The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

zreat crowd was fred with his zeal and
reused 10 fury By his earHest ap2esls :. be- |
bali Of liberty aid right.
Al spocial 70 TIE Houston Telegraph tells
that Bob Smith-sspoly grmous
Bobn-he having several wives. who killed
DR.. Cooley in Anderson county, was hanged
By the people when he made q desperate
attempt to escape.
The Enferpriss says: '.At Austin, when
they wish 10 advertise a school, il is said,
they get the hoys TO dress a and parade,
and then invite the Governor out to inspect
them fuot their learning but their clothes),
and the work is done +"
Referring 10 the poverty Of Gen. Albert
Sidney JohnstOn's aged sister, the Enter
prise sensibly says: Better stop building
monuments 10 the confederate dead and
raise funds to feel tie starving Confederate
poora-o words 20 that effect.
Il IS said that the Legislature will be pc
titioned for 8 charter to construct a railroad
from OskwoOds, On the international, in
tersecling 81 Weatherford, in Parker county,
the projected extension TO Austin and the
Gulf Of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
When dead beat is overcharged with
whisky in Denison and at ell obstrOpolous,
they hang him up-by rail for the night,
and next morning there is big rent in his
trowsers, because the poor devil Is dizzy
ike, and will swing round and tear things.
Samuel Vail, agent Of J. N. Jordan &
Co, nurserymen, of st. Louis, took lauda-
mum, slept. and never walked up again, at
Gonzales last week. Yelled in mystical
beauty, the nurseryman has transplanted
his tree of life to the other side Of Jordan
s Co. 7svslos
january, 1875, there were 125 papers in
this State four religious papers, five indie
pendent, eight Republican and 108 Demo
cratic. OF our reading population over
seSen-eighths of them are Democrats. The
few Republican papers are subsisting on
party pap.
Mr.. O'Leary, supposed to be of the family
that kicked over the oil can that fred Chi
cago, is customs officer at Santiago. de
| fell from the side of British vessel and
scared shark out of the Gulf. The Browns
vile Sentinel says che was fished out, " and
the shark got away.
| The Thermometer went down to twenty
degrees above zero last week in Gonzales,
and the Inquirer shivered so that its face
was sadly blurred as it went through the
press. 1t finally ''froze out, ~ and is now
lively enough. 1t is thawing at last in the
warmth of Bishop Eliott's presence.
''Old roosters" are justices of the peace
in Jefferson. In any event the Leader says
Justice Cook is laying on his oars. A pad
die is curious thing to lag on, anyhow,
and neither Justice, nor any other cook,
should lay on oars. The Leader's Englist
is a curious 'lsy out
A friend tells US that severe cases of bleed
ing of the nose have been invariably cured
by inserting in the nostril dry strip o.
sponge. The sponge expands as it grow
damp, the cavity is completely closed, anC
bleeding ceases. Freedom of the flow o
thought may be generally obstructed Will
less difficulty, but a ''sponge" knocks both
The Denison Times tells that ''mal
came in mile of town this morning to tn
Nelson House and, when he got there, hat
both his ears frozen" You see they hav
patent ear freezers at Denison taverns.
great many asses will go there to get th
outward signs of folly swept away, All
Denison must grow rapidly.
The oakvilIe Tribune says the storehous
of s. w. Lewis was broken open, the SAT
taken out about 900 yards and robbed o
lJ5 COuDSulS, III I4O ulRuJ VI tue uinbu
There was in the safe between $500 an,
$4,000, of which 5000 belonged to S. w
Lewis, $500 to Pat Pughe, $500 to Pa
Sheran, $500 to Mrs. Ann Fox and Mrs
Gallagher.
The Texan postmaster at 6utherlan
Springs received letter asking where
Judge late of Michigan, elected judg
by the Republicans, ETC., in your district Q
/ - - -
penitentiary at Huntsville, in this State, an
is doing well. For the first time he is DE-
ling his county good and proper service"
The Mckinney Enquirer likes conundrums
and puts them after this funny fashion
some question is, who is King Alfonso
father2 Another is, who stole our axe froI
our wood -pile7 If the man who took tn
: axe will bring it back well sharpened, "
will tell him all we know about Aft, an
ask him no fool questions"
The stage coach plying between thi
place and San Antonio was upset last wee
some miles from Lockhart, and the distanc
was devoted by the weary legged passeI
J gers to the awful business of heaplng u
maledictions upon those who prevent tn
extension of the International to the Ri
Grande. Two elegant women went in VI
hemently.
A Bolton deputy sheriff rode over cour
try as big as all out of doors-broader tina
onnecticut-looking for one ''buces T,
cum mentioned in the subpoena. The il
nocent sheriff, after two weeks absence, II
ported to his honor that he found Jim To
rance, but she'd jis be - if he believe
any Dutchman of that other name lived
them dlggingsW
j I
q bismarck, our dispatches tell, stands b
the Protestant press in Spain and demand
its liberation as a condition precedent {
the recognition of the young Bourbon KIM
And since Alfonso is of this oily old BouI
bon stock he would be we'll received
Dallas and, failing in Spain, might do we
to open little royal dead-fall over here
Texas. We can take care of king or tW
more, besides Tom Scott and King Gallo
Galveston has another ghost This tin
nice girl ate cabbages for supper, an
walked forth in the paraphernalia of b.
bedchamber, sleeping soundly, and
moonlight and along the sea shore sprea
herself and CONSERVATION. When a hero
policeman solved the mystery the sour krol
factory tainted, the delusion was dissolve'
and Galveston again loses faith in Kat
King.
The BOnham Enterprise, in its carrier
address, describing the projections of DO
r ham, tapers off thusly: "Bonham is III
greatest city in all this land-it has Il
biggest court house (and fish on the Il
/ of IT., the finest Jail and suggest calaboos
the biggest merchants and learnodest do
r tors, and accomplishedest, derndest Lax
; yers, and wittiest editors, and the fine
ladies, and mostest fat babies, besides
3 new plank walk to the depot. Aust
( wants to emigrste to those parts.
y The Register says: There is great suffe
0 ing and destitution among the negroes
Sherman. Almost every day some case
great dIstross IL brongbt to our attention
: They live IN merest shanties, insufficient
I protect them from the rain and snow, al
: when they get sick are almost sure to die
hthe weather is lad. The worst feature
that they neglect their sick and allow the
to die for want of attention" The san
!, facts obtain here in Austin, and everyvhe
I inthe South.