The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-30

Cattle inspector Rose reports 10000 head OF
cattle having passed through Coleman county
this season.
An election has been ordered Ia LaGrange
to determine whether the town shall take
charge Of the public free schools.
recently organized for the Introduction OF the
aTexas meat preserving process are now
experimenting with a view to preserving
meats for expectation.
San Diego Is suffering from the dronth
The creek has dried up and all the elsterns
and stock have to depend upon the wells sunk
In the creeks bed for water
Three notorious horse-thieyes. Inez Ger
vantez Santiago Ramerez and j. se Na1nerez
all "greasers Of the meanest type, We're al
rested Lii Corpus Christi on Monday, the sew
enth instant and carried TO Gollad.
Mr.. Thurman. Of Denton county, and his
two sons have. with the assistance Of one and
q half months labor by hired hand, culti-
waited 100 acres Ut land and they have one OF
the best and cleanest crops In Denton county.
Prof. Rounsavall. Of San Marcos, Just re-
turned from Beeville, says that all the
streams lii that direction but the Guadalupe
and two or three similar ones are "bone dry,
He saw thousands Of stock being watered out
Of wells, by horsepower. No grass or feed.
Of course much stock must perish.
The dronth still continues ii Kinney coun-
ty. The days are hot, nights cool and pleas
ant. Mr.. T.. B. Russell, Of st. Marys, re-.
ports the drouth as prevailing with equal
severity In that vicinity and all along the
road. Stock men are gloomy, and predict
| heavy loss during the coming fall and winter
II the present dry weather continues much
| longer.
On Saturday week Mr. Anderson, living
| half mile from Granbury, was squirrel
| hunting, and while engaged looking up tree
Al lmmense rattesnake colled at hs i e.
Mr. A. succeeded In freeing himself from the
1 reptile A moment later he sent q rifle ball
Into It's body. The snake had ,gorged Itself
with two young rabbits and had partly sWal-
lowed a third when disturbed.
Crops Id Taylor county are excellent. The
season has been splendid; copious and abund-
ant rains have kept vegetation fiol1rlshing
Corn Of the early planting is made, and the
late crop Is now silking CATTLE ore fat and
fine on the rich mesquit grasses. Taylor now
Buffalo Gaps number over 300 Inhabitants;
| Prospecting parties from all Eastern and
most Southern Texas are daily passing over
the county seeking homes.
1 On Saturday last Mr.. Perry Clark, consta-
BILE Of the Hartley precinct, Montgomery
county, brought to town and placed In jail g
negro named Buck Myers, who murdered
Wilbur Jourdan, In February, 1878. Officer
CLARK on Friday evening, brought In anothe,
negro charged with assault with intent to XII
on the person of Isaac Nelson last week,
near Hartley. The prisoner had q hehrlng
before Justice Roach, and was committed tc
4 Jail In default OF q $500 bond.
On Saturday evening last large number o.
negroes congregated In Montgomery for the
purpose of taking into consideration the lques.
ton that is now agitating their race In the
Kansas movement. and the large number o.
darkies In town attested that the spirit Of ex-
olus Is rife among them. Some OF the colored
men wanted En-. Anderson to deliver himself
OF his ipse d1xit, the tenor Of which came neal
putting damper on the meeting. In effect
EN- made a very sensible talk. He said he
was opposed to rushing headlong to the UNI
known Ito most OF his hearersl land of Kan
sas; that he was In favor Of sending out a
committee of colored men to that State, whose
duty 1t would be to investigate what advan-
tages, Ii any, 1t possesses over Texas; the
products Of Its soil, the salubrity Of It's cli-
mate. its people, etc, and to report from
actual observation whether the colonization
Of thu negroes there would result In their well.
being or not He said the prime object OF this
agitation was to ameliorate the condition Of
the colored race, to elevate 1t morally and In
telectually, and il that object could be &C
complished without leaving the State, he was
4 opposed to going. He did not cherish senti-
ments of malice against his white friends
among whom he had been brought up, anc
was certain that If he should bid them adieu
they would shed tears with him OF mutual re
i greet at parting.