The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

tons called tournaments are most namely
intolerable. A 'ieander pullin" may be
wicked and brutal; but there is rude fun IN
it; but these tournaments are ''rcdrmption-
less."
The Kaufman Telegraph says that ''Mr.
George T. Dashiell, Governor Coke's Pr
waite Secretary, was in our town last week
visiting his uncle, DIR. w. B. DaShiell.
We had not the pleasure OF making has &C
quSintsnce, but learn from numerous sour
ces that he 10 most accomplished gentle
man and an excellent Officer 5 strange
how the girls wiz talk.
Josiah j. Morris is an unexrelled gram
marian OF this or any other age or country.
He is reforming the grammar, and thus the
tastes and habits Of the people about Free
stone who throng the court house % hear
his lectures. A man who speaks good Eng
lish keeps sober for fear Of some horrible
lnaccuracy in expression that would destroy
his self-respect.
When they can't knock fellow over in
any other way in Dallas he is generally en-
abled in some modest, quiet way 20 make
way with himself. Thus James Wilson,, in
the suburbs Of Dallas, stuck big nail in
the bottom of his foot and then went up,
Lockjaw finished him very suddenly.
ing the nail in, the Commercial fails TO tell
The Kaufman Telegraph says that the
country is jubilant over the catering pros
poets for u cotton crop. Not in several
years has there been IS large crop gath
cred as the present indicates. In some por-
tions Of the county cotton picking has be-
gun. Corn is better than reported when
the drouth hung heavy over our county,
and dropped the heads of the honest hus-
bandmen.
The Mineola Citizen, seeing, in local
notice in the STATESMAN, that our friend
(the special friend, as is commonly sup
posed, of the ''fact and fancy MANI, Ole
nick, was in New York, thinks it good
time for US to get religion. II We attempt
it we might be bothered to death with tel
egraphic dispatches and specials and the
like, and therefore we decline to steal q
march on our ancient friend. Hsfg
"Waco -four ls advertised in Marlin. Mar
lin talent is to expend itself in the minstrel
business" We clip these lines from the
Eraniner. They are malicious. Marlin Is
the place whence the Grange candidate for
gubernatorial honors emerges, and the Err
anginer calls it empty minstrelsy. The Es'
Gniner, now that it is an organ Of the
Changers, must sing low when it plays on
that other string. Lang is in for it,
1t is horrible story told by the Jimpls.
cute. Tom Knight resented the interces-
sion of Anthony Coon, Knight having beat
en- his wife and daughter the sister and
the niece of Coon. Tom broks and para
lyzed Coon's side with bar of iron, and,
hurting it at him, the sharp end pierced
his brain. Tom then drove the women
away and fed the country. This occurred
on the fifteenth instant. The parties are
negroes. fs
When lightning kills cows it splits their
horns, as happened when four cows of w.
L. Vernon, on Grand Prairie, were slaugh-
tered last Friday; but when sthornsn Of
''chain lightning" kill men it splits their
stomachs and shrivels their little lives, and
their faces, ruddy for a time, grow livid,
and then come JIM jams and kick and
CULVER, and man and beast lie down to-
gether already cooked before they enter the
basement of Kingdom Come.
The Denison Nescs says that with the sx-
ception of the Galveston Neos and the Waco
Reporter, the Dallas Daily Commercial is
the only eight column daily in the State of
Texas. The STATESMAN boasts of its we'll
filed seven columns and il they do not con
tain as much as the broadcast and largest of
our cotemporaries the. reading public is
greatly at fault. To-day, however, the
STATESMAN is an eight column daily.
We are indebted to Mr.. Wiley Jones,
President, for copy Of the rules and regu-
lations and premium list Of the second an
nual fair of the Association of Waco. It Is
a most tsstefully published volume, and the
result of skill Of Mr.. J. w. Golledge of the
Examiner establishment. The managers OF
the State Fair here at Austin should exam
inc carefully this publication of the modus
operandi Of this well organized fair.
The reason the Changes manifested not q
little prejudice against lawyers as class,
may be found in the fact that the present
Congress, composed of 1886 members, 200
lawyers, fifty merchants and the rest editors
and farmers. In the United States there
are 40, 600 lawyers and 2,500, 900 farmers,
therefore, there is one lawyer in Congress
for every 200 of that profession, aud only
one farmer for every $50, 600, as the latter
class in reality, only number eighteen in
our national Legislature. fst7f
Governor Hubbard made magnificent
speech at Pittsburg few days ago, as did
that solid gentleman, Col. Douglass, who
accompanied him. They want Pittsburg
to have access to the exterior world and q
cheap railway has the same relation to tenn
poral, as that 'sstrsight and narrow way
we read about to eternal blessedness, and
that's the reason the STATESMAN is always
telling about a narrow gauge to Lampasas
and Luling and the prismoidal to the stone
quarries. ~
Sheriff Lindsey, OF Weatherford, con-
founded an excellent gentleman-we know
he is, because be pays for and reads the
Weatherford zimes-with Crockett, the
murderer of Woods. Chas. Walter Is the
name of the individual wrongfully arrested,
and, that he may be bothered no more
about his resemblance 70 Crockett, be Is go.
ing to have his nose broken by freshly inn
ported Emeralder, or otherwise hattened
out. But it was Sheriff Lindsey who felt
mean about il. @ -
When q good msn takes cotton-stalk
with thirty or forty bolIs on IL 70 the coun.
try editor, in order TO get himself and farm
advertised, he should never forget, before
leaving, to pay the printer for the work
and the editor for the time and labor re-
quired 20 put the story into English. Il Il
very strange, but the average Texan thinks
that the average editor lives by absorption
from the winds of heaven and with only
now and then, OF course, an occasional
twist at q whisky keg.
Two bands Of good men, we might call
them :. rings" II they weren't such good,
disinterested, honest, public-spirited fell
lows. are fighting fer the local school fund
at benson. The one Of these rings repre-
sents the county; the other, the city dads;
and between them the great school goel
to perdition, the Peabody fund Is lost, and
the people lose faith IN the Bag Bonanza,
and neither the school nor lottery vii
draw, and thus patriots In Denison IS vel
as in Austin figure grandiy and gioriously
in the worlds eyes.
Gen. w. p. Edgarton, who weighs fen