The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-22

One Charley George, baker, enueaN-
,red TO kill himself in Galveston, but the /
hing could not be done by George or by /
sharks. He was resuscitated with difficulty. |
The San Antonio Herald says A, 600 head |
Of cattle have crossed the San Antonio |
river this spring. all destined for Kansas, |
and that several more droves will leave !
soon.
The Hockey and Montgomery Railway
Company build single rail trackwsy. The
road will be thirty-five miles long. II this
road be successful many like it will be
built.
The Pamela Frelman says il Governor
Coke will call on them, 80, 600 Texas vOlun-
teers will enter Austin in a week to salute
his Excellency and march TO the Mexican
capital.
Rockdale corns and bunions 90 unshaved
while DR.. IA. Hubbard languishes in
Jail, accused OF stealing thirty dollars from
u saloon man, with whom he went on a
spree.
d. C. Cunningham retires, and J. w.
Bell becomes editor of the Giddings
Tribune. Giddings docs not do justice to
its representative newspaper, and loses caste
abroad.
Mr.. ]. d. Wilson, of Waxahachie, while
of his gun while the other barrel was cooked
and loaded. Luckily he only lost one
thumb.
The waxy debating club of Waxahachie
boasts of several capital speechmakers, and
large audiences listen to its learned discus
sions. 1t is a valuable and progressive IN
stitution.
A young woman in Waco will lose her
sight from getting condensed lye in her
eyes while opening box. 1t doesn't seem
to affect tine mouths of witnesses in the
Beecher case.
We wish our correspondents would not
substitute, IN most disastrous manner the
word g couple" for the word two" The
Specifications of the two terms are easily
uncoupled.
The ladies of Bolton attended a masked
ball, but would not make themselves con-
spicuous by dancing with the select few,
only twenty, who were masked, and the
ball was rather fiat
One w. S. Yeates alias b. NJ. Mcdonald
has been approprlating horses belonging to
the people of Waxahachie in n very infor-
NAL manner. If Mcdonald be caught, his
life would be taken in a manner equally
irregular.
There is going to be a general attack
made upon the Indians everywhere that
have left their reservations. Movements
for this purpose are now making at Fort
Richardson.
Trichina spiralis, in the Unabridged OF
the San Antonio Herald, means, we believe,
"a trick of twisting" and has reference to
the gait of a hOrnswoggler of quart Of
Houston whisky.
Terrell is still growing rapidly, but seems
l. .e -s,- ION
The loss of the female population looks
badly for Terrell, though the Press seems
we'll pleased.
We regret Col. Campbelrs heavy loss by
fire at Huntsville. He is penitentiary in,
spector, a fact that renders the assertions
of the New Orleans Times and its CORE
spondents absurd.
Barbarous people around San Antonio
went hunting recently, and boast of having
killed $50 plovers. At this season it Is sim
ply crime, and Texas will suffer for wan
of proper game laws.
Marshall is to have three newspapers. l
they all sport such heavy, voluminous title
as the Trans Continental Iron Age, lack o.
type and patience will compel us to recog
nize them as Nos. /, 2 and 3.
Strayhorn and Tucker, sheriffs, tn
Georgetown Democrat says, deserve publ
honors for their defGrse of the Jail when as
sailed by those lawless people who put t
death one Joe Campbell.
Honey Grove no longer has a bar-room
and peach and honey no longer lend fra
grances to breezes that fan the cheeks o
pretty damsels when kissed by tender Low
ers about Honey Grove.
]. w. Wilson, a great stockraiser o
Clay county, killed a fellow who haC
killed and was skinning one of his COWS
and now Wilson is in the Gainesville jai
with tuua a4hAr iaanrderers. -
Col. Plato is in Laredo. In any even
that organ of metempsychosis, the Vale
Times, says so. Senator Russell is wit
him, studying, we suppose, the immortalit
of the soul, canals, and all that.
A pair of negro prisoners in the Housto
Jail attempted to set it on fire, and had pal
TALLY succeeded, when a discharged whit
prisoner reported it to the officer, who ha
the flames extinguished in time.
The Sherman Register charged $1,000 fo
printing the county's financial statement
The Mckinney Enquirer charged $50 70
like service in its county. The Register II
ceived only $500, and was happy.
An attempt was made to burn house i
Denison by throwing petroleum on til
other attempt made with ceal oil two hour
later. The fire fiend was not discovered.
The suspension of the Galveston Times
the proprietor states, is only temporary
Financial arrangements are making, which
Col. Loughery says, will put the Times on
secure and permanent basis.
The earnest, energetic Roman Catholic
of Waxahachie are building pretty churC
| in hot 1N1ooa :,
, vestment, that church will pay for itse
several times within the next few years.
, g. w. Douglass, late superintendent {
the Southside Railroad, and endorsed as
! admirable gentleman by the New Yor
EUeRing Post, is in charge of the fortunes
the Corpus Christi and Laredo Railway.
Smythe's wind mill is properly pulled b
} the Valley Times. We like to see riva
devoid of jealousy. There is such propt
nobility of soul manifested that we cannC
always repress our feelings of admiration.
, All the young lawyers, and those 9TH
precocious young men learning how to NAL
: pills, have quit this sort of fOolishness an
are studying the Unabridged day and nigh
They are gOingto have big spelling mattel
Information is wanted, and the STATE
NAN asked to give it, of the whereabouts
Thomas j. Chatham, of Springfield, Mo
by his brother, James ]. Chatham, editor
the Coffeyville Courier, Coffeyviile, KaEse
The editor of the Tezas Obserrer couldn
spell "synonimous, and had to go foo
and finding pretty girl there, now spell
,, it "sigb," and writes 4" ANONYMOUSLY" an
very POLITICALLY about her in his preti
"locals."
The name of no candidate for office a
pears upon tickets printed in the Sulphl
Springs Gasette Office unless such candida
prepay for the honor. They all come
. time. To omit name is the sure defeat
its owner.
The BRENNAN Banner says If it can
demonstrated that yellow fever can
,, warded of, Brenham will be a veritab
. city. Maybe Ward, Dewey & Co. can (
it. If they can't ward thing of, it ISL
dewa-ble.
Mr.. ]. w. Schenck, OF Dallas, who W
. arrested on a requisitIon Of the Govern
of North Carolina, has telegraphed b
wife that it lis all night " and his frienr
confidently expect him to be exonerat,
. f-rrrv. he. he