The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
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attorney.
1t is said that Barlow must go to
Congress, and everybody is crazy
about it.
Forty-two thousand bales of cotton
have been shipped from Fort Worth
this season.
Business is too dull, says Commodore
Charles Morgan, for any movement to
extend his railrosi beyond Cuero.
Rockport is soon to have a tannery,
and will produce Texas leather from
Texas cattle slaughtered at Texas pack
cries.
A gentleman from New York will
soon start a dairy in Guadalupe
county, and will manufacture butter
and cheese.
The ninth of April is appointed by
wise men as the day for a great frost.
Everybody should be prepared for the
cold snap.
Many voters" don't get a candi-
date into the columns of the Gonzales
Enquirer unless accompanied with the
announcement fee.
Charley Hewett has been arrested at
Dallas on the assumption that he Is one
of the Hutchins train robbers. Others
are suspected and may be bagged.
Dallas has mad dogs. One was tax
en- while hanging about saloon, which
was very rR+sFal, when the influence of
Dallas whisky is thought of.
A new paper, it is said, is to be
started in Austin. AS a money mill il
will beat two banks and a State treas
urJ. 1t would at least be fun to the
typos.
James f. Ellison has started 1900
csttle from Hays county to Kansas
city. He will drive as many more.
The whole drive of the year is esti-
mated at $50, 600.
The Messenger says ga sure cure for
hard times is to pull Off your coat and
go to work at anything you can get to
do, instead of waiting for something
to turn up"
All the dogs of Houston are to be
arraIgned before the powers that be,
and the probability is that the whole
sale manufacture of first class saUsages
is to be commenced.
The "N. A. t." who writes for the
press of Texas generally is not the
Gnat of Williamson county and of
Washington who hands papers to the
NJ. C.'s after breakfast.
The Houston city council has been
making propositions to scale the city
debt, and it is probable the creditors
may agree to it. AS it is the latter can
not even get interest.
Horse thieves are operating at an
alarming extent in the vicinity of
Golinda, Falls county. Not less than
eighteen horses were stolen in that
neighborhood in ten days.
The Telegram favors the doing away
of this heathenish, barbarous pistol
and bowie knife business in Texas,
and return to the old-fashioned fist
practice of our daddies2
The Hawpe murder case occupied
thirteen days and cost Dallas one thou
sand dollars. The jury stood ten for
acquittal and two for conviction. 1t
will have to be all gone over again.
They killed a mad dog the other day
in Dallas. He had bitten a old soaksr
of that place some weeks before and
mad fits of imam with poker"after him
and those cruel people killed the wrong
dog.
Patents granted to Texas, bearing
date of February 20. 1873, reported by
Paine 6 Grafton, Washington, D. c.
Manning L. Nix, James NJ. Stone and
Lew Anderson, Paris, cotton seed
planter.
The Hampstead Messenger thinks the
paragraphist of the BRENNAN Banner
is the best In the State and the Messe,t-
ger is not far wrong in this. The
Banner Is an excellent paper i'll every
respect.
The city council of Sherman has
closed contract for water works.
They are to he completed within six
months, will cost $50, 600, and the city
pays $4,000 per annum for thirty
lydrants.
Tom Copes, once sheriff of Brszoria
died the other day while on
the road. 1t is supposed his horse ran
against tree with him and knocked
him senseless. He revived and got to
4 house and died.
Marksbury, who was sentenced to
De hung In Bosque county for the
killing of young Dickson, and made
lis escape from the Meridian Jail few
mouths since, was captured recently in
Springfield, Ill.
Whenever an echo of goodness and
grace comes from Lockhart, every
body knows it is the Me,cS- Echo, which
s the product of j. P. Bridges lungs
md intellect, and he makes no little
loise in the world.
Henry A. Thomas, the express mes
Ienger, who so calamity defended his
rust during the late express robbery at
Iutchins, has been presented by the
company with 5000 as slight recog-
1ltlOn Oh MS conduct.
English immigrants from London
have arrived at Weimar. They come
IN the recommendation of DR.. w. c.
and are very much dis
satisfied as they claim that he has been
guilty of Misrepresentation.
Less stock are reported to have died
n Texas during the past winter than
my winter in long number of years.
frosts were so light that sufficient sus
enance was obtained and hence the
pring drive will be unusually heavy.
Every man in Texas has the right to
IVA one dog free of taxation. One
log is enough and too much, and the
aw wisely provides that when fellow
soes into the wholesale flea producing
business he shall pay for the privilege.
a-~seS thinks lJuotIiug
has been run into the ground in Mon
tague county. A justice rode to Eagle
Point to hold court and stayed all
hight. Ae found his mule the next
hanging to a tree in the vicin-
ty, dead.
The fellow who chews brick dust,
blood, and thus dying,
Travis tears and niCkels from innocent
was doing Bonham not
ong ago. He calls himself an "old
SOLDIER" and nobody should doubt
his much of ais story.
What has become of Issac Morris.
Who, not long ago, was teaching Eng
ish grammar in Northeastern Texas
owns2 We have a paper from that