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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

All looked bewildered and frighten-
ed. With terrified chances they re
garded first Grignon a terrible de.
mon, who could exert over them any
power which he choose.
He advanced toward them.
They reeoiled.
He walked up nearer.
They turned and ran toward their
horses.
Grignon ran after them.
In frenzy of terror, each man
flung himself upon his horse.
Grignon shouted after them.
Away they went. They urged
their horses at the top of their speed.
Grignon followed them but short
distance.
Then he turned back and came
into our inclosure
"Gather up those bottles, I" said he,
"tackle up the cattle, and let us be
marching"
Instantly our men rose and obeyed.
Grignon took heavy swig. of
whisky, and then lay down in one of
the wagons, utterly exhausted.
We travelled all that day, and all
the next night, unmolested. Grigon
slept long and soundly. After rest
ing for a time We pushed on our
teams, so as to get as far beyond the
hostile Indians as possible. @
We saw nothing of them.
"Thcy won't dare to pursue us, "
said Grignon) confidently. "They'll
go back and tell such story as will
be the wonder of the savages for
many long year"
Grignon was right. Not only did
they not pursue US, but, for ali the
remainder of the year, and for all
the next, no travellers on this route
were molested.
81 don't see" said 1, chow you
to do those tricks on. the
open ground, without any table"
Grignon smiled. !
"Only clumsy performers use
tables, said he, 81 could have done
far more wonderful things, but they
would have been thrown away on
those savages. I'll reserve my good
tricks for San Francisco"
And so he did; for all the wiz
ards, magicians and conjurors that
have visited the Golden State none
have won such fame, or excited such
as my friend Grignon.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

GA POET" contemplating Genera
Grant perplexing his brain over the
"new departure" thus went off ovei
his appearance
"He smale CHASTITY smile,
And many a wink he wunk;
And surely it was no pleasant thing,
To think the thought be thunk"
JUST think of it:
If all the world was brindle pups,
And all the sea was chink,
And all the corn wouldn't make horn,
What would Grant have to drink
It's enough to make old Greeley
Scratch his head and think.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
sIurs on Woman.

Of all the evils prevalent among
men, we know of none more blighting
in its moral effects than to speak
slightingly of the virtue and chastity
of,our women. Nor is there any
thing in which young men are SO
thoroughly mistaken, as the low
estimate they form of the integrity
Of woman-not of their own mothers
and sisters, but of others, who, they
forget, are somebody else's mother
and sister. As rule, no person
who surrenders to this debasing habit
is to be trusted with an enterprise
requiring integrity of character.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is a general one,
and deep rooted. Ifyoung men are
sometime thrown into the society of
thong htless and leWd woman, they
have no right to measure all other
woman by what they see of these,
than they would have to estimate the
character of honest and respectable
citizens by the developments of
crime in our police courts. Let our
young men remember that their chief
happiness of life depends upon
their utter faith in women. No
worldly wisdom, no misanthrOpic
philosophy, no generalization can
cover or weaken this fundamental
truth. 1t stands like the record Of
God itself-for it 10 nothing less
than Jhis--aua should put so ever
lasting seal upon the lips that are
won't TO speak slightly Of Women
People Journal
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

AN Acknowledging it highly impo,-
tant a paper of the character of the
DEMocRGTIo STATESMAN should be issued al
once, We are compelled TO commence publ
cation on such old material as we could Sc
cure in the city but if our patrons will be
lenient towards Us, we will soon present them
with an excellent paper printed on new type,
and zone which shall contain much more
reading matter than the present number.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

