The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-14

ligator tears Jefferson is a Rainey place
anyhow. See lads in Jefferson papers.
Gillespie county has two sheriffs; one
elected by the people, the other by the
county court This last was chosen because
the first didn't have proper bondsmen.
There may be war over in Gillespie about it.
The Bolton Rerielc is ill-natured generally,
and is opposed to everything and fights the
universe. It is q pugnacious paper, and
readable withal. II Is fresh and original,
and its editor is trained to the tasks he dis
charges.
The city council Of Dallas is going to
pass an ordinance against concealed
weapons, and make the police gobhle every
fellow whose coat tail isn't as level as his
head should ever be if he would live week
in Dallas.
Falconer, of the Ennis NeS1s, says he will
never print soul-harrowing articles or make
decency blush, or abuse an individual, or
do any of those vulgar things that some
times degrade q profession which he pro-
poses to honor.
The address of the Independent party in
San Antonio, in the municipal contest, is
signed by John R. Baylor, VIM. H. Young,
]. D. Logan, A. Krakauer, w. r. Story,
CHAN, L. Cara and f. Rummel.
A number of the officers of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, Texas and Pacific, and
Houston and Texas Central Railways have
been visiting Galveston in body to exam
inc the work going on in the hsrboF there,
and talk over business matters.
The dispath to the Houston paper was all
right and only distorted in a street CONVEX
eoH;1r aHos,k ~ cfraaf 10 70
and magnitude of coming events-whlch do
cast their shadows beforehand behind, too,
for all that, aud darkcn the land.
The Hampstead Messenger inveighs against
the extirpation of the Bureau of Immigra-
ton. and says that the press seeking this
result is surely paid by those States that
would stop the rich currents of population
now flowing into Texas.
Hon. Charles DeMorse has published a
pronunciamiento against the so-called SIN
transitional Railroad Swindle." The t'Re-
solves" are all good, and only too many in
number. 1t would cost us $25 to print
them, and the very length prevents perusal.
The Houston Telegraph contains this
Especial" from Austin: Lieutenant Gov
ernor Hubbard reached the city this morn
ing, and the balance of the street cars ex-
pected Monday next" Did 1t take two
trips Of Col. Swisher's wagons to tote him
up.
| The Shreveport Times copies paragraph
from the Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Times in which Col. Thomas
A. Scott is credited with preferring a road
from New Orleans to connect with the
Texas and Pacific at Shreveport rather than
Dallas.
As described by the Houston Telegraph,
the single rail y railway and locomotive,
of which it speaks, is identical with that
devised by Protegc of Hon. Jake Thomp-
son, originally from Oxford, Mississippi.
It is to be built, the Telegraph says, at once
from Austin to the stone quarry.
The Shreveport Times says that Sheridan,
who has all the british instincts of thC
lowest class of Irish without any Of theil
redeeming traits, has probably picked up {
smattering of modern history, and is evi
IDENTIFY an admirer of the Austrian Butcher
whose exploits in Strengthening defenseles
people he is eager to emulate.
The Groesbeck Argus gives a ''stupit
school board terrible castigation since i
pays the GrOesbeck pedagogue only fft.
dollars per month" The Argus is very
right. No man is fit to instruct whose edu
cation cost less, in money, time and toll
than $50, 900, and ter per cent. on this j
$1,000, which an educated, worthy instruc
tor should receive.
A magnificent gentleman of this city o
wealth and position rewarded a newsboy
who had delivered his paper each morning
rain OF shine, hot or cold' every day dur
ing the past year, with a pair of black, rust,
! nickels. The newsboy says he will pTeserv'
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tees Of littleness in high places.
The Hampstead Messenger tells of Al
Ethiopian, copper colored but not cope
bottOmed, who drank three glasses of Hemp
stead whisky, was burnt out and incre
mated. Cremation is a simple process i
Hampstead. The people like It out there
In any event, the usual Vinegar Bitter
: lad" stands a watchful sentinel over ia
notice Of poor SaH.bo's untimely death.
t The stage ran away one dark cold nigh
: last week, and the passengers inside roare
: 70 get ont, the driver shouted and ''cussed,
the coach ratified, outside passengers jumpe
, of and ran away in terror, the peopl
/. thought the Comanches had all attacked ia
: place, and nobody slept that blessed Nigh
in Cuero. The Star still shone TespIenC
, emily over the benighted place.
FL Fifteen thousand cattle. during the yea
! have been shipped from GOliad and sOld /
an average Of ten dollars per head, an
1900 horses u twenty-five dollars each, (
e35 900 for horses and $3.50, 900 for cattle
. 1000 sheep sold for about 5000, and 1Oo
hogs. The wealth added to Texas BY Cola
county Is net less than 5000, 900 per annun
aside from cotton and grain crops Of Ii
farmers.
The Houston correspondent Of the Ga
weston Nelss says that the Ship Cham,
\ Company Of Houston win soon be held to
severe and searching account a the hans
: Of the people. But little has been sai
publicly, bat the indignation in private q
q cles and among solid citizens IL IS real as
e is warm. II the company are innocent .
e the allegations made BY Tracy, they vi
probably soon have a chance Of making
/ 20 appear 70 the satisfaction Of tho board {
\ aldermen.
q Whenever cur typos want line or two
''hll OUT = column, We give thin the nan
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