The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-08
80 PArrs ~, FANr1Rs.

Prairie hay Is selling in Hampstead
at $40 ton
The mayor of G .IvestOn receives
$4,000 per year
Many hogs are dying of cholera in
Colorado county.
Ice four inches thick was formed at
Victoria on Christmas.
The debt OF LampqsaS county, De-
cembsr 81 was 81 400 IL.
Wood -el:s al SO ri at San An
tonic. Here it is worth 81.
The Daily Hesperiaa receives its dis
patches, so 1t ssys, 10y mail.
Tae pastures Of Nueces couaty are
being searched for stolen cattle.
The cold weather hes arrested the
exodus movement in Eastern Texas.
The GulIett Gin Manufacturing Com
pany will start branch factory at Mar
shall.
An attempt to lberate J. Longley
from the Lee county jaIl was not sue
csssful.
Taylor county was organized only
eighteen months ago and now it has q
population OF 4UOO.
Within the last three months 5000
colored people, it is estimated, have
gone to Kansas from Texas.
The Comanche ChiJ thinks G lionel
Swisher's circular will be interesting
reading matter-at some future day.
Bob Noel, who tried TO kill his wife
q short time ago. hEs been arrested in
Gainesville. He is now in Ill at Sher-
man.
The roadbed, franchise and privileges
of the Galveston, Colorado and BrazOs
Narrow Gauge railway are advertised
for sale.
Gonzales county has a blind shep-
herd, CALVIN Ferguson, who regularly
tends flock of sheep and makes liv-
Ing by his work.
The contract for building the Palo
Pinto Jail was awarded to Comanche
builders for the sum of $1,000 in coun-
ty warrants.
Col. Jas. B. Hill and Miss Lileon
Ochiltree were married at Orange the
other day, and have taken up their
residence at 3 enham.
The malanal fever that prevails so
a'armingly in Waco at this season OF
the year is sad commentary upon the
sanitary condition of the city.
The Henderson Times will soon be
of age, and if it hadn't told it, every
body would have believed 1t was fully
grown. 1t was twenty years old on
January 1.
Prof. Gathright, assisted by Prof.
Binkley and MISS Gathright, has begun
his career st Henderson college. The
STATESMAN hopes it may be one of
eminent success.
! l. DR.. Dupree and Miss Estelie Wal
lace were married at Waco on January
1. The bride is the daughter of the
late accomplished Superintendent Of
the Lunatic Asylum. ~------
The products of Colorado last year,
including mining interests, exceed
$50, 600, 600, which is over half the
whole exports of Texas. by rail and
sea, for the year 1878.
The bail of Rankin, who killed
Cooke at HOCKEY. has been placed at
$1,000, go the Courier need not be
ashamed of the reputation of Walker
county. l. will be maintained under
all circumstances.
In Smith county the negroes have
all got tie Kansas fever, aud a whole
sale exodus is expected. But what are
the Republicans up North going to do
about it. The Inter- Ocean ia trying to
save their pockets until spring, and
the case is getting desperate.
The Sun reports the killing of q
swan in C4ss county that measured nine
feet from tip to tip of wing, and six
feet from point of bill to end of the
feet. It weighed twenty-five pounds,
which does not keep pacs with the
other professions of the bird.
Christmas fights are reported
from all parts of the state. Two
prisoners in the Dallas jail, Sserrett,
the mail robber and MCGEE, the forger,
went to carving each other, and the
mail robber hsd his paunch ripped
open as nicely as he oYerhauled a mail
sack.
A rowdy named Jim Duke, imbrut-
ed no doubt by whisky, on Christmas
day In Henderson, made an uucalled
for assault on young man named Jay
HaltoD, and finally, when Halton pro-
posed to resent it without arms, he
was shot down from behind by Bill
Duke. He died shortly after.
Let's stop that item which has been
in the papers for over twelve months
saying, "the wooden mills at New
Braunfels this year have yielded q
profit of $81, 00O." The company
should have long ago corrected such
widely circulated falsehood-a thing
evident upon the very assertion.
The demand for farm hands can not
be supplied in Brszos county and own
ers of rich Brszcs bottom lands find il
difficult to procure even necessary labor.
The trouble will probably be tempo
rary, however, as the negroes who left
some weeks ago are reported returning
to the homes they occupied last year.
Denison Herald: ]. S Lockhart was
in the city yesterday. The gentleman
left Sierra Mojads mines, Mexico, No.
vember % He says that the mines are
q huge swindle, and that all American
prospectors have left for home. The
day before he left the Indians attacked
a party of Mexican miners, killing two,
Lon what is known as ''Red Gulch."
The Lampasas Dispatch says: Next
week the bids for the new 4ii will be
received and opened. We trust that
some responsible builder will make
such bid as will be accepted by the
commissioners court, and that at no
distant day we may have a stable suffi-
cent strong to hold the ueruly horses,
Tof which we have such an abundance"
The Burnett meal and Touring mills
were just completed and put to running
when the works we're blown to atoms
by the explosion of the steam boiler.
The body of Mr.. Bryce Smart was torn
into pieces, and his heart driven out of
the chest. Mr.. Hall. of C5ryell coun-
ty, had both of his legs torn of, and
Johnny Blackburn, son of Judge
Blackburn, had one side OF bis skull
torn off. It occurred January /.
The Brsz,s Pilot announces that
Prof. Gartner, lately appointed to the
chair OF modern languages ut the A. &
N. College. is a native of Ssxony; that
be was graduated ct the University of
Liepslc, aud that he speaks the Garman
language f1uently. Born and feared in
Germany aud educated at its great seat
of letters, be ought to be able to ham
die bis mother tongue. But the editor
is responsible-not the professor.