The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-02
Ts1as-Faet. aud gancIes.

Hdrls Will soon e1SCb lai6 S"''ON
factory.
Cotton pickers are IN demand in
Fannin county.
A party OF shermanites have emigrs-
ted to Arizona.
Llano cattle are not subject to ticks,
so says the Bulletin.
Anderson county will build new
jail at cost of $50, 600.
A good "top crop" of cotton is an
ticipsted in Dallas county.
The knights of Honor in Houston
claim membership Of $50.
The BRENNAN saloon keepers will not
oppose the bell punch law.
An average yield of cotton is an
nounced in Gonzales county.
Col. Charles Stewart is counsel for
the liquor dealers at Houston.
P. @. Ross is going to publish a
stock book of Western Texas.
Death sentence has been passed upon
the Browns, in Denton county.
War is reported in Coleman county
between the cattle and sheep men.
Business in Bolton is active, and
merchants are satisfied with prospects.
A great many people left LAGRANGE
to attend the trial of Hunt at Column
bus.
Nine prisoners, one under life SEN
tepce, have escaped from the Marlin
jail.
At Concho corn sells for So so per
bushel, and meal at 1915 per 100
pounds.
Survivors of Ector's brigade will
hold reunion at Sulphur Springs Oc-
tober 10.
J. @. Meader, a builder of Sherman,
has started overland with his family
to Arizona.
Col. John Robinson, an old and re-
spectedS citizen of McLennan county,
is no more.
There are not enough sinners in
Blanco county to nourIsh decent
campmeeting.
Houston bar-keepers, our tipplers
should know, make no change in the
price Of drinks.
Accounts from the plains are that
fine grass IS growing and that stock i'm
proves rapidly.
S. w. Barfield, a carpenter of Willis
Point. has sallen heir to $50, 900 at
Cuthbert, Georgia.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Bryan begins its session on
the first of October.
Willie Graham, a six-year-old boy,
of Houston county, has picked bale
of cotton this season.
An attempt has been made to assas-
sinate the Spanish. editor of the
Brownsville Democrat.
Rents at Gainesville are exhorbltant,
an old frame house 20x50 feet being
held at $50 per month.
Col. e. s. @. Robertson is reported
by the Bolton journal of the twenty
fifth as dangerously Ill.
The Dewitt county Jail contains
twenty-nine prisoners, and the number
is constantly increasing.
On and after October semi-weekly
mail linewilI be established from Waco
-3sjS Galesville to Concho.
The Neches is fall of logs, waiting
for rise, and the price of shingles at
Orange has been reduced.
DIR. Rutherford returned to Houston
after trayersing the eastern and south
ern confines of the State.
r. II. Carothers, supposed to have
murdered Charles Kirk, at McDade, in
1875, is in the Bastrop Jail.
Frank Charsney, a Bohemian, while
-Heaer the influence of whisky was
burned to death near Bryan.
The grand jury of De Witt county
was instructed by the district Judge to
act only on the old Sunday law.
The grand jury of Grayson county
found 1879 bills of indictment, and take
4 rest of one week to begin anew.
The tariff on bale of cotton from
Georgetown to Galveston is 81. so;
from Round Rock, $40 per bale.
What's the matter with the Calves
ton Nelcss In its issue of the twenty.
third it doubles matter by the page.
Elder Howard, of the Dallas Chris
tan Church (colored) ran away with q
sixteen-year old darling of his flock.
John Spotswood, suspected of coun-
terfeitlng, has been arrested IN Denton
county by Deputy Marshal Whissen.
In Bexar and Wilson counties cotton
Is reported as making fine stop crop"
In Fro county the grass is unsurpassed.
And now we may go to mining gold
close to Dallas, where it is said quartz
has been found that yields $500 to the
ton.
John d. Hunt, tried for the murder
OF Capt. /. G.. Killough, has his con-
tinuanee. 1t was a mistrial at Column
bus.
George Washington Jones COM
mences his canvass SO early he must
be satisfied his chances are none of the
best.
An artesian we'll near Fort Worth,
ga feet deep, sends up through two
inch pipe twenty gallons of water per
minute.
Some farmers of Crimes county are
preparing to haul their cotton to
Houston by wagon to save railroad
freight.
Mrriads of grasshoppers are sweep
ing down through the northwestern
counties. They have spread over Wise
and Jack.
The Callahan Ranch, Webb county,
lately employed 100 men to shear sheep.
Seven thousand head were handled
esch day.
Two strangers lately came into Bell
county and unearthed buried treas
urc. Il had been there many years,
50 they said.
A gentleman of MnLennan county,
As the result OF two days labor during
the entire season, made 500 pounds Of
good tobacco.
The exterior Of the Kaufman Tinas,
IS Is prestily printed IS the patented in
terror and IN eli respects the Times is
most attractive.
Trade IS falhng of at San Antonio