The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-08

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T. N, now Of the Age is IN ecstacies
over the pretty public park of Denison- He
wanted 70 get up Grange right in the
middle Of il, but all the materials were not
handy.
Denison's school house, built by private |
enterprise, cost IS, 600. Can't Austin emu
late this public spirit It is infinitely |
cheaper than bonds at seyenty-tTo and one
half cents
r. N. says the wealth and population of
Northern Texas grows with tenfold the
rapidity Of that of Southern districts of the
State. People are pouring in from the
Northwest.
Owens and Warren, Of Hillsboro, had
street fight. The first was killed instantly
and the other wounded. Warren and his
brother and q Mr.. Franklin were all pat
under bonds.
The Pamela Waterman saws the man who
talks Of ejeeting Governor Coke from office
before the expiration of his term, will wish
she had never been born" It is our opin-
ion he hasn't been.
Paris has a court house costing $40, 600.
The same sum in a cotton mill would give
homes and bread to the poor, and virtue
and intelligence to the many, and wealth to
a community.
An exchange before US, the most readable
by all odds of the whole number, has six
teen paragraphs and articles copied from
the STATESMAN, and the word STATESMAN is
not in the paper.
A party out hunting, near Pamela, sepa-
rated, and a Mr.. Appleton, also hunting,
seeing the bushes shaking, fred, and shot
B. NJ. Fite. The wound is painful, but
not necessarily fatal.
The Houston fair directors will extend a
hearty welcome to all visitors of the city
during the coming fair, and the Telegraph
RHWPPssth1 mRsReiHthat i66Rnder '-ii
The Hunnicut murder trial is dragging
its slow length along in Houston courts,
and though the Judge is an admirable Off
Ger the lawyers are fighting terrible ''bat-
tle'' in the court room.
Vice President Wilson will meet ex-Gov-
ernor A. j. Hamilton at Austin. The health
of this latter gentleman has been greatly
improved, as we are happy to learn, by his
sojourn in San Antonio.
The Texas Patron, published at Crockett,
is one of the most tastefully edited and
published weeklies of the South. Every
Granger at least should see it if only for
the beauty of the newspaper.
| Corpus Christi is going to incorporate it.
self again under the general law, and OF
course isn't Corpus Christi any more.
| We've heard lawyers talk about corpus de-
Licti and reckon that will be it.
/ The Lampasas Dispatch would have the
unwieldly, costly and useless public school
system kicked out of the Texas Constitu-
ton, and then out of the State, and SEN
| aibln and honapt ono oubcfituta6
A brutal butcher delighted bloody mob
at the Victoria market by baptizing rat in
coal oil and applying fire to the animal.
It's terror and pain were eminently pleasing
to men baser born than the rodent.
The E1aR1iner should know that when
the STATESMAN suggested that Senator Ire
land furnished all the brains for the Quad
alupe Times, it did not intimate, even re-
motely, that the Senator did very big job.
The Bryan appeal fears that the Age
while dashing about unfortunately twill
upset the whole planetary system" There
can be no harm in it. Naturally enough in
one so 'Small it sticks to the "milky
i way"
The Eraminer is pleased to approve the
STATEsNAN's suggestion affecting the doc
tors, and says is we are to be dosed to death,
let it be done by masters of the art. Let
none practice who are not examined and
licensed. I'
The editor of the Baptist Herald evidently
thinks w. j. Raines a ssbad egg.'' This
may be true, and yet wicked plot may
have been "hatched" to rob him that other
''birds" might befoul his and feather their
own nests.
The Jimplecute wants the new peniten-
tiary located at Jefferson. It should be
done. Then the sJinpleeute will be just
outside, having escaped by the skin of its
teeth when charged with the murder of the
Kings English.
The JSmplecute tells that jefferson is
crowded with visitors who went thither to
see Queen Nab. The Jefferson show is sue
cessful, but have we not seen enough Of
\ Queen Mabs and Mardi Gras absurdities and
waste of money!
And the 4Sgus has got it bad. It says
s'Col. John William Henry Brown endorses
the principals eliminated in Governor Coke's
message" No man can run newspaper
who does not know exactly how to use
those nice little words.
The Cuero Star urges the organization of
society in every civil district in Texas for
the enforcement of the Constitution and
laws. Andy Johnson would be so electri-
fed with delight if this be done that he
would make Cuero his home.
Lawrence, on the Texas Pacific, grows
i apace and will be large city. The coun-
try is rich and doctor there has nineteen
children. There is not grogshop in the
place and its population is the best of any
town on the railwaY line.
Gen. ]. W. Barnes has removed his Office
/ frotset fTorfo ~ .Cfbakkoro,r-n n
counties each impose a tax of 500 on
foreign emigration agents, and therefore
the General himself emigrates, setting a
good example to photographers.
The Gainesville Gazette has a correspond
ent who absolutely believes that an old
gentleman in that vicinity has at last dis
covered the methods of nature and can
convert carbon into diamonds. He has a
hatful of rubies, amethysts and the like.
Tie Henderson Times SAYS it never init
mated that one Of the Cabinet of Governor
Coke sought Office under Governor Davis.
The other paper named, If we recolIect
Alright, referred to the Times as authority
for the statement. There is nothing in it.
Theinfamous, hideous, base ball nuisance
has seized upon Galveston again, and Aus
tin breads it as do gulf coast cities the ad-
NClb u yCnOM. ldChs NC MOutu luuulLeiY
prefer the spelling matches or velocipedes
anything but Beecher- TiItons and Queen
Mabs
The San Antonio Express says " there is
trouble in Austin because its mayor sold
some city bonds for seventy-three and
half cents to Forster, Ludlow & Co., who
disposed Of ahesa g is-htx-lix cents The
a-'sIi.0Ts SsDIpty unused more value into the
bonds" fasast re6
The Lampasas Biispatch says the eight.
dollars PER diem was given members Of the
Legislature when greenbacke were at dis
count Of thirty per cent. and vet no
statesman" Of the period except this that
now discDurses, has urged the reduction Of
salaries.
The rumor is current in railroad circles
that Tom Scott wants to buy the Tnterns-
tional. It's good thing, and big thino.
and since Tom Scott is q man Of brains ana