The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-03
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Galveston is building q new all.


Capt. Tivy is making a vigorous
canvass in Kerr county.
The Jimpliete wants a frost. The
health of Jefferson is not good.
Paris, Texas, has been giving con-
certs for the unfortunates of Memphis.
Wild turkeys can be bought in Lam
pasas county at ten cents each-on
foot.
Galveston will receive more cotton
during this commercial year than ever
before in its history.
Gen. J. S. Raines spoke in Sherman
aud Denison, aud Martin of the Sher-
nan Register, replied to him.
Jim Brown, a wretched drunken
devil, wound up his career under the
car wheels at Denison few days ago.
The ladies of Marshall have contrib
uted $500 worth of clothing to be sent
to the orphan children of New Or
leans.
Col. Fl. G. King, of the Express, al
ter two months of recreation, takes
tue editorial chair which he graces so
well.
Many Texans deplore the death Of
Col. Paul F. Anderson. He was
known everywhere for his virtue and
his heroism.
DR.. Rutherford has been over at
Texarkana regulating quarantine, and
the JimpLeeute declares The has neither
horns nor tall"
The T. & P. Railroad is to be ex-
tended to. Weatkerford at once. The
Parker county construction company
has commenced work.
Gays stables are now in Dallas, his
horses to be trained for the Austin fair
and races of the last days of October
and first of November.
The Re0ie1o reports nineteen pairs of
white twins within the scholastic age
in Ellis county, of these, fourteen are
boys and twenty-four girls.
The Democrats of Colorado could
succeed there were not so many among
them hungry for Office. Candidates
are what keep them down.
Out of the multitude of candidates
in Galveston citizen movement is
looking towards ticket formed by
careful selection from them all.
Col. Claiborne is writing letters to the
Bastrop Adcertiser. They appear every
week and each one calls erring sinners
back into the Democratic church.
Major Penn, the untiring Christian,
complimeLted the STATESMAN Office
with his presence yesterday. He is a
noble man and genial companion.
SIlss Berry, a convicted man, es
capped some months since from the
Georgetown Jail. He has been ar
rested in Comanche county and Is again
in Jail.
The local of the Jimplecute, E. E.
Collins, has had a severe hemorrhage.
Over exertion in reporting is supposed
to be the cause of the gentleman's sad
affliction.
T. w. House, of Houston, works
100 hands on his sugar plantation in
Brazoria county, and he expects to
clear alone from his sugar crop
SIS, 200.
The Age reminds people that the
second fall month has commenced and
that it is now time to stop all this fuss
about yellow fever and commence bus
ness in earnest.
Mr.. Delaney, of Denison, a well-to-
do man, has gwen the undertaken an
order for his coffin to be ready at a
given time, at which he expects to die
a Pfa hg r4al td death, vuy5r 1urgnr suy U, .uv
Greenback party of Texas that it is
dying of its own follies, but it is salts
fled that Davis, Tracy, and such like,
are doing the job.
San Antonio's generosity to the poor
is proverbial, and iJ has induced other
localities TO send their needy there.
There is reaction in consequence, and
they are going to stop it.
The suspension of beef packeries
neer Rockport, on account of auaran-
tine restrictions, has thrown many out
70 employment and they have gone
- be in search of work.
The CiUiltdn says: '9Ir. A. j. Stu
art has SOW pig, ninety days old al
his farm, east of Comanche, which
weighs 105 pounds" Is it the pig, or
he farm that weighs 1o5 pounds 2
w. s. Brooks. Texas quarantine
officer, with temporary quarters on the
Louisiana side at LeesDurg. was ar
'ested by DR.. Meadows, of Louisiana,
who wanted to cross and couldn't.
A man eighty-three years of age
vas immersed at Sulphur Springs,
hopkins county, during a recent revi-
Tal. He was too old to walk, and had
o be carried in chair to the water.
Thursday last Denison doctor and
livery stable keeper had a fight, in
which the doctor was thoroughly cur
led and badly kicked and paved and
vas no longer stable when he stood.
A nice special policeman in Dallas
,eeps the place lively. Tuesday he
hot poor devil to death who hest
ated to give an account of himself
md refused to surrender on the spot.
The stage coach robbers were un-
ortunate. Just behind them, and
1ithln 200 yards, was an innocent
ewing machine man who had 5000, |
nd the stage coach did not furnish |
of the sum.
The reasSn the Galveston property
olders decline, with such charming |
to help the builders of the |
roposed Santa Fe road, is that the |
Veics can't convince them that sand Is |
cal estate.
The Popular Science Monthly says |
philosophers are discussing whether
new born child possesses sny INTEL |
ct" If the question he sffirmatively |
sttled they will let him continue to |
DIT the Dallas Herald.
Bonham has had enough of horrible |
government as created and |
perative under the Rutabsgs Constr |
alton, and the party grows which de- |
hands extinction of the corporation
nd surrender of the charter.
The Brenhsm Banner says Keuchler
Tas put on the GIeenback ticket to |
atch the German vote. Why didn't |
hey put a black man on it to catch |
lack votess Keuchler said he didn't |
rant it, but they put him on.
From the eminent responsibility and |
legsnce constantly ascribed to the