The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17
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pest bales OF Texas cotton.
Isaiah Hummer, a colored man liy-
ing near Houston, is cultivating rice of
q tine quality that produces sixty bush
els to the acre.
Hampstead no longer enforces special
quarantine, regarding it useless so long
as the State is carefully guarded at all
approaches from infected points.
A young lady of Bonham picks two
hundred and fifty pounds of cotton in
day, ana says she is independent of
any loafer who can't do as much.
Crawford, the Hampstead shoots,
established an abb while the guard
was looking the other way. When he
is found again the trial will proceed.
Sayers completely won Martins heat
and Shermsn's fancy, and Crooks
crooked himself reverently in the pres
ence of SAyers's genius and eloqurDce.
1t is believed by many that Bob
Crawford, the Hampstead murderer,
was hung by the armed men. who, it
was stated at the time, ''let him get
away"
Bob and Dock Thornton and Elijsh
Estep killed man named Lipsev, at
San Saba. Dock Thornton and Estep
are under arrest. Bob Thornton is
badly wounded.
The Oldest man in Texas is SAID to
be old Doc Brown, colored, of Marion
county, aged 125 years. Juaco Walker
beat that, having died in the same
county at the age OF 100.
The Dallas Herdld's grand railroad
thieving ring dwindles down into a
small affair. The Houston papers say
no one connected with the Central has
had anything to do with it.
The new song, PUT Your Armor
On, My Boys" as sung by Major Penn,
is destined to be great favorite with
the girls; it sounds so much like ''put
your arm around me, boys"
Telegram A murderer is not a muir
derer if worth over $4,000. In that
case it has only been little difficulty,
and the poor unfortunate fellow should
not be hurt. Sorry Tor him, etc.
Williams, of Bastrop county, sus-
pected his wife of infidellty and locked
her up. She outwitted him and got
away, and Williams then got even by
shooting the wits out of her psramour.
DEC Thompson and E. Estep, Jr.,
have been undergoing preliminary trial
at San Saba for the murder of w. H.
Lipsey. Thompson was discharged
and Estep was placed under bond of
$1,000.
Noers Sunny Homes says if the heirs
of the late Jesse B. Haynes will write
to him he will tell them something
good to hear; and so with the next OF
kin to Ira B. Wheeler, killed at Muir
freesboro'.
G. P. Huntington, the great railroad
man, who proposes to build {. Pacific
railroad for Texas without government
aid, sent $1,000 to the Memphis yellow
fever sufferers and $1,000 to the How
ards of New Orleans.
Seth Shepard Is employed to prose-
cute the Moores, who are charged with
the murder of Capt. 1. g. Killough.
The general strength of the LAGRANGE
bar is retained for the defense. The
accused are wealthy.
Mr.. Jonathan Soules, of San Saba
county, was .willed by his horse run
ming away and throwing him. His
feet caught in the stirrups, and his
horse kicked and dragged him some
distance, mangling him terribly.
The Guadalupe Times asserts that
the record shows Judge Ireland to have
ever been the champion of the best in
terests of his State, and that he con-
Quoted himself as an honest and true
statesman who has never betrayed trust
john curry, night yarJm5ster at
Denison, was run over by train. His
clothes and even his boots were strip
ped from bis person, and yet he was
not seriously injured. The hungry
life insurance men will offer him spe-
clal rates.
Theo Noel is sending his photograph
to his old friends in Texas. It is use
full as we'll as beautiful. They use
them in grocery stores in Chicago.
where Noel lives, to Brighten rats from
cellars ana to straighten the eyes of
crose-eyed babies.
Rev. Mr.. Gossweiler, the Lutheran
minister of San Antonio, who seduced
the daughter of parishoner and ran
away, went to the valley of death over
on the Mississippi. He and his wife
and all their children are dead with
the yellow scourge.
Dallas appears to be the headquar-
ters of the ring of railroad thieves.
Crooked transactions amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been carried on there, which, added
to the grand steals elsewhere, will
make colossal sum.
P. N. Morris, an enterprising youth,
forged at Dallas an order on Col. A.
Norton, upon which he realized a
suit of clothes, in which he
vent gaily up to Kaufman county,
where he was arrested, and now he is
% be taught morals a Ia code.
Barnes, brother of Sebe Brown, and
'elique of the Bass gan ,, it appears,
has organized band. They attacked
louisville, which was defended by
Sheriff Egan and posse. Sixty shots
we're fired, but only one horse belong
ng to the Barnes party was killed.
Thomas Cornell, a remarkably |
fright young gentleman of Denison,
vent hunting, and mistaking a mans |
lead for a partridge dosed it well with |
mall shot. II was John Darling
hat got shot. He was only badly |
urt. Cornell Is still on the communi-
y.
The East Line railroad, Gays the
farshall Herald. has been completed a
istance of seventy miles, and will
DON be running to Winsb0ro, twenty
niles beyond PIttsburg. The entire
Dad has been built by a few enter
rising men without help outside the
inc.
Over 1000 bales OF cotton haYe been
hipped from Round Rock during the
eason, which, at $45 per bale, will
ring $3.50, 900. The Headlights head
not very light when it concludes that
lch sum of money IN the commune
7 ought to drive away that awful
lonster, ''hard times"
Texas is now quarantined against
Arkansas, and the country is
Ife. Augusta was drowned out and
estroyed by food year or two ago,
ut Texas guarantees against what Is