The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-16


ire missing, ard ere supposed to be
lead.
The people OF San Marcos are enjoy
ing boat rides On the beautiful Sar
Marcos river. The Free Press says tina,
! few years ago the water at the main
spring measured ninety feet in depth,
but that now 1t Is only twenty-eight feet
leep.
Paine < Orator., attorneys, Wash
ington, report Texas patents to ]. H.
Davis and w. White, Winnsborough,
valve gear for steam engines; A. S.
Eastman. Navasota, ginsaT Ming ma
chimes; E. B. McCarty, PlsntsssviIle,
car coupling,
Col. John W. Polk, who will prob
ably be the next doorkeepes of the
House, has relatives in this city and at
Bastrop. 1; is said he will be sup
ported by the Texas delegation rs well
as by that of Missouri and Tennessee
and North Carolins.
The sherman na.'ss Rsgt4ier was two
years old this week, and the proprie-
tors say it is now one of the perma
nent institutions of Sherman. They
should have dug down and examined
the foundation before making such a
rash statement,
State Treasurer Dorm advertises that
State TED per cent. bonds, issued under
acts of May 5, 1873, and May 3, 1874,
will be redeemed at the American Ex-
change National Bank, New York
City. Interest will cease on these
bonds after Angus: 81.
The corporate authorities of Column
bus, Texas, have ordered vote of the
people on the question of organizing
their schenls 30 as to secure share OF
tie Peabody fund. The editor OF the
Citizen, who is also mayor of ii e town,
strongly favors the measure.
The TYGller Gsgaty Courier says Grim
inals should be sent to the penitentiary
for crime, and should be kept inside OF
the prison walls and not hired out over
the State to beggar the honest yeo-
many of the country who have to earn
their living by the sweat of their brows.
Tile prismoidal railway at Hemp
stead is being dragged out of the a, b,
es. The iron for the road will be on
hand in few days, and then the one
legged concern will commence hopping
The original inventor of the prismoidal
railway is now In Hampstead.
Capt. SPARKS recently arrested II
Brown county man named Seburn Y.
Thomas on requisitioR from the gov.
ernor OF Arkansas, and for whom $500
reward was offered. He was charged
with killing his brother in b aon coun
ty, Arkansas, three years ago.
The KerrVille fT0ntiersman says thai
a Mr.. Phillips, living on Johnson.
Fork Of Llano, kimble county, ha'
about thirty five hundred head OF
sheep, from which he clips on an ay-
erage twice year ave pounds of WOO
per head.
Mr. ]. A. Mariner, a citizen of Hen
dersou county, was found dead in th,
Kickapoo and Athens road, three mile
| from the former place, last Friday. N
marks Of violence were found upon hi
person, and it is supposed mis- deatl
resulted from some natural cause.
In Houston respectable citizen raj
man out of his house three times OF
the night of the sixth, end the las
time fired on him with a shotgun
filling his breast, arm and side witt
small shot. The man was taken to tn
station house the next morning and h
proved to be Joha Farrell
The Express of San Antonio says tina
in the excitement over the land gra
case, the Texas papers have ceased tn
discussion of the extra session of tn
Legislature question, and that, too, be
1 fore the editors had decided ,whethe
tney wourdcnnvene the Legislature O
not.
A party of gold hunters are at Jacks
boro, on their way to prospect for gol,
in the Wichita mountains. Thes
mountains and streams give every ind
cation of gold, yet SO far none has eve
been found, notwithstanding the creek
have been ''panned" from mouth t
head.
Two boys, named Owens and Brow O
had difficulty in Mustang Prairie
near Calvert, on Sunday last, durluj
which Brown stabbed Owens in tn
neck with pocket-knife The wound
ed boy died shortly after being cut
| Owens was fourteen and Brown clever
years of age.
Living near Euglewood, in Robert
son county, is a family of father
mother and twelve children, and re
markable to state, they count 1928 fin
gers and toes as naturally belonging t
them. Each of the twelve children
has "a, fully developed, but the par
ents only have DO between them.
| A colored school teacher named V
r. Swan has been arrested at Dalla
for committing a rape on pupil /
years old. The crime was COMMITTEES
by putting the child in fear. He hat
attempted the same crime on anothe
child some time before. The negroe
talked about lynching Swan.
Two negroes, Jim Walker ard San
dy Barnes, were assassinated on Sunda
night last while lying asleep in
workshop at Spring station, or th
International and Great Northern rail
road, by an unknown party, who sho
them through window. The latte
was killed and the other will get well
In Wise county there is a we'll II,
feet deep, which supplies, at all season
of the year, several families with al
| abundance of water; but when tn,
wind blows for twelve hours from til,
north, no water can be drawn from th
we'll. It is mystery how the winC
could affect ths water st depth o
ITO feet.
The San Antonio Herald says tina
ME-. S. Nichols has invented a very in
gsnious Continuance for dipping sheep
by means of which he ciaims that {
man and two boys can dip 5000 sheer
per day. Mr.. Nichols has used the
dipping machine on bis ranch fol
months, and has working model il
the city.
Two men named .S~afford anG
Marksblry, charged with numbering
one Dixon, in Bosque. have been in.
dicted, by one Mayiield turning States
evidence. and the Grsnbury Ildettt
hopes that nothing now will prevent
the two men from receiving the full
penslty Of the law for the horrible
crime committed.
During the past month tie sales Of
school lands in Bee county amounted
to some II, 900 acres. netting the coun.
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