The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
Tho fair a, Relton is considered a success.

bales TO one acre.
Martin says corn in the ear is being
brought in" II they fetch it in Martins
ears il is honest measure the Changers give
about Sherman.
c. D. Harm, a member of the Twelfth
Legislature, died at his home in Navasota,
On the seventeenth inst. He left a wife and
two or three children.
The Corsicana OJserUer says that Ohio has
gone Democratic By 5000, which is jolly,
and that Indisna il claimed" bY the Dem
Ocrats, which Is queer.
The Co-sicana Observer says that the
Huntsville tam is the Punch of Texas. If
the Obserrer and the Item danced together,
would 1t be Punch and Judy.
The bar-rooms of Dallas are importing
fresh supplies of Jersey lightning for the
electrical, magnetic commercial travellers
who meet there on the twenty-third.
An old Mexican who fought for the eman-
cipation of Texas died last week at San An
tonic. His name was Francisco Antonio
Ruiz. He was sixty-four years old.
Compressed cotton bales are transferred
from Hearne to Boston at-$1 60 per 100
the Austin cotton spectators think about
it?
McNelly, IN order t. move quickly and
directly upon any band of robbers, must be
near the telegraph lines, and therefore
makes San Antonio or its vicina9e his mead
quarters.
NJ. d. Monserat, a skilled railroad man
ager formerly dff the Louisville and South
west road, and of Paducah, is tTaversing
Texas, and has charge of the G. w. T. and
p. r. r.
Gospel sharps" is the GainesvilleGasette's
name for those pious scoundrels sent South
to rob blacks while organizing them for
deviIIsh deeds in secret conciaves or lOya!
leagues.
Huge swine and fat and pure blooded
cattle excite much interest at the Bolton
fair. The Journal gives full reports, and
Webb & Bro, OF this city, will win prizes
there.
A and F. Marschalk, who edited the first
paper ever published in Bolton MAY, 1850,
conducted a paper in Mocor, Mississippi,
in 1S4778, OF about that time. Where are
they now
Although Jefferson is ''busted," the
Leader wants Howe's circus to perambulate
the town. 1t calculates that the spread
eagle lads" would give it. anyhow, few
nickels.
The Victoria AdoOcate says, call of which
goes to show that Jones is endeavoriGg to
make donkey of himself" All of which
leads to the inquiry whether he has under
taken big job.
LOngview is fattening chickens and box
ing the hens and feeding them on lime to
make them ''shell out" and all this excite
ment arises from the coming of the Meth
odst Annual Conference.
The Hearne cotton compress is completed
and draws cotton from wide district to
that fiat town. The old fogies of Austin
can hardly screw their courage up to forty
miles of a narrow gauge.
Uvalde is ninety miles west of the city Of
the Alamo, sixty miles east of the Rio
Grande, the center of vast territory Of
rich and irrigable lands, beautiful scenery
good health and pure water.
The Bolton .J0urnGL has become an inter
estng daily. What would the editors o.
the solemn old weekly of 1857 say abou
it? They didn't believe that semi &c N
teHphsi eSata Rs 9a 81 &c RaH girl
name, Neuralgia" her mother found Oh
an old bottle, and was fascinated by it
Wasn't it at Hot Springs the bottle and 81,
woman were both picked up?
Capt. Nit Parker has thirty acres of IL,
syrup and molasses. He has one of tn,
| hpct nj N Rnrlacnn onA
wisely. is diversifying his crops.
Although Caldwell is among the oldes
| towns in the State, yet we are credibly in
forme that there has never been a com
mercial failure in it neither has there eve
been murder committed in it.
Capt. COggehall is properly commended
| by the Hampstead Messenger as one of tn,
best postmasters in the South. No news
| paper has lost money or received a com
| plant from subscriber at his office.
Dunn, Barlow & Co. report the tota
number of financial failures in Texas fo
the first three quarters of the present yea
as 1875; amount of liabilities ST. 246, 452, o
| about so 900 for each failure reported.
Since McNelly went to Oakville thu
| Methodists have been conducting a big re
vival over there. We have heard Of ser
mons in stones, but never before suspected
their presence in McNclly's bullets.
Mt long ago, we were reading of tn
charms of Uvalde Can(Oon in the Sal
Antonio Herald, and now the President ha
| appointed Uvalde Burns postmaster at Shcr
man. Such is the mighty power of the
press.
WaafhorforI hoe nd An-tip Oply IN.
Touring mill; but Weatherford has fl pur-
ishing furniture factory, ami we can't get
people to take hold of the WOODEN mil
| though they are all coming round to the
narrow gauge.
We receive many letters from the ole
States, asking for information about Aus
tin and the country round about, anC
whether the narrow gauge can be speedily
built and what lands are now worth along
its proposed route.
The grasshoppers that "lt'' upon tn,
green curtains ana imposing stone of tn,
Lnder might have found more verdaut oh
Jects in those parts if they hadn't been III q
hurry to make Special deposits in the goph
er banks round about.
The Texas Ne,c Era establishes new era
IL III NaiONA VI 'ilG hluS hu2lISu W utu II
| says ''the New York Tribune has teu from
grace" And then it misappEes a WORD
when ii says ''this part of the State is hot
alienated against Galveston"
Longs stages, whenever there is deficit
of bipsd passengers, MAKE up a square load
OF cotton bales. What is curious about il
is the fact that cotton comes from Saiado
by Round Rock to Austin, it is sold here
and then hauled back to Duval.
VIM. Seaman, sheriff at Corpus Christi,
tells US that Jere Galyan still lives and loves
Austin and dreams of the pretty girls oil
the capital on whom he showered roses
while deluging the country and its law
givers with his eloquence.
B. Frank Moore, of Harrodsburg, Ken
lucky, thoroughly trained accountant am
successful manager OF large grocery house
| for ten years, needs a change of climate.
and would have employment or partner
ship IN AustiL. Write to him.
Tn. IL can. E.ha. =.