The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-09
Dallas has fifty retail LIQUOR sa.

ne DallaS races nave Dee0 post
poned until next week.
The state shooting tournament il
in progress at Denison.
I, Crop prospects around BastroI
: are reported not so good.
The Galveston folks want sum
: mer hotel built ON the beach.
{ A new toll bridge is to be bull
tacross the bayou at Houston. a...
S A Santa Fe railroad employee wa
4 seriously cut at Brenham Tuesday
Green grape pies are reported a:
} being ripe all over the country now
Fort Worth has received 42,651
bales of cotton since September LIST
J 1880. t.. .-..-.-...
J ., The Dallas papers call on the DO.
lice. to kill the surplus ours of that
J city. ''' 40
Fifteen horses were stolen in one
neighborhood in Lamar county last
week. -tas
80 w. II. COburn Appointment citizen
| of Palestine, died a few days ago of
theAEt disease. .-. ,e. :. 81. s..,.., DE-.
The TerdS Observer says it is "haz-
ardous to travel on the Central
roadn ...., ..-. ...,..-.....
e The Dallas Gazette is soon to be a
morning paper with the press DIS
patches. ..-... .-...
T. The. .Recie,o claims that Hemp
stead has several men who can out
lie Eli Perkins. 80 '"''
Miss Kintch, of Seguin, attempted
to kindle the fire with oil, and was
burned to death. ''' %. 's'" '-1'a-.
The Express reports that horse
in San Antonio had r.an attack. of
sunstroke recently. .,..4,ts .s.,a,' .8-t,. .
+" The THERMOMETERS has registered
1O5 degrees, at Meridian, Bosque
county, this season. 80 ....-.s..',,,. .
/ The stockholders have ratified the
lease of the International road to
the Missouri Pacific.
The Pamela Wdtctndn calls Pad
dock, of the Fort Worth Democrat,
an 'ass-right out loud, too. .-.s- IN
Mrs. Walker was divorced at
Weatherford one day last week, and
married again the next day.
Measles, supplemented by flux, is
the ailment that now holds the peo-
Egle of Alyarado in their grippe. !.
.Schulenburg has a new. passenger
depot, inst completed, which is said
to be the largest in the state.
The Houston Age nominates Sena-
/ tor Coke. as the next Democratic
candidate for Vice President. a..
A little boy was wounded by the
accidental discharge of a gun at the
Denison shooting tournament.
IL is expected that the Interna-
tionaI extension will be. completed
TO Laredo by the first of October
next. ..- .., ..rs .--.. -....s ..,,..
AtDallas, DIR. Childers, Democrat,
was elected an alderman for the
third ward, over S.. S.. Winter, Re-
publican, by 81 majority. IT,. .....
81" A German farmer was robbed of
$500 and watch, at Dallas, Tues
day. Four men were arrested for
the theft, but nothing recovered.
Two cars Of steel rails. Tor the
Houston q Texas Central have just
arrived at Clinton. The duty paid
on them amounted to $4,000
Waco Council of United Friends |
of Temperance has a membership
of $50, and is still on the boom. One |
hundred and sixty-seven were init
ated this year.
The Telephone says: "In some |
parts of this county farmers have |
found their cotton so choked with |
weeds that they have plowed it up |
and are going to take a fresh start" |
The Sherman Courier Chronicle |
says that not more than half crop |
of cotton will be made in Grayson |
county this year. Weeds and grass |
have taken the crops on many farms. |
Brennan Banner: of prohibition |
is adopted picnjcs and fishing par
ties will have to be abandoned;
snakes are very bad, and in case of |
q snake bite there would be no
snake medicine to be had"
The boweriaI Bowers is not only |
right on the goose, but he is IKE
rect" when he writes himself down
"hencefortlr and forever" against |
taxation Tor purposes of, general
free education. T., - - 81
The Waco Examiner says that the
Brennan saloonists did not agree to
close up on Sunday because of their
piety, but to see whether the aver
age Brenhamite can really GO twen-
ty-four hours without beer. .
The objection to the word ''hades"
is, that it is not expressive enough. /
For instance, how flat and inexpress-
i've would it sound for the farmers
Of North Texas TO say; "What Il
hades of q rainy and wet spell we
are havingp - -. 49,, Co.. =.
San Antonio Express. "Mr. Hoxie
has given the assurance that within
sixty days the International will
have, station sixty miles southwest
of San Antonio, and Laredo will be
REACHED some time in October. This
looks like business. -. ..,,. 49,.
San Antonio Express: :" Does
farming pay in Western Texas? A
farmer FROM 9Yorktown,~ i Dewitt
county, brought in one hundred
bushels of new, potatoes the other
day, and sold them for two hundred
ana twenty-five doliars.""' ~ =
Lockhart' Register: "The direc-
tors of the Caldwell County Agri-
cultural and Industrial Association
have pulled off their coats and rolled
up their sleeves with fixed deter
imitation of making their next exhi-
billion grand success and entertain
ing affair" -..-... -.-..---.---
Mexias Ledger: 5'We suggest to
the public that for town of the size
of, ours, we do more business than
any other inn the south. We have
shipped 10000 bales of cot
ton, rs one item ofibusiness, and yet
the town does. not contain 1880 in
habitants.m'y tan :. t..,,, -
A letter from Tom Green county
says: GAS to farming interests,
were never finer. Oats
have headed finely, and bid fair to
make sixty bushels to the. acre. In
fact, everything is booming on the
FARMS and we look forward to re-
returns" 40 i"'. ."a
Paul Bremond denies the state
ment published in the ,NeUs that
had beenpending look
ing to the sale of his road {the Hous-
ton East & West Texas railway, to :
the Palmer-Sullivan combination,
Bremond says he. will be running
his trains to Nacogdoches by next
January. is
Bowers, of the Pamela Wdtehm011, h
is awful mad at the STATESMAN. be- II,
cause it approved the fitness in ex-
changing his Wdtchnaa1s for geese Il:
That is the thanks a newspaper gets
for inserting advertising free.
Bowers thought we were rejecting IL
upon his utterances as goose gable, Ii
but he is, mistaken, and these
feather-weight attacks he makes are
decidedly Notifying.
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