The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
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4 WYNN Phchcrs get NlV per Thousand
pounds 10 Cooke county.
The 'assassins OF Lillian Frazee, shot in
the road some eight or ten miles from Dal-
las, bave not yet been captured. ,R1pi9ai =
Roekdale still receives many cotton bales,
and broom corn in considerable quantities
Is shipped thence to New York.
Capt, Kidd was shot five times by one
Blassihgame at Dallas last Monday. The
murderer fled and Dallas had sensation,
and that's the end of it. aaano 80 g5fnli
Capt. Martin of the Sherman Register has
gone 10 his old home In I.ebanon, Tenfes.
see. The lively representative OF the Reg
lister at the capital will now have full swing.
The Dallas Commercial says tearfully that
"hardly week passes that we are not
forced 10 chronicle the account of some one
being shot Why not hang the knaves on
the spot as you do horse thieves, aud pistol
carrying would soon be abandoned.
Dallas is ablaze. The Herald tells the
story under the giaring capitals ssHighway
robbery and attempt az assassination. y
Such little items, in the ID lIllas papers, ex-
cite the people and obviate the, necessity
for morning cocktails. There is no exag.
gerating the usefulness of the morning
press. q g1i lid iias ~ a@A VT
The mania for suicide RACES among the
loose women of Dallas and the doctors are
supplying themselves with stomach pumps.
If the law required everybody in Dallas to
tote e { one around in nlaca af Jolly .erAasssss,
th4z hanifh of aha -tnsrfn and Ian -iic
inhabitants would be greatly promoted.
The editor Of the PanoIa Wdtchmdis wears
a hat given him by q merchant OF Shfeve-
port named Zodiac. The Panola man, like
Enoch of old, was thus translated aid be-
came one of the s'signs OF the. Zodiac. !"
Enoch went up in chariot of flame and
10 lilac in little old-cranium cover.
Brigham Young has accepted the high
office of Grand Master OF the Oranges OF
Utah. Wouldn't il be well, since Brigham
takes charge of the Oranges, for Rutabaga
to take the harem. The people OF Texas
would not object to his immediate assign
ment TO any honorable Office, however re-
mote the scene Of his useful employment.
1t is said that I. J. Morris, the pliIo-
sophie grammarian, is coming down on the
Constitutional Convention in week or
two. He is now running lively classes at
Panola- A man may know grammar bat
must give the law wide berth and have a
holy horror OF railroads to exert the slight
est influence in the Constitutional Consen-
ton. Htf e3 II 4i %
The Rockdale Messenger SAYS: ssNIne-
tenths of the newspapers in the State are
lashing the Convention. Our intentions
are good, but is there not danger that. in
attempting TO convince some Of the leading
niImbsknlis OF their error, we may not make
them and their works so unpopular that the
new Constitution will be defeated. y The
Messenger is sensible, but fellow, never gets
chance to hold up. The thing gets worse
and WORSE every day. 7 o
The Victoria 4dpocate, referring to the
outrageous murder OF which We were tell
ing few days ago, says ''tbat Benton was
lonnd on Saturday morning with two bullet
holes through bic head at a camp iirusn the
vicinity of Clinton, and that the lower bali
of bis body had been burnt to a cinder un-
Ill nothing renamed but the upper part.
Mr.. Benton was sheep grower, and known
as 6 quiet, orderly citizen.v e s
Why don't the State far people get that
wild Texan, who rode sixty miles IN two
hours and forty minutes At the Waco fair,
20 come 10 Austin. His achievement II the
most wonderful on record. Countless
thousands are coming to see the Rutabagas,
and the good man branded with the right
TO vote will have 10 exhibit himself some
what unpieasantly, no doubt, but this horse
man will draw despite these other marvel
lous attractions just now blessing the capi-
tai.
]. II. Reecc and Tom Kecvil Of Rock
dale drank by mistake from a bncket 81
arsenic In solution. prepared u be used on
dry hides 70 keep Of insects. They dis
covered their blunder, emctics were admin
istered, and antidotes. and they recovered.
They were terribly scared, fact which
shows the advantage Of .accustomin1 ones
stomach 10 Dallas whisky. A Dallas man
wouldn't have squirmed once n he had
swallowed the bucketfull Of arsenic. He
would have engulphed dry hide or two
and gone about bis busin4s. There's nofl.-
ing like the progressive arts Of civilization.
you know.
7 The Southern Patron should know that
no two members Of the Constitutional Con-
yerfion are more earnestly and thor0aehlv
devoted 70 the duties assigned them a
members OF the Convention fI,ao Messfs
Weaver and Mclean. Neither of fbees.
gentlemen have ever served tie srhfgs,f.t at
in anything and both have condemnetl +, !.
but it Is grossly wrong 70 make peo.,le IL
lieve. because Mr.. Weaver WA oil dltv Two
or three days and Mr.. Mclean as nany
more, that therefore they should be anatb
matised. FIVE days labor of such r.,en 4.
worth that Of ffty who haven't oSsi,,s
enough 20 get drunk and wien ss,BefeSt -.
stupidest.
We can never like the Le5esr lea
because it sIashed bs nforetine: but e.
peciaily must We commend ia good sen.,.
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