The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
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SE"-- 800
ia he good one.
A Van ZIndt county srte,iau well
hiss been bored 400 feet derp.
The Sherman Daily C0Urie1. has bs'
enlarged and greatly improved.
The First National Bank of GAlve:-
ton charges s per cent. interest.
Rs.lroad traius will be running TO
Gainesville by the first of October.
Sin was washed out of tweLty-three
darkies at Columbus the other day.
Gainesville has passed an ordinance
prohibiting prostitution within its
limits.
Oaly one vote was polled in Houston
in reference to the smoke house tax
amendment.
And now Comanche Indians, dis
guised as COW boye, have been raiding
in Brennan.
Grimes county farmers are hiring
cotton pickers at twenty-five cents per
100 pounds.
Late revival meetings in Hopkins
county have increased church member
ships 800 or 1000.
Two thousand mustangs, the prop
erty of nobody, range the prairies of
Nc Culloch county.
Sheep in Goliad county are fat and
healthy, but west OF there many are
dying of murrain.
From September /, 1878, to August
%, 1879, 1925 bales of cotton were
received in BreRham.
The Texas Central now runs its trains
through to St. Louis over the NJ. K &
T. road and Missouri Pacitic.
Burleson county, 1t is said, makes
ten bushels of corn per acre and one
bale IF cotton to eight acres.
Another negro rapist is reported
near Industry, in Austin county. The
victim was German woman.
Larry Ennis, farmer of Dallas coun-
ty, was killed few days ago by his
team running away with him.
The Examiner doubts the Justice {
Sunday law, but recognizing it as a
sta'ute, advises obedience to it.
A L'ano gold miner paid out $405
nd mined $40. This accounts for the
Br Snwood mining excitement.
Tne Central extension beyond Wac O
will SION be completed to Aquilla,
tw. city miles from the Texas hub.
CursIcana gave 113 votes for and II
.g int The amendment. while Groes-
b, OK grv.. 81 against and % for it,
TIE total assessment of Colorado
c. unity is So. e63, $50. Land is assessed
at an average value of 50. l6 2-3 per
acre.
The Ji'nplecute. though opposed to
Col. Culberson, recognizes the fact
that he has but few if any equals on the
stump.
The Texas and st. Louis narrow
gauge is under contract from Sulphur
to Mount Pleasant. A large force is
at work.
The jailer says that out of the many
hundreds of prisoners handled by him
for years only twelve have been native
Texans.
The citizeps of Marlin have sent Ma
jor Penn lengthy petition asking him
to visit that town and carry on series
of meetings.
B. B. Buck Of Dallas was the sue
cessful candidate in competitive exam
ination for West Point cadetship from
that district.
The Holiness campmeeting at Corsi-
cana averages fifty conversions day.
All denominst ons unite in bringing
over the sinners.
A negro outraged sick white wO-
man in Fort Worth Friday. He was
caught and about to be hanged, when
the sheriff put him in jail.
The State holiness campmeeting has
been in full blast near Corsicans, and
this is why disciple got 30 mad as to
beat neighbor to death.
In the trial of NJ. Pointer for the
murder of DR.. Calder, at d .llas,
Pointer was acquitted, the jury being
out only twenty five minutes.
,:The steamer Helvtt;a, that sailed from
Liverpool on the twenty-seventh OF
August, took out eighty English far
mere, who are bound for Texas.
Thirty cents aud board or fity cent:
and find yourself, is what the planters
are paying per hundred for ct ton
picking in the vicinity of Calvert.
They will have a rousipg tournament
at the Lockhart fair. Why not have a
gander pullin' which tess both horse.
manship and physical strength 2
Twenty-nine conversions bless the
laborers in the Lords vineyard five
miles south of Lockhart. They ar,
Methodists. Sail in, Bro. Penn.
The auditorial board of Colorado
county haye just audited school teach.
ers' claims Tor 1876 amounting tc
$500, and this is not the end of it.
Dr.. A. N. Denton OF San Marcos will
spend the fall and winter in Europe
looking for more light upon subjects
pertaining to medicine and surgery.
A gentleman who has lately Travelled
over much Of the State says the cct.oI
crop of this year will not be more thar
ne-third of what was produced las
yesr.
Mrs. Mary Yates, while attending
Major PENIS revival meeting at Lam.
pasas, was burned to death by oil from
falling lamp. O.her persons wert
burned.
Six supervisors Of the census have
been appointed in Texas, one for escl
congressional district The work o
taking the census will begin mex
] June.
A fieht-eecurred near Fayetteville |
few days ago between <xo = lhemlans
Oae completely disemboweieS> 70.
other. By close attention he may re
cover.
The saloon men OF Castroville wer,
tried for infringement of the Sunday
law, and after full argument IN couri
by able counsel the jury declared then
not guilty.
Ms. McBee gives testimony that sh'
consented to the outrage OF her lIttl'
ten-year-old girl by the brute Burke
They both deserve to end their lives 81
the RslloTs.
The travelling rope walker fell
twer ty feet at Beaumont. hut GOT ut