The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-08
Kerr county wants immioration.

Pork is selling for four cents per
pound in Young county.
The Waco Examiner enters its
thirteenth year of existence.
There are thirty-one students in the
Vanderbilt University from Texas.
Bob Halles got thirty years in the
pen for murder in the second degree.
Regular trains commenced running
from Gainesville to Denison last Mon
day.
Trees and shrubs may be safely trans-
planted IN the fall as in the spring in
this latitude.
At Galveston the other dsy, there
were % vessels loaded with cotton for
foreign porte.
Lemons, lines and oranges will
thrive in ally of the well watered val
legs of Texas.
The next session of the Court of APP
peals will BE held in Galveston, COM
hencing January 5.
The Wills Pointer says that Mrs.
Jacob Rhodes, at sixty years of age,
has given birth to son.
Fifty thousand dollars is about what
the Fannin county school lands will
bring, in cash, when sold.
Delegates to the State Grange will be
carried by the roads at one and one
fifth fare for the round trip.
John W. Adams, lately of William
son county, and school teacher, com.
mitted suicide at Bre iham.
The Texas and New Orleans railroad
will be completed and cars running
through to Houston by April 1, 1880.
Increased attention to fish culture in
the South Is an encouraging sign, and
Texas is not behind in this enterprise.
Six hundred and sixty pounds was
the weight of hog killed in Hopkins
county last week by Mr. B. s. Lee
wright.
1t Is probable that the Central rail-
road may become the purchasers OF the
Galveston, Hourton and Henderson
railway.
A law and order society has been
formed in Hopkins county, which is
determined to run every lswless man
out of the country.
Every woolgrower and stockman In
Texas should plant few acres in Ber-
muda grass. 1t is proof against drouth.
spreads rapidly and makes the best of
pastures.
The steamer Borussia that went down
at sea had a number of Good Templars
on board who were coming to Texas to
>sseettssliSS--near DenIson. Some of the
friends of the TEST Will come.
James Bats went to Heafne ffeeekipg
for stolen mules. He found one in
possession of q white man, and two In
the hands of negroes starting for Kan
sas. The exodusters busted but the
mules didn't.
Mrs. Wells, wife of Mr.. George V.
Wells, of Chicago, died on the train,
just tefore reaching Atoka, Indian
Territory. She was gong home in
delicate health, and was taken with
congestive chill on the train.
The Comanche Chief says the bell
punch system is knocking disgrace"
to the State, and other papers want the
Governor to call an extra session of the
Legislature to repeal the law, that the
state may increase its revenues.
A bed of camel coal was discovered
recently east of Dallas, near the line of
the Texas and Pacific. Fine samples,
larger than a mans head, have been ex-
hibited in Dallas. Mining on an extern
sive scale will commence within twenty
days.
The Comptroller di ects that lands
sold to the State for taxes may be re-
deemed on payment of the actual taxes
for which the lands were sold, with s
per cent interest with costs of sale.
The law thus providing was passed by
the last Legislature.
And now, since the fashion has been
started in the Denisnn Herald of pub
fishing the names of New Year call
ers, the average young man who as
pires to the position of society belle
may hope to see his name in the pub
lie print once in twelvemonth.
The Fort Worth Democrat says: The
Stockrslsers' Association of North
west Texas, lately in session at Jacks
boro, took steps to secure better tariff
on cattle shipments from Texas points,
The present rate from Fort Worth is
800 to st. Louis and $3.50 to Chicago.
Cattle are shipped from Kansas points
at $40 to Chicago. The distance in the
drive from the Wichitas to Coffeeyille
is but little more than to Fort Worth,
not enough to make any material diff
ference to the stockraiser. Roads do
ing business in Texas should consider
the matter, and give the shippers bet
ter rate If possible, as the amount of
business they bring to the roads is too
great to be lost, and the stock men
| threaten to drive to Kansas if the re-
duction Is not made.
Edmund Burleson, an intelligent ne
gro man from Burleson county, was re-
turning, with other negroes, through
Dallas the other day from Kansas,
when he was interviewed by Herald
as Parsons, where he found the exodus.
tiers huddled in great numbers in the
churches and school houses. After
paying their railroad fare, with but
few exceptions, none of them had any
money left, and when the cold snap
came on their suffering was terrible.
The night before he left Parsons one of
their number froze to death. The cold
was intense, and their clothing being
thin and their bed-clothing skimppy,
they suffered severely. Destitute and
penniless, they have been forced to
forage on the surrounding country for
food to keep them alive, and would
have frozen 70 death had they not
stolen coal from the railroad. Their
depredations on the settlers have
caused an ill-feeling on the part of the
residents towards them, and they are
fast feeling the effects of their dis
pleasure. He says that it took cash,
and lots Of it, to purchase the bare
necessities of life. The only thing
he saw that was cheap was corn,
which sells at from ten to twenty.
eight cents bushel. There were so
many OF them together that it was inn
possible for them to get work at any
price. Land rents are required to be
paid cash down, and the rates are gen.
orally from three to four dsllsrs per
acre. Lands that rent at this price
are without fences or houses of any
kind. He thought the lands of Texas
far superior, while they produced q
greater variety. AZ would not. 40 far