The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

Capt. Killough, of FaSette, has
cow that weighs 1890 pounds, and A.
T. Bradshaw has one that weighs 1855.
Mississippi has ninety-two papers,
with combined circulation of 60, 223,
or one copy to every thirteen inhabi-
tants.
The Sutherland Springs Chronicle
saws that there are not hogs enough in
that county to consume one-tenth of
the acorns.
The local option law was carried in |
Chereno precinct, Nacogdoches coun-
ty, at recent election, by a vote of
two to one.
Corpus Christi handled 100000 |
pounds of wool last season, so says an |
exchange. That looks like a pretty
big story.
A piece of silver ore has been exhib-
tied in Mason which will yield 5000 to
the ton. Let 1t yield, and the quicker
the better.
Foster, of the Taylorsville Reflector,
says that the town has been very much
improved by the whitewsshIng of the
Napier Hotel.
The Banner of last Saturday said
that cotton picking would commence
in Washington county on some farms
on Monday last.
Peaches at the Rasedale Nursery, at
Brennan, are ripening so fast that
twenty-five hands are unable to pack
and ship them.
Rev. Mr.. Kerr, the first mayor elect
of San Marcos, filed the pulpit at the
Methodist church in that place on Sun
day morning last.
The McCulloch countS court house
will, when it Is completed, be the fin
est on the Texas frontier, not except
ing the one at Burnet.
The iron mines of Marion county
continue to be worked. The furnace
is making from ten to eleven tons per
day of fine No. iron.
The Morris County Banner, publish
ed at Dangerfeld, says that the grad
ing of the East Line Railroad IS about
COMPLETED to that place.
wheat crop of Northern Texas this
year is expected to reach fully 100 per
cent. more than last year.
The city council of Sherman has
contracted with Prof. Cole, of the
North Texas Female Academy, to teach
$50 children at 81. so each.
Col. Berry Tice, of Waco, possibly
the man that regulates the weather and
starts or stops storm at will, weighs
403 pounds. He's whopper.
1t is claimed that in Hays county
corn will yield thirty bushels to the
acre; wheat, about twenty-five; oats
will average over seventy-fve.
At Adkins's mill, in the eastern por-
ton of Freestone county, on last Satur-
day, a man named Clearidge was killed
by his father-in-law, John Harrison.
The danger in interfering between q
man and his wife has received fresh
illustration in New Jersey. The peace
maker is dead and the husband q muir
| derer.
The irrigated farms on the Leona,
Frio and Sabinal, in Uvalde county,
are producing fine crops of corn, SUI
gar cane, wheat, barley, oats and.veg-
etables.
Ira II. Evans, of the international
and Great Northern Railroad, owns
and is improving a valuable tract q
land on the San Gabriel, six miles from
Taylorsville.
The county commissioners at Dead
wood offer $3.50 reward for every In
dian killed in the county. BY prompt
action they hope to get the deadwood
on the red man. -
A negro and little son of q man
named Kelley cut pine tree down
near Houston, which fell upon pair
of mules hitohed to a wagon and killed
both of them.
The Bulletin says that Dewitt county
and Cuero are the most orderly
places now in the State, and attributes
this happy state of affairs to efforts of
the State police.
The base ball game in San Antonio
between the Lone Stars, of that place,
and the Lees, of Houston, resulted in
the success of the latter. by score of
seven to six.
The San Marcos Free Press publishes
q list of all the citizens of Hays coun-
ty who pay State, county and school
tax to the amount Of 800 and upward. :,
The number is thirty one.
! Jim McClanahan, who lives near Pal
estine, detected two men stealing his
horses few evenings since, and firing
upon them he killed one aud wounded
the other. Good enough.
Two men, while digging well in
Hamilton county for Mr.. G. W.
Wade, when thirty feet below the sur
face, found living reptile, resembling
both an eel and q snake.
The Jefferson Jimpieeute of the thir-
ty-frst says that the rains of Saturday
aud Sunday last were pretty general
and the crop prospects throughout that
section of the State are A No. /.
The San Saba Ne,es, Of the fourth,
speaks of heavy rains. That and ad-
joining counties had suffered with the
drorght, but last week they were IA
vored with two days heavy rain.
Cal Metcalf, from Davis county,
Kentucky, has purchased about Eve
hundred acres of land three miles from
Hutto. He is also negotiating for .
tract in the vicinity OF Taylorsville.
The Fayott< GeuAsy Rzens of the
secosd says that for two weeks past
the workmen e two tin shops have
been busy manufacturing TN pumps
for sprinkling worm poison on cotton.
Six carloads OF people went on an
excursion1rom hozrton TO San Anto-
Mo on the thirty-first uit- Pho base
ball match between the Houston and
San Antonio Clubs was played on the
first.
Mrs. Davis, mother 81 the Morris
] boys, who murdered peidler in Hgnt