The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05


Charles Williams, of Dallas, suspect
ed his wife. He informed her that
urgent business called him away. He
didn't so. Returning home at l
O'Clock in the morning he found Nat
middleton as his wife's room mate.
he cut and slashed Nat with a knife
and was arrested and put in Jail
about it.
In San Saba, McCulloch, Coleman.
Lampasas, Burnet aud Williamson
Jones's speeches have svailed nothing.
Inc people, as we are advised by
gentleman just down from that section,
were disappointed in Jones's tedious
haraDgues, and the fewest number &C.
cept his wild fiat" money theories.
Lieut.. E. W. Maxwell was tried by
court martial at San Antonio for trip
llcating his pay accounts, and SEN
fenced to penitentiary confinement for
two years. The President has con-
tirmed the finding of the court dismis.
sing Maxwell from the service and or
derlng him to the Kansas peniten-
tiary.
Houston quarantine officers are hav-
ing infinite trouble. The people at
Hockey, on the Central, and at Spring
Station, on the International, will not
suffer quarantine runners from infected
cities to be thrust from the cars at
those villages. They propose to hang
the quarantine officers if the offense
/ be repeated.
Samuel B. S. Nix, residing at Trini-
ty Mills, in Dallas county, was killed
by lightning while blowing in his field.
He was blowing and while turning his
team at the end of furrow was stricI-
en- down, the electric fluid striking him
on the side of the head, breaking the
skin, damaging his clothes and tearing
the boots off his feet.
When the Dallas authorities estab-
lished quarantine at Hutchins, its cit
liens, like those of Round Rock, were
greatly incensed. They drove DR..
Jones, the quarantine officer, out of
town, and then broke his quarantine
station, two and half miles from
town. His tents were burned and the
Doctor took to Dallas for safety.
The Ne,cs Item tells it that pump
kin is on exhibition in Mason which
measures sixteen feet and ten inches in
circumference and weighs 325 pounds /!
This monster was raised by MIR. B. F.
Stewart, about seven miles from Ma
son, who has growing on one vine five
! pumpkins of the same kind, several of
which weigh even more than this one
now on exhibition. and none of which
weigh less than 300 pounds.
The San Antonio Herald has gone
into the hands of trustee. 1t will be
sold. The Express says: 'The Er
press sympathizes with Judge Lyle in
his misfortune. He is a good newspa-
per man, and has labored as few men
ever labored before to achieve success.
The failure cannot be attributed to any
lack of ability or effort on his part.
He certainly deserved unbounded sue
cess"
D. G. Chamberlain, of Elm Grove,
Caldwell county, says the cotton crop
of his section will average two-thirds
of bale to the acre. He harvested 90
bushels of oats to the acre this season,
and on the same land planted cotton
which will probably make half bale
to the acre. He sold some of the cot
ton raised on the land where oats were
produced in Austin on the thirtieth
day of August. Who can beat this
double croppi 1g?
Dallas Commercial: "What has
been known all along in regard to yell
low fever at New Orleans has at last
been published, namely, that not one
half the cases had been reported. The
board of health is also pronounced ut
terly worthless. AS usual, the How
ards are the main reliance OF the dis
tressed people. A board of health
always gets along best in we'll time.
The agitation and hurry and worry of
an epidemic are not conducive to ma
ture deliberatien and learned and
lengthy discussions"
Illuminating gas is hardly appre-
ciated here where we have used it for
years until it has become common
place. But Denison was lighted with
gas Monday night for the first time,
and Murray went on tear; the Ne,os
office was blazed with wondrous glare.
Murray made speeches, the other editor
made contract to have his paper ed
tied by the gas factory, and the Sin
FAINT wonder" was spanked and caressed
and hattered. Col. Swisher, of this
city, was invited to attend the celebra-
ton, but bright as he keeps the world
he couldn't see it,"
A vessel called the Christine Eliza
beth has been detained at the Calves
ton quarantine station for several
weeks. She is from Rio, and loaded
with coffee, and left Rio three months
ago. On the passage her captain and
one of the crew died of fever. Her
officers and consignees have made per-
sistent efforts to get her to the wharf,
but the board of health plainly refused,
on the ground that the disease is still
lurking in her cargo, bilge-water and
hold, and would escape as soon as her
matches were relsed.
A young man died in an clubhouse ut
Munger's Mill, near Willis, after laying
there six or seven days without noun
ishment or attention. He was from
Chicago, and from papers found on his |
person, his name is supposed to be
Ransom b. Parks. HIS trade was that |
ola telegraph operator. 1t was not
positively known, says the Telegram,
but it is generally supposed that he
was put off of some of the trans of the |
International Rsilroad. The grand |
jury which meets at Montgomery. next |
week will no doubt investigate the
putting off business.
G. VOgelsang, who Sings sweetly in
San Marcos, writes unsteady as fol-
lows: Necessity and vanity orig
nally based money upon the precious
metals. Vanity alone upholds the Gus
tom at present, until necessity and rea-
son will demonetize gold and silver
and base money upon improvements
and works of art" The next Green
back club organized should adopt the
platform and declare that
they wouldn't have any money unless
based upon works of art, and then get
a sign painter to make their own sweet
portraits, and Issue on them several
millions of fat money paper. 1t would
take.
The Dallas Commercial says that dur
ing the ard-Throckmorton con-
test the fence tumbling was kept up
very actively, but with the termination
Of the Austin convention came the
rest But now the Wacoes are in the