The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
Texas-Fac,s and FancIes.

j. a. hirgan Is publishing lively tenn
perance paper at Waco.
Mayor French will be reelected, it
seems, mayor of San Antonio.
A mIn named A. J. Suithcrman has
strangely disappeared in Longview.
IForty five hundred cotton bales have
been shipped from Marlin this season.
Col John Henry Brown makes the Dallas
daily Nail an excellent paper. Try 1t.
The State Grange meets in January and
the local oranges are electing delegates.
Fort Worth is building gas works, the
city fathers having concluded not to rent
Martin.
The graDgers in Limestone county are
defunct and brother Lang should toddle to-
wards Groesbeck.
The Nayasota Tablet advertises for Ar
thur Foster anG: for James Fox, who have
mysterious'y gone up.
Two unfortunate ruined women-soiled
doves-haye committed suicide in Fort
Worth within ten days.
There are TAI enrolled members of the
Association of Soldiers of the Mexican
War in the State of Texas.
Col. James Holman, of Paris, Texas,
died last week, aged ninety-seven years.
He had been In Texas thirty years.
The Hearne Enterprise says the only
remedy for eighty cents for warrants is in
the convocation of the Legislature.
c. r. ADKINS friends down at Victoria
are awful proud about his taking the prem
ium for the best Texas-made buggy.
Clary, the Minnesota ferger, occupies o
cell in the Dallas calaboose and the other
calabooses OF Texas are jealous about it.
When the average printer spills the con-
tents of his stick, he makes a few cu-sory
observations and proceeds to set 'em up
again.
The Hampstead Messenger says that there
Is the greatest possible disposition in those
parts to take the least possible stock in the
next war.
The papers say ''sow wheat" The Euro
Pcan war will make it the most valuable
crop atfd4-so will the war with Mexico.
This must contsa~S1
Rev. Mr.. Maule has esa>tsn da. to preach IN
Bolton. AS between him anGs..s.i,i, ,:scier
it is to be hoped he will score tnPkst
knock-doWn. a.
Texas is an admirable country to pre-
duce, but little adapted to saving ones ba.
con, and that's the reason Martin is always
in ''hot water"
Col. John s. Ford is always serving his
country. He is now foreman of the grand
jury down at Brownsville, and knaves and
roughs will have hard time
The escaped negro convict from this
county, Dick Senter alias Dick Richardson,
a copper colored horse thief, has been re-
captured near BRENNAN.
'iLonc STAR" of the benson Neus
knows how to cobble up proper news let
ter for lively newspaper. There are not
many of that sort.
Robbers attack people who visit the old
missions below San Antonio. Mr.. Lyman,
of New York, hardly escaped death At
the hands of Mexican bandit.
Colsred women donned mems apparel and
voted freely in Florida. Texas has counties
that will be governed by such voters, and
the rutabagas were their bulldozers.
1t is said that the Radical Governor is
putting the militia of Pennsylvania on
war footing. Tilden is Governor of New
York and can attend to the Quskers.
The great benefactors of Atlanta are
Kimball and James. The first is the builder
of the cotton mill; the other the model
landlord and benefactor Of the unfortunate.
The HonleaeGrd Star - the latest number
lis valuable publication. Mr.. Hinkle
is OF great energy, and his pluck and per-
sistency deserve, and will achieve, great
success.
The death of Angel Navarro, the son of
. signer of the Texan declaration of jnde-
pendence, is deplored by the people of San
Antonio. He was assassinated on the Rio
Grande.
And now comes the story that another
officer o: the law INDUCES a weakness for
bloody work, and kills his man, one Os.
born. in Denison. Spence is the name of
the constable.
The proprietor of the Menger Hotel, at
SAP Antonio, was married last week and
has quit keeping hotel. We don't suppose
be will undertake to run two such institu-
tons ct once.
The good people of Ennis collected money
by subscription to send an unfortunate wo-
man to her friends in Mississippi. She
couldn't help it. Dallas had charms she
could not resist.
Major c. S. West delivered q most
graceful address as president Of the dinner
table meeting held at the richly garnisbed
boards of The Raymond House, in honor
Of the departing Governor.
ROughs and whisky guzzlers saw oze an
other in pieces in For: Worth bar-rooms.
But il is needless TO give names. Frequenters
Of such places should be nameless- Their
fathers may have been respectable.
A drunken fellow in Breaham rode his
mule over lat negro dame. She fAred up
terribly; but be fed, and there is no tell
ing what = story she viii tell on that mile
il she ever get access 70 q returning board