The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-02
Personal and Local Paragraphs.

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The city Of hills is 4 mIsnomer II
should be the city Of candidates.
Eggs are down to 4 bin dozen from
| wagons.
Mrs Harrol of Georgetown. and Miss
Matte Leak OF Dallas, are At the Ray
mond.
Mr. f. S. Marshall is in the city for few
days, visiting friends.
The prospect for heavy pecan crop
remains 1iaftering. Very few are drop
ping from the trees
About fourteen patients are being
treated at the Manning hospital in this
city
Each of the Peg Leg mali robbers con-
vieted went up for ten years.
Ross & Harris. the extention contract
Ors, are now laying 4 mile and half of
track day.
Hon. w. IL. Westfall of Burnet. was in
the city yesterday.
There is considerable typhoid fever in
the city.
Saturday the simon pure Republicans
will meet and endeaYor TO trot out 4
county ticket.
A large quantity of freight wasreceived
yesterday, among which were several ear
! loads of flour.
Cotton picking is being pushed with a
vim. Hands are in demand.
Corn, oats, fodder and hay are very
cheap, and now is rhe time to lay in your
winter supply.
The court house looks deserted. Dis
| trict Clerk Mailman and Jim Hart are
about the only fellows over there that
seem to be doing much. They are pre-
pairing for the October term of the dis
trlct court.
There is every indication of an i'm
mense fall aud winter business.
1t won't be long before San Marcos will
be putting on airs. II will be railroad
town, and the denizens over there are
happy.
The building business continues to
steadily improve.
The bottom hay crops is the heaviest
known for years. 1t Is selling from
| wagons at 30 cents per hundred.
A private letter received in this city
states that one ofAustin's young men had
difficulty at Dodge City, Kansas, in
| which he dangerously wounded man.
P T. Barnum's greatest show on earth
will exhibit in Austin Friday and Satur-
day, October IL and Is.
Dell Dublin, one of the Peg Leg mail
robbers. has been convicted in the United
States District Court.
Everything in the way of preliminary
business in the Democratic club is out of
the way, and the club will now get down
to real campaign business.
The brick men are busily engaged6urn-
ing brick.
The STATEsMAN's subscription list is
steadily increasing. II should be reSu-
lar weekly visitor to every family in the
county.
Miss Mamie Dawson. living Il few miles
west of the city, having passed most
creditable examination before the board
of examiners, was awarded the Peabody
scholarship. This admits her to the Pea
body Normal School at Nashville, Ten
nesSee.
aIr. Morwinchle of Oatmauville, one of
the most prosperous farmers in that sec
ton, reports the corn crop the best for
twenty years. Cotton will be the best and
heaviest yield ever raised in that neigh
borhood.
The Republicans are disguised with the
way things arc going OH here in Travis,
and will hold convention Saturday, Sep
TENDER the 4th, for the purpose of trotting
out simon pure county ticket.
The small boy occupied a front seat
down about the postotfiee yesterday. \
huge circus bill was the attraction.
The Rs have arrived and you may now
prepare to fish out a poor little oyster
from gallon of soup at church fairs or
some such thing.
Mr.. August Knetsch, the man wounded
| by the negro Fennin, is improving, and
| it is thought will be able to visit town in
few days and testifyin the case against
Finnin.
| 1t would have been impossible for a
| fellow to kick the mercury when it was
| down yesterday evening, for the simple
reason it was not down. On the contrary,
it was calmly loafing around among the
nineties, to the very great discomfort of
bustling humanity.