The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-11

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BHt-np be came near killing tso of
the officers who were trying TO get him
into a cell ia the j III.
Jeffsrson has already received, this
season, between eighteen and TWEEN Y
thpuszo bales q. cotton By the Elst
Line, and over thirty thousand baies
IN all, are conf ieptly anticipated be-
fore the season closes. rs people built
this road uuaided and they are soon
going TO push it 100 miles further.
Toe jefferson East Line railroad has
recently received a new twenty-ton
locomotive, with steel boiler, hand
| somely finIshei, and pronounced q
miracle of beauty" 1t wss made a.
the Bald win locomotive Works. Phila-
delphis, aud named Governor Throck-
morton" in honor of the distinguished
citizen of Collin county.
The Marlin Ball tells of a negro man
meeting with q most horrible fate
! while digging out ssod for brick-mak-
ing. While standing with his feet
wide apart digging beneath him, the
bank above him fell aud the body was
split as high as the pit Of The stomach.
He was taken out and died shortly az
forwards in terrible agony.
Bell county prisoners seem to court
death. They lstely broke Jail, aud
most of them have been recaptured,
and now we msy expect to hear, as soon
as that horse thief is recsptured, of a
summary and wholesale radiance of the
pests. Bell county people occasionally
conclude that the safest way to keep q
prisoner is to coufine him beneath four
feet of solid earth.
Mr.. N. Jackson writes an open letter
to Nat O., of the Record. reprosching
PIN for advertising whisky, tobacco
and such like denominations, such not
being to the glory of God. But n.
Jackson does not know anything about
the case. A committee OF preachers
sat upon Nat Q IS case and decided
that, while he may have been convert
ed, he was not regenerated.
The Harris county collector has been
going around among the bell punches
in Houston, and finds that in Novem-
Der they mark 10, S96 alcoholic drinks
against 90, 792 in October, and S,311
glasses of beer in November against
38, 1875 in the preceding month. No
yember Is a bad drinking month i'll
Houston, and so it is in Austin, and
bell punching is q mighty funny thing.
A glass of whisky sells for dime
and is drank in O minute. It fires the
brain and deranges and weakens the
physical sy.tam On the same table
hes a newspaper. IL is covered with
half a million type; it brings intelli-
gence from the four quarters of the
globe. The newspaper costs half the
glass of grogg; but is is none the less
true that there is large number of
people who think whisky cheap and
newspapers dear.
G. J. Pilgrim is now sole proprt tor
and editor of the Gonzales Enquirer,
having purchased the interest of his
late partner, Leroy L Beach. G. ]
is model Soung msp, good printer
end an excellent editor. He is proba-
bly, Just little too bright and when
he worked in the STATESMAN Office,
we used to wonder how 1t was that
his brightness did not kill, as it usual
IL does in childhood. He has our best
wishes for prosperity.
John Bullock, a fireman on the Hou- .
ton and Texas Central railway, neglect
ed his lawful wife az Houston for the
charming julia Seals. Ms. B. calle d
on her, and reconstructed on the course
they were pursuing, and JRlia said s! Q
wouldn't do it anymore. But she di4,
and when Mrs. b. called on her again
and asked her to quit Julia said she
wouldn't quit. Whereupon the out
ragged wife pulled out her little pistol
and shot her. But Julia will not die,
and she is apt TO be shot again.
The Northern Methodist church has
held al annual conference at Dsnison.
During its session one Hartsell, in the
course of speech about missionary
work, SAID: at was only through the
medium of the NJ. E. church that the
poor Southern white man and negro
could be brought together in brotherly
love as one man; that church had sent
them down here to civIlze these poor
white people, and educate the negro ;
they had the money to operate, and in
tended to accomplish this object by
controlling the 5000 colored votes of
Texas for free schools, ETC."
Evangelist Penu and Brother John,
of Galveston, are pulling each others
wool. Penn declared, in one of his
sermons, that many ministers allowed
sectarlanism to override Christianity,
and remarked that those whom the
cap fitted would squirm. Brother
John fell at once into the trap, and he
did squirm awfully, and abused Penn
through his paper, the AdCOcate. The
great evangelist answers his attack
through the columns of the NeaoS, and
declares the war begun, and that he in.
tends to push it right into the heart OF
Africa, aud such an insinuation has
made Brother John madden than eyer.
The people down about Brownsville
are ttill fessting on roastingears, mel
ons and all kinds of vegetables, such
as are common in springtlme. A very
fine second crop of corn has been made
by many of the more industrious
formers, and small grain looks besuti-
full. Grass is rank in growth, ano
stock of all kinds Is rolling fat. While
the country up this way is sadly IL
need of ram, that to the far south il
even too wet. They have had great
abundance of RAIN through the fall
Southern Texas must certainly become
one of the most successful farming
regions i'll the world. It's soils are M
surpassed and its seasons always good
for the growth of vegetation.
Tue Comanche Chief has been hand
ed COPY of paper printed in Austin
October IA, 1910. It's advertising col
umns are quite interesting. Mr. w
w. Thompson advertises that ''hiI
stables are supplied with hay, corn ant
fodder, and attentive ostlers, snc
above all he possesses that desiderstuu
IN Texas "a thief-proof horse yard.
Gov. II S. Foote, now director of thu
New Orleans mint, sdvertises that h'
will shortly move to Texas. We d.
not know that he ever came or not
but he has lived in nearly every Stat
in the Uuion since. VIM. G.. Ewing
and others announce that sowing tt
the burning and total destruction o
Linpville by the Indians, they ar
OF led to suspend business for shor
time,n which was very good reason
FIR so doing. Another man advertise
"a stock of spinning wheels, clocl
reels and chair for sale" While en-
man advertises q runaway negro take
up, another offers $500 IN gold for tn,
arrest of another one. In the line o
amusements the Bsstrop Fall Races ar
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