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

The Gonzales Inquirer is offered
for sale.
Bastrop seems determined to have
q railroad.
Farming prospects throughout the
state are reported good.
The LAGRANGE journal has en-
tered upon its third volume.
The new courthouse of Wise
county will cost $50, 425, and is to be
completed by November 1.
The Galveston Journal says it had
a young man in its Office who was
giving to punning, but it properly
fired him out.
The Age thinks the Democrats
will hold a convention for the pur-
pose of putting municipal candi-
dates in the field.
4 valuable buggy horse, belong
ing to DR.. w. z. Green, was killed at
Mountain Home, by some miserable
wretch, unfriendly to its owner.
Brennan is holding railroad meet
ings, and negotiating with the Santa
Fee to secure the construction of the
projected branch to the pine regions
from that point.
Texas has SO far got $4,000 in
the river and harbor bill, with the
ship channel in Buffalo Bayou,
mouth of BraZos and the Neches,
Sabine and Trinity rivers yet to be
appropriated for.
With thirteen votes in the electo-
raj college, and twenty-six III the ma
tional conventions, the Lone Star
state will command greater respect
than heretofore from her sisters of
the Union.
A negro woman, In Corsicana,
named Laura Hall, was frightfully
cut and carved by Tom Bradley, col
ored, in fit of jealous rage. The
culprlt was lover before the mar
riage OF the woman.
William Denek, a shoemaker liv-
ing in Cleburne, played high-ball
poker, lost seventy-five dollars, took
eighteen grains of morphine, and,
despite all attempts to save his life,
died at 8 o'clock Friday.
A Laredo correspondent of the
San Antonio ISmea pays a very high
tribute to the ability and the ora
torical power of Colonel j. p. G.
Whitehead. He is engaged i'll the
case of Charles Smith, ON trial for
murder, whose trial is to be removed
to Nueces county.
Brennan Banner: We learn from
the LAGRANGE Journal that the rela-
tives of Harrison, who was killed
last week, while attempting to break
Jail at LAGRANGE, when requested to
take charge of his body declined
having anything to do with 1t, and
it was buried by the county,
Last Monday night during the
storm woman living near Good
rich, on the Bremond railroad, was
killed by a falling tree. She leaves
five helpless children dependent en-
tirely upon charity for support.
All contributions sent to Mrs. No
Ian, at Goodrich, on Bremonds
narrow gauge railway, will be
thankfully received.
General Santos Benavide-, repre-
sentative III our state legislature
from a number of Rio Grande coun-
ties, writing from Laredo, recently,
says: Putting aside the tropical
products of Mexico, the coffee, SUI
gar, cotton, tobacco, rice and other
cereals, and the mines of coal, iron,
lead, copper, silver and gold, there
is still vast field for enterprise in
that country-destitute of factories
of all kinds, fer the rattle of the
grist-mill, the whirl of the thresh-
ing-machine, the swift turning of
the cottOn-gln, the roar of the fur
mace, the noise of the rolling mill,
and the resounding blows of tbs,
trip-bammer - for coal and iron
abound CONTINUOUSLY, and III mex
haustible quantities, and their pro-
ducts are in great demand.