The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-06
Te1as-Faet. and FancIe,.

Charles ii. Cole has started lively paper |
at Weatberford.
Col. Robert Josselyn, the Iterateur of
Austin, is in Dallas.
A Mexican lion was killed in Hill county, !
asst week, eight feet long.
Tremendous floods are coming down all
the rivers of Western and Central Texas.
Lieut.. Stiles will be the leader of the
fashions dunng the season at Fort Duncan.
Texas, 1t is stated, will not export tins
year more than 3 500, 600 bushels of wheat.
Several Grangers, in the ErGminer, are
declaring their future independence Of par
ties.
They have vigorous Baptist missionary
society among the "worldings" at Mar
shall.
A Texan who takes his wife to the Cen
tcnnial. it is said, should also take mill
lion dollars along.
Red RIVER is about to wash away the Deni-
son Ners and all of its little incidents,
bridges. town, etc.
Dallas never before failed in anything,
but broke down fatty in the effort to ratify
Hayes and Wheeler.
1t is rumored that ]. w. Montgomery,
a cattle king of Lockhart, was killed last
week by his herdsmen.
The Ne,cs Echo says to the San Marcos
Free Press, "we don't care durn where the
penitentiary is located"
The Observer thinks, and properly, that
Mr.. Reagan should have no opposition as a
candidate for re election to Congress.
The Campbell murderers, at Gonzales,
were hanged by the mob, the elder Camp
bell protesting Innocence to the last.
George Fractions Train, colored, of Lock
hart, ate too much roasting ears, and went
off on his left ear, and made no sign.
The fellow that bleeds at the lungs to
make good Masons bleed at the pocket is
now doing the soft fellows at Granburry.
Drs. Carothers and Wooten were success
full in case of lithotomy last week at Lock
hart. 1t was a terrible case of a years sui
fering.
Two brutal fellows in Castroville had a
dirty fight and sawed one another in pieces
will die.
The Lqmpasas Dispatch earnestly asserts
the pIopriety and necessity of making
Buck Walton the Congressman from this
district.
]. G. Tracy furnished history of the
narrow gauge to be buried beneath the
ruins of the next hundred years by tie
eloquence of Judge Jones.
A caravan of Mexicans-men, women,
4 oh; oil
loaded with bird cages. They were in
Lockhart lew days ago.
1t is we'll that a herring is not whale,
since the Vidette says that Mr.. Herring
"dropped in on US yesterday Herring is
fairy-like cuss, we reckon.
NJ NJ. Brannare, of the Weatherford
Times, was badly shot in the fingers few
days ago, and hen rOosts are healthier, we
reckon, about Weatherford.
Mat Russell, murderer, and Jourdan, a
negro thief, knocked down the jailor and
escaped from the jail at Marlin, whereat
the Ball is nightly moved and keeps bawl-
ing.
Luke w. Finlay, of Tennessee, brother
of our other Finlay, of Galveston, and of
Gen. Finlay, of Florida, read an admira-
BILE paper last week before the Alumni of
Yale College.
Major Baskerville, of D ,llas, gave mag
nifcent entertainment in honor of Gen,
Stephen D. Lee, who spent few days, with
eyes and mouth agape, staring at the won
ders of Dallas.
Who will write the next practical adj
dress to be delivered before the Press Asso-
- A fol hn
template becoming members would like to
know before going in.
Rusk county celebrated the Fourth with
historical sketch and an Grafton and
music, and an ode by beautiful woman.
There will never be robbery or murder III
Rusk. 1t is civilized, you see.
There are so many copies of the Ulste'
County On. W Gazette of January 4, 1900,
detailing incidents of WashingtOn's death,
that there must be a factory to grind then
| out.
The Merrick, Durand, Giddings, Swisher
British debt matter will come before Judi
cIary Committee No. of the Senate, mex
Monday, for hearing. The witnesses art
then required to appear.
Mike Lynch, an unworthy son of thu
Emerald Isle, welded a dusky nymph il
Harris county, and Mike is in hot waite
about it-indicted and the like. The law
of Texas prohibit such marriages.
The coming of the International will
multiply the number of merchants in Aus
tin to the very extent that the area of tn
city's trade is augmented. Several Calves
tonians, we are told, are coming to Austin
Houston has a Tldea and Hendrck
campaign club. 1t is such one-sided bust
ness in Texas that there is NO use making
fuss about 1t. The Democratic ticket will
be preferred almost UNANIMOUSLY at tn
ballot-boX. ..
Joseph E. Dryer, of Sln Antonio, is on
of the Democratic committee to wait o
Tllden and Hendricks and tell theu
formally that they are to be president an
vice president. We believe Dryer Wi
swear it to them.
McLeroy, in charge of the sheriff, wa
started from Gonz lies to Segun that
might escape the mob, but Miss Curry
avengers, five hundred in number, were l
pursuit, and the villain will be capture
and hanged.
If Mr.. Denman of the House, as tn
Age says he threatens, sings his boot at tn
Galveston Meas, it Will strike nothing an
go out "to sea-" When seen there, II wi
be known that Mr.. Denman isn't IN it. Ii
is never at sea.
A little girl, Tommy" Hill, of LaGrangt
in the usual way, attempted to kindle
fire with coal oil. The tin can explode
and the poor child ran ablazc to her fathe
in the fields HARDLY, only to fall a charre
corpse at his feet.
, A wide district of Caldwell county ash
| The Legislature to enact for it the no fenC
law. These Changers that have to adve
rise thirty days to get this sort of 10
done are rather riled with the new const
tuition that requires it.
r The Houston and Austin narrow gauge
Mr. House says, will be completed to L,
Grange next January. This road will CON
To Austin direct, If Austin will only bel
it cume, and Austin is full Of riches an
riches IN such cases are So generous