The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-20

&c nominating convention OF the Sixth
Congressional district.
A Brownsville lady hiss fallen heir to
81, 900, 600, but she is already encum-
bered with husband.
A brass band has expelled the tom
cats from the back room sheds of half
the houses in Castroville.
Judge Mccall, who wants to be L nited
States Judge of the new Texas district,
has gone to Washington.
Corn and cotton planting is progress
ing lively in most counties. Corn is
coming up in many places.
Miss Maud Grubbs, of DenIson, who
has hIstrionic tastes, will be called
Maud Stuart on the stage.
The order of knights of Honor Is
growing rapidly at Houston. 1t is q
good thing-when fellow dies.
The Quill says there is a strong I'M
dercurrent for George H. Noonsn as q
candidate for Congress out West.
Bell county criminals and thieves
don't allow newspapers to mention
them except in most respectful terms.
Messrs. Golf and Lstchweth recently
discovered an extensive vein of coal on
Tecumseh creek, Throckmorton county.
People preparing to go to Lesdville
should take with them money enough
TO pay q months board and fare back.
George Ella, of Hockey, writes
back most.discourag'ngly of Leadvllle.
He says thousands are there in poverty.
Judge Chessher, county judge of
Williamson county, will resign because
holding the office would impoverish
him.
Leadville is afflicted with dIrhtheria
and pneumonia. A great many Texans
going there will be choked to death
somehow.
The railroad agent at d .nlson is sell
ing 5000 worth of tickets daily to par
ties from Southern Texas en- route for
Lesdville. .
General McCuiloch's superintendent
cy of the Deaf and Dumb Institution
will expire by resignation on the first
of April.
Some Of the most economical, indus
tricus and wealthy men of Leon county
have had to borrow money to pay last
years taxes.
Faber, the pencil maker, is dead,
but mo. 2" still talks through the
STATESMAN. We were always spirit
ually-minded.
Mrs. Williams of Bell CT unity, who
gave birth to four girls sat one fell
swoop" may probably come to Austin
during the fair.
Rev. w. B. Rankin Is lsboring with
the Telephone in Waco, and we may
soon hear of the reformation of that
sinful institution.
Eastern capitalists have bought the
coal mines near Louisville, Denton
county, sunk an eighty foot shaft and
struck foe vein.
Rim fell generally over the State
on the night of the twelfth. Many
sections up to that time suffered Sc
NcEClJ lIOlu uIOuSub.
Texas is furnishing lumber to ST..
Louis. Several carloads were recently
shipped per order to that city from
mills near Texarkana.
Capt. Joe s. Rice, of the slight
Guards" at Houston, has been elected
Colonel of the Fifth Texas Regiment,
volunteer organization.
In San Antonio, during the past
year.. one church. one school house,
fifty-five business houses and SEQ other
buildings have been built.
Coal has been discovered in small
quantities in McLennan county, and
the Examiner is Satisfied vast coal
bed underlies the county.
The Seven Day Adventists have
pitched a new spacious tent in Dallas,
and are warning the uuregenerate- to
flee from the wrath to come.
The Taylorsville Times says ''P.
Maggie, the blacksmith, does all descrip-
ton of woodwork" He shoes horses,
we suppose, with live oak knots.
Gen. Hoxie has put down rates of
freight on brick, mortar and lumber to
the lowest figures, in behalf Of the
burnt out people of Taylorsville.
George McNutt, a young man who
lost leg in a railroad accident near
Hearne few months since, committed
suicide by taking poison the other day.
1t made the mouths of an Austin and
a Lampasas man water to see two
pretty narrow-gauge passenger coaches
pass Hampstead for Corpus last Mon
day.
It's pity Dallas has not, like San
Antonio, two rivers running through
it. The pitiabIs Trinity doesn't fur
nish water enough to mix Dallas's
drinks.
Sickness prevails along the Leon
river, resulting from the use of bad
water. The course of the stream is
marked with vast numbers of dead
stock.
The treasurer of the State Grange
may soon become o traveller in foreign
parts. He is said to have $50, 900 in
hard csah, and it's awful demoralizing
stuff.
Some of the papers spell Mr.. Geiger's
name 'Goafer." The assumption is
that he crGwled into his hole after he
was scolded for coarseness by the
Speaker.
Tankersley, late Speaker of the Ar
kansas Legislature, who was alleged
to have swallowed and digested little
Arkansas railway, is practiciRg law at
Leadville.
The Dallas Herald says that those
walking match men and women at
Gilmore's Garden 'out-dO horses" In
out-doing themselves they out-do stu
pidest asses.
The stockmen of Mason county will
drive between IS, 600 and "A, 600 head
of cattle to market this sErIng. The
range is good and the cattle in fine
condition.
Mr.. T. C. Huntington, of Philadel-
phia, and Mr.. ]. II. VandervenIer, of
New York, have made the tour of the
entire Pan-Hindle country. One Of
them writes for !Scri6Rer.
Officeseekers who set around the
corner groceries and listen to the sweet
notes of the circular saw at Hemp
stead are much opposed to abolishing
the city corporation.
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