The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-02
Te1a.-Faer. and FaneIe..


Judge Ector has recovered from a
serious sickness.
walking match is talked of at the
Capital State Fair.
There is rupture in the Baptist
Church at Sherman.
A butter and cheese factory is to be
established at Laredo.
The Liberty county cotton crop is
the best since the war.
Children about Euglewood are dy-
ing of whooping-cough.
Two deaths from cholera have been
reported at San Antonio.
Hannah and Wellborn are to have q
political bout at Decatur.
Corn is selling at sixty cents bushtl
in aud around Chapel Hill.
There has been q thirteen months
drouth in Atascosa county.
Senator Maxey was the guest of
Judge Ballinger at Galveston.
The Rusk penitentiary will only be
ready for occupancy year from now.
The wise county crop will average
400 pounds of seed cotton to the aero.
Sherman will have grand Demo
cratic rally and picnic on the sixteenth.
The grand jury of Bosque county
have declared in favor of the Sunday
law.
The compress at Dallas runs day and
night. The one at Austin does not run
at all.
The great London Circus, Menagerie
and Museum is coming after dollars in
Texas.
J. ]. Griffith has been elected mayor
of Columbus, and L.. d. Secrest town
marshal.
Colorado county has, of the school
fund, a cash balance on hand OF
$1417s 80.
Bosque county is going to plant;a
larger crop of wheat this year than
ever before.
Remember that the Capital State
Fair commences October % and ends
November 1.
Frank W0llifred, who shot Byrd, of
Houston, in Fort B ,nd county, has not
been arrested.
A Mason county man has killed 100
deer this season, and sold the hides at
$1.12 12 each.
|
The public schools of Waco will re-
ceive enough money to pay the teachers
for six months.
The Houston Eoening NeaOs is still
bent on having Dick Hubbard made
Wee President.
The Patron thinks ten Senators and
thirty representatives enough for
Texas Legislature.
10 London and George Washington.
pair of horse thieves, have been cap
tuIed near Palestine.
The Marshall fair is progressing this
week, and the one at Sulphur Springs
commences October ID.
Texas people grow cabbage in Mis-
souri, and illinois, onions in Iowa, and
our apples in Michigan.
A lady of Denison ran a knitting
needle into her finger and thereupon
she lost the power of speech.
| NortOn's Intelligencer, so it declares,
is the only Republican paper in Texas,
which is rough on the party.
The wool clip, says the Star Vindi-
Gator, is heavier in Blanco county than
if there had been no drouth.
Charles Snyder has been arrested for
stealing and mutilating Prof. Cevoy's
balloon near Houston recently.
Mrs. Wilkins, wife of prominent
citizen of Rusk, promenaded the streets
the other day raving maniac.
Mr.. Willett left San Antonio with
his family in Mexican carriage drawn
by six mules for the Mojada mines.
The Houston Age denounces the acts
of the Sixteenth Legislature as ''infa-
nous, puritanical and undemocratic. D
The lumber mills at Orange are do
ing driving business, and nearly all
of them are advertising for extra work
men.
On account of the Sunday law the
German citizens of Calvert have formed
social club which meets every Sun
day near town.
Honey is taken from wild bees sbou
GAINESVILLE in great quantity. 1t is o.
fine quality, and sells at eight to ter
cents per pound.
Another sour lake has been discov
cred in Hardin county, sixteen milei
from Dever, on the Texas and New
Orleans Railway.
J A lot of San Antonio fellows have
, migrated in search of silver to Mexico
The mines they are working are pan
ming out all right.
; They are having hot canvass il
) kaufman county on the county sea
, question. The town of Kaufman anG
. Terrell are contestants.
A man named Cohn was suspected o
trying to burn the to Tn of Wsxahachie
but an examination exculpated him
There was great excitement.
At ColIinsville, North Texas, Mrs
) Voelker and her daughter in a cotton
| field encountered and killed rattle
} snake six and half feet long.
: The fall clip OF wool in the west will
be very clean and light, aud therefore
of an unusually good quality as com.
pared with the CLIP of other years.
Mr.. Iugersoll, of the B ,strop broom
factory, challenges the State for The
finest specimen of brooms. to be exhib
tied at the Capital State Fair, IN octo
Der.
7 Herndon, of the SIM Bass gang, un
,, der sentence of ninety-nine years il
the New York penitentiary, was killed
a few days ago while trying to maxi
his escape.
D John Byrd, a stockman of Fort Bend
4 county, is reported shot by one of hi
, herdsmen. They quarreled and ByrC
: drew knife on the man when he wa
shot. No chance for recovery.
Gen. MaxeY assured Nescs reporte
in Houston the other day that Calves
, ton, Houston, San Antonio and Dslla
! would soon have better carrier sys
tenn. And why not Austin, which ha
, none at all.
E Three irate Greenbackers, disguised
With the Mckinney allocate, order tn
, paper stopped, and il did stop goinI