The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-31

Sherman wants heal,h officer.


Tee wells ate III ing Siouad DecS-
tur.
d.. B. T. K,vsnsoch IS leeta-iDg in
Dsllas.
Tuesday i. was lo2 in the shAde at
DilIas.
Immisfauis N ierge numbers are
settling in Cotyel! county.
w (. Hutchinson succeeds Rayor in
the Houston custom house.
A big steam hourns mill is going up
at Dafau, in Essth county.
Charley Moulior, the oldest aud beat
citizen of Denison, is no more.
/ Mediterranean wheat sells at IS 20 so
cents in Waco and bread is cheap.
In Erath county the weather IS dry
and hot and rain is much needed.
TIE Baptists have prosperous re-
ylval in progress at Abingdon, near Dali
las.
One negro named Mays, killed an
other, Underwood, Thursday, at Pan
ola.
Hamman is somewhat early in open
ing the contest for the Governors
Office.
1t is thought that the cotton crop OF
Texas will exceed this year l, 100, OG0
bales.
In Crockett, on the twenty-second,
the thermometer stood 104 degrees in
the shade.
The Cuero Bulletin is nightly
tickled with the vigorous action of DR..
Rutherford.
Pear trees from -utre NoTru produce
two crops year in Waco and blossom
for third.
John Speers stole yoke of steers
and is now in tears, as he is in the
aillsboro jail.
A Presbyterian protrscted meeting
commenced Sunday at Big Bluff, In
Coryell county.
Brenham is said to haYe more color
ed wash women than any town of its
aize in the State.
Calvin L. Storey, brother of the ex-
cellent State Senator, died few daya
ago at Lockhart.
Nine prisoners are confined in the
Wise county Jail-one for murder and
the others for theft.
| Montague county is about 10 vote on
the local option question. The North
,cest (newspaper) is for it.
Hannah, for a small man, has the
biggest lungs of any political rantel
and sockdolOger in Texas.
J. II. Burch insists that he was She
brutally and for no known reason BY
the two Hardlns at BRENNAN.
S.ephensville Is held to be the Invest
fastest town in Northwest Texas. L
is because Judge Nugent lives there.
The number of petitions for pardon!
presented to Governor Roberts so far Ii
col. OF these has granted only eight
They have poison sprinkler TO
cotton fields at Cuero which cover
seven rows at once, and n boy manage
it.
The negro Floyd, who outraged Mis-
Mayfield in Fort Bend county, wa
promptly and properly hanged by thu
people.
If Dallas would be worthy of it
big newspaper it must come to tn
scratch and bulld the eastern end o
the road to Cleburne.
The Sherman Courier leads en- arti
Gle ''when to cut hay" 1t shout,
cause Sherman to be expurgsted or tel
the people ''when to cut stick"
The Pamela Waterman threatens tn
Galveston Ne1os with $25, 900 libe
suit. The Ne,rs happened to say tina
the Watchmon's editor is good looking
Artesian webs bored at Yorktown, i
Dewitt county, constitute runnin
streams of exeallent water. TIE well
are less than one hundred feet deep.
Horse thieves do thriving busi
ness about .Jscks5oro, when in fact on
would suppose they would be force
to operate exclusively in young mules
The next sensation in Dallas is tn
trial of Pointer, Rosser and Obenchai
for the murder of DIR. Calder.
special Judge, Watts, sits IN this case
There are only two papers in tn
State that would uproot and thrust on
J | the whole public free school system
Texas-the STATESMAN and the George
town SIN.
| Governor Hubbard has promised
visit and speak In Austin Oh the sui
iect of narrow gauge connection b.
1 tween this city and Waco. When
+ | he coming2
The extraordinary watermelon ere
of Dewitt county has not the effect
| msking the Juicy editor of the Bullet
; write watery articles. But that's what
the matter with Nat Q.
The commissioners of Dallas count
J, felt themselves impelled by the su
J, rounding circumstances, the new may
:, of Dallas and lewd women, TO enlsr:
the prison of that town.
i The Waterman says that the truste
10 of each public school should pay teac
II ers from $25 to $40 per month and
Imore and then the public school full
would last several months.
&c B. N. Baker and the rest of the col
10 mittee on land frauds will be here
2 the first of July TO begin their inves
a cations. They viii have to see Ham
"a get his written confession.
,. Charles V. Riley. the Up,tea~~sd
a. chief of the acknowledged co
s,on 80 ..Iopght he had discover,
ne boss bedbug of the contIn ent
'st - las. 1t was Cuban turtle.
At the close of the war youn
named Crouch hired out to herd
Cross for $12 month in Frio county