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

AuAOCA SfSA itN@iNSu oNlAAS an JIG
month.
The synod OF the GA School Plesb7-
terian Church divided Texas ioto two
synods, one TO be known IS the synod
Of Texas, and the other the Red RIVER
synod.
The dead body Of 8 MexcGo wss
found beside the hsf-skinned carcas of
q COW near Saa Antonio, and the ques-
ton Is what did it; that ia, who killed
the COVE
A railway expedition to the Chenati
in the fork of the RE
Grande and Pecos rivers, has left San
Antonio. The object is to organizl a
mining boom.
Jonathan BuTlesnn, brother of the
late Gen. Ell. BIrleson, died near Bts-
trop on the third inst, aged sixty
eight years. He came to Texas 10 1888
from Tennessee.
John Sanders, OF BRENNAN, Door fell
ow, got tired of being mixed up in
this mortal coil and unraveled il. But
instead of doing the thing nicely he
blew his brains out.
The other day the dead body Of q
young man was found on Martinez
creek, twelve miles north Of Ssn An
tonic. There wae y bullet hole in the
head and one in the breast.
The Examiner says it is creditable to
the STATESMAN tha5 it urges, for the
sake at least of common honesty, that
the college ct Bryan be made an agri-
cultural and mechanical institute.
Cotton buyers all over the Safe be-
gin to understand why their cotton
shipped to Galveston has proved loss
to them. They report from FIVE to
twenty pounds lost on each bale.
Walter Brown & Cos wool circular
quotes Tex IS woods: Spring, eastern,
81 to $50; fall, eastern, 81 to So; ;
spring, western, 30 to 33s; fall, west
ern, % to 33c; inferior, 20 to 29c.
The Rusk Observer waits the next
Democratic State convention held at
Corsicana. Does the Obserger take the
contract for clearing the hsas out of
the town TO give room for the delegates
A. last the crazy Goodnight, of Cor
sicana, he's gone to Brooklyn, and his
wife has followed him. A Corsicana
dispatch says that about thirty others
will follow them, and the people hope
that they may never return.
G. Gartner, native of Saxony and
a graduate of Dresden, has been APP
pointed to the chair of modern Ian
gusges in the A. and NJ. College. Mr..
Gartner has been employed for nine
years as q teacher in Galveston.
The Weatherford Times is jubilaut
over the prospects of the Texas Pacific,
and it asserts that the immediate build
ing of the road to E. Paso is a Ger
tainty; that 800 miles from Weather.
ford westward are under contract, and
that employment will soon be furnished
for 1000 men.
Col. ]. G. Tucker, of Brownsville,
Texas, has gone to Washington City to
urge upon the War Department the ne
cessity of better protection on the Rio
Grande. Since the removal of Gen
Mckenzie from our border the Indians
and Mexicans have been committing
many depredations.
The aldermanic election In Waco was
not periective of much interest. John
Void, s. A. Hogan, Wiley Jones, r.
E. Burnham, M. E. McLsren and By
ron McKeon were chosen. Waco
aldermen are elected on the same plan
as are our State Senators, only half OF
the terms expiring at one time.
Judge A. P. Mccormick, of the
United States district court, now in
session at Dallas, in his charge to
the grand jury, was very severe upon
the unlawful arrests of citizens by
Deputy United States Marshal johnson
upon blank warrants. Citizens can
only be arrested upon proper warrants.
The Hampstead Courier thinks that
when two belligerants like Revs. Penn
and John get hard down at it, the best
way to end the fuss is to dash cold wa.
ter on them. But this would be entirely
unjust, since one Is known to be of 8
persuasion that takes to cold water al
over, while the other believes in only
modest sprinkling.
The water in the San Gabriel has
been increasing in its flow until the
mills along its course are all moving
again. This has transpired without
rain, and the old ones, says the Record,
pronounce it evidence of bountiful rain
fall in the near future. May it not bt
better accounted for in the fact that
Nat @. has quit mixing drinks9 o.
late he has taken them straight.
Mr.. ]. G. Tracy writes to the Meps
Echo that there is no mistake abou
the building of the Western Marrow
Gauge to San Antonio in the near fu'
ture. The proposed line of this roaG
touches LAGRANGE, Blstrop, Lockhsrt
New Brsunfels and San Antonio, anG
branch of it ought to be dragged
along up the Colorado river to Austin
Banner: The 7'eras Greenbacker, {
weekly paper published at BRENNAN
Texas, was born, lived and died; ali
within the brief space of few months
There was no rejoicing at its birth ani
christening, no enthusiasm for 1t during
its uneventful life, and no mourning Of
crashing of teeth, or wearing of sack.
cloth and ashes at its death. Its ex
istence and history may be thus briefly
epitomized: Il was born; it lived; i
died.
Judge A. w. Moursund, of Blanco
is spoken Of as a candidate for fl 1atel
at the election next November. A ma
jority of the citizens of Blsnco county
says the Star ViRdicdtOr, would give
him their cordial support. judge
Moursund for several yesrs resided II
the city of Austin. He Is said to be {
man of brains. active, energetic and in
dustrious, and would doubtless be &C
ceptsble to the people of Travis as vel
as Blsnco county.
Admirers of Capitalization, saws th,
Cleburne Chr0nicie, are directed to the
late arrests by United States marshals
in the Panhandle country. Prisoner
were drawn 900 miles from home OF
frivolous charges that could not be sus
tanned. Their business suffered, theil
money was squsndered and their tim,
lost. All who, as suitors, have had ex
perience with q United States court
know its terrors. The men who desire
to wipe out the States would make mar,
shals of sheriffs end drag the peopl,
away from their friends in the trial o.
their cases at law.
The Cleburne Chronicle says that s
set of professors that have no mort
dignity and self-respect than to get int
3 row with each other aud qusrre
worse than street gsmins ought to b
dismissed without ceremony The,