The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-16

The Fort Worth Dsmeoras saws !, will
bs Fitzgerald for all it is worth aoa;,.,
the Cle0urne racer
The Tribune says Rockdale IS livepino N,
and doesn't even quote the assertion. and
the EzuaiAer will make fuss about il.
"Eugenius'' writes well and ingeniouslv.
and If be would tell facts instead of fam.
cies, we could print what he has To say.
The Gonzales Inquirer has one part of
cotton stalk, and on it are eighty-five bolls.
Ga the stalk there were three hundred and
forty bolls.
An advertiser in the Denison Ne,cs calls
for a widow lady TO keep house, stating
age and reference" He SAYS nothing of
the color of her hair and eyes
The half witted boy-he wasn't employed
at the time on the press-whn wandered
away from Dallas few weeks ago was
found last week on a farm near Ennis.
The prisoners all walked out of the Cor
sicana Jail last week and forgot to return,
and must have been from North Carolina,
since they forgot to shut The door when
they went out.
Dallas is mighty proud of Tom cat that
buliies all the dogs about town. and they
call it the chivalry cat. 1t struts miphiiiy
when the boys are looking at it, ant goes
into fight with chars0ing vehemence.
The Palestine advocate says that Charlie
West is chairman of the Committee ON Gen.
eral Provisions. He made good commits
ssry during the war, and hence is qualified
to serve the Convention no doubt.
The architect in charge of the Jail, court
house and shenffs palace should have a
perfect drawing of the three buildings
made, aud this should be photographed or
engraved and used in advertising the State
capital.
An old citizen of San Antonio has been
IN Austin and tells the Herald of the wun
derfnl improvements progressive here. He
is amazed that sixty thousand dollars are ex-
pended on our fair grounds to become the
most beautiful in the United States.
Rev. Mr.. Stockton, presiding elder of
the Bolton district, Methodist Episcopal
Church, has Just closed revival at Salado,
at which there were forty-three accessions
to the church. He now conducts a camp
meeting at Cedar Springs, Falls county.
d. c. Irwin, late editor of the Memphis
| Register, and paripatetic correspondent Of
| the Appeal, has become 'pdrtictps Grim
iRis" () in the conduct of the Dallas Herald
There was never cleverer gentleman in a
worse fix or a better Texan newspaper in
charge of jollier editor.
THE Herald says that "Dallas is too big
place to have plank sidewalks, that it's "a
| shame" etc. And doesn't the Herald see
how easy it would be just to pull few
tons of bricks out of Dallas's hat to make
Dallas pavements There's no need paw
ing it with good intentions to make ut al
of place of it.
Mr.. M. II. Goddin having sold his claim
for $40 against the State for per diem zone
day. and mileage, resIred from the Conven-
ton. His resignation was, we believe,
unanimously accepted. He was chosen by
the colored voters of his district and is
wholly unworthy Of his constituency
whisky.
Mr.. G. w. Peers aud five persons from
Johnson county were bitten by the same
mad dog, and are all en- route to the Denton
county mad stone, aud since all Eye can't
use it at once, they'll get madden than ever
and keep on fighting it out on that line if it
takes all summer. It's sad business, any
how.
Mrs. Frederick of Dallas claims to have
few drops of the blood of Frederick the
Great in her veins, and she wants the Con-
stitutional Convention to recognize the fact
and call her Kaiser, which means Caesar.
and then she will be queen at the big brew
cry to cost 500, 900 which the Germans are
erecting in Dallas.
ii. M. Carothers, who killed G. w. Kirk,
filed himself with mean whisky, and then
rode by Kinks door and shot him jusbi.fter
dark. 1t was bloody assassin's deed, and
will make foul spot and memory forever
in the history Of McDade, the village in
which the deed was done. Curothers has
not been captured.
Now we can, with a clear conscience,
congratulate the Gonzales Inder that it is
not to be suspended. We have quarreled
with it many times, but it is an honest
frank paper, and always, decent, truthful,
as it sees the facts, and ever gentlemanly
1t can be severe without blackguardism,
and sarcastic and ne yer insulting.
The scholastic population OF Mckinney
is little ovey 500; yet the total expense OF
conducting the public schools this year is
but $1S00-less than ninety cents per month
to each pupil of scholastic age. In what
other town of Texas are the schools 81
cheaply conducted9 And yet the peopl,
say the children are carefully ard wisely In
, structed.
Acting Mayor Mcclure of Dallas killed
all the wiggletails in his cistern by empty
ing into it a peck Of salt, and the Mayor il
"a Differentiated man now than he used e
be, and don't scratch and cuss any more
. The moral effect of salt was never known
> before. We used to put it on birds tail
to catch 'em, as the Mayor does on mos
quitos.
Bishop Garrett will lecture on Darwinisn
D in BOnham. The Ncus says he will ''illus
. trate bis lecture with plates and drawings
? A ''plate" Of oysters would draw best, ant
a fellow drawing" the Ne1s forward Will
it always pulls back and fiattens It's ears ant
. kicks at Col. Dohoney will also draw full
houses. The Bishop knows how to r1,
: people in.
DIR. Huston, against whom the charge i
4 preferred that he sought to burn Groesbeek
4 is 10 be tried this week at that place. 4
! letter-writer states that the prosecution il
4 instituted by partisanship. but the Groes
] beck Democrat thinks the Doctor trouble
some citizen. The only witness against hip
0 was in Jail, and this TACT is stated by tb
= De1nOcrdt.
e The Rockdale Messenger, now bLweckl
e and excellent. thinks that James Boyles
: who endeavored 10 burn the ice factor
J here, is the same man that killed, in 1873
DISCREET Clerk w. NJ. Williams in the cour
y house at Came.on = five feet sight inche
: high, saIlow, receding chin, light baiI
: twenty five years old. Fifteen hundre'
. dollars will be paid for Boyle's capture.
= People in Dallas are learning to trai
o birds from the good Italians. MockiD
" birds are fed at the windows of pretty girl
Il and the young birds never desert thei
+ homes, and cit in the windows Of house
;, and sing through the mooalit nights
re Birds, in all towns, should be protected b
/. law. and their nests never Suffered TO B
> disturbed. and the boy should be claboose,
e who stones the doves and m,cking bird
e and BIRDS OF paradise that fit about tn