The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

county some two years ago, was tried |
in Greenville and sentenced to the peni- '
Tertiary for life The trial of her sons {
was continued.
In Galveston q number of negro |
women, employed as domestics, struck
for exorbitant wages, $3.50 per day.
The ladies of the city promptly met the
emergency and performed the duties
themselves.
An exchange says that Rev Mr.. !
Carroll, an aged Cumberland Presby-
terrain minister, died few days ago at
q canp-meeting near Bolton, while he
was praying. He died from para
lytic stroke.
% W. s. Clark has been arrested in
Waco and taken to Bryan, on charge
of setting fire to the office of the Byran
Appeal. Maddox, an accomplice,
turned States evidence and fixed the |
CRIME on Clark.
The following are the officers of the |
newly incorporated town of San Mar |
cos: A. B. Kerr, mayor; W. o. Hutch
inson, L. W. Mitchell, W. B. Fry, P.
R. Turner, D. P. Hopkins, aldermen;
a. B. DALEY, marshal.
A Mexican is prospecting in Monta-
que county for several wagon loads of
silver that were buried by the Next
cans near Spanish Fort great many
years ago, when the Indians drove
them from that place.
A rattlesnake measuring eighteen
feet in length and two and one-half
feet around the body was killed re-
Gently near MIR. Tufett's, in the
Cherokee Nation. The Paris Press is
responsible for this snake story.
One Juan Coy, for whom the Cover
nor had offered a reward of $500, has
been arrested near Eagle Pass, and is
now in Jail at San Antonio. His crimes
are numerous and of the worst type,
ana it is said he will surely swing.
The Lee Base Ball Club, of Houston,
having Just received new uniform of
white flannel knee pants, white knit
shirts with blue shield, white flannel
hat trimmed with blue and white and
blue stockings, want somebody to dare
them out.
Gen. Ord has notified the managers
of the Ell Paso stage line that unless
the soldiers stationed as guard at the
various stations are provided with COM
Portable sleeping apartments and other
facilities such guards will be with
drawn.
, The Denison News says that the cit
! liens of Sherman might utilize Jack
: Martin, of the Register, in the construc-
ton of his proposed narrow gauge
railroad to Gainesville, by straighten-
ing his legs and using them for the
track.
The Journal says Bell county is blest
in the abundance of a crop never be-
, fore known in its history. The pecan
crop will be plentiful. Grass is good
and the stock in fine condition. And
so it is everywhere this year in Texas,
/ two or three counties excepted.
: From the first to the twenty-second
5 of July there was shipped from Tay-
lorsvllle slxty-five car loads of cattle,
t and the total tonnage of freight ship.
: ped from that station from the first to
I the twenty-eighth of July was l, 1885,
AS pounds, and total tonnage received
: 1920, 355 pounds.
Ivory wheat is now being. grown by
a Mr.. A. NJ. Thaxton, who lives neal
Brenhsm. He says that it will yield
100 bushels to the acre. The foul
from it is said to make excellent bread,
= and for batter cakes it is superior tC
buckwheat. 1t is also a valuable feed
for stock and poultry.
y Nothing has been heard of the es
e capped prisoners, Watson, Magee, Brown
r and Munso, since their escape froH
the Houston jail last Saturday morn
: ing. Sheriff Noble sent out full de
: scriptions of them to al parts of thu
L State, offering 800 reward for thell
capture.
Is of towns and cities to erect public i'm
r provements by Issuing bonds or con
tracing debt, and with towns of les
than 10, 900 Inhabitants the power O
. taxation is limited to one-fourth of on,
e per cent. 1t is said that Sherman can
not.
On the evening of the twenty-fiftt
, ultimo an attempt was made to burr
the railroad bridge across the Cole
s RADIO at Columbus. The fire was for
tunately discovered by a Mrs. Turn
y bull and extinguished by Mr.. T. anC
e others whom he called to his assist
s ance.
Mat Woodliff has sufficiently recov'
: cred from the effects of Marsha
: Erichson's shots to be out on the
streets, and he has been arrested un
der an indictment found by the grand
n jury and placed under bond o.
$1,000 for an assault with intent to XII
Erickson.
:. Miss Kate Wood, of Denison, ageG
about Is, mysteriously disappeared
Sunday evening last. The distracted
, parents searched all night for the los
> one, and early Monday morning mott
fed the police officers, but at last ac-
: counts no clue as to her whereabouts
had been obtained.
u The contracts for the construction OIL
8 the new postoffice building in San An
a tonic have been awarded as follows
Carpenters work to Messrs. Smye
Williamson, for $3SSS. Tin work tC
i Messrs. Leroux & Cosgrove. Stone
= work to Archibald Clark; for cutting
t $3.50; for setting stone, 1915.
d Judge Munger's steam saw mill, SIT
uated In the pine region, one and {
n half miles from San Jacinto, at Egypt,
n on the line of the International and
r Great Northern road, and thirty-twc
d miles north of Houston, exploded or
the thIrty-irst ultimo, severely injur-
- ing several men, but not fatally. The
Judge made narrow escape.
3 Fine rains in the upper country, par
# ticularly along the route of the Nuece
river, are reported, while our section il
q parched under one of the longes
droughts we have had for severa
!, years. Appearances of rain severa
q = times this v eek proved deceptive, anC
u some of our cisterns are almost ex
hausted.
- The resumption of business conse-
;, quent upon the return of the striker
u to work was very prompt, and few
- days only will be necessary to pu
things back where they were when TIT
/ stri ke commenced. So says the Dalla
IS Herald of the first. Down here we hac
g no strike.
q A bale of cotton raised by freed
man named Carvis Drake, on Judge ]
n ! w Tonao,s 1lano az VIRGINIA Point mr.