The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

merrily regular old Virginia breakdown
II Downs don't quit riding SO mary horses
all at once.
Andwe salad the T elSyrapAis always bry-
ing-nct nelghing. That's all.
Judge Hancock aud Senator Hamilton
will probably attend the fair at San An
tonic.
II the Marshall Herald will put on its
spectacles il will find that We said the
STATESMAN colt was ssAiaay-ing, not ''whin-
ing" ThSt's Telegraph.
Gen. L. S Ross is in favor of the pay
ment of capitation tax as a condition
precedent to voting in Texas, and thus far
Gen. Ross head Is wholly level.
Lewis Wins sold all his horses to r. Tul-
hes at seven dollars per head. They are Of
the - circle stock-the finest in the coun-
try, and our informant says there are ia,
600 head"
Mr.. Hook has got himself into hockelty
IN Dallas at length by shooting Mr.. Long.
but he is still long for this world, being se-
verely but not dangerously wounded. DR..
Easily says he can cure him easily.
Mr.. Small, former head devil of the Hons-
ton Age, now in this city, says that Lynch
burg don't earn a durn. LIS used To il,
having been destroyed by fire and winds
and tempests, and otherwise, six times in
the last two years and three days.
One Thompson shot one Etendeld in the
shoulder, last week, at Dogtown. Though
the place have this curious name, IL is in.
ha6ited by people; but they will fight as
becomes a Dogtown, and therefore the
name. He was a master of nomenclature
who named it. II aA-aAA
Mr.. Smith "will light up" the Herald
says, Friday night, that the public NAV
see the lie Grand Hotel" We suppose
that this Smith is ready for couflagration.
The Herald believes il anyhow, and doctors
Will watch the event with int. n intarasf
since cases OF spontaneous combustion out.
side of Dallas are rare.
| They are going to have caravanserai at
Philadelphia capable Of entertaining three
hundred thousand guests. II will be equal
in attractiveness TO the famous room No.
40 at Ragsdale's tavern in Meridian, Missis.
sippi. A brigade was often accommodated
IN that historical apartment till squad of
| TexaD cavalry rushed through one end OF
| it to get out to breakfast, and Ragsdale
was bursted.
The Cambridge N0rthwcst says: "Mr.
McNaughtOn has returned from Denison,
where he went with load of copper ore
| taken from the mines in Archer county,
thirty miles west of Cambridge. He is
| highly pleased with his experiment; says
he realized good profit on the ore taken
TO market. He has contracted with parties
in Denison to deliver more of the precious
metal, and isnow on his way to the mines."
The Noes Echo says ''the Busy Rec still
buzzes and sings about Blanco City and pill
fers editorial paragraphs from Its exchanges
with as much ease and elegance as q topper
takes his teddy. Go ahead, brother, IL you
think there is no hereafter" Why could
| not the Netcs Echo, like the generous big
hearted Uncle Toby, take the buzzlng ia
sect to the window and, gently putting it
outside, say: go, the world is big enough
] for both you and me-" -
y The two Messengers, of Rockport and of
Hampstead, are having an awful row, and
now the Neps. Echo is sfoul of the Busy Bee
in the fouiest possible manner, and before
many days the Telegraph will be pummel-
ing the Examiner again, and then the
STATESMAN will be happy. All its enemies
will be together by the ears, and each will
have the best holt and broader space for a
bully grip on those ears, than ever blest
newspaper in row with q rival. We con-
template the course OF events with unmixcd
satisfaction. gae1 W
Here is one more from the Giddlngs Tri-
1 bitns: Another brutal murder was com
mitted last Monday night in Bastrop coun-
ty. Mr. Craddock, an old, harmless citi-
zen of this county, left home Monday haul
ing cane to mill some four miles away.
In the evening his oxen came home with
Mr. Craddock lying dead in the wagon, he
having been waylaid and shot by come I'M
known party, twelve buckshot striking him,
one of which penetrated the heart. Who.
did the killing, or why it was done, no one
can certainly tell. Shall this mans blood
cry to heaven for vengeance in vain ~
Our "fancy man. tells
| So-1bre, tempestuous clouds 81
| Darkend the sky;
| Threat'nng they hover'd and
| Fr0wnd from high Fe.-l-
| Swift fed the lowing herds ~
| Shelter 90 find;
Swift few the frighted birds
| Unto their knd.
And then he beheld Galveston submerged
and the beautiful city swept out to sea.
But for this accident and the terrors Of the
scene he would have continued the poem
| indefinitely, and all Texas would have been
delighted by its splendors and charms.
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