The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-24

and twenty -four against any change IN tue
church rules against whisky guzzling They
can Just keep on in the same old way.
The .TImplecute says jefferson has the
finest market house in Eastern Texas, wilt
have cotton mill in sixty days and half 4
dozen iron fOundries and furnaces making
pig metal enough to iron clad the State.
The Ags says the straight Democratic
ticket will overwhelm all opposition in
Houston. The Radicals, it thinks, will
spring a ticket on the drowsy Democracy
lust before the election of the sixth prox.
They are going TO have a social club in
Georgetown, and great fair next spring or
fall, and a big Christmas tree for the
juveniles In fact GeoTg etOwn is progress
sire place, supporting model newspaper.
One Ira johnson, black, became irate be-
cause of mean whisky. got into a needless
row and was shot, perhaps fatally, last
Friday at Lampasas. Three or four negroes
were engaged in the delightful little muss.
A woman named Casteel advertises for
her husband in the Illinois papers. He may
he ''case-hardened, but should be touched
by the good woman's appeal. lie has been
preaching, we are told, in Northern Texas.
Waco wants lake in the public square
to supnly water for fires. AwinGmill is to
I'LL il from the Brazos; then Venetian gon-
dolas will dispOrt themselves on the pretty
sheet of water in the delightful city OF
Waco.
Judge Turner is now holding court in
Llano, and ali the lawyers have gone thither
from Georgetown, and the place is mex
pressibly dull. They have a concert lot
terry, too, in Georgetown, said to be good
thing.
Texas has expended from 1855 to 1861,
$491, GA for the protection of the Rio
Grande frontier, and the Federal treasury
holds the sum of $101, Is due to the Re
public Of Texas, and designed to pay its
debt.
The Nueees Valley is mistaken; il was the
Inter Ocean that said bill was now consid-
cred by the Texas Legislature, proposing
the re-establishment of slavery. No Boston
paper is stupid enough to print such an
absurd lie.
The Bonham Nelcs modestly lectures the
Leader on the subject of mOdesty, and the
Neaes doesn't believe that Paris, in France
or Texas, is the centre of the universe. II
should wait and hear from the transit OF
Venus people.
Almost every paper in the State thinks
that Austin should be aroused to a con-
seriousness of the necessities imposed by
the progress and plans of railway builders
in Houston and Galveston. Austin should
read the papers.
Rev. o. B. Caldwell breaches this morn.
ing at LAGRANGE, and the Nes0 Era will
catch the droppings Of the sanctuary. Rev.
r. G. Burleson lectures there tomorrow
night on temperance, and then the NefO Era
will be perfectly blest.
The Waco Examiner says commend as
to the Telegraph for an honest, outspoken
paper all the time" Now we do so com
mend, whether approving the Esami'aer OF
the Telegraph, we are not sure. In such Q
case we can afford to go in blind.
The Times says the Jimplecute is dis
pleased because it was stated that its editor
had been cheated by a Jeremy Diddler. The
story, as recited in some paper, was printed
in the STATESMAN in three or four lines.
We are glad to hear it is all mistake.
The fremont House, in Galveston, will
be completed next year, and then visitors Of
the Beach City can sleep above the clouds
at least get above the sand flies and horned
! frogs, and catch share of the sea breeze
denied guests of many existing hotels.
A memorial has been presented to Con
gress from the Houston, Trinity and Tyler
Railroad Company, of Galveston, Texas
praying compensation for railroad iron taker
| by the military authorities, for the use o.
the United States, at Galveston, in 1866.
The Dallas Herald sensibly and properly,
when speaking of the International Railroad
embroglio, says, ''settle honorably" Their
""'twere we'll done if 'twere done quickly :
The Legislature sits in January and the road
may be finished to Austin in May or June.
BRENNAN has shipped 10, O57 cotton bales
and is eager to take stock in the Galveston
& Santa Fe road-of course she is. It vii
/ double the quantity of cotton brought t,
that point, where it may have choice O
routes to the sea, and a choice of markets
The rates charged by Dallas commission
merchants are simply enormous. OncottoI
they charge from one to two per cent. pc
day, and five per cent. per month. Would
a usury law correct this, or is it a question
of greed, or Of abundance or scarcity o.
money!
Many of our country exchanges say they
twill suspend" during Christmas week
others will get out of their suspenders SON
tare;' others will keep their readers il
wretched suspense for the worlds new
through the weary days of newspaper
less week.
NortOn's IntelIigencer complains that Re
publicans do not support their organs. I'm
ike Norton's, perhaps, these partisan sheet
do not deserve maintenance. In fact, Rad
icalism in Texas meant spoiIs and plumber
and when the food subsidized, the party wa
wrecked.
There are three grand organizations o
bands of Mexican cattle thieves along tn
Western borders of Texas; one emanate
from MatamOros; another from Reynoso
and the third reigns about Carmargo. Thes
sometimes rob one another when Texans ar
robbed to restitution.
The paper that gives most news, loca
items and local news, is most valued by tn
itemizer of the STATESMAN, and it wound
his heart to throw one aside with the ejacu
lation, go five minutes lost hunting for :
nothing" and the paper goes under tn
table with q kind execratiOn.
The Courier is mistaken. It was sais
that in corporate OF municipal elections
il was proposed to restrict suffrage 10 pTop
erty holders. The rabble has plundere,
New York, and most other cities, and tn
South begins to suffer from black suprem
acy in many towns and cities.
UuCu jury ocAfAOC BOSo AASO 0cbuctuus
and judges determine the law and the facts
there viii be no need for the subdivision o
counties because jureFs have $50 far 4
ride" and the IIltetlIgencer won't rejoic
and the Obserrer won't weep any more be
cause Rusk county is threatened with sub
division.
Twenty thousand dollars, the Dispatc
says, are annually paid for whisky sold Il
Lampasas, and the county pays three time
as much TO King Alcohol as to King Coke
including all county taxes. Can't the Dis
patch cork up the whisly kegs, and appro
pirate the money to the construction Of
railway TO Austinl
Mrs. George Alfred Townsend, Gath
wife, recently extinguished the flames tina
envelOped her dress by rolling over on
woOllen carpet. II she would resort to tn
same means Of extinguishing the fires 0
G.. A. It's perverted genius, she woul
serve the country as effectively and wisei
as she saved herself