The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

- f-SANtNS oNa--tl- Saal f.'at4iA.
The Sabine Pass and Northwestern
Railway is now regarded as fact.
Fifty miles below Lawrence are graded
ana eleven tied. President Burwell,
OF the company, has been At Dallas
making the necessary arrangements.
But fen inquiries ere being made in
Southwest Texas for cattle Of any class,
and no les are reported. The out
look Tor values are UnfavCrsble to high
or prices, and buyers are not disposed
to make contracts a. the figures here
tofore ruling.
\ very large sugar crop has en-
made in the cane country of the lower
BraZos, which Is capable, If we'll cult
waited, of supplying half the South
with pure sugars, instead Of the poi
sonous, sdulterated stuff gotten from
Northern cities.
Sims owed Mrs. Lyle an amount of
money evidenced by note. Mrs. L.
went TO him for payment, and upon
being refused presented a shot gun and
gave him five minutes within which TO
shell out. He shelled promptly. The
parties live near Savoy.
The habit of living on bacon fried
and swimming in lard, with the ac-
cOmpanying corn bread and coffee, Is
declared by correspondent of the
San Antonio Express to be filling Texas
with typhoid, scarlet, billions, remit
tent ami intermittent fevers.
L. c. Revare, recently of Knoxville,
Tenn, Is in the city. lie has been
| looking, he states, for place for
branch whisky house. We referred
him to Dallas If he could control the
main river, while we would let Mar
tins town have the "branch."
Mr.. ALI. Abeel, while returning to
Waco from trip, was encountered by
a mounted rObber, who invited him to
stop. He reversed his loaded buggy
whip and knocked the rascal from his
horse, after which be gave him a sound
drubGing and left him laying in the
road.
Major Atwood, of the United States
army, stationed at San Antonio, was
married in st. Louis last week to the
daughter of Richard King, the ''cattle
king" of the West. The brides father
presents the groom with so, 900 head of
cattle, which, speaking vulgarly, is
$500, 900.
The Jefferson Jmpliegte gives a case
of sixty-:wo acres of valuable land be-
ing sold in Camp county for $27j be-
cause nobody knew about the sale but
those interested. Notices were stuck
up in cut of the way places in the in
terests of those who wished to acquire
the property.
James Reynolds and Fritz Hornith
quarreled over a game of cards at
Werner. Afterwards the parties met
on the street, and Reynolds drew a
pistol and fired twice at Hornith, who
in self defense shot Reynolds with a
shot gun loaded with buckshot, killing
HIM instantly.
A man in San Antonio, who amuses
his fancy by keeping wild beasts
chained in public, thus caused the
frightful mutilation of a child. A
chained panther caught g passing boy
six years old, and before it was rescued
it was wretchedly msngled and one Of
its eyes was torn from its socket.
Commercial: In view OF the bull
dog pertinacity with which the Texas
Express Company follows Grim
inals and its great success in
bringing them down, perhaps
it would be we'll for Texas to
turn over the criminal department of
government to that company for few
years.
Ought the law to suffer the publica-
tion and sale in Texas Of these over
wrought, hatterng lives of highway
men and pirates? sAra not youthful
tastes thus perverted and knives, IN
boyish eyes, converted into heroes?
And yet an excellent newspaper prof.
fers to each "new subscriber" life of
Sam Bass.
j. L. Sharp, reputable grocer at
Denison, has been indicted by the
United States grand jury at Tyler on a
charge of passing counterfeit money.
Some men claimed to have received
counterfeit half dollar for change
from Mr.. Sharp, who denies all knowl-
edge of the transaction. Such prose-
cutiOn is frivolous and should not be
tolerated.
An illustration OF the increase of
population on the frontier is given by
the votes of Brown, Coleman, San Saba
and McCullOch counties, whose total !
votes in 1876 were, respectively, 571,
"a, 81 and SO, while at the recent cleo |
ton they gave the following mgjorities:
Brown, 500; Coleman, 113; San Sabe,
500 and McCullOch, 200.
In Blstrop county, Norton, Allen
and the Republican State ticket got
but four votes each. Savers received |
1871 votes for Lieutenant Governor,
and Rains, the Gfeerbacker, 1886. |
Hancock got jl3 votes and Jones 1929. |
it is probable that SIyers got the entire
Democratic vote of tue county. The /
Republicans voted the solid Green
back ticket.
Breeding makes heap better paper
now, when turmoil and Greenbackism
have subsidized, than he did when he |
was making speeches before the amazed |
natives everywhere in his district. An |
editor who goes off stump +peaking
should be bored for the samples. He |
should not confess the inferierity of his !
pen to his tongue.
Southeast Texas is developing an
other of the inexhaustible resources of |
the Lone Star State. Ship-lOads of |
lumber from the great forests of that |
section are passing out to sea, through |
Sabine Pass, being taken to foreign |
countries to market. White oak TIM |
Der for ship-building, and cypress
boards for barrel slaves are being |
shipped to Liverpool.
Wiley Stewart and Texas Dick, the
murderers of DR.. Jones, were lately |
traced to their place of concealment,
some fifty miles southeast of Caddo, |
and their arrest undertaken by two |
deputy marshals, brothers, named |
Ayers. The deputies and their posse
surrounded the villains and fight en-
sued in winch, it is reported, both dep
uties were shot and killed.
President Burwell, president of the
Sabine Pass and Northwestern Rail- |
way, has written from New York that |
he has completed all preliminary ar
rangements for building it. This is
the road the Dallas and Wichita road |
is expected to connect with st Pales-
tine. and which will give North Texas
a new outlet to the sea. Sabine Pass
looms up as the future great city of the
Texas coast