The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-12


neck and he ''squealed"- the
was lncarcerated for trial, but
he has turned the tables and prosecutes the
fellows that hanged him, and properly, and
they should be made to psy for their law
less fun.
The Corsicana Obsercer says that the
pecan crop of its county may not bring as
much money as the cotton crop, but il will
paw better to gather it than 10 work all the
wear to raise cotton and pay one dollar a
hundred TO have it picked and sell it for
eight cents per pound.
One month from yesterday we will de-
termine whether Tilden or Hayes shall sue
coed Grant. But Grant still has q sneaking
notion that he will succeed himself. Either
house Of Congress can reject, without res-
son assigned, the voLe of any State. and
Morton proposes, by this process, TO per
pe;uate his own and Grants dominion.
The fairies are not at all ghosty about
Aus-in. One b. was swinging one of them
arouro about the grotto Monday night, and
somehow It's legs got tangled and he fell.
and now he says the weight that struck
him was fully 140 avoirdupois, and be
blowed like porpoise, and WAS limp as q
wet rag when he limped away.
The Rockcale Messenger says that the
scheme is already concocted and under
stood by which Jones is t. be used to de-
feat Giddings and elect E. j. DAVIS to Con-
gre IS from this district, aud any Democrat
who votes for Jones or encourages Others to
do so becomes practically an sdherent OF
Davis.
Over on Big Sandy, in the Messenger.
county, they nave debating club inquiring
whether railways have benefited Texas. II
they could find some farmer hauling cotton
to Austin or Houston, alongside the rail
road, and propelling an OK team with a
ponderous whip, they might raise the 9ues-
ton so earnestly discussed; but under ex-
listing circumstances a Gabriel could not
resurrect it.
Ia public meeting, Bonham refused to
die. Several people wanted its existence
extinguished, that 1t might evsde payment
OF $25, 900 to Tom Scott. But the majority
of Ronham's nerves and organs aud limbs
refused to peg out, and Tom Scott, not
having taken enough from Texas. will pro.
coed to gobble Bonham. The debt must be
paid.
Doc Adams-is no longer connected with
the Weatherford Times and he has hot
been of that excellent journal for several
months. 1t is carefully and wisely edited
by lively rooster, however, Mr.. Mack B.
Roach. and thus they have the two words
in queer juxtaposltion, ''roos'er" and
''Roach, and yet he is infinitely livelier
than any cock-roach.
Live Oak county voted under the loca
option law on the second inst, and the re.
suit is not known to the anxious advocates
of enforced temperance in Austin. The
story goes that we are to have local con
test involving this question 10 Travis coNn
ty. The temperance societies are talking
about it and organic ng their strength tC
assure a victory.
The San Antonio Herald thinks the ma.
rauders we " ere telling about on the Eric
river are disguised white men. They killed
last week four Mexians on Elm creek and
stole many horses. The band of highway
men, painted red, that were robbing every
body on the Llano are part of the body U1
scoundrels that are gathered at the head OF
the Nueces,
Dallas people in St. Louis had meeting
and asked exhibitors at the great Missouri
show to send their goods and wares anC
horses and csttle to the Dallas fair, and the
managers of the fair here at the capital are
urging them to come on to Austin. The,
will come. When they get into Texas they
propose to go through the State. We will
be last, and therefore first.
Over in Rutabaga county dwells one
Hickland, who contracted an improper in
timAcy with weldon's wife. Weldon tole
II. to take the Flanders mare and travel
and in this Weldon was sensible. Blu
Hickland, after time, came back to Col
lin with the female sppHrtenapce, rs tn,
lawyers have 1t, and thereupon Weldon
shot and killed him, and they all say it wa
~WGi-dez.
Rebecca Green tells her Bolivar that hi
needn't notify Brownsville that he won
pay her bills. She says she has hands and
health and will and way of her own, ant
can support herself and three children. w,
like Rcbecca's pluck, and no doubt BJliva
will see that she RECEIVES enough none.
each week to clothe, feed and educate M
children. Bolivar is hero, of course, anC
if he abandons the wife he dare not, tn,
children.
The OakviIle Tribune regards it as thu
duty of every farmer to attend his count,
fairs and any State fair that he can Gonven
iently reach. He sees new implements o
agriculture and tn, ir application; he Looks
at improved stock, and learns the names oil
reliable breeders and manufac urers, ant
goes back to his farm better educated
man as to everything which would add val
ne to his home, and place money in hi
pockets.
D. Devlin & Co. propose to monopolizt
the products of the famous woolen mills a
New Braunfels. The great clothing manu-
fac. urers Can get nowhere else such good
for gentlemen's winter and spring wear
and therefore the proposition to absorb al
the products of the mill. Why not have
wooden Inll at Austin, the very center o
the wool growing district of the State, anC
with boundless water-power and two rail
roads.
The stockmen about Refugio are just nov
branding up their fall calves or gatherin,
cattle tn drive to msrk.t. The prices paiC
for good beet cattle at aockporr are a suffi
cient inducement to owners to sell every
thing they can gather, twenty and twenty
five dollars being the amount pail for gOOC
steers four wears old and upwards. THIS i
decidedly better than making long drIv
to Kansas at heavy outlay, trouble anC
risk, to perhaps realize less return.
F, NJ. Ruudell, representing the hous'
of Brueggerhoft 3 Heidenheimer, will b.
heard from next at San Marcos, and thence
after divers baths in spark ling waters, h
goes norlha est to see whence came the
grassh"ppers. He will cork up the openinG
in the univ rse from which they emerge
and then examine the routes of Scott's ant
Huatington's roads. ana setting the loca
option law at defiance everywhere, he viii
scatter Austin goods and wares and whisk
over the whole northwest.
Rev. II. L. Williamson is II. /. (heay,
lightning p or Jos. c. Meeks, once q meeI
member OF an Arkansas conference. II
excommunicstcs MeekS, who, though 10
seph by name, utterly repudiates the MOI
ais of Joseph, and has done divers ugl
deeds, for which he is thrust out of tn