The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

No mosquitoes III Whitesboro.
Many fine horses are entered at the
Lampasas fair.
r. w. Hubbard, OF BAstrop, raises
the finest fruit in Texas.
The new $50, Waller county
court house is about finished.
The total valuation CT property in
Victoria county amounts to -, SOC 2G5.
The cotton seed oil factory at Bren-
ham will reopen for business TINS felt.
Denton county is erecting new
court house, aud is ttl have Z new Jail.
j. j. Irwin, Of Austin, is in Lam
pasas exhibiting a new process for tan
Ming. ~ -
The total assessed value of taxable
property in Dallas county is So. 2G8,-
TO.
Town lots were sold at Eastland City
on the sixteenth, and barbecue was
also enjoyed.
No member of the Hubbard Zouaves
at Houston weighs less than two tons,
more or less.
Work on the Dallas and Wichita
road was to be resumed on the TWEEN
tieth instant.
A part of Major Jones's Froaticr Bat
TALON were doing duty at Hampstead
the other day.
Old epitaphs In memory of Jane
Bent, who kicked up her heels and
away she went.
Two carloads of Texas watermelons
have been shipped to Kansas City with
profitable results.
Gainesville wants narrow gauge to
Sherman, and Sherman intelligence
earnestly approves.
The city council of san Antonio has
been petitioned to allow bull fights,
bat couldn't see it.
j. r. Jones, Jr., has teen appointed
as cadet for West Point, by Repre-
sentative Culberson.
Hon. John r. Jones, Master of the
National Grange, was at Dallas speech
flying few days ago.
Prof. Ripple could not make the
rifle to suit the Pilot Pointers, and
they broke up his show.
Washington county has just sent
seven students to the estate Industrial
Institute" at Huntsville.
Sunny South Broughall is ''skylark
ing" in the towns of Northern Texas.
He is wanted in San Antonio.
Hon. ]. W. Flanagan has SIGHTED
his Willingness to take the field in ia
vor of local option in Harris county.
]. ]. Barton, late correspondent of
the New Orleans Picdyahe, died at his
rancho near Eagle Pass few days ago.
A narrow gauge railroad has been
chartered, running from Denisou to
Sabine Pass by the way Of Lawrence.
Tyler, of all other places, needs
Christian redemption, snd this is why
Major Penn Is working so hard there
The Commercial thinks number of
the State dailies keep grabbing at the
''land grab" just for something TO say.
Dallas is to have It's fair on the TWEEN
ty-third of October. It ia being ad-
vertised extensively, snd agents are
active.
j. n. Brtholow, well known in
Northern Texas, Is denounced as
fraud b. the St. Louis to4,a'ereiQl
Gdzette.
Tom Green county is OF the srea of
4, Goa, 900 acres, aud it's one OF
the youngest counties OF Texas, not
half grown.
Judge S. D. Wood, of Tyler, win
issue his Lar Journal sosn. The CsuT-
Ter predicts that at viii be 4 neat and
Valuable sheet"
Mckinney Is getting away with Dali
las as a wheat market, and the Ea9sfiT-
e' says goods are sold cheaper there
than in Dallas.
Farmers in Gonzales county were so
successful in growing wheat this year
that considerable crop will lie plant,
ed another year.
New corn has been engsged IN Bas-
trop county st twenty-five cents. and
prices. unless We have war with Mex
ico. will decline.
Perry Davis, the condemned murder
er, whose execution takes place on the
thirtieth INST, will be escorted 70 the
scaGold By the Waco Greys.
Hay is being pat up every day IL