The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25

S~tSASN Juveniles as nc can transport /
20 his parti-eolored asylum.
The E1aHlinsr at last commends to the
FRANCES OF Texas the wisdom and nrofit in
VOWED IN the erection Of cotton mill. and
t9 ,.i I. Is DEAD stuck again, and writes an
edltorial enntied, Eliminated IA IA
vorite word OF the Examiner. How in Ian
guage it tries to ape great men.
Cooper and Chambers are the Judges lef.
us as legacies By the dead DAVIS olisarchv'
The late Legislature kindly left theso two
judges in such beautiful condition that
each holds court in only one county, at a
salary of $500 per annum. No Demo-
cratic Judge has such Stat take.a
The BRENNAN Banner is in good humor
now, and doesn't say ugly things, and we
rather like il. It was very ferocious at one
time. But-well-let US be friends. You
were wholly mistaken, and when you know
the STATESMAN better, viii know how un-
Just you were, to yourself primarily.
It is proposed to hire John S. Godfrey to
locate wells on the plains of Texas. He
can designate, by some unconscious power,
the spot beneath which streams of water
flow. The same electrical force within him
designates the burial place of silver and
gold, and they need him at San Marcos.
II the story told in ST. Louis paper,
that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road
has passed into the hands of the Atlantic snd
Pacific Company, be true, the Red River and
Rio Grande will be speedily completed.
The charter, just enacted, compels the
company to begin work within four months.
The killing of the young man, Cross, re-
Gently from Illinois, the NescS says, shocked
the people of Bonham terribly. Cross was
highly esteemed, and only recently had be-
come a citizen of the place. BE was anna
BILE and kindly, but, unhappily, drunk, and
Doss was justified 1t is said, in killing him.
A letter from Rio GTande City reports the
stealing of horses and that the lower order
of people in and around Camargo are arm
ing and moving down the nver. What are
the intentions of these people in arming
is not positively known, but it is surmised
and limited that grand raid into Texas is
intended.
Civilization develops itself differently in
different places. In Lampasas crowd assem-
bled around hotel where a newly married
couple were stopping, and made night hide
Gus and their town intolerable by ehdriU-
ari. There is little wit and much discour-
tesy and spice of savagery in such treat
ment Of strangers.
Why don't Dallas stop all the fuss about
it and go along and elect Mr.. Bogel mayor
Everybody is for Bogel; and now the Leader,
away up in Jefferson, says Bogel is incom
parable, and that settles the question. It'l
a good thing to be mayor of dancing houses
and the like, and Mr.. Bogel will be immor
tai for civilizing Dallas.
Mr.. Reeves, of the Legislature, is il
Sherman. "He has been through the firt
and come out puriied-without the smell,
etc.-She7man Register.
We didn't know that anything of the
sort happened to the excellent gentleman
while he was here in Austin. We nevel
once suspected it-DeVer.
And the Greenville Herald, with tearfu
eyes, announces the death of Hogg. HI
has been killed often enough to start porl
packery-so often that the hand of resur
rection can never reach him. And yet.
paragon of pigheadedness, he stands up il
his vivacious newspaper and unblushingl,
asserts that he isn't dead.
When they call on a fellow to rui
for Office in Dallas, they take the cen
sus of the place and publish it in th
Commercial to show what big town tn
good man is expected to govern. The mora
effect abroad is fine. The whole world the
secs, too, at a glance, how hard it is to sc
fellow to seek Office in Dallas.
The Rockport Transcript calls Senate
Ireland ''0ld Tige," and then adds:
He's gone, the world is dark and drear
I'm sad and lonely now
And gloomy retrospection sits
Upon this achin' brow.
Ny heart IL broke, I'm much chagrined,
He was the ahectionateat pup
That ever wagged friendly tall
Or enuRhed q breakfast up.
Total, unmltlgated pr0hlDITl0rs "a I'll.
LEADERS, little platform. 1t squats on
very comfortably, and dances over it yer
gracefully. But it never ''smilesn-not tn
Leader. It is in ecstacies about Senato
Russell's canal bill. In fact, the Leader i
cold water institution, sometimes evel
dashing it in the Jinplecute's sweet face.
Four counterfeiters, the Ne0s SAYS, O
whom our local columns tell, were arrestel
Saturday IN Coryell. They had the s'swag,
and one of the party offers to give bond 70
one-fourth of million if he could get to
railroad town. Does he belong to the rail
road ring we have been reading about
Woodruff and Miller are two of til
rogues.
The Brownsville Sentinel says that 9Th
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over one hundred miles back, is virtuall
abandoned to thieves and raiders. True
we have military posts along the frontier
but they are powerless, for want Of suffi
Gent force to give protection or to nd tn
country of the marauding bands that com
from Mexico"
Mr.. Bogel finally succumbs he hears tn
loud call, made by long list OF peopl
whose pretty names fill columns of tn
newspapers; be answers and bows, and
grateful, very grateful, and happy, an
strikes long trot. BE has speed and Dol
tom. He is broad bettomed German, "
believe, and will be the next mayor 9
Dallas.
Lodging costs three dollars IN the Dalla
calaboose, and then there are little inc
dental pickings and pilferings unaccounte
for and unaccountable, making the cost o
the city's hospitality never less than FIVE do
lars per night. Anybody who wiz 90 {
Dallas should be cognizant Of these facts
It seems that everybody going thither ha
them TO learn.
The Dallas Herald tells of the unaccouni
able disappearance of G. w. Geers, Of th
Denton Aonit0r, and we will soon have Al
other editor endeavOTing to prove before
weeping world that he. isn't dead. TIL
world loves to grieve, even as It loves 70
humbugged, and Gesfs Is finally done fol
BE, too, might as well gn along quietly an
be cremated and make no fuss about il
He is dead.
/ At Bonham, Il. H. Cross and Samuel Dos
had q dispute, the latter asserting tina
Cross was drinking and devilish cross
Thereupon Cross raised his pistol and fired
the powder scorching the face Of one Nc
Kee, who started to leave the room wit
Doss. Cross followed, firing two shots
Doss got behind Mckee, and taking pii
toll from the latter's pocket, fired, KILN
Cross instantly. Mckee was in great DANCE
from the cross-fring.
Plumbago is found In great quantitis
near San Saba. Faber uses more plumbag
than all other men in the world, and plum
bagO tells this story even row. Whethe
the metal found a. San Saba may be uti
lzed is another question. II 80, il viii 9
once lessen the cost Of pencils and multipl