The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
Texa.-FacI. and Fanc,e..

Calvert is building cotton seed OIL
mill.
Capt w. w. Lang made an eloquent
granger's speech at Terrell on the Fourth.
They have a negro minstrel show of their
own in Terrell, and the town is proud of it.
| Gen. Griffith spent the Fourth at his
home in Terrell but left for Austin on the
fifth.
Col. Chas. E. Crawford, of De Soto
Parish, Louisiana, died few days ago, IN
San Antonio.
There was not little whisky demolished
at Terrell on the Fourth, but nobody's head
was broken.
Col S. H. Russell and Judge McAdoo
have been ratitying Hayes and Wheeler in
Eastern Texas.
They haven't any mills about Oakville,
we suppose, since corn meal is worth there
81. 30 per bushel.
Waco will soon dispense justice after the
modern style Of letting murderers slide in
$28. 900 court house.
The San Antonio Express modestly tells
its readers that it's a good time to make
wine from mustang grapes.
They have sadder in Calvert named j.
Christ. He was robbed by thief on the
Fourth Of all his clothing.
The sheriff of Caldwell county was killed
Thursday by negro whom he sought to
arrest. They are said to be initiative crea-
lures.
Terrell wants an ice factory, and pub
lie meeting will chant the praises of Sena-
tor Jones If he will only send one thither
as to other Southern towns.
The Leader thinks the turnip crop sadly
neglected. The people were surfeitcd when
old Rutabaga reigned and shaped the aw-
full Constitution under which we live.
The Leader should know that it is the
poeticul and not the practical" address
we were talking aboTt when inquiring who
would do the next job OF the sort for the
press association.
member of the Jones family from Long
view offended Dallas grievously by endeav-
Orlng to make partisan speech on the
Fourth, and was Kissed off the stage. 1t
was in Jones's bones and oozed out, and he
was squeezed out.
, 'Thrall's School History of Texas" is the
title of new book now being published by
| L Y.
be ready for delivery in short time, and,
no doubt, will be found valuable addition
to the literature of the day
Tackett, who killed Leonard-the waiter,
the cook-at the San Jacinto Hotel, at Dali
las, hasn't tackled anybody else, but he
walked away, and is still on his travels
San Jacinto is good name for battle field
but, somewhat suggestive of terrible deeds,
| | NAV make IFS chief cnokS and hon le-w ash
ers blood thirsty.
John III. James, candidate for guberna-
torial honors in Georgia. at the recent sale
} of State bonds, secured $50, 600 at 1Q1 4
1t is well to have Governors who can main
tain the States credit without inficting
burdens of taxation, and it seems to us that
Dir. James could make himself generally
useful by taking charge of several States
: Capt. Geo. Mellersh, the Dallas poet, has
, attached a newspaper folding machine to Il
, Mccormick reaper and thus bundles and
, ties oats or wheat as rapidly as cut. Any
. number of pullbacks" can be stuffed with
I hay while the machine is in operation with
4 out retarding the mowers. The market foi
, old newspapers in Dallas is flat.
8 The Bolton Journal, for the first time il
, its history, was near froze out last week.
: down from the North pole, harder 1t wa.
: than adamant, was rolled into the establish
: ment from the Austin ice factory by Mr.
Swancoat. They are using it over there a.
y q Imposing stone, but the Journal say
t doesn't compose ones nerves to sit on il
Bee county was named in honor of Bar
!. nard E. Bee, veteran of the days Of 1886
! He was Minister of War in Hou>ton's cabl
= net in 1888, and under his administration
the soldiers of the republic received thei
. bounty warrants. His generous nature
sympathIsed with the soldiers and, withou
regard to office hours, he attended to thei
claims, delaying them as little possible
He was personally the most popular of Tex
ans, and his name was cherished through
e out the republic. He occupied high trust
4 under the Lamar Administration, and dice
e in 1858, leaving a spotless name as the her
y itage of his children.
The country's laws should not suffer
10 woman, however ugly, to dance hornpipe
~ on rope stretched across Niagara river JUS
I" below the suspension bridge. IL was TIL
70 fall of woman, we used to believe, till Cad
Stanton and the rest swore differently, anC
% if she doesn't Anna Dickinson remember
~ all about it, that broke the moral neck O
~ father Adam, and however we may admir-
% Niagara Falls none of women are pleasin,
NJ to contemplate. And yet the Texans a
Philadelphia are all going over to Magyar
}, % this week to see the French woman dane
=, on the tight rope drawn across the turbu
lent river.
u The newspapers are making war on Sena
tor Storey, of San Marcos, because he b,
lieves in the old system of advertising lega
sales by posting the 'knotisses " ON tree
and cnurt hnusa dnorS H.
IS ORGY" The Pamela WdtchBa0n says tn,
fees proposed to be allowed newspapers fo
% making these publications fifty cents pc
y square for the first insertion, and twelve
and one-half cents per square for each sub
u sequent insertion are little, mean, mig
gsrdly, and a disgrace to the great State o
Q Texas, and that Senator Story is response
N BILE for it more than any other man In tn
% Legislature.
% We publish, for the information of thos'
= who may have friends or interests in tn,
,, land of revolutions, extracts from privat,
= letter:
PIEBRAs NEGRAs. July 6, 1876.
Mail communications are entirely inter
% rupted between here and Monterey apo
Saltillo. Beyond SaltIllo the mail and tel
II egraph to the interior and Monterey are al
right. Between the latter place and Mata
!. moros communication is very unsafe, an'
there Is NO telegraph, as the revolutiOnist
O. cut the wires. II Is certain that Escobed
: and Fuero are in Monterey. Queroga,
government officer, Is in the neignborhood
% Treviho and Narango, revolutionists, hav,
about 800 men, being the only force of i'm
!" portance In the States of Coahuila, Nuev
Do Leon and Tamaulipas, headquarters a
Lampasas. Beside thes, there are email
% robbIng bands rowing DO It the country