The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
Texa.-Facr. and Fane,e-.

be1dh-r0ctS ana F0ucfeS.
Waco is afflicted with gang of burglars.
Texas veterans capture Austin on the
twenty-frst.
Hands are wanted to work on the TYLER
Tap road. 400
Smith county graigers are going to have
great fair.
Llghtning-rod men begin to sneak around
in Minneola.
Mexican mules sell at thirty dollars per
head in Waco.
Prospects for large wheat crop continue
favorable about Minneola.
AT Gritterville, we reckon, every fellow
must be bite.
The corn and hay crop about Goliad will
be unprecedented.
The BRENNAN Banner dominates Victoria
G. Woodruff for President.
Minneola has a colored centenarian one
hundred and eleven years old.
Mab's Merrie Men are to have Jubilee
at Jefferson, Texas, on April 10.
They are to have an ice factory In Waco
to keep the Sops of Malta cool.
The Federal court will convene at Tyler
on the twenty-fourth of this month.
A pretty girl from Huntsville has turned
the heads of all the boys at Pamela.
Giddings grows apace like the fame and
shadow of him whose name it bears.
The Cuero Star has cabbage head-it
isn't the editor's-welghing fifteen pounds.
Coryell county scrip is at par, and there
has been no murder there for five months.
Col. Darden tells the WatcAman that cot
ton, in the hands of the producer, is not
taxable. t...-
The Cuero Star, defining the peculiarit.es
OF IeIegrGph-ic editorial, says it is
'hefty."
Miss Kate H. Leader, of Philadelphia, is
reading to the delighted and tasteful peo-
pie of Dallas.
Mr.. Martin, of Sherman, is commonly
spoken of as the proper chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee. a
Farmers airs making less cotton and more
swine and hominy around Pamela and thank
the WdtchmGH for the idea
Dewberries are ripe, and children happy
in blissful Brszoria, and all the pretty girls
now have Gewy ruby lips.
The prospect for large yield of wheat
in Hood county this year has never been
surpassed. So says the Vidette.
Shade trees will soon adorn the HIGHWAYS
OF Terrell. Austin is going to have them
everywhere along the water mains.
The San Marcos Jail is without an occu-
pant, and that's the reason people are al.
ways talking about the Free Press.
Six escaped convicts ravage farms along
the BRACES in Waller county, and the Mes.
ssH2er is afraid to go out after dark
The GiddIngs Tribuas doesn't seem to
banker after the Simons Troupe, and learns
that they ate their baggage at Austin.
Duval county, at present attached to
Nueces for judicial purposes, is one of the
nneSs sheep raising sections in the State.
Many cases of pneumonia are reported
throughout the country about Minneols.
and people over there have the epizootic.
The wheat crop in the southeastern por-
ton OF Henderson county is very promis-
ing, and large yield viii be harvested.
Professional jurors have castiron faces and
conscienees, andnewspapers should be
spared the necessity of dehouncing them.
There is another jolly trickster, having
a fiddle along, exposing spiritism down at
Giddings, and Giddings is giddy about il.
The Jasper NssosOoy grieves because two
of the best citizens of the place. Messrs.
Beatty and Forwood, have emigrated 10 Aus
tin.
Now that Austin is supplied everywhere
with running water, les us have sewers to
remove the accumulated filth OF twenty
years.
Cen Ham p. Bee. of Saltillo, Mexica
wall be IN this city during the week. HIS
eye-sight u affected, and be visits DR.. Car
Others.
The Tyler Tap road is 10 be extended
nom Mount Pleasant TO Sulphur Springs,