The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-30
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aiaIh aiohE tue DorGSr.
House Holt, convicted, IN Denton
county, for the murder of Beard, has
got change OF venue u Cooke county.
! Judge Abney, of Lampasas who was
at Taylor last week holding a prolraet-
ed meeting with considerable success,
left on Sunday.
| GTssshoppers had reached Burnet on
the twenty first, but they pass beyond
borne away By the noriheT.
Newton Smith of Cooke county was
brutality assassinated atnight, it Is sup
posed 10y his brothGrs-ls- law, Frank
Reese and Nathaniel Blown.
! Rev. Abraham Weaver has COTTON
Icto weaving way at Burnot, and sia-
ucrs re being piled upon the woof for
q blessed existence in eteInity.
Goodnight was 6 Cumberland Pref-
| byterisu preacher. He followed the
miserable fraud, Haynes, and now he
is an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum.
The Sunday law is undergoing court
investigation at Houston. John NJ.
Usener was indicted, and he proceeds
TO test the validity OF the law under
which The iBdicimen. was found.
Mr. R0undroe is back in L'ano con.
| graduated by his friends. who are
proud that after searching investi-
| CATION by the Travis county grand
jury nothing was found against him.
Ia gravel pit, whence number of
| bones oi huge extinct animals have
recently been oNhumed, nest OF eggs,
resembling ,hose Of the guinea hen,
were uaearthed eight feet from the
surface
Mr. w. d. Boyd, formerly with C.
p VI. Or, has bought ont Mr.. Leon
ards interest in the grocery business
at Taylor, and the ftm is now BaYd &
Jones instead OF, as formerly, Leonard
e Jones.
Greenbackors in the northwestern
counties are getting disers.ed with the
tiat iaeo, and Uahlnau and Spencer
have lately met with cold encourage
ment. The thing. TO use an elegant
phrase, has about "kerflumuxed, +" and
Col. Campbell saw 1t.
The sale and re-sales of bale OF
cotton donated to the Hood orphan
fund by ]. IL. Blake " Co., of Houe-
ton, was the great attraction at the
opera house after the amateur perform
ance for the benefit OF the same fund.
T. was bought the first time by the
douQTs for $3.50, and was again do
mated and sold and re-sold until $1,000
were paid upon it.
The Rusk Millinery ineists that the
I'd n4 AL oh i,Z
''cleaned out" We suppose there are
too many fellows in it buried
with their boots On, aud the editor
fears that the devil might come look
ing around for them and take him off
by mistake. Let IL be cleaned out.
We don't want q single editor togo to
the devil
Cuero and San Antonio are billing
ahd cooling at wonderful rate. They
both would ride Oh railroad be-
tween the two towns. Bu, you see 1t
can be done. Cuero and Iudianola
must come TO Austin to secure the
wealth aud travel of Northwestern
Texas 10 te brought hither by the Aus
tin and Lsmpasss Marrow Gauge. The
Mossbacks are going to work after
awhile.
Col. r J Glow has donated 100
acres of land TO Co'eman county for
comfy site. A meeting of citizens was
held IN honor Of lhiB event at which
it was resolved that Col. Cow is the
greatest man of the age and time, that
he is a phianthropist aud q patriot,
and Everything else that is noble aud
good, and il a sec3nd copvocation can
just take place We expect 10 hear that
| the Colone. will accept the Presidency
of this Union or some other alight to-
ken Of regard for the honor done Cole
man county.
Mrs. Bullock, lady evangelist and
revivalist, has invaded Texas on the
north. She preached her first stImon
al Denison Sunday evening, OF which
the Denison Neus says: From what
our reporter saw, be thinks that Mrs.
Bullock is eminently fitted for revival
work. Not intending any disrespect,
she is what some irreligious people
would call religious bulldozer.' Her
" hole heart and soul is wrapped up in
the work, and the way she brings
m uraers to the anxious seat is
something to admire"
ReT. Brush, who told Northern peo-
pie that the white people Of the South
refused to cooperate in building me-
gro churches, is ali awful good man
now. He has jined the sanctication-
! lists over at CorsicaDa. OF course every
body knows he can't sin any more,
aud we reckon he WON'T 90 TO any more
Northern camp meetings and tell
such awful yarns about DR.. Smoot ana
| other people Of Austin. But then the
sanctihed. sanclimonious CUES did not
suppose we would ever know here
what he was seyiDg there, and it was
Gods work he was doing, ana the ends
justified the means.
The teachings OF the Evangelist
| Haynes, at CJrsicsua, arc TesultiDg in
| great social damage. He has a. last
goEe so far as t. declare himself Jesus
Christ. DIR. Goodnight, one of bis de-
ciples, has gone crazy, as have probably
two or three women. Goodnight mas
resolved to die 10 show the power Of
Haynes. lie refuses TO ca or drink,
and Is determined % shuttle off his
mortal coil that Haynes may re-cstgb-
lish it. Dr. Goodnight was conduct
ing a coed school which he abandoned
to become the follower of this wTeiched
creature who should have lived long
ago ia New England that be might be
burnt for his pretensions.
DR.. Vest. Of Boerne, gives the fol-
lowing treatment for the bite Of a rat
tlesnake. Tie case was that OF q boy:
He was bitten upon the back Of the
hand. A ligature was Immediately
applied to the arm above tie elbow,
whisky administered free, and the
night passed in great pain. Next
morning the arm was greatly swollen
from obstruction of circulation by the
ilgatRre, and the boy wss feeling sick
generally. lie Immediately gave him
aromatic spirits Of ammonia TIL The In
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