The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-10-05
PEN AND SCISSORS.

In Mississippi collins are called
wooden overcoats.
Red River lands-prairie-sell at
Eve dollars per acre.
A Massachusetts firm makes 300
bass drums per week.
The Japs are going to Germany
to study military science.
Immense fires are raging in the
woods in North Carolina.
Twelve papers in Illinois have
hoisted the Hendricks flag.
A Tennessee hymn, popular at
camp meetings, has 841 verses.
The cars on many of the best rails
roads.in the West are lighted by can
dies.
A proud Detroit boy wouldn't take
two cents reward for finding pOck-
et-book.
Since the close of the war the
price of horse flesh has fallen 40 per
cent.
"The Infant Sons of Love" is a
young colored association at Rich
mond.
Luzerne county, Pa, has lost
nearly all its cats by strange dis
ease.
The Illinois Republican Conven-
ton has recommended general am
nesty.
Pride is increased by ignorance;
those who assume the most are those
who usually know the least.
A Missourian and his wife and
seven children walked twenty-five
miles to Kansas city to see a circus.
Greeley's signature on the hotel
register at Chicago is described as
resembling a field of Norway oats
after a cyclone.
The revival at Sulphur Springs,
which closed last week, resulted in
ffty-one conversions and sixty-four
accessions to the Methodist Church.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, in answer to
a friend who asked her why she
dressed so plainly, replied, 81 can af-
ford to do So" One of the sdvan-
tages of being rich, you see.
Some irreverent cuss says Horace
Greeley wrote his book on farming
under spiritual influence. 1t must
have been lager beer, for any other
spiritual influence would have made
it lively.
A patent has recently been taken
out for process by which goats hair
is converted into hair for ladies' use.
The article is so perfect that it is
difficult to distinguish the imitation
from the real.
Less than three weeks ago there
lived near Hampstead, Long Island,
three sisters, whose respective ages
we're seventy seven, ninety-four and
one hundred and two years. The
two former have since died, but the
still lives.
At an Iowa Sunday school the
was reviewing the
lesson, and was talking of the verse,
''Let your loins be girded and your
lights burning" He asked the
question, "Why are we commanded
to grid our loins ?" One little shaver
sung out, TO keep your breeches up.
Teacher: "Mary, dear, suppose 1
we're to shoot at a tree with FIVE birds
on it, and kill three, how many would
be left? Mary-four years old:
"Three ma am" Teacher: "No two
would be left" Mary: No, there
though; the three shot would
be left, and the other two would be
flied away!''
Chief Justice Chase being inter
remarks:
81 object to the term New Depar-
ture.' 1 think the Democratic party
have taken no new departure. The
change is simply return to the orr
ginal principles of Democracy as adj
vocated by the great founders of the
party, and does not embrace the Gre
alton of any new political ideas"
1t is said that three colored men
of this city have received commits
sions from Governor Davis to organ
ize companies of seventy-five men
each whose services are to be en-
ployed sin the preservation of the
peace" during the approaching cleo
ton. If this is true, the recent ship
ment of arms and ammunition to
this city may be accounted for
Houston Telegraph.
Describing the old town of Potosi,
in Missouri, the Missouri Democrat
thus notices an old building that
Texas pioneer built at an early period
of the settlement of Missouri:
"Among the first settlers was
Moses Austin, who afterwards found
ed the city of that name in the then
Republic of Texas. A prominent
relic of Austin may still be seen in
a large two story house, which is at
the present time tensble, although in
a state of semi. dilapidation. In its
palmy days it was one of the orna-
ments of the country, and was known
all over the Territory of Louisiana
as Durham Hall. In the foundation
may yet be seen the portfolios which
served as a means of defence against
the saVages who roamed over the
Territory and contested with bow
and arrow, tomahawk and scalping-
knife, the inroads of the white man.