The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-11
REVISED we may have a Mormon settle

REVISED we may have Mormon settle
ment in Sherman.
The bill calling for a reorganization
of the Eastern and Western Judicial
districts of Texas, now before Con-
gress, calls for a division line of the
two districts along the western and
northern limits of the following coun-
ties: Grsyson, Collin, Dallas, Ellis,
Navarro. Limestone, Falls, Robertson,
Brazos, Washington, Austin, Colorado,
Ltvaca, Dewitt, Karnss, Live Oak,
McMullen, LsSalle, Dimmit and Webt.
In Dallas, Tuesday, one Barney Cum
ninghsm dextrously inserted q keen
knife blade in the gentle bosom of
Norris Lacy. He and Morris had been
discussing drinks and Dallas politics
in Dallas bsr-room, and it is bloody
business at best. Morris may not die,
but decent people shudder that such
deeds are done in land on which the
sun shines and God smiles so kindly
as on this.
Dallas, too, is in trouble about water.
The volume of the current Of whisky
there knows no diminuton. But Dali
las was jealous OF Austin, and Dallas
| city fathers raised knotty question
and the water is about to stop and the
insurance people raise rates of insur-
ance, and the streets are not to be
sprinkled, and people grow thirsty and
dirty, and horses can get nothing to
drink-and 1t is sad.
Train robbing Is becoming a com
mon psstime with the bold brigand
riders of the prsiries. In the absence
'of legal intervention, the Commercial
thinks the best course for railroad
companies to pursue, is to arm their
employees with sixshooters, and also
put few armed men in the baggage
and express cars OF the night trains,
and then let these blow the brains out
Of the next gang that attempts to over
haul train.
DR.. Fitzpatrick, using the population
of Texas, as given by the census of
1870, at SlS, $40 souls, gives the total
deaths from June, 1869, to July, 1870,
at II, 1877. OF these there were from
general diseases, B, S48. including $50
from consumption; AGA from enteric
fever; 500 from intermittent fever, and
327 from remittent fever. From dis
eases of the nervous system, 1880; of
the circulatory system, 204; of the
respiratory system, 1879, including
1899 from pneumonia; of the digestive
system, 1897.
Mr.. j. W. Mann, of Waco, is the
owner of fine Durham COW, four
years old, that has displayed COM
mendable promptuess in contributing
her mite to the advancement of the
cattle interests of this section. When
only one year old this ambitious ami
nal gave birth TO healthy, well-de-
veloped calf; each year later she re-
peated the experiment, and Sunday
last she capped the climax by giving
birth to two healthy, well formed
calves. one male and one female, that
are both doing well. So says the Tele-
phone.
The American Miller says of Texas
wheat: at is said to have less water
and more gluten than Northern varie-
TIES, and that -four made from it is not
liable to become sour when shipped to
tropical countries. This is a well
known characteristic of several varie-
ties of Southern wheat, and we do not
see why it may not be true of wheat
raised in Texas. The State has diversi-
fed climate, and soil which, in many
respects, resembles that of the bottom
lands of the Nile, in Egypt, which has
been noted from the earliest times as a
great wheat producing country"
The killing of the negro, Ben. But
Ter, near Houston, by another black,
JEFF. Lunday, Is told of by the TER
gram. 1t was the result of an old
feud. Lundsy had been heard upon
several occasions to make threats
against the life of deceased, and upon
the morning of the murder Lunday
was seen by young negro boy not far
from where Buffers dead body was
fo,,od ,,i.L-I--l.--.---. suoU guu
upon his shoulder. When asked If he
had been hunting, he replied, eyes,
and d him, PYe found him. "
Bleed was observed upon his coat and
pants. Thirty buckshot were lodged
in the body of Butler, fifteen in the
shoulder and breast, and fifteen in the
head. The skull of the victim was
also smashed and crushed.
That cattle men hide their earnings
away in old trunks to the disadvantage
of the country is answered when the
Victoria Ad0Ocdte says: 1.-THE largest
part of the money received by the
stock men of Texas has gone for lands
and fencing. We have no means of
arriving st even tolerabIy accurate
estimate of the immense cost entailed
on the stock business by the introduc
ton of the pasture system, but there
are many who think the extra expense
of buying land and fencing material
more than counterbalances the advan
rsges derived from it. The only
clearly defined and generally admitted
effect of the change vet noticeable is
the concentration of cattle in the hands
Of fewer stock owners"
The Bonham NeDs, in a circular,
asks for 10000 new subscribers be-
cause 1t tells, in the fewest possible
words, what is going on, especially in
Texas; because it wears no mans col
lar, but speaks it's own convictions
with unrestricted freedom and indie
| pendence; because 1t belongs to no
clique or faction, but faithfully and
conscientiously endeavors to do Its
whole duty to the whole people, and
because, while earnestly and consist
entity Democratic, it does not maintain
hat every Democrat is an angel Of
light or every Republican necessarily
snd inevitably scoundrel and thief.
And in all this the Ne,cs is not unlike
the STATESMAN, which likewise claims
10 600 new subscribers.
r. S. Hayes has been appointed re-
ceiver of the International and Grea'
Northern Railroad Company, and has
qualified and taken possession of the
property. Reports of freight accounts,
ticket sales aud mileage on and after
April /, should be made for account OF
receiver of the International and Great
Northern Railroad Company; for the
month of March and prior the reports
should be made as heretofore. Drafts
for balances due should be drawn on
d. S. II. Smith, treasurer for receiver,
and balances accrued for March and
months previous should be separate and
from those sccruiDg on and after April
l. The receiver sends out circular
giving such instructions.
The Marshall Herald says: "Re-
Gently Col Russell has received the