The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
The Gilbert troupe delights Denisnp.

l. is fum'' ''Ecu tnlI TOM GrSC0 County
will have nIwspaPtr in the near fu-
ture.
Texas has over 2tO. 600 children be-
tween the ages OF eight and fourteen
| gears.
The Holiness band are building a
;ompie near the machine shops al Cor
sicana.
One bell punch was sent to Eastlaud
countv, and it is in the hands of the
sheriff
Forty exodusters from the r ,ss plan
.aticn, Waller county, have gone to
Kansas.
A train on the Central recently con-
sisted of seventy-two cars and 1880
bales of Cotton.
The whole of Concho county ls
owned or leased and it is no longer the
resort of hunters.
Farmers in Washington county are
in better financial condition thnn any
ime since the wsc.
Bellies + ON the Iadian Nation attend
hops in Dtnis1H, and tic Neios says
they are charming.
Judge Dsugherty, of Fort Worth, is
still missing. HIS friends fear he has
met with foul play.
Fredericksburg had two light rains
last week, but not enough to give the
people mixed drinks.
The papers are advertising conven-
ton of land owners and agents to cit
in Austin in January.
-Four young men who went to the
Arizona mines from Denison four years
ago, have grown rich.
Six families of South Carolinians,
cultivated people, passed through to
Fort Worth the other day.
A reddish was lately caught at GAL
weston which weighed 62 pounds, and
which was sold for $3.50.
Farm lsborers are wanted in WASH
ington county to supply the place of
the exodusters to Kansas.
Three vessels cleared from Galveston
on the twenty-tirst with IL, 430 bales of
cotton, for European ports.
The groundless rumor that Mr.. T.
W. House, of Houston, was stricken
by paralysis, caused great alarm.
Oie Harvey, q witLess of the Cur
rie murder case ~ Marshall, has '-lit
out'-skipped the towa.
We dou't suppose there is doctor in
Fairfield, Texas. Not one has card
in the Recorder of that pretty ht,le
towr.
L: the fellow hanged at Sulphur
Springs were almost an idiot he was
none the less savage brute. He WAS
not insane.
teiaeraph h tggf ba tGfaGaRGtal Eill esye
ernment control.
Rev. M. Fox, of the Methodist
| Church, still insists that Mr.. Veal did
not have fair :risl and that the amor
Gus calf Is innocent.
The Ne,es-Itena, with its black horses
and COWS, each with white marks
branded on it to show ownership,
looks like big cattle pen.
They are having, to- lay. oig saen-
Qerfest of their own at Frederick sburg,
and everybody in those parts takes a
hand and several quarts in it.
In Leon county, when the justice of
the peace of the Buff 40 district wants
to go fishing h. just swears in bully
deputy snd launches out TO smash
things.
RJv. j ]. C'emons gava Thsrks-
giving dinner to the Houston newsbcys.
Newsboys are prnveEbial for having
good sppetites, and they doubtless en-
joyed the dinner hugely.
John Lanhsm is soon to be hung al
San Antonio. Since the authorities Of
the Alamo ty suppressed bull fighti
h. average San Antouian has felt tie
deepest interest in theso hangings.
We were mistaken. Dallas had Il
go further, 615 feet, for artesian water
than any town in Texas. We though
1t strange that pure water would vol
i UNFAIRLY 60 fooling about that town.
A commercial traveller at Dallas stat
ed at Dallas, that his house had mad,
more than double the amount of III
drummer tax by the added price put
upon goods. So it is that the bur
dens OF all taxes fall upon the consum
ers.
Earnest efforts are being made, it j
said, to induce the government to pur
chase the fremont Hotel of Galveston
to be used as q custom house. Il woult
be so kind if the government woul'
ius' take this elephant eff the hands o
its owners.
: Shippers of corn from Kansas 70
} the dozen counties of Texas in Thicl
, the drought lessened the corn crop fnt
great difficulty in securing cars enough
But the managers OF the Central ar
equal to the emergency and are rapid
Iy supplying the demand.
The cheap new process Yarn Mill
obviate the necessity for einheuses an
, screws and presses and for compFess
ing machinery. abd each cottOn grow
ing neighborhood of Tcx&s shouI
! have one OF these mills that ysrns ma
be shipped abroad instead of cotto
bales. The farmer saves freight, an
takes in half the profits OF manufaC
ture as well as that Of cotton pre-
ducer.
Dallas has an easy time boring arte
: sian wells. The town itself is in q bi
hole in the ground, and it is only sine
they secured such godly mayor tbt
water was begun TO be substituted fc
n whisky, and It is found, to the amszs
ment Of geologists and the rest OF mar
kind, that Just under Dallas there
actually more wttsr than whisky. Ds
las bsr-.ooms coat leak much or tbi
would not be thRs.
!, Fredericksburg is philosophical an
: draws nice distinctions. and all again
the oell punch. A leading citizsn {
that town says there is broad difei
ence between NAHUM per ~ and M
lum IN lege. They assign the be
, punch code place in the latter clal
Of legal wrongs and deem it no wron
to violate the execfable code as the
term IT. So saith Q genial letter writ.
for the Mason Nssos,Itea.
. Brazos county bored q well on i
"poor farm-Where its vorkhouse
= established. The water Is supposed
have very valuable mineral propertii
4 and may become 90 valuable that Il
county can lease IL for enough 70 pa
n for the maintenance Of the old and u
3 digenf and helpless, snd- besides,
,he Central Illinois ard Georgia raj
= ways do for that State, defrsy the col
lof governing the coanty-