The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-14

ne may nave one side or the other OF
his bread buttered.
Four hundred German families have
Just arrived in Baylor county from
indianapolis and county. They
bought 100, acres of land, and
paid cash at the rate of 81 80 per acre,
or Sl5O,0 600. They have ample capital
and material to ut once begin farming
operations. and will make a fair crop
this year.
The Tyler Courier says: "If Congress
has any reg ard for the people along
the line of the Texas and Pacific Rail-
way, who are forced to read of the
abuse of that man Huntington and of
the praise of Tom Scott, to the exclu-
sion of everything else in their local
papers, it will dispose of the matter at
once in some way
The Corsicana Observer says the
Frank Mayo party were maliclously
attacked in the dark, just as they were
leaving the town. Eggs and other
missiles were used. It was the work
of set of dead beats who had been
refused admittance TO the Mayo enter
tainments. A rotten egg arrangement
was used upon the same party here, as
Mayo alleged, for similar reasons.
San Antonio and Waco are talking
of doing away with their city corpora-
ton in order to lessen taxes and be-
cause they are not needed. Economy
is the best friend the people have when
properly applied, otherwise it is a great
injury, and consequently the same
feeling will prevail in Austin, unless
the city government closely guard the
public treasury and reduce taxation.
The Tyler Courier thinks it q strange
custom among Texas business men that
of sending away from home II have
their job printing done. Suppose the
mass of the people were to send abroad
for legal advise, medicine. groceries
and dry goods, what then would he
come of the lawyers, druggists and
merchants? And yet the people might
save little by not dealing with them.
The San Marcos Free Press says:
"Ben Reynolds. half-witted young
man of about twenty years of age, left
home in this place some two and halt
months since. He was seen at Austin
a day or two after, but has not been
heard from since. His parents here
are ANXIOUS to hear from him. Any.
one knowing of his whereabouts will
do them favor by informing them.
Austin papers please copy"
Hcn. Morgan Hamilton, it is said,
owns %, 600 acres of land in William
son county, which would not have com
manded more than s! per acre before
the International penetrated that coun-
ty. A great deal of this land will now
sell in i wild state for over $40 per
acre. This is what railroad has done
for one of our townsmen, aud yet many
of the people of Austin do not believe
in railroads.
The Harrisburg, Pa.,) independent
publishes map of Northwestern Texas,
and devotes an entire page to de-
scription of Throckmorton county.
which it terms ''the Farmers Mecca" |
and Williamsburg, the town site, the
nucleus of the Pennsylvania settle
ments. Williamsburg Is situated ten
and Colorado, and about ninety FIVE
miles northwest of Weatherford.
Il. G. Files seems to think he knows
all about the Twin Sisters" But
then he says in the Houston Age that
they were of ''brass." Files may be,
but the guns were not brazen. He |
traces the guns to Lavaca in 1861 when |
they were turned oyer" to Capt. |
Chubb. Perhaps il was Dir. Files who |
was then upset. Ia any event he in
sists they were of brass and, therefore,
were not the iron Twin Sisters.''
What does Capt. Chubb have to say?
The pistol with which it was alleged |
Selim Rinker killed himself has been
tried number of times upon a live |
calf at distance of the length of a
mans arm, and in every trial the flesh
has been powder burnt. This was not
the case with RinLer's wound
Threats Of q certain party, and his
presence at Rinker's room just about
the time of his death, together with
the pistol experiments and the missing
papers, create suspicion as TO how the
mans death was brought about.
The Moffatt bell punch, which is
bringing 5000, 900 annually into the
Treasury OF Virginia, says our esteemed
of the Gainesville San,
will doubtless be adopted at the next
session of the Texas Legislature 1t
g little Instrument for registering
The number of drinks taken at each
par room, scores something like gas
meter when touched by the hand, and
ior each drink the bar becomes In
iebted to the State in the amount d.
rected by law.
The Courier, referring to the Smith
county subsidy to the Great Norther1
Railway, says: "If a little over
light hundred voters, many of them
,egroes without property or INTEL
sence, can fasten debt of over mil
ion dollars upon seventeen Thousand
inhabitants, and that, too, under an
responsible. Snashing, corrupt RadI-
al government, how many voters will
t take to expose this great wrong and
set it aside under free, intelligent
Democratic government, with twenty
thousand iuhabiiants2"
The object of inland navigation agi-
ated some time since with compre-
lensive proposed route by canals and
pays, along the Atlantic coas-, through
he florida Peninsular by Berwick,
Matagorda, San Antonio,
Arkansas and Corpus Christi bays, and
IN to Brownsville, has been signally
evived by the Huron and Metropolis
disasters, and resolution introduced
nto the Senate by Ransom, of North
Carolina, looking TO the improvement
VI the life saving service, and inland
navigation of the coast of North Caro-
ina.
Some time since a seven-year-old
BOY named James MeMahon was kid
tapped at Waco. Williams, consta-
lie, got ON the track of the kidnapper
md he result was that G.. G. Pitts
vas arrested the other day in Hamilton
county. The boy was still with him
md WAS happy enough to find himself
,nce more restored TO friends. He,
however, objected to going back to
Waco, until Williams should make
lis promise about pony good. He
lad induced him TO go with him for a
'ony, and tne boy insisted on having
lis horse.
The Messenger says: Rnckdale, on
Monday, witnessed strange pheuom-
'noO. Ii was shower of leaves. AS
az as the eye could reacn the HEAVIER s
Ibove were filled with them, rssem-
ling one of the days of the grRsshoD-
'ers. There was no commotinn OF the