The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
TeXas-FacIs and EancIes.

Inc BraZOS is nlgner tnan tOr many years.
The Fort Worth Democrat is now a lively
daily.
Jack Hardy beat Billy Bounce, the crack
Chicago horse.
The Baptsts have successful revival
brewing In Greenville.
Wheat is selling at from si1ty-five to
ninety cents in Sherman.
The Sherman Register charges So per line
for the publication of modern poetry.
II. G. Hanks. saloon keeper nt Overton.
was assassinated by one Hughes, last week,
at Overton.
The editor of the Bolton Journal thinks
the sulphur springs at Salado a delightful
summer IT sort.
Texas newspapers pron"unce one j. p.
Campbell, sc Fulton street, New York, d
fraud and deadbeat.
EDITORIALS is the descriptive epithet ap.
piled by the AcaLanche to stupid news
papers original articles.
Judge Reagan announces himself can
didate for reelection. He will be chosen
by acclamation, it is thought.
Mrs. Clara Stornley, an orphan and proud
and beautiful and poverty stricken, com,
mitted suicide at Hampstead.
The polo club at Denison excites great
interest among the people, and the clubsts
are acquiring wonderful skill.
Capt. John B. Wilkins. sergeant-at-armt
for the Senate, is properly auded for many
virtues by the Brenham Banner.
The Bolton Journal deplores the death
of Dr. John NJ. Moore-born in Perry cuun
ty, Alabama-who died few days ago.
Mr.. Pe-renot's mai ,rity, in the late elec.
ton, was 1900 instead of eighteen. as in.
correctly stated in our issue of the fifth in.
stant.
They have II Ilf team in Dallas. But
Dallas is whole team, anyhow, rified on
smooth bore. Its whisky Is Whitworth long
range.
Jim Mooney, the desperate implicated in
Springs, has been shot and captured anu
Imprisoned.
The Weekly HnorciHe 7rtJune published
by John fleming Il JOHN Mckinney, son ot
the late chief justice, cummends itself t.
every Tennesseean in Texas.
Governor Thruc kmorton ate his Fourth
of July dinner at his pme, in Mckinney,
and was ch"Ck full of patriotism, even
though Tom Scott was beaten both ut Gin
cinnati and st. Louis.
T. J. Merritt, an artist of Tennessee ol
growing fame, is painting portrait of San
Houston from pictures in posse, sion of the
Tennessee branch of the family vi the great
soldier and statesman.
Judge James Bell said in his Fourth OF
July oraiinn that rld John Adams was NJ
caIpet knight. Very true, and it is only
unfortunate that very many of his coun
trymen are carpet-bag knights.
Will not the historical paper read a
Brenham by Rev. VIM. Carey Crane b,
printeul II is said To be an admirable
sketch of the history of Texas AID an elab
orate history of Washington county.
A German named Schumacher was mur
dered and his store robbed Six miles from
Dallas Tuesday night, and the Legislator,
still talks twsddle about the inhumanitJ
of fierce punishment to be meted out u
thieves and assassins.
The orator Wellborn, who SO enthused
the people of Dallas on the Fourth, used tC
be the liveIiest orator among the boys o
the CicerOnIan Society at an old Eastern
university. He has forgotten none of the
arts acquired in his youth.
We congratulate the press of Texas
which. from the beginning, preferred the
nomination OF Tilden. There were few
newspapers in the State that objected 4
his nomination, and these, except one OF
two, modestly and kindly enough.
The Texas Grange and Immigration Asso
citation Of Houston is doing a great work
among the people OF the Northwest, where
il is making known the chrapness and pro
dnctiyeness Of Lid IA Texas. and the de
lightfulness Of climate ef these sunny lati-
tudes.
A jolly soldier Of the British Indian ar1ny
hss gone down through Egypt to huat foI
the Herulfs man Stanley, who hasn't beer
heard from in GENITAL Africa for twelve
months. We think that STANLEY may posIi-