The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16
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The attendance at tie COllin rounty

A"e aIenuance ~ tne C0llin county
fair was slim.
Corn IN portions Of San Augustine
county averages 50 bushels per acre.
Victoria is tired Of its charter and
wants to return to simple county gov
eminent.
The Presbyterians of Lockhart are
attempting to raise funds for furnish
ing their new church.
Well digging in Western Texas will
prevent the recurrence of great damage
to stock from drouths.
7h' Cattle and Mercantile Record hiss
made its debut at Dallas, and 1t is
quite sn attractive periodical.
Small dwellings are in great demand
st Houston, which shows that the
place has room for lsboring people.
One hundred and twenty-five sable
citizens of San Augustine county have
gone exOiusting in body to Kansas.
The work of boring for an artesian
we'll goes on at Wills Point, and q flow
of water Is looked for most hopefully.
The tide of immigration Is again
turning towards Texas. Trains are
we'll loaded coming in from all direo-
tons.
An exchange says it was only after
imposing the drummers' tax that an
iron chest berame necessary in the
treasurer's Office.
The Washington county convicts are
hired out at twenty-five cents per day.
We should send our commissioners
down there to learn lessons in economy.
Nick Davis, OF Washington county,
hauled load of wood to Brennan and
sold it. He was in good health, but
that night he was a corpse, dying
from heart disease.
The walking match, go-as-you-please,
between Gay, Link and Edgap, at Fort
Worth, at the end of seventeen hours
was, Gag 63 miles 8 laps, Link 65 miles,
Elgas 81 miles G laps.
The saloon men of Marshall have
withdrawn their subscriptions from the
MARSHALL Herald because, while it does
not believe the law wise measure,
still advocates obedience to it.
William Gillis attempted the seduc-
ton of young lady of Meridian, Miss
Julia jacket, and then the life of her
father. AS a consequence he goes to
the pepltentiary for five years.
A gang of counterfeiters is supposed
to be at work in North Texas. One of
them passed off $50 counterfeit on
the postmaster at Plano, says a special
to the Dallss Herald and Commercial.
In saloon at Winchester negro
named Dick Gland was shot through
the breast by whits chap named II.
Scallan, but the whisky and the fell
lows worthlessnesa will keep him from
dying.
General Barnes narrow gauge rail-
road bill will monopoliz. q largo share
of the attention of the next Congress.
1t is proposed to make the Texas Wes-
tern and Houston the base Of the new
route.
The revolution in chihuahua is
growing and contribution from the
miners of Sierra Nevada may become
necessary. This is the way revolutions
are conducted in the land of God and
Liberty.
A potato has been exhibited at the
Office of the Wills Point Local weigh
ing seventeen pounds and measuring
over thirty-six inches in length. Some
corn was also shown, of which forty
ears shelled out bushel.
The ten Indian chiefs recently array
ed in all the splendid forgery of glorious
war at the Muscogee, 1. t., fair should
be invited to attend the State fair at
the Capitol. They will come. The
railroads will desdhead them.
Aud now the Telegram wishes to
know how the members of the Texas
delegation in Congress stand on the
dog tax, the bell punch law, the Gov
ernor's veto, the Texas Sunday law
and other great questions of material
moment that will be considered during
the next session of Congress.
Herald Commercial: As Houston,
Austin, Dallas and all the railroad
towns of Texas will have railway con-
nection with New Orleans before next
season opens, Galveston will have lost
her power to exercise a supreme sci
tishness against the grand old Crescent
City under the quarantine laws.
Chief Engineer Williams of the
Houston fire department has declared
that he would dIsband the fire depart
ment of the city of Houston, discharge
the men and turn the horses over TO
some livery stable to be used in pay
ment for their feed. He is forced TO
do this from lack of supplies and SUI j.
port.
The Oil City Derrick says that some
body has written and will shortly pub
lish q pamphlet on How to Run q
Newspaper" The work should be
read by editors only, as everybody else
in the community knows precisely how
it ought to be done, while, however,
so nodestly conceding "thst I'm not
newspaper man."
The Bonham Meios corrects, as Col.
Taylor of Bonham insists, the state
meut made by some one that Col.
Taylor, when the Legislature sat, was
the represent ltive OF the railroad rings
aud interests of the State. Col. Taylor,
two-thirds of the two houses concur
ring, prevented the repeal of the law
giving sixteen sections per mile to
new railroads.
Bowers of the Pamela Waterman,
had pictured the bell punch as big as a
piano, and having told too much of
what he, as q knowing one, knew
about the instrument, when 1t made
its appearance upon the counters at
Carthage, B iwers was dreadfully NOR
titled, and must have sought conso.a-
ton in drink, since the punchers are
registering beyond all anticipation.
A copper mine has been discovered
on the Big Wichits river in Baylor
county which is said to surpass in
quality anything of the sort yet dis
covered in America and by only one
mine in Europe. The one is said to
assay over 20 per cent. of pure
copper, and a pound of the ore will
sell at twenty cents q pound In st.
Luis. The land has been taken up by
L. NJ. Clements and James Kelfoil.
Holt, who was just tried for murder
and sentenced for life, and immediately
put on trial for another murder, has
been granted q change of venue to
Gainesville, Cook county. An affidavit
of twelve citizens declaring that he
could not get justice in that county