The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

the prairie portion of our State was never
more promising, and covers more acres than
ever before.
DIR. d. w. Yandell, of Louisville, now
at San Antonio, has old friends in Austin,
and is coming hither. He will stop with
DR.. Wooten.
DIR. Grant, the Austin dentist, is prepar-
ing the people Of Bastrop for big crop of
bacon and greens by sharpening their grind
ers for them.
The Giddings Sunday school has about
one hundred and ten pupils, the great num-
Der owing to the habits and piety, etc, ETC.,
Of the Tribune.
The Odd Fellows at Giddings will have
a big 6loD out, with band, on the twenty
sixth. They should meet the lodge from
Austin at Manor.
The MeIis Ledger learns that Bill Posey
recently visited his relations in Limestone
county, got horse and money and left for
unknown parts.
1t was Dallas boy of five summers who
addressed his patertamiiias as follows:
Father, think you should give up swear
ing or family prayers.
The Bonham Enterprise heads its outside
leader, addressed to the oranges, ''Shake
of your Lethargy," while the Examiner is
holding on like grim death.
Texas cattle, corn fed, sell at a range of
from $3.50 to $425 for good to choice;
| thorough Texans at from 1926 to So, for
fair to choice grade stockers.
Col. F. E. Piner is spoken of by the
trustworthy Herald and other papers of
western counties as a gentleman of admra-
bic ability and personal worth.
The rich, money making purse proud
newspaper fellows all live in Bonham.
| They have five or six literary publications
in that misunderstanding ''cIty."
"Bean as how" Pea Sass is favorite
vegetable at Giddings, and has been up
srme time, happens that the SImons
Troupe can have good supe down there.
Smallpox ragged for time at Brown
wood, Brown county, Texas. 1t is stated
that twenty persons died. The mails, for
a time, gave that postoffice a wide berth.
The Kaufman Star sheds bright rays
about the Uranium of Capt. Bennett Bog
CESS and says he is trump. The Captain
is coming to Austin and his head is level.
IT is probable that in few months there
will be an all-rail route from the capital
city to New Orleans, as the road from Hous-
ton to the latter place is being rapidly
built.
Crops are brilliant about Giddings. Dal-
las would be in ecstacies if permitted to be-
hold the young corn so juicy and promis-
lng-of future richness and rows and rum
puses.
The old veterans of Austin and their sons
and daughters are having conferences to
know how they can best apuse and delight
the old veterans to be here on the twenty
first.
The city council of Calves ton has passed
an ordinance to prohibit the removal of
sand from the beach. 1t is all needed to
supply the gizzards of the weakened city
dads. ,..4 s. r
A man was found hung few blocks
south from the town of Mckinney Saturday
morning. He was stranger and had been
in town only few days. No clue to the
murder.
Morgan has opened his ship channel up
Buffalo Bayou to Constitution Bend, and
they will run railroad from the landing
to Houston until the channel is opened to
the city. d..
The San Antonio Express is urging the
breeding of goats in Western Texas, belev-
ing it is destined to become one of the most
profitable industries of that section at an
early day.
San Diego in Duval county now contains
1900 inhabitants, including scholastic
population of 800 pupils. Sheep men are
already shearing, and business is active and
money plentiful.
d. X. Gray, ON Cherokee creek, in San
Saba county. found five panthers slaughter
ing his pigs last week. . He killed two,
wounded third, and his ammunition fail
ing he travelled.
The demand for light literature in Car
thagc grows apace. All the boys have
kites and the Waterman has gone a-kiting
though Bowers is not by any means the
flightiest editor in Texas.
Alittle girl wandered into large furni-
ture establishment in San Antonio late in
the afternoon, and was shut up within for
the night. She said she slept well on a
sofa, but her mamma didn't.
A pretty little girl three years old, daugh-
ter of VIM. Kesselus, at Bastrop, inhaled a
grain of corn and died in half an hour, and
before a doctor could be found to extract
it from the windpipe.
The Brennan Banner saws CLAW students
are as plenty around TYLER as hair on a
dogs back" 1t is a proper and providen-
tial arrangement of things since its the bus
mess of lawyers to split hairs.
The Texas State Grange will be held
at Houston, commencing on the second
day of May. Judge Jones, Master of the
National Grange, and other leading men,
bers of the Order, will represent.
Quin Morton, nephew of Bloody Shirt
Morton of Indiana, has been sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary by the district
court of Rrazos county, for burglary and
theft. He was caught in the act. He
isn't as sharp as his uncle.
And now there is greater than ''my dog
Snyder His mare had twins. living
male and female. He lives in Williamson
county, and his name is ]. T. Snyder, and
he will take the Juvenile steeds to Philadel-
phia.
1t is stated that J. W. Jennings, 5ello
.fdgrdnte, was assistant postmaster of the
Federal Radical Senate. He is now, how
ever, good Democrat and a citizen of
Texas and of D=nison. There is no doubt
about it.
It's pitiable story told by the Hillsboro
Record of pretty girl who committed sui
eide last Monday by shooting herself
through the heart when her lover became
mailman and was consigned to the Lunatic
Asylum.
1t is said about Sherman, but people say
a great deal when they have least to say,
that Capt. W. J. Allen will soon be edi-
tor-inschief of the Courier. w. ]. A. is
said to be frst-rate gentleman and prac-
ticed writer.
Anew York clothier has lately purchased
large lot of New Braunfels cassimeres and
shipped them North to make up into ready
made clothing. He pronounces it the best
made fabrics for the price to be obtained
snyw here in the world.
MIR. W. R. Black, of Lockhart, was in