The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-29


the migratory boy to return home. She
Will Kill the fatted calf if somebody has |
not already done so by knocking George un |
the Uranium. Address T. L. Mitchell.
River Hill, White county, Tennessee. and |
thus bless with hope and sunshine the
evening of her days.
Austin will soon boast of the most bssu-
tiful jailor's residence and Jail that ex;s,s
in the United States, and now a courf hon,e
worthy of these structures and CONSTITUTING
a lesson TO capitol-builders, must be rearrS
on the same square and in front and to the
left looking from the Capitol. The Mar
shall Herald boasts of its Jail, but would
not if il had seen the Austin prison.
Peter and Paul never heard a church
bell, and therefore there is a Texas preacher,
of whom the " Ciristidn Messenger tells,
who won't preach when q bell announces
his coming. Bells are thus unscriptural :"
so with railroads, and that brother could
hardly afford to ride u mustang when asses
were kept outside of pulpits IN the good
old time.
Col. w. B. Lowry proposes tn. make an
aoueduct and supply Cleburne with excel
lent and abundant water; but the people
won't take stock il seems. II by some
illicit distilleries Col Lowry could sell all
his pipes would hold at twenty cents per
glass. It's curious, but true. People love
to be killed.
To save the trouble of writing letters and
give, at the same time, more information
about Texas, send your old neighbors and
friends in the older States the STATESMAN.
Send us the address of those to whom you
would have the paper transmitted; but
don't forget the subscription price. 1t is
always paid in advance. Everybody will
be so grateful for this little suggestion.
1t is a curious way of putting it when the
Rev. p. w. Graves tells the innocent peo-
pie of COmanche that "by permission of
Divine Providence will hold protracted
meeting at DIR. G. w. Montgomery's school
house. Come, brethren, let US eat all
the doctors chickens" We are not told
distinctly what branch of the business Di-
vine Providence is expected to have u hand
| in.
The special reporter for the Telegraph,
who asserted in his dispatches from this
place that nobody was hurt in our late
street fights, must belong to the genus
pachyderm alta, and, while his head isn't
his hide must be thicker than that of q
rhinosrhenos. A war club in his eyes,
doesn't begin to reach the dorsal sensibili-
ties of an Austin Avenue first class tsti-
cuffer.
| From the way the newspapers talk about
1t and people buy it, it seems certain that
nobody knows how to get about IN Texas
without Bryant's Railway Guide. In fact,
| it is just as fashionable to have one of these
pamphlets beside you in railway train as
it is to have your dress gallassed back tight
about the hips, or your breeches, if you,
gentle reader, are OF the male persuasion,
as loose as petticoats used TO be.
An ordinance of San Antonio declares
that cows shall not wander about the streets
of that ancient city. There are milkmen
in the board of aldermen, and they know
it is not safe for cows to go loose about
| where there is so much water. And the
cows over there swallow considerable fish,
and the people have got tired pulling them
out of churns and having them flop around
in coffee ut breakfast. 1t is uncomfortable.
Why may not dozen or two families
and several pretty girls and nice bottles and
cigars have a day of blessed GOODNESS and
forgetfulness of all care, about the big
spring or in the great cave at the base of
Mount Bonnell2 Wouldn't weary gath
erer of news and commentator on current
events in the worlds history enjoy it, and
won't those good people let him know
when they are going9 The Sunbeam in
vites us.
Boston has been in a devilish good hu
NOR for some time, and is full of soft solder
and milk and ice cream of human tender
ness towards the South. But Boston will
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Antonio Herald and sees that McNasty'
saloon, in San Antonio, is called ''the
Hub" The Herald so called it, we reckon,
because there is an awful hub-bub there
every night.
Major Con. Rector, who was killed few
days since in Sherman, has many warn
personal friends in this city. In converse
ton with one of them we are led to believ,
that the statements of the Northern Texa
papers do not give tho deceased that justic
which is probably due. He had lost, by
certain failure in Sherman, a large gum o
money, and this fact had probably built NJ
enmities against him. While terribl!
passionate man, he is said TO have possessed
most generous and noble impulses.
We ventured to say, without knowing
them, that the denizens of the village o
Palmer are wide-awake and intelligent ant
cultivate their farms we'll, use subscribers
and made enough this year to feed them
selves till after the second century o
American independence has dawned upor
mankind. The reason for this opinion o
these people consists in the simple fac
that they know good newspaper wher
they see it, and all of them read the Waxa
hachie Enterprise.
They will hang people in Texas for hors'
stealing though the law does not require o.
approve it, and then when a fellow kill
another the law says his neck must b,
broken. A negro in Marshall killed an
other and then was fool enough to steal I
horse to get away. Between the crime
the greater was the latter, and he must b'
doubly put to death, and the people, il
such case, not knowing what to do will
the musty black villain may turn HIM loose
1t looks reasonable and Texan.
A man named G.. A. Lee, of Plano, ha
been having two wives after him in Dallas
We don't know that he was paid to do thi
in Dallas; but for the life of us we can't Sc
how everything happens 10 happen in Da
las. It's enough to make an average ''local
go mad with jealousy. Lee and tue tende
females went all the way from Plano to hav
that almighty flareup in a Dallas tavern
and the Herald man is dancing hornpipe
of ecstacy about it.
Fellows somehow get turned around so i
Dallas that the Herald is always telling
them where to find the postoffice. Or,
may be that the town grows so fast that III
COMPOUNDED thing keeps getting showed OF
into the country. Dallas swells mightil
and has the big-hesd, and then It drink
some and again the postoffice is shove
away out of town. Hence the Herald &c
mad about it and said ''the impression ths
the postoffice has been moved is false" It
Dallas that moves, and Texas should /
boastful Of Its pluck and energy and publ
spirit and jolly newspaper press and dant
houses and costs" and all that.
There's no telling what a Texas woma
{ won't do. She is charming who conduct
the Fort Worth Standard She bears thi