The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-30
Tezas-Faers and FaneIe..

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Mrs. John T. Brady, of Houston, we
sre grieved to say, is no more.
Fort Bend county ships wood over
the Santa Fe road to Galveston.
G. Bordenweiper, an old German
of San Antonio, is no more.
Tyler has an iron and brass foundry
that will take corn in exchange for
plows.
The newspapers of Texas are pre-
pairing to hear ReaYis IN each of their
''cities"(O
DIR. EIiphalet B. Partin has parted
from his friends in Bonhsm and gone
to Crockett.
The body of Mr.. Schleicher, while
in state at San antonio, was visited by
5000 people.
The Dallas papers are mourning over
the fate of Fort Worth. They are very
sorry about it.
Queensbury, tried for the murder of
the Graysons, at Palestine, was de-
clared not guilty.
W. A. Ellis. who is under indict-
ment for swindling at Dallas, has been
arrested in New York.
Mr.. A. Robeirs, a druggist of Gal
weston, took too much morphine and
chloral and died of it.
And now the Marlin Voice, that
sounded so sweetlY on gIeenbacks, is
stilled in newspaper. death.
@There is much clamor all oyer the
State for the adjustment of the Ad-
jutant Generals department.
In the glastonbury case at Palestine,
the mother, sister and brother of the
defendant testified to an alibl.
The Brennan Banner thinks Texas
of sufficient magnitude to have re-
spectacle State house at Austin.
1t is said Roger @. Mills is laying
his pipes towards the Senate Chamber.
Why shouldn't he as well as others?
John Ireland, it is said, favors the
election of James T. Miller, of Con-
zales, to succeed Mr.. Schleicher in
Congress.
The Greenback rally called in CAL
weston never made itself seen, and we
are anxious about that one spoken of
in Austin.
They sent Col. Taylor's certificate of
election by telegraph from Bonham.
He forgot it, but didn't forget he was
elected.
That was exceeding courtesy on the
part of the Telegram to publish the
Governors inaugural before he deliv-
cred it.
The Telegram was not at all pleased
at the high price charged to hear ia
nauschek-thOught the acting did not
warrant 1t.
A bill has been reported favorsbly
in the United States Senate, sppropri-
ating 40, 900 for the establishment of q
military post at Ell Paso.
Scion Randle and w. R. King, at
Waco, quarelled and shot at each until
King was mortally wounded. Randle
received a wound in the hip.
The proposition of Mr.. Wurzbach
for the State to become the owner OF
the Alamo property is generally APP
proved by the press of the State.
The defsulting Galveston cashier,
Reed, carried off with him SAG. 900 OF
State bonds, pensions and other papers
deposited by Gonzales banker.
IN Ellis county young married
couple have separated twice within the
last two months and reunited as often,
and now a suit for divorce is pending.
Crooks, of the Sherman Courier, has
been challenged TO fight duel. He
should substitute Martin, whose thread.
like form would defy any amount Of
bullets.
Col. A. B. Easley aud II. G. How.
ard, both model citizens, the Latter
having lived in Grimes county forty
aud the former twenty-five years, are
no mere.
~There is no city in Texas that is
buster than A1sttn~if-we~ except
Weatherford, whittier Tom Scott:
road is going vehemently they think
over there.
One Green deserted his wife an6
children of Indianapolis and turned uE
as naturally as could be at Dallas,
where he seduced good girl on
promise of marriage.
Miss Strickland, of Coryell county,
was instructed by her parents to quit
receiving the attentions of a certain
young man. She took strychnlne and
obeyed the stern command.
The people of Hill county have late.
~ been stirred up about the supposed
ineligibility of their newly-elected
sheriff, who hiss been discovered tt
owe the county over $4,000.
The blowing porpoise killed in thu
bayou at Houston, weighing 3s4
pounds, is not the editor of the Age
as commonly supposed. That institu
ton was on the Avenue yesterday.
The Age sums up the worthlness O
Lieutenant Governor Sayers, and is en-
tirely satisfied with the man. Ii
truth, but few, if any, better men il
all respects have been fashioned.
Laudanum won't put a fellow t.
eternal sleep in a wide awake towI
like Dallas. Cora Gaines, a Cyprian
tried it in vain last Saturday night
The doctors pumped it out of her.
At. N;h,o, of Wawaboob;a :, oarn
est in his endeavors to have the dos
tax repealed. Three hundred people
in his county were indicted for failur,
to pay the tax. 1t is cruel and un
just law.
II Rev. Veal will lecture in Dallas h
will draw the herd after him as neve
did calf before. He need only reaC
the Galveston Melcs's account of hi
achievements to burst Thompson
variety show.
Piner's machine fer mailing news
papers is approved by all who hav
tested its virtues, and now Murray ap
plies for a machine which puts a heai
on newspapers. He uses two imposlnI
stones, we believe.
Congress donates to the family o
the deceased Congressman Schleichs
the remainder of his salary as q mem
Der of the Forty fifth Congress, an,
recommends the same action to th
Forty-Sixth Congress.
The special car that received Mr.
Schleicher's remains at Denison wa
fitted up at the expense of the Centrs