The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18

- - e-."t NNlSt IN q railway. has
nattened himself out. For all that tie
road is made so crooked that a sober ,o 49,
motive can't keep the track, and il can
hardly be built.
The E<aOsit0r say negroes should be adj
mitted 10 theatres, and other parties not
connected with the theatre should knoclr
the black rascals down, beat them halF II
death and pay the fine for assault and bar.
terry. By pursuing this policy the law can
be peacefully evaded. That is the way
Grant and Morton and Ben Butler would
have it done.
Ore Of our State exchanges says the
STATESMAN doesn't seem to hike Judge
Ireland Ask the Judge. He is not dull Of
perception, and Ireland as he is, under
stands PLAN English as our critic certainly
does not. We have never offended or even
wounded Judge Ireland's sensibilities, and
nc never dreamed that we intended to dero-
gate from his worth.
Two hired bullies, named Quinn. assailed
the editor of the Denton Rsriegc He
smashed their pates, and was himself badly
beaten. But then he has the Infinite salts
faction, at least, OF bruising them, to his
hearts content, in his excellent newspaper.
Cowardly officers of the county or town
hired the Quinns, the Rcrieis says, 20 make
the brutal assault.
Somebody has run his fist down the throat
of the Denison Times, caught the thing by
the tail, given it an awful jerS and turned
it inside out. In any event ITS "patent
outsideh is on the inside tins week. We
don't know what the effect of tho accident
was upon the nerves and atmosphere of
Denison. Our dispatches this morning
may tell.
There must have been a mistake IN the
deal or too many bowers in the pack. That
convention dosen't assemble worth a cent
and the Legislature isn't scared either. It
was a pleasing little side scene of wondrous
modesty when our friend Bowers ordered
constitutional convention, even while the
Legislature issstiil in session.
The San Antonio Herald would print
certificates" too. at twenty cents per line,
just as we have done. Moreover, we would
tell the. Herald that Charley Ross is not edit
ing the Age, as many people suppose, and
II the Herald do not reform its evil practices
and insane modes of expression it will be
bored Tor the simples by the Medical Assoc
ciation which sits here on the seventh prox-
limo.
There will be six times as many Offices
and six times as many officers, and local
government will cost six times as much as
to-day il Titus county be subdivided into
six counties. These offices are already par
celed out, perhaps, among those who have
discovered such tremendous overwhelming
public necessity for the subdivision of this
little empire. However, it may be all right.
Il is we'll to be watchful, however.
Owls fit about in broad daylight in Co
manche, and then boot at night, and gather
great crowds at their assembly places.
They have no feathers, walk erect, look
wise, and constitute a jolly negro minstrel
association to delight the people. Harm
less amusements of this sort give great re-
lief to weary bones of toiling industry, and
seduce many from rum holes. The Owls
propose to create a circulating library.
People don't 60 to the front door and
open it at night when called out by I'M
known wayfarers over at Hillsboro. IL is
better for honest farmers and their wives to
go up and stick their heads out over the
top of the chimney. Strangers shoot at
open doors, and people inside are needlessly
exposed by the old-fashioned confidence.
One Myers amuses himself In shooting into
peoples houses in Hill county, and the
people sent HIM to Jail.
Waco has more dogs to make nights
lively than any Texan town, except Tyler,
and then Austin, the Mexican part Of the
city, has few hundred night howlers and
tea breeders. They are said to be good
condiment for tortillas-the feas are--and
the dogs themselves should 90 into sausage
mills. We often wish people would buy
more sausages. If the market were livelier
there might be fewer dirty, swapping ours
about the streets.
A gentleman, walking by the new hotel
IN Dallas, narrowly escaped learning tho
grave difference between brick IN his hat
and one on it. A negro, seeing the falling
brick as it was descending, knocked the
man down, and titus Cuffee became a sub
stitute for whisky" the brick in the
hat and there's one man in the South
who, even on election days, would take a
little niger in hIs'n. He owes his life, like
Radicalism, to Sambo.
The Cuero Star, commencing the wisdom
of Governor Coke, says:
1.-THE completion of the International to
San Antonio, ria Austin, and irs ultimate
and early connection with the Wet Texas
coast, is of incalculable importance aud adj
vantage to Western Texas. A new era viii
dawn for our beautiful country, and soon It
will be filed with labor and capital to de-
velop its rich resources"
The Longview Nelo Era condemns the
unutterable seldshness of the Bonham pa
pers. Moreover, there is that assertion by
q Bonham paper Of the compatibility Of
Others significant OF an impurity of atmos.
phere about Bonbam itself that does not
belong to the place. The people there are
famed for intelligence and decency and
good morals. How grossly they arc mis-
represented abroad by a coarse, vulgar
newspaper
On the evening OF the eighth, San Anto-
MO 'indignated" and ''cussed" and raised
49,, even Gen. Baylor asserting TO seces-
sion. But II is all over now. The LADIES
who appeared and applauded the General
have been soothed, and sleep bhssfully,
forgetful of wrongs ascribed as crimes 70
Governor Coke and the Fourteenth LeQisla-
ture. Twelve thousand square miles Of
land was mighty healing plaster to clap
on the old sores Of Western Texas. There
will not be q scar visible in q week.
One negro has been trying civil rights on
another down at Columbus. No. / was q
drayman; No. q barber. The first de-
manded a shave, and the second knocked
No. of his pins. He would have fallen,
but the hollow of his foot made hole In
the ground, and he stood ciYilly erect He
went before the court about IL, and was
fined $40 and costs, and 80 endeth civil
rights in Columbus. Radicalism should see
about it.
The Nescs locates the Texas correspondent
Of the Chicago Inter Ocean ut Galveston, and
the STATESMAN claims him for Austin. Di-
vide him botwoon ynn, gonflomont ne haEo
no use for any part Of such conscienceless
liar IN Houston. Telegraph.
If that dirty fellow were divided, a. pro-
posed, Galveston holding on 70 one and
Austin the other leg, the Telegraph next
after the Inter 0cean, would be the f0ulest
paper in America.
The Denton Repiep tells Of a gentleman
named Ventera. twho. " the ReDies says sis
not exactly all right socially" bot is q
trump when il comes toroad twisting. Now
this yenfuTesome Venters ventured 70 ven