The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-02
rc,nn-Fnrt. ana Eanc,e..
Wesley Hardin is still confined in q

dark cell.
Congressman Reagan spends holiday
with his family in Palestine.
Kerosene oil used as a ga5gie IS SAID
to be a sure cure for diph' ria.
The farmers OF Washington county
are going to hold mass meeting.
When fellow wife runs away Dll-
las is the place in which to oyertakc
her.
Hines, who killed man in Paris,
disguised himself and escaped from
Texas.
"Pctered, +" is the LAST statement as
to the condition OF the Grccnbackers
in Texas.
Mr.. John Kennedy, of Houston, one
of its Oldest inhabitants, died on De-
cember "a.
Denison is blissful. The annuity
of neighboring Indians is spent there
tor whisky.
E. d. Linn and Woodlicf Thomas
will come TO the Legislature from the
Victoria district.
Hawkins, says the Banner, Is held for
manslsughter. lie killed Power at
BRENNAN u few days ago.
The celebrated Grissom murder case
comes on again for trial at Houston on
Monday, the thirtieth instant.
The estate of the late Hon. r. II.
Epperson, is valued at something over
two hundred thousand dollars.
On the first of January the mail scr
vice between Corpus Christi changes
from a tri-weekly to daily service
both ways.
The Greenback and Labor parties
have had split, and two tickets will
be the result in The Houston munich
pal election.
The municipal election in DenisOn is
six months off, and all the corner gro
Gerry fellows are setting up their claims
to popular favor.
Habits of cleanliness go hand in hand
with love of flowers, but this has no
bearing upon the neglected condition
of the Capitol ground.
The verdict of the jury in the Roths-
child case gives general satisfaction q:
Marshall. 1t was a triumph of law,
now so often disregarded.
An unknown party a day or two since
went to a negro cabin east of Corsica
ma and set fine to it, burning up u ne
gro girl twelve years of age.
Property owners and the city coun-
Gil at Fort Worth do so little for then
firemen that the department, in dis
gust, is talking Of disbanding.
]. 3. Ricketts,, who arrived at Fort
Worth some time ago from the West,
has been dubbed the ''Tcxas giant, y
being six feet ten inches high.
He was q good man who said, at the
close of an unsuccessful protracted
meeting in Hampstead: 'T'll tell you,
my brethren, it don't pay for the gas. ,
Col. Tom Day, of Brenham, was
fooling with a pistol, and the innocent
thing went off, and the ball opened
daylight through the Colonel's ankle.
Contracts for building the Santa FL
railroad across Fort Bend to Austin
county have been signed by the COM
pany and Hugh Burns the contractor.
Capt. Williams, of Independence,
has presented the Baper with turnip
weighing eight and half pounds, and
vet Capt. Williams Is not genuine
Rutabaga.
Frank Parton, the gentle murderer
of his brother, in Falls county, has
since died. Did he, asks the Telegram,
go to heaven or was rope necessary
| for the job.
Two crazy men are at present con-
fined in the Fort Worth jill. With
more space for patients they could be
taken care of in the State institution
for lunatics.
Mckinney, the Sherman wife shoot
err, could not give $500 and he mourn
eth his rash act withiR prison walls.
His wife will get well and haYe a good
time of it.
"BufTalo BILL" colored aspirant to
eternal fame, got on high in Waco
on Christmas, and now he Is SIX feet
beneath the sod. A man named Davis
let him down.
DR.. Washington was recently mar
ried at Terrell and the Sur has had to
take out that part of his advertisement
which read, "Tho Doctor will sleep al
the drug store"
Uvalde county lands produce hogs
head of sugar to the acre. Some OF
the crops in Brazoria, Matagord4 and
Wharton counties turn out three hogs
heads to the acre.
Doran, who killed policeman in
Denison and who was tried on the
charge of murder and acquitted, was
killed the other day in Kimble. county
by man named Kjmble.
An attempt was made to kill Sheriff
Williams, of Wood county, while he
was conveying prisoners along the
road. He escaped, but one of the
prisoners was badly wounded.
What arc the old soldiers in Texa!
going to do about that fund for the
Lee monument9 Committees should
be organized to go actively to work or
the day named for soliciting funds.
Both of the Moore's, charged witt
completely in the murder of Capt. Xii.
Tough, have been acquitted. 1t only
remains for Hunt TO come forward
spend his money and be set at large.
Now that Major Penn is at home il
is good time for Jefferson, like Rich.
mond, to kick the bucket. 1t car
never expect to be blest with more un
adulterated goodness at one fell swoop
A new Greenoack paper with cap.
ital of 5000 is to be started at Shei.
man soon, il not sooner. The 500
will soon be used up and the Green
back paper will then cease TO flicker
A poor woman, representing hei
condition as helpless and starving
| asks the city authorities OF Denison II
help her, and the city in al its dignity
tells her she must so on in her wretch
edness.
The Breuham B,mner says: SIT il
all mistake about ]. G.. Tracy having
been appointed revenue collector a
Galveston. He has been appointed
gauger for rectifying house ut Hous
ton"
johnson. the Terrell postmaster, con
yicted of embezzlement, was sent Il
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