The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-11

Lunar county made larger cot u
crop this year than ever before.
The liquor dealers of Fort Worth are
fighting the bell punch laws through
tHe courts.
Figs are ripspiDg IN Dacouber at
Marshall.
Wheat is worth sI.75 at Mason, and
it is very scarce.
There has been 20 ram in Austin
C uaty for ter months.
Crecincle Uv4lte was hung a: Laredo
for the murder of bis wife.
The Brs z1s river haa stopped rum 5g
a few miles above G,anbury.
G. C. Rogers wss refused bail at
Palestine By Judge E wards.
Corn is worth 81 per busheI ard va
ter 81 per barrel in Cetu-ne.
Hia. Jsmes Il. Lester, az old and
respected cit.zsn of Faye,te county. is
dead.
Toe railroad w4s completed to the
town OF Montgomery On the second in
slant.
Rafael P.,ziena, q noted horse thief
of the lower RIO G.ande border, has
been captured.
During November fl 1t cars were b1ilt
in he l 6 G. n. shops at Palestine,
at the rate of one per dsy.
A survey of the railway line from
Columbus to Lac -a1ge was begua Cd
the third day OF D ,cember.
Fsafs are entertained ,hat the thou
sands OF pigeons in Ffaoklip county
will destroy tie entire crop Of acorn.
May Stevens, the frs: inmate of the
Sisters RsfoFmatory st Galveston, has
been abducted from the institution.
The Eagiish immigrants who have
lately settled in Colorado county are
making industrious aud Intelligent
farmers.
Maj Sam F. Spencer, not long ago
a Dallas auctioneer, has received S24,-
900 for his sh Sre in the Chemuuk mine
at Lsadvi!le.
Turban hats are much worn by young
ladies, but to very few are they really
becoming. l. ia, tn say the least,
rather pronounced style.
A $4,000 cotton seed oil mill is a
fixed fact at Sherman. It Is to be
erected by Pittsburgh ticm, and will |
be in operation in February.
In ball costumes the semi-indecent
styles of last season are 10 he ma,ntaiI-
e., and ladies will resemble Iceland IN |
having so many white bare places.
DR.. Young has failed to organize q
temperance society at tyler, and DR..
Chspln had just spent two weeks there |
10 advance Oh him. It's IS bad place.
1t is thought that tue greatest smbi-
ton OF the edit of the Telegram is
to induce the management OF the Inter-
Ocean to employ him as political edi-
tor.
The saloon keepers of BRENNAN as
sert that one turn of the bell punch |
crank is as apt to register hundred |
drinks as one. That Is why they don't |
turn.
Twenty-Five deaths in Dallas in No
vember; that Is this is the number of |
bodies buried by the sexton. How |
many were left lying around nobody |
knows.
Black satin muffs are among the nov
elites of the season. They are lined |
with either sealskln or fur, and have |
long streamers of black sa,in ribbon at |
the sides.
On some of the imported bonnets are
seen birds which have thei- eyes closed |
as il asleep, and are newe' than those |
which are dead. Fashion takes very |
peculiar freaks.
Transfers along the Glib river, Ari-
IONA, complain of the large herds of |
wild camels that have of late taken |
possession of the man reads, TO the |
CONSERVATION of horses aud mules.
Col. Knapp states that the building |
for the life saving services, at Sabine |
Pass is nearly completed. BE says the |
stations on the Texas coast will he the |
best of all on the coast of the United |
States.
James II. Pace, who has been on trial |
twice for murder, twice for horse steal |
ing, and on several other chrges, tri- |
fled with Uncle Sans mail.bsgs, and |
now lie becomes bagged ina life SEN
tence.
The Waco bell punches Cor October
registered %, 951 drinks, for November
81, 703 For enc month the revenue
was 1851 SO, for the next $372S3 De-
crease in drinks, 10, 249; decrease in
revenue, $25e.O5.
CrCokedne,s in cotton weighing is
charged on Galveston cotton weighers.
That is what comes of the vast ma
ehinery of gov,rnment put into opera
ton to secure Governor b seat in the
United States Senate.
Dallas druggists petition the city
council to remove the tax on spurious
liquors. Ii this connection 1t is sur
missed that if every drink taken in Dali
las in one year were recorded by the
bell punches the State debt would at
once be cancled.
Harrison county bell punches regis
tered in October 1921 malt drinks
and 10, 4e6 alcoholic: in November
about 5000 less of each, and the Mes
senger thinks that before long the State
will become indebted to the saloons.
How fsrcica the law becomes.
The LAT Greenback Party.