The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-10
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Cielian by yesterdays mail. They are
afraid to travel alone.
A telephone Is being successfully OPP
Grated between Galveston and Houston,
q distance of fifty miles.
The Southwestern University Tat
Georgetown advances. A primary de-
partment has been added
D. D. Fiquet, of Houston, has
brought from Kentucky a herd OF
thoroughbred Jersey cattle.
The Greenbsck movement in Texas
is silently and certainly progressing,
and politicians are lodging.
The Bonham Neacs, though opposed to
Throckmorton, would have him for
Governor instead of Hubbard.
! Paul Bremond is in New York, and
will return in a few days to push his
narrow gauge more vigorously.
"Obonorgsrine" is butter made
from tallow, which is being extensively
introduced into the Texas market.
Galveston banks are importing one
and three-cent pieces, and the people
of the Bleach" are well pleased.
Professor Tice is responsible for it,
and it wouldn't do for the average
Texas teamster to meet him just now.
Mrs. Lanning, a dressmaker of Fort
Worth, committed suicide by taking
morphine. She was disappointed in
love.
Richard McWlnn and Mrs. Bays
uero lately married in Goliad They
were respectively only 80 and 80 years
old.
The Changers meet at Bryan, Janu-
airy 8. They will be addressed at the
Agricultural College by Governor Hub
bard.
The railroad companies propose here
after to make close connections at
Houston with the Galveston mail
trains.
Capt. keenan,, IN Victoria county,
killed only fourteen rattlesnakes in one
day, end it was bad weather, too, for
snakes.
II The Brennan Banner says a majority
of the Texas courts are run with an eye
single, or single eye, to costs and
trimmings.
+ There may be sensational funeral
in Eastern Texas. The editors of two
papers over there are about to appeal
to the 'code."
+ The Meas gives reports of rumors
about change in the management of
the Galveston and Houston railway.
Nothing definite.
- One-twentieth of the street frontage
in New York city is occupied by bar
rooms. How does this compare with
Austin and Dallas2
Semacona, the Mexican Envoy at
Washington, has greatly pleased Conk-
ling's committee by his Greaser-like
smooth deneanor.
The people of Marshall are pleased
to have Judge NJ. B. Ector spend
short time between court sessions with
them. 1t is his home.
The mails were sadly out of fix yes
terday. Probably the route agents
went calling New Years day and did
not get over it in time.
Mr.. Nash Singletary, of the Leon
Cabinet, is dead, and 1t is not known
yet whether the publication of the pa
per will be continued.
The Baptist Herald, of Houston, is
one of our most valued exchanges. Its
Link binds it to great many very
good people in Texas.
Judge Alexander overrules the mo-
ton for new trial in behalf of Mason,
the negro, condemned for murder in
the first degree at Waco.
= Box toed shoes are at last being
adopted by ladies in Texas. They
come in handy when a tramp presents
himself at the front door.
( Dennis johnson, colored, engaged
in the wholesale butcher business the
other day at Grapeland. He cut only
-four darkies up at time.
The Corpus Christi Gazette presents
the claims of Southwest Texas for I'M
migration. 1t is vast country of
vast undeveloped resources.
Galveston merchants meet and trade
and speculate land don't take stock in
the Santa Re road) each evening in
the rotunda of the fremont Hotel.
The Meas Echo says the Galveston
Independent goes ''red-eyed," and as
serts that the letter of Governor Hub
bard to Col. Ewing is not satisfactory.
The buffalo roams on prairies beyond
civiliz alton and the law. They and
the wild Indian go hand in hand, and
the one must go down with the other.
The people of Round Rock are NOV
ing in educational matters, and will
probably, by liberal system of educa-
ton, secure some of the Peabody fund.
Mr.. John z. Miller, once at the
head of the ticket department of the
International and Great Northern r.
R., has csrpet-bagged to New York city.
Mr.. Simpson, of Liberty county,
lost his house valued at $4,000, and the
next day his child's limb was crushed
by car rendering amputatlon neces-
sary.
An able bodied negro on the pauper
rolls of Washington county, by some
kind of hocus pocus, has drawn $500
from the county within the last seven
years.
+ They have engines in cities especially
devoted to the business of dispensing
the mob that usually collects at fires
to steal and rob. We need one in
Austin.
Z The proposition to raise $4,000 by
donation to put life into the long since
dead body of certain paper is gener-
ally laughed at by the press of the
State.
The editor of the Terds Observer
wants to dispel the idea that be is a
very rich man. He needs money, aud
cannot carry subscriptions without
money.
G. W. II. Martin, an old man, ar
rested for land forgeries in Hamilton
county, committed suicide by taking
strychnine.' He was once citizen of
Galveston.
The Grand Lodge I. o. o. F. Of the
State of Texas meets in Austin on the J
frat Monday in February. The Grand
Encampment meets at the same time |
and place.
It is claimed that . million tramps |
a - ,,,ovinxx ovar th. ITnitad States and