The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

he siaps himself he bounds forward as If
lourneying unto the mountains Of Hepsi-
dam. I
Lightning, when it strikes fellow over
at Denton, converts him into an lash hsap. 1
Anyhow, addressing fellow thus knocked
over, the Denton NoEitor saws q Peace To 4
his ashes" II makes a fellow feel ashv |
when the flashing bolt falls at his feet and
to this extent the AoRstor knows how II Is
itself. -
And now Dallas is getting good, and the
Methodists have prayer meetings every
morning at $50 O'Clock. 1t keeps them
straight all day, and the good effects are
witnessed and confessed everywhere. Moth.
ing pleases Texan patriot so much as these |
occasional evidences of moral reformation I
in Dallas.
Trlchina in hogs are produced by feeding
the snimals on the filth of towns, and |
bacon made from swine grown about the
streets of a city is often full Of deadly,
poisonous animalcules. The ieas on tile
exterior are bad enough, but trchina With
in fellow play fantastic tricks with his di-
gestion mills.
Rev. DIR. Brush is the new pastoral broom
at Lawrence. He sweeps sinners princi-
pally before him. and makes considerable
dust aud much noise 10 the world. He is
deluded and entrapped in none of the cob
webs of wickedness, and letter-writer
says his godly congregation doesn't carry
concealed weapons.
Jefferson. Dallas, Fort Worth, and IIous
ton have societies organized to buy home
for jefferson Davis, and Austin does moth
ing. Why is this thus What has be-
come of those earnest friends of Mr., Davis
who Rugged him so closely to their gentle
bosoms when he was In the city -? Where!
oh! where are they
A Luling fellow, half drunk, went over
to Richmond and fourlshed around with.
| a double-barreled shotgun, threatening pee-
| pie after the approved Luling fashion. A
decent gentleman was about to shoot the
| Luling adventurer when another interposed
and Luling was at last quoted. The -Four
Counties tells the story. a
The Pamela UidtcAD,aa, after the candi-
dates for the constitutional convention were
nominated, went to ball at Center, and
is still dancing in the liveliest possible
manner. 1t thinks the prettiest women in
Texas swing corners around Center, and the
incest fellows IN Texas had things in q
swing in the Center convention. l--.
The dullness of the times and emptiness
of the city treasury at Georgetown are both
relieved by free fights that prosper over
there. They are uncomfortable per-
formaDces, and those public spirited citi-
zens who thus amuse and enrich the public
deserve public support. Why not make
Ward, Dewey & Co. take care of theml
A youth, whose father and mother never
had money enough to pay for newspaper
to instruct their children in the ways of
the world, was blown skywards, near Cor
sicana, last week, while he was pouring
coal oil on few Goals to klndle a fire for
his mamma. If the sad parents don't take a
paper they should now be "blown up"
The editor of the Immigrant resolved to
serve the people and have his paper con-
tain that which people most wish to know,
has traversed his county in all directions,
and tells of the crop prospects in each, dis
trict. He sums it up by saying that no peo-
pie were ever more perfectly blest, and
Navarro county is richer than lis people
ever hoped to be. '.4ae4 81
The Waco R5gister asks, 'Is Waco de-
clining?" We answer that perhaps it is
only reclining lazily, these sultrya summer
days, on the level plain by the river shore
When harvested crops are gathered in, the
fat man of Waco will resume his wonted
weightiness, two tons, and the idullness OF
the town will be dissipated in evaporation
which will cool immensely. 4. slooan .,
A remarkable incident, illustrative of the
value of the newly discovered malleable
glass, is told by the Team. A horse ran
away with light vehicle loaded with glass,
and no single part however delicate or in
flexible, was broken, though the vehicle
itself was utterly wrecked. We don't know
that this glass was exactly malleable, but
that's the riddle propounded by the Team.
An old citizen of Comanehe tells us that
the county will make twenty-five bushels of
wheat per acre this year. He adds that the
corn crop will be sixty-five bushels per
acre, ninety bushels of oats, and bale per
acre of cotton, though not great deal of
cotton is planted. The people believe in
beeves, cows, sheep, hog and hominy, with
fine horse to look after the whole layout.
The Cuero Star stands still to ruminate
on the woes and sufferings and death of q
man. 1t is impelled to this solemnity by
the fact that dead horse with saddle on
it, was found in the road dead near that
place. The Star might have quoted By
ron: (O I e7lih1foni :
There was an old boss he laid in the road,
And in bis hip bone there Eat toad;
He raised his voice to the woods around, II
Hark! from the tombs doleful sound"
The Frontier Echo is a new sort of up
) roar that thunders over hills and plans
about Jacksboro. 1t carefully collates the
local news and must become very popular.
Its local discusses dust, feas, lawyers, mos
: euitos, potato bugs, roasting ears, court in
session, iced drinks and hash houses, and
then it exclaims, lone more rain and
farmers cribs won't contain the corn y
growing in those parts.
Rev. John L. Lovejoy has given the Den
ton church big bell. 1t will ring the
praises of Lovejoy through many coming
years, and when its clear, soft toHes echo
over the country, and thesu rises brightly,
as is its wont, over Denton, this melody
will be diffused with golden sunbeams and
make his generosity as brilliant as the days
are beautiful, and as the tones of the bell
are full of divinest harmonies. 7ag 10 ?
San Patricio boasts of the most entcrpris.
ing population of any town in Texas. Bust.
ness being somewhat dull down there and
trade inactive, the merchants and people
formed building and loan or life insurance
association, and plowed up the place and
planted it in corn, which now conceals the
houses from public view. The stage drivers
down there are happy if they leave the mail
in five miles of the right PLACES, rSan, PA
tricio is invisible. lsa.s .ss,r l.,s.s
The Jimpleeute says scarlet fever Is cuved
by giving warm lemonade with gum arabic
dissolved in it. He also Keeps q cloth
wrHng out of hot water on the stomach,
, which is removed AS fast, as il gets cold,
We haven't any doubt about the JiDlPle's
medical skill, but we would like 70 know
if Just little Of "suthin y else isn't added
to that hot lemonade, and whether the hot
application may not be made just as well tc
the inside of tie stomach
A little boy ten years old, not FAR from
Corsicana, cultivates, to support himself
and widowed mother, six acres in cotton
and four in corn, the mother ana himself
making besides a garden. His net PROF =
| this wear will nrohably be 5000. And vet