The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
Tcxas-Facts and FancIes.

Col. Lang made a great speech at
Bonham. --..
Gen. Maxey is delightful talker in
social life. -.-s
Col. Cdiberson spoke at Mount
Pleasant last Friday. ..
Dallas goes on big bender and eel
ebrates the fourth as Mardi Gras.
Thirty-fve thousand buffalo hides
have been hauled into Fort Concho
this winter.
People about Bonham are buying
whisky by the barrel in anticipation of
bottle smashing by local option.
Fannin county voted on local option
Saturday. The Neaos of Friday before
says 1t was C'would be') adopted.
Bonham is all agog about local OPP
ton, and there is terrific excitement
over at the Neaos Office, where Bonham
is situated.
Gatesville NO longer resounds by day
and night with the yells of maddened
inebriates. Prohibition has begotten
peace and order.
Col. Lang and Ex-Governor Throck-
morton are tramplng over Northern
Texas. They are in good company
this once, anyhow. -.-s ..-.
The Bonham Ne,os says: "The
wheat crop of Fannin county is very
promising, and we have no grasshop-
pers in this section"
The prosecuting attorney of Rock
wall county estimates his losses of fees
there at fifty per cent. because of the
adoption of prohibition. .-.....
1t is sad, but the Bonham Ne,cS
doesn't take stock in the local option
war. The reason is good one, and
we have nothing to say.
IL The Vidette Gays: "One-third of the
population of North Carolina cannot
read or WRITE" 1t would be bad
place to enact prohibition.
.. Daniel Lee, an old man, was shot
and killed by a son of G. NJ. Smith,
near Bonham, last week. The boy
must have been born drunk.
James Kibbe and W. 8. Vickery
have begun the publication of the
Ne,es.Item at Mason, Texas. If 1t
stick to it's textit will prosper. -
Kaufman county farmers say the
cheerful grasshoppers of those parts
are steadily moving north, and no Diet,
riment will be done the country. II
The Navasota ContrOUersialist is to
contain nothing but religious contro'
versy." 1t will be most deliciously
interesting and lively and exhilarating
paper. - "2F H'.'a|
The women over in Fannin are max
ing a heap of fuss about loc.l option
and will fan out the opposition at last
in Northern Texas-except the redoubt
able Martin. -.
Prof. T. C. Reede, of Austin, say
he is going to send 200 Northwestern
farmers to Lawrence, so the Time
tells. We suppose T. c. r. keep
them staked out.
/ The Prince of Wales is going to wea
the Southerner's soft fel. hat. W.
won't feel awkward under one of then
any more when sauntering along Broad
way or Chestnut street.
The proposition discussed in tn
Terrell debating club is, "Should tn
United States have King Z" and tn
fate OF an empire and unborn million
depend upon the decision.
The survey of the Waco Branch t.
Weatherford has been completed
Austin is forced to build q narroy
gauge towards Ell Paso. Why not d
it nowi 1t must be done.
Kaufman has its Sunday school con
vention on the eighteenth. Whe
will all the Sunday schools of Aust
march through the streets singing Oh
Hundred with bands of musicf
or the one hundred and fifty case
= for illicit whisky and tobacco bushes
before the Federal Court, one was L
iWare & Sons. They will all becom
of that family now, we reckon.
Old Tge will be the next mayor o
Dallas; but Thurman will give hum
, close race Prejudices of creeds an
: of sections are improperly introduce
, and the contest turns upon this.
Five splendid new brick stores wi
soon adorn the square at BrenhaH
!. The coming of the road from Galvel
I ton makes property valuable, inspire
J confidence, and will double the trad
? Of Galveston. s r-
3 The EsvasOta 7a5let devotes an e.
$ tra to the list of farms and homes q
, yertised for sale for unpaid taxes. Sue
evidences OF bSd government or lag
people should not adorn the pages (
Texas newspapers.
The New Orleans Minstrels sold an
class tickets in Sherman 70 rudely els