The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

Anosher harribie rape case is re-
pore F IT Worth, and the memo
is
T S - school for colored youths,
At v -, = HemPztead, has seventy
nine pupils.
A oese Of Lunatie Asylum knocked
sauc,;fcation out OF the soul Of DR..
Goodnight.
Saturday, at Texarkans, the Texas
and 81 Louie Railway paid out to en-
ployees $4s, 900
The cane crop of Washington and
Austin counties Is short on account OF
continued Dry weather.
Six hundred colored emigrsnts have
passed through Denison in thirty DAYS
exodusting for Kansas.
The Saturday night musical enter
taiuments at the Rlind Asylum attract
many delighted visitors.
Corn has been shipped from Kansas
to Wsxshschie at cost to consumers
OF &c 23 cents per bushel.
DR.. Kupfer, county physician OF
Duval county, reports that the small
pox is increasing at San Diego.
The venerable editor of the CONNER
eial Journal pirates about the gross
vulgarity of Alice Oates Pinafore.
A girl who dances in San Antonio
dance house, instead of bouquets, re-
ceives showers of silver half dollars.
at The burning of the Clark Hotel,
at DalIas, two children were rescued
from the flames with their clothes on
fire.
The steamer ST. Louis that sailed
from Liverpool on the twelfth conveys
over NOEnglish farming people to
Texas.
It is said the cotton factors of New
Orleans haye determined to reduce
charges in order to compete with Gal
weston.
Charles Burnett, painter, recently
abandoned his wife with a two-year-
old boy and three days old babe at
Fort Worth.
The Copcho river is aliYe with wild
ducks and geese, and the prairles
about there are covered with antelope
and curlew.
Ham and Tullis, are calling each
other rascals, one accusing the other,
and honest people are getting some OF
tbrir fust lands.
The county seat question IS to be de-
termined in Robertson county between
Hearne, on the Central, and Morgan, on
the International.
The great State of Texas, that has a
law against usury, is itself usurer, or
the bell punch law is not worth the
paper it is printed on.
Prisoners in the Mckinney Jail got
into fight and one Crawford bit of
the nose of another, but, strange to
say, he didn't swallow it.
A fight is reported near Sthe Mojsda
mines between Indians and people
from this side of the Rio Grande, with
thirteen of the latter killed.
Kendall county has at last got the
bell punches, those nice little things
that are demoralizing, it is SAID, so
many good people In Texas.
The trotting horse Seey Badly, was
mangled in a wreck on the Central
yesterday at Workman. He was en-
route to Dallas from the Austin fair.
Rev. DIR. Reed, of the NJ. E. Church
South, lately stationed at Sherman, is
said TO be man of superior intellect,
and of great culture and refinement.
All that julius Toettel said on the
scsffold Yves: "Gentlemen, l am in
nocent Of this crime, but want to GO
and meet my sister. Now am ready"
Father Bum declared, on the scsf-
fold by the side of Toettel, that ''if there
wss case where executive clemency
should have been exercised 1t was in
this one"
". I.BaTker, once connected with
the STATEs MAN, and for some years con-
neetcd with the immigration office of
the Pierce Railway in England, is back
in Galveston.
Track laying on the Louisiana West
err railway has progressed sixteen miles
east of Lake Charles. The Sabine riv-
er bridge viii be completed by the first
Of next month.
Capt. Lee Hall, IN fight with des-
paradoes who attempted to rob store
twenty miles north of Plesssnton, had
one man wounded. One of the rob-
hers was killed.
Miss Julia Riley left her widowed
mother at Marlin and ran away with
the circus. Her mother sent her son
after her, with instructions to kill the
fellow that had her in charge.
The San Antonio Herald thinks that
more serious things will happen than
Austin going independent, unless the
Democratic party repudiates the SUM-
day law and bell punch fizzle.
The San Augustine Saxon man ought
to have the best newspaper in the
State. He certainly knows good
paper when he sees it. He says the
Bfenham BanEer can't be beat.
One million three hundred and
eighty thousand bushels of peanuts
were consumed In the United States
last year. Texas makes the least
quantity OF any Southern State.
Fifty families OF colored people left
Nacogdoches in one week, going to
Kansas, aud il is stated by the NelcS
that only one white man in the county
eKnfeSees regret ut their CeDarture.