The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-28

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o advise its contemporaries from which Of
ne two Houston papers they shall make ex-
racts. The Telegraph is a very good news
,aper, but de glstibus non, etc. The Age IS
most vivacious, most original and ''newsy.n
The Giddings Tribune has assu.Aed the
ask of p-hlishlng the Governors message.
With commend1ole spirit il has determined
70 commence its publication next week
md continue it until the finis is reached -
It's a plueky paper but serves it readers
we'll.
The Fort Worth Democrat devotes two
columns 10 the bumps in the head of Mr.
Terrell. It would be infinitely more pro-
iitable to-its readers If it devoted the same
space TO description Of the crags on the
Pixies Peak. IL The latter case there would
be something in it.
J.. J. Stubblefisld, of the Alamo Hotel at
Georgetown, celebrated his ninetieth birth
day last week. There's no special neces-
sity, as far as we can see, for peoples dy-
ing At all in Texas. There's such a vast
quantity Of breath and space-an eternity
of both even here-eVen now.
Northern men in Shreveport denounce
Merrilrs statement of the condition of af-
luAAn OulGNNUOlt III QuuCAauICA lCIAhS.
Merrill is the foulest monster whose pres
ence has cursed these States. Malignant,
inscriptions and reckless, he is the best
agent Grant ever employed
The Henderson Times congratulates its
readers in the execution Of the contract for
the construction of the fifteen miles of rail
road that give it access to the exterior world,
and then it would have Western Texas
equally blest, and declares for the extension
of the international to the Rio Grande.
The Dallas Herald Justly commends the
moderation and justice and honesty of
Governor Coke's administration, and says
he will be reelected If the convention es-
tablish new government. A few doubt
this result, and there is growing up not a
little hostility to the convention.
Every day sone merchant, lawyer or
other person callsat our Office to get some
one of our exchanges. They would learn
the name of some one, at some place, whom
they would employ in some capacity. We
state the fact, that our exchanges may tell
their readers of the advantages of adver-
Using.
The Panoh Watchnaan says that the hon
orable and satisfactory settlement of the
international Railroad question is one Of
three duties this Legislature has to dis
charge, then call constitutional cOnven
ton, theI provide for the maintenance OF
the Stat government, and, fourthly, ad
journ. g
The ICE calls the Inter. Ocean the soon
centrattd lie distillery.n As we view the
machine it makes them out of the ''wholt
CLOTH The'web and wool of every story
Ia =, g., -,
cleanssd by any agency less potent thar
that furnace of which preachers used tt
tell.
The venerable gentleman who seeks,
through the columns of the Sherman Con-
rier, 10 induce the STATESMAN to make hin
CONSPICUOUS just now on the eve of cleo
tions to the State Convention, fails ignoblY
His rage is evidently not genuine, and hi
absurd allegations about Tom Scott anC
other matters constitute the emptiest stag
thunder.
The Tyler Democrat says: ''The Hender
son Times expresses our view of the Inter
national bond question in the following
brief paragraph: However Objectionable
the Legislation that created the obligation
it exists on the statute book in due form
of law, and cannot now be ignored withou
dishonor.
The Brownsville papers are full of an &C
count of the arrest, trial, fine and imprison
ment for two years of Mr.. Valdez, a law
yer in Matamoros, for publishing in tn
PTO9reSso that a Mr.. Mantuo, an officer
was not citizen of Mexico, having de
clared his intention to become citizen o
the United States and foresworn his allegi
ance to Mexico.
A Western paper says Cookery ha
cooked the goose of Western Texas" Q
truth, he has got things into an everlast
ing 'tstew,n but the pending bill wi
straighten the feathers of the 'sfowl Worl
to which our western contemporary refers
and the friends of the international are i
''high feather"
A man was fined So for being foun,
| frozen in the streets of Dallas. He wa
not colder, as he lay at deaths gateway
than the hearts around him who laughed q
his woes and never pitied his misfortun
and would have sent him home in carriag
to a splendid home If rich; but he wa
poor, and, robbed of So.
All Texas papers advocate filling dam
boots, in order to dry them, with oats
| Wouldn't little E'Uld Rye" do as well
Then a fellow might have snakes in hi
boots that Wouldn't 'stufn his head" an
make him dance and otherwise conduC
himself rye-oat-ously without being at a
| 'tcorned."
The Gainesville Gazette wants cattl
thieves in that vicinity exterminated
Their deeds are simply intolerable. A
editor may have a COW some day-whe
subscriptions are paid. and everybody az
vertises, and everybody has Intelligent
enough to send the paper to friends abroa
instead of writing incomprehensible lettel
about the country.
Dallas, proposes to supply the countl
with salt. Great salt wells are only. sixt,
four miles distant from that place, and onl
one mile from the Central Pacific Railroad
One gallon of the water makes one and on
third Of a pound of salt, and sells fro
$3.50 to So per sack. A deal of the cor
modify is needed to save Dallas itself.
The ETpOsit0r wants a convention, BIT
says the Legislature should leave it to Il
people to vote as to whether there shall
one. This may be true, but the luxury
popular election will cost the State $500
600 or $500, 900, in labor of voters a
stracted from fields of industry all over Il
State. Did the Erpositor never think
this costly incident of State elections, and
whisky consumed. sR
Commodore Morgan did not buy ten fe
square on the Bayou somewhere as heret
fore announced by his organs at Houston
He put his handkerchief IN his coat, i
stead of his breeches pocket when he la
blew his nose, and all Houston is putin
little handlzerchiefs in its little coat poe
cts and then struts out and down in
fathomless abysses of unadulterated mud.
! George N. Aldridge. of Ennis, had b
neither integuments torn from his rotuI
person by lOunging dog at q livery stabl
George was scared out of his wits Al
turned out of his-dry goods, and then
turned himself loose, and sWOIe at Oh
dog and everybody that kept dogs. tn
! do Sunk in town and are intolerable, G
cePt 10 their owners, battered by the doe
affection
The road from Galveston to San Anton
Will be finished on the fourth of July. Tn
Governor Hubbard viii deliver, we are toll
an Grafton. II the State have brains 81
taste, it will finish the International to III
J | eor,o nofrf az fho corno fine that the who