The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30


The Bonhsm Nt,es thinks the Austn
fair association entitled to credit for
discouraging horse rsciDg. This was
its purpose, but the Capital Jockey
Club died sud the fair ASSOCIATION has
TO take little stock in the racing.
1t is estimated that there are IS, 600
Bohemians in Texas. These people are
mostly settled in Fsyette, Colorado.
Lavacs, Austin, Washington, Burlesop,
Bastrop and Brazos counties. They
make excellent and thrifty citizens.
The evangelist, Grant, has ACCOM-
plished great good in Dallas, so the
papers ssy. No preacher ever bad
such field for toll. SubsoIl the place
and only sin would be turned up.
Mr.. Grant has only turned it down.
Why is il that the Galveston Cieilldn
is always two or three days behind
hand when the Noes gets to Austin on
the day of its publication Sometimes
| four or five numbers of the CiciliG1
reach this office at the same time.
DR.. Dan Snow, of Rockwell, has
been charged with numbering his wife
by roasting her on a red-hot stove, and
it Is all false. The SANDER was started
some six months since by an enemy,
and found Its way into the newspapers.
The Reflector tells it that Mr.. John
T. Miller, of Austin, thinks of estab.
fishing a livery stable at Round Rock
or Taylorsvilie, we can't tell which.
The Reflector talks about both these
places as though it was part and par
Gel of each of them.
The German citizens Of Dallas are
moving in public school matters. 1t
is their desire to have German taught
in the schools, and they are willing to
pay for the teacher. They offer their
Turner Hall as school room, free OF
charge.
The Bonham Neus says the Texas
| and Pacific forfeited its land reserva
ton on the fifteenth of July, and under
the present Constitution the Legisla.
ture is expressly prohibited from re-
wing 1t. 1t insists on action being.
taken to declare the forfeiture.
The Banner has made diligent in
| euirF, and can learn of no crazy
woman from Washington county being
palmed off on Travis county. as has
been cI;at 3ed, and, indeed, Washing.
ton county is the home of too much
enlightenment for such thing to &C.
cur. yam.
An exchange says: "The amount
raised by the sale of fraudulent land
certificates, lately discovered and ez-
posed by the Attorney General, is said
to be $50, The $50, 900 were
borrowed upon counterfeit certificates
before the Bernard and Csney certifi-
Gates were issued.
JIM Oldham, negro buck from
Austin county, came into Washington
county as he said ''to raise little
h-ll." He raised muss, was cap.
tdred, plead guilty, was fined S25 and
costs, had his siX-shooter confiscated,
aud now Jim is satisfied that he played
h-ll, sure enough. -.......-
The San Antonio Express claims to
represent the sentiment of Western
Texas when it urges Lee Halls claim
to the command of the State rangers.
He ls certainly worthy of the position.
and no one denies at the same time
that Major Jones has made faithful,
active and brave officer. .'Hl
The Welmar correspondent of the
Colorado Citizen says; "The worms
have done great injury to the cotton
of this section. Some of our planters
used poison, and have thereby saved
one half, perhaps three-fourths, of theil
crops. Others did nothing, and theil
cotton is literally eaten up" So
The Texas Land and Immigration
| Association, 113 Madison street, Chi.
cago, write to US that they have on
their books the names of 5000 people
who want farms in Texas. Those who
have land 20 sell or who want laborers
should send description and prices oil
land to the ASSOCIATION.
I At Prairie Lea, in Caldwell county,
eleven bushels of wheat taken to the
mill VIII sec re In return nearly two
I barrels of ii lur at about what one bar.
rel costs in Gonzales. This is strong
argument in favor of farmers raising
their own wheat. At Prairie Les
wheat is selling at 81 per bushel.
A German family from California has
lately settled in Hood county. The
unprecedented drought has resulted
very seriously to the farmer and stock
raiser, aud hard times prevails all ovel
the State. Only in the mines can fan
wages be earned by laborers, and many,
say the Germans, are coming to Texas
The San Antonio papers are re
quested by the poor widowed mother
of Mack Thompson, ten years old, tc
advertise for him. He left Austin ter
days ago, and was heard of at San An
tonic, whence he went, negro boy
states, in an ambulance with a sick
man to Fort Concbo. Address Mrs
Thompson, STATESMAN Office. M so
Lavaca county will not make more
than quarter of cotton crop. Pol
soning, where done promptly and prop
erly, has been efficacious in destroying
the worms, but many farmers hav'
neglected to use any remedy. Mex
year it will be different, for it seems {
settled fact now that the rayages o
worms may be prevented. .farss
Mrs. A. H. Mohl says, in the Hous
| ton Age, that one youth of the Sissor
troupe has comb IN his. throat. HI
must be musical coxcomb. A it'll,
girl, the same letter writer says, sing
through her nose, ard it ''pierced thu
writer's SOUL" we are told. Whethel
it was the sharp notes or sharp nos
| that pierced her we are not informed
An experimental fifteenth amend
ment of Waller county proposed {,
kindle fire on time. He turned tn,
, kerosene can over the wood, anC
while the ell went down the interest
ing youth went off. The house wa
saved with some difficulty, but thu
population of Waller county was de
creased one. H
A man named Wilkinson was under ar
rest atMsson, gu lrded by another nance
King. The prisoner walked away AMI
then galloped off on some other fel-
lows horse, while King tried to senC
him to kingdom come with his SIX
shooter. But Wilkerson bumped him
self for the wide-spreading fields o
Western Texas. -- =
A mob ut Llano the other day sho
and killed Walter Wadsworth while {
prisoner in Jail. He had been arrested
on the charge OF unlawfully handling
cattle. Wordsworth, It is said, wa
asleep when he was murdered, and /
is further stated that the charge agains