The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16

oil kaufman county. Inc contest be-
tween this place and Terrell resulting
in majority of $50 for the former.
The survey of the C. and Montgom-
cry extension from Navasota to Bren-
ham has been completed and the engi-
neer says the route is emineEtly practi-
cable.
Coleman county prisoners, four In
number, have escaped from jul. One
was confined on the charges of both
rape and murder, the Others for tur-
glary.
1t is said some of the liquor men in
Houston have been failing to ring the
punches, and il proven on them the
penalty is heavy one for every Of
Tense.
Streets Monthly of Waco has been re-
vived. 1t is Illuminated and full of
well chosen reading matter aud especi-
ally devoted to a business view of
Waco.
Subscribers to the CRAFTSMAN visit
ing Austin will find it to their advsn-
tage to walk up to the Captains Of
fee and Settle. 1t makes US exist in
bro.herly love.
Col. Horace Cone is lecturing with
singular eclat in Houston. "Society"
is his theme, and he rakes it, a. with
fine-tooth comb, for the vermin that
ffiIct and befoul it.
At Ferris, Ellis county, young girl,
Miss Miller, one night last week, chlo-
reformed her fathers dog and quietly
leoped with young man who had been
forbidden the premises.
Owing to the suspension of the
sheriff of Falls county bell-puncnes
were not put in position, but the
liquor dealers gave bond and paid for
the privilege of selling.
]. ]. Hickman, Right Worthy Grand
Templar of the order of Good Tenn
plars, will go through Texas on a lee
turing and organizing tour, commenc
ing about the first of November.
Some OF the San Antonio bell
punches are ''off" aud the tax collector
III scratching his head about 1t and
ifIA1es George p. F,nlsy, and the sa-
lOOnists are happy because the things
won't count.
Hughs, blscker than E.ebus, tried at
Marlin for the murder of the rich stock
man Reynolds, was acquitted; and be-
cause he WAS negro and tried by a
white jury, Northern papers never men,
ton the facts.
Is Austin dead p Weekly ReUitlo. No,
it is not dead, but sleepeth-very
soundly.-WdeO Telephone. Yes, and
the STATESMAN has been playing the
part of Gabriel, but 1t won't resurrect
worth cent.
The 1879 Seattle drive" represents
about $1S, 900 900, and will number
$50, 900 head-Texus $50, 900, Montana
aud Oregon 100, 900 each, besides q
large aggregate of smaller fry from
various localities.
The Examiner was good enough be-
fore; but enlarged, revised and its edi-
torials of excellent ability, it is, in all
respects, an admirable newspaper, that
deserves the success it has won. It is
a worthy rival of the Telephone.
Next February will have five Sun
DAYS. Since this fact will not recur in
100 years, the people may imagine that
the almanac was thus arranged and
Sundays multiplied by the Legislature
in order to annoy the bell-punched
bsrkeepers.
During the present term of the Court
of Appeals at Tyler the Rothschild case
will be considered, and 1T Is said the
prisoner is confident that the action of
the lower court will be disspproved Of.
1t is going to be proven that Bessie
Moore is still slive2
He is a grand old man, massive in
all his proportions, intellectual and
physical, who presides over the West
ern Methodist Conference at Gonzales
on the thirteenth instant. His name
is N. H.McTeire, bishop of the Meth
odist Church South.
The Burnet Bulletin, like many pa,
pers in Texas, wisely discovers a mode
In the BDnham Ne,oS. Piner says that
he Is often unjustly lauded and that
genius is only another name for hard
work. But what divine Inspiration
was it that taught him hOW to work?
i General Mackenzie's regiment, the
fourth cavalry, has been ordered from
Western Texas to Fort Hayes in the
Ute country. A large area of Texas
frontier will be left entirely unprotect.
ed. The regiment IL ordered to take
the cars at San Antonio for Colorado.
| And now it is proposed at Houston
to paw off the CITY debt of over s..
900, 900 with $3.50, 900 in per cent
bonds. Such step having been taken,
how long will it be before the PROPOSE
ton will be made to pay nothing for
these bondsG One proposition Is al
mcnstrous as the other.
The Galveston and San Antonio rail
road is to have branch from Colum-
bus to LAGRANGE. Why not have it tc
extend its way up the Colorado ever
to Austin. The valley of the Colora-
do is one of the most productive re.
gions of the world, and a line through
to Austin would pay on every mile.
Everywhere the hammer and the peck
are actively employed in promoting the
prosperity of towns and cities except
of Austin. The narrow gauge pro-
jected from Sedalia to Springfield,
No., will be commenced this week
The contract was signed recently. II
is expected, in time, to push the road
through to Texas.
| Msjor Penn has began his CANT
meeting at Independence, and already
sinners begin to fall before him like
the Philistincs before Sampson. The
Major uses a more powerful weapon
At the second service SOME forty Of
fifty were forward for prayer, and or
Tuesday the first day, three hundred
campers were on the ground.
The people of Jefferson go to SET
the lusus nature, half chicken hall
guinea fowl. They call it q Green.
Dacker because it Is fussy like the rear.
ing and scotching stats, and its feath'
ers are speckled, and it shFieks pain,
fully, and then there's nothing in it.