The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
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IOe numOer OF cuttoIen WllDin tue
scholastic age in Dallas is put down
at 5000.
Eighteen men have been arrested
and are on trial at Comanche charged
with the murder of James Mackey.
An impounded Houston cur of the
female pursuasion is set at liberty for
IS, while the he dogs cost only So
Femininity always was at premium.
The people OF Galveston are petit
tio1ing for the abolition of the city
government. They want to get rid OF
that enormous debt, but will this do it
Peaches are selling at Pieasantou at
seventy five cents bushel. Not long
ago it was thought that such fruit
could not be grown IN Western Texas.
Marisn Savilla Mordecal, the besuti-
full wife of Henry Mordecsi, died in
her twenty third year at Dallas. She
was well known in Austin and Calves
ton.
The authorities at Houston are max
ing it lively in cleaning up things gen.
orally. They know what a scourge
may be prodCced by too much filth in
the town.
Many of the delegates to the Fort
Worth Greenback convention with
drew in consequence of refusal of the
body to adopt the platform of the Aus
tin convention.
1t is suggested as question for de-
batting societies to decide, (Which has
the worst case of political jim jams,
the Pamela Waterman or the Fort
Worth DemOcrat"
John Rucker and John King, mer-
chants of Dallas, and room-mates, had
a misunderstanding in their room and
King was shot through the brain.
Rucker got away.
The Fort Worth Tribune is edited by
a jolly astronomer. His wife is his ex-
cellent assistant, and he sees stars and
makes wood cuts, and was moonstruck
last Wednesday.
Austin feels very badly when it re-
fleets hat Waco and other like little
places had total and we only par
tIal eclipse. The Telephone is struttlng
itself to death about 1t.
The Christian College at Bonham
has surrendered it's charter, and the
Neacs says it will hereafter be conducted
AS an undenOminatiOnal institution I'M
der the name of Bonham Seminary.
Let the Dallas Herald's first article
upon the division of the State be Its
last. 1t had better ''spuft" and then
subside, like some other papers, than
go down under this internal dogma.
Col. Chichester, the contractor, wants
the schedule time between Fort Worth
and Fort Yuma shortened. Petitions
have been prepared asking this, and
they will soon reach the Postmaster
| General.
1t is not true, as stated, that the ne
groes on Senator Coke's plantation,
who fell to praying during the eclipse,
learned to fear the devil because oil
their association with the honorable
gentleman.
Nat Mackey, charged with murder,
was arrested at Dodge City and brought
all the way to Comsncbe, Texas, by ].
NJ. Lackey and 7. NJ. Godfrey, cattle
drivers. There was a reward of $3.50
offered for Mackey.
The platform adopted by the Austin
convention places the Texas Democracy
in line with that of Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri, Arkansas and all other West
ern and Southern States that have sc
far held conventions.
Letcher, the lecherous scoundrel who
wrote the scandalous letter from Mexis
to a Kentucky papor, was lately il
Dallas. The newspapers in that city
gave him lift, and he departed leav
ing his board bill unpaid.
uennis Jones, a mulatto, has beer
------>- curry w uIururr IN the first de
gree. He killed . celaIed- preacher.
four other murder cases to be tried
during the term of the court.
In Hood county, at Grandma Peve.
ler's house, there were assembled at q
dinner sixty-seveR blood relations, de-
scendants of the old lady. The re.
union of relatives from eight different
counties, lasted for one whole week.
A young man named Crunk, from
Round Rock, who went on a stock
drive to Kansas, with Henry Eubank,
was accidentally killed by pistol
shot, at Dodge City, K,nsas So states
a telegram received at Round Rock.
The late excellent DR.. Richard Har-
rlson, of Waco, a gentleman and
scholar, published, if we are not mis-.
taken, an exhaustive discussion of .he
peculiariries and progress of yellow
fever in Texas. Who has copy of il a.?
The Uvalde Umpire urges the organ
ization of minute companies in the
western counties, to be armed by the
State. 1t believes such a movement
very important on account of their
available forces along the Rio Grande.
The B enham Banner, addressing it.
self to the delegates to the Congress
ional convention, sings sweetly:
Little bits Of lemon,
Little chunks of ice,
Little water sugar
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