The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
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everywhere.
There were 4O5 deaths in San An
tonio LAST year.
San Antonio has 8 company of
colored firemen.
Chambers county is still fearfully
afflicted with smallpox.
Cow ponies are in great demand in
and around San Antonio.
Navarro county will vote on prohibit
ton on the fifteenth of March.
Local option has been carried in the
Lexington precinct, in Lee county.
BIrkley, of Dallas, will take his
racing stable to Galveston and New
Orleans.
Col. II. C. King has left Boerne and
will engage in the practice of law at
San Antonio.
For the last three months 1t has cost
McLennan county $500 to maintain
prisoners.
Prairie dogs are destroying the grass
in Coleman county, digging it up
roots and all.
Trouble is said to be brewing in
Kimball county in consequence of the
illegal handling of cattle.
]. w. Swindells aspires to the post
mastership of Dallas, in the event of
Tilden becoming president.
The Bonham Christian Messenger is
in full new dress, and does credit to
the church and place it represents.
VIM. A. Stephen, of Wilson county,
offers reward of $500 tor the dis
covery of his brothers murderers.
The Nc,cs, Echo records Saturday as
one of the busiest days of the season,
though local option had gone into eff
| feet.
The Express wants the tramps put to
work filling up the mud holes, gullies
and ruts on the San Antonio thorough.
fares.
The Examiner thinks there is wis
dom in the people of Austin turning
their attention to manufacturing enter.
prses.
Hon. ]. Q. Chenowith has just re-
turned from Washington City, and his
face wears distressing longitudinal pro-
/ portions.
The Texas press association meets IT
Austin on the fourth of March to take
action regarding better facilities fol
press dispatches.
The Herald says the Austin tramp'
coming into San Antonio are the
ugliest-looking of them all. They arr
deprcciatlng property on the Austir
road.
The people of Paris, ministers ant
all, are delighted with the teaching
of Rabbi Browne. He has delivered
four lectures there and has gone tt
Sherman.
A drunken man was run over il
Sherman By loaded omnibus. Il,
was unhurt, and the whisky men US,
this case as a strong argument in favo
of whisky.
Mr.. Reinhardt, of the Temperance
Vidette, Is to be presented by hi
friends with nice home in view o
their appreciation of his services in
great cause.
The citizens speak gloomily of crol
prospects In Colorado county IN conse
quence of the grasshoppers, but the,
will disappear in time to make bounti
full crops.
Nat. @. Henderson's Record of cur
rent events in Williamson county /
we'll calculated to make an Austil
'tradesman's prosperity current even
in those parts.
Mr.. P. NJ. Stanford, probably thu
oldest inhabitant of Kerrville, died
few days since. He was on the verge
of so, and did service in the Blacl
Hawk war.
The pauper question is becoming
perplexlng one in Grayson county
Relief can be obtained through tin
adoption of local option, and 500
year saved.
Dogs constitute ninety per cent. 0
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fact is attributable to the fondness o
the other ten per cent. of population
for ''tamales."
The Alamo Rifles were absent fror
San Antonio three days. General Or
counted the hours with fear an
trembling lest he could not in that tim
repel dangers.
Hieronymus pertinently asks VIII
anyone is opposed to local option vhe
its enemies contend that it will be 6
easy to obtain it from druggists as frol
saloon keepers.
A German named Benthe at CT
Springs burned his house and its cor
tents, returned notes to parties OWN
him, shot his horse and then sent
ball through his own head.
Hall and Cree declare that the peopl
of Dallas are better acquainted wit
the Bible than any others in Texas
We would modestly suggest that tn;
is rather hard on the Bible. ..
At the last meeting of the marie
mems club motion was made to pull
, iish meeting nights. The KNOWN
ones objected, and husbands can ye
absent themselves with security.
: John Robertson, a lame man, fror
Fayette county, supposed to have Sc
tied in Milan couaty some thirty yeal
ago, can hear of something to. his &C
vantage by writing to this office. re-.
The Caskey- Browne controversy
getting lively. AT Waco Caskey wa
furious, and unless this thing
stopped the days of being sacrifice
for opinions sake must be revived.
A San Antonio paper tells of a ma
who took charge of corpse to Austin
and charged the widow 1875 for b
services, and she prefers hereafter to foe
bills rather for living than q dea
husband.
The Cuero Bulletin says: 18th
He'll Gate ferry on the Guadalupe riv,
will be ready for crossing in q fe
days" This information may be US,
full to the Bulletins subscribers. w
are not travelling that road.
Lieutenant Hall has been cleaniu
out the crop of knaves and blood,
handed scoundrels about Goliad. 3
and local option will give very diffe
ent character to that region. He ser
Alf. Alec to the Helena Jail.
A "dead hide" case has just bee
jndicially decided in San Patricio couI
~, where the purchaser of hide ws
made to pay $50, he having bougt
thu hide from a nartv - rvbov, 81