The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
Judge Pryor Lea takes hopeful view of

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,he situation and thinks Tilden viii win at
last. This would be true IL Grant did not
/ hold all the trumps aud he is not afraid to
1 play them.
1 Hearnc is better place than !, uscd to
be. In any event. W. Carey Craze, D. D 3,
mas been preaching there and the people all
IIearne hun, aud crane-iolOgically there is no
1 greater preacher in Texas.
! The Register is always saying fine things
about Bandera county, and because, we inl-
| agine, there is q small Mormon settlement
over there. Ornithologists have ever said
that Martins are eminently gregarious.
The boy that was distressed last Sunday
when leaving church because he feared he
might not recognize his dad in heaven,
has a mind at ease now. His mother told
| him he could not miss the old mans rudy
nose.
Gen. W. L. Cabell, OF Dallas, is selling
an o'caginous plow. Oil oozes out of ii on
the mole5osrd ard the sod does not adhere
TO it, and the General is pronounced great
public benefactor in prairie black land dis
tricts.
I The Dallas Commercial is amazed that a
rude countryman, of whom it tells, had
never seen lemo2. It's not wonderful
He had never been squeezed in Dallas, and
| had never been in Austin where the vege-
| tables grow.
The world is surely bankrupt at last. We
heard whisky-guzzling loafer say Sunday,
i at Pecan street corner, that 'tthe world
| owed him living" Il must either bust
or turn the great lakes into uutaxed whis-
Ky distilleries.
Brenham didn't slaughter a turkey on
Thanksgiving day and the churches were
! tongueless. The uproar in South Carolina
Florida and Louisiana silenced them every
where and Grants piety will be sorely
wounded.
| The Burnet Bulletin denomnates its
''Facts aud Fancies" Texas Shorts"
| When it captures ours we can't help
| thinking that 1t has been taking shorts.
But the grist would be no better if it did its
own grinding.
| David Culberson's departure for Wash
ington is announced, and Congress meets
Monday, and there isn't the same avoirdu-
| pois of brains by good deal in Texas that
there was before he and Throckmorton and
Reagan departed.
Ennis went on an awful bender when
Tilden was elected and now the people are
beginning to see how they are likely to be
cheated, and the town swears nightly.
Grant hasn't concluded, however, to send
/ regiment to Ennis. = g
A little boy three years old, son of C. F.
| Taylor, amused himself with friction
matches in the cellar of his home. He set
s-e-to the house and was burned to q crisp
| before he could be extricsted. The Veto
ria AdcOc0te tells the shocking story. so
Dallas flour is accepted as faul:!ess in
Rio Janeiro, and the Commercial lifts its
beaver to the Emperor of Brazil end, tip
ping him kindly wink. suggests that Dali
las is the center of the universe, if not OF
the whcat-growing world.
Major Penn was still inveighing against
the vices Of Dallas last Thursday, and still
begging sinners to repent. It Is big Job
for Dallas sinner, and we don't see how
the Major stands up to the rack, fodder or
no fodder, SO herolcelly in Dallas. ser
The Mar'in-spike says, sensibly, elf we
want foreign news, or news from New York
or st. Louis, we should buy the papers OF
those places" The ID. IS. only proposes to
tell mankind everything that happens in
those parts abou. Marlin. p
Soptdiu noNcll1 dLttuueu tue IeSIiV2t
given Governor Coke at the Raymond
House in Austin, and SAID that the thieves
and bandits of the frontier were unusually
quiet just now. They are betting on Wells's
returning board and waiting for the result
They tell US now that Mr.. Harrison, of
the Pullman Palace Car Company, at Hous.
ton. has investigated she saponaceous facts
| to which we alluded, aud Pullmsn's palace
cars are now supplied with the best toilet
| soap. He always does the clean thing.
Mr.. Henderson, who undertook to build
| the Dallas and Wichita Railroad, SAYS he
has the spondulix to extend it to Denton,
| and again Dallas is flushed with hope rather
than whisky. The Austin and Lampasas
road doesn't seemed to be flushed with any
thing.
The ''locai" of the Sherman Register, in
a queer, mysterious way, intimates that
there is going to be bloody work in North
ern Texas. Martin is awful mad, aud was
last seen tearing away up the dirt road to-
wards Dcnison. He is supposed to be af-
ter Murray.
The circular saw is not only used as a
gong at the hotel, but the Banner should
know that people who dine there should
gestion. That gong is u warning not to
overburien the gearing of the stomach's
saw mill.
McNelly, the terror of cvii-doers, is
wanted IN BRENNAN. SIX desperadocs, led by
a diabolioal woman, assaiied a house az
night, and shot at The flying occupants
again and again, robbed the helpless wife,
took her child, elk years old, and have
gone west.
Col. II. T. P. Allen, of Bastrop, Texas,
who commanded regiment OF Texas in
fantry, has invented a type-sctting machine
and type-writing one. a firm in Phila-
delphia has undertaken the mandatory of
the same, Col. Allen to have one-balf of
the profits. -.
Tom Scott did start from ct. Louis with
the jolly railway managers and owners who
were here half an hour last week, and we
were hardly mistaken In saying that he
was ripping round incog. We guess he is
still cogitating about HuntiDgton's devil
ment here in Austin.
DR.. Sherman's Prickly-Ash Bitters are
working wonders in Texas. The life with
which the Galveston Ne,os takes hold Of
them is wonderful; and the STATESMAN,
owing to their invigorating effect, viii EN-
large to a thlrty-two column daily before
the end of the present week. .E1o
Plantersville is growing, prosperous
town in the southwestern corner of Grimes
county. The place grows because it has
excellent schools and churches and there is
no pistol practice there by red-eyed roughs.
They hang murderers over in Grimes and
bulldozers don't frequent those parts.
The Brennan Banner says the Appeal-POs
has new head. We had never heard it
intimated that the old one was well worn
or otherwise out of fix. The APIS era
MUM, since we came 70 think about il, has
been for some mouths a little cranky shout