The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

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that town. A court house is also to be
built soon.
Mr.. Moses Hughes has just seen
many of the crops in the west of Lam
pasas county and the south of San
Saba, and he says the corn and cotton
is magnificent. ...
Major Penn has closed his meetings
in Marshall, with thirty-two converts.
He goes at once to Shreveport to save
it from the same fate that met Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Two gentlemen, one from Elmira,
New York, the other from Wilkes
barre, Pennsylvania, are out about San
Antonio looking after lands for locat-
ing one thousand families.
The exercises of the tenth an
nual commencement of the Bonham
Christian College were held few days
ago. The examination OF classes was
very satisfactory.
The "San Jacinto'' and the "Alamo"
debating societies, of the Southwestern
University, at Georgetown, will hold
their annual exercises on the second
Monday in July.
The question of extending the Texas
and Pacific road to Pilot Point is being
agitated. The people of Pilot Point
are willing to donate large amount
of grading to the company.
The Pittsburg Magnet says that
Brick Pomeroy's visit to Texas is to
bring discord into the Democratic
party. He has bt en- doing all in his
power for years to disgrace it.
Major Jones, of the frontier bat
talon, is In Lampasas with fifteen men
of his command. The Major proposes
to give that community another lesson
in furtherance of law and order.
A woman in full bloomer costume
blossomed upon the streets of the Ala
mo City the other day. She was not
born to blush unseen, for eva in
town followed her Ut least
Two prisoners awaitina
( the penitentiary -
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The Hespei1
Fifteenth Legisf1
portunity of drinking
| lions from its Constituents,
trusted to do little necessary
| ton for US.
Governor Hubbard will deliver the |
address at the Lampssas fair, and |
what tothers the people there is where |
they will store away the great man and |
the great crowd that will come to lis
| ten to him. ,.
The nineteenth was set apart in |
Wilson county for the general des,rut-
! ton of wolves, which have become |
very numerous there. Poison was |
set over the county and no doubt |
many were destroyed. a. -.-
Mr.. Camuse, of Dallas, makes excel |
lent vehicles. A phston made ut his |
factory, and now upon the streets of |
that city, compares favorably with any |
that come from the North. He should |
be well supported. a...-.F
The board of equalizers, of Bexar
| county, have increased the tax roll of |
some of its nabobs as much rs $780,
900. And this is what's the matter
when warrants are presented for pay
ment at the State Treasury.
Mr.. Bailant, of Giddings, drank too
freely of whisky, got dead drunk, and |
then bid adieu to this wicked, |
wicked world while oblivious to Its
cares and its misfOrtunes. He sought |
relief in morphine and secured it.
Two farmers, Miller and Coleman,
living in Tarrsnt county, had a dis
| pute about the loan of wagon, and
Coleman was stabbed to death. He
made the attack, but Miller is terribly |
| frightened and has fed from wrath to
| come. -..f-f .......-
Lieut.. Armstrong, of the State
rangers, who recently shot himself &C
cidentAlly, is rapidly recovering. He
4 Is an officer Of worth, brave and ener-
A getic, and has won the esteem of the
best citizens of Western Texas.
The residence of Mr. John C. Oat-
/ man, district clerk of Llano county,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the twelfth. II was supposed to be
the work of an iDcendiary. The
records, which were kept at his resi-
dence, were all saved"
The Sherman Courier tells it that |
Mr.. Foster, living q little north OF
the Whiteaboro road, and about three
miles from Sherman, has thrashed his
wheat crop, Is scres. that made thirty |
nine bushels to the acre. This is the |
best crop yet reported. nl n5'1afl
The commissioners appointed TO NJ
wise the statutes Of the State have bees
at the capital for some days. They
have progressed RAPIDLY with their
work. and already much Of it Is ready |
for the press. The printing viii be
done BY special eoDtrzct.-
They have cholera infdHt9ss in the
suburbs of Sherman, and Martin is
scared bad about il. An attack Of that |
sort, and on them legs! The bare con-
temptation Of the fact is shocking, and
the contemplation Of the bare facts
must be most painful. 20 a7as
q Burgess, who oficisted in bringing |
ahout the ooartship and marriage Of |
Selim Rinker with Lula Walters Of |
Hsuston, il the slbject Of public scorn |
and contempt st GalvestoA. There |
has been some danger that violence |
win Be used upon his psrsSa. e
A doctor Of Ka.k has gone 10 the
ploW handlc., bshind mule. snd II |
diagnosing for crop Of cora The |
ne1 agricaltuTsl force PROMISES 70 NJ ]