The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-19

wrench when the Guadalupe Tunes, Ire
lano's purp, goes yelping by.
Hieronomous, OF the Messenger, says the
word Statesman is misnomer. Now any.
body that totes around such an awful sp-
pellation ought 20 be q judge Of misnoiners;
but the priest that baptised - Hieronpy
WASN'T. ~ - 8ao
Only about 5000 of Waco city scrip is
outstanding ana the city dads over there
are practicing wonderful economy. So
here in Austin. Approaching elections
make things very comfortable for wreiched
axpayers.
The Koriag Ball is moved by its bowels
of compassion to say that the Eramiher
should tote fair and not 20 in for Coke IN
the Daily and for Lang in the Weekly. The
Oranges may be SLOW, but are not always
caught mapping. .ssri
The Pamela Wdtehmaa differs from the
weather, which, il says, is very dry the
Thermometer at ninety. But then, after
dreaming awhile the Fdtckman rubs its
eyes and, looking out, exclaims, we've
had glorious rain"
A great campmeeung is organizing at
Rayvihe, not far from Goliad. The PER
formances will not begin till late in the
next month. The Christians" are now run
ming revival there. Brother PenninY is
the eloquent preacher. 5 ~
The Tyler Inder thinks the Tyler Tap will.
be rapidly extended. Governor Richard
Hubbard is still pumping thunder into il,
and if that don't straighten it cut and boost
it and shove it along, there's nothing in
nitro glycerine eloquence. + 81 A-
H.
wrong aud offices are alike the property OF
preachers and of the laity. We don't deny
it, and if the clergy insist on the mainten-
ance of the right and the priests" do not,
what will Mrs. Grundy say rrg-es
A man named Twombly and smother
Stanard, ran race for $3.50 a side, and
more than $4,000 besides were staked, last
week at Fort Worth. Twombly won, and
| as he was deemed the slow coach, the boys
were duly plucked. sa - 90
Maj. Allen and DIR. Rainey, of jefferson,
pursued a deer and AVIAN a lake on horse
back and were themselves pursued by an
alligator near Jefferson. The men caught
their game, the crocodile didn't, and there
were no crocodile tears shed arodnd Jeffcr-
son. ls .ra. .H ID a
The Esamiiar says FiShburn, Of the
Mexia Ledger, is below, and hopes he win
return with his pockets full of ''ads." We
always knew Flshburn was going there; but
how, after being externally cremated, he is
to return with anything in his pockets we
don't exactly see. 20 7h $50 - isl
The Nesos-Echo was named in reference
to Its musical tastes and procliviues. It's
going to have a brass band to conduct its
local columns, and in future campmeetings
in those parts it will be the sweetest singer
in all Israel. It's strongest notes viii be
the echo If the news. aa-aE s-A - sos
A letter received by tho STATESMAN di-
rect from Tuxpan, says that there is still
no news from the lost vessel Morning Star.
There is hardly the shadow of hope for her
safety, She went down volcelessly at sea
with all on board, and winds and waves
have chanted her requiem. 's
| The Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio
Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company
was permanently organized at Corpus
Christi on the eleventh, and the following
| officers elected: u. Lott, President; WIN.
L. Rogers, Vice President; j. B. Mitchell,
Secretary, and g. F. Evans, Treasurer. .is
| Stephensville was informed by peniten-
| tiary bird in Jail there that the town was to
be burned last Wednesday night and the
| people in Jail all liberated. A house was
| to have been fred as signal; but it wasn't,
and now Stephensvills begins to sleep
quietly O. nights ea 1a
Ben F. KIRBY, of Cold Springs, Polk
county, hasn't seen his mother, whom he
long supposed to be dead, since his early
boyhood. He wants us to advertise for her.
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after in this affectionate manner. Her
name is Martha Kirby. Tell her to write
as above. ialf i ltisl,fi4 geo -
We don't know the Hardcastle of whom
all the papers are talking, but suppose, from
the name, that he came DOWN 10 US from
the middle ages, and that he is hard old
case; but from the lights before US we must
conclude that he is brick, and that he viii
tote the Brennan Banner aloft never more
to be seen trailing in the dust. .
The Tyler Lhdes says that ''the Baptist
meetings which have been going on through
a succession of twenty-four days is yet pro-
crossing with great interest. There have
been thirty-three accessions TO the church.
The meeting is likely to continue two or
three days. Mr.. w. E. Penn has labored
faithfully for the welfare Of our people"
At Beeville the ''crowner's quest" over
the dead body of DR.. A. T. Brands, was:
"Came to his death from the effects Of in
temperance. Another sad warning TO the
youth of our country" and the Goliad
Guard, telling the sad story and rubbing
its fiery eyes as it wanders on, sighs:
''Another sad warning to the youth of the
country"
Those two unfortunate fellows who died
so suddenly in Dallas were Frenchmen, and
having no friends and i'll luck, and having
fallen into habits and pursuits Of poverty
stricken modes Of life to which they were
unused, they concluded to take French leave
of this vale Of tears ahd whisky, as they
saw it at Dallas. The job was done with
oxalis acid. EsY q
J The Valley Times says that in Scotland
they have sunshine nine hours q day in
June, and two aud half hours in Deceni-
ber-an average Of five hours day for the
| year. Scotland ought to come to Texas
where We have sun light fifteen and q half
hours in June and nine and Q quarter hour
in December OF an average Of twelve and
q half hours, less four minutes, for the year.
1t seems that the editor Of the Examiner
was, not long ago, guest Of the Hutchins
House. He did not remain but o few days
and this foremost caraganserai In the world
closed. The Telegraph man dined with
him Of the Erasaiser. Il WASN'T square
bnt eohicdl meal that did the business and
busted the Embellishments. Capt. TURNER,
in order to escape any such calamity IN fsi-
ture, may come TO Austin. s sssH fsss
We hope Jim Hunter WASN'T huTt, but the
side-splitter ssys he g dropped into orr
sanctum-" It's wonder he didn't break
his neck. He went up With Donaldson 8
balloon, VIC suppose, and therefore this mo-
tice OF his happy and sudden reappearsnei.
Wouldn't 1t be as well 70 ssy that Hon. Jim
Hunter is in town as 70 mako il appear that
the editsr was greatly fsttered by the visit.
A matter OF taste, you know.
The Boston, (MAss.) Express denounces 81
unneasured terrne AZ = cofnmon sufnflfe,