The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-11
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this season IS uucommnnly small.
The grand Jury of Red River coun.
ty report crime g.estly on the decrease.
Multiplied thousands of pigeon:
have bsen passing over Van Z.ndi
county.
The Gate City (D,nisop) Ga ri.
have determined to enter the State
ssrvice.
TIE prrj scted railroad route from
Dallas to Sabine Pass is again being
discussed.
Major, now Rev. Penn, is going tc
Bryan to snatch young Cresp and al
other sinners baldheaded.
There were 90. 900 accessions TO the
Methodist Church In this State during
the conference year just closed.
A son of Rev. ]. N. R Imey, of Shell
by county, stands charged with rob.
bing the mails while mail rider.
The old Veremendi House at San
Antonio has bullet holes in 1t made
during the Texas war, in 1886.
The negroes of Rusk county, the
other day, held meeting. aud, by q
vote Of FIVE TO one, resolved to exodust
A number of persons going to the
Mojads mines have lately been robbed,
ana some murdered, near Eagle Pass.
Porter, the negro murderer of the
Denison policeman, has been given
seventy-6Ye years in the penItentiary.
Joshua Whiting aud Peter Gill, mur-
derers of Austin Thomas, at Beaumont,
have been sent to the penitentiary for
life.
T. s Gathright, late of the so-called
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
has been elected President of Heuder-
son College.
Eighty-fve pearl were lately tsken
out of one Indianola oyster. They
ranged In size from mustard seed to
small pea.
The International surveyors have
reached San Antonio. Their survey
makes the distance from Austin to San
Antonio ~ 1-2 miles.
Moody and Sapkey, learning that
there are few sinners left in Texas,
and a few dollars too, are coming to
convert the heathens.
When a benson husband comes
home late at night his loving partner
is not satisfied about his having been
at the lodge until she smells his breath.
The bell punches of Marion county
toled IS, 40 drinks for October, and
1886 for November revenue IN one
month of $141.65 against $500 12 in
the other.
Eleven Master Masons took the ex-
atad thirty second degree, of Scotch
rite, at Palestine, during the recent
visit of Gen. Pike, who is the s. G.. G.
of the degree.
Since it is impossible to enforce the
bell punch and the SUNDAY law in
many places, the Pamela Wdtchn1an
recommends that the Governor de-
clare martial law.
Dauphin collars are new. They are
taken from a portrait of Louis XVII,
which represents him in q velvet coat
and q shirt with a fat collar and hav-
ing plaitiugs down the front.
Pre- emption settlers in the Panhan-
die are annoyed by the illegal loca.
tions of Gunter s. Munson. They say
these men have located all their lands
and obtained patents for them.
The Denison Herald sees that Sena-
tor Coke is not the friend of Senator
Maxey. Coke took the editor of the
Meridian Blade to Washington. He
lauds Coke and abuses Msxey.
Marshal Love, of Terrell, after a
prisoner, jumped the tram near McKin-
ney, and vas knocked senseless. The
train was stopped and the wounded
man taken on board. He is not NOR
tally injured.
A young white woman at Jefferson
has been convicted of miscegenstion
and sent to the penitentiary for two
years. She married a thick-lipped
black negro, who seemed wholly in
different to her fate. He Is under ar
rest for theft.
Jim Currie, one of the young men
who got into the whisky row at the
dance at B erney' g, In McLennan county,
died of fractures OF the skull made by
being best over the head with six
shooter. Bud Wood, who killed Couch,
Is still at large.
The Grayson murderers crept out of
a loophole in the law, but retributlon
is overcoming them. Three of them
from time to time, have been shot and
killed on the streets of Palestine. The
last of these had the whole top of his
head shot off only q few days ago.
Msjor Penn instructed his usher at
Galveston not to unsest gentlemen to
make room for ladies when his church
is crowded. He is after conversions,
and not punctiliousness and courtesy,
which won't secure comfortable seat
in eternity.
1t Is estimated that about 1000 ne.
groes have left Grimes and Washington
counties this season for Kansas. Farms
In those counties which rented for 81
per acre for last crop are now being
offered for 80. This looks like the
exodus might hurt somebody if i,
keep on.
| Col. N. Thomas, for near forty years
prominent in Texas politics, once g
member of the Congress of Texas and
several times member of the Texas Leg
islature, has just been united In wed
lock to Mis- Olivia Ledbetter, daughtel
of Hon. H. Ledbetter, all of Faysttt
county.
The Nescs- Item advises the people o.
Mason county to plant more cottor
next year. 1t says fse bales of cotton
raised by each able bodied voter would
bring more money into the county thar
il would take to purchase at tie high
est market prices all the cattle anC
sheep within it's limits. The past sea.
SON has been one OF unparalleled dry
ness and cotton has grown and pro
duced we'll in Mason.
Dallas hands in her bell punch sta
tistics for November, and the shown:
ms as refreshing, only little more so
than that of Waco's. In October tn
bell punch revenue in Dallas was $500
in November it was $615, a falling Of
Of more than one-hslf. Under the oil,
law it would have been, for November
$1100, which shows that the State j
out of pocket just $4s5 for November
by the substitution of the music bo
for the old license tax system.
Paul Bremond's narrow gauge rail
way will run from Houston to Moscow
in Polk county; thence crossing tn
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