The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
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the new crop.
Miller, a Brownsville quarantine
guard, was fired at four times from the
side.
Mr.. James Christie, the admirable
business man of the Hutchins House,
is dying at his home in Houston.
TIE Gonzales Enquirer says that At
ascosa, Wilson and Klmble counties
will give large majorities for Ireland.
If frost does not come in a month, |
Houston gardens will produce ripe |
bananas. Will they take the fruit or
frost2
In Hampstead criminals worth over
$4,000 are not sent to Jail, but allowed
to walk around like gentlemen, with
''guards."
The greatest flood in the San Ante
Mo river at San Antonio did not reach
over sixteen feet above the water level
of the river.
Gems. Ord and Trevino are going to
have a consultation regarding border
affairs. 1t will be productive of good
to both countries.
The Eagle contemplating the great
aud good MAT O." says "poor George
town." Will the Eagle please tell US
what ails the placer
]. A. Durand, of San Antonio, an
old and much-respected Texan, and
long member of the Legislature from
Bexar county, is dead.
Senator Coke was at Cleburne with
Judge Roberts on the last day of Sep
TENDER. They are bringing back the
Greenbackers in droves.
The government freight for Forts
Davis, McKavett and Stockton will be
hereafter forwarded from Fort Worth
instead of from San Antonio.
The BRENNAN Banner advises the
erection of cotton compress at Aus
tin if its people would regain the trade
of Round Rock and other places.
A man named Morris, from Grayson
county, while hunting horse thieves in
Red River county, was bushwhacked
and shot. His wounds are slight.
81. NJ. Whitaker has been appointed
by the Governor district Judge pro tenn,
to take the place of Judge Bonner,
nominated for the Supreme bench.
Free schools, so the reports show,
were taught last year on an average
five months. The trustees of one
school in Travis county kept it gong
SIX months.
The Denison Neacs is the ''Infdel'
this time. 1t says: Governor Hub
bard applied his prayer gauge to the
fever little too soon to be followed
by nipping FROST"
N. A. T., the Galveston NeoOs's cor
respondent, who is now the editor of
the Peoples AdyOcate, Houston Green
back paper, was cowhIded the other
day by Capt. Sam Ashe.
Col. Wash Jones is going before the
Changers of Washington county on the
twelfth to tell them what he knows
about farming and such things. Politics
is to be an outside question.
The Dallas fair is progressing with
much interest being displayed. The
show is good one and is attracting
many visitors. The present guarantees
operate financially against the under
taking.
The Charleston Melcs and Courie1
says at Long Point, Texas, the colored
people put bells upon the necks oil
their children to keep them from get.
ting lost in the high weeds that sur
round the town.
The Denison NeaoS begins to chroni
Gle the influx of people into Texas
One train of six wagons filled will
men, women and an unusual number oil
children passed Denieon on their way
south from Illinois.
Buffers wells, near Harwood, are
commended by the newspapers of Gal
weston, Houston and San Antonio a.
fountains of life everlasting. The wa
ter is very like that of Sour Lake bu
contains other ingredients.
Much sickness prevails in Smitl
county, so much, says the Courier, al
to seriously interfere with cotton pick
ing. But this doesn't matter. A few
bales of Smith county cotton bring
an awful amount of money.
The Capital State Fair commences
Tuesday, October 30, lasting FIVE days
, Over 200 head of thoroughbred stool
were entered by the first of September
and the prospect is that it will be thu
finest show ever held in Texas.
Fort Worth and the country about
it is said to rest ON vast subterranear
lake of freestone water. 1t Is hoped
, people may find some use for it ther,
in the future, and this Is the reason
why it waS not put under Dallas.
The next thing in order is a conven
ton Of nnrderers and assassins at Aus
: tin to take Tito consideration the quick
D est way to suppress the newspapers
They are the only thing in the way o
: these fellows having it 'ah their Owl
way.
The shooting scrspe night before las
!, at a maison de femmes du pare, extraol
binary as 1t seems, Is not comparabl
with the Obenchain-Calder affair {
Dallas, and Dallas still totes tn
"borns" which she takes early an
often.
: The San Antonio Herald furiousl
: assaults the STATESMAN for its gene
/, osity to a respected citizen of Austin
= whose son is fugitive from officers c
: the law, while some of the friends G
f the young man here are most dis
e pleased with it.
At Pilot Point, the wife of j. {
: Klutts went to remove to safer quarter
I large six-shooter that hung on a mai
. The weapon accidentally fell, discharl
! ing ball into the leg of her husband
. ranging from the ankle upward, an
= coming out at the knee.
Race horse men should know thu
t the race course of the Capital Stat
: Fair Association Is under the manage
ment of DR.. w. G. Philips. This
sufficient guarantee that the track wi
a be in magnificent condition. tits tn
finest race course in the South.
s Martin remarks, with tears in hi
D eyes we reckon: ga good congress
e man was spoiled when J. Tom Boswe
was cut off," How was it done, an
: where did the blow fallG Did the
! serve him as Martin does the name -
Tom," which Is sadly bob-tailed.
Drew Middleton produces pears g
q Weatherford weighing one and ha
$ pounds each. Several pairs of Middle