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

Col. William L. Booth has been re-
elected president of Texss spiritualists.
The giasshoppers in Yuurg county
have been blown towards the South
west.
A panther in Somervell county re-
Gently carried off child two or three
months old.
The Court Of Appeals has admitted
the murderer, John McAnney, to $10,-
900 bail.
Julius Loettle is to be hung st Sher-
man November IS; Andrew Brown of
Denton. November 81.
The recent movements of United
States troops has left Edwards county
at the mercy of the Indians.
The Waco and Palestine Railway is
being surveyed between Fairfield and
the Trinity.
Gainesville is growing with great
rapidity, and its population will double
IN twelve months.
District court just adjourning at
feloRy and two for murder.
A large acreage of wheat has been
sown in Lamar county this season, but
it is reported as dying out from the
drought.
The telegraph operator at Bolton is
in trouble. According to the Telephone
he has been guilty of the grossest ia
voritism and neglect of duty.
Bro. Pennington has just baptized
twentv-seven SINNERS at Goliad, and the
GRara is a better and sWeeter paper
thsh'it used to be.
Warraa Stafford and three negroes
are charged with the murder of the
two negroes who were found hang
ing TO a tree near Columbus.
And now the Grant boom is to be
opened next spring in Texas, when it
is said the silent man will return from
West Indian winter sojourn by way
of Texas.
Texas Central trains will in two
weeks be running to Whitney, the new
terminus of the Waco extension. They
now run to Aceuilla, fourteen miles
west of Waco.
Worms e.eatlng and destroying
the grass on the praries of Ksrnes
county, and, In some instances, are
working on the hay in the barn.
In second degree murder case the
Court of Appesls hold that something
more thar the separation of the jury
is required to offset the fairness of the
verdict.
II railroads would charge not more
than twenty or twenty-five cents q
bushel on corn from Kansas and Mis-
souri,, it could be laid down in Texas
for from forty-five to fifty cents
per bushel.
Judge Cook, of the criminal court at
Houston, has decided that each sepa-
rate drink on Sunday is distinct
offense; hence the dealer subjects him
self to an indictment on each separate
sale.
The virtual abolition of the fire de-
partment of Houston, in consequence
of lack of money in the city treasury,
has caused an advance of 80 per cent.
on fire risks, and the companies may
withdraw altogether.
The Veal committee of the Fort
Worth conference recommended the
reYeIened gentleman's expulsion from
the church, having found him guilty OF
gross immortality.
Samuel 8. Belts, an old and highly
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fifty years, died in Waller county last
Sunday, aged near eighty years. He
was native of Albany, New York.
The Christian Messenger illustrates
excellent good taste and wisdom in
publishing those admirable letters
from the East that for some months
past have adorned its admirable pages.
The Express, in referring to the wild
manner IN which the Telegram deal.
with subject, says: ''Of course thai
paper will care nothing for facts" AND
that is the reason the Old Alcalds
hasn't been utterly destroyed.
The Bcnham Meas says that VIM.
Buchanan of that county, is the inven.
tor and patentee of chemical
compound which is said to rot out
stunps and grubs in very few weeks,
thereby superceding the grubbing
hoe.
Currie's trial begins December 1
The Eastern witnesses probably CAM
come, and Currie discharged for want Of
testimony, the Tribune and the rest
will make Gully-Dixon-C Chisholm case
of it even though all the parties to the
row are from the other side of the Ohio
The Marshall Herald is right when
it says: "Among the most meritorious
acts of Gen. Roberts administration il
his (pardoning out of the penitentiary
all the boys under sixteen years of age.
Very few governors would have had
the moral courage to perform an acl
like this, which will meet the approba
ton of all the good men and women il
the State. The penitentiary is no place
for boy.
And now Martins Register is strick
en- by an electric shock of pietV and
J publishes the old, old story invented
by q Carthusian monk more than 10(
years ago, IN which one supposed Len.
tulus, a supposed Roman centurion
writes from Jerusalem to Rome beau
) tiful description of the person ano
: character of Jesus Christ. You are
sold, Martin, as thousands have beer
before. But 1t is good story, and
just and admirable.
A boy named Henry Bosze was rur
over by q train on the Houston ani
Texas Central Friday at Denisou anc
had his leg terribly crushed. 1t wa
, amputated by the company's surgeon
The boy is IN fkir way for recovery
| He was crossing the track at the time
when q negro woman called to hin
. to hurry. he paused to see wha
the matter was and the engine strucl