The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-31

people of Austin are sorry to hear,
through the telegram, of the Cover
! nor's very bad health.
Judge S. D. Wood, of the Teas
La1o journal, of Tyler, has been run
ming paper just long enough to ur-
derstand the value of money. Hence
he wants to get into the State Treasury
on the Greenback ticket. We are sor-
ry for the Judge, but he will have to
wait for fiat" times.
1t costs more to ship bushel of
corn from Central Texas to Galveston
than it does from the Mississippi river
to New York City, and farmers who
have raised an abundant crop this sea-
son are obliged to let it rot in their
fields and cribs or give it to the rail-
road companies who will haul 1t, ito
market.
The negro minstrel business is Ger
tainly playing out, and prize fighters
must be at discount, for New York's
latest recruits to the army of evangelists
are William Welsh, minstrel per-
former, and Orville Gardner, the prize
tighter, and they have gone to stirring
up sinners at lively rate. A few such
reformed sinners might do much good
among the hard ones of Texas.
Guthrie, the Terrell young man sent
for twenty-five years for forgery, COM
mitted the crime in 1874, by which he
got anexpress package of $1,000, and
fled. He has been followed by detec-
tIves for four years and tracked
through all the great cities to st.
Louis, where he was caught in the
person of wretched tramp and va
grant.
John c. Buchanan, the Democratic
nominee for the State Senatorship in
the Wood county district, is young
man, but he is reported to have ever
lastingly ''set down" upon Col. Mar
tin, the Independent candidate, who
In consequence quit the canvass. Col.
Martin was a distinguished member of
the Constitutional Convention and of
the Fifteenth Legislature.
The Central city Adoertissr, as the
Central" indicates, is published at
| Waco, by John E. Elgin & Co. Every
thing reYolves about Waco since Coke
stock was used to bull the Texas DC
litical market, and the AdCerttSer, Gen.
tral,Z9d, would center its energies up
on making known the natural wealth
and resources of Texas. Il is published
! in che interests of immigration, and is
an excellent medium for land men to
use In telling what they have for sale.
Its circulation is large, and though cen
trifugal in illustration would be cen
tripical in effect.
A deputy United States marshal of
Galveston, with posse of six, has
arrested, charged with infringing the
United States election laws, the follow
ing citizens of Montgomery county: w.
Johnson, A. Mckee, Martha Norris,
Brouser Cartwright, J. II. Mum, Tom
Taylor, ]. II. Williamson, G. w. Stew
art, w. It. Gushing, ]. IL. Bloomfield,
N. w. Chatham, Isaac Griffith, Banks
| Griffith, p. II. Griffith, Slabe Martin
and John Gafford. The arrests grew
out of the late troubles in Montgomery
county.
The following is the minimum
and maximum valuation of the
university lands now for sale ty
the State to actual settlers, in amounts.
of one hundred and sixty acres each;
Cooke county one dollar and fifty cents
to two dollars; Hunt county one dol
lar and fifty cents to three dollars:
Lamar county, one dollar and fifty
cents to six dollars; Fannin county,
two dollars to five dollars and seventy
five cents; Grayson county, one dollar
and fifty cents to ten dollars; McLen-
nan county, one dollar and fifty cents
to three dollars.
Sixty immigrant wagons passed
through Denison on the twentieth of
October, and were it not for quaran-
tine along the railroads every train that
rolls into Texas oyer the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and the Interna-
tional would be crowded with people
ready to invest in Texas lands and
stock. We are losing much by this
protracted nonsense.
The Fort Worth Democrat desires to
see Texas Congressman occupy higher
positions on committees. They have
already been honored with the chair
manship of three important commit
tees in the House: Reagan on Com
merce, Schleicher on Railways and
Canals, and Throckmorton on Texas
and Pacific Railways.
The names of the Dowdy family mas
sacred by Indians in Kerr county were
Miss Alice Dowdy, aged IS; Miss Fam
ME, aged Is; Miss Rilla, aged Is. and
.heir brother Dick. aged IL. They
were all tending the ilocks. Miss Fan
ME was sitting under a tree reading
when murdered, aud Miss Alice, with
an arrow through her body, lived long
enough to recognize her mother, and
died with "mamma" on her lips, the
only word she uttered.
Statement of changes in mail routes,
ETC., for the week ending October 10,
reported by A. n. Zsvely, agent for
mail contractors, Washington: Route
No. 3152S, Pilot Point to Whitesboro,
curtsiled, to begin at Collinsville from
November l and service increased to
three times a week; No. 31150, San
Antonio to Laredo, service increased.
Postoffice established at Bogg Station,
Hemph:ll county, A. G. Springer, post
master. Discontinued = Lake Mills,
Collin county FELTON,, Walker county
Bald Prairie, Robertson county.
The horrible tale Of murder by In
dams in Kerr county is partly told by
g gentleman in the Burnet Bulletin, as
follows: ga little boy twelve years old
was murdered, and his three sisters,
aged fourteen, sixteen and eighteen
years respectively, were bIutally out
ragged and murdered while herding a
flock Of sheep near their house. When
the children were found they were
dead. An examination of the bodies
of the three girls disclosed the sppa'-
ling fact that their persons had been
bru;sily outraged and then murdered.
Each CT the mouths OF the three girls
nal been split open with q knife. from
ear to ear, while the boys mouth was
not. Evidently this was done to ST. |
lence their screams while damnable
crime was being committed. The fam
lily was one of the most respectable in |
the county, and there could bsve been |
no oIhe- motive for the numbering but 1
the one indicated by the circumstances
OF the killing as above stated.
Bolton Journal: yesterday morn
ing Thomas Richardson was sentenced
to i've years hard labor in the Peniten-
tlary for horse stealing, and was re-
manded to the county Jail, the cage OF