RgDR. G. BEAUMONT, of Missouri, has
located and opened an Office in Austin, Texas,
and win treat all diseases of the Eye. He
operates for CATARACT, GROSS EYE or
Sqnint; PTERYGRUMS removed; ARTI-
FIOIAL EYES inserted. Doctor also treats
successfully EPILEPSY or Fits; RHEUMA-
TIsN, Neuralgia, Enlarged Spleens, old
Ulcers, Consumption, and CANCER in its
various forms. In addition to his OWE rem
edies for Cancer, the Doctor will keep sup
ply of the wonderful Cancer Cure lately dis
covered in Ecuador.
The Doctor can be found at his Office on
Bots d'Arc street-Mrs. HALLS residenee-at
all hours. July 25-twl&wl.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

is devoted to moral culture. temperance and
Masonry. and is certainly unsXeellsd by any
paper in the State for typographical eI-
ceIlence. 1t should be a welcome visitor in
every family in the State, especially with
the young. The Grand Lodge at its reesat
session at Houston selected the Tiaitor as the
exponent of the worthy Order of Masonry
in Texas. Terms, 81 IA year.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
APRACTICAL EXPLANATION

"Chsrlie, what is osculation?"
"Osculation, Jennie, dear,
Is learned expression-queer-
For nice sensation.
| put my arm-thus-round your waist.
That is approximation
You need not fear,
There's no one here,
Your lips quite near;
! them
ooh dear =
"Jennie, that's OSCILLATION
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

TIE FIRST BALE OF CoTToN.-Messrs. Focke
l. Wilkens, of Galveston, have received the
first bale of cotton this year, from Butter
WOrth's plantation, Colorado county. con-
signed to them by Henry Merschburger, of
Columbus. 1t classes low middling, weigh
ing $50 pounds, and was sold to Messrs.
Bingham Shepherd, brokers for T. h. Nc
Nahan & Co., at q cents per pound, gold.
Nessrs. Focke 4 Wilkens have forwarded to
Mr.. NerSchbergsr the premium, $500 in gold,
The bale Of cotton goes to New York by ex-
press. Galveston is ahead this year beyond
q doubt. % -,-:..5 -..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

Population of Great Britain.
The population of England and.
Wales by the census just taken, is
%, 700, 00o ireland has 5,4O0. 900.
Scotland, we presume, has il the
neighborhoOd Of 100000. me
total population of the Unit. + =
dom 90 ~ will not vary mucn from
80, 100000. This is 5,OOO.OOO less
than the population of the United
States. One of the peculiarities of
this census is that Ireland has lost
100000 since 1861. Thirty wears
ago.. in 1841, there were nearly
5000, 900 people in Ireland. So
vast falling off in that period of
time is unparalleled in the history of
nations. The emigration to this
country, which had been compare
lively small before then, set in with
an immense food, and there have
been few years since when not less
than a quarter of million of Irish
men have expatristed themselves
from the land of their birth. 1t is
one of the curiosities of modern civi~
lization that in large districts of Ire
laad the gentry of the soil have re-
moved their tenants in order to make
room for sheep. The man had to
give way to the brute creation.
There is a remarkable difference be-
tween the density of population in
ireland and England. Although
the latter has but twice the area in
territory, she has FIVE times the mum.
Der of people of. her island sister.
Of the two Ireland is probably the
more fertile. This difference is to
be accounted for by the fact that for
centuries Ireland has been diserimi-
mated against in all legislation by
England, and that every effort has
been made to build up the one at the
expenses of the other. England is
about the extent of the State of Mis-
souri,, yet it has as many people as
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
and New York put together. The
population of the British Isles has
doubled since the beginning of this
century. Seventy years ago France
had fully double as many people as
England, Ireland and Scotland.
Now, since the loss of Alsace and
Lorraine, the two countries are about
equal. This shows which is the pro-
gressiVe power. On the score of
alone Great Britain is en-
titled to hold a high place in the
confederacy of nations.
She is equal to France, and nearly
equal to the whole North German
Confederation. England alone has
as many people as Prussia, she has
nearly double the population of
Spain, is equal to Austria, and large
ly ahead of Italy. She has the ca
pacity, if she chooses to exercise it,
to put as large an army into the field
as any of the continental powers
Cincinnati Enquirer.
MRS. ROGER W. HANSON and Mrs.
F. W. Stone propose to publish at
Lexington, KY, Gas an appropriate
medium for the expression of South
ern genius in the departments of his
tory, poetry and general literature"
a monthly, to be styled the Missis-
sippi Valley Magazine.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
81, 100 taken by the Murderer.
Parties Arrestod on suspicion.


