The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-18

Bernard.
Robert Illmsr. of Corpus Christi,
commits suicide.
CIrsicsns has received - 900 bale
of cotton this season.
Sherman hiss already paid out S9,-
coo. 900 for cotton this season.
The Catholic priest st New Braun
fels, Auto- Kulisman, is dead.
Gordon was accidentally shot and
killed by skepworth st H4lIettsvlIle.
John II ffmau, of Fort Worth, has
been fined $50 for violation of the Sun
day law.
1t is stated by the Telegram that 1000
negroes have exodusted from Washing
ton county.
1t is reported at Rio Grande City
that the railway from Brownsville is to
be pushed forward to Laredo.
The corn crop In Austin county was
almost an entire failure. Many farm
ers are already buying gram.
James Wilson, trying to force his
way into house of i'll fame was NOR
tally wounded by the proprietress.
Castroville has had a sensation.
Mrs. Hertz eloped with q man named
Berg, her husbands business partner.
Whooplng cough amongst children in
Hampstead, aud the brave soldiers OF
it's artillery company are unfit for ssh
vice.
Sandhill cranes are delicscy OF
the JeffeIsln market. The breast of
this bird makes one of the finest steaks
ever eaten.
The merchants of Tyler have at last
become liberal advertisers, and the re-
lsult is more business than was ever be-
! fore enj ,yed.
The jury in the Dub Clever murder
case at Waco were out two days, and
then'gsve the accused ninety nine years
in the penitentiary.
And now the JimpLeeute, which was
converted t. Greenbackism, is silent as
death upon its folliss. IL has heard
something ''drap."
The San Augustine Saxon. thinks
the State laws are with few exceptions
correct. and that the fault is with the
officers charged with their enforcement.
Hampstead is the headquarters OF
Spiritualism, and the C0rrier says that
the doctrine of Spiritualism is alive
and active among some of its best citi-
zens.
Seventeen wagon loads of negroes,
from Crimes county, passed through
Denison in one day, and they reported
forty more loads just behind them from
the same county.
Bill Williams of Marian county,
stole hog. worth at most two or
three dollars, and will serve two years
in the penitentiary, instead of being
whipped out of the county.
Deni.on paid 5000 GO bell punch tax
for the month of November; Sherman,
1858. 80; Pottsboro, $50 So; Whites
bOro, $3.50 As; miscellaneous points,
$109 rs; total for Grayson county dur
ing November, $S55.73.
Mr.. J. G. Loving, secretary of the
Northwest Texas Stock Association,
notifies the different cattle men of the
association to meet in Jacksboro Mon
day, December %, to consider the mat
ter of transportation over Texas rail-
roads.
A married woman, of Ccrsicsna, ran
away with conductor on the railroad,
and, while at Denison, in fit of jeal-
ousy she attempted suicide, but the
doctor pumped her out, and she lives
in perdition here instead of IN hell
over there.
Messrs. Ross & McNulty, English
men, who lately visited San Antonio,
before leaving said that their visit to
Texas would result in at least one ves-
sci leaving Texas every week for Llv-
erpool with 1000 beeves. When inaug-
urated it will be the beginning of
great trade.
The Houston Age says that at present
"nearly as much money is being ex-
pended upon the free SCHOOLS alone as
was expended before the war upon the
entire STATE government And, re-
marks the Galveston Cigilian, ''if no
more benefit is being reaped elsewhere
than in this city, it might as well be
thrown into the gutter"
Capt. Paddock, of the Fort Worth
Democrat, once in wblie pads all the
way out to Brentwood, and now it
turns out that he goes there to answer
suits for libel, instituted by one of the
family OF Smiths, attorney of that place,
for $40, 0C0, who becomes entitled to q
place in an asylum for the insane for
tackling newspaper man in search of
money. 1t is sad commentary upon
the business get up of Brownwood.
The earnings and expenses of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad Com2any
for the six months ending November
80, 1879:
Gross earnings. 49,. 81 297, 10 76
Expenses .......... 500, 59S SO
Net earnings .....$ 694,571 81
Net earnings 17SS.... 435, 617 Ia
Increase in net earnings
over 1878. . 50 258 954 10
The Denison Herald gives the start
ling rumor that beer is going to ad-
vance in price. This arises from q
rise in the price of hops. The crop
1858 sold at six 10 eight cents. The
crop of 1879 is quoted already from
forty five to fifty cents. Barley has
also advanced in fact all of the mate
rial that enters into the makeup of the
fosmy beverage. How our heart goes
out to the old topers to whom a
schooner an hour is an absolute neces-
sity.
Buffalo Gap, in Taylor county, lis
about Eve or six miles long, and from
three-quarters TO four milss wide. A
small stream called E IN creek runs
through it. The mountains are COW
cred with juniper cedar. There are
about ESQ inhsbitants in the gap, and
immigrants are coming in almost daily.
There are eight dry goods stores, two
| groceries, one hardware store, one
blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, one
drug store, two saloons, one livery
stable, two beef markets. one small
harness shop, one brickysrd, one BRICK
mason, two doctors, seven lawyers ana
five hotels.
San Antonio Erpres': Mr.. August
Hornung, who recently visited Mexico,
states that party of SS men left San
Buenaventura, and another party of 10
left the town of Moreles, both in the
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