The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24
Bell county has Unprecedented gram

Capt. a. L. damaging, prosecuting /
attorney of Coryell county, has re-
signed. Since local option went into /
fleet criminal business does not pay.
Bill Redding, on the afternoon of the /
tenth instant, led q mob at Brentwood /
against the jail, broke it open snd lib |
Grated the prisoners, his brother among
the rest.
Spring fights have commenced in
Pleasanten but they are not like they
were a year ago. Fist and muscle
have been adopted instead of the six
shooter.
Mrs. Collins, of Galveston, poured
kerosene in her stove to make he damp
wood burn. and now her berea7ed
husband and children live in a desc
late home.
The Jail at Gatesville, for the first
time in many years, has not prisoner
in II, and local option has been in
operation in Coryell county for four or
five months.
The Daily Herald of the fourteenth,
in its mechanism, looked somewhat
like its sprishtly local appears after he
has been dabbling for few hours in the
Alazan ditch.
Twenty-seven Indians cleaned out
Crossen's sheep ranch, near Fort Davis,
on the seventh of May. They were
pursued at last accounts by fifty United
States cavalry.
DR.. Levi Jones has recovered pos
session of much disputed property in
Corpus Christi, and many people are
suffering great privations and damage
from ejectments.
A new cattle trail is talked of from
Fort Worth to the mouth of the Little
Wichita on Red River. 1t would short
en- the drive, and many bad streams
would be avoided.
The city authorities of San Antonio
and those of Bexar county are at log
gerheads about who shall support pau
pers, when it is very plain that the
comfy should do so.
Norton's ntelligencer has but little
faith in the proposed new party inau-
guration, and, with heartless candor,
throws cold water upon the hopes of
the old veteran Wings.
Depression of the energies can be
relieved at Brennan. We gather from
the Banner that q walk around town
among the hogs and fleas will make
one lively for time.
Texas printers do not succeed as we'll
as brewers, because one administers to
the brain, the other to the stomach,
while to one man with brains there are
twenty with only stomachs.
The Waterman seems to think that
it is just as difficult for a man who
does not pay for his newspaper to miss
purgatory as it is for camel to &C
through the eye of needle.
The first indictment found against
Abe Rothschild, at Jefferson, was
quashed. The grand jury Immediate.
| ly found another one, which it is hoped
will stick if he really is guilty.
One hundred and forty head Of
donkeys have been shipped from Den
ison to Cheyenne at So per head. They
are destined, like many other donkeys,
for the gold diggings in the Black
Hills.
The twelfth of May was the thirG
anniversary of the establishment of tht
town of Lawrence, named after ou
townsman, j. W. Lawrence. Now i
is flourishing place with 1900 in
habitants.
The engineer of the Cuero road con
slders the only practicable line to Con
zales to be the one surveyed east o
the Guadalupe river. 1t is supposed
| that work ON the extension will snoI
De CUuIIIIUE1ooa.
Hon. A. Chesley tells the Hampstead
Courier that the general feeling among
members of the Legislature is in favo
of months extra session, and the,
know how the constituency feel upol
the subject.
Hon. W. W. Lang will not, sing
"Auld Lang Syne" at Cameron on tn,
twenty-fourth of this month, but h
will deliver one of his able addresse
upon the present and future of tn,
oranges in Texas.
The knights of Honor are CROWN!
in popular favor, and if they will no
spend too much money in supportin!
organizations, buying regalia and il
public demonstration they will prove
public blessing.
Eggs are now sold in New York b,
weight, one and half pounds beinI
fixed as the equivalent of dozen. TIL
system of weights in all articles of foot
is the only true one, and should b
adopted in Texas.
The Item says the woodworking
machinery of the penitentiary is per
feet. This, it may be understood, i
not a part of Col. Wards machinery
which, from constant service, has Ion.
since been worn out.
Mr.. Munson, of Red River county
has produced grasshopper extermina
tor. Every hopper must be captured
and potion administered, whicl
proves fatal to all, and hence it is al
acknowledged exterminator.
Messrs. Burnett & Fitzpatrick, les
sees of the State penitentiary, stat
that Col. Ward is employed by then
at a ''fair remuneration to arrang
money matters connected with the pas
business of the penltentiary.
And now all the North Texas edi
tors, even Martin of the Register, ar
expected to behave in a decent name
in presence of their "sister" Mrs. Nc
Pherson, who edits the Whitesbor
Democrat, new paper just commenced
Mr.. Pierce, of the Harrisburg anC
San Ante Mo railway, is building up
new town in Wharton county wherl
he owns large amount of land. TIL
place is called New Philadelphia, ant
the town and country around is filling
up rapidly.
Mr.. Barry, who has just arrived fror
the Panhandle district, informs tn
Henrietta Journal that he passe
through herd of buffalo containln
not less than fifty thousand head. H.
says the entire district is fairly aliv
with them.
Sheriff Campbell attempted to ar
rest one Simmons in Henrietta. Bot
drew their six-shooters and emptie
then almost in each others faces with
out effect, and people are pleased ths
the parties were too much frightene
to shoot straight.
John Houston was stabbed min
times by one Gordon in a saloon j
| Weatherfnrd Inhn had many friend