The deniEens of our usually quiet city kere
startled Sabbath last by most foul murder
and robbery, perpetrated on the night pre-
vious in the suburbs FROM the evidence
taken at the inquest, held on Sunday morn
ing, it appears that three men from Wise
county, Hiram aud Martin CArdell and -
Kimball, and another person, Joseph Philpot,
{employed as cook and driver for the party,)
came to this city on Saturday last, and
camped in the northern limits near Berlram's
store. The Caddslrs claim they had a trunk
in their wagon, containing $1,000 in coin
and $500 in greenbscks. Saturday night the
CAddells attended Busas' Garden concert,
where they remained till late hour, leaving
Philpot in charge of the camp. On their
return they found PhilpOt lying under the
wagon dead, shot through the body, the ball
entering the right breast, passing downward
and through the lungs, and coming out near
the spine in the small Of the back. A reyol-
yer belonging to deceased, cooked but not
discharged, was found by his side. The
trunk was found about. 3 hundred yards
distant, unlocked and uninjured, but riAed
of its contents. The testimony of the Cad
dells and Kimball failed to implicate any
parties. A man named Wilson, who went
to camp with the Caddells after the murder,
was taken in custody by Sheriff Zimpleman
The murdered man was aged about twenty
four years. His mother and a step-fathsr
are residents of Wise county. The two Cad
deHs have started for their homes, but some
later revelations-whOlly of circumstantial
cha racter, we learn-hAve prompted the
Oficiafs4o re-arrest and hold them over for
further developments. ... -.
We are informed, also, that reward of
five hundred dollars has been offered for the
unknown murderers of Philpot.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

TIE dry weather has about used up vege-
tation in this section. The corn crop is not
SO good as was anticipated, and scarcely any
vegetables are to be had at the market you
see few soft headed Cabbages and diminu-
tive cucumbers yellow with poison. Corn
is as general thing failure west of the
Colorado, but south and east a good yield
may be expected, at least an abundance to
supply the State demands with this staple,
Notwithstanding the dry weather. Corn
is selling in some localities south of this
at twenty-five to thirty cents per bushel, so if
We could be placed in direct communication
with the corn region, we could readily be sup
piled with this staple at low rates. Hurry up
the railroad.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

An onion was exhibited ia town day or
two ago, which measured six inches in d.,
ametef and little over eighteen inehes in
circumference, and weighed two and half
pounds. It was raised near this city. We
Z pronounce this pretty good sample of Yegeta-
ton for this dry weather.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

ONE of the institutions of our city is a
water wagon, with long perforated "narra-
tive" through which the fluid is permittedto
escape, as the wagon is driven along the street,
to lay the dust during the cheated term"
The operation of the machine is decidedly
suggestive of its design, yet visitors from the
rural districts do not always take the hint.
One day last week, as the sprinkler was
turning from Pecan street up the avenue, we
noticed man looking at it, with a face in
-dicatiEe of wonder and amusement. Just as
We passed he turned to a companion on the
sidewalk I'D exclaimed, "Wby that id
fool will lose every drop of his water before
he gets to the CapitollS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

WR are in the midst of the cheated term"
sure enough. We have had no rain since
the first of June, and the weather has been
excessively hot for six or eight weeks. Even
theeOol sea breeze, which is SO welcome
after sunset in this locality, seems tOhsve de-
sserted US. Such leng spell of dry, sultry
weather has been unknown in this section
fer ten or fifteen years as this we sre now
experiencing. tT---.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
TmE aYRFN.

