The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
Texa.-Raet. and Fancle..

The crep prospect in Banders county
promises TO be good.
The Baptists have a rousing meeting
in progress in Hearne.
The taxable property of Dallas
amounts to 81, zoe, 900.
1t is estimated that three hundred
voters now live in Callahan county.
Gainesville is better town than ever
before. DR.. Caskey has been preaching
there.
The Gainesville Gazette wants to see
Throckmorton made the next Governor
of Texas.
George Anderson, colOred, beat
Nicajah Bowen. colored, to death
with club, in Hearne.
Wilson county is having an influx of
Kentuckians. They go to farming and
raising improved stock.
There was lots of vocal dynamite ex-
ploded night before last by practic %
ing choir across the street.
There has been another Jail delivery
at Montague, but all the prisoners ex-
cept one have been recaptured.
All the .milliners and man-tormentors
seem somehow to advertise with Nat
Q. which is queer and curious.
A storm passed over Fort Worth on
the eighteenth, demolishing houses and
tearing down fences and awnings.
Lawrence has nine preachers, and
the moral standing of the editor of the
Times is getting beyond the average.
The Gainesville brass band has been
organized, and now Dodson will be
trained to blow more harmony than
ever.
1t seems settled that the Texas and
Pacific Railroad will be completed to
Weatherford by the eighteenth of
July.
The Rockdale Messenger will be is
sued again about the first of Nav. The
office was completely destroyed by
! fire.
They had an election in Dallas on
the twenty-first of April, and that day
being legal holiday the election is moi
legal.
Everybody about Tyler is devoted to
fishing. If they want a gudgeon,
they can get big nibble in the COuriel
office.
Contracts are to be let on the Rio
Grade and Red River Railroad, TO bt
built at once ten miles this side O
Denison.
The people of Cleburne and Weather
ford are anything else but pleased a
the suspension of work on the Waco
Tap extension.
The telegraph line goes through
Callahan city, and this is one claim tn
place gets up to beirg the county sea
"a good one.
The delinquent list in Brown count.
is comprehensive, and will cause
lively sale of real estate on the frs
Tuesday in May.
In McLennan county the grasshop
pers are dying in great numbers, AM
no damage in consequence of their ex
istence Is anticipated.
Mr.. Harvey's mineral we'll at Law
renee is curing many cases of rheuma
tism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, diabetes AM
kidney complaints.
Capt. John Dusenbury, now lying i
Gl.nwood Cemetery, Houston, wa
distinguished among old Texans fo
his many deeds of daring.
1t is thought that the pretty daughte
of Bryan who ran away with the ugl
barber will soon be strapped, and ru
the day she left her home.
DR.. Sears wishes the schools {
J Houston to be put on such basis &
J to allow him to devote part of th
f Peabody fund to their support.
Col. Breckenridge, president of til
.. First National Bank of San Antonio,
!, building telegraph line from the ban
to his residence at 'the Springs"
The -Four Counties says Richmond
over-run with feas and lawyers. 1t
the lawyers that do the jumping an
tleas the over-runnlng or rice 0ersG.
Mr.. James Vance, of San Antonio
has century plant that is about t
t blossom. 1t IS almost twenty-five fe,
high, and is vouched for by the HeI
all.
The Dallas and Wichita Railroad
pushing on rapidly, and expects to opt
cattle yards in Denton and be reaC
for the transportation of stock son
q time in June.
In Brazos county the grssshoppe
: are dying in great numbers. The
4 ravages will be mitigated, but the tt
( list of 1876 will use the county up, ho
d pers or no hoppers.
, Copper ore, stone coal and probs
bility of discovery of silver, on Co
Thomas Johnston's property, eig
, miles east of Seguin, serve to intere
conversationalists.
The Galveston Gas Company "ga'
in" as its entire personally, coal cart
}. lamp posts, meters and the like, as
3. the value of $50. People will thin
= such an assessment all gas.
q The Athens Courier, an eminent
8 wise paper by the way, thinks tn
a.. the stage robberies of this vicinity al
~ of the west are practiced upon thel
5 selves by stage drivers.
Judge Gustave Cooke, of Housto
will make a speech at Richmond (
San Jacinte day. The object Is to 81
: the people up to do something for Il
s Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroa
= The Cresset says everybody in Al
n tin but the police were spectators of
e street fight between two big color,
boys the other day, and that it was sa
to be quite an appreciative audienc
8 Paine & Grafton, patent attorney
G Washington, D. c., report a patent
sued to G. F. Lindsay, of Sherman
for leather cutting gage. Victor
Vaughan, of Pecan street, wants
copy.
u The site for the depot of the Dali
and Wichita Railroad has been selects
at Denton. Tie Iron Mountain ro'
!. offers the company 10, 900 if it will c
. tablish cattle shipments at DentC
a by the first of June.
!. w. Fl. Wilson, of Comanche, bong
: II, 900 pounds of buffalo hides in Of
}. lot. Buffalo meat abounds, and Step
= ems and Adams and Shropshire, al
e even Judge F., are becoming bowl
II in their prepensities.