The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

city of late, and it is about tune the
people were getting reused UP.
The biggest liar in Texas has stepped
to the front. He is, OF course, an edi-
tor. He declares he has in his office A
cucumber which is exactly sixteen feet
long Williamson County Record. Nat,
don't be so modest. Send that Gu.
cumber down here and let US look at
|. Anyhow, don't miss the Austin
Fair in October. We want to enter
one or the other for premium.
A Mrs. Wright and a Mrs. Brown, of
Denison, missed gold watch and chain,
which was taken from house they
occupied. The suspected a vegeta-
HE boy who bad been to the house
that morning. Snatching up their sun
bonnets they 81 LIT out' for tie lad st
his home, ana with threats made him
deliver up the property, which he had
hid IN a-ssUnp.
The edisor of the Fdyette County
Record attended the Colorado PresbM
terry, and then said nothing about it in
his paper, apologizing by saying that
he had 10 space to spare. Had he at
tended a wedding or the opening of
new saloon where drinks We're free,
| no doubt he would have had plenty OF
| space 10 write the thing up nicely. Oh,
what wicked world this Is,
The Register hears of one farmer in
| Grsyson county who has made by his
own labor this season eight hundred
| bushels of wheat, eight hundred bush
els of oats, three thousand bushels OF
barley, and has eight acres of fine corn.
| This farmer uses the best and most i'm
proved machinery of every kind, does
! everything in the right season aud
thoroughly, and never fails of rich
reward for MS labor.
The papers of Texas generally seem
to indorse such sentiments as the fol-
lowing: How long, oh how long,
will our people and lawgivers permit
wholesale butchery r. L, e-iIled on
with impunity - laFe no decisive
measure to stop IL: Y We do have q
called session of the Legislature they
should pass some more stringent law
for the punishment of manslaughter
and murder.
A stencil arising from dry we'll on
the old Land ranch, on the Martinez,
fifteen miles from San Antonio, led to
an investigation on Wednesday, of the
past week, and the headlesS body of @
man, in bad state of decomposition,
was found therein. The stencil was
so great the discoveries did not make
further research, but they feel salts
fed that the well contains the bodies
of other persons.
The Palestine. AdrOcate says: ''The
farmers of Anderson county may be
said to have found at least one object
of their noble mission which will here
after be to raise early fruits and vege-
tables. We defy growers anywhere to
produce earlier or finer peaches, plums,
tomatoes, or similar productions, than
have been shipped this season from
Anderson county,"
The San Marcos Baptist Association
convened in LAGRANGE last Friday,
the twentieth instant, and closed Mon
day, the twcnty-fourth, after an inter
estlng session of four days. There
were present about 100 delegates
sensible, solid looking men. Their
deliberations were conducted with or
der, harmony and ability. So says
the Fdyette County Record.
J. c. Downing, a Dallas photo
grapher. has invented novel machine
to facilitate the taking of children's
pictures. The machine is a swinging
Of anA Of hinh oh -
for the child, and at the other end is
the camera, and no matter how the
swing may move, the child and the in
strument maintain their relative posi-
tions, while the gentle swinging mo-
ton causes the child to remain per
fectly still. 81
| There is some excitement in Decatur
over the discovery of an organization
ostensibly having for its object the pro-
lection of the people against horse
selves the regulation of the community
generally, they have gotten themselves
into snap by shooting around and
through the house of Mr.. Howard
Lewis, whom they wounded in the
hand. Five of them have bsen ar
rested.
The Gatesville San says that sin no
one thing have the farmers of Coryerl
county made so much improvement IN
the last few years as in the number and
breed of their hogs. The old-fashioned
razor-backed breed has rapidly given
way to the best breeds known. Very
little bacon has been imported this
year, and hereafter this county will
have bacon to sell instead of sending
money to the North" f q
On Tuesday night last an attempt
was made in Houston to fire the Inter-
national union depot and sheds, and
much talk was uccasioned. The IeLe-
gram does not think the railroad men
had anything to do with the firing,
but that those wishing te pilIage were
| guilty of the deed. The Telegram adds:
"In case of attempted destruction of
property there is some talk of organic
ing the entire body of citizenry into a
vast vigilance committee, armed and
determined to maintain public order at
any COST" ..-....r- .f.-..4.
A few days ago the body Of man
| was IOU1u III tlO AlO L IlO, htSG Ol
San Antonio, with the head severed
from the body. Near the body
horse was found, saddled, a lariat
fastened to the horn of a saddle and
u running moose over the horns of
steer. On the lariat were fresh stains
of blood for few feet, and the sup
position is that in lassoing the steer
the rope, had caught him around the
neck and the horse and steer in run
ming around surged against each other
and severed the head from the body, q
thing not impossible.
On Thursday night last, the Express
says, Mr.. Henry Sanly, on going into
his room 70 San Antonio to retire, no.
ticed a man lying under his bed. Mr.
Panty took from his pocket small
pistol, and just at this time the man,
who was supposed TO be negro, COM
menced to get out from under the bed,
when Panty fred and then left the
room. The man also left and made
his escape, but not without getting a
severe wound. The room was spotted
with blood, and so was the yard and
the fence where he got over.
The Dallas Commercial of the twen-
tv-fourth says: IAN the train men at
Marshall have struck. No freight
trains are allowed to leave that city. |
son of Tom Scott attempted to leave
Marshall on a special train this morn
ing but was stopped and turned back. |