The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-29


They still shoot pistols during fires in
Dallas, instead of ringing bells. The effect
is encouraging to the tiremen and Others,
and makes them work lively to get within
doors again.
The cioud;gathering grasshOppers and
cheerful chinchbugs are already moving In
Southern Missouri, and boys and men
should be shot who shoot OF entrap birds
in springtime.
The Salado Ners-Letter has quarreled
with the Euphradian CD Society of that
place, and its columns henceforth will treat
them with silent contempt, and all Euphra-
dia is in tears.
Mccartney, the counte.feiter, left in his
boxes at Sherman several thousand counter
felt bills $20s and Sos, which will be very
valuable for further use hy the patrons Of
the Inter Ocean.
The blind preacher, Milburn, and blind
negro musician, Tom, are both in Texas. II
these two can go safely through Texas,
won't the Ex-Governor order the Texas out
rage mill to stop
The great horse thief of Texas, John E.
Pierce, is in Jail at Brenham. We hope he
may stick better than Mccartney, who will
be off again unless carefully watched by
men unpurchasable.
Bishop Gregg is doing a good work at
Lampasas. The place needs regeneration
and railway to Austin, the only straight
and narrow" - gauge the jolly town can
ever hope to travel.
Too much tape and scaling wax at a
se6Hoe in Dallas to prevent naturalization.
OF course, but it was unEind in that Com
mercial reporter to suggest such immateral
frauds and obstacles.
John E. Pierce, the murderer and horse
thief, was caught by Marshal johnson and
returned to the Brenham Jail on the TWEEN
tieth, and people in Brennan have quit
sleeping in horse troughs.
Baptist preachers and delegates to the
Baptist convention at Charleston, South
Carolina, can have half-fare tickets secured
at Houston or Galveston, either through
Little Rock or New Orleans.
That feeling of "true inwardness" of
which Beecher gushed, must have been
drug store whisky, which, a Mexican hav-
ing imbibed, impelled HIM to carve his own
stomach yesterday with jack-knife.
Twelve jurymen were shut up forty-eight
hours in Galveston to decide about the
worth of dead mule What did that in
fernal mule cost taxpayers Wemust abol
ish either dead mules or deadbeat juries.
Generally we are on the other side of the
everlasting row between Houston and Gal
weston, but ever sympathizing with the un.
der dog in the fight, the STATESMAN to-day
encouragingly pats Galveston on the back.
George Washington killed Henry Smith
in Palestine last Sunday-both colored
George might have been killed, but he
wanted to see the centennial, with which
his honored name is somewhat associated.
Gen. R. G. Drum, Sherman's adjutant
general, telegraphs Gen. Ord at San Anto
MO that Sherman has recommended the
erection of a military depot at San Anto
Mo, and that the appropriation is asked
for.
B. F. Clark was arrested in Williamson
county on a capiaS from Hays county
Benjamin Franklin ought to remember thu
centennial, and quit his wicked ways. H,
is charged with an assault with intent t.
kill.
The old Texas veterans who served in tn
war against Mexico meet in Houston durin!
the fair, after leaving Austin, where the,
have much important business to transact
The meeting here occurs on the eighth o
May.
A child of Mr.. Camuse, of Dallas, wa
bitten on the twenty-frst, by dog sup
posed to be mad. Are not people alread,
mad who keep dogs to raise crops of fleas
and in what are they better than sheep-kill
ing dogsE
E. S. G. Robertson, a good man of CAPT
tai good sense and of varied intelligence
will probably represent Salado and thos
parts in the constitutional convention.
nomination would make him neither bette
nor worse.
Hvfhg In incest with his daughter, kille
another negro named Smith, to prevent hi
being a witness against him. This occurre
last week, on the confines of the ChoctaI
Territory.
Two civil officers in Palestine, being tell
graphed from Huntsville that two prisoner
had escaped and were on the cars, boarde
the train, but as they entered the prisoner
left by the rear door and escaped, thong
shot at.
Rev. T. Sweeney begins a protracte
meeting at Huntsville on the second Sur
day in May. He succeeds the investigator
of the alleged penitentiary outrages, ant
between the two Huntsville may be reger
Grated.
Dry Hollow, Wise county, wants t
change its name since the water stand
there now in sheet from 600 to 800 yard
wide, and the people fear that outsiders ma
suppose that Sodom OR Gomorrah was ono
in those parts.
A thief entered private boarding hous
in Houston, chloroformed several persons
and found for his pains only $11.00, an
they say now it's cheaper in Houston to g
drunk on chloroform than ordinarr Hou
ton whisky.
]. s. Hunley, near Pilot Point, is cult
waiting fifty-fve acres of wheat, forty-fV
of oats, 105 of corn, large garden, &c
fruit trees, and intends to burn brick.
worthy example of energy and enterpris
away out West.
Dallas snubbed the anniversary of Sa
Jacinto, and naturally enough. 1t has
bigger battle there every day or two, an
the capture of Santa Anna isn't circun
stance compared with the arrest of a cor
mon Dallas villain.
The citizens of Salsdo are subscribing f
q jail, ana take stock more nOerally tnan
the churches. But selfishness is pardon
BILE weakness. Men should make tn
abiding place most comfortable which th'
expect most to frequent.
Two negro boys, brothers, were fightir
in Sherman, and one shot the other in Il
hand with a derringer. They had be-
stealing. A colored goober-grabber wou
think the shot in the hand special prov
dence in behalf of COOLERS.
The best joke ever perpetrated by Me1
can is that of Cortina, who sues some fello
for SANDER. 1t was gravely stated, we So
( pose. by the defendant, that Cortina is
good, quiet, honest patriot, and OF cour
be is devilish mad about it.
Generous, unsuspecting widows in CT
weston are victimized by impecunious your
men, who are ashamed TO work but n
ashamed to live by defrauding defenseles
toiling women. Why doesn't the Nel
publish list of the rascals
George Whitaker, of Dallas, placed b
hand over the muzzle of a loaded pistol al
now carries that same hand in a sling al
| doesn't sling his little pistols around