"0ver the goblet, filed to the brim,
She sends n bewildering glance to him.
"OVer the sea of pink foaming wine
he reels in the light of her beauty divine.
Deeper and deeper she dreamily dips
la the rose-tinted wine, her rose tinted lips.
While over the glass she Airily laughs
A pledge which he eagerly catches and
quaffs;
And be drinks 10 a madness, wilder tina wine,
Through her smile, and her eyes beRilding
shine.
he drinks in delirium, and danger, and death,
8 over her goblet comes floating her breath;
As over the Aagon of rose-colored bliss,
She wickedly, witchingly, watts him a kiss.
Then laughing laugh, derisive and sweet,
She is gone while he kneels 10 despair at her
fPet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

VIZ would call the attention Of our read
ers to the advertisement, ''New Cattle Route"
The L, L. and G. Railroad offers several in.
dueements to stock drivers not possessed by
other routes. Those contemplating driving to
Kansas this fall would probably find it to
their advantage to correspond with the Agent,
L. S. owings, who has long been identified
With our State, and is well known to most Of
the old settlers of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

LAST Thursday Mr.. Fans, while engaged
in painting the int erior of the Baptist church,
fell backwards from ladder distance o!
twelve feet striking prone upon the floor
Though taken up more dead than alive, he
soon recovered and went to work again.
This was in the morning After dinner be
and fellow workman. in the same building
were upon g seaffold, when by the GIVING
way Of some portion of the structure, tL-v
were both Irecipitsted to the floor a distance
Of eighteen feet Mr.. Fans struck among the
beneb.s, two Seantling falling on him.
Strange to relate, with the exception Ofsome
pretty severe bruises, and an ugly flesh wound
on the head, caused BY the falling scantling,
he received nOzss<iOus injury, and the next
dsy was at work again. The other gentle
man was net injured.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

Qua friend J. A. Bonnet, just returned
from San Antonio, informs US considerable
excitement has been caused in that section by
the appearance Of Indians. A party of IF
teen or twenty of the savages stole lot of
horses from arancho within FIVE miles Of the
city few days ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

A FEW days ago, q colOred man named
johnson, was seriously if not fatally injured
BY the premature explosion off blast in well
east of Waller creek, on Pleasant Hill, il this
city. He was in the we'll, and while in the
act Of crowdlng pieces of rock with crow
bar into the cavity in which the powder had
beer placed the instrument "struck fire." the
spark igniting the powder. The clothing
was literally burned off him, from his waist
up, and his hands, arms and face were also
severely burned. 1t was supposed that both
eyes were destroyed, but it is now believed
that he will recover the sight of one of them.
BE il still in precarious condition. Another
person who was looking down into the we'll
at the time of the explosion, was blown a
distance of ten feet, but slightly injured
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

MEssRs. W. ]. s. SCoBELL & Co., are soon
to issue gratuitous paper in this city to be
entitled the Real Estate and Commercial
Guide. Such an enterprise ought to be well
patropized. And knowing the men who have
the work in hand to be practical printers of
experience in newspaper management, we
are confident q paper will be published
worthy of good support hy business men
here and elsewhere.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

New VERsIoN.-An Irish news
paper reporter gives the following
version, in Hibernian verse, of the
finding of Moses:
On Aylip's banks, contiguous to the Noile,
King Pharso's daughter wint TO walk
awhoile,
And, peeling off her duds to take a schWim,
Ran up and down the banks to dry her shkin;
And, rushing through the rushes, thick and
thin,
Discovered the bashkit that the child lay in,
And thin and there she cried, in accents
wild, ..
(which of yees ladies owns this child?
It's none O. yer own, ye're quick to say;
An that's the truth, I've know We no'ny a
day;
But since we've found him in this bed of
roses,
By all means let us chrisn him Howly
Moses
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

