The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-18
N,erOe. b ut Waco are ,aik,og o

Negroes bsut Waco are taking Of
going to Liberia
Denison merchants are opening bust
ness houses at Gainesville.
Gen. Lewis, late of the Brysp Co..
lege, will open a high school in Dali
las.
Sherman claims to have handled up
wards of "a 600 bales of cotton this
seaion
The Greenbackers Of Fills county
have sIresdy made county mutations
for 1880.
There are thiIty-seveu l,dges OF
X Nights aod Ladies' Of Hon IT in Texas,
with . membership of 400
Dlnug a squirrel hunt repr Hal
lettsviile, young msn named Sksp-
worth accidentally shot aud killed an
o:her named Morgan.
JOHN c. Ashcomb, for the murder
of Sam P. Smith. in Jaly. 1873. was
lately acquitted IN the BrszOna county
district curt.
Brenhsm is now the best fitted for
newspaper enterprise 10 TexaS Every
week adds another daily paper 10 its
list of publications.
Mrs. Buckuer, wife of weli-'o-io
Navarro county farmer, slid all her
jewelry and bed clothes and ran away
from home to join the holiness gang at
Dallas.
The engineers of the Missouri, Kan
sas and T, xas are making q preliml-
nary survey of rsilroud from Denison
70 Palestine, via Greenville and Wills
Point.
The bell punches of Mexla registered
for October and November combined
a revenue of 1856 SO, while 1894 of
this was for October.
Texas press talent should know that
there are eighteen counties in Arkansas
In which there are no newspapers. But
BRENNAN orders are not yet filled.
The arteslsn we'll at Dallas Is fl wing
at the rate of only two gallons per
minute. We thought thst 1t would be
thus. There IS no sfiinity between
pure water and Dallas people.
The Texas fever, it is sad, is break
ing out afresh in Georgia, and soon we
may expect many acquisitions tt the
goober-grsbbipg brigade IN tins State,
of which Capt. Pitts is now commsn-
der.
Gen. @. A. Gilmore succeeds Gen.
Howell. as superintendent of the Texas
coast survey. and it is thought that un-
der his direction the harboTs of Tex as
will be improved so as to meet the
growing demands OF trade.
The aggregate mileage OF railroads in
Texas is 242S miles; the cost of these
roads, $50, 956, 625; gross earnings for
the year just ended, $40, 056 572; num-
Der of employees. 6S27; persona injured
by accident for the year, 1855.
Russell H. Kingsbury, Jr., of Waco,
has been tried on some cotton fraud,
and is sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years. The Telephone is very
sorry about it, and hopes some means
may be adopted by which the young
man may gam his liberty, and his
former responsibility.
Mormon elders, lately travesing the
South, have added largely to the num-
Der of saints. They nave inside over
four hundred conversions in Georg a
aud Alabama, but have avoided Texas.
Nat Q was pointed out to them last
winter, at. Washington, and upon full
consultation they decided against the
| breed.
The Express has such kind feelings
for people of Austin, and sympathiz s
with them in its slow coach progress.
1t thinks the Austin people should
take heart. San Antonio will have q
narrow gauge road TO the gulf by the
time the International reaches this
place and then the Austin merchants
can buy their goods so cheapjy here
that they can destroy the copemtition
eff other places.