The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12


places of thirst.
Gen. Ord was keeping things straight by
his personal presence in Brownsville few
DAYS ago, ana@the ISeatiRsl is mueh-mors
modest than usual, and sober and quiet
like. The General seeing this, went on up
the Ri Graude. ar
The Kaufman Telegraph man sends his
paper to people who haven't paid, for it,
These debts are too small to collect and too
great to pay. We commend the cash sys-
tenn TO our contemporary. The other in
wolves sure ruin. 1-s7 bed ysissA y
The countrr about Waterford suffered
terribly because Of drought. Even the cot
ton crop was injured and corn very greatly.
There viii be bread enough, and three-
fourths of q cotton crop. OF late rains
have been abundant. 4
W. r. Hubbard and his brother, camping
by the roadside, thirty miles west of sher-
man, to which point they were followed,
were suddenly attacked and compelled to
surrender their purses, watches and horses,
last Thursday night. a-la- 9l' % D7-'a-
Burglars are operating very successfully
in Stephenville. They robbed Mr.. Dono-
vans store of 500, but wouldn't touch dry
goods. They are therefore supposed TO be,
grocers in tastes and habits, and the gro
Gerry fellows are mad about it. hha roo : .'A
Rains have blest Victoria and those parts,
and the Advocate says the farmers are CRATE
full. We would like TO bet on that. But
good cotton, corn and pecan crops make the
people comfortable, but they are not rs tull
of gratitude as of melons and things.
Of the owners of the Houston cotton mills,
destroyed last Saturday by fire, Messrs.
w. ]. Hutchins, T. W. House. b. A. Shep.
herd, of Houston, and r. s. Willis, of Gal
weston, are the heaviest losers, to the
amount of about $175, 900 or $500, 900, st
Two nice young men of Dallas, Smith and
McCormus, were arrested with stolen horses
in their possession in Sherman. They went
off with the horses to Sherman because they
did not wish to be suspected of wrongful
possession simply because of the place of
capture. -.... ....-..-..fF sr.z...s
Pious people should take into, considers
ton the fact that Dallas has eighteen
churches. We have always been saying
that the press and counts did Dallas great
injustice. It's pious, good place, and
everybody knows it. Those churches tell
the story. a- "a sl7s ua ~
The Guadalupe Times says that meeting
is called for Saturday, the twenty-first inst,
at the court house, for the permanent or
ganization of an agricultural and statistical
association. Addresses will be delivered
by Judge Ireland, James Greenwood, Esq,
ana others. ..Hs4 -4'iFr
The colored military company of San
Antonio call themselves the Coke Riff es, in
allusion to the motley gray and black faces
of the association. 1t was not intend ed by
the company to render honor to his Excel
lency. If they did, however, he Will be
very grateful. .f
Chester county corn, planted and grown
since the fifteenth of April, is perfectly ma
ture, the ears being twelve inches long.
1t natures before drouth sets in and peo-
pie wanting it should write to Mr.. Carlton,
of Bonham. Don't bother US about it,
That's all we know. .s.e
Enoch Truss was murdered on Duck
creek, twelve miles from Dallas, Monday
night. Rumor hath it that Truss was eat
ing supper with a good looking widow
when three assassIns fired upon him. He
fell dead from his seat, and the widow was
painfully wounded in the arm. 1slnsW aua 81
What's the matter with peoples heads
in Waco2 The Examiner makes very broad
hints that BARRIERS in that weary town are
not doing their duty. 1t says bstfWe'll
wager there were more heads scratched in
Waco yesterday than ever before, in one
day, in all her history "' A'' ~ $40 ~
The Dallas Commercial says that the
Presbyterian church steeple opposite
is the Scylla and Charybdis of many
kites whose skeletons depend therefrom. :"
Everybody knows that no kite that wasn't
made out of Bro. Graves's Tennessee Baptist
would plunge into any Charybdis.
And now comes the Guadalupe Times,
and forgets rules of propriety, and says one
of Its contemporaries '.lies." Here we have
two mistakes "-the first made by the
paper assaulted by the Times. and then this
assertion of our neighbor that its Dis7a ,Uis
" lies." 1t is ugly, and in bad taste. !,
When one partner absconds in Dallas the
other fellow publishes neat little card and
tenderly calls it ]" dissolution OF the firm"
The nocturnal flight of one G. E. Cole from
Dallas caused his broken-hearted partner
to lift him up in this gentle way on tall
column of the visacious Commercial
Houston is cutting down municipal ex-
penses from $123, 900 per annum to $50, 900.
Times are as tough here as there. Let us,
too, nip the perquisite business and save
taxpayers the loss of from ten to fifty dol
lars for each dead beat or loafer or whisky
guzzler that gets into the clutches of the
recorder. ..--..-. ~svs-vess Il
Hardtack isn't circumstance to the
tough edibles furnished by model Waco
landlord. The Examiner says of q dinner
at the "Old Virginia, that it was "a
specimen brick" We have before read
about one who, when asked for fish, gave
a stone, but didn't suppose he kept tavern
in Waco.
A writer in tie Fredericksburg Sentinel,
dating his letter from Mason, says ''the time
is fast approaching when a strong arm must
be uplifted in order to put down, suppress,
root out and extermipate the actors in the
bloody saturnalia which renders life and
property SO insecure and hazardous in this
region"
The Falstaffian landlord of the st. Cloud,
at Sherman will shed showers Of pulpit elo-
quence upon the multitude, and If they still
hunger and thirst after-things. he will
feed them as sheep at his hotel, and if they
want little political blatherskiting he can
dispense it right royalty from the stump.
He weighs two tons and, of course, is a man
of parts. -f5 ssi5gss a1sg .Esa
Rev. James Young. the Texas apostle Of
temperance, has been laundering, like De
mosthenes against Philip, except that Philip
wasn't tangiefoot. And then Demosthenes
was safe, away of at Athens, In Greece,
while our orator was at HnfchiDs; and Philip
was in Mseedon and whisky in Dallas. and
both trembled. Whisky in q man, anyhow,
is always shaky.
The Bonham Ners tells US that the Deni-
son Cressst man was invited out to fight q
duel lsst Saturday. but respectfully declined,
owing to the inciemeDcy Of the weal6er
and press of more important business.
Strange some people think editors can spare
the time at such an unreasonable period to
crafty all their little whims! - fae
That there is irregular organized band Of
highway robbers now operating through
this section of the country cannot longer be
questioned says the sherman Rsgist<r.
Rumors Of their depredations are current.
and excite terror eyervvhere about Sherman