The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-19
Te1as-FaeIs aud FancIes.

DIR. Bradford has left BRENNAN will
nurses for Memphis.
Miss Rebecca Prewitt is SAID to bt
the prettiest girl in Rockdale.
The knights of Honor of Brennan
have sent $50 to yellow fever sufferers
TIVE thousand dollars day has beer
paid out for two weeks at Bonham fol
Gotten.
The military picnic held in Calves.
ton realized over $1,000 for the fevel
sufferers.
San Antonio, exclusive of Masonic
and Israelitlsh charities, sends $4,000
to yellow fever districts.
The San Marcos and Guadalupe,
throughout their entire course, abound
in fine sites for water power.
Jacob Benson, of Washington coun
ty, has been arrested and placed in Jail
on the charge of beating his wife to
death.
Denison steadily refuses to quaran.
tine south bound trains on the NJ, Z.
i t. Railroad, as there is no reason in
doing so.
Frank Mcintyre, F. D. Jodon and
Willie Mcintyre have gone from Bren-
ham 10 Memphis to wait on the fever
patients.
Telegram: "The thunderbolts hurled
by the Galveston Neacs at DR.. Ruther-
ford were evidently forged in the re-
giOns Belo."
AT Arlington, in Tarrant county,
disease Is playing sad havoc among
the children. Several have died of
congestion.
John T. Brady, of Houston, watched
the Greenback cat IN its agony, and
now he has gone and done it-deserted
the "fats."
The Brennan Banner wants circuses
admitted to the State. 1t thinks the
law imposing such heavy license should
be modified.
Capt. ]. w. Davis, of Llano, is said
to have discovered and obtained pos
session of valuable silver tract in
L!ano county.
Lynch, who was shot in Waller
county, and whose house ives fired by
his assassins, had eight children con-
sumed in the flames.
Certainly Hieronymus is not mem
Der of the Hampstead brass band, for
its members are too modest to toot
even their own horns.
Washington county has raised more
cotton than the labor in the county
can pick, and the planters are going to
Houston to obtain hands.
1t is suggested that since Butler is
needed to save Massachusetts, and
Brick POmeroy Texas, Kearney must
go to Rome and save the Pope.
Mrs. Bliss and her daughter, expe-
rlenced yellow fever nurses, and Drs.
Tryon and Bryan, all of Houston, have
gone to wait on yellow fever patients.
The Telephone, not Edison's piece of
mechanism, but its namesake in Waco,
is one year old and it is very well
grown and most precocious for its age.
A suit is pending in the courts of
Brennan for horse worth $75. Four
trials have resulted in cost of more
than 5000, and the case Is still unset
tied.
A Mexican mob has released Antonio
OGzario, charged with the murder of
Howard, Atkinson and Mcbride. Oh
~, saiI
Eizario.
1t took Governor Davis only one
month to kill Greenbackism in Texas,
when his greatest wish in allying him
self with the movement was to kill
Democracy.
The Dallas Commercial proposes that
all the Governors ask every man and
woman in their respective States, on a
day appointed, to donate a nickel each
for the stricken.
Hon. John Cochrane, of Dallas,
farmer, thinks the smoke house tax
constitutional, but that it should be
gotten ~ad the statute books at the
earliest moment possible.
1t is more than \hkely that Capt.
Strayhorn will get away with the sher-
iffalty of Williamson county at the
coming election. He has heretofore
made an excellent officer. -
Freshets in the North and South
Concho have taken away the Texas
and Arkansas stage station. A brew
cry at Ben Ficklin and a saloon at
Cencho went away on bender.
The "Great Eastern" which is to
enter into the Texas stock trade with
England, will carry 2200 head of cat
tie and 5000 head of mutton. Besides,
she will carry much fresh meat in re-
frigerators.
Mr.. Peacock, of the STATESMAN
Office, though there has not been a case
of yellow fever in Texas, still con-
ceives it to be his duty to respect the
blockade at Round Rock and remain
in Kansas.
1t is suggested that a man who will
read a newspaper for four years with
cut paying for it will pasture a goat on
the grave of his grandfather. No
reader of the STATESMAN would do
such thing.
Rev. NJ. d. Fly, of Fort Worth, ad-
veFtises that unless his congregation
pays hun little better he will have to
do something else than preach for a
living. Probably the congregation con-
slider the pay is QUid pro quo.
Jolleyville has a Greenbaek club of
thirteen, so says the Sun, and they are |
going to select one of their number to |
proceed to st. Petersburg to demon
strate TO the Emperor how the war
debt of Russia may be settled with
ase.
J. NJ. Carroll, the Baptist preacher
at Waco. is an original, consecutive,
vigorous thinker. He Is young, and |
before he is cd will be great. He has |
few superiors anywhere, and Waco |
boasts of his abilities and |
worth.
Drs. Crane and Burleson, great edu-
Gators of Texan youths. are earnest
advocates of the wisest plans for the |
speedy foundation of q university in |
Texas, of which the several colleges in |
leading towns and cities will cOnsti.
tute branches.
There are in Hays county 1868 white
and AS colored children between the
ages of five and eighteen. Very many |
~ fhaor Ton, k~olo1 lsssl. r. =.