The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

nests will, when he grows older, rob houses.
Gen. ]. B. Robertson was chosen, last
Friday, president of the Hoods Brigade
Association. Benton Randolph addressed
the body, and Capt. Goree read an sdmira-
bic poem by Mrs. N. ]. Young, of Houston.
Miss Kate Hudson, an admirable woman,
of Little Rock, universally beloved and ad- |
mired, and recently welded to Eugene |
Reid, planter of Texas and on the Ar |
kansas river, died suddenly few days ago. |
| They have Mexican greaser employed |
| in Dallas to lasso all loose dogs in those !
parts and mot a sound is heard nor funeral
note as the corpses to the river are hur-
ried, and Dallas is no longer fiecked with
heas.
Innocent strangers in Rockdale have been
buying redheaded woodpeckers, surprising
them TO be hooking birds, while sharp
fellow sold one as bobtailed Bird of Para
disc. The buyers nose must have been
deaf
Several fellows and druggist and up
holsterer played trumps and became noto--l
rious at the heels OF the Beecher trial
cheap advertising dodgers. II they had
come sooner they need not have printed till
! sworn.
Judge Turner addressed the Agricultural
and Mechanical Association yesterday, Mon
day, at Georgetown, most eloquently and
earnestly urging cooperation among the
people in behalf of many schemes of public
beneficence.
The Gabriel nurseries at Georgetown, the
Democrat says, are the most beautiful and
varied in products, in vines and flowers and
shrubbery, anywhere in Texas. We have
several noisy, if not sweet, little nurseries
about Austin.
A. T. Francis, recently arrested at La
Grange for a small forgery, passed forged
draft some months ago in Comanche and
LAGRANGE should take care of the rascal.
The Comanche CHER thinks Francis very
proper villain.
Moses was tried and found guilty and
penitentiaried for five years for mule-steal-
ing at Calvert. 1t has been so long since
he first heard that commandment about
coveting neighbours ass that Moses's fate
seems hard one.
The postmaster here nlfgi remit showers,
too, if he was as good fellow as the South
ern Patriot tells about when it says,
"Thanks to Postmaster Credible for the re-
mittance, reporting, too, other partial show
ers in Camp county"
A bear loafing around the suburbs of
, Alvarado weighing 400 pounds was massa-
, cred last week by Esquire Head. 1t gener-
ally requires head work to kill tieas, and
therefore the iIefficiency of police in
, slaughtering dogs.
The Meas Echo tells of the renewed oper
ations of the terrible Sutton band of high
waymen, who have frightened Dewitt
, county out of two or three years growth.
Thirty of the pirates passed Shubenberg on
the thirtieth ultimo.
The Athens Courier says Henderson
county will make the greatest cotton crop
produced for years. Then, too, the Baptist
Church has just been reorganized in Athens,
and that fact is stated in this connection by
the watchtul, plous Courier.
j. Bedach and wife accused Ford Schiller
of stealing from his (Bedach's) store when
on fire. Schiller sued and recovered $4,000
: damages. It's valuable lesson to loose
d tongues and terrible to tiabby pockets and
e to Calvert DANES of the loquacious sort.
John Wesley Hardin is said to be the
0 right bower of Coltina, and Governor
t Coke might enter into private negotiations
d with Cortina and have the rascal put on
this side of the Rio Grande and consigned
@ to the tender mercies of Capt McNelly.
II Ed. NJ. Braden, recent newspaper Singer
n of matchless skill in the Austin postoffice,
. will discharge the same responsible func-
e tons at San Antonio. The Herald man is
> advised to keep his physiognomy away from
a open box windows when Braden is inside.
:. The Galveston Spectator reproduces an
d anonymous tragedy, in five acts, recently
4 published in this city, entitled, 1.-The Poll
v ticians in Hot Water or Drinks all Round. "
| II nDlu hannanc hat haUanff
exactly where the drinks, or anything else,
come in.
> THE Bryan appeal, despite its sensitive
ness and readiness to be r1led when a little
q harmless fun is poked at it, is a capital pa
per and deserves its evident prosperity. 1t
is only little sober-sded; but we can't, in
Il this news department of the STATESMAN, do
g without it.
II The Apaches gathered in considerable
= numbers in Las Cruces to see the circus,
and the BOrderer thinks they are becoming
e civilized. Aad thus it ever is. We are &C
/ customed to pronounce those places semi
IS barbarous where circus tents gather the
n multitude. *.
Lawrence was one year old last April,
and has a population OF 500, which is in
d creasing rapidly. 1t is located in the edge
|
a prairie, and Is a beautiful location. Prep.
arations are now beirR made to build a
o Touring mill.
e G. C. Rivers of Dallas, becomes auditor
r of accounts in the Texas and Pacific Rail
e way office at Marshall This is an extraor-
binary event. 1t rarely happens that a
e Texan finds place in railway office, how
e ever richly the company may have been en-
: dowed by Texas.
n The Dallas newspapers still insist that the
paper barrel factory must be built. We
e thought the city fathers could hold il all.
n 1t seems they can't, aud there must be
! countless Illicit distilleries about Dallas.
v We earnestly call the attention of Marshal
Purnell to these facts.
"a The blowhard General and Senator, John
lf A. Logan, of Illinois, was not wounded in the
e jaw, as may have been supposed, because OF
, the looseness with which ne talks. George
T. Bradley, of Freestone, Texas, ''winged''
him at Fort Donelson. Logan owes George
T. much of his greatness.
l. The cultivation and production of or
y chards about Waco has been grievously
neglected, and the Grange organ that was
there mistook the first apple it saw last
year for terrapin. In fact, of all agri-
4 cultural products it only had practical
= knowledge of ''old corn
u The principal editorial in many of our
exchanges is entitled, "a Word of Advice
= to Travellers" Were it not for the relief
IS given monotony by An occasional letter
E from his Excellency chucking the STATES
Is MAN in the short ribs, newspapers would be
tiresome reading this hot weather.
!, We want the Goliad Guard to have sew.
o eral little pictures of itself taken alone now
q that its, next neighber is a picture gallery,
1t and send us one. We will advertise it, and
all the pretty girls in Austin will come tc
e see, and then, o. nights-wcll, it will SCARF
II old rats" out Of the Livery stable.