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

4 lll0lAA anu " N~AlLL oAAN "A 49, Il
county. The country is q splendid corn
and cotton region. Oats, wheat, and other |
crops now look bright, green and promising |
The San Saba Meas says that the prOba-
BILE increment of the number of immigrants
next fall, because OF progressive railways,
induces the cultivation of corn and grain
crops.
]. o. Ford, of Austin, of L. A. Hagan
& Co., of this city, is doing San Antonio
and San Marcos. We commend him, in al
the relations of life, to our brothers of the
press.
The Corpus Christi Gasette and. other
Western papers recount more terrible and
more numerous outrages by1Iexicans and
Indians and thieves Of all sorts than ever
before.
People in Dallas each carry a eorlk-screw.
They use them in lazy, hot weather, we
are told, to draw their breath withal and
then use their breath to draw corks from
bottles.
w. II. Campbell, of Texas, was valedic-
torian at the late commencement of Wander
bilt University at Nashville, and H. B.
Sullivan third, and j. E. Dodson fourth
honor man.
Yogle, secretary of the Texas Press Asso-
citation, has gone and done it. The Com
nereiat welcomes his pleasing phiz in our
Gts) Hladst. Vogle's nose has, too. the
Grecian bend.
The Leader not only blesses the women
in keeping their husbands sober, but now
proposes to bless the men in keeping their
wives busy. The Leader opens school for
female typesetters.
Charles Lovenskiold, of Corpus Christi,
is dead. He was a Dane, but came to New
Orleans and was there an editor twenty
years ago. He became a citizen of Corpus
Christi in 1855.
The advertisement of a medicine to cure
inebriates, and the statement that another
can do for man that which depends
wholly upon himself, should mislead no one
however ignorant.
Troops have been sent out from BIata-
moros to dispense the robbers encamped
near that place. If they are Cortina's men
they are not to be disturbed. He is to be
the next Governor of Tamaulipas.
Asbury McWilliams shot at w. d. Raun-
savall, in Athens, and, upon the latter re-
turning the shot, McWilliams, who was
mounted, rode to parts unknown, showing
that McWilliams is man of parts.
Col. A. B. Small, of the. Texas Express,
with several other express company officers,
is holding a grand pow-wow in Denison,
and thence he goes to New Orleans to meet
our Austin friend Murrah and the rest.
The Busy Bee is always humning-bug
and if its editor were a gay fellow-''a
bird"-it would be a humming-bird. Its
grace and blessedness cannot be questioned
since its every altitude is one of Bee-atitude.
Convicts employed on Old Caney muir
dered peaceful citizen not many days ago.
! They took his gun and pistol and fed.
People are terribly opposed to the employ
ment of these penitentiary birds on plan
tations.
Brownwood is the Apital of the flourish
ing county of Brown which is most unwill-
ing ever to be black. Therefore the peo-
pie are in favor of the Constitution restric-
ting suffrage in county and town elections
to freeholders.
The Age is done for. 1t cannot poke
fun at the speightly Reporter AdUdnce any
more. Mr.. Speight has withdrawn from
the concern, and in tearing himself away,
tore down one-half the name, and 1t is
plain Reporter now.
The Jimplecute says there will be change
of venue and that the Beecher-Tilton tria
will be transferred to Dallas. The reason
is, we suppose, that the dance houses and
cGh-can may retire in disgust and Dallas be
comparatively decent.
An escaped convict, Napoleon ScantlinG
alias Harrison, was arrested at Denison las
week. The wretch had once beaten hi
little girl until she was senseless, and ther
l hung her to a tree, where she was found
4..1l s.osn,,Ad by -4aiehIa-s
The Mrs. Kent who wrote the article en-
titled. ''The Great Sphynx Of Egypt" as il
appears in the Hearne Enterprise should be
f more widely known than to-day. Rare
; poetical fancy, and exquisite taste character
lie the unpretending production.
} The Brownsville Sentinel says that Camille
e Lerma escaped from Jail in Corpus Christi
He knocked the jailor down, took brace
of pistols from him and made the land o.
God and Liberty in two days and a half
Lerma was confined for murder.
, The Jimplecute tells that the "owner of {
SOW and pigs can find purchaser by apply
ing at that Office" What will the buyer
do with him9 Blacken him into a cuffee
and the civil rights and fifteenth amend
ment make him not worth - cuss.
Two colored brethren, preachers both
are re-enacting the Beecher-TIlton nastines
: over in Navasota. The women involved
are not as fair as Madam Tilton, and TIT
"hull" of the maiden talked about il
blacker than any ''wood," even than ebony
The Sherman Courier is still wrestling
: with that baptismal debate, and has reached
Mr.. Ditzler's second speech when the Rev
: d. had got as far as infant baptism. PEG
pie interested in these matters should orde
the Courier. 1t is capital paper anyhow
The Seguin Times, since its enlargement
is full of spice Colorado Citizen.
It isn't "all-splce," however. Spic,
. would not have enlarged it. A "spic,
t newspaper always takes mixed drinks, anC
the Citizen needn't be so modest about tell
r ing it.
| The Jail in Dallas is good thing. Pris
G oners 90 in and out dd libitum And it i
we'll. If all went that deserve to go anC
remained, the pen would not hold the town
: When two go in at the front door, three
e escape from the rear, and the Dallas Jail i
almost empty.
f One q bully Texas editor tells anothe
: she lies like a dog.p Since dogs "neve
! betraY,n and the writer of the phrase quoted
must surely be gentleman, since he pre-
4 tends to be an editor, he must mean tina
his rival 'slies" curled up beautifully likI
E unto spaniel.
A few lively waves from the Gulf las
week damned up one or two streets il
Galveston-tO the dismay of the inhabi
tants. II that channel to deep water b.
deepened and widened as proposed, ole
Neptune will wash the face of Galveston
I very frequently.
The census-taker Of Houston has made
up list of the inhabitants, and finds thai
there will be about 5000. If the A9
: would stand still long enough to be counted
! the sum total of population wouldn't b
less than 30, 600. Such, in any event, il
the Ags's estimate.
The Hearne Esatepriss asks The Telegraph
. not to be selfish but divide the honors. TIL
Telegraph claims that it is the best rclss
gatheTer in Texas. We certainly know
2 paper whose renditions of the news ar
Oftener copied as ten to one. The Enter