The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-27

turkeys are preparing iot tue
general thanksgiving.
Counterfeit twenty-five cent pieces
are numerous at TeIrsll.
More rain has fallen in San Angus
tine county than is needed.
Rev. r. K. Smoot, of Austin, has
been sermonizIng at Dallas.
Judge James E. Shepard is conduct
ing law school at Brenham.
Capt. Jas. A. WEIGH, of Minder,
took his life with strychnine.
A bind old dame of Ladonia, Fam
min county. sdvertises for her son, John
Morton.
Freight passing over the Interna-
honsl is greater at this time than ever
before
l. is pleasant tn st4'e iha, corn is
cheap and pork plentiful and cheap in
Titus county.
4 convention of landowners and
agents Ia suggested to meet in Austin
in January.
The location of the railroad depot il
Whist is bothering the property holders
of Caldwell.
F. B. LUZ, an employee of the Cen
trail railway, was crushed to death by
cars at DAllas.
Negroes have gone from about Nava-
sofa to Kansas until few are to be seen
in the vicinity.
A farmer in Pamela county has raised
nineteen bales of cotton on fifteen
acres of ground.
Col. Payne, of Dallas, is making
political speeches III Wise county.
What's he atteE2
Mrs. Barton, of Grayson county,
lately gave birth to child weighing
eighteen pounds.
They have Court of Forresters,
whatever that be, at Pella near Deca-
tur, in Wise county.
A poor, soiled dove, betrayed by the
man she loved, drank laudanum, and
still sleeps, last Saturday at Waco.
The Dallas council pa.s:d Sand y
ordinance, which was vetoed by the
mayor, but it was pissed over the veto.
S. NJ. Shaw, counterfeiter that was
turning loose bogus nickels sui half
dollars on Dallas, has been taken in
out of the cold.
P. II. Rose, photographer, of GAL
weston has made fiue picture of Sem
ator NJ key, a copy of which he sends
the STATESMAN.
The public schools in several States
10 different localities are suspended by
dp!htheria, which prevails now and
then in Texan towns.
Exodusting has caused the loss of
several hundred voters to Grimes
county, and nobody but the old band
of Radicals are sorry about it.
A statis,ician estimates that beer
enough was received In Galveston DUR
ing October t make 700, 900 drinks;
the bell punches registered only 76. 900.
The Bonham Nelos is off .red free for
one year to anyone who will point out
the chapter and verse in the Bible di-
recting us to keep the first day of the
week as Sabbath day.
P4rson Haynes received divine word
TO build two tabernacles, one in Dallas
and one in Corsicana. Goodnight left
the luuatic asylum to attend the con-
structlon of the one in Dallas.
There's going to be fuss among the
papers. The Denison Herald says that
the Henrletta Journal would be good
paper if it had new type, new editor,
and was printed in another town.
In the upper part of Lampasas
county ]. R. Martin and John Houston
went hunting together and the former
installing the latter through the brush
| for deer, shot at and killed him In
stantly.
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vile was loaded with Northern flour,
and there went out of this self same
place, on this flour and transportation
over $500 aud that is what is the mat
ter with Texas.
Conrad Halney, of Sherman, bowls
1t out that it's lie. The newspapers
must cork up. They were saying that
he caused W. B. Greenlaw to suicide
by stealing away the affections of
Greenlaw's wife.
Mr.. W. E. Smith, of Mineola planted
few Chinese tea seed last spring, and
he has raised enough tea to supply his
family wants. It is pronounced as
good as the teas made in China and
much better than that which has been
again placed IN the market after the
dead bodies of Celestials have been
shipped in it across the Pacific from
San Francisco.
Patty, JOINER 6 Co., of Sherman,
sell an average of ten wagon loads of
groceries each day for western Texas,
and sometimes twenty wagons are
loaded with groceries each day by this
house. But then q railway is extended
west beyond Sherman, the country is
rapidly filling up with farmers. Aus
TIN will yet learn something and make
population dense in the rich country
north of the capital.
The liquor dealers of the State, in
Houston, passed the following resolu-
lions without dissenting vote:
Resolged, That the proclamation is
sued November Is by Governor o. NJ.
Roberts, of this State, is considered
by this organization as a direct and
wanton insult to the livuor dealers of
this State, characterIzing them as
thieves and abeItors in crime, accusing
them of vicious intentions not estab-
lished by facts.
ReS0lUed, That the Governor of this
State is lowering the dignity of the po-
si,ion of chief executive by assailing
uncoDvIcted private individuals and
neglectIng the execution of sentences
pronounced by the courts, the educa-
ton of our children, and pandering to
the suggestions of professional dema-
| gogues.
The Lsmpasas county grand jury re-
solved that the Sunday law now in
force meets with hearty approval and
most cordial endorsement; that the
people of Lampasas county should OBJ
serve the law, and that by so doing,
they will take one step towards releas-
ing the State from the loathsome in
cubus of crime and immortality under
which it has been so long sta Ieering;