The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-25

aud is largely more than any point in
the State, except Galveston, has ship
ped this season.
A copy of the Dallas Weekly Herald
is before US. 1t is most creditable in
its mechanical execution, bat contains
a silent but terrible comment upon the
condition of Dallas county "A three
page list of lands advertised for sale,
In nonpariel type.
The Commercial says: "It a South
ern Pacific railroad is only important
for MemphIs's sake we don't think that
the government ought to be asked to
help build il. Just as soon as the Mem
phis papers get US convinced of this
fact we shall say let it all CO."
Sltterlie, Ryan, Cox and Meadows,
charged with numbering DR.. B,acsell
in Dewitt county. in 1876, have just
been tried at San Antonio. The first
three were found guilty of murder in
the first degree, severance having
been granted in the case of Meadows.
Col. Ashbel Smith and Mr.. William
Brueggerhof sailed from New York
on the thirteenth for Europe. Col.
Smith goes to the Paris Exposition as
one of the United States Commission
ers for Texas, while Mr.. Bruegger-
hof goes as an honorary commissioner.
J. W. Brown. of the Frontiersmdn,
and surveyor for Kerr county, is re-
ported as having died at New Orleans.
His father at San Antonio says he had
large sum of money with him, and he
fears there has been foul play. He can
get no definite information about the
death.
We had thought that Bell county
was living under local option until il
was read in the Journal that Mr.. FL
lott of that county had killed rab,
bit with seven horns upon its head.
Was it too many horns that allied the
rabbit, or was Bait or Elliott troubled
with them
The Graham Leader tells of an at
tempt to poison Mr.. Dees's whole FAM
lily. Some demon put strychnine IN 6
sack of -four, from which biscuit were
made soon afterwards. 1t was discov
cred that something was wrong in time
to save all except little girl. Parties
under Suspicion were arrested.
c. r. Hubbard has a fl Ick of 1000
sheep near Taylorsville, in William
son county, that shear in wool an av
erage OF IA pounds. He has Cots.
void bucks that weigh from 275 to
800 pounds, and that shear as high as Il
pounds. The fleece from these bucks
measures thirteen inches in length.
The Waxahachie Enterprise dom
keep posted in anything but rewards
it seems. 1t verdantly exclaims
Hubbard has done more to put stoE
to crime than sll the balance of the
country put together. Why, he issue.
a proclamation every time horse il
stolen, if he happens to hear of it"
A gentleman In Fort Worth tele
graphed to Washington a few day
ago, and received in reply information
that Mexican dollars are worth ninety.
six cents at the United States mint
The Democrat says: 1.-THE people
Shouts no longer submit to being rob-
bed of six per cent. by money sharks. y
Archibald Taylor, As years of age
and the possessor of some good Deni
son property and with money in hi
pockets, died from exhaustion, alon
and unattended on the streets the othe
night. He was misery and had re
fused himself such nourIshm ents as e
towards keeping life in the human
body.
The San Antonio Express says
"Quite a number of papers of tn
State, which affect to be Mortified a
the idea of bull and lion fight, thinl
the sight of an officer lasceratin,
the back of human being with "a cat
o'-nine-tails' in public place, for petit
theft, would be pleasing and mora
spectacle.
Deaf mutes, educated as best the,
may be in the art of printing, cal
offices of the county County. " TIE" canno
compete with typos possessing all tn,
| faculties and an education necessar,
to make them competent printers. Blu
the luxury of Il deaf mute printing OF
fee may be enjoyed as its expense il
considerable.
Some months ago Rev. Mr.. Getting
ham delivered a series of sermons in
grove near Denlson. He preached OIL
the great question of the day among
the preachers, and raised such Yivi(
hell as to destroy the vitality of tn
trees composing the grove. At leas
the Herald says they have not put fortl
green leaves this spring.
Sheriff Neggli, of Castroville, ha
gone to- Huntsville with Frank An
krum, the constable who attempted t,
liberate King Fisher and Others from
the Medina county Jail, and Donaci'
Garcia, the Polancio murderer. An
krum will linger for five years, anC
Garcia the remainder of his unexpireC
sentence in the penitentiarY.
A family left Terrell the other day il
two-horse wagon, and just outside o
the town the man and wife quarrelled
Finally the woman jumped out of tn,
wagon, unhitched one of the horses anC
declared that she meant to play quits.
The girl joined her mother and the tive
rode away. The old man and the boy
and the other horse were left to ge
along as best they could.
~ should like to live to draw two
breaths after am acquitted, and theE
| would die satisfied, f" said John Smart,
of Burnet county, who had laid in iall
nearly YER on a charge of murder,
and was brought into court on hit
couch, SICK. At IL o'clock the verdict
''nos guilty" was brought in. and at Il
the old mans soul had taken its flight
to another and higher tribunal.
The Castroville people talked the
other day about tarring and feathering
Doctor Wadgymar. The sheriff had
shot a Mexican horse thief and
wounded him so badly the doctor cut
his leg off. He threw the leg into a
pen of hogs, where it was found nearly
devoured, and this plan of fattening
hogs on the leg of Mexican horse
thief was seriously objected to.
The Marshall Herald has entered
prosperously on the fourth year of its
successful career. When Sherman's
thumbscrcw- fails to squeeze a news
paper, begun where the sun of pros
perity was growing dim, out of life
within these four years of death and
desolation and tramps, its friends may
tip winks and glasses to one another
and utter the prayer este perPetua.
No one ever asks a proper question
of an employee of the international
rad WIN does NOT recrive 4 nnlita m