The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-17

advanced thirty per cent. in that State, and
yet a lot Of adventures ask Congress TO re-
place the yoke of Radicalism upon the
brawny neck Of Texas.
The valley Of the Rio Grande, OF a eli
mate as mild and genial and soil as fertile
as the best of Italy, is still almost wholly
untenanted, and only because no railway
line has penetrated this most attractive and
delightful portion Of the State.
AsSherman policeman was clapped into
the calaboose at Denison, aud Crooks, of /
the Sherman Courier, escaping, returns 10
his home, snd mildly observes that Deni-
son mot Crooks is the fastest place that I
ever s. went under his observation. 4
The Granbury Fidstte tells that theyouDg
lawyer who Ma, fined twenty-five dollars
for carrying concealed weapons defended
himself most ingeniously and then settled /
there, anaily took 10 the bottle and went /
to perdition, and then to Mexico.
One hundred thousand cattle viii be
shipped this season from Texarkaua to 4
the East. Towns in Arkansas and Ten
nessee, even Chattanooga, in Tennessee, /
and Huntsville, Alabana, draw their sup 4
plies CT beef from Texas, as formerly from |
Kentneky. SOS s.ni Brs yl.falor7 Ms |
The Denison Times speaks OF a Methodist |
oyster supper that village, We've heard |
Of 'hard-shell Baptists, but never before |
Of Methodist oysters, and never before was !
il intimatOd that either sect waslat ali tishy. |
The Times is likely to get into hot water |
spHnkled or immersed.1i iu ir5g sdt j
( Moody, of New jOrieans, Of shlrtless |
fame, proposes to name number of the /
streets of Galveston, and erect the needfuld
signboatds. Each board win have figure
Of father Adam, as given in Innocents
Abroad, shirtless and o. Moody investing
him with the needful garment. ' s.s..i.
Coleman Younger, the prince Of thieves,
caught at last, proposes to prove a clibi in
some fifteen cases of burglary and robbery.
In each instance the innocent Younger was
somewhere else. Younger, unfortunately,
has been too ubiquitous, and his fingers
have been as light as his legs,.aasu.5I ~
Every Texan newspaper urges upon Con,
gross the necessity for the improvement Of
Galveston harbor. II needs to be land
locked and the barber cleansed to be
deepened- The whole country, betweenthe
Rocky Mountains and Mississippi river Is
interested in the eonsummation. .lsiN8m
Texan newspapers, with almost perfect
unanimity, urge the election of John For
syth to the United States Senate. uiWiil not
tbel4 Alabama Legislature listen to the voice
of Texas, many of whose citizens love the
land made known and honOred everywhere
by the genius and taste Of John Eorsyth9
The Geofiyetown DeBi6erdt earnestly advo-
Gates the Immediate construction Of the
Aastih and Paciie Short Line Railway II
Austin does net adopt measures TO defeat
results Of railway Construction, and OF rsil-
way non-eonstruction, the trade of the city
and value of property VIII soSn recognize
the two calafnities ~ ~ ''i H"il ,sft2lot
The Galveston Mercury says the Calves
ton Ee4es is s,publie scold, e0masanis
sitdtrit the old lawyers, of Sir Edward
Coke's time, used to say, The punishment
was public duckfng and there isn't water
enough in the bay to execute the sentence.
Strangely enough the Bess is dong its
utmost to deepen it. !; -.
| The people of Arkansas intend to have
BFimstone Brooks, Clayton, Uriah Heep
Dorsey and Poker Jack Mcclure parboiled
several weeks in Hot Springs We would
add to this stew pretty kettle of fish from
\ Texas, o scaly LOT, who signed the memorial
to Congress asking for tho overthrow OF the
\ present Texan government. .i,.t.1 tre.,
II The, BRENNAN Banlora adopts the cash /
systemF and subscriptions and postage must
be paid in advance Dext year for. all news
papers, Publishers can't afford 10 pay post
age and at the same time give away their
papers. The latter with poverty could be
endured the former would reduce printers
to worse than hopeless beggary. tiiHah
Dallas will soon have to TOost lower. If
its papers don't pay, how can the nascent
city prosper or become attractiveg And
| yet Col. Mcclure says he quit the Herald
t'to devote himself to more lucrative en-
plOFment. ~ The first duty Of a growing
| city, that proposes to remain prosperous, is
TO sustain well itrepresentatIve newspaper.
The last tremendous puff for Dallas tells
Of grand hunt, on which Col. mccarthy
has concentrated the energies and wealth
OF twenty-five English noblefneh. Each
is to spend $1,000 ($500o) in Dallas, and
| Dallas even now grows happy over this
7 s125, 00Oto be layished upon the happy city
| by the hapless British 1873 gag s'al ,'af
/ The hobby Of the Bonham Iegcs is the
International Railroad relief question.
When its passion grows weary of intensity
4 of action, ,itsreason may be invoked. The
simple question is whether the good faith
of Texas, added to the value of the COM
pleted road, are not, worth niore than the
i dollars and cents which, honest, compliance
with contract win cost.
~ The Bonham Eelcs tells its readers not to
4 forget the debt OF gratitude to tlie Missouri,
! Kansas and Texas road since it compelled,
by compositions the reduction of rates on
j the Texas Central Bopham and the Asses
should not forget that we, too of Central
and Western Texas, would have like behe-
4 factions at the hands Of competing roads.
Nay we not have the international fex-
tended s--just 2 littleS = .r1ns 4 a. aIss
/. Mr.. Wm., Edmonds,, of Alabama, for the
Il past year an editor OF the Waco Adrdacs
because OF the testofation OF white suprehl-
d acy, returns to his old home IN AIabasiAo
n The attraetiveaess Of Texas, icoRfessedly in
the Northwest as in the South, results
from the indestructible supremacy OF, the
white face within our confines. Mr., Ed
7 mondsi IS one oE those whOnWill see that
sAlabama lakes nolstepl backwards. sl1sw
4 oaTlrs Sulphur Springs Gazetts says that
such is the number Of Texan railways, and
the diversity Of their interests, that there is
no danger they can control the coming
q convent5on, 81 any future Texan'legfsl
4 bodysh Multiply nthese roads, andlWe nul-
tiply sources 0f safety. Perfect the system
as begun, and Texas becomes, within ter
years thereafter, richer and more powerful
4 than New York y 9TfiHt eeI NJ the +
The Bongview Ned Ira knows al about Il
i now. Ddnbar and Harley have been lee
turing there and the EeW Era says Of table
n tipping and other like: I'VE will say 70 thos'
not believing In IL that st. IS reality
but the working Of natural laws and not !
bspiFitual manifestation " e fully tested tllg
subject.i and new understand she laws tBa
produce those wonderful manifestations
consequently We say what We DO say,
No personal cards denunciatory Of n
disidusls should be suffered, At any price
10 sppeaE ipsaneWspaper. u the peTzou Be
sailed aFenge the wrong he,sh0ulIl kin thl
man who gives publicity 70 deuupcistion
, and not the comparatively innocent write
who can only do harm By using the neWspa
per. Therefore nsWspapers, eycFywhefe,n nov
refuse 70 print cards like one which appear
I In the Eat Ttszas B,EIetin.