The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02

has q vineyard of f20 acres, is highly
elated over his success. 1t is only two
years since he ingrafted the fine vSrie-
ties on the native root.
The case OF King Fisher, for the
murder of one Donovan, is now up
for investigation under a writ of hd
beds corpus at Castroville, and consid-
cradle interest is taken in 1t.
Fritz Sauer, of Lazy valley, Kerr
county, made ninety and three quart
ers bushels % oats to the acre. II all
the people up there are like Fritz,
Lazy valley was no. properly named.
The United Baptists, or Missionary
Baptists, as thsy are sometimes called,
commenced a meeting in Brovrwood
on Saturday, the fourteenth inst, and
it is continuing with undated inter
est.
A sewing machine man vas nearly
eaten up one day last week by big
dog at a house where he went to 9ll
a machine. We believe the fellow
went back the next day ana made 4
, sale.
Sam Comesford, the keeper of the
"TIger" gambling house in San Anto.-
Mo, was arrested on the twenty-slxth
on charge of numbering al old man
named Woodland IN Guadalupe county
| IN 1869.
On Saturday, the twenty-eighth, a
| stockraisers' meeting will be held at
Jacksboro, IN Jack county. All stock
men are invited to be present. This
don't include editors who own COW
and calf.
The remains of man supposed to
be P. NJ. Herrell, Of Bell county, were
| found on the fourteenth near Gle
burne. A man named Pharr was ar
rested on suspicion of committing
the murder.
The Christian Church at Sherman
has called Elder Downing, of Lexing
ton, Kentucky, as pastor for the con,
gregarion. He comes highly recon-.
mended as An able preacher and grad
uate of Kentucky University.
The Cresset says that Sherman boasts
of lady who is ten years older thar
her motherin- That's no story al
all. Austin has an old coon who want:
to marry woman thirty years youngel
than himself or his first wife.
The Calvert Terqn says that ''thC
last Legislature of Texas, among it
many otheE wise acts lin a horn, so t.
speak,, increased the labor of ASSESSOR
ten per cent while decreasing their re
Enumeration about twenty per cent"
A telegram has been received a
military headquarters in San Antonio
announcing that Indians have beer
seen in the vicinity of Kerrville, nca
the head waters of the Guadalupe, anC
also that there are numbers of horse
missing.
The Lampasas Dispatch publishes
long lists of arrivals at the springs
The Dispatch says that more thai
1900 people drank at the Hancocl
springs on last Sunday, and nearly a
many at the other springs about Lam
pasas."
The Broom County Banner, of thu
twenty sixth, speaks of the killing o
man named French by one Wash Nc
Glonigin, haillng from Lavaca county
The shooting was done in camp, nea
Coleman City, ana occurred about
game of cards.
Messrs. D. P. Shepherd and s. W
Sydnor, of Houston, returning from ;
tour through Northern Texas, 'look
ing after grain" advance the opinion
that the wheat yield in Texas will no
be sufficient to run the State mill
during the year.
Mat Woodlief, who fought thu
Houston marshal, will limp with on
short leg the balance of his life. Ma
has done plenty of fighting, and hence
forth he will be taxed for the amuse
ment. All fighters, sooner or later
get enough of 1t.
The Colorado Citizen of the twenty
sixth says that the cotton worms, whiel
ginning to succumb to the effects o.
poison. Some of the planters have
killed them off effectually, and theil
cotton is flourishing luxurianly.
Murders on stock ranches in Nuece.
county are decidedly common. A
Mexican herder recently killed one Joe
Miller, and then in day or two boy
present at the time was murdered by
an unknown party, but supposed to bt
the same Mexican who killed Miller.
The Register comes out boldly and
tells the people of Sherman that the
completion of the Dallas and Wichits
Railroad to Denton Will cut eff the
| bulk of their western trade, and urge:
the building of narrow gauge road to
Gainesville as their only salvation.
Allen Bowen, susp .cted of labor
ing horse thieves, was found hung
near the Hslbert crossing iO
Leon county, on Friday of last week.
The evening before heshad been seer
at Eagle Springs, and it is supposed be
was followed and hung.
The Decatur Tribune says that T.
W. Davis, who has been taking an
active and prominent part in protracted
meetings at that place, was arraigned
before Esquire Scarborough, on g
charge of forgery and horse theft, and
in default of giving bail was sent to
Jail. Ft --i9
On Wednesday, the twenty fifth, q
shooting scrape occurred at San Saba.
B. F. Rose, of Coleman, being shot in
the arm above the elbow 10y J. W.
Moore. The quarrel and fight was be-
tween Moore aud a man named c. P.
Bacon, and Rose was shot accident
ally.
The Weatherford Times says that in
the court yard at that place coarse
throated mule, with tail stretched back
as straight as pump handle, and
breath sweet with new mown hay,
humps his back and amuses the corner
loafer with his lovely nightingale sum
mer song.
An Omaha, Nebraska, dispatch says
that the Texas cattle droves which
have thus far arrived on the Platte
number $1,000 head, and $4,000 head
are vet to arrive. No danger is now
apprehended from the late change in
the river channel. The river is eleven
feet stand.
The Victoria 1drocats of the twenty
first says that not more than one-tenth
of a crop of cotton will be made in
that county, in consequence of the
worms, and that in all parts of the
county farmers have made up their
minds to hereafter SOW more wheat and
oats and to let cotton-growing have
rest.