The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-11


The San Antonio Herald fiays alive those
representatives Of the West who oppose the
international Railroad bill.
Dallas win apply to the Legislature for
charter Tor narrow gauge railway, running
southwesterly from that place
Houston Is to have a gymnasium for the
benefit principally Of clerks, lawyers, and
all persons Of sedentary habits.
1t is deemed a good joke on Texan ideas
Of popular education that there arc four
teen children in the penitentiary.
Effort is making 70 remove the Grand
Lodge Of ODD Fellows from Galveston TO
Austin. We hope il will be successful.
The Fredericksburg Seatinel speaks IN
highest terms Of the admirable personal
worth OF our late associate, Mr.. Walker.
Attorney General Clark was warmly greet
ed 10y the citizens of Waco, when he reach
ed that Texan metropolis few days ago.
His name was Edwin brood, so called
because he gobbled the capital prize in the
lottery-he drawed il ana became imnor-
Galveston is to have chemical works that
will utilize all the pestilential substances
tnat now only serve to poison the atmos-
phere.
The Georgetown Democrat IS eloouent In
its laudation of the fifteen Senators who
stood by the international Railroad bin IN
the Senate.
1t is a delightful task to con over taste
fully printed paper like the DenisOn Ness.
1t Is always interesting, and there is mulfum
IN parto.
The JiaplecUte is sound on the Interna-
tional question and copies in full from the
STATESMAN the great speech Of senator
Culberson.
The whisky prohibition convention meets
on the eleventh in Dallas, and, very properly.
Dallas is the best Temperance speechmaker
on the globe.
A Mr.. Pennett, living near Barnet, was
murdered in his own house, last Monday,
by three men who pretended they wanted
to buy corn.
The Age "loeal has quarreled with his
hash. house. He looked frall when we last
saw him, and should have begun this row
several weeks ago.
The Bolton Rcricp makes Lieutenant
Governor Hubbard weep bitterly by It's ter
rible assault upon the wisdom Of the Presi.
dent of the Senate.
Gen. Frank Cheatham, whom many Texans
have followed or seen on bloody fields, will
probably be the superintendent Of the Ten
nesSee penitentiary.
The pressman of the Goliad Guard
guards that excellent paper this week against
any depredations upon its pages. Il Is
illegible and VIC are sorry.
Vast oil fields have been discovered at
Laredo, on the Rio Grande, and this may
smooth the way for the International Rail.
way bill through to Mexico.
All the burglars that were in Austin have
gone over to San Antonio Why couldn't
we get their names or aliases by inspecting
the register of the stage linel
''Hardcastlep is delighted with the match
less horses that attract visitors from oil
lands TO the uneclipsed stables Of Col.
Thomas A. Gay, near this city.
There is not private school, 20 well sat
isfied are the people with the public schools
as managed by Mr.. s. q. Sneed outside Of
Austin, in the county Of Travis.
Some fifteen OF twenty armed 1Iexicans
were seen last week near Paradise. Some
of them arc we'll known thieves, and all
were well armed and had money.
The first narrow gauge railway in Texas,
from Houston to New Braunfes, Is in rapid
process of construction, the first twenty
miles to be finished in sixty days.
At Indianola, colored man discharged
qua accidentally and the shot passing
through partition, wounded two colored
women sitting at stove and killed a third
instantly.
The GAINESVILLE Times says 'the feeling
in the Northeast, West and Southwest OF
i 40 he
the settlement proposed with the lntena-
tional road"
A meeting was held in Ihmpasas, Eetur.
day, in regard 70 the narrow gauge railway
from Austin to brentwood. Every en-
deavor will be made to have the road pass
through Lampasas.
The Galveston Hotel Company want
$500, 900 more to finish their caFaYansarai.
We will lend it to them--in paper-the
best circulating medium in Texas.
N. r. Scudder, Of Austin, and Miss A.
W. Londrith, scudded away before q stiff
matrimonial breeze from l6t. Louis q few
days ago. All Austin wishes them a de-
lightful life-yoyage.
The Free Press and other Texan pepors
concur in pronouhciDg Senator Culberson's
International Railroad speech the ablest Of
the year. Very certainly It was unan-
swered and unanswerable.
In the suburbs Of Waco O mother and her
children were found hiding in a hay rick 70
escape the fury Of q drunken husband and
father. Who can measure the wlfc's woes
when drink makes the husband q demonl
Galveston is Identifying central square.
! Why can't Austin follow the good example9
We forgot. Ours Is made charming By
breezes and howls from the calabooss and
Jail.
The Galveston Times says Miss Mollie z.
Moore has written the libretto Of en- opera
entitled the Feast Of Roses. Prof.
Keppler has composed the music. i vii .
be produced sometime during tho month o.
April.
Paris, Texas, Is 70 be lighted with ''gaso-
line" Parisians like the word. IL sounds Ike
Emcline and Eyangeline and 81 thot npd
Parisians are noted, the world over, Tor
eHeminate tastes and solt, voluptuous modes
Of expression.
Burglars arc holding high carnival IN
San Antonio, and the citizens arc armed,
and at night grid themselves about with ell
sorts Of explosive implements 81 death.
Every time the sold CONAN kicks the kivef
OF" pistol fires.
The Dallas Commercial wisely suggests
that Texas towns should set out 800, 900
trees in February and March, Il ID 4 wise
counsel, and should be Needed. Dallas
especially should be shaded, and should
often veil its sweet face.
The antique and wise Newspaper 81
Houston earnestly asks the Legislature 70
enact the bin providing Tor the exemption
OF new manufactures, Of $50, 900 capital,
from taxation for ten years. Age and wis.
dom are sometimes concurrent.
''Hardcastle, . writing sin bis green old
Age, tells Is readers that the ''ung Of the
lobby, here il Austin, Is. now that the II.
ternatiOnal bills prospects arc fne, lavish
in expenditures Tor cigars and whisky.
Won't the 19e itself conc tearing down %
AustIn1
There is one fool left 10 Emory. Two
vounV men were firing rfnr1rrr4 81 I