The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-29
Texa.-Fact. and Fancle..

The Free Press is feasting on aguaritas.
Jere Galvan is to be postmaster at Browns
vile. a.f. -. .s.
V Rev. DIR. Nicely is conductlnga successful
revival in Dallas. i
The Bolton J0urnM constitutes, of itself,
a capital grammar school. .-.
They are going to have New Braunfels
wooden mill at San Antonio.
Enoch Breeding may have been sniped
but is no goose of an editor.
The Democrat Is the only paper now pub
lished in Tyler, and its a good one.
The New Braunfels wooden mills turn out
16, 600 yards of cloth per month.
Thomas Pugh, who came to Texas in
1884, died last week in Oakville.
England is refortitiying Malta and Gibral
tar. Is war with Russia impending?
The Caddo Star says that Texas, judging
from its newspapers, is about solid for Til
den. ... .l ..... ..
Bootblacks and newsboys are DESERVING
Galveston, and seek homes in Dallas anG
Austin.
Kansas or Illinois corn planted in Texas
natures two or three weeks earlier thar
native corn. ....Ft . .H.-r. ..
Rev. Moody, Presbyterian of Jefferson,
declines "call" to Austin and another tc
Jefferson.
Dallas is exceedingly lively now under
the influence of the irspiriting presence CT
Leader and Murray. .H
The Granbury Vidette says the crops Of
cotton and corn are unusually early anG
prematurely advanced. .....
People hold meetings at Kerrville anG
ask the Legislature to assure them protec
ton against lawlessness. '3
H. J. j., whoever he may be, writes thu
best letters to the oIimplecalte we have seel
from Texan at the Centennial.
They have anthropological society il
Denison. which, being interpreted, signiie
those fellows opposed to hippophagy.
Whisky Jack, Of Bolton, can put NOR
under his shirt, and walk with it, than an
other man never naturalized in Dallas.
The wife Of the married man who de
votes himself to billiards and base ball j
commonly seen saving wood in the bacl
yard. ln. Do mas aHi .aa-
Streets Monthly for June is adorned will
wood cut likenesses of Sam Houston an
Senator Coke with excellent biographies
sketches. ,.,.. ...
B. M. Epperson, a private letter tells
has bought twenty miles of iron and lc
connective for the Jefferson East Line Rail
road.
Cal Wright runs the best stage line i
Texas. from Austin to Lampasas, and that
the reason people won't subscribe to tn
narrow gauge.
/ j. A. George, who has teen writing lc
tiers to Texas papers from Western Turkey
has been captured by the Turks and, il
said, put to death.
The San Antonio Express says that all thu
story about Governor Hubbard's aIlege
improper conduct as attorney and Senate
is the merest bosh.
The oldest editor of Texas is he of th
HearDs Enterprise. He tells that JADE
Gain, son of Tubal, was his "old tin
friend and fellow-typo."
ExAttorney General George Clark h'
| gone 10 OVN LOUIS. ne Is lOI Illutu, "
imagine, and for the reason that he ,alwa,
bets on the Winning horse.
Two men from Slaughter creek, in tn
county, lost fifteen horses last week in Ke
county. Indians, or whites disguised
indians, stampeded them.
Z Gen. Gonzales has gone towards the r
tosi mountains, probably to join Diaz, an
Il Gan fTNlaAN IN, nd If FL
revolutionary forces in TamauIpas.
The J,mplscute exelaims fiercely "Dow
with the two-thirds rule" 1t doesn't 81
Nifty Tiiden will secure two thirds vo
on the second or third ballot.
The Oakville Tribune reports sever
cases of robbery and of terrible violenc
} and begs the Legislature forgive the We
some sort of security fOr-l and propert
\ The DenisOn Nesss eorrects the error in
which the colnred people of that town ha
fallen, and tells them that it is not the
duty to sell their votes to the highest bi
ders. -i
One mile Of track has been finished wit
iron on the Tssps Continental east of Pari
I Tsxarkana grows apace tumeseent wit
hope OF another railway and good tin
coming. .-
Governor Throckmor.ou is might
: scared because somebody has told him tn
; II. L. Ray. of the Radical persuasion, is
be candidate for Congress in the Genera
district
: The Bolton Journal and Hesrne Eat,
. prise are perhaps the best looking papers
. Texas. Their managers are surely mast;
; Of the art preseryative-even as they q
skilled editors.
: The people at Wills Point, in public
: sembly, have put veto on killing men
those parts. They are going 70 hang I
first fellow that does il, and pocket pist'
are for sale cheap.
The Frss Press doesn't think that I
branch penitentiary at San Marcos viii e'
. have existence Wishing prosperity to
!, Marcos, We hope the den OF lniqGity "
d never be constructed. ~..
y We were mistaken in saying shat Jan
4 Reed was killed BY robbers Who stack
/, him beyond San Antonio on the PIeasan,
road. His arm was broken and he escap
: with his life and peanile,s.
q They have spiritual seasoss At Lampas
: and sulphuroua smells. and ihe spsrils .
Lampssss Is . eeavenisns plsee fOr them