The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-22

IN good Queen Anne's reign, and that their
sole recommendation is fashion.
If one can't make a good humored or
witty reply to an assault, the proper rule is
to say nothing. If anger be evinced, every
body knows that the shoe pinched, and
then decency and good taste concur with
suggestions made by wise policy.
The failure of Col. Hibbler to escape the
clutches of his enemies in Mississippi is
greatly deplored in Dallas. He will soon
return, we sincerely hope, unscathed by |
those who would levy blackmail, or avenge /
legitimate results of a private quarrel.
Chris. G. Callan has become edi-
tor and a proprietor of the Fredericks-
burg Sentind. Very certainly the peo-
ple of Gillespie will have, henceforth,
a watchful, earnest, capable and honest
guardian of popular rights and interests.
young man in Dallas walked into the
wrong house, entered a room unannounced,
and Saluted lady, who quietly advanced
and called "brother." The young man
heard the sound of "brother'sn boots, and
Quickly left, not waiting to ask their num-
Der.
A colored man, named Joe Campbell,
was in Jail IN Georgetown for the murder Of
T. NJ. Brown, Of Round Rock. He had
been convicted, but was 70 be tried again,
when an armed body of men took him from
Jail and hung him some litble distance out
of town.
Rockdale doesn't intend to be annoyed
with thieves, and it is said that all the
ROckdale rascals are coming down to Aus
tin The people there gave one of these
fancy gentlemen two hundred lashes and
promised more if he reappeared in those
parts.
AIilt jackson, of Bonham, owns Dur
ham calf three months old which weighs
$40 pounds. We add the ten pounds to
account for gains since the Netcs left home
with the story and to prevent its raising n
row about injustice done the wonders of
| Bonham.
The inmates of the Marshall Jail were
burning a hole through the roof, through
which to effect their escape, when discov
cred by the sheriff. They are so confident of
going to a hot climate that they proposed
to be somewhat roasted when quitting this
awful world.
The Freie Presse of San Antonio and
alderman Teel are going to have bout on
the score of Sunday amusements. Teel
wants an ordinance prohibiting shooting on
Sunday within a mile and half of the
Plaza, and pleausure-loving Germans will
90 for the Puritan. =.
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to make the Constitution of 1S45 the basis
of organic law of Texas in 1876, and in
this none have spoken moro wisely than
Mr. Brown. OF course notifications con-
formed to the changed Federal Constitution
must be made.
The Bolton Journal says that ''the clause
in the present Constitution prohibiting the
enactment of an usury code should be OBJ
, liberated, and there the convention must
stop, leaving the Legislature free to enact
an usury law, or not, as the public necessity
or public policy may require"
The Observer manfully confesses that the
ladies of Rusk county out-spell the gen.
! tlemen. One gentleman was defeated by
his little daughter, and Mrs. Oder carried
off the prize, and is crowned vlctrix, and
everybody take off their hats when she APP
pears in Henderson.
The Examiner advises farmers to make
their own wine, as the mustang grape crop
, promises unusually well. 1t is said to make
: a very good wine, and the cost is only few
: cents per gallon. A gallon of the mustang
I would set the Examiner to bucklng, and il
must not be used.
The Dallas Herald naturally complains
s that colored prostitutes should be sent to
Jail when unable to pay fines, thus COMPEL
: ing the city to support them in idleness.
A workhouse would prove the best of re-
e formatories, and relieve overtaxed, indus
C trious citizens of great burdens.
= The Waco Reporter puts on its Sunday
o clothes and brass buttons and, coming be.
fore the footlights of the universe, sings
cherrily the pretty and witty verses of Miss
: Nettie Power Houston, recited by her be-
f fore the learned physicians of Texas wheT
: wine-bibbing in this blessed city.
Capt. Marks, of Photographic fame, has
{ taken pictures of Mccartney and the othel
counterfeiters. They will be distributed
over the continent, and appear in all the
l rogues' galleries. 1t is needless to say tha
the likenesses are faultlcss, as the faces art
It hard enough to have cracked the camera.
q 1t so happens, the Bonham Ners to tn,
d contrary notwithstanding, that the new
y editor of the STATESMAN never saw cop,
of Billions Latin grammar in his life
u It0que salts cOnStat the Bonham NeUs 8
+ trOmpe ct je battrdi OOtre caput GCec mon fist
e See Titus Livius, first chapter, first line.
Mr.. B. M. McNecl, of johnson county
was bitten by mad dog on Friday, anC
I went to Waco, where he used mad-ston,
:, in the possession of the Waco Examiner
: The stone stuck faithfully, and it is hopet
Mr.. McNeel will escape. The Examine
= needs that stone in the row with the Tell
. graph.
. Those innocent people sent out as cxcur
sionists from Texas to induce immigration
. were beautifully done for by a st. Loui
halter. Each took stock in q hat at $1.23
> It was plug hat, and the veracious chroni
=. cler of events says it was very, very old
:, It's pity Texas sent abroad throng so in
nocent.
:. Ennis and Waxahachie are about to G
L Al.
- tive capacity of their Touring mills. Gran
if is now in favor of the abolition of all stand
- ing armies and of world wide, eterna
= peace through the Intervention of Genev
= commissions and Ennis and Waxahachi
= must keep quiet.
n The Sulphur Springs Gazette is of exec
. lent temper, aud never gets mad unless il
:, honor be assailed, and therefore it is q mos
!. sensible and agreeable paper. But it cannC
= stand still when somebody said its editor
= uglier than the Bonham Enterprise mar
y The Gazette gets blue and sulphuTous, an
:. smokes like tarkIln.
= The word "Guadalupe" is a SPANS
= compound of two Latin words, meanin
: "wolfs tail, and the Guadalupe Times
y the VOLTS tail to Hon. JOHN Ireland
D. kite. We make this little remark beeaui
s the Times says it always feels bad If II
- STATEsMAN doesn't nave something TO 50
:, about it and Hon. John lego.
d The Examiner says Sheriff Raby has bee
s. greatly wronged by the STATESMAN. "
Il adopted and published Mr.. Raby's assertion
t, and recitals of facts and then gave those ,
Is the United States Marshal and must lea,
ID the matter where it rests. When Il
~ courts decide the question Of veracity "
cannot fan to be perfectly right.
p Washington county is disposed to have
ar free fight, and let everybody vote for Il
te candidate for the constitutional conventio
to supposed to be ablest and wisest. II this
Of done, Hon. John Ireland will be furiOu
Make Democratic partisan job Of the co
be stitutional convention, and IL It resul
De well, everybody will be happy
lie Herson and johnson bad q sudden qua
* rel near Gatesville, ard johnson shot de
It son through the body. Both were soH
ehouf - crfa1 q 1sftlo ard tha d,rro TTo