The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
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Texas-Paets and Fanetes.
Brenham is shipping corn to Hous-
toa.
Sherman will soon have q street RAIL
way.
There was 3 good rain a. Sherman
on the first.
Breeding has resuscitated the Rock
dale Messenger.
The crops of Caldwell county are
most promising.
Brick Pomeroy is coming to Texas
this week or next.
Corn sells for only twenty-five cents
8 bushel in Bastrop.
Dallas has sent several carloads of
new wheat to Chicago.
Capt. McNelly is dying Of consump-
ton in San Antonio.
Owing to grasshoppers, vegetables
are scarce IN Lockhart.
Pilot Point claims 1000 inhabitants,
but has no city government.
Lullng has a fire company, and Is
about to organize free schools.
Grayson county has sent twenty
eight convicts to the penitentiary.
Cotton blooms are to be seen in Bas-
trop, and the plant is doing finely.
The Houston police force has not
been paid since the first of January.
The Wacoitcs are agltated over the
ordinance regulating work on streets.
are now taking place in various codn-
ties.
The public schools of San Antonio
will receive $4,000 from the Peabody
fund.
Through freight trains run from
Houston to st. Louis in ninety-slx
hours.
Sam Miller, q freedman, showed the
first cotton bloom for Washington
couRty.
NJ. E. Burnett, Of San Antonio, hav-
ing typhoid fever, in delirium killed
himself.
Governor Throckmorton has been
making speeches of late up about
Kaufman.
Grayson county is sectionizing its
school lands, and will place them in
the market.
Work on the Kaufman and Law
renee Railroad is now being pushed
with energy.
Military enthusiasm runs high at
Houston. Another company has just
been organized.
The Mail says the city collector of
Dallas will pocket $40, 900 year from
his salary and fees.
The census of Cleburne has just
been taken, and the result shows 1473
whites and 1873 blacks.
Houston county enjoys excellent
health. Its fruit crop will be one of
the greatest abundance.
The Wood County Flag, a lively lit
tie six-column paper, is a warm advo-
vate of internal improvements.
The custom house investigation at
Corpus Christi is concluded, but no
official statement has yet been made.
Mr.. Darnell, of the Sherman Patriot,
has been appointed postmaster at Sher-
man, and the people are pleased at it.
Josh Billings proposes to visit Texas
this fall or winter, provided the peo-
pie desire to hear his admirable lee
lures.
In Kerr county harvesting has begun
In good earnest, and the yield of wheat
promises vastly bettei tkan the croak-
ers predicted.
John Houston, printer, reported
dead in Weatherford. is yet alive and
kicking, having wholly recovered from
his wounds.
Judge Terrell states that the crops ia
Burnet county, through which he has
just passed, are the best ever produced
in that section.
Mr.. CarliD, a Frenchman, has bought
30, 900 acres of land in Menard county,
upon which he will locate 5000 head of
MerinO sheep.
The amount of money realized from
the wheat crop of Northern Texas will
be nearly one hundred per cent. greater
this year than last.
An expedition is beng fitted cut in
Dallas to locate large amount of west
ern lands, about four hundred miles
west of that city.
The prisoners in the Mckinney jail
recently tried to make their escape,
but the jallor, pistol in hand, per-
suaded them otherwise.
The Pittsburg Magnet, of Camp
county, says that the peach and apple
crops are fine in that section, and that
the wheat yield is immense.
Galveston has chosen Mr.. John H.
Bright as delegate to the Information
al Cotton Exchange Convention, which
meets in Liverpool, July II.
4 change in postmasters at San
Marcos is anticipated, and the Free
Press says that 1t is the wish of Den
ocratic member of Congress.
The Mckinney Inquirer pronounces
Sam Friedberger, OF the city of Aus
tin, the most liberal advertiser in
Texas. Sam is good one.
Three of the most skilful physicians
of Lockhsrt performed most wonder
full operation few days since upon 3
male, and the animal died.
Mr.. Newman, living near Pilot Point,
engages to bind five acres of wheat in
one day. He is to receive S. if he sue
ceeds, and if he fails, nothing.
James Martin, of Goliad, has in
vented q wagon tire tightener. Now
let him go to work on q times loosener,
and both will be universally adopted.
Nine thousand persons are said to
have been in attendance at the State
Fair ut Houston at one time. The fair
has been generally pronounced a sue
cess.
Col. Gid Smith, of Fannin county,
makes thirty-two bushels of wheat on
each acre of his plantation. The Rus
sian war and this crop sets him up in
the world.
Cook and Lingo are candidates for |