The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-21


Fine rains have fallen in Clay county.
Lampasss has had another Jail delivery.
DR.. Johnson, of the Gste City Neus, is
dead.
Sherman is about to complete an opera
house.
Typhoid fever prevails in Cambridge, |
Clay county.
The boil worms are in the cotton in Red !
River county.
Erath county produces q large crop of
sorghum syrup
The oskville Tribune knows candidate
by his politeness.
Corn Is selling At Clarksyille at twenty
FIVE cents bushel-
Sherman is going TO close all drinking
saloons on Sunday.
The Marshall fair will commence on the
twenty sixth instant.
The Odd Fellows of Bedias have grand
time on the twentieth.
sheriff's sales are required by law to be
published in q newspaper.
Just one house remains in what was once
known as Red River City.
On the fifteenth Calvert had shipped
1854 bales of the new crop.
Web Flanagan is going to stump Indiana,
OF course for the Republicans.
Walker Wilson, Texas veteran, died at
San Marcos on the eighth inst.
e. NJ. billiard, an old and respected clti-
zen Of Freestone county, is dead.
Col. James Fleming, one of the Oldest
citizens OF Panola county, is dead.
Morgan has placed Houston in direct
communication by rail with Clinton.
The cotton crop in Brazoria county has
been seriously injured by the worms.
The STATESMAN is not published to please
the taste of any single class of people.
Tehuacana has one of the largest and best
organized Sunday schools in the State.
Much sorghum molasses is brought to
Crockett and sold at fifty cents gallon.
The friends of John Smith will be pleased
to know that he is living in BIanco City.
The notorious Ben Ivey has been ar
rested, and is lodged in the Castroville Jail.
The Lawrence Times thinks State po-
lice law or something equivalent to it nee
essary.
On the second of October the people of
Live Oak county are to have local option
election.
Local option Is waxing hot in L wrence,
and the prospect is that Kaufman county
will adopt it.
The new road law is being enforced at
Lockhart, and Senator Storey is most prob
ably absent. .......... ..
Dsnmsn, the irrepressible W. L., of leg
islative fame is making political speeches
in Eastern Texas.
A literary club has been established ir
Gonzales, and it is becoming a very popu.
lar institution.
The assessor OF Rrenham found in hall
day $50, 900 Of property that had not beer
upon the rolls.
Terrell ships more beeves than any Other
place upon the Texas and Pacific, except
ing Fort Worth.
; The fremen of Denison are getting ready
to have a grand anniversary ball on the
twenty secOnd instant.
Mart Harrell and W. S. Douglass, o
. Comanche, have been at last arrested with
out bloodshed.
The Grange Picnic was held at George
town on the sixteenth, and Master Ian.
3 made speech.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Colleg
: of Brysn will be ready for students on tn
9 second of October.
t The aggregate capacity of the Dalla
It Touring mills is 500 day. The flour bear
a very high reputation.
An experienced educator is wanted a
Q Fort Worth. A fine opening is presented
l. so the local papers say.
q The Fifteenth Legislature made a char
d ter for San Antonio, and the voters rejeC
# ted it by 655 to 81 votes,
- The indications are that the Waco, Fail
field and Palestine Railway will be built
and that. too, before long.
;. The Guadalupe river is lower by twent
!, inches than it has been within the memor
Of an old citizen of Gonzales.
Galveston is just on the eve of issuin
> 81. $50. 900 eight per cent. bonds, and tn
~ city already has large debt.
The Daily Banner and Bastrop Adpertis
,e republish the letter of Hon. ]. D. Sage
. as it appeared in the STATESMAN.
The Denton Monitor thinks the preser
fees will cause q great many county judg,
and justices of the peace to resign.
The Examiner dislikes to contemplate IL
loss of its Governor. When be goes ava
81 it will be ct sea without rudder.
IL Col. Ashbel Smith is one of the judg
L. Of live stock at the Centennial. He vi
u Minister to the Court of st. James.
Men pursuing the parties who did IL
wholesale killing in Hill county passe
ID through Kaufman IN pursuit of them.
II COL Breckenridge is just back from SIS
n Antonio, and reports the government bull,
ht ing at that place under full Roadway.
A prisoner in the Csstroville Jill BEGAN
40 miserable a. to commit suicide with
ne pistol which had been left in his way
IL Hons. R. @. Mills and T. j. Bell ha
T. made their appointments, and will col
mence regular canvass on the twenty-fr'
A young man by the name of neMor
We was killed at Cuero by Ryan. The in
tie originated about the right to some cattl
!" F. N Rundell, Brueggerhoff & Heide
heimer's commercial agent, was at s
- Marcos the other day making things livel
!, The Eraminsr (Waco) says it hears tn
:, the body of 3 negro riddled with bull'
" was found in blackberry creek, in H
D.. county.
:. Cotton picking is going on brsvely
!. Colorado county, and the feecy staple
~ rolling into Columbus and making busins
TX. lively.
Judge A. J. Booty, hiss set mis- grand ju
to work in Henderson county, and all II
70 Gals will light out. They have played G
ar. on booty.
Tie Denison Ntacs tells of brakem
who was killed by coupling link bel