The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-24

is r. A. Barnwell. Tie was caught going
through fellows trunk in a Dallas tavern,.
confessed, sought to pay out with a watch
and openly fled. He Is from Georgia, and
was it against the emigration of such peo-
pie that Georgia legislated SO astonishIngly
last year.! asa Aia Ls
1t is we'll to have an accurate knowledge
of heather mythology, but when an editor
exposes his learning he has no right 10 ex-
pose The modest deities as does the Neosb0y
when it says that this section has been
standing greatly in need of the rejnvenat-
ing blessings Of good old Pluvius.' But,
to the satisfaction of all, this need was
banished on Sunday evening last, as she
raised her fioodgates and thoroughly wet
the earth for miles around"
Some of the piously inclined newspapers
of Texas are talking about Thanksgiving
convention by which the people of Texas
may evince their gratitude to the Great
Giver of al! good, for glorious crops that
now burden Texan fields and bless the
homes Of Texan farmers. A good many
Changers, we are sorry to say, don't believe
in special providence as much as they do
in hard work and McCormick's reapers, and
the convention is likely to prove a failure,
When a good -natured editor gets little
wedding wine and cake, and goes properly
and modestly about the business OF putting
the bride as he ought, the first thing he
does is to- declaim magnlloquently about
the brides trOusseGu, and there isn't one
rascallY blacksmith out of any doing set
ting type who won't spell it trousers. /"
The bride gets mad and the fool of hus-
band demands satisfaction, and the editor
has to explain that, of course, it is the other
fellow, just now, that wears the breeches,
and thus at last peace is restored. -
1t is curious how all-pervading is the
opinion over at Fredericksburg that very
many people should be in Jail. John Sa,
brislie's conscience moved him in this direc
ton. and he tried to get in, seemingly, tc
thresh one Krug, already an hdbitue of the
den; but failing, was tried for an assault
and battery on the jail and fined Eve dol.
lars. Jails have rights which even Sabris-
kies are bound TO respect, and it is as great
crime to break in as to break out, and
Sabriskie, first to discover the fact, becomes
as worthy Of immortal renown as Christie
phe Colombo.
All Texan towns are ravaged by picture
makers. Everybody is asked to have hi
likeness taken. Now, when we have beel
talked to confdentially on the subject W,
have always advised our friends to save tn
money to be wasted in oil and varnish. w
believe the art of portraiture will rapid,
advance in excellence and that-well, If thl
girl is willing the picture fellow better b,
postponed and procrastinated and put off
In fact, the art is progressive, and sine
pictures are now made by mechanism WI
don't see why every fellow shouldn't max
his own little hkenesses. ~
Mr.. George Pendleton, just in from th
frontier. states that the five highwaymeI
who robbed the stole and stole the stag
horses at Leon Springs passed near Kerr
vile and stole horses there. They wer
pursued by Capt. echriner, were overtakeI
and one of them, named Cole, was mortal
| " wounded. He gave the names of thl
rest. All Of them lived on the Llano
Their names are Smith, Wilson and Greg
ory. The name of the other is forgotten
by Mr.. Pendleton. All the stolen horse
were recaptured, aud the there's we're still
holly pursued.
Ben Long, contributor to the pages 0
the DalIas Commercial, is brilliantly flgura
tive. lie tells the people that he is "goiDl
to kick of, - not his boots as one woul'
naturally expect Of q digniied sfUhitel
States Commissioner for the Western Dli
trict of Texas" bnt "a meddlesome Gu
that barks for the Herald" But meantim
the Her0lfs - dog keeps barking an
has been long in towering rage and "a
long and the short Of the whole matter
that people abroad don't appreciate sue
publications and newspapers ought not {
print them.
Dallas is certainly an awful place. Onl
the other day woman, like all other inns
cent, helpless females, was wearing q hai
pin, as she thought, very harmlessly in he
hair. She was going along thestreet qniei
" when a house Topped over and stril
ing that hairpin perpendicularly drove
deeply into her Uranium She was danger
ously wounded and knocked down, bl
the house was saved. Dallas papers &c
this story and people interested in az
manner In haiFpins, or IN the stability
real estate in Dallas, OF IN that famous dit
which tells that
@HeE heel Kept > rocking
Over hole ~ her stocking"
should know the facts
The school lands Of Grayson county Al
located in Clay and Archer counties, an
cover some very valuable copper Mines
company has offered 10 Lessee these min,
Tor term Of years, paying Eve dollars pi
ton Tor the ore, and % take ont annual
5000 tons OF more. Wouldn't Il be wiss
70 follow the example Of the good peopl
who were 20 anxious 70 finger the cash con
ing from the university lands ~ Waco, az
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