The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

dered condition of the liver. The stomach,
bowels and kidneys also experience their
regulating and tonic influence.
Texas-RaeGs ana FancIes.
Jones's majority in Washington county
is $40.
Lamar county next. Local option the
issue.
Wait till you are out of the woods. Then
hollow
B. F. Hardcastle is now of the Galveston
CiUilian.
Bishop Elliott has returned to his home
on the Alazan.
Capt. J. H. Callsghan, 1854, was the first
settler at Blanco.
There was heavy white frost Sunday
morning IN Houston.
The artist McArdle has returned to his
heme at Independence.
F. W. Grsssmeyer is the most enterpris-
ing citizen Of lagrange.
Newcomb received four votes for Con-
gress in De Witt county.
Nueces county is about to swallow local
option instead of whisky.
Mrs. Gen. Anger is great favorite among
the people at San Antonio.
John D. Lee, the Mormon murderer, is to
be shot on the 26th of January.
The Cuero Bulletin is the latest born OF
the family of Texas newspapers.
The returning board arc the holders of
lost Charley Ross in Louisiana.
Harry Haynes, the lecturer, is rounding
up local option down at Rockport.
Corn is worth 7sc at NseogdoGhes, and
potatoes S5c-wbich is steep for Texas.
Trout are caught along the gulf ccas, ard
dried and sold by the wagon load in San
Antonio.
Mr.. H. s. Thrall, the historian, steps down
and out to have controversy with one II.
P. Newcomb.
Trains will begin to run regularly next
week over the Texas and New Orleans Road
from Houston.
This is prayer-meeting week of Young
Mems Christian Associations everywhere,
the world over.
The result of the Congressional election
in this district is not yet, it seems, accurate
ly ascertained.
Blanco has 400 inhabitants, who battle
diurnally in the bright, sparkling waters OF
the Rio R!aneo.
Blanoo (whits) has two places for the sale
Of redeye, and only 400 mon, women and
children to buy.
When old lack Chandler fell and broke
an astery not long ago there was a great
waste of whisky.
San Antonio spectators in town lots are
crazy to find out where Pierce will locate
his railroad depot.
w. G. Butler, of Plano, was stabbed
and shot fatally, it is thought, by one
Coults, from Kentucky.
San Antonio papers deplore the departure
of Capt. Sellers and his command, which
goes towards the frontier.
A young man named ]. Ingraham, of St.
Louis, drank excessively and fell in the
Alazan ditch and died there.
Whisky often gets one into hot water,
but Saturday it tumbled a San Antonio fell
low into the Alazan ditch.
The four votes cast for Newcomb IN the
West will not materially change the COM
plexion of the next Congress.
La Vega Mcintosh, who was taken from
Waco to Mississippi and tired on the charge
of murder, has been acquitted.
McLennan county has realized $4,000 on
the sale of estray stock since the Inaugural
ton of its present county court.
Mr.. Mcdonnell, of Houston, should suffer
McAr1le or Morton to copy his picture OF
Deaf Smith for the State Capitol.
The editor of the GAINESVILLE Times has
been to Paris, and writes thence interesting
European or other correspondence.
Every family in Texas is putting aside,
even now, its winter supply of pecans, and
the squirrels are initiative creatures.
Hsrper's Magazine for December contains
an interesting article on the ancient pigmy
graves and mounds of Middle Tennessee.
A great throng, impelled, to say the least
by queer tastes, was gathered IN Marlin last
Friday to see a negro murderer hanged.
Independence boasts of its Sunday school,
Temperance Council, pretty girls and
Band eff Hope, which isn't brass band.
Sam w. Small, late of Houston, is wiz
ming fame as ''Old 81" in the Atlanta Sun
day Herald, of which he is editor-in-chief
Father Hennessy's church at Fort
Worth is finished and he breaches vigorous,
~ to the awful sinners of that irreclaimable
town.
What did the mob ct Workman want
with FIshburn3 Did a mob gobble him, as
telegraphed to Galvestoni Isn't it fish"
storyi
The italian colonists represented here
last spring by the Consul from Chicago
bought lsrd-17, 900 acres-near Pilot
Point.
0akville prefess Radicalism to WHISKY.
It was solid for local option, while Hayes
got one vote over there. 1t is fittering to
Hsyes.
Miss Cooks lecture for the benefit Of the
coast fferers, was not delivered in Sher-
an. Martin commended it and nobody
stten led.
One thousand acres in walnut and
almonds planted four years ago net this
year $3.50, 600. The walnut timber Is also
invaluable.
J. c. Chew, who has won many friends
in Texas while representing the State at
Phi'adelphis, has a Texas brokers' Office Ct
90 Broadway.
Sam Hewitt, . rough and bully and
bruiser of Brenham, sloped, owing the
recorder and lawyers $50. He 10 in Aus
tin, so the boys say
The Lampasas DiPdtch has not yet ex-
pounded the mystery wrapped in thai bun
die Of lady's clothes and bloody veil found
ten days ago near the town. tta
Commodore Morgan win sue Galveston
for losses incurred because of the useless
and lawless quarantining Of his ships and
the Commodore heads level.
BiAnco county has mammoth cave, AZ
underground river, an active volcano,
mica, gold and silver mine, but HASN'T
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