The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

makes the best of fence posts, wagon
and buggy hubs, etc. The wood lasts
always. This timber can be grown all
over Texas.
The Granbury Fidetts tells OF the IN
earthing of the bones of huge masta-
don In the bank of the creek near the
town. By actual measurement the an
imal was fifteen feet from the skull to
the knee joints.
About Lone Elm, in Kaufman coun-
ty, the rust IN the wheat has been so
severe as to make it improbable to
gather what is left. A few farmers
with their fields so affected have
abandoned the harvest.
The Stephenville Empire says Mrs.
Ledbetter, of Erath county, was bitten
By polecat, and her husband went IN
search of mad stone, hoping through
its instrumentallty to prevent an at
tack of hydrophobis.
Investment in property at tax sales
generally has been but little INDUCED
in. The reason is, that no one seems
to place any confidence in titles so OBJ
tanned; and courts will bear this sus-
picion into certainty.
Waco presents the novelty of an en-
tire city council resigning upon the
proposition that they do not represent
the wishes of the people of that city.
Everyone of them will be voted back
into office and thus Endorsed.
Capt. William Alexander, of Whar-
ton county, has a Bermuda grass pas
ture which he regards as more protita-
able than the same number of acres
planted in anything else. 1t is easily
prevented from spreading.
The Pleasanton Stock Journal learns
that the notorious Sesundo CARA, a
Mexican robber and murderer, who
has made himself terror on the Rio
Grande border, has been arrested and
lodged in Jail at Rio Grande City.
General Davldson-not the trusted
hero of Governor Davis's administra-
ton, but a true defender of the from
tler-is moving forward with a force
to intercept the advance of Indians re-
ported as coming from the Reservation.
Goliad county, with population of
six or seven thousand, has not drink
ing or gambling saloon within its Dor
ders. How close they hang on its
margin, and how many crooked drinks
the good people of Goliad take is not
told.
Texas beef is creating a sensation in
England. The meat is sent there un-
der preserving process and gives
great satisfaction both as to price and
quality. This is q trade III which we
expect to see Mr.. Morgan engage
largely.
DR.. HallowelI, charged with NAL
practice, which resulted IN the death
of Mrs. Hutchins at Denison, has now
undergone a weeks trial. He has
been placed under bond of $1,000 to
appear before the criminal court at its
next session.
The notorious James Bracken will
break no more faro banks and rob no
more of the breaking sort until he
escapes from the penitentiary. Lee
Hall has bagged him, and he is now in
jail at Goliad, where he robbed bank
IN broad daylight.
We are almost willing to file an aft
davit that Escobedo was in San Anto-
MO last Friday. The Express asserts
the fact and its ipSe dirt is final. But
where Escobedo was five minutes after
the Express uttered the words no living
man can tell.
The Tyler Tap Railway Company
has given a mortgage in favor of par
ties in New York for $3.50, 600 upon its
road-bed. The road will now be pushed
forward rapidly to Mount Pleasant, in
Titus county. and then to PIttsburg,
in Camp county.
The BrazOs Pilot is to be made an il
Illustrated journal. The editor has al
ready gotten cut of the Argus man
which he tinds will also do for hand
some Calvert editor, after little mild
tonIng with cross-cut saw across the
nose and left ear.
The commencement exercises at
Salado College will commence on the
twenty-fifth and extend to the twenty
seventh of June. Major Joe H. Stew
art and Rev. F. w. Pattie, both of
Austin, will deliver the usual address
of the occasion.
The Register says that the Greenville
Herald man accounts for his insuffera-
BILE dizziness by referring to his table
burdened every day with vegetables.
The Register seems to think vegetables
flourish about Greenville with equal
fecundlty at all seasons.
The last edition of the Sulphur
Springs Gazette appeared printed
upon one side of a half sheet. Some
villain or villains entered the Office
and pied its forms too late for the
remedy to he applied. The Gazette
thinks it was for political reasons.
Melissa Pendergrass, in Cooke coun-
ty, was burned to death last week by
non-explosive, uninflammable, double
and twisted, safety coal oil. A little
girl was so badly burned that she, too,
may die. The people in those parts
want the gas company to turn their
pipes in that direction.
A contemporary observes that now
is the time when the genial oyster
thinks about packing up his trunk and
starting upon his annual four months
vacation. 1t is to be added that the
preachers, fatter than the bivalves,
generally retire with them.
Bailey, who killed Deputy Marshal
Greene in Comanche county, was sur
rounded in house near Bolton by the
sheriff and posse, when Bailey left
the house and ran for the woods.
Twelve shots were fired at him, and
yet he escaped, leaving blood traces be-
hind him.
Glover and Hughes, prisonersIwho
escaped from the Jacksboro Jail, were
arrested in Denison on the ninth inst.
Hughes resisted arrest and was brought
down by shot through the groin near
the kidneys, which may prove fatal.
He is represented as having killed a
man in Denton county.
The Dallas Commercial says: cit is
contended that J. C. DeGress, the new
" elected mayor of Austin, being q
United States army officer, retired on
half pay, cannot hold the office to
which he was elected. If such is the
fact we congratulate the people of
Austin on their deliverance.
Grubbs, q Republican, ran against
two Democrats and was elected mayor
of Denison. We may be permitted to
digress here and say that Republicans