The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-17

Victoria county.
Con'iI uarces are operating in favor
Of R.v. q. w Veal.
The Cnwsl corn crop vail average
fifteen bushels per acre.
L iderwo"d. OF the Bass gang, has
he n arrested in New NJ xico.
Grrat number nf women 10 Dallas
use opium III feariu' quantities.
Steel rails are to BE- laid a once from
VermillionvI lie TO Morgan G ~.
The cotton crop lie good. but worms
have appeared in Collin county.
L. is estimated that the T-x+s crop
of cotton will reach LOO, 900 bales.
Dan Morris, who killed Loggins al
Hempst lad, is denied pail. Let him
hang.
One Cryle has been arrested 10 Lam
psss' csulty for trying to rape Mrs.
Mayo.
Farmers and merchants at Dallas esti-
mate the growing crop at 5000, 600
bales.
Texis loads, owing to the action of
the Legislature, are at their former
| figures.
The Bonham Nrlos is thirteen and
its editor 1900 years old. Let them
exOde.
Dewitt county will make a fair aver
age crop of cotton. a few worms are.
reported.
The Neaos Item says mary immigrant
! wagons have passed through Mason go
ing West.
1t is now stated for q fact that
Brentwood gold-bearing quartz is ten
cents per ton.
Cuero has been suffering from band
Of burglars, which is thought TO be
regularly organized.
Morgan's bayou grows deeper with
use. His steamers hsYe no difficulty
IN ascending to Clinton.
A big Baptist revival Is progressing
at Roblnsonville. Twenty-Five were
immersed last Sunday.
Sherman is getting all the cotton
from Denison, and simply because it
has better county roads.
There are $50, 900 head OF cattle CO =
rsled by 800 COW boys between the
North and South Platte.
W. T. Forbes formerly of Sherman,
now of Atlanta, Georgia, speaks of
making Austin his home.
The Baptists are having grand old
time at Luling, and LulIng's morals
may be greatly improved.
The North Team seems to think that
Gen. Msxey likes his senatorial posi-
ton we'll enough to keepit.
JACK Shields of Hunt county, who is
sixteen years cd, weighs $50 pounds
and is six feet ten inches nigh.
The Van u ;ndt Chronicle hoists Mr.
Finlay's meme as that of its preferred
candidate for the governors place.
,hn GRIMES, son of "Father
Crimes" has his leg broken by q
gymnssticsl mule in TarraIt county.
P.ummer Franklin has been arrest d
| in Grimes county charged with muir
dering McAlpin, eighteen years ago.
Louisisnians ship sugar to Houstt n
merchants and the number of these
thus enricbing Texas constantly grows.
One Robert Shrbers, who stabbed to
death Alex. Mills in Cherokee county,
claims that he did it in self-defense.
Ex-United States Senator Morgan c
Hamilton owns 81, 665 acres of land in
Williamson county, valued st S71, $50.
Good rains have fallen lately in
Backbone valley, in Buruet county,
and the cotton prospect was never bet
ter.
An exchange wants to know what
will become of the Greenbsck party in
Texas if the negroes all exode to Kan
sas.
More wheat is made in Mason county
this year than ever before. A fine fur
ing mill has just been completed at
Mason.
Col. George Flournoy of Galveston,
on account OF the i'll health of his fami-
~, is going to move to San Francisco,
California.
The Telegram thinks the thorough
investigation of land frauds will strike
down some of the ''prOudest names"
in the State.
Kings rancho out west has seventy
five miles of fence, enclosing 800
square miles with capacity for 100, 600
he4d.of cattle.
The thinning out of the population
of Danison on the Fourth is said to
have caused q marked decline in the
real estate values.
A harmless young man named Sprein
was shot dead in the fields while
blowing near Brennan, Wednesday.
He had an enemy.
Dsugherty s. Co., bankers, and
Daugherty, merchant, both of Denton,
have failed; $25 900 liabilities and less
tlan $40, 900 assets.
Martins Register says the sound of
the hammer Is heard in Bast op. 1t is
| OAlQ udllluk uOWH tuC III VI w dnu
Jones's political coffiu.
The Victoria AdU0cdte says the c. m
mutation of Coward's and Fields SEN
tence only changes their punishment
from dissolution to living death.
John 8. Massey of Mason county was
killed by his pistol falling from his
pocket while st oping to drink at q
spripg. Ezra Harris was similarly shot.
Mr.. Harris, an at'orrey who spent
some months in this city, has sheep
rancho in Taylor county. He is a son
of Judge Wiley p. Harris Of Missis-
sippi.
The Pilot Point Institute Is to be
sold at auction on the first Saturday in
August. The free school system Is de-
stroying ell the good schools in the
State.
Miss Ella Patterson was stung on the
naked foot by centipede. She applied
kerosene, salt and turpentine and then
soft clay and was almost instai t'y re-
lieved.
Miss Mamie Mills, daughter Of Hon.
R. Q. Mills, was lately married in
Washington City to Dir. Msloney of
Tennessee, 9 cousin of Postmaster Gen.
ersl Key.
The Chinese are raising opium Cpop-
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