The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

Houston's DELL Ouncnes yleiu less
revenue than the old law.
Judge E:tor's death, it Is thought
was brought on by overwoIk on the
bench.
A corps of International railroad sur
veyers commenced operations along
the river yesterday.
The Cass county Jail and the sher-
iff's house were burned the other day.
Two out of ten prisoners escaped.
Corsicaoa has an election on the
fourth, and John L. Miller Is mayor,
and that's all we know about him.
The Clement attachment is adopted,
and successful, in many counties in
Georgia. Why not test it's virtues in
Austin.
Mr.. Simon Goldstein, of Austin, was
married to Miss Sarah Goldstein, of
Waco, In the latter place on the four
tenth.
A little boy was poisoned at Browns
Vile from eating an egg boiled in a pot
white lead.
A fatal epidemic is prevailing among
the hogs of Sherman, and this is why
some of the people up there are leaving
those parts.
PRAIRIE chickens have beenIcoming
into Dallas, and knowing ones say it
is an indication of hard winter ap-
preaching.
One hundred and thirty-one pupils
white and black, attend the free
schools in Brennan and nine teachers
thrash 1t into them.
In San Saba county there is not a
pauper, not a lunstic, nobody in Jail,
and hardly any sickness, and its people
ought to feel happy.
BRENNAN went into ecstacies, over
Alice Oates Pinafore. But many peo-
pie here didn't think 1t was proper
not the way she fixed it.
Eighty negroes left the vicinity of
Navssots last week by rail and private
conveyance. going to the promised
land away over In Kansas.
In the United States Court at JEFF
ferscn, Mckay, Cock, Gaines, Gray
and Hightower, charged with election
crookedness, were acquitted.
Two carloads of negroes left Hesrne
on the twenty-ninth ult. for the blessed
land of Kansas, and now the Kansas
agent Is wanted at Austin.
The Independent Blade thinks the
next Governor of Texas will come
from Bastrop. The honor could be
given to no more worthy place.
The Methodist Conference setting at
Fort Worth has been looking into the
conduct of Rev. w. G.. Veal, charged
with adultery in at least two instances.
Four coaches of troops, two of white
and two of black, have reached San
Antonio. The colored troops go to
Fort Concho, the white ones to Fort
Clark.
Senator Grace says he voted for the
Sunday law; is not ashamed of it, and
is abundantly able and willing to de.
fend his action under any and all cir.
cumstances.
The Corsicans o. and 1. pronounces
the Bonham Neaos the best weekly
newspaper in the United States, and il
isn't far wrong about it. 1t 10 an ad.
mirable journal.
Hampstead has been holding q
spiritualistic convention. II the spirits
of men murdered there could have
been convened it would have been q
much bigger affair.
Messrs Peet and Reed, of the Eng
lish Parliament, have been visiting
this country and take in Texas. They
act as q commission TO look after food
supplies for the old country.
Paint Rock is not named in homer of
its quaint appearance with tints, ets.,
but because of a certaih soft rock that
exists there from which it is said the
Indians used to get their war colors.
In Waller county district court the
jury rendered a verdict of $l4 900
damages against the Central railway in
favor OF Mrs. Fowler, whose husband
was accidentally killed at Howth sta
ton.
Miss Hefferman, Coryell county
maiden, left the paternal roof the
other night pretending to go for a
bucket OF water, but jumped in a
buggy with young man and eloped
Waco-wards.
Mrs. Burchfeld, wife of w. r.
r. Burchfield, late of Missouri, re-
Gently arrived at Fort Worth, return
ed from visit to Concho to find her
husband and his money gone. She
tears foul play.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
began a camp meeting near Dallas, and
it Is thought there will soon be more
candidates for the lunssic asylum. But
Dallas whisky, it is hoped, may get
the best of PEARSON Haynes.
The Mexia Ledger, discussing the
Ute war, weeps over the terrible
wrongs done Poor Lo. II Mexia had
been represented by HIM, as was Aus
tin in the last Legislature, Mexia
would be fiercer for his determination
than Denver and Leadville.
A well-dressed, genteel-looking
woman arrived at Dallas by the down
train and registered at the Union De-
pot Hotel as Mrs. johnson. She has
gone, but her six.weeks old child is
left. It was taken by kind-hearted
man who proposes to adopt it.
The Clay COsnty Journal say i'm
mense beds of salt have been found in
the Elm Fork of the Big Wichita, sew
enty-fve miles west of Henrietta. Two
wagons loaded with 5000 pounds Of
the salt sold in Henrietta last week at
one and half cents pound.
In the peninsula between Buffalo
bayou and the San Jacinto river game
10 reported in the greatest plenty by
old sportsmen. Deer, opossoms rae