The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-04
Texas-FacIs and FancIes.

They are going to have a cotton mill in
Paris.
The San Saba Dramatic Association is
doing Tpodles. .....
The wheat crop in many places about
Fort Worth is a fiat failure.
People down in Bastrop say that dentist,
DR.. Grant, is great bite and terrible bore.
Fruit growers in Texas are jubilant over
their prospects. Peaches will ripen in
May.
The Bonham Ners declines to lave any
controversy with the Jefferson Leader IRE
specially declines"
The Leader favors the election of George
Washington Stall as mayor. Does it ex-
pcct to be S.all-fed?
The two coored members of the Senate
drew long terms and as rule the lawy ers
of the body were in bad luck.
Caldwell is happy in its fine peach crop.
Farmers over there have much to eat and
owe nothing, and silver abounds.
MexIcans are SO busy now robbing one an
other that cattle on this side of the Rio
Grande grow fat and multiply.
Grasshoppers and dry weather make farm
ers' hopes and crops wither, and prospects
and skies are exceedingly blue.
The Denison Netcs congratulates the
country on the selection of Mr.. Martin as
chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the
House.
The Bonham Nelcs is mistaken. The
erection of water works has not affected
materially the value of milk sold in this
city.
Sherman is trying to become conspicuous
by discovering Charlie Ross; but no one
turns his head while Sherman shrieks
Eureka!
Soldiers and their wives await eagerly the
coming of Major Bates, who has gone for
ward with the finances to pay off the from
tier troops.
They have been made happy by refresh
ing showers in Northern Texas; but the
rust has destroyed half the wheat crop il
many places.
The newspaper people are again organic
ing raid upon railways and towns east D
the Mississippi. The Leader leads the nict
little tea-party.
The Brenham Banner man doesn't seen
to care durn WHO'S made Senator, if onl,
it be understood that it doesn't want an,
Hancock in his'n.
The people west of Cuero have quit kill
ing one another, and devote their leisur
moments to the humiliation of mad dog
Astounding in those parts. a.s
Dallas has published pretty book de
scriptive of the town and county, to be dis
tributed at Philadelphia, and Dallas's head
W hen unwhiskeyed, is always level.
Texarkana hes twenty-five hundred in
habitants. and yet they have no schools
| In any event not one in hundred of tb
people can tell 10 what State they live.
| San Marcos does not want Its beautiful
river spoiled and its own attractiveness al
initiated by the branch penitentiary pre-
| posed to be bnilt at the great spring there
| We begin to discover that somehow c
other Dallas newspapers and party leader
don't seem as anxious as they used TO be
have Tom SCOTS road progress towards tn
| west.
Texas newspaper people are again goin
off over the country on a big dead-hea
railroad excursion, Leader leading in II
| IL will do Texts a vast deal of good q
happened before.
The dog law is in full force for the sun
mex at Brenham, and fleas are migrating @
every train to Houston and Hampstead
The Messenger man scratches his head ~be
thinking about it. at
The Dallas Herald demands twenty-fiv
cents per line for its local space. No d.
ductions, and cash in advance, and the he
aid gets it, aud its local columns are overru
with paid matter.
The Fort Worth CTexas) Telegraph
published five thousand feet above the Sc
level aud is thus the tallest publication
the State. The paper is nine inches Ion
aud looks comfortable.
The woman who brought the suppose
bogus Charlie Ross To- Sherman gave hi
up without protest, and. therefore, il
; said, she is not the boys mother. Pc
haps she is from Chicago, and don't kno
whether or not il is her child.
The aldermanic fellows down at Gi'
dings don't publish their proceedings al
the people are getting mad about
County courts and city dads should o.
hide their good works under bushel.
The little spiritual circle of Houston
much disgTuntled because that awful b.
ton medium, at whose nod aud beck i1'
, ers and fraits came, has been proved To
stupeudous fraud. Machinery did q
, work.
The Bas,rop Adssrtiser man complAi
that somebody borrowed and didn't resu
his History of the New York Tombs.
Is gaing centeunialwards and would kno
T sill about the cad of his journey, Retn
the book :.
Cuero is almost crazy to have the cor
0 house, and Clinton is mad about IL a.
: the contest wakes warm rs the wealth
grows hct, and the paths will be ..greaSe'
!. by taxpayers and Cuero become the coun
q capital
: Dallas papers weep because there is
. dearth Of small change, and to get drink
+ fellow mast have money; and q dollar, II
y turkey, Is I'D inconvenisnt--it is Z
= much Tor one and not enough for two av'
!, are Dallas drinks. =
Does DE-. Stevens. Of Syracuse, NJ
York, pay for advertising. or does I
!. press give Il 10 hims i an inquiry now I
gaging the earnest attention ard exciti
o deep feeling On the pcckets) Of our Tea
a contemporaries.
: There is member Of the LeeislAtu
: who will not sufIsr aFxbOdy TO call