The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-05
lam over the country current accounts

ire presented the first of each month,
md consequently at Calvert fishing
parties are popular towards the end OF
the month.
A fend in Bell county, named
West, deliberately murdered a Mexi-
can, and then shot his own sister, who
demonstrated with him abou; it. He
has escaped.
The train of Santiago Talamantes
arrived in San Antonio from Chihua-
hua, Mexico, with 5000, 600 in silver.
This was the most valuable train OF
the season.
The Supreme Court of Texas is just
now winding up the business that
came to it three years ago, and there
are no more industrious judges in any
court than in this one.
Fielder, q horse thief snd escaped
convict, vas shot near Brennan Oh
the twenty-seventh. He escaped leav-
ing marks of blood, and it is thought
he was MORALLY wounded.
Mr.. George W. Moore, of Austin, de-
ivered, says the SIN, very interest
ing temperance lecture in Georgetown
on last Thursday. He would organize
temperance lodge there.
Spiriiualism, says the Courier, Is
taking possession of Hampstead. The
STATESMAN has all the time regarded
Hampstead as ardently addicted to
spirits, especially corn juice.
The Dallas Herald has received infor
nation which, under ordinary circum-
stances, would lead to the belief that
work on the Dallas and Wichita Rail
road would be resumed at once.
Mrs. Mary McComas, one of the
earliest settlers in Dallas county, has
rendered up ler account in eternity.
She died, as her husband had shortly
done before her, very suddenly.
Up in Denison some rascal. thai
should Ia sYe,Hfsegnce upon gentle
man by depositing the portion of 6
putrefied horse carcass in his well.
SeIim tinker bequeathed his wife,
so it is reported, $4,000 The ques-
ton arises for how many wives in the
country would their husbands go and
do likewise for such sums of money.
William Billings, the colored deputy
sheriff of Victoria county, shot and
killed Jack Ross, a noted negro des.
perado, who was resisting arrest and
attempting to take the life of Billings.
Col. John S. Ford has refused the
position of quarantine officer at Brazos
with a salary of $500 a month. Col
Ford has applied for the district Judge
ship vacated by Judge Dougherty, de,
ceased.
The Dallas grand jury has just ad-
journed after findizg 240 true bills OF
indictment. OF these about one hun
dred are for not paying occupation
tax, one for misdemeanor, and the rest
for felonies.
DR.. McManus, of Corpus Christi,
who owns eleven leagues of land west
of Goliad, has sold two leagues to a
MIR. Spencer, of Pennsylvania, who
will locate colony of Pennsylvanians
upon them.
At Houston a miserable victim of
whisky offered to pawn in the recor l.
er's court his wife's ring to keep him
out of the prison, which he either had
to go to or pay fine and costs
amounting to $3.50.
Patents were secure1 last week by
Paine & Grafton, patent attorneys,
Washington, D. c., for A. A. Amonett,
of Wrightsborougt, for wheel pillow,
and for j. N. O'Neall, fort Worth,
for wagon brake.
Victoria raised $4,000 for the sup
port of Halls company. Two thousand
'of this sum was subscribed by J. II.
Brownson & Co. Another meeting
will be held for the same object on the
fourteenth of July.
The grangers of Lee county are pre-
pairing to receive Governor Hubbard
and Col. Lang in grand style on the
Fourth. They are puzzled as to where
they may quarter Hubbard and as to
how they can control Lang.
The Houston Age very properly sug
gests that the Jews ought to be indie
pendent enough to treat the fellow
Hilton with contempt. He owes his
importance to having been a lick
spittle of A. #. Stewart.
IT is again reported from Washing
ton that ex Governor Stockdale will
marry daughter of Hon. Gustave
Schlcicher. And now we know why
the Governor is neglectlng his public
and private affairs in Texas.
The Record is worked on power
press, and "Gnat" Curious, so recorded
in the annals of the constitutional Con-
veHtion, says that with the George
towhltes his IN lchine is regarded as the
eighth wonder of the world.
Preparations are being made in varl-
Gus Texas cities and towns to celebrate
the Fourth of July, in what they deem
becoming manner. Corpus Christi
proposes to celebrate the day with
booming cannon and flying ba lners.
The reported terrible murder of
family of immigrants in Wilson county
turns out to be utterly false. There
was not the least ground for such re-
port as was made, and the malicious
party who started it should be discoY-
cred.
Mr.. Antony, the postmaster at
is not charged with depre-
dating upon the mails, but with detain-
ing mail matter. The question arose be-
tween Antony and Breeding, of the
Messenger, about the payment of post
age.
Henrietta is to have a holiday and
grand jollification on the Fourth. The
Journal wants everybody to quit bust
ness on that day and rejoice over
''health and prosperity at home,
and peace and harmony throughout our
nation"
A man named Jones, from Hot
Springs, was robbed the other night
in the heart of Dallas. But then he
had been spending the evening in a
saloon where bad men observed him
with money, and they followed and
took it from him upon the streets.
Dead bodies of Confederate sol
dIers haves been unearthed at an old
cemetery about half mile from Virgil
MIA Point depot on the Santa Fe Rail-
road. The graves have been dug over
by convicts getting ballast for the road,
and the bodies left exposed.
Brother Johns, of the Christian I'D
cocqte, ia not bad man, and yet his
paper was providentIally dispo sed of
in the great Galveston fire. It will be
revived before long, and in the mean