The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-02


mark 90 before the word sspeople" in the
paragraph it reproduces about Lamar and
ssPnntiss." II is the Regisfer and not the
STArEsNAS that confounds the one Prem
tice of the Journal with Prentiss, the orator.
sherman puts up ss5, 600 and a ten-acre
town lot 90 secure che location there of
Austin College, and fifty families will move
an the town nc once 10 educate their chill
.dren. Isn't Austin an enterprising. public
suirited towni It's public men have such
winning ways in promoting the city'S pres
perity. N 10y +A
The merchants of Denison offered a pre-
MUM of fifty dollars for the first bale of new
cotton brought TO that place from Graysen,
Cooke, Montague, Fannin and Hunt coIm-
ties, or the Chickasaw Nation. MIR. j. IL.
Titus, of Hunt, won the prize, and Clark y
rallsnt paid twenty-seven and hall cents
per pound tor the cotton.
Brother Lang's admirable address toll
Changers At Dallas now takes ITS course anu
runs in chapters through the may columns
OF the Rraasiner. A speech like that shOuld
go into a book and not bother newspapers.
It deserves TO be; universally read; but
newspaper is an ephemerl publication, and
books pertain to eternal things.
There isn't any roof on the Hearne jail,
and when q fellow was chucked IN there
half drunk, aud the rain fell in torrents,
he came 80 the conclusion that he was halt
sea over" and then he thought he was
"jugged." and then he concluded that
somehow he had fallen into swell" and
to be better he climbed out, and they
haven't Hearne of him since. ~
The poor fellow who committed suicide
by taking poison at Bryan was named
Resinover, the Bryan Appeal says, and his
home was in Smith county, Tennessee.
When, after emetics were administered, ho
said they sssettledn his " stomach id
well," we can't help thinking that nothing
else is so well "settled /" as that he was IA
hard case and that IT'S a sad thing to resin
over"
The Minneola man wants to cure some
body of bad habisssa and she should resent
it. He has no rightto tell of the 'infiiction
Of certain lectures. in his paper. But he
does 1t so modestly that we can't help hop
ing il will have the desired effect. He
says: 'sNext to the buzz of certain lee
ture, we dread the evening hymn of hun
CRY musquito."
Negro minstrelsy now delights the peo-
pie Of Palestine. When-they all get to the
other Jerusalem their tastes will be greatly
changed and improved and purified, and if
even Hoxie and those other people, tho Ju-
/ d@ans, were then invited 10 a negro hand
organ show they would get powerful mad.
! Think of the General in loose, summer
pants. toddling down the golden pave
ments" to burnt cork minstrel show
The stockholders OF the East Texas Uni
yersity held . meeting "Wednesday evening
last, at Tyler, and turned over to the trus-
tees of Austin College all their lands, ma
terial and funds, il they will fulfill the pro
posals set forth in their published circular
But we couldn't induce the authorities and
/ publie-sPirited citizens of Austin to move
! in this behalf.
Mr.. Henry Sterling was sitting in his
office at Louisville, Denton county, on Mon
day night, when an unknown assassin fired
upon him, seven buckshot taking effect in
his head and ball penetrating his breast.
The cowardly deed created intense excite
ment among the citizens Of the village.
Mr.. Sterling lived only half an hour after
being shot.
Governor L. s. Owings, one of the early
settlers of Texas, was Governor Of New
Mexico in 1860, and has ever occupied a
prominent position Ia politics and III soci-
ETY.. The Governor was one of the first set
lers of Denison,s was appointed the first
mayor Of that city. For some years past he
has been an invalid, and his death, a few
days ago, was not unexpected.
The Brownsville Democrat says that
though Corpus Christi has a charter for q
narrow guage railroad to Laredo, and
though they have stock enough subscribed
to secure the charter, they Cannot get
enough shareholders together TO organize
Notwithstanding which they are pushing the
work ahead, having some twenty miles OF
the road bed graded aud machine shops
built.
The Henderson Times tells Of Mr., Rich
!, ard Brown. living six miles east of that
town, and says he will gather twenty-five
bales Of cotton from slxty.fve acres He
will also make plenty Of corn. Mr.. Brown
is sixty-seven years Of age. He was sol
der in the war between the RepSblic ol
Texas and Mexico, and was a Mier prisoner,
and drew the white bean which saved. him
from death under the ordor OF the Mexican
government TO kin every tenth man.. -
They don't know who he was, the taste
: fully clad stranger wins went TO Bryan Mon
day, and, entering q bar-room, lay down,
! and, through the entervention of morphine,
slept the sleep that knows no waking. His
secret sleeps with him; but the skeleton
that was in his home will stalk abroad now,
D and startled community will manifest
boundless wonder, and yet each OF its mem
/ bers has skeleton in the closet.
A shooting affray took place at Meridian
} last Tuesday between Brady, silversmith
and Robert Barley, teamster, watch re
: suited in the death of the latter IL SEEM
E that Barley entered Brady's shop and, quar-
/ reling. struck Barley on the head with
' mallet; Barley drew q knife and inflicted q
severe wound on Brady between the sixth
and seventh ribs. Brady then drew a re
!. volver and shot him through the head kill
ing him instantly. Barley was just from
!. Kansas. Brady was Immediately arrested
! A fellow in Minneols got drunk with tn,
+ tavern cook over.there, and while bail wer,
!. drunken than billed owls, the cook, from
{. force Of habit-A mon0monia-ulistOok the
: other fellows head for q big onion anf
' peeled IL clean and nice. It's better jol
than Comanche ever did, and MirlneoIa &
e mighty proud about il. II the fellow witt
y q slIRned Uranium were tarred and feath
e cred he would lse so much like turkey COB
gler that he would strut himself 10 death
e aHd Minneola doa't want 20 pay for pau
: per's burial, aud tar is scarce.
e The Georgetown Democrat says
. "The expenses Of the last term oil our dis
O trict court were as follows: Grind iur
% service, $466; petit jury service, $3.50: cor
tingert (baihffs, clerks, etc.), ssz3; tota
e &14e7."
,e What Of whisky and idleness pf jurol
.e and witnesses and plaintiffs and delendnnti
N Dossu'l It cost more than it comes tos Wi
q enough money be saved by plaintiffs, th,
a. would be lost but for the court, D, pay Il
its meinfenancel 1srit the system ! nu
m sance9 But It Is old and therrfore respec
able. .
4 Cleburne Is nov devoted 70 music, an
3 the Chronicle, As tie name suggests, Jea
q time. d Is hard 70 beat At anything. B-
- there is CREST rivalry in Cieburne betwe,
the music man, Prof. CoBan, and the phy
nologist, Prof. McMulIin. They cali bo
y. Of them lsprefeesors . and eeveiaI feifo,