shipped to Memphis, where
he both murdered and robbed
The grandfather of the Bonham Neaos
man is named Evans. The Mesos saws
"Grandpa Evans will make three cotton
bales on each of four acresn
DIR. Burleson has been lecturing on pub
lie schools and the like over in Palestine,
and the Ad0Ocate of that growing town is
not hatterlng In its comments
Stephens, Shackeford and attached
counties, Young, Wise, Kau man, Collin
and Tarrant counties have each instructed
for Throckmorton for Congress.
The Examiner says that Governor Coke.
1t thinks, will not resign till February. :"
His Excellency was never distinguished for
any marvellous degree of resignation.
The Porter's Spring Democracy, near
Crockett-cold water fellows, you will OBJ
serve-are solid for Reagan, and so with
the sound Democracy about Augusta.
Breuham is receiving 100 cotton bales
daily, and the worm, if it rains will
destroy twenty or thirty per cent. of the
crop. Ten per cent. has already been lost.
Since all the men in Fannin county are
for Tilden, we observe that ssthe ladies are
especially invited" to attend and hear the
oratlons delivered every Saturday night.
Senator Grain was met at Indianola by a
great multitude of his constituents. who
wished to testify their respect for the gen.
lus and patriotism of the excellent Sena-
tor.
henderson county is solid for Hon. John
l.. Henry for Congress in case Reagan can't
get the nomination. Henderson boasts
properly OF the intelligence and virtue of
its people.
harnes and Wilson county boys are all
engaged in trying to capture a pretty add
very wild woman, who has been concealed
Tor years In the thickets of the SIN An
tonic river.
Rev. R. T. Nabers is most eloquent and
popular preacher of Houston. He has
pretty nearly Modified the everlasting
wrathfulness and querulousness and general
cussedness of the Age.
A colored philosopher on Robertson Hin
has erected concrete house and buried the
lightning rod in the wall The fellow that
SOLD 1t to him should be entombed- and
non. Ed P. Marshall, of the Legislature.
is going TO make rousing speech at Long. |
view and tell the boys over there what he |
was DONG here for four or five months. |
he must have retentive memory.
Newspapers wsrn farmers against plant
ing ehufa. 1t makes too many crops and
keeps growing or coming up and wont |
down, and they have too much of a good
thing who have planted it.
Pat G Meath, one of the most successful
railway and levee builders of the Older
States of the valley of the Mississippi. is
about to take charge of the construction of
Web. Flanagan's railroad.