The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

at cost OF $l6O,OOO.
At the end of the second week of
wheat-cutting in Grayson county the
crop is pronounced good one.
Houston claims to be the best point
tor a grain market in Texas. Pay the
best price, and this will settle it.
The Commercial calls Mrs. Mohl, cor
respondent of the Houston Age, one of
the Sweetest wrighters in the State"
APleasanton girl experimental upon
bashful lover before q blue-glass
window, end he proposed at the frst
sitting.
The last Fort Worth free concert
saloon has "busted," and the propri-
etor has emigrated probably to the
Black Hills.
How are the mighty fallen! Ben
Baker, of the Colorado Citizen, most
respectable paper, has become mayor
of Columbus.
Hon. L. J. Storey, in the Neps- Echo,
gives Major West "Hail Columbia. ="
The Majors subtle argument IN that
case was very thin.
The general impression prevails that
an extra session of the Legislature is
necessary, and that it should be called
some time this fall.
1t is now put down that the total
funded debt of the Houston 6 Texas
Central Railroad is $15, 400, 900; float
ing debt So, 700, 900.
Gabriel's Mill is new postofice in
Williamson county. We suppose the
postmaster there "blows up" the pee
pie to get their letters.
A dozen good, sober farmers, with
their families, will immigrate this fall
from Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania,
to Williamson county.
No confidence was placed in tax IT,
ties in Grayson county, and conse,
quently lands sold were almost entire
ly purchased for the State.
The Adoance is q bran new psptl
printed st Buffalo, Leon county, q
place one year old and containing two
or three hundred inhabitants.
w Sherman is 1874 feet --aboYe tide
Worth 634 feet. Austin is little
over 600 feet above the sea level.
The Jimpleeute, In view of the dull
ness of the times, and the fact that
Texas has no Constitution, wants q
constitutional convention called.
A change of schedule is anticipated
on the International, the Sunset and
the Galveston roads. 1t will operate
against the interest of the Central.
One Cox, from Guadalupe. was muir
dered in Prairie Lea last Tuesday by
four bloodthirsty fellows named Car
penter, Parsley, Spring and Jackson.
The Bonham Neos approves Govern
or Hubbard's course in refusing to is
sue land certificates on what it terms
the Bernard and Caney creek swindles.
An exchange properly predicts that
the Nails efforts to defeat Hubbard
will be as unavailing as that of few
Dallas people to shelVe Throckmorton.
The editor of the FTOntiersman is n
honest man. He heads one of his col
umns 'short stolen statements" and
the STATESMAN will never quarrel with
him.
They may hang the fellow that stole
the box of cigars from Louis Heff1in,
but the four murderers of Cox, over at
Prairie Lea, will 60 unwhlpt of jus
tice.
The highest price yet reached for
wool in the Texas market was paid in
San Antonio. The clip weighed 15, :
900 pounds and brought twenty-seven
cents.
Houston could supply small army
for the invasion of Mexico from among
its loafers. Austin might thus offer
regiment and feel happy. Let Lerdo
come along.
The famous George William Thomas
Henry Bascom, editor, etc., and in
sugurstor of newspaper enterprises,
has a new one called the Clipper in
Arkansas.
The public is informed, as the Head
light should know, that no tolls will
be required for travelling over the pro
posed mscadamized road from Austin
to Bagdad.
The Tri- Weekly Herald say Hon.
VIM. Neal Rsmey's last letter read.
more like q cock and bull story than
an ''anslysis," which he was pleased
to term it.
The hail storm, 9 week ago, in
Fannin county, did some damage
Orchards In its line of passage were
stripped of fruit, and corn and cotton
badly damaged.
A barbecue was held at Kaufman on
the fifth in the interest of the Sabine
Pass aud Northwestern Railroad. Land
donations are being literally subscribed
to this enterprise.
Mrs. A.. n. Mohl, correspondent Of
the Houston Age, attended the races at
Dallas, and will 60 from there to va
rious parts of the State. She is lively
and cultivated lady.
A party Of three gentlemen from
Illinois have just been visiting Clay
county, where they purchased Is, 900
acres of land, and they and friends
will settle upon it.
Sherman sent twenty white men,
eight negroes and one woman with her
child to the penitentiary. Martins
gallsntry should have not permitted
the last named case.
The deputy sheriff of Walker county
abandoned 9 poor lunatic on the streets
of Hearne. He had been taken from
the asylum at Austin to make room
for q more aggravated case.
The taxable property of Fort Worth
amounts to about 81, $50, 900. Tie city
needs water works. which viii cost
So, 600. and its charter authorizes the
sale Of $40, 900 in bonds.
The Headlight man speaks of those
who reflect upon his patent outside a.
''meddlesome drones." He will make
them sing . different tnns IL they
doa't stop buzzing abopt him.