The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05


bilious passions rise any more since Bishop
Garrett has been msaiiEg them with has
morally heavy fists.
Last Monday week was Santa Anna day
IN Mexico and all the s'Dalgos" and High
dalgvs" gambled away all they had of horses
and cattle and money.
About one hundred enIigrant wagons, the
Eele-tie says, 'passed through Stephepviile
last week" We infer that it is GOOD
place to pass through.
The Age says: ''The Brazos river is some
what swollen at Waco" Cause why, we /
reckon, its been beaten over the head By /
some absurd alderman.
The Gonzales Enquire hopes for the /
largest cotton crop, by all odds, known
there since 1860. A bale and half per
acre will be common.
The substitute for Col Leader, in the |
latter's absence has clean gone daft about
the charming Miss Patterson, who rests for
a time at Hot Springs.
Several Texas newspaper conductors
have been reading the Popular Science
Ngaf6Ly'S article on ants and learning how
to destroy these pests.
Copious showers of last week rescued the
corn crop about Tyler from absolute annihi-
lation, and the people will make enough
for home consumption.
One of the legal fraternity was in sad
dilemma yesterday. When we saw him he
had evidently taken both horns of it, and
could hardly see straight.
AlIigators are still loafing about Water
street in Jefferson, patiently expecting to
MUNICH the editor TO be knocked on the
head there at an early day.
They are going to widen the pavements
in Denison. -Four people have been bitten
there by mad dogs, and they want space to
pass one another in safety.
People in Stephenville would build bet
ter houses, but are kinder scared lest rail
| road come along in ten or fifteen miles of
| the place and tote them off.
Judge Seimering is circulating petition
in San Antonio to try to get hold of the
| postotfice to the discomfort of Judge Gam
bia, the present incumbent.
The Guadalupe Times boasts of its 'sirrl-
eating advantages" and often "wets its
whistle" necessary because it is always
/ blowing" for John Ireland.
Rev. w. H. D. Darlington has closed the
meeting at Bastrop. The Adoertiser and
the rest have been greatly comforted, ana
many have joined the church.
Denton ice houses were not pr rperly con-
st1ucted, and the frozen fluid has gone back
to first principles. 1t wants to be ready to
serve Keely's motor, We reckon.
''As we 60 to press, says the Granbury
Vidette, "a glorious rain is falling, and
trade is active since the price of water
melons has declined to nothing
A few months rest has harmed the Er-
dminer in nothing, and its republication has
wrought thorough revolution in the con-
duct and appearance of the Reporter.
Last Monday, in Bosque county, Amos
Smith was assassinated near Iredell by one
Wood, who was exceedingly intimate with
Smiths wife. They will hang Wood.
Dallas will ship 80, 900 cotton bales and
2, 600, 600 bushels of wheat this season, and
thus 1t seems the prospect of funds for
whisky smashes is still brilliant at Dallas.
The Salado Netos Letter emigrates at once
to Rockdale, and will be printed along side
of the Messenger Rivalry will improve
both, and both are excellent newspapers.
Bob Wood shot at Jim B. Jones' Friday,
at Caldwell's store, in Willis. jim was
drunk, staggered and escaped. Bob was
right-Jim would have killed HIM with a
knife. ..-a ..-.
Col. McWhorter, of Denison, is moving
his herd of 1000 cattle toward the Round
Timbers, so saith the Echo; and, further,
that DUNG the summer so, 900 cattle will
follow.
Peaches grow to perfection and great
juiciness about Hearne But their color is
not so bright nor are they half so juicy
and toothsome as some of the pretty girls
over there.
Montague people have such glorious crops
that they are all going on a bender to Oil
Springs in the Indian Nation. Greenbacks
and oil always make the world and things
run smoothly. A'
1t is very strange, but W. W. Spivy, OF
the Henderson Times, offers that excellent
and prosperous weekly for sale. Mr.. Splvy
would devote himself exclusively to the
practice of law. - .-.a..
Several pretty girls from Hearne are al
Lanpasas, and all of them are anxious to
visit Austin-the most beautiful place, they
have heard, that the sun shines on its jour
ney around the globe. ts
Texan Jack, notorious horse thief and
murderer, stole coat last Saturday, in
Mckinney, and after terrible fight fol
freedom was consigned to prison, and will
serve Ward, Dewey & Co.
Doctors down at Columbus often cam
tell whether its the mumps or mosquitoes
that have bunged up fellow, but it's un-
mixed vanity that puffs up the Telegraph
man. He just swells dry so.
The sAppeal talks about the ''absurd de
lectations" of the STATESMAN and Telegraph
The STATESMAN has ever been happy anC
especially well pleased with the course o
events and every way delectable.
One Richard G.. Keil, a convict, wa
killed at Houston, the other day, by one o
. the guards, while trying to escape. vii
liam Glare, Que of the penitentiary guards
killed himself about the same time.
The citizen who told his ambitious. dis
contented wife the other day that the bes
! watering place he had heard of was tn,
washtub, has been starving steadily eve
since, and uncomplainingly, on hash.
Where rains have fallen about Dallas tia
farmers are planting sweet potatoes. Thcs
NAV he sliced and drie, and shipped Il
Europe most prodtabiy. Que farmer neal
Dallas has 100 acres in swey. potatoes.
The -Aye speaks OF the worst case of jim
jams on record when it tells that the 7ele
graph "has cows in its boots" 1t require
several COWS to make pair for it, and it il
badly cowed at this present writing.
The fields about Mineola are as parchet
and dry as the throat of Dallas bumme
hefore he sOothes his matutinal thirsty an
guish with a ROSTERS caudal appendage
, sometimes called cocktail for short.
Houston Powell, James Powell, William
Burt and. John House are charged with th
7 murder of the pedagogue Smith, not ia
f from Gonzales, at Burnett's school house
: The two Powelis were held TO answer.
The Item, at Huntsville, is about to ''peI
t J out Cause, penitentiary birds don't tax