The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

Ws!de, general passenger agent, and
George A. Qliplin, assistant superintendent
of the northern division. are all at Dgnison.
They went thither To learn whether there is
any prospect of building the Red River and
Rio Grande rosd. II there be, they will
at once make proper terms with ''N,el's
ring" and then Fort Worth viii again col
lapse, and Meridian and many western
towns that were building hopes OF future
greatness on the iron and croS>-ties of the
ever coming and everything Red River and
Rio Graude Railway.
1t is common now at Democratic flag
raisings to put rooster in box, which is
attached to the halyards and so arranged
that the cover of the box. when the box
strikes the top of the staff, flies open. It
works like a charm. The moment the
cover flies open the rooster lights on the
top of the staff and commences growing vig-
orousiy, amid the cheers of the spectators.
Last night. at the Opera House, the long
| legged negro who personHtei the most agile
rooster We ever saw treading the boards or
! behind the footh9hts was the very biped
we would like To see Growing for ildyn.
| What infinite delight it would excite ON
Robertson Hill, and " hat clucks ol ecstacy
IN Wharton county.
An excellent young lady of Westheld,
! Massachusetts, would have a home for the
winter in private family IN Austin. Sle
would test the virtues of the climate rs it
may affect pulmonary disease. \ farmer
would buy small ranch on the Austin aud
| LampaSas narrow gauge, which he has been
reading about near Austin. II he cannot
| yet a place on the narrow gauge, he would
have from eighty to five hundred acres ar
| In H.. a.. . -
above described persons, write - Frank s.
Morse, general ticket agent OF the Lake
/ Shore road, Chicago, Illinois.
\ new citizen went to San Antonio and,
of course, his arrival was noted, and his
name was QIckenlopnr. aud in every day,
Herald the name OF Mr.. Q&cluper was among
those of ''deptrtures" aud arrivals AT
the Menger Hotel, and Mr. QScl hecam,
guerulous about it, and when b, came down
ON the local editor for All explanation h,
was told that there was such vIvacity and
50 much perpetual motion in the nam,
! Quickenloper that it kept trottug through
,ne types anyhow and gu, Of town in spite
of everything, and that it couldn't be kept
still and was always Looping III and OUT, and
Mr.. Quickenloper quickly sloped, hut wa:
neither a wiser nor better man. He sw ort
Austin that he may have peace and not al
ways feel like weavers shuttle dodgins
in and out of the Mengor and San Altoni'
stage coaches. He knows he don't, but be
heves he does.
j. j. Smith, eX captain of the United
States army, and deputy hide inspector il
Texas, is still in a vile Mexican dungeon a
Matamoros. The fact is dlsgraceful To gu
A
no crime, rots III sinking Mexican
prison, too filthy to be tolerated as al
ornament on market house hill, in Aus
tin. Smith, it seems, was very active IL
condemning the conduct of M.Xicans VIII,
crossed the Rio Grandc and arrested rob
bers or others upon territory that Smitl
deemed part of Texas, AMI therefore tn
punishment inflicted. The Mexicans pre-
tend that he was an habitual smuggler
If he were, he violated Mexican laws oil
American soil, and never infringed an.
regulation of Mexican custom houses. Tn'
whole business defined by the tariff is on
of knavery. What smugglers don't steal i
appropriated by Mexican or United State
custom house officers, and smuggling is a
honester occupation than that of custom
house Ulcers.
The Appeal Post says: There has bee
$3.50, 600 appropriated to build and pu
Bryan College in running order. There Wa
, $32, 900 wasted on it 10y the Davis Admir-
lstration, making $192 600 that the coIleg
has cost the S ate. Aud we venture th
ass rtIon that for like sum appropriate
! IN the prosecution of any public work,
better showing cannot be made i'll I'll
: , South. All OF the Professors are ptid OF
of the interest that arises from the end0V
ment fund. II the endowment fund ha
been larger, the number OF State SUDDEN
would have been increased. As it is, oni
} one hundred State students are admjtt0l
and they have the best advantage of Il
(; best educational institution in the South t,
e day, free Of charge as far as the education
e al part Of the expenses goes. And the e,
r peDses of attending this college are L
e greater than they would have,been at hom
! If they stay at home they have to eat an
have clothes to wear, and the State on
charges them two hundred dollars for fec
T. ing, clothing and giving them fire an
lights to sit 10y, and gives them a chance
a collegiate education free. What mo-
; can be asked2"