The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-19

pies teeth with cast iron. It's b,og peo'
that does 1t. seAyor
The Richmond Enquirer reco,,n,,
overland" swimming in preference tai.
old underhsnd style, as far more stras. ...e
where there is danger of drowning t :, sN1
side resorts, from the undertow, and i "a
perior also for physical development, ~
stroke being more powerful and rama
The San Antonio EEprsSs saws every nov ~.
San Antonio practices this lode ot swim.
ming 1: is the Indian way and the swim.
mers can overcome currents and swim faster
tha . by the old underhsnd style.
The Austin SfATKsMAN does think law
yer can be a Christian, the Grunge Reporter
to the contrary, notwithstanding, aud it is
this Reporter that is striking put wildly"
an Il should now strike SRs its absurd as
sertion The reporter says in another
place that Mr.. Josephus TAYLOR, one of
our most successful farmers, gave us REM
edy for kidney worms in hogs" We haven't
Any kind of doubt that the Reporter will be
Immediately relieved, and then it will think
better of the STATESMAN
Col. Edwin w. Mooring, the special
partner and representative of n. Van Bell,
Of New York City, is perhaps the most
famous and trustworthy of American i'm
porters Of pure wines and brandies. lie is
now in Austin en- route to San Antonio.
Hereafter the New York House will have
always special agent in Texas, aud the
Southwestern headquarters of the great
LIQUOR establishment will be in Austin.
Legislatures and conventions will soon dis
tribute the fame and brandy Of the firm
over ell Texas. 'st73 Hi sI,t
Mr.. ]. w. Kidd has uneaIthed a bold
stream two miles from Dallas, which he
proposes 10 turn into the city, that the good
people may have soma faint recollection OF
the uses OF the aqueous fluid. We have a
river-bright, clear, sparkling and beauti-
ful-and are to be supplied with water
drawn from 1t at point below great
drain, through which the garbage and filth
Of nearly half the population is swept down
to the stream. Dallas may not boast of
purer morals but of cleanlier habits
and people than Austin. But this may be
. mistake Who knowsl
II the postmaster at San Antonio is not,
he has been in hot winter. Last Friday he
was made a witness before the recorder to
show that Mrs. Bronson's house was. not to
put too iine . point on it, disnrierly, etc.
ETC., and Mr.. Gambia wanted to go forth
but they wouldn't let him, and he had TO
swear he had been there to get cigars and
the like lighted, and that good drinks are
kept, and that the waiter girls are very
nice, we reckon. The Express thinks it u
good joke on good man; hut we can't
hear Mr.. Gambia's roars Of laughter at this
dim distance. CIR GJr-
Some time ago We published card stat
ting that Mrs. Martha Kirby had reason
to believe il possible that her son, whom
she had not seen since his infancy, thirty
years ago, still lived. Other papers pub
lished the same story, and now both mother
and son are discovered; and since Waco is
the abiding place Of the aforesaid Mrs.
Kirby, and the boy is hourly expected over
there to greet his long lost maternal ances-
ness the meeting. Maybe that's what's de-
tainlng his Excellency over there.
The last ku.klux story comes from Jeffer-
son, and is told by the Leader Of three
darkies employed on the Texas and Pacific
Railway. Two came home TO Jefferson as
sorting that the other had been murdered
and they hardly escaped The sku-kluS. 1t
was suspected that thoy shad-killed their
friend, for forty-seven dollars he was known
to have taken with them. They confessed
burned the house to conceal the crime.
But the supposed dead negro wasn't killed,
and has reappsared. 3 He was only knocked
on the head. But big ku-klux joke was
thus sadly spoiled. sss.A s'-ii -.'t 3.
/ Frank, Duerr aud Fridoline Dudly. had
the misfoftune. With unaccustomed stou-
achs and without being copper bottomed,
to enter common Dallas hash house and,
- -. a.. ri
spasms and convulsions, and then into a
| syncope and died. some call it sunstroke,
but it's only new name for internal con
vulsions caused by indigestion. The blood
and food damned up mashes the BRAIN
The jury and doctors over at Dallas had the
intestines aud stomachs OF the poor fellows
made profert of, and that's ali they could
make OF them. They then slept on it Il
night and will report to-day.
We do not think that the Republican
element in Western Texas will remain in
fatuated for any. extended period with the
Federal government as managed by Grant
and his, Postmaster General. Practically,
| all needfnl mail routes have been either dis
Continued or trips are iessened IN number,
or so changed that letters and papers arc
sent by common highwayaen who often
Il RItANALo.
about out west. Newspapers have hard
time, and subscription lists are rapidly de-
stroyed by failures to receive papers paid
for and great wrong is done publishers and
people. rass -5.sfllsd gftiEFoiinIi gfzil ~ 80
The Messenger should know that we sub
stituted the singular for the plural, 10 using
the Roman poets line, Intentionally, and AZ
the Messenger thinks we have no THE
loa 81
accessible, let il inquire Of the liu0uisf, Dr.
Collins. of Hempstsad It,was only one
mountain (mons), and very small one
we reckon, which groaDed and howled
when Enoch first cav the hight, and the
people should know that this Is not the
Enoch that aES.azed ~lpnnkiud by the splen-
dors Of the ehafiot fine of his genius, and
the mons A1orans or Parfufiens was not
a-Breeding. 80 -
= The Goliadr Guard, ~ the mouthpiece Of
Hon. John, psblishes q deal OF nonsense
but now and then IL deserves commenda-
love Of Texan history and keep alive
memories of local historical facts. II ia
then wise, and does the country infinite
| service. IL now proposes to publish an ac-
count Of the opefatIons Of the Army Of 1885,
In Southwest Texas, for Texan inGspen-
denee, and = full and authentic relation OF
the bloody massacre Of Col. Famine com
mand. 1t Goliad, In 1880, written BY the
late DIR. j. III. Bernard, an eye witness OF
what be tells. The Guard begins these
pnblicationsin September, and every Texan
should read the siory. y -
X. 8. Woody, justice Of the peace over
at GatesvilIe, says he will give &3i5 for the
bodies OF -, ID, and L. a. Olive, or half
the sum Tor either Wouidnt their scalps
90 a. Welt Not Ssfy far away, and only q
lev days ago. man Who had betrayed q
cattle thief vas drawing an iDnocent Pat
lander out o. 2 well The murderer saw
% surmised what was coming up and bidel
bis time. The bucket, with the Emeraider
within, appeared &C the sarfaee and the
man 81 the windiass fell dead. The bucket