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


Tee ely Of NJ mpais onca more
uoaey thaa the ; ate Of Texn.
I Six murder c.scs are SC; for trial in
December 10 F.:.s county district
I court.
Tom B3xers, % the PAuola Watch
man. says that Austin must change its
political complexion or give up the
capital.
Two artesisn wells are in successful
operation at yorktown, and one Is TO
be bored immediately in R=fugio
county.
Clay and Wichita counties are re-
ceiving large additions to their popu-
lssion.
A tspe worm, seventy-fvs inches in
length, was removed from a boy in
Denisou.
D OK Moore, an old empioyee Of the
Te1ss and Pacific, was msshsd to death
between cara at Texarksna.
Bob Whitaker, on trial ST Dec, tuT,
charged with murder committed thir-
teen years ago, has been acqniten-
Maj A. MontfoEi, prominent A.
toraey OF Waco, has been arrested and
jnieo, in deiau of bail, for swindbng.
E j.h Cuff. who killed Mike Dixon
year ago at CIebuFne, has been tried
and sentenced to the penitentlary for
life.
A train of ninety-two care, carrying
go tons, was lately passed over the
Galveston. Fl .rrishurg and Henderson
r ,ilroad.
Michael DItbins, Dallas pes
pocket who followed the circus TO
Waco, was himself p cked up and
poke ed.
Frank FAhj. of G. .ivest1n, the man
who could talk circular saw into sub.
mission, has st last gone where there
is eternal silence.
The work of trsnscribing the deeds
to lands, now lying in Lee county,
from the records OF Bastrop county,
has been finished.
Colonel Richard G. .ineg, promi-
EShI YUKON Cu1Si, NhS Icuud hcau III
his room at the PETERSON Hue, in
Paris, Fidsy morning.
The new criminal code affixes the
penalty for assault at no. less than IS
for that ki5d of work Trimmings are
beyond computation.
Mr.. Rub is landlord of the Lanier
II 'uae, Mlcar, Georgia Is good
place foI fellow to have his washing
doue Rdb-.-gub- Tub.
Flies Conway, the negro who,deii'
erate!y ripped open his wit.'s body and
murdered her, was given cniy a life
sentence by DslIas ia Y.
Mr. Nunnerry. from n rth Carolina,
has settled in Wood equity and gone
into The tobacco raising business, and
he knows what he is about
+ bert F. Crockett, only surviving
son of the great nlvy Crockett, lives
~ his farm pear qfAnbury. and keeps
the toll h.idge across the Brszis.
Il is thought that the T,xas Pacific
will follow what is known as It's
s uthern route through I xas, which
is decidedly the belt for the S ate.
Tue members of the Methodiet
Church at ID llias are taking steps to re-
place their burned building, the edi.
fee to cost between SIS. 900 and $780,
900.
A B5sz,s bottom merchant, near
Bryan, sold bottle of morphine for
quinine to negro. Two of his fsmi-
", wife and child, purtook of it and
| die1.
Mrs. Speers has not Confessed :" on
the contrary, has consistently denied
any knowledge of or completely in the
murder of her husband. So says the
CastroOill6 Quill.
At the Burning of Msrshsli's gin,
near Van Alstyne, the other day, Mr..
Att4r6ury left his coat, with $500 in
the pockets, hanging On 8 wagon
which was burned.
Louise PJmeroy aud, legitimate
Shakspeariau entertainments drew full
houses at Houston, aud pl'y-goers
were delighted because of the revival
OF the genuine drama.
J. ffsrson has one of the finest cotton
congresses IN the State. 1t Is said to
have pressure of five millions of
pounds, and recently compressed, In
nine hours, 500 bales OF cotton. Il re-
duces bale to eight inches.
The town of Seymour is now one
year of age. L. is the capital of Baylor
county, is beautifully situated in wide
extending plateau, near the confluence
of Seymour creek, from which it de-
reeves its name, and the BraZos river.
Jff Hopkins, given III years 10 the
penitentia-y IN Titus county the other
day, is only seventeen years old. II
he had only been there few days ago,
his term, on general principles, would
have been cut short liz years, less
few days,
A large number OF people of d .nton
call upon Hon. g. A. Venters, through
the Monitor, to give an account of his
steward ship as a member OF the Six
teenth Legislature, at Denton, on the
first day of December. Judge V. is
conscientious, pure legislator.
The collector of d ,Ilas county says
that several saloons in Dallas city, &C.
cording to the number of drinks reg-
istered, can not even pay rerts fr I'M
the profits in their business. Perhaps
the bell fails to ring about three
fourths of the tine drinks arc handed
| out.
The assessor of 6rsyson county has
resi- !ned because the Sixteenth Lagis-
lature reduced pay go that he would
lose money In doing the labor. The
office has been Cfered to several gen.
tlemen, but rot relishing wind pud-
ding ae standing diet they have de,
clined. a.
Houston's bell-punch yielded a reve-
nue. Of $Ss77 for the month of October,
one OF the busiest of the entire year.
Frsm4i Drity of the months in the
year the receipts will be much smaller.
Under the old law the III uston saloons
would have paid SIPS. NJ further
illu t-atioD of the wisdom" of the
punch law is necessary.
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to secure for one year the best weekly
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