The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-19

day night, and during the day churches
had taken in all the change and sent |
it where thieves do not break in and !
steal.
The Dispatch learns that difficulty !
in San Saba between J.
Frazier Brown and man in the en-
ploy of the International Railroad. The
latter and an outsider were seriously
wounded.
Mr.. Paul Bremond's narrow gauge
railway will pass through the county
of Polk, one of the best counties in the
State, but which has been, like all of
Southeastern Texas, overlooked, be-
cause without railway facilities.
A train OF wagons loaded with $50, GOO
worth of silver in bars arrived in San
Antonio the other day from Chihua-
hua, and such treasure can go unmo.
Tested while innocent countrynen are
murdered for few dollars.
n. G. Howe is appointed assistant
superintendent of the southern diVis-
ion of the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad, vice Chas. A. Burton, re-
signed. Mr.. Howe has been for many
years chief engineer of the road.
Col. Lang, in his speech at SeguiD,
told his hearers that sin this genial
cline there is not zephyr that would
flush an angels cheek" and when a
Granger puts that remark in his
pipe and smokes it, he'll go back on
the Grand Master.
Col. Lang stated in speech at Sc
gum that Guadalupe, Caldwell and
Hays counties showed up better wheat
and oat crops than did either Collin,
Fannin or Grayson, which have the
name of being the best agricultural
counties in the State.
When Columbus lawyers have bust
ness in a county where prohibition
prevails, they carry along with them
wonderfully large carpet-bags, and the
Gonzales lawyers, when the carpet
baggers come among them, concede to
them the greatest Difference.
On the twenty-second of June there
was general shade tree planting at
Jacksonville, Cherokee county. The
theory that designates that day is that
on June 81, % and % the sap is at q
stand, and an injury done to a tree at
that time will soon heal up.
The GAINESVILLE Times, Texarkana
Democrat, Huntsville Item, Gainesville
Gazette, Bolton journal, and other pa
pers, give Brick Pomeroy some good
punches in the ribs. Brick perhaps
thinks less of Texas than when he had
%, 900 subscribers in the State.
Says the Dallas Mail: "There is no
excuse for a Democratic war on Hayes.
The party has ever commended for the
triumph of principles-not men, and
If Hayes is not Democratic president,
the Null fails to see where the Repub-
lican party would go to find one."
Turner Riley, villain, aged about
fifty years, brutality murdered an old
lady, Mrs. Hadix, in Cass county, on
the second. The murder was a cold
bloOded one. Riley is still at large,
and the authorities of Cass county will
pay a liberal reward for his arrest.
Brick Pomeroy had an audience of
eighty-fve people, at his speech in
Bonham. In the course of his remarks,
he admitted that he was in the employ
of the Texas Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny, as immigration agent, and was not
consequently the sole apostle of green
backism.
Capt. VIM. L. Foster, of Gonzales
county, has made forty six bushels of
wheat to the acre, 100 of oats, and will
make from sixty to seventy of corn.
His tomatoes weigh one and one-half
pounds, and if Gel. Lang can't show up
as we'll, Capt. Foster may step into his
ministerial boots.
County Attorney c. B. Pearre pull
chased ten gallons of vinegar and placed
it at the disposal of doctors for treat
ing the prisoners in the Waco Jail.
the county authorities refused to pay
druggists for little acid prescribed
for their cure.
The Georgetown Sun man quarrels at
the STATESMAN about that incessant
heading to an ad, GLOW is your liver 2"
1t wants to know what business that IS
Of "ourn," and tells us to take care of
our gizzard, and we are sorry for the
fellow because his spleen is in very
bad condition.
A company has been organized in
Dallas for the manufacture of grain
separators, as great an improvement
upon the old tanning mill as the mod
ern thresher is upon the old time fail.
Thus manufacturing interests spring
up in other cities while Austin looks
on with stolcal indifference.
The Chief has learned that Dee and
lin Bailey, the murderers of deputy
United States Marshal Greene, had
both been killed. The former died
from wounds received recently in Bell
county, and the latter was waylaid
and killed by unknown parties near
Sulphur Springs, in Lampasas county.
Brick Pomeroy became disgusted at
his general reception in Texas and has
left it in disgust. His trip did not
"pan ont" as he thought it would.
The people know him better than
twelve years ago when he was feeding
them upon LA Crosse" billingsgate
A couple in Denison started out on
the Fourth in married life with seven
teen children. Mrs. Margaret Mosely,
aged 81, with three children, was the
blushing bride, and John Freeman,
aged 70, the father of fourteen chill
dren, was the groom that didn't care
cuss for responsibilities when q young
wife is added to them.
TaylorsYille is situated eighteen miles
east of Round Rock, on the Interna-
tiOnal Railway. 1t is rapidly growing
in Importance, and the surrounding
country is being settled, and its vast
and rich lands suited for farming are
being well improved by wealthy farm
ers from Missouri, Kentucky and the
Northern States.
At the Prairie Grove Church, in
Hopkins county, Jew days ago, Just
as the meeting was breaking up, An
drew Hamilton came upon the scene
with double barrelled shot gun,
emptyiug the contents of one barrel
into DR.. Roebuck and the other into
Mr.. Smith, and doing but little dam
age toeither.
The Register that so ungenerously
denounced the STATESMAN for its ad-
hesion to Hayes in his patriotic effort
to give the South freedom and the ma
ton peace. nov declares it's purpose to
stand by him when such naen as Blaine,
Chamberlain and Packard opDose him.