The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-09

EekHS-rScts Gbd <pArths.
GrasshopPers are innumeral,le - the
vicinity of Weatherford.
Texas railroad bonds are higher in
New York than since 1872.
Mr. Sedgewick of McLennsn county
is putting 1000 acres in wheat.
Peter Rheiner, the great sheep
owner of the SAbinal, is no more.
The new criminal law Furnishes lille
gal branding and making as theft.
The cotton crop OF Jack county, II
is claimed, will be bale to the acre.
The poet lariat of Waco INDUCES his
lucubratioDs in Parnassus Of a wagon
yard.
Mrs. John Spears is accused Of MUIR
dering her husband at Castroville. She
is in Jail.
H4mmau has departed from Dallse,
and thus the war having ended we will
have peSce.
The rebuilding of the burnt district
of Bolton has been commenced with
the greatest activity.
Galveston, in fighting destiny, will
push the Santa Fee road beyond Bren-
ham as rapidly as possible.
One hundred students were on hand
on the opening day of the present ses-
sion of the A. and M. College at Bryan.
Hon. John Henry Brown of Dallas,
has been out West and discovered cop
per and coal mines. They are both
rich.
DR.. Thomas M. Coleman of Long
view has been followed to his last
resting place by hosts of friends who
mourn his death.
Comanche goes $40 on an artisan
we'll which will give pure water, and
ten times that amount on whisky that
is productive of so much crime.
There Is great want in msny parts of
chihuahua, and the prospect looks dis
NAL. Corn is now worth $3.50 a
bushel, and Jrijotes. or Mexican beans,
So.
On Monday last the Central Railway
brought into Houston 1873 bales of cot
ton for Galveston, 1851 bales for Hous-
ton and 40 bales for the Morgan
line.
Waco is not afflicted with moss
back city government, and the place
undergoes, by means OF underground
earthen pipes, the sure process of punf
cation.
At Killgore station, a man named
Holt was shot and killed by Col. Kill
gore, who gave himself up to the au-
thorities. The killing is regarded in
self-defense.
Messrs. Barley & Higgins of Dallas
won $3.50 in purses on Ella Rowett al
the recent Louisville races, and Messrs.
Brien & Spencer of Texas won purses
to the amount of $500 on Sam Ecker, q
Texas colt.
All locators of land in the counties
of Tom Green, Crockett and Pecos, are
prohibited until the location of one
million acres of university lands shall
be surveyed.
The money received from walking
match at the fair might be called "gait
fees" A handicap match is discussed
and the Fair Association from the gate
standpoint ought to give the idea en-.
enlargement.
An anti-ten-cent-beer party has beer
formed IN Houston, and it is reported
that a Milwaukee beer man will give
one carload of beer to the saloOr
who will reduce the price of beer tt
8 cents glass.
The Times says there are thre'
Messrs. Cochran in Dallss, brothers
all. One is a Democrat, late speake
of the late Immortal" another is q
Greenbacker and the third Repub
lican. When one is candidate the,
all wade in.
The Telephone tells touchingly of Thu
death of a venerable Thomas cat Of
that town. 1t had massacred rats Over
there through twenty-five weary bloody
years. 1t looked like creased streal
of midnight and yeowled like "Nat
O." at campmeeting.
The people of Glenwood, Upshu
county, are anxious to arrest G.. G
Emmerson, q teacher, charged will
raping two small school children
This fiend in human shape is of darE
complexion, five feet nine inches high
short stubby mustache, fifty years old
hair little gray, has peculiar walk
| coarse voice.
Mr.. Dinkins, the State Fish Com
missioner, is himself a very whale
His enthusiasm in behalf of fish cul
ture grows out of the fact that il
former years he was addicted to de
vouring shad from the Savannah ant
trout from mountain streams of Geor
gia and the Carolinas. He is no sal
dine in the fish business.
One OF the hardest fought and blood
lest little battles of the late war was a
New Hope Church, north of Atlanta
where the Mississippi cavalry, Pinson'
and other regiments, went in on foot q
infantry, and now the colored brother
of Waco have named the spot wher
they tackle satan most vigorously, i
honor of the heroes of the war, Me-
Hope Church.
Martin will constitute the terminu
of the Dsnison and Pacific road, whicl
will be completed in three weeks (,
Gainesville, where Martin stops to tax
breath and eApend it while movin
westwardly with the railway system G
the South. He will Railways keep ahea
of it, and, if necessary to keep out c
its way, will wade over to the SAND
witch Islands. We see him now in OF
minds eye stridlng over the summit c
the Rocky Mountains and down tn
valley of the Gila, spanning the Gul
of California at g stride, wadlng on
into the peaceful ocean still pursue
by the Denison and Pacific and Texs
Pacific Railways and locomotives. II
will rest at last amid the temples an
palaces of King Kalakona and david
out the dresmful days of his exlstenc
among Sandwitched sea nymphs.
Mrs. DR.. Frank Paschal, nee Mil
Ladie Napier, of San Antonio, WHIT
with her husband, is now residing &
chihuahua, has learned the Spanish
and often appears on the stage. Mr.
Paschal, who was formerly one of til
most popular vocalists of Texas, san
the Mexican national hymn on tn
tenth of last month, the occasion {