The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30


GERS of Houston, have been acquitted of
the charges made against them, of stealing
in office.
Several people in Waco are in favor of
Why not practice it as in Dali
las, beginning with condemnation of the in
ternal organs?
The divorce suit of Bridges v. Bridges,
pending in chancsry court, is now on trial
In a distant city. The result involves sew
eral people of Texas.
George B. Loving q Bros, cattls-drovers,
have gone into bankruptcy. leaving q large
number of people in Texas with the bag to
hold. The liabilities are very large.
Green, of the Athens Courier, is in love,
the Palestine Allocate says, with a red
headed woman. An artist says that red
aud green-we don't recoIlect what he said.
Capt. Dave Terry was shot, probably NOR
tally, in Harrisburg, on the twenty-third,
by man named Cummings. The difficulty
originated about money bet on a horse race.
A negro, Aft. Lester, at Marshall, shot
Joseph Dillon through the body because he
protested while Lester was beating a help
less negro woman. Dillon will die, but
Lester has fed.
The Young Mems Christian Associations
OF Texas are in convention at Houston, and
the impress of their sweet presence viii, be
hereafter visible in the pious countenance of
the solemn Telegraph. 81
Every gentleman and lady of taste, visit
ing Austin, carries away perfect likeness,
taken by the celebrated photographer,
Marks. His pictures are kept as specimens
of art throughout the country.
Col. Horace Cone delivered square
speech when he presented circular silver
service to Sheriff Ashe for his perpendicu-
lar conduct when he defeated the ring that
sought to wrest prisoner from HIM.
DIR. Swearingen, to whom the care of the
hospital on the. other side of the river was
assigned, has been emlnently successful in
the treatment of his patients, and there are
no new cases and none outside the pest
house.
They have church on wheels and drawn
by a mule in Dallas. If those Dallas sim
ners won't go to church, the church will go
to them. The injunction Thou shall
mo- covet thy neighbours ass" doesn't apply
to this church-compelling mule.
served under Gen. Putnam, but has never
since been about Crackers Neck. He owns
a PAIR of G.. WIS socks, and will knock
them off anybody at Philadelphia who ques-
tions his supreme antiquity. He is 1877
years old.
Waco has "a jay A. ]. Byrd for mayor.
There is ''coIored" superstition that OBJ
ta1ns everywhere on the rice and sugar
plantations of the Gulf States that these
birds go to Ill with the mails every Fri
day, and Waco is evidently recovering from
the impression.
A burglar has been cleaning out the
money drawers and trunks of innocent peo-
pie in Giddings. They need a whipping
post sadly down there. The number of
idlers and dead-beats about the street cor
ners would be lessened one-half, and decent
men could be chosen to local offices every
where.
Referring to the terrible slaughter of peo-
pie by the adventures and blood tubs that
seek fields of excitement on the confines of
Texas, and especially referring to the terri
BILE deaths of VIM. II. Gazeley and his son
at the hands of Aaron Burleson, the Age
asks, when will it end? The Legislature
must answer. = Ha.
A fire in the city of Houston, on last
Monday night, consumed SOL, 500 worth of
property. The losers were Mrs. J. R.
Morriss building, worth $50, 600; r., r.
Bond, $25, 900 in goods; Mr.. Sterne, $685.
900 in goods; State of Texas, $500 in guns
and ammunition loaned to the Light Guards
Winch s. Scharfer, 500 in books. The
building had no insurance-goods were
partially insured. t...
The Telegraph, with fearful eyes, tells of
the downfall of the old government China
tree beside the "Old Capitol" IN Houston.
The old building itself will go before many
more springs come and pass-the old house
that may be called part of the history OF
Texas-the Old Capitol, whose walls have
echoed the eloquence of Houston, the logic
of Rusk and Arson Jones, the poetry OF
Lamar, and the keen wit and sarcasm OF
Three-legged Wilhe.n gito
Sabert oglesby, living in Coryell county,
was one hundred years old on the eleventh
day of last February. He was at the battle
of New Orleans, and claims to have COM
manded the division next to the river. He
draws pension from the United States
government. The old gentleman makes
himself useful by cutting wood necessary
for fires and carrying it in the house. He
should visit the Centennial with the Mexican
war veterans. i -+-s - A
The oakville Tribune says: son the
evening of the seventeenth, just after
nightfall, Mexican was shot and instantly
killed on our streets. Two young men,
strangers here, said to be from Gonzales
and Guadalupe counties, Henry Coulter ano
Johr E. Tobin, were arrested, refused bal
and committed to Jail. A mob came al
night and opened the Jail and shot this pail
and shot and killed Matt Adams and fired
fifteen or twenty shots into Charles Davies
| bed" E-e, sf s, III : .tsr-
A correspondent writing from Bonhan
says that ]. w. Jennings is not q citizen o!
Texas, and yet he supplants Parsons o.
| Chew, who, not long ago, represented
Texas at Philadelphia. Our correspondent
says that Jennings travels back and fortl
from Washington to Texas, seeking sof
places, and that Fitzhugh Numbered terri
bly, when he gave Jennings q place. Thu
letter-writer further says that A. III. Hobb!
is universally approved, while Mr.. J. is no
in any proper sense citizen Of this State
The Christian Messenger says that ''the Aus
tin sTATEsMAN, that awful lively paper ant
great moralist, that has been exhorting fol
Victoria Woodruff with true tinwardness
for several weeks, says it is absolutely nee
essary that Moody and Sankey or DeasoI
Penn shall come to Austin and hold revi
val. Austin doubtless needs them" Th'
Messenger should read what the STATEsMAl
did say, and not accept the perversions o
an ironclad preacher, and then, if the Aes
Senger think the STATESMAN have done harm
let it send down Brother Sweeney and w
will help him straighten up matters.
The Brennan Banner, with level head
says ''many of our Southern exchanges ar
indulging in what they are pleased to tel
their readers is Our Special Washington
Correspondence emitting TO state that GU
special is q stereotyped letter that is mad
! to order and published as special il
probably fifty other papers in different sec
lions of the country. and is procured a
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