The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08
Te1a-Racrs and Faneles.


Denison, too, has Kentucky Baptist
preacher, and local option comes next.
The Denison News says R. Q. Mills
has made many friends in Texas by
his bold stand"
W. B. Greenlaw says that the first
business of each stranger in Dallas is
to make French John ''shell out"
The Stockton Telegraph man has a
baby, and is blissful about It. His
paper doesn't look like it was more
than week old.
The Corpus Times, hearing that TIE
fair author had become q wife, repro
duces the admirable poem entitled
"a Woman's Love Dream"
Under the heading "Texas Chips"
the Sherman Register is down on the
STATESMAN, which frequently gets
away with the Register, thus toted OF.
1t is said that GOLD has been discov
cred in Brown county. 4 gentleman
digging in cIstern, when twelve feet
under the surface, struck vein of gold.
Poor Gresenback! He had q wife
and twelve children, and was penri
less, and went to Deuison from Dallas,
starving and hungry and unable to get
employment, shot himself fatally.
Two civil districts OF Burleson coun-
ty have knocked whisky on the head.
Farmers going thither with boys and
Girls to rear and educate will please
take notice.
David Wellington, while drunk, fell
from his horse into Elm creek, near
Gainesville, and was drowned. 1t was
The first time he ever had anything to
do with water, and it killed him.
Capt. C. F. White, an acrobat, Is a
candidate for the mayoralty of Calves
ton. In any event the GdlCestonian says
he has turned several summersaults in
his active political life.
The white stone embankment of the
International railway, west Of the city,
is covered and blackened with young
grasshoppers. They crawl upon the
stones to enjoy the suns warmth.
Grasshoppers are coming up about
Ennis, the Re0ieW says, and doing much
| damage to the wheat crop. 1t is said
that they average 1000 to the square
inch, but we do not vouch for this
story.
Howard Sawyer is coming to Austin.
He has been doing Galveston. The
little l vol, 10 mo. edition, just ou',
makes a great noise in the world, and
the publishers are awful proud of the
| work.
Prof. johnson is lecturing on gram
mar at CastroVille. He is the precur-
SCR of the famous J. n. Morris, who
finishes up the job and makes even
Comanches talk as Goldsmith and
Sterne wrote.
Rev. G. w. Graves, Methodist min
lister, late of Salado, has been appoint
cd to Round Rock and Georgetown
work, Uice Rev. Fisher, who resigned
rather than wrestle longer with Hen
derson, Nat. Q.
Major Horizons dry goods house at
Jacksboro was broken into and robbed
of fine saddles and other goods. The
money drawer was also rifed of its
contents. The robbers took off all
they could carry.
Ex-Attorney General Clark says It
costs $1,000 instead of $500 to send a
person to the penitentiary. So these
pets of the land, our grogshops,
make US pay $500, 900, instead OF
5000, 600 as we stated before.
Dallas has been nightly fattened
out and bull-dezed and boomeranged
by the Texas and Pacific, which has
transferred to Fort Worth much of the
energy and activity of the once ire.
presslble pugnacious hole in the ground.
oaIuur, who killed onerln Starks of
Rockwell last summer, has been taken
thither from Dallas for trial. There is
great excitement in Rockwall, and law.
and-order men will have much diff
Guilty in restraining popular violence.
The Memphis (Tenn.) Ledger says
that J. NJ. Hubbard, ESQ, formerly OF
the Bolivar Bulletin, and most excel
lent and highly respectable gentleman,
has become editor and proprietor OF
the Ennis Tribune, Of Ellis county,
Texas.
They are putting up lamp posts
around the Democrat office in Fort
Worth for Paddock to lean against
while considering questions of public
policy involved in whisky prohibition
but Paddock cannot see it by those
lamps.
The Sherman Gas Company, after
March 1, will reduce the price OF gas
to 81 26, s4.05 and So 80 per thousand
feet, according to amount used and
payment made. Sherman can then
boast of having the cheapest and best
gas in the State.
A commercial traveller named Roths
, child appears to have been the murder
er of the girl at Jefferson. Her name
was Bessie Moore, and she was the mis-
tress of Rothschild. He has been ar
rested in St. LOUIS, and will be brought
J to Jefferson for trial,
Forty criminals day the year round
are confined in the Travis county Jail
These at forty cents a piece cost tkt
county SIG per diem. Ninety per cent
are sent there by whisky. Travis pay
nearly $4,000 year to board the crimi
|, nails her licensed whisky shops make
! Eggs at ten cents and prolific seed
r corn for sale at the office of the Tea
! Neu Era" Hens must be as prolific
as the corn to supply fruit at tnos
rates; but it's a good country TO
, hungry editors, and We print the para
, graph in behalf of immigration.
, The Sherman Patriot man is in al
: awful fix. he has published pic!ur,
. of the new court house and of til,
5 cupola on it, and there sticks up Mar
, tins statoo. Most people think 1t is
t the lightning rod drawn like line up
! ward towards the clouds; but it's Mar
5 tin, thin, vapory, invisible.
An affray occurred in Austin court!
between two negro boys, Wright Jack
son and Andrew Moschan, resulting il
the almos. instant death of the later
Moschan dragged Jackson from hi
mule, and, being much the more pow
erful, beat him severely. Jackson
drew knife and cut his assailAnt:
throat.
Can q community afford to count
dollars and cents where character ant
, morals and good order and happiness
, are concerned What is a communit!
. profited if 1t gain all money and othe
J wealth appertaining to the liquor traf
! tic, and lose thereby good order, viz
tho IptaliiUanra and cnuu1 morality ri