The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

Culberson from the KerrvIlle Jail. The
sheriff was watchfuL and gave the
proposed rescuers q hearty reception.
Shots were exchanged, and that was
the end of :he matter when last re-
ported.
The medical board Of the Marlin dis
trict have turned loose nine young
physicians to practice medicine, and
the enterprising publisher of the Bail
has ordered large stock of funeral
note, and proposes to have share Of
the spoils.
Major Vests letter about the farmers
tax is dish wster and very thin, poured
over the RutAbagss TO make them feel
good. There is absolutely nothing in
it. Perhaps, however, the Rutabaga
Constitution is wholly void. The
Msjor seems to think so.
Lynch law has invaded the Jail pre-
cincts of Limestone county, and Wade
Trammel and Tom Reed, murderers of
Applewhite, in 1872, were sent to an
immediate accountability in eternity.
Hog Willis, another one of the muir
derers, was MORALLY wounded.
81. Ham, of Georgetown, has quit
operating on the telegraph line. He
prefers the electricity Of the sex, and
having '1led" himself, slid out into
Missouri over the wires and will come
back with a pretty wife. The ''pil-
low" will welcome him, and wCn'I he
be blestl
A hail storm in Llano was terrible.
The hail remained on the ground two
feet deep two days after the storm. 1t
killed 800 head of sheep for Mr.. Frank
Ramsey. In a ravlne near his sheep
pens the hail was eighteen feet deep.
Five days later 1t was still there to the
depth of four feet.
The Comptrolle1's report shows the
following assessed valuation of town
lots in the leading counties of Texas :
Galveston county heads the list, her
assessment beng $12, 81, sos; Dallas,
81 51S. 81; Harris county, So, SIS, 404 +;
Travis county, "a, 459, 462; Bexar
county, 81, sos, COL.
A lady at Callahan City was insulted
by rough. She seized her husbands
gun and peppered the rascals neither
most parts as he went gracefully rctir-
ing through the doorway, and the code
IN Eastlaud county permits that woman
to be arrested on charge of assault
with intent to murder.
The county judge of Delta county
has resigned insufficient pay,
which generally places incompetent
and irresponsible men in the most i'm.
portant and responsible positions. But
so it must be " bile we live under code
so poorly understood even by its most
active founders, West and Ramey.
Patterson is the name of new town
at the terminus of the Houston narrow
gauge. 1t is surrounded by country
growing corn, cotton and sugar cane.
Situated only three or four miles from
the rich, alluvial lands of the BraZos
bottoms, it will spring into town OF
considerable Importance in a brief
period. -'...
People may believe what they please,
but they will be infinitely puzzled by
the development of spiritism as made
through Mrs. Eldridge. 1t is simply
marvellous and incomprehensible.
Sheer at it one may, but the facts re
main that your eyes and ears and
hands are cheated out of their wits by
some person or spirit.
VIM. Dicks and Otto Kuplein, ..ol
Comal county, while returning home
from San Antonio, where they had beer
to sell corn, were robbed just two miles
from the government depot. Dick;
was severely, if not fatally, wounded
This occurred between three and fou
o'clock in the afternoon.
Jordan Williams, of Victoria county
has field of wheat on the Guadalupe
river which good judges think will
make thirty-five bushels to the acre
Co.. Ashbel Smith, who has studied
the scientific points of the question
says Southern Texas can be made a
fiue a wheat producing country a:
there is in the world.
William Neal Ramey's explanation a.
to the produce tax affair is worthy o
the most astute political Granger. H
says the law is required, but that tn
Legislature should have placed the as
sessment at time of the year when tn
farmers had nothing to assess. TIN
Hesperian thinks it time for Mr.. Rame'
to ''go up head" even above Mao
West.
After dining at the Raymond Hous
the Bastrop editor tells of the hail
storm at San Saba as he heard it stated
"that the hail drifted eight feet deep
and measured four feet deep two day
after. The hail was SO heavy that !
killed five hundred sheep for one man
tore down his dwelling and mutilate'
his family considerably" The fact
we would respectfully and patriot
cally call it Hail Columbia.
The good ladies in Cooke county hav
been vieinp with each other in popu
lating their community. Mrs. Row
land had twins; her neighbor had trip
lets, and another lady, determir ed t
? Guido all the rest, went deliberately t
work and went two better than tn
t first. Every fellow in that neighbol
hood looks with anxiety upon his wife
, aud wonders if {" five" is the next prof.
able number.
Alta Vista, the country seat of Mrs
, H. NJ. Kirby, four miles from Hemp
stead, has been suggested by the com
missioners as a suitable location for tn
freedman's agricultural college of tn
State. Twelve Thousand dollars i
State bonds is the price placed upo
the property, while the Improvement
now on the place aiOne cost twent
/, thousand dollars in gold, before tn
r war. The tract of land embraces 140
: acres of very fine land.
: A prominent newspaper man o
Southern Texas writes to the STATES
MAN as follows: 81 have been d con
: slant reader of the STATESMAN and
| feel it duty to say that | believe tn
5 course you are pursuing will be en-
dorsed by all conservative patriots o
our land. Every issue seems to me L
double in interest since the presiden
tial imbroglio. The STATESMAN i
bound to be.a power in our land If
continues in its present course"
The iron bridge for the San Jacint
river, on Paul Bremond's road, will h
) on the ground in few days. TIL
force upon the road is now clearing an,
grading the second division of twenty
FIVE miles, and actively at work o.
thirty to thirty-fve miles. Mcssrs
, Wood & Allen, who have large expert
, ence. have left with q full corps of en-