The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-04

Two regroes poisoned 20 death = German
shoemaker at Brenham by inducing him 20
rink from a hottie they Brought to his
store. One negro has beer cSUght, and the
other will BE
A ladies' literary society has been organ
ized N Gainesville, a1d some pert youth,
who forgot that his nCth,r WIS q woman,
said he would donate twelve volumes OF
dime novels.
Tue Galveston Nelss and Denison Tires
are both standing on their heads this week.
S-esdy, old boysl Their truthful columns,
or opposite sides. he ike ssrdines in box,
. heads and tails"
St. Anthony 'csnoned' on Susie's little
occiput and therefore the enlarged
bump Of Susan's philoprogenitiveness
Susan's eloquence was born, too, of '5t.
Anthony's Gre" Of itching genius.
Dallas complains of the high rates Of in
terest, the scarcity of money, and its effects
on the business men Of the place. Il looks
10 the convention Tor relief, and to bear
batting for intellectual entertainment.
The Telegraph urges the pruprieiy Of
President Grants return To private life. Mr..
Grant will surely have sufficient delicacy
aud consideration TO retire Immediately on
this bare suggestion made by the Telegraph.
Lee Tan will supply any number of farm
hands from the Celestial Kingdom. He
will hire them for one or two years and
supply any number wanted. Lee Tan's
Office is near Burland's saloon, in this city.
Jerome Kearby, at Dallas, went into a
country grocery where two men were quar-
reling, and soon after one of them left the
shop, and, returning with gun, lnistook
Kearby for his enemy and killed him in
stantly.
Jose Maria de Camara dc Chanherino
was murdered and his store robbed by a
gang of villains last week Las Cruces, and
such scenes and deeds will constantly be
enacted until railways revoluhOnize the
country.
The Sherman Register approves of wiping
out all registration laws in imitation OF
Missouri. There are few negroes-very
few, comparatively-in Missouri. We have
enough in Texas-enough to pollute the
ballOt-box.
If the government do not interfere with
the wholesale slaughter of butfalOes, the
whole species will soon be annihilated as
effectuaily as mastodons. Meanwhile, Dali
las would exterminate dogs and bears and
decent civilization.
They have barbarious officials in Sher-
man, who suffer helpless prisoners in Jail,
some innocent as these ufficeholders of
crime, to freeze till their feet and fingers
rot. Have they prosecuting attorney and
grand jury in Sherman
The Valley Times is another Niobe, and
the ''talley" part Of it is at times flooded
because that story about the hanging of five
cattle thieves is wholly without foundation.
Since the bottom is thus knocked out, the
Times viii now dry up.
Hon. Baillie Peyton, of Gallatin, Tennes-
see, who served in the old CONGRESS with
Henry A. Wise and John Q: Adams and
knew JohL Randolph, and was the associate
and neighbor of Andrew Jackson, is now
travelling over Texas.
Won't the Ennis argus materialize " it.
self, and become visible to mortal eyesl 1,
is as pale as a ghost at c)ck crow. Do they
have chills over there7 Has anybody got
up big scare9 The Argus is surely plSying
Katy King aud Katy-did.
The Sanity Herald is pleased with the
negro policeman, locally famous for viola
tiOns of the Ninth Commandment-espe
cially pleased that he was shot in the leg
when making tracks from the scene of his
most brilliant recent achievement.
The Athens Courier weeps that the place
is disgraced by the presence of drunken
men, swearing snd yelling about the streets
We have heard ladies say that they dread
the drunken rufians that sometimes curse
the Avenue with their foul presence.
The Southeastern Iader does not doubt
the early convOcatiOn of constitutional
convention. The Lndez is not behind tho
scenes. We could a curious tale unfold
but there is time enough TO expnund influ
ences operative upon patnots in office.
|. A negro man was found hanging to
limb on Mountain creek, near Dallas. III
had been dead a week, and WAS partially
devoured by buzzards. A man named Dill
is suspected of numbering the hapless black
and the country is being secured for thu
villain.
Mrs. Frances II. Sharpe, the onll
daughter of the great crater, Robert I
Hayne, long ago United States Senator from
South Carolina, and peer nf Webster, dies
nn the eighth ultimO at Dallas, Texas, Sh'
was worthy in all things of his distinguished
lineage.
cow in Cuero chased a woman, the Sta
says, with an arnful of turnips, into he
abode and then licked the door knob.
They have hobby women down in Cuero, or
in any event have cows that don't know
the florence between q woman and bras
door-handle.
We forgot TO acknowledge ourselves tn
happy recipients of an invitation TO atten'
the grand festivsl given by the Knights o
MOmus ON Shrove Tuesday. Nothing couli
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handsome cards. Who in Galveston designe,
and printed them2
The RockpOrt and Laredo road will b
reduced in cost nearly or quite One-half b
becoming narrow gauge. The builder
are afraid to ask for an amendment to- thei
charter, lest the Legislators twist the roa
so that it cannot be built ut all. Roa
twlsters are the curse of Texas.
The annual inventory of cigar mani
| factories for Galveston and Houston ha
been concluded By the United States Assei
s0r, the sum total being 2 800. 220 cigars
and the tax thereon is $l0.O16 10. Thi
number would scarcely supply the loafel
ON Congress Avenue one week.
The Jail at Lockhart is occupied by a
ex-sheriff, ex-mayor and ex-United State
detective, and then, at this term of Oh
court, Lockhart sent Gen. Sam Housto
(c0l0red) TO the penitentiary. Lnckhari
like Andy johnson, in plebeian in taste
and docs not like titled people.
Ann Eliza, the revOlted wife Of Brigham
Young, says that "thirteen Of b
daughters sat in the front seats and mad
faces at her the first time she lectured.
Ann Eliza should not have sn-a-lized
their countenances az q glance, and NJ
folded their hearts by gesture.
The Rockdale Messenger hopes that for III
honor, credit and dignity of Texas that tn
Senator's views are peculiar only TO himself
and that the members of both branches {
the Legislature will see the urgent necessii
Of immediate settlement of the issue, hoI
orable TO the State and acceptable 10 II
company.
The Waco Eramine- thinks, properly
that s'the Legislature should take actiy
steps to protect the Rio Grande frnntief.
J The only final security for the frOntiC
J against savages consists inRhe censtruetio
III the International ruad, aud we actuall