The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-31

leapers, ana the proeact will be abun-
dant.
Major George B. Erath estimates
that the school fund of the State will
be $50, O0e, 900 when the school lands
are all realized from. The annual in
come to the school fund will be about
81, 500, 600.
Texas is the best cattle producing
region on earth. Ten of her 1--we stock
breeders own 1, 025 600 head of cat
tie, besides horses and mules, and six
of them have 6Sa, 600 acres of pAstur-
age inclosed.
Judge Carnahan, of Shelby county,
declines to receive fees in criminal con-
victiops in his court, snd has directed
the sheriff TO turn such fees over to the
county treasurer for the use and bene-
fit of the county.
A shooting scraPe took place on the
twenty-fourth in the Kennedy Heuse,
Houston, when DR.. ]. w. Brown, of
Columbus, was killed by Fayette Girls
som. The murder Is regarded as a
cold blooded one.
Cadet J. E. Buckley, of Columbus,
delivers the valedictory, and Cadet
7. E. Llttlefield the salutatory, at the
commencement of the Texas Military
Institute, which comes off in Austin
on the thirteenth of June.
Lord Lyndhurst said that the public
should acknowledge the most ample
Indebtedness to the press for informa-
ton, instruction and amusement, and
these are three reasons why everybody
should take the STATESMAN.
A gentleman of Benham Is at work
on q new motor, which promises to be
specially Valuable for running sewing
machines and small lsthes. He has
just completed working model, and
made application for a patent.
The Decatur Tribune claims that no
body can publish ten column paper
upon four column support, and be-
ing IN this predlcsmeDt its size will be
reduced. The Tribune is good pa
per and should be we'll maintained.
Marriages take place in Texas mostly
in the fall and winter. The New York
Ledger says June is the most proper
season for marriage, and this is author.
ity sufficient for making little splicing
fashionable for the next thirty days.
1t is gratifying, occasionally, to learn
that an editor has been robbed. II
makes others cling on to hope. The
editor of the Hesperian should be
lionized, for his smoke house wa:
robbed of its contents-a gour1 Of
fat.
DR.. w. H. Armstrong, assisted by
other physicians of Dallas, has just re
moved from lady living near tina.
place an ovarian tumor weighing thirty
three pounds. The operation lasted
two hours, and the patient is doing
well.
One Myer, of WAGE, had to pay {
fine for loud swearing on the streets.
1t is no uncommon thing for ladies
passing along the streets of Austin tC
hear men using no better language. and
yet no such case has been before OIL
city court.
| Hereafter communications for the
STATESMAN, written on both sides Of
the paper, and all poetry of the pla
tonic nature, will be turned over tC
the "devil" for final disposition. HI
will proceed to "tOuch 'em up" with ,
little birthstone.
Lieutenant Hall is distributing hi:
prisoners over the several counties il
which they are indicted. He ha
gathered in about thirty wonderful
scoundrels of high and low degree, snc
it's pity he has no better mode of dis
posing of them.
At the delinquent tax land sale il
Kerr county, most of the land wa
purchased by Mr.. w. N. McKie, pay,
ing therefor just the amount of accrued
taxes and costs. If not redeemed il
the time allowed by law, it will stanC
DIR. McKie's at wondrously low figures
More brains are soft from birth thar
are softened by intellectual toll, anC
they who tell of the softenins
brains of their friends, in sorrowins
accents, are they who can never be af
flicted with this dispeusstion of diviR'
providence. The job with them wa
prenatal.
Col. Rutherford, of the Second Reg
iment of State troops, had detach
ment of his command on duty In Hous
ton ON the twenty-slxth, to preserv,
the peace in Houston. 1t was rumoreC
that band of men intended to taxi
the murderer of DR.. ]. W. Brown from
the Jail and lynch HIM. The city re
NAMED quiet.
The Mail seems to think that 18Th.
Texas and Pacific Railway Compan,
will take no steps to build their roaC
to Weatherford in time to save tn,
present charter, but will permit it t.
lapse, and organize under the genera
incorporation act, thus getting the de
sired extension"
Llano society is enlivened by dis
cussion going on between Rev. Mr.
Meadows, of the Christian Church, anc
Rev. Mr.. Tregwell, of the Christadel
phia belief, as to the separate and in
dependent existence of the soul aftel
death. Texas communities would die
of ennui these dull times were it not fol
the lively preachers.
Neither heat or cold reach as high
a degree in Texas as elsewhere. A
Galveston the middle temperature is
in summer, SOC /; in winter, So . dur
ing the year, coo. Middle tempera
ture at Austin-In summer, 50 go
in winter, so 1 90 during the year
81 1-2o. Highest heat in Galveston
95 12e ; in Austin, 101 o.
Comptroller Darden tells the asses
ser of Fannin county that all lands no
heretofore rendered for taxation fol
years prior to 1877 will be included
on the lists of unrendered lands to bt
compiled at the Comptroller's Office
and when the same are sent to tn,
counties, the parties owing taxes Cal
pay the amounts due TO the collectors
Two men, while returning from thu
market in Gid6ings, got into an alter
cation and came together. No othe
weapons being at hand. one Of then
used a shank bone, while the othe
hastily gathered up a beef tongue
faced his opponent as was met Mac
duf, and the virtue Of tongue-lashinl
was proven by the manner in which
the latter became the victor.
A Mckinney paper stated that DIR
Young, the temperance lecturer, lsf
that place without paying his tavern
bill. Even as that editor has dom
! when invited to that selfsame tavern