The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-01

properly, will howl about it. The knock
Isl and knockee were both carpet-baggers.
Judge Chenoweth eonnot leave Texas,
unless the Legislature assent without va
eating his Office. His diving uncle tele- /
graphs Tor his presence in Kentucky. The /
Ae'cs doesn't say what will he done about il. /
The San Antonio Herald saws athe CITY |
pays the paupers no more cash. and copse- /
quently several of the female mendicants
ara having their winter hats trimmed over
instead Of purchasing the usual spring bon
net"
Bishop Garrett aud the devil had fierce
encounter in the stage coach from Ennis 10
Waxahachie. The little imp came out OF
the Herald Office, winch, the bishop having
now exercised, viii be more pious insti-
tuition.
Constable John Moore arrested ''Arkan-
sas" johnson in the cedar brake near Judge
Cobb's, at Waco, and while the officer was
examining the arms taken from the pris-
oner the latter dashed into the cane thieket
and vanished. 80
Joshua Cunningham, of kaufman, is the
coming Evarts Of Texas. A fellow was
sued Tor seventy-five cents. Joshua de-
Tended and his client had to pay $1.75 and
costs and Joshua's fee. It is Thought he
was fortunate.
Hon. Erick Smith, the admirable member
from Houston, is again in Austin, as we
are reliably informed, to make an invest
ment in this city preparatory TO becoming q
resident. We would be pleased to have
such an acquisition.
Civil war on small scale enliyens Gal
weston. The roughs stirred around in ex-
hilarating fashion on Sunday and enjoyed
rare sport, fighting women and children,
throwing stones and beating negroes and
guZzling mean whisky.
We have Just written an apology for fail
ure to credit a paragraph when we find a
Texas exchange with six different articles,
in its tasteful pages, each taken from the
STATESMAN. Two are properly credited,
and this is quite enough.
Last week It was onions that made the
San Antonio people cry, and now they
mourn for our illustrious dead. The term
of Hon. John Ireland has expired, and the
San Antonio Herald exclaims, go that
mine head were fountain of tearsl"
The Irish-American Association of our
city will hold a meeting to adopt resolu-
tions expressive of sorrow at the death of
their distinguished countrymaD, John
Mitchell, and the badge of mourning will
be worn by all members of the association.
We expect to turn over our column rules
in day or two, and gointo deep mourning.
The Jimplecutc will surely strut itself TO
death. A handsome woman in Jefferson
presented the editor with cigar, stating il
was bought for the handsomest man in JEFF
ferson.
The Herald warns people to beware OF
omnibus men at Galveston. A passenger
and trunk from the railroad to the hotel
must pay one dollar, and only fifty cents in
Dallas. Why not have man at the depot
to point out the street cars to unaccustomed
travellers
The Bremond Sentinel, observant rs every
sentinel should be, while standing at its
post, discovered the Jimplecute going by,
and described it as a gourd toted about on
a very bad pair of legs. The bluntness OF
the man from Blount county will now be
| illustrated.
The Dallas Commercial absolutely doubts
the correctness of our statement about the
probable transfer of the Beecher-Tilton
trial to Dallas. Verify this is wicked
world when so few things are as they should
be and when most rational surmises may be
questioned.
~ The population of Titus, Hopkins,
i Raines and Van Zandt counties has in
creased one hundred per cent. in twelve
months. There are few negroes, and these
are leaving the country. Farmers cultivate
4 their own lands, and buggy plows arc in
great demand.
In the fire at Granbury, the Vidette lost
$4,000, and Judge Williams a costly library,
Especially do we deplore the loss to which
our newspaper friends have been subjected
The indictments and papers of the criminal
docket were saved, a fact which may annoy
the possible inceudiary.
Rev. Mr.. Ditzler while at Denton heard
of San Marcos as the next place that mosi
needed his attentions. He is going to Sar
Marcos not ''because there is much watel
there" but because of the infnitude o
whisky that bubbles up through the time
theglin" of the Busy Bee.
The Rio Grande border, the 6entine
|, says, is finally abandoned to thieves anC
raiders. The Legislature would have pro
vided against the contingency, but sup
: posed the International would scare the
Greasers and Comanches and cattle thieves
beyond the Rocky Mountains.
The girls all belong to the Temperate,
. society In Kaufman, and they have prac
/ blCc0 NCIACSb uDot1uCuCc ~ AOuk ttlNt buCl
can smell it if boy even goes inside of /
bar-room. They say it gets in his clothes
So it does, but il comes through the skin,
, and the pretty innocents will not believe it.
A gentleman living on Pine street went
home the other evening bewildered by the
cold rain, and mistaklng handbook in hIi
wife's room for q stool, sat down on it.
There were no harsh words when she picked
: up the crushed box; no tears-sEe simply
raped him over the head with Q huting
iron.
Dallas people FIRE off their side arms al
! night when fire occurs, and honest people
! are afraid even to stick their night-capped
heads out of second story windows. The
, fusilade is substituted for the hre-bell that
Jefferson dreamed about. Dallas Is an
original town in all its extraordinary as
poets.
jefferson Is about to send Mayor Taylor
to New York to see that the subsidy bill i
accepted By the stockholders. Mayor Tay.
Tor is good man, and of admirable good
sense, but he will have his labor for biz
pains. Those New York capitalists ask ad
vice when they want it. So do other sane
people.
The Tyler DsmScrat says the very men
VINO are utterly unnJ Ior the position art
seeking seats in the coming State constitu
tlonal convention. The candidature ol
jackasses and Of secoEd class people vii
cause decent white men TO vote against thu
convention itself. Too much dead weight
of genius.
At Columbia, in Brazofia county, last
Wednesday, eight Of the white family, and
six negroes, were poisoned By using coffee
prepared By 3 negress. A negro man fur
nished the poison. Mrs. Sweeney and
Mr. Benefits families are the yictims
None viii die, though all are very sick.
They have relatives here.
However sheepish Gen. Lonestreet nav
feel, and properly, he has not gone, q
commonly asserted, into the sheep-raisinr
business. His focks, such as be has. ar
still driven about the dirtiest purIiens o
New Orleans, and are all black; and though
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