The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

pIlCts IOI CdIIiC anu prosperous ullNCS'
Since the adoption of local option in
Polk county no drunken men are seen
at picnics or other public gatherings.
Perry Davis, a colored man, is to be
hung on the thirtieth of August for
the murder of Policeman Alfred Neal.
Mr.. c. w. Hill, proprietor of the
nursery near Hampstead, says that the
business has paid him well this year.
Prairie chickens are plentiful up
about Mckinney. DR.. Foote and
James L. White bagged 100 in one
day.
The Denison educational society is
going to settle the matter as to who
was the greatest general, Mcclellan OF
R. E. Lee.
A party of gentlemen fIom Missis-
sippi and Tennessee are visiting San
Antonio. The party consists of thirty
or forty.
The Cheatham cotton in Grimes and
other counties is from waist to head
high, and full of bolls, squares and
blooms.
The Central pay car has been lively
during the present week. The Cen
trail Company knows how to thorn
off strike"
The Morris County Banner is the
name of a new paper started at Dan.
gerfeld, Texas, by j. F. Mitchell and
W. q. Danforth.
The Dallas Commercial of the TWEEN
tY-eighth speaks of rains, and says that
fine crop of both cotton aud corn, i;
now predicted.
A Sulphur Springs doctor was fined
fifty dollars for violating the local OPP
ton law, gave straw bond and lit out
for parts unknown.
The Supreme Court has decided that
growing crops, not even planted, may
be subject mortgage, and when
planted may be attached.
The foreman of jury which granted
divorce in Dallas married the woman
the same day the decree was entered.
So says the Dallas Mail.
4 H. &C LA-I-- - -a.~- t--Is --ss.
from San Antonio to the celebrated
Santa Rosa springs in Mexico. A
round trip ticket will cost $50.
Dallas has caught the spirit of i'm
proving the roads, and now sixty men
are at work on the road leading from
Dallas to the Rockwell county line.
A large and enthusiastic Texas i'm
migration meeting was held at Elmira,
New York, on the fifth inst. Several
hundred families were represented.
Judge Harrison, of Williamson coun-
ty, ground 1875 bushels of wheat at his
mill from A. NJ. to 5 P. NJ, and it was
not good day for grinding, either.
A woman dressed in mems clothes
made application at several private res
licences in Dallas for board, and always
at place where there were no men.
Half the editors in the State claim
that their towns are the liveliest places
they have seen. The probability is
that none of them have seen much.
A great many people are visiting the
sour wells in Caldwell county his sea-
son, and they return home as sweet as
cantelopes, or at least as antelopes.
The contract for the grading of tie
Fest Line and Red River Railroad from
Dangerfield, in Morris county, to Pitts
burg has been let to the Roach Bros.
] hn Golden was killed on the
night of the twenty-frst while at
tempting TO escape from officers.
Golden once kept a saloon in Dallas.
The citizens of Sulphur Springs held
an enthusiastic railroad meeting the
ether day. They want the Jefferson
Narrow Gauge Road extended to their
town. $500 -s~-
A nan named Poole has been ar
rested in Gatesville for attempting to
kill a man in Navarro county. The
shooters are coming to grief every
where.
The Rockdale Messenger says it's a
coo ,ardly trick for cow to knock a
gun down and shoot little girl in the
foot, as happened near San Antonio
recently. 1
The grading of the narrow gauge
railroad running from Lawrence to
Kaufman will soon be completed. The
grading is all finished and the ties dis
tributed.
Ex-Governor Clark aud family,
are recovering from their re-
cent illness, caused By poisoning. A
mystery still surrounds the origin of
the affair.
L Z. Edwards is nov in Chicago,
filing an engagement with a number
of citizens in that city, who are organ
lzing society with view of emigrst-
ing to Texas. 1s-1 5e~fs-.-.r
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton, of Corpus
Christi, quarreled and then fought.
Mrs, Eaton finally hit her husband in
the head with a Ratchet, aad he died
the next day.
Sheep are being shipped from Mex
Ico through Texas TO Chicago and ST.
Louis. Fourteen car loads in charge
ofa Spanisrd arrived at Demsop on
he twenty-fifth.
The steam saw-mill at Neches, be-
onging to Ezell s. Suggs, IVES burned |
IN the night of the eighteenth instant.
The fire was supposed to be the work |
If an incendiary.
There is not as much Western bacon |
thought to Marlin now as in the pas,
md il looks as If the people were look
ng to more judiciOus living system
20 says the A0eiEg Ball
The election on the school question
q Fort Worth resulted favorabIy, two
birds of the votes cast being in favor
4 the tax The eiecnon occurred on
he twenty-sixth. -
The Texas-papers are full of articles
n the ''Great Strike and the .sGreat
md steal With the press the Cow
rnor seems 10 have the inside track
q the Land Office.
Ng. Dobossy, Of Kendall county, who |