The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

races anu clOtned In the Ickui AnuAAA
style, are doing up that town.
Garner, 8 murderer confined In the
Jail, refuses food and de
cIares his intention to starve to death
of meeting his end upon the
gsllows. to which he Is condemned.
The people of Denison, in view OF
probable change of base, are buying
largely of property in Gainesville,
which some think will become one of
the largest tow ms in Northern Texas.
Tile Sherman Patriot says that the
wheat yield IN Grsyson county and
Northern Texas generally will be from
twenty-five to forty bushels to the acre,
or about double Whist it was last year.
John Wesley Hardin is reported as
being in Coleman with large band of
we'll armed followers. He threatens
to burn the town of Comanche, where
his brother was hung about five years
ago.
At the Houston fair Col. Geo. w.
Keene, of Marion county, received the
premium for the best ottOn chopper.
His is a late invention and highly
spoken of q great labor-savlng ma
chine.
Murray, of the DeDison Neos, dis
gusted with that bug demonstration
in promotion of spirtuslism, has turned
his attention to NOrmonism, and will
some day, probably become member
of its hierarchy.
A gentleman jus. from Boerne gives
the san Antonio RraM glowing ac
count of the country: l. is settling up
Delng made ana crops and stock are IN
tine condition.
A Mr.. Whitesides, of Bell county,
recently found S sstchel in the road
which contained $4,000. He soon after
wards ascertained that it belonged to
some movers and like an honest man he
delivered it to them.
Col. D. n. Wisdom, of the Jackson,
Tennessee. WhiG weighs upward of
two tons, but went in one of Col. Sam
Scott's coaches safely to San Antonio.
He was cooling off, when last heard of,
IN San Pedro springs.
The effort has been to throw the
cause for the late fire in Sherman upon
parties working for insurance money,
but the investigation before Judge
Lindsay is producing no developments
and is becoming tedious.
The Patron tells about the body of
man supposed to be horse thief, be-
ing found near Lovelady. The most
singular thing about the affair was that
the man had come to his death from
the use of too much hemp.
The remains of a negro who was
hung on the Sandies, near Rancho, Con
zales county. about two months ago,
for the murder of lady while her hus-
band was absent from home, are still
to be seen suspended in the air.
Judge Fisher, late county judge of
San Saba county, was tried on Wednes-
day last, in Llano county, for the muir
der Of Harwick; verdict, not guilty.
He was defended by Judge Terrell,
who returned to Austin yesterday.
Texas veterans living in Wall,r
county are: Judge Edwin Waller,
James Bennett, John n. Hensley, F.
j. Cooke, John P. Ferrell, johnson
Hensley, ]. G. Pitts, James s. Nc
Gahey and D. Il. Van Vachten.
A commercial traveller, so-called,
went to Henrietta to drum up trade.
He camped out while there and did his
own cooking, and the Journal and the
hotel keepers saw that he did not
pack off" any of the trade of Henri
eta.
benson has been ruthlessly plum
dered by its officials, and the same
tale will be told in regard to every
town and city in Texas so long as our
legislatures are made up of dema-
gogues, who pander to numbers and to
Ignorance.
The Henrietta Journal has been
shown specimens of gypsum, taken
from the banks of Red River not far
from the town of Henrietta. AS fer
tilizer it is pronounced superior to all
others. Millions of tons of this valua-
BILE matter are reported in the deposits
of Clay county.
The Georgetown Sun has Its brilliant
eyes localized upon "three of the
grandest demagogues in Texas" and 1t
is going to burn and blister them.
Who are they that thus rise in splendid
eminence above their fellows? Won't
the Sun en-lighten us when it lights on
theme
While good preacher and his whole
congregation were down on their
knees at prayer meeting, in Dallas. q
hanging kerosene lamp exploded. The
confusion that followed showed that
the pious man was as devoted to his
personal safety as to the redemption of
mems souls.
At Houston they played for even and
stole the big snake from Coles circus.
They are talking of sending it to Wells
in substitution for the Jewels toted
away and recaptured and turned loose.
But Wells don't want the snake and
firmly and kindly but positively refuses
to accept the charmer.
Paine & Grafton, patent attorneys,
Washington, d. c., report a patent
granted to ID. w. Hoshall, of Dallas,
for targets for shooting galleries, and
to j. c. Melcher, O'Quinn, for insect
destroyer. If this includes bed-bugs
they want the things in cedar brakes
and first class boarding houses.
A. Wahlstab and ]. P. Duviaage,
commercial travellers of Galveston.
raised row and fought with knives,
forks, goblets and all sorts of crock
cry in the dining-roem of the Nenger
Hotel, and their trial before the mayor
resulted in San Antonio's getting back
some of. the money its excursionists
spent at Galveston.
The Herald says that "if our Texan
stockmen are wise, instead of selling
off their herds and winding up bust
ness, they will increase them and move
farther west. With the prospect Of a
large European demand for dead
meats, it would be exceedingly short
sighted to contract operations"
The Sherman Register says that ''the
Savoy newspaper man, who, we learn,
got drunk and rode his horse into the
stores of the quiet little village recent
ly, making perfect demon of himself,
consigns the Fifteenth Legislature to
eternal infamy for the 'damnable law
Furnishing drunkenness.
The directors of the Dallas and
Railroad, after putting no
money into the enterprise, refuse to
the road to iron mongers who