The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-23
Texa.-Fae,. and Eancro..

b In many places the Oranges talk of put
ting up cotton mills.
The Sunday schools of Paris are to have
big excursion over Tom Scott to Sherman.
They had big ball and most danced
their little legs off when the railway reached
Paris.
The prisoners in the Jail at Paris escaped
in body last Saturday and marched away
into the Indian Nation.
George G.. Windor, druggist, of Rock
dale, has cemented unto himself charming
wife. He drug" her into 1t.
Coke's majority, if they keep on voting
and counting (the law operative at the cleo
ton imposed no restrictions) will be about
one hundred thousand.
=. The Transcontinental has put on hand
some new passenger and mail coaches, and
regular trains commenced running last Nor
day from Sherman to Paris, sixty-four miles.
A number of farmers in Clay county have
procured a supply of tobacco seed from
Washington, from which they intend rails
ing sufficient this season to supply all that
section.
Paul Watson, an old settler, died recent
ly at his residence, six miles north Of Sher-
man. He came to Texas from Virginia al
most forty years ago, and was eighty-one
years old.
Elder VIM. E. Hall, of New Orleans, and
editor of the Iron Preacher, delivered two
able discourses at the Christian Church in
Sherman, and there is great shaking
among the dry bones of that graveyard of
sin.
At Sherman last Saturday and Sunday
nights were very cold and heavy frosts Tell
there. Ice nearly one-fourth of an inch
thick was formed on standing water, and it
is feared the early peaches and other fruit
are killed or severely injured.
The Press says ''that the people of Paris,
thankful for the blessings showored
upon them by kind Providence, chief
among which is the completion of the rail-
road, were not unmindful of the humble in
strumentslity of the conviCts who COM
pleted it, and, consequently, on Sunday
last, rendered them a bountiful repast at
the freight depot"
People in Texas sometimes mistake a
postoffice order for receipt for money and
hold the ''receipt" very carefully till adj
vised that the money has not been received,
and then the holder of the order rushes
frantically to the innocent postmaster who
explains as patiently as possible, and the
pumpkin curses his own stupidity and dives
out OF sight. Mr.. Kinney has been thus
victimized again and again.
The Fort Worth Democrat accuses the
Dallas Herald of plagiarism, because IL con
led Tennessee papers ''interview" with
the woodruff. The Democrat is on a false
scent. Tennie furnished the ''interviewp
so-called, to be printed as an advertisement,
and IT was Tennie that stole it, and II was
FEMME that gave it original maternity.
surely the Democrat won't say that our Dali
las neighbor robbed Tennie OF ANYTHING.
The Herald is too gallant for that.
4 1t is proposed that the blessed Oranges
become useful as well as ornamental. and
taat they give this year badge Of honor
TO every member who comes forward az the
END OF the season with sufficient evidence TO
prove that his debts are all paid, and that
he has. IN his crib and smoke house. bread
and meat enough raised upon it to supply
ms farm the next year. An exchange saws
that such badge would be more honorable
than that OF legislator.
The Marshall Herald says that homicide.
IN Texas are numerous simply because the
avenues TO escape are so easy, and men are
not. hunted down and brought b iustice.
This must be changed. Among the first
duties of the Legislature should be the in
stitution Of such measures as win insure q
prompt enforcement Of the criminal law In
reference TO hOmicides. This, with proper
moral sentiment, will correct the evil.
Never was the gallows more needed than
now.
Major VIM. E. Penn, alawyer of eminent
standing at Jefferson, and deacon IN the
Baptist Church, feeling that he was called,
to preach Christ and Him crucified. y be.
gan year ago or more TO hold revival meet.
lnss, and has visited different points in the
State. he has been conducting meeting
Tor month past At Eayasota, and since ths
tenth OF February fifty persons have Joined
the Baptist Church by experience-that is
, oy conversion, eleven by letter and Eve re
T stored-baeksliders reclaimed.