The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-09
rexa.-Fact. ana Fanc,e..

Lieutenant Hall, of McNcllY's command,
is stationed at Goliad.
Jim Simpson. co.ored, is the head devil
of Hcll's Half Acre at BRENNAN.
Mrs. Sprague, daughter of the late
Gen. Worth, died few days ago in Flor
ida.
Calvert is tortured by cornet band now
in the midst of the struggles of adde's
cence.
The Goliad Guard ssys that grasshoppers
poison grass so that cattle will not browse
upon it.
Cotton pickers are wanted at Hearne, and
the International will tote idlers over there
cheaply.
The Paine Institute, at Goliad, hourishes.
and the standard of intelligence is uplifted
in that county.
Olkvllle has corn, and to sell, this yea
for the first time in the history of that en-
terprising town.
The most prominent citizen of Sherman
is Col. Leaper, but it is Martin that is the
Kangaroo of the blessed town.
In the late shooting affray among drunken
negroes at Bremond only one was killed.
Some were mortally wounded.
Bell Bowen has been arrested and lodged
in the Burnet Jail. He has four indict-
ments against him for murder.
G. R. Rswls, telegraph operator at
Groesbeck, was killed Wednesday by line
repairer named A. S. johnson.
desperate JACK" and big Bob" are
the pet names given two candidates for the
town cnnstable's place in Hearne.
E. Tarver was properly shot and killed
by deputy sheriff whom he assa'led when
intoxicated, at Cameron last week.
Several gentlemen propose to proffer sill
yer cups for the finest terriers, settlers,
pointers and coach dogs at our far.
Harry Haynes, the rousing temperance
lecturer, is coming to Austin to get 'local
option" on its little legs at the capital.
A special train has been chartered at Dali
| las to bring to Austin the cattle, horses,
swine and people exhibited over there.
Major PENIS pluck is ponderous. He is
now pegging away persistently at the Pc
culiar peccadilloes Of people in Dallas.
| San Antonio was much disgruntled be-
cause young Treadwell and Gibson were ar
rested near this place charged with crime.
Dir. Buttery, of Llano, may not know it,
but he is worth 40 cents per pound in
Gonzales and Is better off than he expected.
It costs a fellow $50 and stall in the
calaboosc to rob a green-un roped into a
nice little game by the fancy men of Bren-
| ham.
They have COOLERS and chinquipins and
gingerbread enough in Henderson, and still
they are not happy. They have no apple
cider.
The ladies of Austin should organize a
charity association. They could do infinite
good 10 the poor and helpless through the
winter.
Hon. D. A. Num-, in one of our ex-
changes, devotes column and a half to
the recent anti convention letter of Major
| Walton.
WIgglctails in milk is fashionable diet
at San Antonio. 1t is eupplied by the nulk-
men who live on the other side of the Ala
zan ditch.
Rev. DR.. johnson is building ice facto-
ries in Texas. It's the business of these
Rev's. to keep people cool in the next world
if not in this.
Property valued at $40, 900 rents for $500
per month IN Brennan. The building is
75x60 feet. That's above the general level
of Austin rates.
Some of the swiftest horses were beaten
at Dallas by some of the slouchiest, and the
losers complain bitterly that there was IN
fair dealing.
The Lockhart Guards are very proud of
the arms furnished them by Gen. Steele,
and will probably fire a salute in his honor
at our State fair.
The people in public meetings have ap-
pointed a commission to Investigate frauds
alleged to have been practiced by the coun-
ty court of Denton.
The adhesion of Major Sayers 10 Mr..
Glddings has produced breach between
Sayers and Jones, and the partnership, it
is said, will be dissolved.
The Rock port Transcript is the nephew
or uncle or mother-in1aw to the Oakville
Tribune, and espouses the kinsman's quar-
rels with pleasing alacrity.
The Denison Ne,es still insists that Noel's
ring is going ahead and actually building
the road from Denison to Fort Worth. 1t
is strange; but nobody believes it.
Weatherford having two is to be blest with
third newspaper and Dec Adams is to
run it. Cole and Adams and Roach are the
three editors of the three weeklies.
| A drunken, irresponsible b!atherskite
from Chicago disgraced Fort Worth by in
sulting Bigger, supposed candidate for
Congress, who ranted there ten days ago.
The people down at Rockport, with many
from Corpus and other towns, have been
dancing and feasting for week, more or
less, at Col. Ful.on's splendid residence.
When the Register says that the Cover
nor's assertion of the future greatness of
Sherman is "a stubborn fact" it doesn't
mean to say that the assertion is jassacki-
cal.
/ There was only one vote in Live Oak
county against the determination of
whisky. Was the county 8,Oliyded by the
presence of Nelly-the -McNelly we read
about2 l1J1 e~ $40
Colored triplets won the premium q: the
Victoria fair. They had been bowling in
this world for three months, and it was
time, the judges said, that they were re-
varded. I,-5 -.al 3 rl-t. sfn
Rev. H. L. Williamson denounces one
Joseph G. Meaks as bad egg, and we are
told to ''psss him round" We cannot
serve at the table where such luxuries are
dispensed. Il -s-la4 .s.a
John Ringo and George GLADDEN., so says
the Burnet Bulletin, have been arrested by
some of the rangers. They have been
lodged in the Llano jail, and are strongly
| guarded.
| A fellew namtd Burton shot around in
discriminatory among the people at Burton,
near Brenham, last Friday. He didn't kill
as he intended, and was finally captured
and calaboosed.
The Brennan Banner says "Dallas has
water works but too many gambling bells. 4"
1t is of truth great pity, and we weep
with the Banner about it, that there is more
hill than water in Dallas.