The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

horse thief and ex-penitentiary bird on the |
twelfth. near Gonzales.
The Leader wants the time extended for
the completion of railways, that forfeitures
OF land grants may be avoided.
Gen. J. B. Robertson pronounced an ex-
celIent Grafton, that was greatly applauded,
before Hoods Brigade, at Bryan
And now'the bilious, bellicose Leader de-
nounces an editorial OF the Marshall Herald
as ''false, malicious and cowardly."
Gen. John j. Good has gone centennial
ling, and there can't be any more celebrs-
tions and things in Dallas for several weeks.
They are going to bore an artisan well
at Fort Worth and contract is about to
be executed with the Democrat to do the
job.
The Legislature has devoted itself main
ly to Western Texas matters, and yet the
San Antonio Herald still bowls for separa-
ton.
Col. Culberson will hardly have any OPP
position as candidate for Congress. There
is none yet developed, and should not be in
his district. .
They have not captured the savage
Gregg, who shot and killed little boy in
his watermelon patch near Hampstead.
Fifty men are after him.
While SittingBull was slsughtering Gus
ter's braves, Sheridan was the sitting ass
presiding oyer a body of jolly junketers in
a carousal at Philadelphia.
Why don't the Neaos-Echo and San Anto
Mo Herald send their huge molars of ex-
| tinct animals to Swante Palm, of the State
Archaeological Society at Austin ?
All over the State people are preparing
to visit Philadelphla, to be there when the
representative orator of Texas delivers an
Grafton on the ninth of September.
Dallas will act wisely to employ w. B.
Denoho general immigration agent. He
has infinite energy, prepossessing manners,
is a capital talker and thorough gentleman.
The Herald tells that ArkansiaHs are
leaving San Antonio. There is no "sim-
mon beer" and dogs are taxed, and there
is rarely a circus, and Arkansas is DIS
gusted.l ....a
The archaeological story from Austin,
descriptive of sums in Western Mexico,
that appeared recently in the New York
! World, is going through the ''patent out
Sides" ..r
We cannot print the matchiess Grafton of
Mr.. Evarts, bat it will be sent abroad in
| pamphlet form, and every citizen should
study the philosophy of the great orator
and jurist. o. j.. .r..- ri. a
Freestone county, full of intelligence and
enterprise, msnifests keen interest in the
success of the road from Waco to Palestine.
Col. Hoxie is going over there to stimulate
the enterprise. a-...-. ......L ..f e.
Mr.. Sunny Broughall, of the Sunny
South. is doing Corsicana. Broughall looks
like (O the little Corsican anyhow and
may stick over there. He ought to be
planted somewhere.
Farmers living about Austin, never for
getful of glorious crops, hardly speak to
come to town. Hay seed In fellows
hair is the feather in his hat.
Rev. w. Carey Crane is preaching cold
water, and plenty of it, to those awful fell
lows In Dallas. He is a felicitous talker
and accurate thinker, and his head was
level when he tackled Dallas.
The Tehuacana University wants all the
old law books the lawyers can spare If
the unused books of this town were sent
over Little & Brown could not create such
a library as Tehuacana would have.
Major Marks, the photographer, will be
one of the officers of the association OF
artists that convenes next month in Phila-
delphia. He is an artist, even as there are
blacksmiths making quasi pictures.
About fifty Indians were depredating on
the upper waters of the Colorado on the
eleventh inst, and there was great alarm
along the frontier. The Apaches are max
| ing demonstrations west of Ell Paso.
James Newcomb is to run a campaign
Republican paper. He awaits, we suppose,
the loosing of the Dead Lock, when money
can flow out of the treasury into the de-
plcted pockets of Federal placeholders.
The Herald says ''it is almost time for the
Austin hotel keepers to put their wooden
tooth-picks in their burglar-proof safes.
Those legislators will be leaving for the
backwoods before long, Lord be praised ~
Near Jacksonville, Texas, there is tree
one half of which, for four feet above the
ground, is petrified, and yet the tree is
green and furnishing. Wood in water is
rapidly converted into stone in that
vicinity. SD ....-.
The colored member of the House, Shack
Roberts, of Marshall has said that no
man, worthy of a seat in the Legislature,
can afford to labor at two dollars per diem,
and Shack Roberts is given to saying SEN
sible things.
Two masked men In Dewitt county shot
and wounded and beat to senselessness Mr..
Butler, and then searched his home fol
money. Obtaining small sum they fled.
The Legislature still hesitates to enact 9
bloody code.
Dallas boasts of the abundance of grapes
AID peaches, and prospects for brandy are
good. Nevada Senator Jones has never
set up an ice factory there becaus he IN
derstood they wouldn't take snything
coolly in Dallas. s
Sheriff Sullivan, of Lockhart, was in the
act of ironing negro murderer, just cap
tured, when the African drew pistol from
his boot and shot Sullivan dead where hi
stood. Fifty men are In pursuit OF the flu
gitive black.
Texas people are all going to the Cen
tenniar the first week in September wher
Governor Hubbard delivers an grafton. He
will have more hearers than any orator o.
the year. He has marvellous voice and j!
magnificent orator. f
The Beacon says the historic old town oil
San Felipe, once headquarters of the
American population of all the S ,utherr
portion of Texas. is reawakening under the
prospect of becoming speedily connected
by rail with Houston.
Two hundred and fifty-four thousand cat
tie, up to the twenty fifth uIt., had passed
North through Fort Worth. But the es
! cape of this many from Texas is not due Il
the vigor of legislation in suppression o
robberies in the West. t
, A roaring preacher of the colored per
suasion declared to his hearers at the rive
that watermelons were twenty-five cents
J dozen in Austin and he 'knowed dat d,
melonnium was grine to bust ON US befor
day some mornin airley."
The recent excellent description of Dial
las county states that the land there re