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

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ALWAYS just for SPITE
The great sulphur spring at Granbury is
% he opened aud protected from overflow
,7 solid masonry. 1t is said to possess
most excellent qualities.
Tom Young was arrested and placed in
the Jail at Giddings. A mob of twenty
five or thirty men came 70 take him out, but
hesItateG and disappeared.
]. j. Swan and Hon. E. D. Linn have
been nominated by q Democratic convention
"a take the places of Messrs. Perrenot and
Roberts in the Legislature.
The Sixteenth Legislature will meet on
the second Tuesday in January. 1879. The
legislatures will meet in regular sessions
every two years thereafter.
A car-wheel ran over Mr.. PeTry's foot at
Calvert, and did not cut it of-only bruised
1t BADLY. Insurance companies are bidding
on him for additional risks.
The Methodists held a campmeeting
lately near Bonham. It lasted just nine
teen DAYS, and brought into the fold just
nineteen mortsls who had sinned.
The Fort Worth Democrat boasts that
daily paper. And this is duty that every
place owes to live newsy paper.
The Texas Central is carrying cotton
from Denison to Galveston for 50 bale,
and it is thought the Gulf City will re-
cover the cotton trade of North Texas.
The Brentwood Gazette says that the
business man who does not advertise has
lived Just long enough. One thing is very
certain, his business does not live very long.
1t is refreshing to look over the Bolton
,JournaI-full of fine selections, condensed
news and local information. 1t is one OF
the neatest looking papers, too, in Texas.
A campmeeting Is being conducted on
Jacks branch in Hill county. The daily
attendance is from one to two thousand,
and the cotton crop in the meantime Is vast
ing.
The Commissioners Court of Bell coun
ty have decided to sell its school lands.
They have been surveyed into 100 acre
tracts, and are in many instances very valu
able.
The Comanche Chief looks upon Hon.
Wells Thompson with great favor, ant
would be pleased in the future to see hin
Governor. He will be our Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
Thirteen prisoners overpowered th'
jailor at Calvert and escaped. Five o
them, at last accounts, had been re
captured, and the others are being pur
| sued.
The annual fair of the Parker count,
Agricultural and Mechanical Association i.
to be held at Weatherford in Parker coun
ty from the eleventh to the fifteenth o
October.
Allen, of the Sherman Courier. who wa
personally attacked in the letter written b.
Cox to the Globe Democrat, has put heat
on Cox, but its physioguomy is said to b.
frightful.
1.-THE merchants of Houston are going t.
repudiate street car tickets. They regaFt
them as nuisance, not being banksble o
redeemsble except when amounting t
twenty dollars.
Gen. Henry E. McCuiloch, Austin, Texas
is DESTROYS of ascertaining the number G
deaf mutes In the State, and desires pal
ents aud guardians to write to him, givin
the, information. t luar., B.. mnl g
| HC IOd0 10" 10 WO1hlAB noi
on the kid glove gentry at Corsicana The
are permitted to go to work IN top buggies
but are expected to have young tiger
to hold the horses. 49,
The Westherford 4Fmss expects certai
railroad officials to visit that place, an
hastily gets off on glorious anticipation
about the early completion of two rail
ways to that place. .. t.,... -...j .
A negro named Al. Beene, simply o
suspicion of incendiarism, was taken out
the hands of the guard aad hanged on ii
night previous to the day for his trial, Fh
occurred near Mexis, .i
1t is supposed that the killing of Aaro
Burleson was an act of retlbution for I'll
killing of Galley and his son about ye,
ago. Burleson was shot when he went
his stable to put away his horse,
Rev. John s. McEwen is waking up er
ing mortals in Denton county. He is sal
to be soul stirring gospel songster, an
we are curious to know whether he ont
lived in the city of Austin. b.
Senator Maxey addressed the Democrat
club in BRENNAN, and told them all aho
politics at Washington, giving some a
count of himself and his reasons for votir
for an increase of the army.
The Dallas and Wichita Railway has g
its bottom out, and the only hope seems
be the re-instating of DR.. Calder "a pres
dent of the company. He saved its chart
8 and deserves consideration.
Martin continues to want this grand o.
State divided into petty states. Probab
s TIM Scott has promised to make him Il
big man of one Of his ewn to be carvt
e cut of that 80, 900, 900 of acres.
Y Eighteen car loads of lumber are Il
daily receipts at Fort Worth, and much
8 the country that Austin could supp
9 through narrow gauge gets its lumber al
other supplies from Fort Worth.
A negro sold horse to traveller pa
4 ing through Houston county for SIC
Gong to town to get the bill 'brok
he found he was not only sold, but bro
d too. The bill was Confederate one.
The San Antonio fire company allo'
o people to take its hose out and tangle
up SO as to be all out of fix when f
breaks out. At least this is the excu
rendered for ineficieney at the last fire.
Fifty-two thousand dollars is the app
! comment for Galveston harbor, which t
= Telegraph said would he denied because
e press OF Texas would not, along with Col
rs deny that crimes were being committed
,. the State.
D. Bancroft, tombstone man, was trav
N ing in Montague county, aud had di
=. Guilty with Harrington. They met W
At guns, and Harrington soon made it nee
s. ssry for Bancroft to become patron of
N owp business, ..a,.. Sd.
DR.. R. Rutherford, of Houston, has b'
in elected major of the Second Battalion
:: Texas Volunteers, composed of the Liz
- Guards, Old Guards and Bayou City Riff
% He was elected for two years, and I'm
the two-thirds rule.
y Sheriff Ryburn, of Ellis county, follow
= Pogue, with the promise of reward, to
NJ kansas and after q weary search overtC
him and brought HIM back Pogue m
IN dered his father-in-law, Singleton, in
e county in June last.