The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

the horses swallow sand in browning
on short grass and accommodating in
their bowels they die of il.
The Star Rifles, CT Corpus Christi,
are 70 be supplied with new and I'M
proved arms, and it would DE 3 pity
were the opportunity not given them
to use them against the descendants of
the Montezumas.
The devil made his appearance the
other dav il Washington at a negro
csmp-meeting. Instead of lighting III,
old fellow with fire the darkies broke
up their ''meeun," and it is thought
the millennium Is postponed.
Judge NoOnan has done right IN
granting a writ of hG5eas corpus in ia
vor of q party held under arrest by the
rangers. The Castroville Era thinks
it time for other district Judges to do
as Judge Noonan has.
A gentleman writing from Navasota
says the weather Is unprecedentedly
warm, and that no ram has fallen for
twenty days. Boil worms and the real
cotton worms, nc says, are playing
havoc with the cotton in places.
Lieut.. Armstrong, of the State
troops, now in CIero, has so far recov-
cred from his recent wounds accident
ally received some time since in Goliad
from the explosion of a pistol, as to
limp along without his crutches.
The Sunday law now in force in Dial
las causes great deal of anxiety and
probably distress. Groups of anxious
citizens collect in sight of each grocery
and wait in pain and anxiety for the
hour of 1 z. M.,-wheR the saloons
open.
A Philadelphia company are boring
for oil near Victoria Peak, in Mon
tague county. They have reached q
depth of over three hundred feet. and
from indications obtained are firmly
convinced that success viii crown their
efforts.
A case is reported where Mr..
Archie Clark gave his child a dose of
morphine for quinine. This danger
Gus drug should not be permitted to
remain in any household. The proper
place foy it ahd other poisons is in the
drug store.
The railroad hands that were paid
off at Jefferson the other day became
the prey Of first city and then county
officials. Such maueuvering is neces-
sary to make both ends meet, which,
prObsb bly,, has no reference to the ends
of justice.
A Dallas husband came home late
and concluded he would play burglar
| on his wife, and, if his identification
| had not been made, Il ball from n six,
| shooter the next moment would have
played sad havoc with the person OF
this pranky husband.
The appropriation for transferring
prisoners to Huntsville has been ex,
| hausted, and the Banner says the bill
for taking prisoners from Washington
county to Huntsville, convicted at the
January term of the district court,
cannot be paid.
Gus Ivey, of the Honey Grove Mde-
pendent, did not act very honifed to.
wards black leg who started TO
go for him. lie leveled shot gun at
the fellow, ana declared his independ-
ence, while the chap huggcd corner
closer than IVY.
Cspt. Sparks, of the rangers, has
captured in Montague county one John
Lackey, charged with the murder in
Mississippi OF an old man named Ed
wards. The Captain reached Austin
on the fourteenth on h way to Mis-.
sissippi with his prisoner.
The Galveston CicUian thinks that
developments are leading to the point
of duplicating Col. Hobby in some OF
the crooked transactions that have
taken place in Galveston. II Is hoped
| that this gentleman, who has obtained
the confidence and esteem of so many,
may eXoAerate himself.
Jam s Beaisail, 4 very desperate
character, has been arrested on til
! Rio Grande by Lieutenant Hail. In
t1So9 ne was sentenced to be hung in
BeXar county for murder He broke
| jail and escaped and has lived life OF
rapinc and and murder since then.
A citizen of Weatherford, in Fort
Worth, proposed to stop flying four
mule team with his body and had it sc
badly used up as to require mending up
of both bones and flesh by the doctors.
If be gets we'll it is more than proba-
BILE he will tackle a railroad train.
The Democrat tells Of farmer liv-
ing near Fort Worth, who, with plcn
ty of government funds and an abun
dance of home products, ordered bis
paper stopped because too poor to pay
for it. The Democrat thinks it will be
impossible to distinguish this mans
soul in the hereafter.
The total number of children within
the scholastic age, and Il, in Bias
trop county, is 1868, of which there
are $50 white males and 4S0 white fe
males; 348 colored males and 800 col
ored females. There are 4S public
free schools taught in the county.
Mr.. r. W. Hubbard, OF Hills Prai-
RE, near Bastrop, has raised apples
this year weighing from twelve to six
teen ounces. He has been a success
full producer of this fruit for many
year. His '!gJober" crop, which is {
matter of coure, must be model one
A little daughter of Mr.. Reeves, o
Ennis, was rummaging in a trunk il
which there was an old pistol. Tit
pistol was discharged, and the LITTLE
girl has only four fingers left upon ont
hand, while parents and everybody
else have another lesson which sheulC
be of advantage to them.
The following Texans are at thu
Hot Springs in Arkansas: Major r. NJ
Tevis and lady and Miss Mitchell, Gal
weston; Col. 4. I. Rainey, Palestine
Judge Gaines and wife, GAINESVILLE
Judge Walker and wife, Nacogdoches
Leon Blum and ". Marx, Galveston
Major NJ. Looscan, Houston.
| The Register says: wv. Y. Leader
is coming in for lsrge share of right
eous abuse from the press of Texas in
connection with the September meet
ing of tho press association. 4 reso
luton expelling him from the associa
ton would comport well with the dig
nifty of the press of Texas"
In his speech at Palestine Governor
Hubbard announced very emphaticalll
that, while he held himself perfectly
free to call the Legis allure in extraor-
binary session, he would not do 50 IN
less the necessity fCri became Impera
tive, and that necessity must Be finan
cial one, which LIE did not believe
would arise.
The Dispatch says the finest crops
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