The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-12

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are built and rich farms opened and imml-
grants rapidly occupy the country. Good
schools and churches make the county at
trac:ive.
The Dallas and Wichita road is again re-
vivified, and the Herald says it will surely
be built. The Austin and Bolton and Lam
pasas narrow gauge still sleeps IN gremiO de
Col. Swisher.
Kaufman county, too, was swept over by
grasshoppers. The pests have done COM
paratively little damage, here and there des
olatlng a garden and stripping leaves from
cotton plants.
An old mule at Longs stable has been
behaving himself with perfect propriety
and amiability and even with humility, for
eighteen wears. to get q chance, Long says,
to kick him over.
The Sentinel is the new paper published
at Cameron. 1t is well put up as job and
well edited as q task. 1t will be of lDfin-
tie service to the people, whatever the fate
of the poor editor.
The Obsero er says that the New York
Tribune is more inconsistent than the Her
aid and more unprincipled than the Times,
and it must follow that George Alfred
Townsend has become its editor.
The Indignation of Dallas has been
aroused by impositions practiced there upon
immigrants and Gen. John J. G ,od made
rousing speech about it, and the guilty
fellows are to be exiltd.
The Collin county commissioners have
farm for paupers to cultivate, and where
the helpless, homeless and infrm may be
cared for at public cost. Those commits
sioners are wise and good men.
The county court at Goliad appointed
Judge WIN. N. FAINT county judge, vice
Judge Shlve, resigned. He is one of the
oldest and best citizens. He accepted and
entered upon business Immediately.
If the views and opinions of the Green
vile Independent were as narrow as its col
uns it could never see the half of one side
of any question, and the conductor would
always be stuck on the ragged edge.
R. L. Sweetman shot and wounded Geo.
" Hughes of Dallas. There was woman
involved and the papers properly say no
| more about it. Sweetman did right, it is
said, and Hughes is not badly hurt. -
Three of the bondsmen of Sheriff Miles,
of Victoria, withdrew from his bond. He
| did not succeed in getting their places
| filed, and resigned his office. The county
court will appoint mis- successor this week.
The average number of German immi
grants from st. Louis over the Iron Noun
| tain Railroad to Texas is about sixty, and
from seveDty-fve to one hundred from Geor-
gia and Alabama pass through Little Rock
to Texas daily.
f11of of he
pamphlet description of Austin and Travis
county, issued from the STATESMAN office,
| is Il newest and most perfect and beauti-
full n'w before the public. Lathrop sells
the pamphlet and map.
They are making an effort to remove the
court house from Lampasas to some un-
known spot, and when they smell sulphur
very strongly up there now they say that
Hon. Matt Roach is raising HI and rszing
the court house.
A Mckinney girl, aged fourteen, has
picked enough cotton at one dollar per hun
| bred pounds to buy her new parlor carpet
She picked $50 pounds per day before she
| quit, and will pick up some fellow worthy
of her, we would fain hope.
The sheriff of Goliad county has been re.
moved on petition of citizens, in conse-
quence of his incompetelcy to perform the
duties of the office. The county Judge and
district attorney for the same county sent
their designations to proper AL horlty.
| It is said that DR.. Brassell and son, of
Yorktown, we're visited by body of armed
men, taken few hundred yards from their
house and shot. The Victoria AdOoca;,
says 1--WE have heard nothing derogatorv t.
| the character of these persons thus killed"
When they lifted the veil at Galveston
and suffered Houston to lock cut through
the canal to sea, and there was no quaran-
tine and no yellow fever visible the venera-
| Die old town-was Tapped in the joys OF
| elysiGm and ''smiled"-at least most of the
people did.
The Lawrence Times is published at the
fourishing town founded by an enterpris.
| ing citizen ct Austin and namei in his hon.
or. Il is in the midst of most productive
country, and having good schools and
churches and capital newspaper, the place
must prosper.
Bells are nuisances, especially big bells
but people have u mania for them, and
McKinn town has bought one weighing
nearly 1000 pounds. and the people boast
about it. 1t is only fuss and very tiresomt
when headache and fatigue and want of re
pose overcome listeners.
Martin is still nxIous to divide the State
That might do very well and either hail
of Texas would be eminently respectable
bat wouldn't it be an ugly business to sub
divide Martin Neither half would mike
a Respectable whip-cracker and yet Martin,
as he Is, is cracking editor.
l II 4.
N the Dallas district is J. c. Bigger, bu,
only nomin4lly. In very truth be is tn,
smallest in the lot. and Throckmorton,
Inf this Radical we're ten times bigger,
will never hear that he is a candidate till
he reads about it in the STATESMAN.
A letter-writer says that the city of Chi
hueiua is closely besieged by ex Governor
T. Terasis with 1900 troopsi that Tria.
holds the city win 800 men, and is cut If
from sll supplies. And the writer gives i
IS his opinion that the revolution will be a
an end In chihuAhuA within ten days.
Mexican bavdns aud Indians have swept
over the country about PRO. killing IA ranch
men ana robbiBg farm houses Among th.
slain is Mr.. Rlttburg, of the Caiiforni,
rancho. and Mr. Redenfield. Several Mex
lean heramen were slam and many horse
stolen The people went in pursuit
/. STAFFORD, one Of = mob who hanged Dix
on In Bosque county. has been captured il
the Indian Nation and brought back 70
trial and incarccEated- Let the Ian bay'
It's course. We have had enough OF JudgI
Lynch, aud now that We have good juror
liners Is no need for his Offices
One Baker was Suspected Of theft and {