The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-22

per would gU into total eclipse.
Mike Cornell shot j. G. Glover in the |
side and head, not very dangerously, at
Cedar postofice, near LAGRANGE.
Our turfmen should not forget that the
Galveston races begin on the twenty
seventh. Go down and clean 'em out.
The Bee thinks it curious that they give
Archbishop Manning 5000 guineas, when
preachers all prefer spring chickens.
Assistant Attorney General Peeler is in
Houston, and the Age man has left town
gone grasshoppering out of the State.
Governor Coke was received with dis
tlnguished public honors by the people of
Waco He is the guest of S. A. Sturgis.
The Terds Herald opposes the constitu-
tiOnal convention if held for the purpose of
ejecting the 'ins" and inserting the ''outs. "
Houston still dreams of an excursion,
next month, over Houses narrow gauge,
twenty miles to be finished for the purpose.
r. NJ. Cox is a declared candidate for the
convention, at Bolton, subject to the ap-
proval of the Democratic nominating body.
The Bastrop AdUertiSer says that John A.
Wallace twill make a good mayor of Lu-
ling" The place needs one or two of that
sort.
The Christian Messenger would have the
secular press, now and then, preach a little
genuine scriptural morality like the STATES
MAN.
Austin is we'll represented in st. Louis
and further East, among the excursionists
from Texas, by H. L. Bentley and N. L.
Norton.
The recent deaths of three dailies in
Galveston is lesson teaching very old
one. 1t affects the value of money and
brains.
One B. F. or Joseph S. Henry, a printer
and pressman, disabled the press of the
Fort Worth Standard and lett for parts un-
known.
They have found a megulosaurus-its
bones-at Dallas. 1t is supposed to have
died, from the place of its burial, of
whisky.
Rev. DR.. Young, the temperance evangel-
list, organized a strong society at Waxa-
hachie. The Herald didn't jine it, we
think.
The Ennis Nescs is weeping yet that it
didn't get to to see Vice President Wilson
when he was in Houston. % See Age,
April 1.
Mr.. Kennedy, west of Corpus Christi,
has $50, 900 acres in field, and only forty
miles of fencing, to pasture 40, 900 head OF
oat Gei. UaU11l- and Hon. JOur rr-..-y Brown
made admirable speeches to the departing
Kansas editors and others when they were
leaving Dallas.
The Central Railroad excursionists, with
Capt. A. Faulkner as manager, were at the
Laclede, in St. Louis, on the tenth and
eleventh instant.
The excursion of Kansas grasshopper edi-
tors goes bravely on and out of Texas, be-
meath banners and braying trumpets and
braying orators.
The Waxahachie Herald contains an
elaborate report from Gen. Bragg as to the
cost and incidents of construction of the So
called Waxy Tap.
Every pauper and son Of Ham and MexI-
can in San Antonio owns, each, 'about
seven dogsT' Such Is the census as reported
by the Busy Bee.
The Georgetown Democrat claps its hands
in ecstacy and wears fascinating smile
while reciting Miss Nettie Power HOuston's
ode to the doctors.
Mr.. Dunwoody, aged eighty-four, fell
over the steps of the court house in Crock
EFT, and was then taken up insensible, and
it is thought will die.
There is but one single inmate of the
Shelby county Jail, a wretched old black
thief. Ship him to Ben Butler and close
the Temple of Janus.
Red River hasn't said anything, though
its mouth is ever open, and yet somehow il
threatens, the Herald says, to deluge planta
tons along its banks.
Dallas wants some generous citizen tC
give her park, and nobody will do it un
less a guarantee be given that it shall not
be devoted to keno.
It is said that all the stealing along the
Rio Grande is done between Roma and
Corpus Christi, in the very presence of the
United States troops.
The Galveston Nelcs thinks that monte
dealing should be penitentiary Offense, il
not punished with death. Who has beer
plundering the NeOs3
They have a pious spelling class in the
Methodist Church in Dallas. Another Dial
las military company is to compete for the
prize at the Houston fair
A man named Brewer called one Stone
hard names, and the latter drew knit,
and stabbed Brewer several times, at tht
Stonewall Exchange, Dallas.
The grand jury cost Bell county, the Bel
ton journal says, S1100 last year, and ye
did nothing that might not have been &C
eomplished as well without it.
,AThe farms about LAGRANGE ara charming,
Senator Morton should visit Texas, aud SEE
towns and counties not ravaged by carpet
baggers and universal suffrage.
Jefferson had sand storm on the eighth
and, for time, nothing of that busy place
was visible. The JimpLeeute snorted like
pOrpoise, and therefore this note.
And the Bastrop AdCertiser binds wreatl
of roses about its brow, and sings of the
doctors in glowing numbers-even as it i
written by Nettie Power Houston.
4 His excellency Governor Coke was re
ceived with distinguished honors at Waco
Military and fire companies and the peopli
all came together to do him honor.
The great Southern convention Of th,
Southern Presbyterian denomination sits il
Jefferson on the twentieth Of May. w
must invite tails body 70 visit Austin.
Two blacksmiths from benson are re
ported IS drowned in crossing Red River
We suppose they were crossing with thei
anvils, having forgotten their bellows.
A visit Of Rev. James Young, Of TEN
perance fame, Is impending over Rockport
and the people are crowding in extra drink
70 be prepared for the inevitable drought.
Denison gave the Kansas editors, ven
properly, a hop, and thus they went--thl
gFasshopp s7gFasshopping out Of Texas
and Denison Il the last place IN Texas.
Another 'sunfortunafe" Of Dallas Il
tempted 70 take her life and failed. Their
was 4 stomach pump with doctor At IN
uuper end. and she came around e last
/ The Giddings Tr5ans thinks senate
; shepards the ablest speech made in oppo
sifion 70 the three million Infemationl
! subsidy bill. And where Is Mr.. Barziza
Rittenhouse, one Of the c0unterfeiseE
captured by the Federal marshal 81 thi