The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20


crawled into the old folks bed. He lust
wanted to see, we reckon, whether the old
man was particular who he went to bed
with. But the old man smelt a rat, as he had
often done before, and the queer Joker was
sent back TO his cell in Austin.
Good living is cheap in Corsicana. Corn
and sweet potatoes sell at fifty cents per
bushei each, chickens at one dollar and
fifty cents per dozen, eggs at twelve and
one-half cents per dozen, and fresh butter
at thirty cents per pound. Butter is the
highest priced article mentioned, and vet
1t ought to be the cheapest, since Corsicana
IS IN prairie county, where thousands of
cattle feed upon the green hillsides and
valleys. The worst OF the business is that
cooks and butchers of Corsicana, as do
those of Austin, cut steaks ton thin by half
and cook them TO a crisp.
Now and then, when weary, the 'fsct-
and fancy man, appropriates a news para
graph. If the excerpt be distinguished for
wit and beauty of thought or expression, or,
even If 1t be very queer, due credit is al
ways given. If there be nothing to distin-
guish the paragraph or sentence from the
vast number that are commonplace, there is
often no reference to its origin. We make
this statement because one of our exchanges,
justly, perhaps, says that we appropriated
two or three OF its paragraphs without CIV
ing credit. We have apolOgized as above.
The announcement of the Waco Reporter
that .''Mr. II. +. Atkinson, editor of the
Gatesvile Sun, made a flying trip to the
city Yesterday" will be exceedingly graft
flying to the scientific world as well as trav-
cling public. His initials III. F." refer
to high-fying and the ingenious machine
he uses will be, no doubt, in common use
at the Centennial. People now begin, since
Atkinson went away with three copies of
the Reporter, to understand the whole mean
ing of the descriptive assertion that he was
three sheets in the wind"
Two highwaymen murdered and robbed
a WAGNER, Tom Edwards, near San Anto-
MO, Tuesday. San Antonio is thoroughly
exasperated, but won't drown its rage in
stiff drinks like Dallas. Every fellow that
kills another in Texas, for some time to
come, will be hanged mercilessly. The
people are thoroughly aroused against the
blood tubs, and men who wear pistols
| should leave them off for the next six
months. To wear one is prima Jdcie evil
| dence of murderous purpose and of that
naalace 7'repenSe of which lawyers goose CAB
| BILE. - .4..-.
The two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars railroad lax Smith county voted upon
herself in order to secure tie tap from
the International has been the result of
some dissatisfaction among the people,
Charges were made that the company did
| not meet agreements. But an Investigation
! by the present county court reveals the fact
that the contract upon the part of the rail
road company has been met, and that it
| only remains for the people to fork over the
| $3.50, 900. The plan of building cheap
| roads that pay profits on stock, and by pop
| ular as well as corporate subscriptions, is
| always to be preferred.
The St. Louis Republican says: ''Dallas,
Texas, does not mind personal quarrels and
individual killings much, as a general
thing, but is considerably interested in the
late murder of VIM Engers committed on
farm near town" Fingers was blowing
quietly, when fellow, full of whisky, be.
gan to Practice target shooting in the usual
pleasing Dallas way, and Fingers, absurdTy
living about Dallas without coat of mail,
was knocked over dead and left IN the fur
row he was blowing, and thus was planted,
like most MEN who go to glory in those
parts, with his boots on. But Dallas seems
nightly riled about it, and they are going
to hang every fellow there that shoots OF
stabs anybody.
The old fox of which the Guadalupe
Times tells is not the candidate of those
parts for the Senate-a devillsh sly old
coon, by the way. But this fox, the Time,
says, had always eluded the hounds, the
scent invariably being lost near hut In the
woods used for storing furs. One day,
fha he,
near this hut after hard run, the oldest
hound in the pack entered the door and
tried to jump upon the wall. This at
| traCted attention, and 1t was discovered
that the old fox was hanging by the tail to
nail in the wall, keeping very quiet and
| looking like the other pelts hanging there,
1t was evident that by this means he had
heretofore escaped.
There Is going to be sort of Mexican
war between Henderson and Smith coun-
| ties, and for the reason that the crazy wo.
man whose expenses at the Lunatic Asylum
are charged to Henderson county is from
Smith county; that her mother lives there,
| and that that county was her home until
she was sent to the Lunatic Asylum. There
| was never a war that there was not a woman
| at the bottom of it. If Cleopatra's nose
had been half an inch longer Augustus
| Caesar would never have reigned and il
Douglas had not married Ada Coutts he
would have been President, the Southern
women of Washington having hired Ben
| jamin, SO the story went to make his speech
against squatter sovereignty, which busted
the party.
The exceeding piety and unadulterated
goodness of the Cuero Star is developed in
its early training. 1t says that in its early
| youth 1--WE remember hearing how one Ja-
cob, who was cowboy for the old gentle
man, hornswoggIed Laban, his father-In-law.
| The transaction was rng-streaked and
! speckled and spotted in its nature, and
| Old Labe' was 'yanked' out of the major
! ity of his Mavericks; a fuss ensued, and
Jake took Leah and Rachel and the chill.
dren and went 'out West started a ranch
of his own, and it is said he lived long
and prospered. Since Jacobs time las fal
back as our memory gOeth) there has been
| more or less confusion connected with the
stock-raisng business, and we are almost
persuaded that a conscience, to possess thai
peace that passeth all understanding, should
be entirely unconnected. with the business. .
| A private letter from Matamoros says
''You know that Porfido Daz is in the
field ell ctloneering in the Mexican way fol
the presidency against Lerdo. l suspend
writing a moment, an attack being mo-
mentarily anticipated. April 2. : This
morning Gen. DiaZ took possession of the
town alter skirmish of some two hours on
the outskirts of the town. The Guardia
National, consisting of about 1000 men,
turned over to Diaz without firing gun.
Some of the regulars also changed their
situation. Only about 800 of the govern
ment troops made resistance, but soon
had to surrender against a force of nearly
1000, to which the Diaz forces got aug-
mented through dIsloyslty. 1t was. on the
whole, a regular Mexican melee, such as
only Mexicans can get up. Only about ten
were killed, and some twenty wounded,
after a tremendous clsshing Of arms. So
all is quiet again, and We are all ''Diaistas y
how long we cannot say. 1t is reported
that Camargo and MeiT have also pro-
nounced, and that Monterey is to follow.
Commerce, of course, is at a dead stand.