The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

San Diego is free from small pox.


Burnet has dug a public well, and
water abounds.
Dallas has passed an ordinsrc Ct
licensing bawdy houses.
Corn and cotton crops are burnt mp
along the North Gabriel.
Fandangoes make nights days a d
days nights in rollicking San Diego.
Denison pays special policemen, who
serve whole day and night, 81 so.
Three men were killed last week in
row in Muskogee, Iudian Territory.
A number of neat dwellings hsve re-
Gently been erected iu the town Of
Mason.
The Denison Neics boss t1at it has
~ circulation daily Of three hundred
c1pies."
Seven hundred and thirty mil,s OF
railway lines are in course of consttuc-
in Texas.
ThrockmoItlr prefers Geu. Hat-
cock, but don't object to Thurman or
Hendricks.
Good rains fell in Mason county
lsst week. Blstrnp county was simi-
isrly blessed.
The trial of Veal at W. exahscbie for
an assault, etc, upon Mrs Griffin, Is
progressing.
The people # Polk county in con-
vention endorse Governor Roberts's
policy mem con.
10 Jones Commercial College boys
and girls are instructed in lelssiaphy
at $l5 per capita.
Walter Maxey of Waco has tine finest
cotton IN McLennan county. He is of
good stock himself.
Ed. Embree highway robb,r and
burglar has been hunted down and
caught near Sherman.
Burglars are raiding on Denison as
they did short time ago whCn they
fired tins city every night.
Dallas was better town than usual
last Sunday. L w. Cave, of the Cei :
tra', spent the day there.
They have SIX Lice little holes IN San
Diego open for the pell punch. They
cali them ''juizarios" OVER there.
1 lEat-on advertlses bacon and hams
for sale in Waco. Bat there is an uni
yersal fitness In things over the C.
MsjDr John Spence, an excellent
lawyer and gentleman, died suddenly,
the thirteenth instant, at Crockett.
Good judges say that Waco, not
withstanding the drought, Will ship
this season over 40, 600 bales of cotton.
1t costs brother Veal $500 AMI cost
He thinks it cheap. But he is on'y
one of many who can sfford to pay t
San Diego is growing as the aiding
post for the south district between
Corpus Christi bay and the Rio Gcaude.
The negro girl shot by huuter at
Corpus, who supposed she was crane,
still takes her meals from the mantel-
piece
Lieut.. Hubert Cushman has cODsign-
ed seven deserters to the penltentiary
at Leavenworth, for fIom two TO five
years.
A branch of the Santa Fee road Is
proposed from Brenham to LAG range,
the latter 10 contribute 800, 900 and
right If way.
Now that we have blue-light Sun
day law there are exceeding good pee
pie who propose to force the Ii BILE INTO
the public schoolp.
A Williamson county CORES poudent
says we want no Immigrants next
year-we can hardly feed eur own
present population.
Aus in owes $40, 900 and not 5000,
600, as stated by the Meas, and Aus
tins sinking fund has lessened the
debt $4,000 this year.
Iu Lee county, on the tSenty-fourth
ultimo, a German woman named Mrs.
Fisher, suicided by taking poison.
Family troubles the cause.
The doctors have discovered tape
worms in "cowcumbers' and one oil
them would soon make a fellow cumber
the ground and feel cJwed.
There is much pipe-laying in Bren-
ham, the Banner says, but we are not
told that the place Is thus made m Ore
clesnly or it's breath sweeter.
Hon. John Hancock hss been inter
viewed, and expresses hlrself as think
ing that Tilden will be nomina,ed by
the next national convention.
The total scholastic population oil
Faye:te county, between eight and
fourteen years OF age. is 1925, OF these
2535 are white and 900 colored.
When they get up d. zen copies o.
the CiUilian the postmaster shoots then
off at US, as if determined TO overwhelu
US with kindness and good things.
In one neighhorhoed in Llano coun
ty there are 5000 acres IN cotton which
will average sale to three acres. Corr
! will make thirty bushels per acre.
An ethereal maiden called Maud
| Was suspected Of beng fraud.
| Scarce crumb was she able
To est at the table