The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-03

worm 70 90 with IT. DAb people VIII totA
against whisky.
A few days since typographical error
made the STATESMAN ay something detri-
mental to the condition of the Brenham
Jail. The item was attended to refer to
the Bonham Jail. We know nothing about
the Brenham jail.
young Lady, y in the Southern Patron,
reads the thoughtles chaps Of Mount
Pleasant a severe lecture upon their disord-
eFly excuses IN shooting indiscriminately
about town. Il is to Be hoped they will be
properly regulated.
SINCE q few new species have been I'M
ported from Peru there are said to be fifty /
different descriptions Of potatoes in Texas
and elsewhere, but the smallest OF these Is /
the wit Of the Telegraph, and very few in /
the hill and miles apart
The Fort Worth Standard becomes poet |
ical and prophetic md tells that Tarrant |
county will become the kentucky Blue Grass
Region Of Texas Then there will be less
Of blue ruin and mole buttermilk in the
vicinage Of the Standard.
The people of Grsnbury pay $31, 600 by
subscription for the court house. Why did
they not invest in cotton mill Cloth is
worth more per yard than justice, and more
good is done by weaving cotton threads
than those Of legal logic.
The Baptists Of Texas deserve deep and
long and loud condemnation if they fail to
sustain. the Texas newspapers devoted es-
pecially to the promotion of the ''true
faith, as they expound and accept 1t. The
Herald is an excellent paper.
1t was a Tom cat and alligator that
fought nobly last week in jefferson. Two
bipeds, calling themselves men, did the
same in Austin at the same time. In both
cases the rabble boxing on enjoyed the
sport, but the animals didn't.
J. p. Douglass, D. A. Num- and A. j. c.
Cunningham, the nominees of the Rusk
district convention, will not be harmoni-
ously supported. 1t is good ticket, and,
unless wiser and ADLER men be presented,
should be elected by the people.
Two horse thieves came to grief the other
day near Mount Pleasant A Mr.. Cook
caught them on his horses, shot and
wounded one badly, and ran the other some
distance, succeeding, at last, in dismount-
ing him, and recovering both of his horses.
A smart boy stuck two postage stamps on
horned frogs back yesterday, and started
, him by mail to TiltOn. The horns are sig
niicant, at least, of the roughness of the
! joke. But Beecher, it seems to us, if we
are not mistaken, is entitled to the horns.
Why don't the Navasota sheriff, in pur-
suit of Chicago Mccarthy, employ Lee
Beatty, the Gonzales deputy sheriff. Beatty
! catches cattle and horse thieves by the
dozen, and even when they are playing
1 poker with greenbaeks heaped up before
, them.
1 The fortunes of the Texas press are va
. riable, but while there ara many ups there;
J only one Downs. We may modestly add,
+ thereill never be another, and Texas, like
. Xerxes contemplating the humiliation Of
/ his five millions in a century, weeps bit
terly.
r The Jefferson Bpening Guest has as it,
J. motto the words, 'sAll hail, y but there il
4 more thunder and lightning and birthstone
! aud murderous assaults upon Murray and
Kirkham than any evening guest ever be
fore made or uttered. Did this Guest come
:, to stay9
With all its confessed taste and intelli
. gence, the Leader speaks of its mail clerk
who is female; and then, too, the Leade
boasts of the skill of female composite
: who sets up poetry, and inspires the poeti
y cal genius, we reckon, of the Leader of tn
g Leader.
q Mrs. Rosa Ryan, Mrs C. S. West ant
Mrs. L. Wallace, are appointed a commit
= tee to organize centennial tea party Il
1 Austin. They could even run the Demo
d cratic party, but what they will do with tn
q proposed tea party we don't exactly under
1t Rev. T. w. Caskey is smashing spiritual
II ism at Dallas. He is capable of almost an,
e intellectual task, and above and beyond al
IL this, he has never lost, while playing th'
part of preacher, these social virtues tina
N render him eminently attractive amonI
NJ sinners.
D. One Williams, ''jeremy diddler," VIII
N is known in Northern Texas, gave a te
party over at the Hot Springs last week
y made his guests drunk and robbed them t,
Ar the last farthing. He pocketed $4,000 an,
d fled while they slept off the effects of tn
!. debauch.
The Bolton Journal condemns Bryant
8. Railroad Guide because of meagreness O
e information about Texas. The criticism
J. hardly just; but, if so, the next numbe
IS will obvlate all objections of this character
It will be faultless, Bryant says, and
- means all he says.
i They keep the children IN greenhouses i
! extreme northwestern counties. In an
)f event the Journal says nothing can b
raised there except in greenhouses" and W
> know of no part of Texas in which this d.
iectabfe business has ever been, for a singl
> moment, suspended.
= We are told, and the statement is wei
founded no doubt, whatever the detective
and so-called Department of Justice ma
= say to the contrary, that United State
A1 Marshal Purnell is not held responsible
u for Macartney's escape and will not
le Invested of the marshalship.
Kansas City is 800 miles from the sea a
~ Galveston, and 1900 from New York, an
Is there are those who still doubt the CONVEX
V sion of Houston and Galveston into a singl
IS imperial city. We said it and Mr.. Davi
almost reproduced the idea, and Galveston
q aud Houston begin to comprehend it.
lie The Palestine AdCocGte thinks the Lif
1t Association Of America won't do becaus
P it prints two column 'Hds." If it didni
advertise the people would properly los
2, all faith in it. Companies that are para
n lived by non-entity in the world OF news
:. papers are those that die of inanition.
d Foxes, tormented with feas, enter
stream slowly and going backward wit
al moss IN their mouths the heas, TO eScap
h drowning, enter the moss and are drOppe'
" in the flowing current. Waco will try th
u experiment and other towns that suffe
dogs and swine to occupy the streets.
q Frank Hammond, terrible negro mul
Is derer, was hanged in the presence OF
= mighty mob of blacks at Bryan. He die
q easily and fearlessly and deiantly, an
:. those Of the people, whose depraved taste
led them to witness such q brutalizing ex
u hibition, conducted themselves decently.
= A private letter from FRO Canyon say
the Indians passed there going south o
~ the night Of the sixteenth instant. The
were committing no depredahons comm
- IN. but Of course IS they 90 out they wi
steal every good horse to be found an