The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-22

The inducements to counterfeit nickels
only arise in hot weather, and if the Federal
court would stop the business it need only
clap its heavy mailed hand on the street
railway. The lazy people must have nickels
in order to ride.
The Galveston Ne'cs says man, poor
stranger, IN that city, attempted suicide by
shooting him self in the ear. It's them ears
that always identify them. he is from
Weathcrford, and the GROWERS quest had
it right 1t is Dock A.
They have brilliant city attorney at Hen
derson, who flashes forth, too, among the
women, and his speeches are iridescent with
splendors of wit, and he IS prone to say
bright things as are sparks to is upward,
and he is called Spa-kman. .-.
They have been eating slew fish" al
Indfanola, caught there, and weighing sos
pounds We guess it was Shakspeare's
fishy old Shylock who has been taking sew
eral pounds of flesh since the old play
wright first heard of him.
The Waco Stock Reporter proposes the
slaughter of dogs, but the police won't do
it, and the stock of dogs reported by the
| Reporter is immense. The people there don't
like sheep or school children unless afflicted
with fieas and hydrophobia.
The Age wants to know, you know, how
one alderman Thomas happened to know
that $50, 900 blank Narrow Gauge Houston
bonds were in somebody's safe, and yet the
loquacious alderman never talked about it,
aud he is talking alderman.
Derroset, the jailor at Palo Pinto, is sus-
pected of completely with knaves in effect
ing the escape from prison of one John
Starr, shooting star of the first magni-
tude, who has blazed and flashed frequent
ly among lesser lights out West
The reason the boys are all sober In Hills
boro is ascribed to the fact that the pretty
girls over there have roped the last one of
them into the temperance society, and to
smell it on ones breath is fatal to sly kiss
ing, and you know they don't drink.
The death of Col. Joseph Moreland, a
brother-in-law of Mirabeau B. Lamar, is
deeply deplored in Freestone county, where
he had lived for many years. His wife pre-
coded him one week to the grave. Mr..
Moreland was once citizen of Austin.
They skin fellow who has not bathed
in six months in Navasota, and swing
his hide as an alligator skin sign board
| in front of a leather store. To lay the
dust in those parts they employ dozen
water carts daily, 1t still rises from his
hide. ylt .rE.a
There are not in the valley of the Ohio
more charming women than the daughters
of the late Hon. Mr. Disney. They own
broad acres in Texas, awarded their fathers
for services rendered the republic, and may
we not hope that they will yet make Texas
their home.
1t was nice little Radical fight, all in.
side the happy family, at Huntsville. In the
jolly meeting white adventurer was shot
by negro who yentured too much. The
white scalawags were driven away, but the
negro who shot the white fellow was killed
on the spot. 1oa ..iqs q.
Dallas is mad, very mad. A house was
robbed and Mr.. Lively, who, with others,
attempted to capture the burglar, was shot
and killed. All this happened at Davis,
twelve miles from Dallas, and thus Dallas
/ was deprived of the immediate effects of a
first class sensation.
The. Methodists are running a rousing
camp-meeting away up in Bosque county.
The whole country is aroused, crops ART
fine, the condition of things in this sublu-
nary sphere is eminently satisfactory, and
Bosque would prepare for the world to come.
Its head is entirely level.
Branham, who has been in the country
for some time, near Denison, sick, on hi:
own recogniZance, came in Monday and sur
rendered himself to the sheriff, and is now
on his way to Ward, Dewey & Co. for one
year. He is no murderer, and should moi
go down among thieves.
They have arrested fellow named F. w
McInterf for making counterfeit nickels
They didn't find his moulds, the Commercial
says. There is a set or two in Austin which
the Dallas court can use in effecting the
, conviction of McInterf. There's nothing
else wanting, it seems.
The Goliad Guard is fierce in its denunci
alton of the Denison lottery. Cuero didn'
draw worth a cent, and therefore Cuero
too, is enraged and then 1t gets pious anC
!, sees how painfully immoral is this inferna
lottery business. 1t is exceedingly wicked
when fellow don't win.
Tue Dallas Commercials local page i
adorned with recitals of facts, incident t
the wretchedness of poor girl from For
, Worth, that should only be seen in tn
pages of the Police Gazette. For all that
F. s. Cloud, the confessed villain, shout
3 Ue HdnSeu 10 lamp post
Twelve hundred persons have signed
i paper in Dallas asking Mr.. Goodnight t
serve the unhappy town in the constitu
o tional convention. He will assent, an
9 then if Dallas don't always have goo
r time it will have glorious good night.
: generally runs late anyhow.
Six persons at Pilot Point have gone ma
y as March hares. Is there coniuror in thos
Q psrtsl Do they feed on legs of horne
e rogs2 Or inhale the breath of tarantulas
= Or scratch themselves with centipedes? o
lash themselves with singing scorpions
Or do they read the Neaos Echo?
o { Cotton has ceased to grow, corn 81
r bushels per acre, and no rain for sevent.
r seven days at jefferson. The Jimplecute
very dry. but that's Its normal condition
4 We mean to say it never objects to abor
!. three drops. It's the Leader that can't /
y induced to worry it down.
= When Dan McGary gets hold of the Brel
ham Banner he makes it very readable an
i goes for the STATESMAN in the liveliei
manner. But Dan is mistaken. The STATE
;, MAN doesn't get angry--not when CONVEX
: tione assail it. We are too sharp for thai
. We will pay them all to do that.
Twenty mean, long-horned cattle wei
shipped in steamer last week for England
: Englishmen are addicted to beef, but not I
:, chewing leather, and, from descriptions {
y the animals shipped, it is feared, even
. they survive the voyage, that no more {
e them will be purchased by the cockneys.
: Mrs. Mullins, near Granbury, was bite
; last Monday by tarantula. She won't di
= The Tidette does not tell of the fate of tn,
tarantula. There would be no danger fro
tarantulas and mad dogs il all the MAJ
'e stones were not constantly needed TO kee
4 the Nears Echo in good humor and decel
E like.
2 Monday night DR.. T. Nichols, of Cor
Q ell creek, near Gatesville. went to h
|. sheep cote, and while there was shot sevt
> times, once Just below the left eye. TT
n nc....i., I'D Ioa.-;..r. NichoI.