The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
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in Llano.
Antelopes dot the prsiries around |
San Saba. Il
And now they call him Natural OUR
iosity Henderson. .-
The crop prospect in Wilson county |
was never better.
Cows in Grimes county have lately |
died of hydrophobia.
Mr.. Blake will erect wooden mill !
four miles from Denton.
The price of good horse at Corpus
Christi is SIS; of pony, $.
One cypress tree cut in Waldo
county made ~, 900 shingles.
The cattle drive at Fort Worth num-
bered on the fifth instant 50, 900.
A clip of fine wool was sold in San
Antonio for 20 5s cents pound.
Nat. Q. will quit coming to town so
often since the dance house is closed.
Strawberry feStivals are in vogue in
many of the cities and towns of Texas.
Mr.. Kinks, who was cut with knife
by robbers near San Antonio, is dead.
Fannin county is going to change
its old court house into modern build
ing.
Bids are asked for the building of
new court house and Jail in McCulloch
county.
The people of Brennan revel in
strawberries, which grow in great per-
lection.
Morgan's Cuero route is attracting
attention as a transporting line from
San Antonio.
The oat crop in Ellis county never
measure five feet.
Fifteen or twenty wagons loaded
with buffalo hides passed through Ma
son in one day.
Andrew Jackson Hobbs is still hob
nobbing around, looking for his par
ents who lost him.
An organized band of thieves infest
San Antonio. The railroad is clviliz-
ing that commu2ity.
In Bee county Is, 900 acres of school
lands have been sold at one dollar and
eighty cents an acre.
From all parts of Northern Texas
come the most encouraging statements
about the wheat crop.
There are 80, 900 head of cattle and
90, 900 head of sheep in McCulloch
county and no grasshoppers.
Elgin is going to clean out whisky
on its own account, and Elgin becomes
a jewel, morally, In pigs snout.
The pious, cody people everywhere
are reading and reprintlng Hard
Bricks" Armageddon lucubrations.
Nat. O., whatever people may say of
his local option and ultra radically
Democratic notions, gets up a good
newspaper.
Llano county enjoys the best of crop
prospects. The grasshoppers are gone,
and the rains are making grain crops
a certainty.
Col. F. W. Chandler, an attorney of
this city, has sued for 337 2 varas,
including much valuable property in
Brennan.
They have new postmaster in Ma
son. He is going into the art of max
ing money out of lock boxes, and his
name is Lockart.
Tie Morgan road is beginning to Sc
cure shipments from San Antonio.
Ten wagon loads of wool went that
way on May 2.
In Freestone county the grasshop
pers have done considerable damage
in localities. Some fields of corn have
teen planted over.
In Kerr county matters are rapidly
improving in a financial point of view
Strangers are coming in, and money is
circulating freely.
Brennan joys that brigaad grass
hoppers are folding their tents-''fiies''
and quietly stealing away. The
crops are charming.
Ihey are going to nave tournament
at Pleasanton. No knights are placed
hOrS du combat, except at the feet OF
some queen of beauty.
Judge L. G. Alexander, of Bolton,
has been appointed to fill the unex-
pired term caused by the resignation
of Judge Saunders.
The ROSTERS" of the Texas press
now do their growing in advertising
columns. 1t is ever the filthy lucre
that comes through them
The striking of ''ile" draws, and
hence the Herald announces that il
swills higher than heaven away down
in we'll close to San Antonio.
1t cannot be true, as stated, that the
change in the management of the pen
ltentiary is merely nominal, and thai
A. J. Ward still holds control of it.
Capt. E. B. Mlllett made little
sale of beef steers at his frontier ranch
the other day simply to thin out hi.
! stock. The transaction amounted tt
800, 900.
1t is reasonable to calculate that
Texas, with sufficient population, could
produce as much wheat as all tho
United States, and enough cotton fol
the world. @
Messrs. Them 6 Houston, of Llano
have sunk shaft 100 feet into theil
nine, and are now working Irish in
stead of Mexicans, and they have hops
of success.
And now comes Dan McGary and
tells of a ''recherche affair" The de
scriptive eplthet is so nice and move
and striking and significant of Dan''
research and learning.
|, The Dastrop Adrertiser man, who gets
up famine,when he comes down upon
Austin, tried it on the Avenue Hotel
) and bursted. He says Capt. stringel
: Is too many for him. 60
Albert Hooker, aged 70, was mar
RED at Corsicans to Bertha Gooason,
and it is reasonable to predict that the
OLD man will never have good son tC
perpetuate his name.
The Victoria allocate very truthful.
ly remarks that the six-shooter, ready
loaded, in the pocket of the young
Imam is the towards incentive to VIC
leHce and murder.
Freight rates on the Sunset Route ART
so high that many of the San Antonio
} merchants are having their goods