Who'll say Austin is not first class city
nova fashionable city we mean? We have
haunted house Over in the western part of
the city is.a residence where it is said the
occupants aSs seriously disturbed BY the
moving of furniture, ringing of bells, etc, by
unseen hands. His ghostship is indeed so
bOisterous at timer, that one or two tenents
have left the house in disgust What next.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

That once majestic stream the. Colorado,
: has about suceumbed to the heat. A
school boy can easily ford it now, and if we
are not blessedw with beuntiful rain soon, we
( shan soon have to say it has "dried up
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

&. 3 PIRsONAL.-We see by the olgria', pub
iished at Jackson, Mississippi, chat our old
friend Captain Robert JOselyn is spending
few days at that place.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

We have the best assortment OF material
in the city for doing general poster work.
Bring in your handbills, programmes and
dodgers and give US a trial,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
DIED

JpNEs-Ou Saturday, July q, at bis
fathers home, at Salaoo, Sell county, 2r. R
+. Jones formerly Of this city, aud oace C
paEiaeT e she GTm With BIZ Roberts
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

LET US organize County Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, and prepare in Time to
have fair next year. DO
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
TIE sUPERFLUOUs MAN.
BY JOHN q. SAKE.

long have been puzzled to guess,
And so have frequently said,
What the reason could really be
That never have happened to wed !
But now it is prefectly clear,
Pm under a natural ban;
The girls are already assigned,
And I'm a superhuous man.
These clever statistical chaps
Declare the numerical run
OF women and men in the world,
Is twenty to twenty and one;
And hence, in the pairing, you see,
Since wooing and wedding began,
For every connubial score,
They've got superhuous man.
By twenties and twenties they GO
And giddily rush to their fate,
For none of the number, of course,
Can fail of conjugsl mate;
But while they are yielding in scores
To natures inhexible plan,
There's never a woman for me,
For Pm superfuous man.
IL lsn In6L 6m cnuTIJ
To solitude over inclined
1t isn't that am at fault
In morals, or manners, or mind;
Then what is, the reason, ask you,
l am still with the bachelor clan 2
l merely was numbered amiss,
And Pm a superhuOus man.
Although am fond of the girls,
For sught l could ever discern,
The tender emotions feel
Is one that they never return;
IT'S idle to quarrel with fate,
For struggle as hard as can,
They're matched already, you know,
And Pm a superhuous man.
No wonder l grumble at times,
With women so pretty and plenty,
To know Fiat never was known
To figure as one of the twenty;
But yet, when the average lot
With critical vision scan,
I think itmay be for the best
That am a super1uous man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

TIE street car enterprise, it is thought,
swill be q success. 4U 20
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
will family paper take,
Both for my own and children's sake?
If snch there be, let him repent, O.
And have this paper to him sent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

FNH buildings are going up in eur city in
eVsry direction. 5ia-il.J
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01

% THR United States Court, now in sessic
has been doing considerable business.
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LOCAL MATTERS.

Qua city is unusually healthy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
CoLD-BLOODED MURDER.

Robbery Evidently the Motive.
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Iwant a wife, a first-rate wife
A girl that's all my own,
To cook my meals and cheer my life
With smiling word and tone
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-11-23
Home Industry.

It is mistaken notion by many people,
that it is the best interest of every one to
buy where they can the cheapest. To get
the most for their money seems to be the
desire of nearly everybody. This to GER
tain extent is correct, but to make this q
general rule is detrimental to the best in
terest of town. 1t should be the aim of
every one to aid and sustain as far as pos
sible the industry and enterprise of those
of his neighbors who are directly interest
ed with him in the advancement and i'm
provement of the place in which they live.
The person who supports his home paper
is doing this and more. He is giving aid
and encouragement to something from
which he not only gets double the worth
of his money in valuable reading, but is
also supporting an institution that gives
note and standing to town, and brings
in trade and money from all sections of
the conntry, and will accomplish more
towards growth and prosperity of COM
munity than any other one business in it.
We say then encourage home industry,
and thereby promote the general welfare
of all.-Home Gazette.