The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

Medical ethics won't let doctor sdver-
tise in the newspapers, and when Dallas
doctor wants big boost he bitches his
horse st the Herald or Commercial office and
deity and slyly ties TN pan TO the horses
tail and he goes-thc horse does-aud
smashPs things for miles and the newspa-
pers howl over the doctors loss and of his
suffering patients, and medical ethics are
smashed, and the pill peddler grows rich.
The Corslcana ObSerrsr tells, with hoy-
TOR, that last Thursday Mr. Sam. S. Wilson
entered the store of Messrs. Bates, Mallory
s White, where Mr. z. T. Wattlcs was
salesman, when a dispute arose between
them. Mr.. Wattles seized double barrel
shotgun and fired at Mr.. Wilson, the
whole charge taking effect in the abdo-
men, causing bis death in about two hours.
Wattles made his escape.
A terrible malady is supposed to result,
indirectly, from the use of Paris green on
the cotton crop. The worms are poisoned
and the cartridges eat the worms. Freed
men catch the psrtridges in traps and eat
them, and the result is death in a horrible
form-convulsion and writhing and teeth
gnashing. Beware of cartridges and grass
hoppers from fields in which Paris green
has been used to destroy boil worms.
Throckmorton's vote for Congress in the
counties OF Dallas. Collin, Grayson, Kauf-
man, Parker, Tsrrant, Johnson aud Erath,
and Cooke unofficial, is 16, 926, and Big
gers 2O02. This leaves the counties Of
Ellis, Hill, Hood, Somerville. Palo Pinto,
Stephens, Eastland, Shsckelford, Young,
Jack, Wise, Denton, Montague, Clay and
Rockwell 10 hear from. In the counties to
be heard from very few Radical votes will
be polled.
The st. Louis Times, if Hayes be counted
500, 900 Western men. Who wouldn't got
Stillson Hutchins is in for the next war,
He can afford IT, He didn't take any stock
in the last and yYas the more sensible, as it
resulted, for that. J His head is generally
level anyhow. But everybody that wants
to pitch in knows where to fall in. Trot
along behind Gen. Hutchins and you will
always be safe and have good commissary.
An old Mexican was put on the witness
stand who looked too much silvered with
the frosts of ages, the Herald says, ever to
have been baby. His name is Jose Cor
doba, eighty mine years of age, born in
Nacogdoches, raised in Louisiana, fought 1T
the battle of New Orleans (the witness
looked all about, but said he saw no one
present by whom he could prove this last
fact, and was on his way to San Jacinto
when the battle took place. He told very
straight st6iy, even if he was under oath.
The gas company of Austin, having re-
duccd its charges from seven to six dollars
some time ago, finds the process of reduc-
ton profitable, and therefore announces its
,ax,k
month, and the price will then be five dol
lars. Then Austin people, having better
light, will read more, and more STATESMEN
will be found by the firesides of moro peo-
pie, and homes and heads alike will be
more brilliantly illuminated.
Every whisky-guzzler and street-loa' FER
and dead-beat should. know that the law
now in force in Texas reads as follows:
''That any person who shall get drunk or
be found in state of intoXication in any
public place shall be deemed guilty of a
m,sdemeanor, and on conviction before a
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
fined in a sum not more than 500 for each
and every offense. This law takes effect
ninety days after the twenty-frst day of last
August"
1t is commended to cure diptheria, ten
drops tincture of helladons, eleven drops
phytolace, the juice of the common poke
root, each in a half tumbler of rainwater.
Give the patient one teaspoonful every half
hour, if fever is very high, for the first four
hours, then one every hour for the next
twelve hours, then one every two hours
while the disease continues. Use no gar
giles or swabs for the throat, but an out
ward application of soft oil or lard may be
used.
Old man Womack came into Dallas with
three cotton bales and six oxen, on election
day. He has been waiting ever since to
hear the result. He wabbles up one line of
groceries a mile and then down the other
side of the street, taking in ninety bar
rooms on each side. A day is consumed in
making the grand round. At last accounts
he had drunk three cotton bales and two
oxer, and the old woman, hearing of his
fix, was after him. He will be hauled home
to day, and whisky will be fat IN Dallas
when he falls.
There was great alarm over northern dis
tricts of Blanco tea days ago when the
shock of an earthquake was felt, and dis
tant underground, rumbling noises were
heard. the sounds were heard and shock
felt at Fredericksburg. People supposed
the disturbance had origin in mountain
that was once a volcano. They went
thither, the M0untdineer says, and found a
deep pool of water its summit Like
IAN old topper the slumbeung volcano as
tonished Its stomach by taking cold water,
and therefore the rumbling down below.
But have we volcano amongst us2
Our Uncle Toby 1t was who said to the
fly, go, the world is big enough for both
thee and me-" ana in the ''pIlgTim's" pro-
gress through this vale of tears no subllmer
lesson was ever taught than the philosophy
involved in this conduct of our good Uncle
Toby. Our local reporter has applied 1t in
his notice of a recent marriage in
which it seems the facts as rected by
| Sterne are reversed and it is the Fly that
saith to the ''Pilgrim" that the world is big
enough for two of US. Any rude sinner
| and unfeeling woman would have responded
'Shoo fly" but she didn't.
Citizens OF Bolton propose to explore ard
furnish US description of the great cav
ern twelve miles above Salado. We are
| told by the ReUieD that some years ago
Mr.. Reddin and others undertook to as
certain, if possible, how far it extended.
But they mad not gone great way when
the damp atmosphere extipguished the
lights and left them in Egyptian darkness.
They tried to retrsce their steps, but could
not find the way. After wandering around
in the cave for three days and becoming
almost starved, they at last found an out
let, some distance from the place of en-
trance, through which they escaped. Such
is the story as told to as few days since.
Hon. Clarkson n. Potter's programme
for the Democratic party in the. lower house
Of Congress constitutes even editorial ma
terial for many of our exchanges. They
do not deal fairly in this with the distin-
guished New Yorker; but very certainly
their readers have no right TO complain.
We intended to publiah Mr.. Potter's able
exposition of constitutional and other ques-
tions that must arise next month in Wash
ington n eztenso, but our dispatches and
other mstter rendered it impossible. The