The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

Texas has 1850 postofices.

NC SdiOOu ONalEeSS IL NtIUuIue Is
active.
A convent is to be established at
Palestine.
Collin county has organized a new
fair association.
Blind Tom will soon make another
tour through Texas.
Twenty-six prisoners are In the
Washington county jail.
Many persons are moving into Col
lin county from "the States"
P. G. Gordon, of New Orleans, sui
cided the other day at Sherman.
The Ledger calls Hubbard ''the
champion of the peoples antagonists. :"
Cedar Creek precinct in Bastrop
county proposes to try on local option.
And now Hon. A. NJ Kopperl, of
Galveston, is spoken of for Governor.
The Cleburne Chronicle thinks a
governor should be like unto Caesars
wife.
Ten miles of track on the Denison
and Southeastern Railroad has been
laid.
Bastrop county has q population of
&c 900, and the town of Bastrop has
$500.
The Missouri statute against Texas
cattle has been declared unconstitu-
tional.
Another carload of short-horns from
Tennessee has been discharged at
Waco.
The Mckinney Enquirer wants the
produce tax repealed by the next leg
islsture.
There are 2497 miles of railroad OPP
Grated in the State, and $50, 900 Hore
on paper.
The Marlin Ball thinks a popular
vote would establish the whipping
post in Texas.
Thirty-two miles of iron have been
ordered for the Hampstead and Mont
gomery Railroad.
DIR. c. s. Smith, who has opened q
mine near LlaHo, has refused to
take $50, 900 for it.
The HesperiGn says that j. D. Sayers
is the choice of the State for the Lieu
tenant Governorship.
The Dallas street car company had
one of their stables burned and six
teen head of stock.
DIR. ]. o. January, of Cleburpe, was
crushed to death under horse that fell
with him the other day.
Charles Harris, the murderer of his
own brother in Montague county, has
been arrested in Denison.
Mr.. Ed. Perry showed dressed hog
on the streets of Denison the other
day weighing $50 pounds.
Turner, brakeman on the Central,
was fearfully mangled by the cars at
Sherman. He died instantly.
Col. Cunningham will place rev
boilers in the pen:tentiary. The old
ones are reported as dangerous.
The reunion of the Texas Alumni of
Washington and Lee University is to
take place at Waco May 8 and o.
Close connections are made with the
Central since Commodore Morgan got
control of the Galveston railroad.
Thorp Springs is to have newspG-
per soon. "Hog Eye" and freeze
Out" are ambitious to do so, too.
The Clarksvllle Banner considers
Judge Bramlette very proper man to
succeed Mr. Groos in the Land Office
The United States troops at San An
tonic are complimented on their ex-
cellent conduct in the community.
Col. King has had a monument,
costing $1,000, placed over the grave of
the lamented Capt. McNel!y at Bur-
ton.
Capt. A. H. Shoemaker, of Wise
county, is put forward as q candidate
for the new marshalship of North
Texas.
John Ireland denies, so says an ex-
change, the report that he will lie a
candidate for the Lieutenant Govern
orship.
The agricultural department at Wash
ingtoD thinks coffee caa be raised in
Texas, and so it may-in a green
house.
Mrs. MIddleacre, OF Galveston,
doesn't take the middle ground on the
baby question. She has twenty-four
children.
Sherman has fewest Bibles, in pro-
portion to population, of any town in
Texas. The Register is simply unap-
proachsble.
Paul Henry, for many years a con-
tributor to the best New Orleans news
papers, is now an dttGehe of the Age's
editorial staff.
The envelope system, adopted by the
Methodists of Sherman to pay their
PASTORS salary, is said, by the Register,
to work finely.
Belle Snowdeu, handsome woman
living life of shame, was found dead
in her bed the other day in Sherman.
She took chlorsl.
Dormitories for seventy-two more
boys are to be completed at the Bryan
College in time for the opening of the
term of the institution.
A negro, named johnson Forshey,
was decoyed from his house near Sc
gum by lot of men in mask and put
to death with bullets.
The measles are prevailing in John
son county, and they need a carload
or two of doctors up there to help kiln
off the rising generation.
A Stephenson man, the great lear
hunter ef Southwestern Texas, killed
last season thirty-three bears. This
season he has reached fifty.
Paris eats monthly one Thousand
horses, and San Antonio is credited
with the same plumber of cats and dogs
made into delicious tamslas.
The Express says Nat Q. Henderson
is an important adjunct of the Federal
government. he hands nice folded
papers to the members of mornings.
Will the Bolton Journal tell whether
the story about the botsomless well in
its..county has any foundation in truth,
though none in earth, air or waterf
The StephsnsviIle Empire, more 10
destructible than that of Rome. will
rise from the ashes of its cnnflagraiion
at once and we will gladly greet it.
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