The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

JtHpLec1te. Ward Taylor Is away from
home, and W. E. Estes is running the
machine.
In Fairfield the contest waxeth hot,
and the whisky people are distributing
small jugs among the imam and
brother"
1t is said that large body of In
dians have left the reservation without
authority. Look out for them on the
frontier.
Mr.. Sol. Harrall, of Lampssas coun-
ty, shesred twen.y-one pounds of wool
from one sheep. He has flock of the
same breed.
The Harris county grand jury has
found true bill of indictment against
W. L. Grissom for the murder of DR..
]. W. Brown.
A club for the Introduction of AL
derney cattle has been formed in Fay
cite county. The stock will be shipped
in November.
Jesse Hill, of johnson county, has
seventy-fve acres in wheat, which
average forty bushels to the acre; SO
says the Chronicle.
The Sunday Mail is an eight page
paper, and does credit to Dallas. The
Mail is always filled with news given
in the spiciest style.
The Lampasas County Agricultural
and Mechanical Association publishes
its premium list in the Dispatch. 1t is
comprehensive one.
There was tournament at Suther-
land Springs on the eleventh, and the
Pleasanton knights went over to give
ecldte to the occasion.
Matters are reported as unpleasant
ly quiet" in Menardville. so it was IN
Lampasas as long as the rangers held
possession of the place.
On the tenth of June there was
white frost at Fredericksburg, and
corn, cotton and vegetables were
damaged to some extent.
A. F. Lindenheim, of Sherman, a
disappointed cotton speculator, com
mitted suicide in New York on the
thirteenth instant.
Fredericksburg is a fayorite resort
for consumptives. Mr.. Bodemann, of
Austin, is there, and is represented as
rapidly improving in health.
Navasota needs internal improve
nent. Its officers understand the art
of drawing pay, but know little about
discharging public duties.
Hon. John Henry Brown is speak
ing IN Dallas against the proposition to
maintain public free schools. The
election takes place in few days.
Mr.. George Belstedt, late of Sulphur
Springs, was willfully murdered by
negro in the Indian Nation. The
murderer made good his escape.
The Dallas Herald desires to see
Throckmorton made the next Speaker
of the House of Representatives.. Most
any Texan would be pleased at it.
Comptroller Darden has called upon
the county attorney of Anderson cour-
tY to proceed against Major Wilder for
embezz ement of county subsidy taxes.
The colored people of Fayette coun-
ty will celebrate the nineteenth of June
in grand style. Politics and political
speeches are to be properly eschewed.
Col. DeGress was not elected, as
stated by the Sulphur Springs Gazette,
by majority of eight votes. 1t was
plurality, seven candidates being voted
for.
The Changers of Comanche county
are making arrangements, in concert
with the citizens of the town, for a
grand celebration of the Fourth of
July.
They are going to have free IL
brary in Brennan, and the morals of
the town will be vastly improved.
Heretofore it has relied mainly on the
Banner.
The Fort Worth council has passed
an ordinance closing dance houses, and
yet the officers do not act upon it.
Such neglect should be cause for re-
moval.
Joe Leverett, one of Major Jones's
rangers, quarreled with ]. 4. Rhodes,
a grand juryman, at Mason. and shot
him in the abdomen with his six
shooter.
Beason, who stole two horses in
Williamson county about year ago,
has been sentenced at the Llano dis
trict court to ten years in the peni
Tertiary.
DEMONSTRATING still goes on in Marion
county. Bill Reddln and Joe Olney,
both noted fellows, are showing the
people how proftably the business can
be conducted.
Honest Chief Justice Roberts gave
in his homestead property to the tax
izers reduced it to $3.50. Where is
there another Roberts ?
The people of both Smith and Har-
rison counties refuse to pay bonds
voted upon themselves. Nobody's
credit is more affected by this resolu-
ton than their own.
1t Is suggested that the visit of Hon.
Guy NJ. Bryan to President Hayes had
something to do with shaping the pres
ent attitude of the government as to
Rio Grande matters.
Messrs. ]. D. Logan, George R. Da-
shell and II. P. Howard are the pres
ent owners of the San Antonio Herald.
Logan, we congratulate him, has re-
turned to his first love.
A surrender Of the city charter is the
question now agitating the minds of
the taxpayers of the city of Houston.
1t is claimed that it will save $3.50, 900
a year. Austin may follow suit.
Watermelons sell in Pleasanton from
fifteen to twenty cents. The subse-
quent doctors bill is but trIfiing mat
ter of from So to $50. The under
takers job Is not to be mentioned.
The county clerk of Tarrant lives In
clover. The Williamson County Sun,
shining gently on facts over there,
says that he has to empty an assistant
to do the matrimonial business of his
office.
The Journal man drinks lemonade
and calls 1t 'glory hallelujah."
Though prohibition is the law at
Pleasantop, we are inclined to the be
lief that that lemonade had ''stick"
in it.
The expediency of cutting through
the ridge separating Red River from
the Trinity and letting the waters of
the formar into the latter ia n question