The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-17

! etlog In July. 10 tney sneu JEeir salls
The firemen would have Themselves
exempted from the payment Of poi
tax.
Heavy rains have damaged small
grain crops In many portions OF the
state.
A company has been organized tc
build rolling mill end foundry at JEFF
ferson.
The Chronicle predicts that Sherman
will handle so. 900 bales Of cotton this
season.
A large number of cattle have Been
water bound in Texas and the Indian
territory.
Toe St. Louis and Texas railway will
be in operation to Texarkans by No.
Yember /.
James Walker, editor of the San An
tonic Herald, ia dangerously SICK with
typhoid fever.
The SURVIVORS Of Ecsor's brigade are
to hold reunion in August a. Long
view, Gregg county.
One hundred tons of rock for hscb0r
Improvement are being delivered st
Arkansas pass weekly.
A Boeque county farmer has al-e@dy
colo 500 bushels OF new oats at twtD,y-
five cents per bLshel.
r. z. Doyle, the printer, who fell
through the railroad bridge near DA!-
las died of his injuries.
judge J. c. Robertson, of the Ty-
Ter Judicial district. has been renomi-
aated for the judgeshiP.
The Corpus Christi district confer
ence n. E Church South began IT'S
session in Goliad June 9.
The Smith county fruit crop is q
failure. The wealth of cotton crop
in that county is proverbial.
Tfere is talk at Houston of the sn-
nusi far at that place being reoresu-
lied and meeting next May.
Immigrants from Missouri, bound for
Southern Texas, are coming into the
state in considerable numbers.
Buckstrum, tailor OF Houston, took
bAiu ~ lG6b GAtSJH2itc " 1o
hanging to life by mere fragile.
A bone and cotton factory aud q
Touring mill are smong the certain I'M
provements anticipated at R0ckdsle.
The Marshall Messenger wants to see
Capt. Walsh, the land commissioner,
retsined IN the place two years longer.
Quincy, of Hampstead, was fined for
cowhidiDg Lester. 1t is asserted by
some that the assault was just'tiable.
At Orange J. A. Robinson, while
handling revolver. shot his brother,
the wound produced being q painful
ore.
Four colored prisoners at Corpus
Christi celebrated Sunday by cutting
through the jail and making their es-
cape.
Dr.. Collins, of Bryan, was pulled
from his house at night Oy three ne
groes, snd wac dangerously stabbed by
them.
A drove OF 400 turkeys passed
through Sherman the other day, being
driven to McAlicter, in the Indian Ter
rtory.
Charles Koch and Henry Ryder,
railroad hands, were fatally Injured
nv Central TRAN. near Dallas, on the
7th instant.
J. w. Avera, editor of the Sulphur
Springs Gazette. is mayor of the town.
he Is Greepbscker and runs Demo-
cratic paper.
The Grand Lodge of knights of
Honor will hold its next snDEgl session
at Waco, on the third Tuesday in
August next.
The Cuyrie case was called ct Mar
shall on Thursday. Barrymore viii oe
present, but Miss Cummings has not
been heard from.
The Gainesville Hesperidn says that
in Cook county there Is four times as
much land growing corn and cotton
this year than last.
Mr.. H r. Adams, of Mason county,
lately sold 100 head of mutton sheep
TO an Illinois dealer. They averaged
104 p FUNDS per head.
New Braunfels has donated TO the
International railroad for depot pur-
poses eighteen and one-half acres,
which cost nearly $1,000.
Five thousand visitors were at
Westherford on the Ath inst, tue day
that the first trains on the Texas and
Pacific ran into the place.
The first regiment of infantry, under
Col. Shstter, which has just reached
San Antonio on the way to the frontier,
is composed of colored troops.
Daring a storm on Saturday, near
Puiis, William Rheudasit was killed
ny lightning, and two men named
Preston were seriously injured.
1t is said that tao1e storms have oc-
CURED in FAnnin county than in any
other portion Of the state. sad this
accounts for the existence of Grace.
The San Antonio and Ell Paso rail-
road Will be started from San Antonio
next week, aud expect to complete one
hundred miles within twelve months.
F. A. Z1rD. formerly connected with
the press of New Orleans, snd more re-
Gently sheriff of Maverick county, died
in Monterey. Mexico, on the 295h nit.
The Rothschild murder case vas
called at Msrshall on the Stn, and 8
iilatory motion postponed the ease for
another week. The Currie case comes
up soon.
The telegram says that Mary Ander-
son, Fanny Davenport, anu an English
opera troupe of eighty performers, sre
booked Tor Grsy's opera house for the
coming season.
The wheat crop about Bag3sd, ex-
cep.iug the Nicaragua variety, has been
much Il jured by rust. The N caraugus
wheat is making froc twenty 70 forty
busheis TO the acre.
A convict Kusrd named Jones lay
down on the railroad track at DAilss
and Was Knocked CT il by moving
engine. His escape from death was
miraculous. CSusc, whisky.
The Mason county school census kss
Just been completed, and there are 401
chiidren within the schclsstic age, all
OF whoR egs white but three. Vi the
whites fifts-Evc csDrot read.
Crops in Brown cosnty and all the
section about IL are very sHc. The
pecan crop is going to be huge oae,
and il il said ovsr 200. coo bushels vii
be shipped alone from Brentwood.
A boy named Drew, while on the
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