The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-11-14
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Dr.. Cavansugh was recurring the
other day at Sherman.
Edmund Bellipger, an old resident
of Caldwell county, died there recent
ly at the age Of &c
The Methodists of Dcuison will soon
begin the erection of & fine b:ick
church in that place.
Flank McIutyrc, yellow fever nurse
from Brenham, has returned TO that
place from Memphis.
TIE Grand Comm7ndery Knights
Templsr couYenes in Waco on the
twelfth of next February.
A gentleman named Bengal keeps an
eating house in Denison. It's good
place to fight the tiger, We reckon.
A Hill county belle named Ruth
Eggleston, daughter of wealthy far
mer, eloped with COW boy named
Brown.
John D,ckey, an adopted child Of
Policeman Dickey, of Dallas, has been
kidnapped. The child was stolen from
his house.
One hundred thousand defeated can
didates in Texas only ran for office to
gratify their friends. They did not
want office.
On Soledad street, San Antonio,
there Is an old building where Ben
Milan was killed. It is now occupied
as a rum solve"
Too much election, straight and
crooked, is what ails the country news
papers this week. Most of them look
like they had headache.
Bat manure from the caves west of
San Antonio is being shipped to Scot
land, where it is used 3s fertilizer, and
also IN the manufacture of sal ammo
MAC.
Mrs. Srloi, who went with her bus
band to Memphis to nurse yellow fever
patients, has returned to Round Rock
Mr.. s ,loi was an early victim to the
disease.
The case of Ham, convicted of land
forgery, was reversed upon the ground
that Judge Turner, in charging the
jury, failed to define what constitutes
forgery.
The Huntsville Item states that Hon.
Gustave Schleicher is an avowcd inf
del. Yet he got one of the biggest
majorIties ever rolled up for Il Texas
Congressman.
Mrs. Hawkins, who attended the
fuperal of her husband near Montague,
fell into the grave and expired, sup
posed from an eplleptic fit, produced
by excitement.
The Denison Neaos mans big brother
runs a splendid wagon for passengers
to and from the railroad station at that
place. The Nescs calls him Colonel
Budd for short.
A number of immigrant families have
reached Round Rock recently, and
are locating in the county, which they
find one of the very best in all particu-
lars in the State.
The farmers of Northwest Texas
have banded together to hunt down
horsethieves. Unless Judge Lunch
takes too much dish in the thing, this
will do much good.
A Texas exchange says girls want
less restraint and more liberty of ac-
tlon; more kitchen and less parlor;
more exercise and less sofa; more pud-
ding and less piano.
Capt. Delany, of Galveston, has been
presented by the engineer of the Eng
lish steamship Osiris with a fragment
of Cleopatra's needle, which he will
have converted into cuff buttons.
Trained men to make out election
returns is what Texas has needed badly
in The last few days. 1t Is easier to
get returns from the whole of North
ern State than from one county IN
Texas.
We DONE suppose for moment that
it can be the case, but when a lawyer
proposes to gather lawyers into the
church we can't help thinking of the
old adage 'It takes thief to catch q
thief"
Moss backs are always getting into
trouble. William Jackson lately killed
one in Anderson county. This time it
was a green moss back. 1t was
huge old rattlesnake with such q
covering.
The commissary department of the
army ~ San Antonio uses million
and a half pounds of -four, half mil
lion pounds OF bacon and other arti-
cles in proportion. Nearly every arti-
Gle is imported.
The Synod of Texas met last week in
Marshall. Thirty-two ministers and
ten ruling elders were present. A new
presbytery called Dallas was erected.
The synod meets next in Fort Worth
in November, 1878.
Mrs. jerks, Agnes aforesaid, has
Yellow Jack at New Orleans. II she
suffers no more at its hands than at
those of the jacks of the Potter SMELL
ing committee, she will be Gonzales
cent in day or two.
The thralldom of Corpus Christi will
be delightful this year. The Rev. II.
8. Thrall, who disenthraled San An
tonic for the last two years, even as
Bro. Penn is Lot in this Sodom, is now
stationed at Corpus Christi.
Texas wool in the New York mar
ket was quoted on the first of Novem-
Der, as follows: Fine Eastern. 90 to
CSC; medium Eastern, 90 to 26c; fine
Western, II to zoe; medium Western,
10 tn 49,; inferior. II to 16e.
They have lot of ssvages about
Cleburne opposed to the public school
system. They burnt the seats and
otherwise dismantled the school build
ing last week. Such idiots and kuaves
should be hanged like wild beasts.
A suburban pedagogue has this in
scription over the doorway to his mod
est temple Of learning:
Up and down the shiugla goes.
Above the seat OF knowledge;
This is the way. the teacher kI ows
To make boys slnart-for college.
There are four churches at Taylors-
ville-one Presbyterian, one Christian,
one Catholic and one colored. There
is also an Odd Fellows hall and an OPP
era house, a Justices court house and
postoffice building in course of con-
stTucton.
The Waco National Bank receives
Mexican silver dollars at eighty cents,
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