The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-05-02
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The mail route between Fort Worth
and Yuma will be completed IN July.
Mathis. the murderer of Parson Nc
Kamie, in Whitesboro, hiss been con-
victed.
Shackelford county has just sent
eight deles ates to the Huntsville con-
vocation.
Conductor Afford has so far recov-
cred from his wounds as to be able to
walk about the streets.
One farmer in Bastrop, Mr. Olive,
has over 200 acres in wheat, and the
yield from it will be immense.
San Saba had a grand celebration on
the twenty-sixth in honor of the estab-
lshment of Odd Fellowship in that
county.
The Central Hotel, of San Antonio,
recognizes the pressure and comes down
to 81. so per day and S. per week for
day board.
Ten of the inhabitants of Stephens
Vile are inside the Jail. The editor of
the Empire and several others remain
outsite.
w. N. McKie, late of San Antonio,
is the efficient editor and proprietor of
the breezy and original Fredericksburg
FTontiersndn.
Crops of corn, wheat and babies
about Stephensville are magnificent, d
fact due to the industry of Judge
Nugent and the rest.
The Colorado Citizen says the Austin
correspondence of the NesoS is in q
great measure made up of corrections
as to past correspondence.
Hoods brigade reunion takes place
at Corsicana on Wednesday, July 2.
1878. In our last issue we were led
into error as to the place of this meet
ing.
The Commercial has arrived at the
conclusion, that longing for Office and
few letters to the Examiner make up
the anatomy of Major Downs's political
suicide.
Farmers will begin harvesting the
wheat in the vicinity of Dallas in
about one week. The papers say the
yield will be very heavy throughout
Dallas county.
The law regarding the carrying of
deadly weapons goes into effect in
Comanche county on the fifth of June.
Let 1t be respected, not, however, as
we do in Austin.
Though Ed. Louis Agnew's name
has an oval sound he is no spring
chicken but one of the best lawyers in
Northern Texas. He was full-fedged
for the bar in Bonham.
Sisson's fresh organ in the Metho-
dist Church at Stephensville attracts
great throngs to the house of worship
and is great reformatory agent fol
that swift little town.
Rye grows to the height of six feet
two inches at Fredericksburg. But the
people suck it through shorter straws.
When a fellow gets high over there
they say he feels his rye.
Deputy United States Marshal In
gram, who shot his prisoner at Allen,
has been released from arrest on the
ground that the act of shooting was
one purely of self-defense.
An exchange gays had there been any
serious trouble at Round Rock requir-
ing the attention of the States chief
executive, Governor Hubbard would
not have gone up there the other day.
The Galveston Mai Fest will be held
on the first and second of May. A
prize of 5000 is offered to the best
drilled military company, and the
Houston companies are going down to
contend for it.
The Register at last announces the
absorption of the STATEsMAN's editors
by the Murphyites. Next we shall
read that STATESMAN reporter or ed
itor was found abnormally sober and
at once consigned to limbo.
The State convention is to be held
at Austin. First blood for Hubbard
| -BonsQm Neacs. That is bad for Hub
bard, for there was already more blood
flowing IN the State than he was able
to look after.-Dallas Commercial.
I The Palestine AdUOcate says "they
have had another bull fight in San An
tonic, but we will not give details tc
crafty the barb4rians." The godly
San Antonio Herald says tn il
rough on the readers OF the 4dooeate.
The San Antonio Herald says: CDR
Young, the temperance lecturer,
tackled Fort Worth yesterday, auo
thus gave the world a sublime exhibi.
ton of courage and that fortitude thai
animates the heart of forlorn hope
The valley of the San Marcos will
produce this year from eighty to one
hundred and twenty five bushels o
oats per acre. In Wilson county, tb'
Guadalupe Times says, Mr.. Richardson
will gather fifty bushels of wheat to thu
| acre.
When Red River county bought
poor farm, she had twenty paupers oil
hand. Up to latest accounts only on
OF these had applied for admission t,
the poor farm. So the county get
rid of paying board for the othe
nineteen.
The Marshall Messenger says tb
trends of Hubbard, who seem so sen
siLive on railroad issues, would do wei
to remember Hubbard's casting vote ol
the International bond bill, the creates
subsidy measure eyer passed by Texa
Legislature.
"They say" that Burgess, the lawye
of Guadalupe, is as eloquent as the mar
veloas Tristan Burgess, the foremostfx
cept two CWebster and Prentiss), tina
came from New England, and the.
never never he'd a rival save IN Pat
rick Henry.
| The Bastrop telegraph line will b
completed in abort ten days. 1t viii
be finished and turued over bv tn
builders to the Western UrIon Tele
graph Company upon condition tina
they operate it. II costs the people O
Bsstrop 5000.
The SIS, 900, 600 recently paid t
Texas for cattle has been mainly in
vested In wire fences, and then ther
is deal of it idle, waiting to see whs
Congress will do, and then the holder
have it in silver, slowed awsy in bank
and in old stockings.
1t is wonderful; it is super-humar
and Hubbard must bow down befor
Tom Bowers. The latter says " W
guarantee that Hubbard will 500
make graveyards of these highway
| r.a, Ard non -a ln..rr that Tor