The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25
Te1as-Fsets and FancIe..
They have lively Young Mems Christi

Jus W "hSdb CIops III TeesJOne county.
The Galveston Cicilian is now daily
and an excellent newspaper.
seventy-fve bushels per acre of barley
blesses farmers about Fort Worth.
Escaped negro convicts are frightening
women out of their wits about Calvert.
The Cicaian devotes much space to the
of the tenets of spiritists.
They have a capital newspaper (the Her
alD, but no court house at Hamilton,
Texas.
Judge Fleming is holding court in Cole
man county, the first ever opened in that
county.
The Changers of Northern Texas seem to
be dead out for greenbacks and against
gold and contraction.
Charleston, too, has its quasi Beecher
business, snd old st. Michael Church is the
victim of the unjust gOssips.
1t is commonly remarked that Col
Ftzhugh did rot appear at the latest fash
ionable reception in Washington.
Col John Forbes, eighty years of age,
the oldest of surviving veterans. a citizen
of Nacogdoches, is en- route to the Centcn-
NAL.
They have an emigration bureau in Bas-
trop county. Judge Moore runs it, 1t sent
nine fellows, cheUaLiers d'industrie, to the
penitentiary last month.
Burnet is discussing the local option law
in lively manner, but still sings in drinks
on the sly and would not have native wine
and lager abolished.
Fort Worth expects to monopolize one
half the trade of Dallas next winter and
spring, when the so called Texas and Pa
ciic road reaches that interesting young
hopeful.
They have a debating society, a Sunday
school, a court house, and the Herald at
Hamilton, Texas. and the county Is ready
for business and has regularly gone to
housekeeping.
1t is commonly believed, that however
absurd was Fitzhugh's letter, he didn't
shoot wide of the mark when he scratched
his dizzy head and swore he was "a greater
man than Grant"
A negro who haG been slapped in the
face by Mr. Allison, of Angelina county,
shot Mr.. Allison in the face, fatally per
haps, while Mr.. Allison was seated at night
by his Preside.
Two fair daughters of Carthage, weary
of fashionable likeness and general useless
ness, have opened a..milliner's shop, and are
making money. Sensible men want such
wives as these would make.
One Averill attacked an old citizen, Mr.
Boatner, of Calvert, on the highway, and
sought to murder him with a slungshot, last
Tuesday. Aver;ll is highwayman and
should be captured and hanged.
One Robertson, Grange agent and store
keeper at Marquee, decamped with $4,000
belonging to the Oranges and with 5000
belonging to friend at that place. The
Oranges over there are broke.
Hampstead is the progressive town OF
Texas. The spiritists have an organized
society there; DR.. Young lectures or "The
New Science"-whatever that may be-and
a Mrs. Colby holds forth of Sundays.
Two young men, Marshall and Appel,
seated side by side in the woods near Crock,
EFT, were comparing their guns. Marshalrs
was accidentally fired and Appel killed.
Both recently came from Pennsylvania.
Fitzhugh is safe. Congress and the coun.
try can't spare him. He furnishes too much
inexpressible, unmitigated fun. People
having unpublished private letters from
Fltzhugh should take advantage of the
market and sell out.
The International road and Wlco talk of
building a branch through Groesbeck to
connect with the International at Keechi.
Groesbeck is much excited about it. The
International people would head off the
Central at all points.
The Bonham Neoos lashes Fitzhugh, but
seems to think that the public has no right
to pass sentence on man for any absurdi-
ties in ected into a jncular and Intentionally
absurd private letter. Ii this be true how
can Congress take any action on itl
The Waco Reporter says: 'Maior PENIS
revival continues with undated vigor, and
many brands have been snatched from the
burning" How they were set afire in q
quiet, peaceful, interior town, of true in
wardnesS, like Waco we cannot see.
Bell county. by her Representative in the
Legislature, Capt. James Boyd, is opposed
to the repeal of the law prohibiting the
carrying of concealed weapons. And the
Inter Deem will observe that Bell county is
the banner Democratic county of the State
The Teas Observer suggests the propriety
of hunting down horse thieves and rough.
riders of the West with bloodhounds. This
would do well enough till an Ethiopian
was caught, and then the world would he
in arms and the New York Herald asphyxi-
ated.
Besides dead-heading the Leader an6
press association of Texas aud the old vet
Grams and Mrs. President Polk centennial
wards, Tom Scott set all Congress down il
Philadelphia as huge ''deadhead," anc
1t Is smasher to poor Huntington.
They are going to have the game O
Polo-shinny on mustangs the boys will
understand it-at Denison. Bennett, OF
the Herald, has sent out the rules of the
game. They ride mustangs with their leg.
locked around the animal and the saddle
is on the underside.
The Sherman Register pronounces Capt
Maddox, who published Fitzhugh's letter
an excellent citizen and gentleman, wht
was outraged by Fitzhugh's ingratltude anC
receptions practiced upon Mr.. Maddox
friend who sought an appointment at Fitz
hugh's hands.
The unspeakable outrage done the ven
cradle Mrs. Corbin by penitentiary con
vict hired to Col. Lang will not be withOu
its proper effect in substituting the whip
ping post and branding iron for impossible
penitentiary walls, wide enough to contain
the felons aud thieves and petty law-break
ers of Texas.
The Age says that the restitution at Re-
River station. in Nor:h Texas, caused b.
the hate fearful hurricane, is attracting tn
concern and assistance of the neighborih,
towns. Many were reduced to the creates
extremities, and are a temporary charg
upon the charitably disposed of that sec
ton.
The Hamilton Herald insists that Their
have been no disorders or acts of vioIenc
in that county. Land is sold over there a
| from fifty cents to three dollars per acre
and if a fellow should get knocked over
! territory in which to stow him away don
cost much, and the country attracts man
immigrants.