The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-09
OVER THE STATE.


Austin men are buying property
in Burnet.
The Reporter denies the rumor OF
small pox in Bolton.
The smallpox signals have been
taken down in Morgan.
Without crediting the present
years taxes, Medina county owes
$3.325.25.
The Athens Journal office was to-
tally destroyed in the recent fire at
that place.
Governor Hubbard has gone to
Virginia to bring his daughter home
from school.
A New York dispatch denies that
the Palmer-SullIvan company has
suspended work in Mexico.
In two years from now Jackson
vile will have five times its pres
ent population. The ArgOndut says
so.
Preparations are being made at
San Antonio to entertain General
Sherman, who Is to visit that city
soon.
Wyatt Williams, of Gainesville,
is much indicted man. He has
seventeen bills against him for cattle
stealing.
Peaches on some of the trees in
the vicinity of Victoria are as large
as qualPs eggs Strawberries were
ripe week ago.
Perry Haines, an old negro, while
on his way from Mlllican, Sunday
night, was brutally murdered by un
Known parties.
The Banner says a good many
planters in Washington county are
already making heavy advances of
provisions to tenants.
There is no excuse for 1dling now.
The railroad contractors are offering
S1.75 per day for hands and S25 per
month and board for teamsters.
The Marlin Ball says it is next to
impossible to get pure hogs lard.
and it calls upon the grocers of its
town to keep cotton seed oil for
sale.
Rev. Jacob Guyer, late officiating
minister of the Method dist church at
Quihi, Medina county, was adjudged
insane last week and sent to the
! asylum.
The Hampstead ReUie1C announces
its intention to live awhile longer in
pite of floods, droughts, small pox.
potato bugs and cotton worms, and
delinquent subscribers.
From the Posts special edition
according to the United States
census of 1880, the church member
ship of Texas was as follows Meth
odists, $4,000; Baptists, 125.OOO;
Catholics, 10000; Presbyterians,
$4,000; Christians (Campbellites),
1000; Episcopalians, 1000; Luther
ans, 1000. Total, 45S,OOO, amounting
to nearly ene-fOurth of the entire
population of the state"
st. Louis correspondence: The
Rev. w. E. Penn, or, as he Is gener-
ally known, Major Penn, the Texas
Baptist evangelist" is at present in
st. Louis, having come from his
home in Palestine, Texas, to pur-
chase a canvass tent $50 feet in
diameter, as The one he has is not big
enough to cover all the people who
drive every Sunday $50 and zoe
miles TO hear him preach.
He also proposes to build "nickel
church" III Palestine, and stated to
a st. Louis reporter recently that
Gould himself would not give more
than nickel, and should he offer
$4,000 it would be refused" So
far the ground for the site has
been purchased and paid for, $500
being the amount invested. There
is only $1,000 towards building the
$4,000 "nickel church." The major
said that the names of General Gar.
field and Jay Gould were on record
| Uuncle Daniel says that, as the
Houston Ageis a public spirited
and patriotic paper, it decided tc
save the legislature some trouble by
redistricting the state itself; and
having done so, all the salons will
have to do under that head is to ap
prove the Age'S plan. 1t says: "Oul
apportionment is eminently equita
BILE and just. 1t Is an apportion
ment to which nobody will make
any sort of objection. 1t meets
every difficulty, surmounts every
obstacle, smooths every roughness
allays every rivalry, dissipates every
prejudice and promotes every inter
est. The legislature, when it meets
can do nothing better than to adop
our apportionment, pass a vote o
thanks to the Age and adjourn"