The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24
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fifth of November. Il will wash Jones
into oblivion.
Eugene Bsttler, Houston typo, ha,
been tramping in Europe. lie took ii
the Paris exposition.
A poor man, over;akea at Dalia;
with sickness and penury, drowned
himself in the Trinity river.
Detectives are al work on the Lynch
horror. They are reported to have s..
ready made startling discoveries.
An attempt has been made neal
Hampstead to assassinate John Watson,
a son of DR.. Watson, of that place.
The doctors and nurses who left
BRENNAN and who are Visiting on vel
low fever patients IN Memphis have
kept well.
The Banner says that many person:
who attended the joint discussion be
tween Hancock and Jones at BRENNAN
changed over to Hancock.
In San Augustine this year a fifteer-
year-old lad, Lorerzn Skinner, with
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ton and 200 bushels of corn.
Judge Maxey, of Waco, opposes as
an independent Democrat the Demo
cratic nominee for the district Judg.
ship, Judge Alexander. of Bolton.
A general notice is being served by
the country papers upon candidates
that each man must pay his pro rata,
or find his name omitted from the
tickets.
District Judge Paschal ruled az Ban
dera that county judges cannot legally
marry persons. II this be law, what
is the status of parties who have been
tied by county judges
The Sunset road has raised the rate
of freight on cotton TO Galveston, and
much cotton in consequence will come
to Austin to 60 over the Central and
International railroads.
Coleman is to have a paper with
three editors-one Democrat, one a
Republican aud another Greenbacker.
The politics of the paper can hardly be
as mixed as that of Its corps.
The Georgetown fair has been post
po1ed from October 81 to November
10, at which time the railroad from
Round Rock to Georgetown will be-
completed and trains moving.
There are only $50 regular WATERFALL
ers in San Antonio. They are trying
to ape Dallss, but the number must
yet be reduccdIto p ace them on an qual
footing even with Fort Worth.
The lawyers of Sherman have selected
candidate for county judge, snd their
opinion in such matter should have
weight. Ma intelligent LAWYER desires
practice before an incompetent Judge.
The citizens of Sabine Pass are going
to lay prominently before the next Con-
gress their big project of building a
great city, with the finest hsrbor on the
Gulf coast and an entrance OF twenty
feet of water.
A disease something like dlptheria
prevails at Hampstead. Schools have
been closed in consequence of it. Mr..
Abrenbeck, Dir. Schultz and Others
have lost children and many others are
seriously i'll.
The Shreveport Times is meddling
with our affairs when it declares that
Wash Jones is tho most inspiring of
names. The Jones part OF it will
never die, and the wash part of it,
always suggestive, says Crane, of Vic
toria.
Santanta, the Kiowa chief, who has
been for some time past a convict,
killed himself at Huntsville on the
fourteenth. He first cut himself on
the legs and chest, and then pitched
himself from the second story balcony
to the ground.
Since 1856, 3l2 convicts have been
sent to the penitentlary from Harris
county, most of them for minor offenses,
where the lash would have answered
every purpose, and by which the pub
lie would have been saved vast sum
of money.
"Col. Mullins was not wiling" and
this is the reason assigned by Mr..
Bentley for not joining Judge Terrell
in discussion in LampasAs county. Col.
NJ. is the Greenback candidate for the
Legislature in Williamson and Lampx-
sas counties.
NAT. O." will roar and make the
very hills re-2chO the story of the
Greenbackers' follies next Saturday
night in Georgetowa. When "Nat
Q" is done the people will know aIl
about it and Terrell and Hancock will
be listened to no more.
Before leaving for the penitentiary,
John Wesley Hardin made statement
in which he asserted the killing of
Webb was in Eelf-defense. When
pursued, after the murder, he says he
was advised to get out of the way by
officera of Comanche county.
II no yellow fever appears in Dallas
the people will, after while, want to
make it appear that the man from Ten.
nessee did die with Yellow Jack and
that the place was incapable of gener-
ating the disease. This will put the
Dallas business man to bordering.
Mat. N. Smith, formerly with Cur
ley & Co.. of Fort Worth, wss shot
and killed by one Rsdman, freighter.
The killing occurred at the head of
Duck creek, on the Staked Plains.
The difficulty originated In disagree
ment over q business transaction.
The Floresville, Wilson county,
Western Chronicle, thus gives the state
of STAIRS in that burg: mo fun; no
funds; no rain; no grass; no milk; no
butter; no sickness; no funerals; cot !
ton picking lively; cotton market get |
ting brisk; considerable revival in
trade"
As to crime IN Texas the Paris Press
says: "Thc fault is attributable to i
our own people. Their ideas Of the
law and their disposition to execute it
are far quart. We need bold and de-
spirit on the part of the peo-
pie to maintain their rights under the
laws"
The Wills Point L0cdl calls the Min
neola convention that nominated Judge
Of Tyler, as a candidate for
the district judgeship, ''Ihe Judge
factory" Tae Local thinks it, 700, q
one horFe factory, and Col. Robertson
s far from being a one horse man or
lawyer.
1t is Judge Blacker's. OPINION that
the murderers of Howard will come
ovsr into Texas on election day to
Vote, and he wants another State police
force put in command of FL Paso