The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21

II the presswork OF he CS1'nai Term
were half as good as the editorial manage
ment, il would be one Of the best papers in
the country. kE 4
The Gainesville Gaseff, has letter from
Finita " lich says the Cter0kees are terri
bly, exasperated, and are now on the war
path 1000 strong.
Houston feels the pressure Of Radical
misrule at Washington. Three firms Of the
venerable city have closed doors. Austin, 1
thus far, is intact.
Corpls Chusti has no WOOL ''on the top /
of its head in the place whar de wool should 1
orter grow, y but It is becoming the great I
wool market Of Texas.
They still have midsummer over on the !
San Marcos. The north9 didn't strike /
lle' there. II did in Waco When 1t lifted the |
oyercost Of the fat man over there.
The Examiner is still wrestling With the
Governors message. Less daring papers
would not tackle It. Il contains q deal Of
valuable information and deserves 10 be
widely read.
It is said that the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road is to be extended at once from
Denison TO Mineola and thus connected
with the Great Northern.
Do not forget the railroad convention in
Austin on the third prOximo. All coun-
/ ties from the Texas Pacific to the Gulf
coast will be represented.
Palmer Greenwood and Mr. Kane and
Greenwood's brother had lively fight few
days ago in Hillsboro. Kane was killed and
Greenwood terribly wounded
The Corpus Christi Gazette is now admir-
ably we'll "groomed and stndded,with beau
ties, aud tells all that men would know
of the cattle crop.
Pickpockets are found now in Texan
railway towns, and ply a thieving trade
among the unsuspecting innocents from all
quarters of the South
What is 1t that Woolfork has discovered
at San Marcos while digging for treasures
buried years agone by Mexican banditsl
" ont the Free Press tellq
The grand jury at Newsecho, sometimes
called Lockhart, found one hundred and
twenty-twO true bills. The Echo was not
indicted for missioner"
Is The Houston Telegraph is among our
most trepekaRt exchanges. - Waterman.
That accounts for its devotion to the
Morgan canal business.
A gentleman Of Galveston presents the
library of that place with one hundred
erous to our Austin LibrarY2
The Rockport Transcript has a turnip,
turned up by preacher who was never
turned down." that weighs ftho turnip)
thirteen pounds and five ounces
Caroline Riley, whose memory viii ever
smell 20 Heaven in the annals of Houston,
is the faerie queen of Vinegar Hill, in the
suburbs of that ancient capital.
Waco has no public library and no mu-
scum, but is establishing a little aviary-
Mark Price welded pretty songstress over
there last week, named Katie Bird.
The Free Press, of San Marcos, wants to
take 6reath before it gives the Deuison Gift
Concert another 6lo,o. The gift concert peo-
pie owe the Free Press on old accounts.
The Black Crook, so called, has settled
, down in all its blackness and bare legs upon
unoffending, helpless, Victimized Houston,
1t will take pile of money out of Texas.
Mr.. Paschal has taken charge of the
custom house at Corpus Christi, rice Colonel
Plato. What curious lot of names, vio-
lating all laws of historical synchroniSm.
The Times tells us that Mrs. Robbins, OF
that jolly place, keeps the White Inn. We
suppose therefore, she '1knOcks the black
out 2 and there's no civil rights in Calumet.
The Bryan appeal thinks there is more
''brain power In Bryan than any other
place like it in any country. Nobody
doubts who reads the appeal and the Post.
The Semi Weekly Messenger is mad be-
cause it hasn't seen the SUMS face since
i Venus made the transit. Venus must have
lost much Of her dry goods in making the
trip.
The Terrell Weekly Press docs not intend
to allow the Legislature to cat, sleep OF
drink until that body supplies the State
: with suitable public school buildings and
teachers.
The Lockhart "Nesus'' g Echo should have
the two words separated above its editorial
head lines, or immigrants will be repealed,
rather than attracted by the excellent
f journal.
: If BRENNAN won't take stock in the Gal.
weston and Santa Fe road, let the builders
run line in this direction. Austin is al
, most crazy to secure another route to the
sea, and win pay for it.
The press of the State demands the final
settlement of the International railroad
question. In this most newspapers concur
that still rant about the enormities done by
! the Twelfth Legislature.
The identical nectar Jupiter used when
last on s.taren over on Mount Olympus, the
Ledger says, sis on tap and copper-distilled
in MexIa." Is Mexia copper lined aud
bottomed
! The Mexia Ledger doesn't think editorial
conventions worth a copper. They some
times advertise few people very widely
and advertising, the Ledger must confess
is good thing.
The Sherman Register is satisfied tina
the present system of public schools Is Z
farce, and needs the attention of the Leg
islature. 1t naturally objects to the swarm
of superintendents, boards, trustees, etc
= Let US reform.
Won't somebody supply the Daily Herald
, of San Antonio, with q new sunbonnet t.
S restore its lost complexion The Legisla
ture will send down the International Il
' take it in out of the wet.
0 Gussettville pays the pedagogue q gooC
salary and boasts of its fiourishing academy
: The people there, Hercules-like, help them
selves and don't lean lazily and worthlessly
upon the State treasury.
, The Huntsville Independent says tha
= saunders, who killed Corn at Huntsville
is still at large" The boot is on 'tothel
leg, and Corn is still at large, and killing
: people Unfortunately in these parts.
1t is a strange misapplication Of term
when the Galveston Daily Times speaks o
a clog dancer as an drtist He does it col
auoTe, Grec Plaisir, cum delecto, stans an an
ped0, no doubt but is no artist
who's afraid ln asks Phil Sheridan
Not he. No, no. He has no regard 70
his own fame or the opinion of posterty
e and is only rude soldier, say his spolo
: gists, not knowing what he does.
They are holding taxpayers, meetings il
n Eastern Texas, and there they all want m
. International road built. It viii augmen
population and the value of lands especial
= " IN the West and lessen taxation every
where.
Mrs. Bette Branch proposes to food th
i, country with people. She has had six chi
4 dren at two births, and still lives at Marlin
! Gen. Robertson IS not connected. We be