The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
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the tferson fair.
Rev. Elias ]. Jones has been waking
them up down at Bastrop.
The women's art gallery at the Waco fair
is the center of attrac ion.
Governor Coke and Col. Lang have been
speech-making at the Waco fair.
The Travis county horses at the Waco
fair are the wonders of the hour.
Two crops of peaches bless many ''orchard
lists" this year in Southern Texas.
The Central Railroad is bringing down
from the North several new engines.
The vigorous, enterprising Journal be-
comes a daily during the Bolton fair.
The suck-us has left Fort Worth penni-
less, but they say 1t was grand show.
No clue to the murderers of A. C. Starke,
sheriff of Rockwell county, has been found.
The International passenger trains will
be IN Austin when the fair is inaugurated.
In Palo Pinto where there was only one
piano eighteen months ago there are now
eight.
Three thousand dollars in silver plate,
the Journal says, will be given away at the
Bolton fair.
The Iron Preacher" is hauling Dallas
and is proper instru nent to be used in
this business
They call their watch mender in Denton
professor" and the rest of the popula
ton Colonel"
Fanny Watson, a dusky queen of the
HELPS Half Acre of BRENNAN, was fatally
shot Friday night.
Howe's circus toted $4,000 in hard cash
out of Fort Worth-which was a good
thing-for Howe
Col. Culberson, because of impaired
health, has abandoned the canvass in his
congressional district.
They don't think knaVes ever die down
in Nacogdoches, and send them to the PEN
itentiary for fifty years.
The grasshoppers have cleaned every
thing off the farms about Comanche except
mortgages and taxes.
The Bastrop Ad0ertiser seems to think
that Giddings is sweeping everything be-
fore him in those parts.
They are going to try on local option at
Mount Pleasant, and those parts and people
think it will be pleasanter.
Another city officer is in an ugly scrape
at Denison. He shot, without provoca-
ton, man named Malone.
AS the money goes even so go the States
when only two are to be bought. It's a
bigger job to gobble 90 or 80.
The Bolton ,I0mmot weeps because the
eloquent Methodist preacher, T. H. B. An
derson, is transferred to California.
A big Methodist revival is in progress on
Fuckers creek, near Granbury. Revs.
Hiner and Shirley are engineering it.
W. S. Chum, of Fayette county, will
have the choicest specimens of his blooded
cattle and swine at the Capital Fair.
| Thirty miles of the Galveston, Colorado
and Santa te road are finished, and Austin
stands still, and its people are its curse.
A Centerville farmer says that chufa
is invaluable and does not impovcrish but
enriches land, and can be easily destroyed
Base ball is interdicted by ordinance in
side the corporate limits Of towns; but
| Texas alderman never think of such trihes.
Immigrants tnoughtlessly do much mis-
chief by firing the praries. They should
be lectured on the subject by the press and
people.
Col. G. W. Chiffon is stumping Reagan's
district. Why doesn't he go over into
L usIana. Reagan can keep his district
straight.
Tom SCOTS Texas and Pacific road will
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| quircs. within the next five months-so saws
the Monitor.
The Dallas Herald is paying 1915 per
month for dispatches cia St. Louis, and they
are not the best possible, but the best seat
to Texas.
Sulphur Springs is swelling with hopes
Of coming blessedness, as the Jimplecute aud
the Leader shove along the East Line Mar
row Gauge.
J. Freezer Brown, who succeeds Judge
Fisher as Judge of the San Saba county
court, parts his name and not his judica
wig in the middle.
Barry Gallagher, a robber of the West,
has been killed at Fort Stockton. He was
game when fighting but very coward at
last when death came.
Frank Leslie's weekly for October IA
contains an admirable picture which every
party leader should study. 1t is perfect
sketch book of the campaign.
Mr.. Oatmap, who grinds out small gram
at Cambridge, is erecting there the & nest
mills in Texas. He ought to succeed, hav
ing eight pairs of stones.
A soldierly correspondent, writing of Bur
net county, from McNelly's camp, says one,
half the population of the county ale dep
uty sheriffs aud the other outlaws.
The Leader publishes in full, and on it:
editorial page, the article entitled Home
| Manufactures Again wrIttrn for the
STATESMAN by an excellent artisan.
There are more pianos in Austin. the
music teachers, German, French, Italian
and American, say, than in any town OF
"a al population in the United States.
Large and strong delegations from Bell
| county and from Llmpasas will attend the
narrow gauge railway meeting here on the
second and third days of our State fair.
One Dick SAMSON, and it seems to Us
somehow we hTve heard those words be-
fore, marrIes tie youngest daughter of the
late Gen. Flex Zollicoffer, of Tennessee.
Mrs. Dr.. Mary Walker wants all the
women of the United States ''to rise up
and vote for TIlden" and they will SURELY
rise. Nothing could be more ris(e)able.
Instead of stabbing people in Dallas, the
officers of the law knock them down with
/ the handles of six-shooters They sc,
proper examPles to law-abiding citizens.
And now Granbury comes modestly be-
fore the fOot-lights and tells the people OF
/ Austin that we must start the narrow gauge
and Granbury will help ike little man.
Uncle Jack Nabors is the great tavern
keeper of Comanche- The CAieT board.
there and looks fat and sleek aud pampered.
and We know II gets carried over frequently.
Rev. Mr.. Signo has hung out his sigaura