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

Gus ne1S-
They got up prayer meetings over His
sour. and the grasshoppers left the State. |
We heard the preacher only few Sundays
ago complain Of people for going out dur
ing prayers.
Do justice, gentlemen. The Iron Age
COPIED the article about Gen. Sam Houston
from the New Orleans Bulletin, and did not
pretend to approve what it contained and
has since said 50.
L. P. HOllomsn furnishes exquisitely
beautiful verses to the S0utkrcsterH LadeE.
Nothing like his ode to June has graced the
pages of Texan newspaper for many,
many months.
Drusilla Majors, when shot at three times
by Indian horse thieves in Lost Valley, last
week, lost all respect for the chivalrous
spirit Of Lo, and Drusills says anyhow it
wasn't naborly.
At the Llano bran dance and barbecue
several brutes got stupendously drunk and
''hollered" like Comanches, frightened the
town and made the occasion exciting and
thus delightful.
The WeatEerford Times is negotiating
for the genial, handsome, tasteful, good
named editor of our contemporary-fh
organ griHder-to send as fossil To the
Philadelphia centennial.
The Fort Worth DsmOcrat..says the Stun
nv man of the STATESMAN draws on his
fancy for his facts" If he drew on the
Democrats, and the checks were honored,
the bank would soon burst.
The Irish potato crop of Judea-arOund
Palestine-is enormous. The Advocate
makes the fact conspicuous that sons of
the Emerald Isle may accompany the He
brews in pilgrimages to that pious place.
The Reciep tells that feas flop and flicker
in endless flight about the frocks of the
fluent girls that frequent the thoroughfares
of Denton. That's the substance of the
story, but it is hard to put your finger on it.
At the last advices the United States
troops were still in pursuit of the red devils,
twelve of whom were killed by McNelly's
State troops. We have not the names of
the trooper killed or of the two wounded.
-Four applications for divorce were made
in the District Court of Galveston, on the
sixteenth inst. The law severed three
couples. in twain, and the other had to go
to work TO mend up their domestic troubles.
Pete Mccartney, the Texas agent of Chi
cago banks and proper representative Of
Chicago newspaper morals, is the son of a
Methodist minister of Bristol, England, and
his real name is Oakley. He was born in
1889.
They have grizzly meat IN the Lampasas
market We suppose the bears are killed
about the great springs, or is it that Jim
Grizzelly is the head devil of the Lampasas
market A curious name for a market
master.
If people scratched their farms as indus
tFiously as policemen do their flea-bitten
backs and shins in Texan towns where dogs
and swine swelter in sultry sunshine, Texas
would be the best cultivated State on the
continent.
J. R. Street, of the Waco Reporter, was
born and fetched up in Giles county, Ten.
nessee, which has given birth to much Of
the genius and worth of the old swine and
hominy State. he does honor to the land
of his nativity.
T. w. Ford, of Jasper, Texas, writes: 81
always expect treat when receive the
STATESMAN, and can say that have neveI
been disappointed" Mr.. Ford is an old
subscriber, and a compliment from him il
worth mentioning.
They had double barreled and Colts re
peatlng marriage in Burnet last week. and
the BULletin turned as yellow as a pumpkin
N. G. Culton and Miss Minnie g. Curry anC
N. w. Harris and Miss Sally r. Curry
paired off for life.
The Gatesville San only charges So 70
announcing candidates. Those fellows o
o. / IL. u Ill.
by using the San instead of the Neacs, anC
what Tremendous ''ad'' it Is to write one
name across the Sun's discl
1t is said the dog tax in Tennessee viii
give the treasury $500, 900 in cash and saw
halt a million dollars worth of sheep. /
it cause, too, the slaughter of all WORTHLESS
ours about towns what will the policemen
do that want to scratchQ
General ]. B. Robertson, just iron
Washington county, reports the crops a
unequaled by anything he has ever seen be
fore. The yield of corn will be large eve
!, without more rain. Some apprehension
felt about the cotton worm.
The Citizen thinks bridge across tn
Sabine will enrich Mineola and since tn
Citizen may be paid for in six month";
notes, redeemable in garden truck, th
trade across the river and progress of Mir
cola will be simply astonishing. i.
Those yaller spots where common button
should be on policemen's coats are not fugs
cious fieas, though they flicker and flare an
are kinder unsteady in the sunlight. Flea
glisten and glance around like unstead
fancies in whisky-headed dreams.
The most absurdly solemn paper in Texs
: is the Bryan appeal It is offended by th
! most harmless jest, and, unlike the Gid
dings Tribune, swells with awful dignit
and puts on stupendous airs, and the fro
of the fable is the appeal of Bryan.
There was a barbecue, bran dance an
stgander pulFn" fifteen miles below Llan
last week 2. Roothe, of Llano, decap
tated the gander, riding beneath and pull
: ing at its soaped neck. 1t was the ''gOose
that lived and the gander that died.
James Chancellor, charged with KILN
Grow, of Dangerfield, has been released o
, bond of $4,000. Much "OId Grow" hs
: been killed by chancellors and others, an
never before such fuss was made about il
, Judge Norton tried it in this instance.
They can't get the mayor Of Dallas to 6
: into the dog-killing, anti-aea breeding bus
ness, and the Commercial proposes publ
7 meeting. 1t is eminently proper, and ever
T fellow can thus have his back and shin
{ comfortably scratched by his neighbOr.
The STATESMAN says that its "Odtside
= is not patent" That may be, but til
: nature of its inside --very.-Busv Bee.
3 Did anybody invert. Bury Beef It
"inside is full Of poison and bitterness
and its latter end is disease and death.
The Herald is surely hypercriticaI. II
I; word "Texan,n in twelve months, saw.
fifty dollars worth of space and type Sc
ting In q well-regulated Texan daily new
: paper Office. The Herald may enjoy III
, circumlOcution- We prefer the brief *
jectiye.
The Weatherford 7limes publishes a lett
Z Tres, -au Uld Texan in Los Angeles, Calico
! MIA. He likes the climate but crops a
uncertain and not such IS Texans culfiVats
and the soil Is not Is rich e. ours. II
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