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

county.
A Presbyterian church has just been
dedicated at San Antonio.
Large quantities of Kansas corn is
being shipped to BRENNAN.
Atch Hodges, of Honey Grove, was
fined $50 for attempting to commit SUI
eide.
TWenty-two million pounds of wool
Is the product for the State for one
year.
Jefferson is dong better business
this season than it has done in eleven
years.
Texas has over 24O, 900 children be-
tween the ages Of eight and fourteen
years.
Coleman county people go all the
wsy to Stephenville to have their wheat
ground.
Very little damage to young or:
chards in Comanche county results
from the drouth.
Trains on the Santa Fe road are now
running TO point opposite the ancient
town Of San Felipe.
The whole of Coneho county is
owned CT leased, and 1t is no longer
the resort of hunters.
President G athrigbt proposed genu-
inc killing of pork at the Bryan college
by cutting Hogg's throat.
A Central Texas paper says never put
politician at the head of a school un-
less you want to kill it out.
The last faint echo of the Tilden
boom died at San MARCOS, Texas. The
Efee Press emitted the sound.
Monday morning, at Galveston, Geo.
p. johnson, a cotton screwer, shot
himself, as he ought to have done.
Ward Taylor, of the Jimplecute,
dimes on fresh strawberries In Decem.
Der. They are grown at Jefferson.
Circulars partly printed and partly
written, are now permitted to pass
through the mails as third class mat
Ter.
The Express thinks that Gen. Grant
may be induced to spend the approach
ing winter in San Antonio instead of
Cuba.
According to their request grave
stones are being cut for the graves of
George and Andrew Brown, hung at
Denton.
At San Antonio court two beer jerk
era. Misses Kate and Hattie, were ar
raigned for trying to jerk each other
baldheaded.
Patent papers are going out of fash
ion in Texas. One by one they are
abandoned and home printed papers
are substituted.
MAst-fed pork is selling in San Au-
gustine county at one and half cents
per pound, and in Pamela county at
two to three cents.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Tex
as railroad has passed into new hands
under forced sale, and it may now be
pushed forward to Texas.
One leading saloon in Houston which
registered over 1900 on the malt reg
lister for October shows only 10 glasses
Of beer sold during November.
The bell punches of Hampstead put
the town down for November as almost
given over to total abstinence. Think
of 80 great a reform in a once bloody,
whisky den.
0uU 1luBkiSu duLo,
most Of them farmers, with some arti-
sans, arrived at Galveston last week.
Nest of them went out on the Sunset
route to seek homes.
At Houston the bell punch register
for November shows one-tenth as
many drinks sold as for October. The
result there and elsewhere makes the
law complete farce.
In Fort Worth Mrs. Ney, wife of q
saloon keeper, cowhided her husbands
partner for making indecent proposals
to her. Her husband afterwards beat
him with sixshooter.
The Commissioner of the Land Office
does not regard the patents issued upon
certificates located in the Panhandle
across the Canadian river as valid or
binding upon the State.
The Daily Hesperian, very hand
some little paper, has made its appear
ance at Gainesville. Salutitories and
such. things ended, 1t will become q
newsy had valuable sheet.
The Sherman and Dallas Greenback
papers have been consolidated. With
out fats the combination will soon be
in critical condition. Greenbackism
is on its last legs everywhere.
At Morales, Wesley Hanlin, of Whar.
ton county, shot and killed John Ba-
ker. It is said the killing was done in
self-defense, and that the difficulty
arose in dispute about horse.
Kate Brewer is in Jail at Bonham
charged with infanticide. Her story
is q sad one, having been, under
promise of marriage, seduced and
ruined by one Louis Martin, who hal
gotten out of the way.
The Houston Age says there is nc
State in-tlie Union where the pena
laws are more vigorously executed thar
in Texas, aud there was never a time
in Texas when they were more vigor.
ously executed than at present.
Much complaint exists in Galveston
at the filthy condition OF the street cal
tickets. There is really no use in such
trash anywhere, and people ought Il
refuse to circulate them. Make the
street car companies use nickels.
The Corsicana Iadez says the Crisp
Hogg difficulty was not the beginning
Of the difficulty in the Bryan faculty
Gathright, late president Of the insti
tuition, was recommended to Governor
Coke for that position by Jefferson
Davis.
A fatal shooting affray occurred be
tween Lee Majors and Harrison Crum,
brothers-in- law, near Palestine. The,
quarreled about property, and both re
sorted 70 arms for satisfaction. Major
was killed with his gun in his hand ad
vancing on Crum.
The 0bserusr aad Iadez says tina
Rev. Brush OF Austin figured exten
sively It the Holiness campmeeting a
Corsieana last year. L says that he !
appealing for help at the North Il
plant christianity smong the benighte,
hesthens of Austin.
Ex-Governor Hubbard is collecting
statistics showing that there IL les
crime committed in Texas than in othe
States. He must know that the crime
Of the State were exaggerated even b
the courts, since be turned so many con
vloted criminals out OF the penitentiary
The San Antonio correspondent o
the Galveston Nsses says that San Anto
MO viii likely be selected "a the plsc
70 locate the homestead for the Hoo
orphans; that Mrs. Hammer, grand
mother Of the children, will visit tha