The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-29


The Denison Neles has decorated itself
with q well drawn woodcut Of Denison's
handsome public school building. Deni-
son may well boast of this evidence of
prosperity and intelligence and taste, as
well as Of the possession of its progressive
newspaper.
Rev. A. +. Clemmons, most eloquent, 1
earnest preacher, has stretched forth his 1
LongviAw. He may endeavor TO gobble /
Dallas next. There is no task of moral /
effort, however Hereulean. which he dares |
not undertake.
They are discussing the necessity for an
other Tap road down in Guadalupe. 1t
viii be broad gauge, and designed TO draw
of hamlessly, If possible, the surplus van
ity of our excellent friend Senator Ireland. |
Cerebral tapping is the latest term in sur
gical literature.
A negro at Honey Grove had finger bit |
ten by colored brother, aud it swelled so
alarmlngly that they had to amputate it.
There were sixty seven layers Of grease and
the like on the biter's incisors, and thus
they knew his age, and therefore the dan
ger of such bite
Mr.. DAVIS, of San Augustine Ranch, has
one Yearling AIerino buck whose fleece
weighed twenty-seven pounds and four
ounces. We were never very deeply in
volvcd in the wool trade, but that looks
little like a fellow might he - worsted "
who gave it credence.
Prisoners in the Dallas Jail made an attempt
to escape on the twenty-secOnd, but were
! discovered in time, but the people are not
exactly satisfied about it. 1t seems when a
dozen or so get out the sheriff just gobbles
an equal number of people anywhere on the
street, and it is all right.
A letter writer from Lick Skillet, in
Bastrop county, describes for the TriJua6
the residence of Mr.. Sass. If the sass were
good article we don't see why the ''skil-
let" should not have been clicked" or why
people will talk sometimes about barbarous
names for Texan villages.
A colored man, formerly soldier of the
Ninth Cavalry, murdered "a colored man
named Hall, on the fifteenth, at Fort Con-
chO. Negro morals are much improved by
army life, Western papers say. Anyhow,
they don't vote Sd lavishly, and the world
approves CufTee's access to the army.
Murders, rapine and robberies arc still
practiced along the Rio Grande, and the
orders and messages that pass from Sher
man, through Drum, to Gen. Ord, are in
dicative of orders that may set drums beat
ing through all the towns AMI cities and
villages of two nations.
Mr.. ]. w. Judd, of jefferson, had his
hand and foot wounded by the explosion of
a glycerine can, which had been used for
drinking water from for some time. 1t had
soaked into the tin we reckon. We have
seen people on the Avenue in that fix any
how-soaked through and through.
When you see a negro in any of the
Southern States with an old carpet-bag, a
paper collar and brass spectacles, you may
be sure he is going to the Legislature
When you see him with couple of Sara
toga trunks, gold watch and chain, and
eyeglasses, he is just going home.
The Selma Argus says that the Austin
STATESMAN sis the most ably edited paper
in Texas" The Argus has the greatest cir
culation within the confines Of Texas, of
, all publications emapatIng from other States.
Therefore the practical good done the
STATESMAN by the generous assertion.
, Waxahachie, the Enterprise tells, owes
$50, 500, $36, 900 of this for a court house
! unproductive capital and dead loss to
society. It's a pity the people have not an
equal sum in a cotton mill. There would
be no beggars and no poor women driven
to vice or children educated as rogues OF
idlers.
Three Jail birds tried to escape from the
Paris Jail on the seventeenth, but theil
aoings were clipped and salt was put on thel
- bruises made by officers in effecting
their arrest. 1t is mighty hard to get fig
ure of speech to run through two or three
, sentences without becoming tiresome or un
ruly.
r Birds of paradise fit among tht
trees, build their noets oysery Tnere IN tn'
~aOuiDs uT austin, and displaying thei
/ gorgeous plumage and glittering in the
s brilliant sunlight, they seem to await I'm
/ patiently the budding of gorgeous blossoms
Y they would outrival IN splendid colorins
and marvellous beauty.
: Pious people in Rockport take their poo
8 dies to church. 1t is very proper, too,
! since they have no babies to annoy the con
gregation, and dog is an improvement OF
b babies to the extent that f1eas, in a warn
climate, make him very interesting, and HI
! always totes his own cologne in very no
weather.
A row occurred in Dallas on the twenty
second, as happens there every day, between
: a grocer and an auctioneer. A sack o
flour was the cause of one belligerent hav
= ing his eye frescoed in glowing colors, ant
9 the other had his thumb converted int
: Bologna sausage by the other fellows out
= rage mill.
e An egg was presented to the Denisol
Neus containing within it diminutive egg
. which was perfect, having a hard shell
The egg, Immersed in another, ant
! having 5. hard shell, must have been o
). a Baptist hen, and yet it is the circuit ride
! that is chIcken-hearted when springtim
comes, gentle Annie.
Two strangers were sent snipe hunting
. and left out in the wet all night holding
n the bag, and all Terrell will sit on the shad
A side of the single street of that blesse'
town to-day and make the window-pane
> rattle and welkin roar while each tells th
story to his cachinnatory neighbor Tel
n rell is lively place now.
4 The Pamela Waterman speaks of recen
! shower 'sof rain What else does
l.. ''shower'' in those partsg We apologize t
the IHdtchmdR, since, in another column, W
- see they are 'hooded" with eggs. 1t is t
- be hoped they were sound. BY the way
that must be the country in which peopl
= get as ''mad as a wet hen"
" Col. i. II. Epperson's paper has bee
regularly mailed with thirty-seven others I
:, Jefferson for the past four weeks. III
@ writes that he does not receive 1t. The
= let him go to the court of claims. Dam
y ages, not less that $50, 900, will be awarded
: People can't live without the STATEsM-t
who once begin to read it.
; The steamer Diana it was that made tn
: first trip through the Houston ship channe
" and it is not strange that all Houston wa
: moon-struck. Diana, we believe, is til
: goddess of that volcanic satellite of mat,
y terra. She is called luna by other lunatiC
/, that blow trumpets of brass and call then
4 selves Houston newspapers.
3 A white man named Sanford won $1s
- from a colored man in Dallas, and on Wi
, son, the negro, refusing to pay, after exhiI
Iting a roll of money, the former FREQ
wounding Wilson in the head. OF cours
Is the bullet was terribly flattened out, as wa
a Sanford when suddenly jagged. He wi
q plead insanity He shot at cuffee's head.