The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
waller county pays out s145 per

wafer county pays out Sl45 pc
month for the support OF paupers.
The city assessment of Dallas fall
this year S4OO, 600 below what it wa
for 1877.
Col. Howe Y. Peyton, of Dallas, i
beginning to make a hot Legislative,
canvass.
Professor Warston, of Ann Arbor
is in Dallas preparing to watch tht
great eclipse of the sun.
Disease and death are on the in
crease in Dallas in consequence of tn,
uncleanly condition of the city.
Judge Burkhart gave great sstisfac
ton in holding the district court a
Hampstead. The term cost 5000.
Three buff4loes have identified them
selves with the herd of cattle belong
ing to W. S. Brown, of Clay county.
The Democratic convention. to nom
mate candidate for Congress In tn,
fourth district, is to be held August 10
at Bryan.
We are told that four gentlemen Of
Galveston went out to sea in a boa
aud in few hours caught sixty pound:
of mackerel.
The Denison Herald says: "Dr.
Josephthal, of Sherman, has several
cases from the Blind Asylum at Austin
now under treatment.
The Hood county grape crop would
produce so 900 gallons of Mustang
wine, worth 800. 900. Why should
such wealth be wasted all over Texas
The toughest, most indestructible
fire bricks, better than those shipped
hither from Boston, are made IN Kosse.
But our Hard Brick" wasn't made
over there.
Jesse Loving, treasurer of GraysoH
county, who was injured In the recent
wreck on the Central railroad, has
brought suit against the company for
$50, 600.
If a shrewd phrenologist could get
hold of Col. Bumpass he might be in
duced to come down as an indepen-
dent candidate for Congress in Throck-
morton's district.
Mr.. Wright, the youthful Baptist
preacher of BRENNAN, who, for time,
occupied DR.. Chaplin's pulpit most &C.
ceptably, has been preaching at Manor
to large congregations.
The Herald says they are "wineing
and dining and barbecueing Col.
Schleicher at Cuero." The committee
on Mexican and Mr.. Schleicher's other
''foreign relations" will be sorry.
The postmaster at Bracket is named
Thorne. II fellow wanted to hang
up anything or to hang himself, he
would go a bracket or thorne. But
every fellow that goes there gets stuck
When Mike Waldron comes down
into Texas and founders in the sea at
Indianola, and has inspected the postal
service elsewhere, let him come and
see Austin and tell it everywhere in his
wanderlngs that he has visited the
prettiest place in America.
The COurier-JournaL says that skel-
eton of an enormous animal has been
dug up in Texas. 1t is fifty-four feet
long from the root of the tail to the
JOINT of the neck. Its monumental
form will add attractlveness, perhaps,
to the conservatory in Capitol square.
The Post says: "a lady of this city,
whose husband is foundryman, says
she is afraid she cannot agree with him
for he must necessarily use so much
ironical language" The real question
between them is, who shall be the
chief moulder in the little domestic
foundry-which is often found wet.
The Christian Evangelist, Pedobap-
fist paper, tells that Mr.. Hickman, a
Baptist preacher, and his little son,
were drowned In a swollen creek last
week. The Evangelist needn't try to
scare 'em out of Jordan by any such
yarns. We venture to say that Bro.
Hickman can swim like porpoise.
Rev. Jas. 81. Tucker, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, was recently
attacked between Menardville and
Brady City by two Indians, who fred
upon him. Tucker took deliberate
aim with his Winchester at one of the
rascals, while nothing but his neither
most parts were exposed above the
saddle, and the evidences were tn At
MIR. Indian was badly unseated.
Postmaster Krickenbarker keeps the
Bonham postoffice open now on Sun
day mornings. It's a misfortune, for
every one who goes there on these oc
cssions, says. out of compliment to
the gentleman ''Good morning, Mr..
Krickenbarker; and for the re-
mainder of the day their facial cavities
are mistaken for church doors, and
everybody becomes piously inclined.
Dr.. T. J. Hammer, weighing three
hundred pounds, left a wife and chill
dren in McLemonsville, Tenn. lie was
in Austin two years ago with a little
woman he called his wife. When last
heard from he was moving to st. Louis.
His wife in Tennessee writes to US to
inquire about him. WHIP can give her
any informationP Our exchanges are
requested to aid in the search.
Tracy, at Houston, while addressing
a Greenback meeting, SAID the Repub-
lican party lis deader than red her.
ring, though it is virtually resurrected
in the organization of the Greenback-
ers." This is what we have been In
sisting upon all the time. The evi
dences point to it everywhere. At the
conclusion of Tracy's speech, one hun
bred colored men signed the roll of
membership.
The Stephensville Empire is of the
opinion that the Appellate Courts of the
State should be remodeled, so as to
enable them to keep up with business.
1t proposes to divide the State into
three districts, having a court of APP
peals for each, which courts would
decide all appeals for their respective
districts. II also recommends a SUI
preme court for these three courts OF
appeal.
When that great and good man,
Brother Honey, was ducked by the
people in Bell county the river became
a stream of metheglin for forty miles.
Stranger still is the story gone abroad
that that felloF converted the river at
Dallas into whisky by euptying in it a
wagon load of corn. We would give
credence to this last yarn but several
people in Dallas were sober last Sun
day.
Ada Fulton, handsome young lady,
highly respected in St. Joe, Texas,
hung herself in Squire Cooks smoke