The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
Texas-Facts and Pancies.

Horace Rowe has cope to preach
ipg.
B-yan is going to have an artes!an
well.
A Democratic club has been organ
lied in Dallas.
The cotton crop about Mount Calm
is past all surgery.
DR.. Chaplin is conducting great
religious revival at BRENNAN.
Deacon Penn weighs 225 pounds and
is growing IN grace and grease.
Brazos county will make only one
third of an average cotton crop.
Mrs. Fields, wife of DR.. Fields of
Strickling, Burnet county, is dead.
The BRENNAN Banner calls the old
old ship of Zion this terrene dugout.
Senate Maxey addressed the people
OF Jefferson on the thirtieth instant.
Ingrams s. Sterling's steam gin, near
Waco, was burned on tae sixth inst.
Deputy Marshall White, who was
shot few days ago at Arlington, will
die.
All the BARRIERS of B;enham have
been arrested for violating the Sunday
law.
The narrow gauge from Dallas to
Cleburne is fixed TACT, 80 the papers
say.
The Decatur IriJXne is unaDim; Is
in opposition to Tilden's renomlna-
ton.
Crops are bad IN Comanche. Bat
they have eminently good people over
there.
The yield of cotton in Victoria
county will be greater than for many
years.
There are three Greenback clubs in
Limestone county, none of genuine old
Hickory.
They have delicious lawn parties in
Sherman. It's the girls that makes
them so.
The Morgan line has advanced rates
of freight from New York to all points
In Texas.
Many cattle are being driven through
Burnet to pastures further to the
northwest.
The Telephone looks on the bright
side of the picture in discussing trade
prospects at Waco.
The Sunday law encourages drunk
enness in Dallas, where whisky has the
upper hand of all law.
Huntington has immense quantities
of iron heaped mp at the present east
ern terminus of his road.
Well digging at Burnet, in search of
water, goes on. WAGER in the creeks
and water holes are no more.
The work of removing houses along
the road of the Santa Fe railway in the
city of BRENNAN has commenced.
1t was Corpus Christi-cold Corpus
and net Indianola that introduced
Yellow Jack into Texas In 1867.
The big hotel in Dallas gave Mr..
Speaker Cochran dinner, and he told
them all he knows about cooking.
John Wesley Hardin denies by letter
that be ever acknowledged to the kill
ing for which Brown Bowen hung.
If anybody wants to be superintend-
-. ze -.Al;1 .ob1ol, ~ Char,,,o, kba
application should be filed at once.
On Monday night in San Saba there
were only fifteen persons az revival
meeting, while 200 attended the ball.
The special election on the amend
ment to the smoke house tax will he
held on the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der.
With fearful eyes the Christian Hes
senger says: BRO. w. II. ID. Caring
ton has returned To the practice of the
law"
Comanche has specisl delegate sent
to Robertson county, Tennessee, to in
quire into the quantity produced this
year.
Dell Dublin, the Fl. McKayitt high
waymau, has been shot and wounded
but fed and escaped. Tie will be
caught.
The excellent and practicable end
sensible MexiA Ledger is ten years old.
Fsshburn himself may be a yesr or
two older.
knight Rector, SON of Judge Rector
Of San Saba, has returned TO Texas from
CaliforniA, where he has resided sew
ersi years.
A "Holiness Camp meeting what
ever that may be, will soon rage 81 Cor
sicana. Sarufcationists will run the
machine
L. Morton, who used to be Capt.
Sam ScBttis agent, and 9 weli-known
stage man, is now Price & Co.'s sgent
at MeBilla-
And rev they call Ii SAcchsEiae
Fulurit5,- and old Brienoh ssng Il
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