The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08
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Madame Lottie Crowther deIighteth the
Buy Be-. 49, u
2 A mad dog has bitten Miss Fannie Cobb
at Dallas.
Mrs. Colby, spiritual ''honey fuggler,"
is to lecture in Waco.
/ Houston is still extending the Narrow
Gauge out west.
Stephensvilie is almost crazy to become a
point in the line OF the Waco tap.
The Bury Bee, though very yellow, is still
published this side Of the Rio Grande.
Senator Henry pays more taxes in Texar-
kama, as one to two, than any other person.
One Hewett is the leader of an organized
band of robbers and cut-throats about Con
zales.
| The religious revival still continues at
Waco. Rev. Mr.. Carroll IS doing great
good.
Miss Mary Stephenson won the Coke
medal for ex celence in Latin at the Waco
College.
Civil engineers are locating the extension
of the Central from Waco to Meridisn and
towards Ell PasO.
Waco has just sent nine fellows, three
white, to the penitentiary, and the streets
of the town are dull.
Spivey of the Henderson Times, has in
vented ''fiea catcher" We suppose he
kills bobtailed ours with it.
! Hon. E. L. Dohoney, of Paris, is down in
Dallas looking up facts, we reckon, for an
other temperance speech.
The San Antonio papers are grieving be-
cause Major Tom Breckenridge becomes a
permanent citizen of Austin.
i The Hebrews of Dallas have erected and
dedicated with imposing ceremonies a
costly and beautiful synagogue.
The East Texas Patron is one of the
! choicest of our State exchanges. 1t IS fresh
and original. and frank and fearless.
! 1t costs 800 per hour to run the Legisla-
ture, and the proposition to make lawyers
= abandon bad cases cost about this sum.
Hon. Seth Shepard makes political
speech on Conkling, Blaine, Morton and
the rest, on the tenth instant, at Sempro
MUS. Ias
be completed TO the Sabine in September.
-Four hundred men arc at work on the
road. lr.1 .. ..E.
Mr. j. II. Young is organizing "Libera
Associations" whatever these may be-
everywhere in Texas. He secured severa
disciples in Waco.
The priest, Rev. DR.. Kendrick, we men
toned a few days ago as having beer
shelved, having first shelved himself, does
: not live in Texas.
A correspondent, who doubtless has stud
led the Greek maxim, gnOthi seauton, send
us an unsigned laudatlon of a "distin
7 guished writer and poet"
Old veterans who would go to Philadel
phiau the auspices of Tom Scott should
/, write to that excellent gentleman, Mr.
l. George Noble, at Marshall.
k The Dallas Herald says: ''That wors
I of all frauds, Theodore Noel has playe
- l-as.L ~ -:i-~"A ~~L~->>~~ u.o ha
Ie A friend of ours refused to take a cop
IS of Webster's Unabridged, for which h
+, traded, because he couldn't find the wor
:, JimpLecute in its countless pages.
= calf with two heads puzzles and aston
ishes Waco, and because, we reckon, ther
D are so many fellows over there that hav
e not even one worth the having.
., Corn meal is worth ninety cents in Brer
% ham, and cotton is blooming down there
,e even as the Banner is blossomng in tn
i sunshine of assured immortality.
4 The tasteful Marshall Herald condemn
the use of the adjective Texan" W
+ won't quarrel about 1t, but it is coEver
"a eat, and costs less than ''of Texas"
IsI Three colored mokes, Antoine, Alike
70 and Harris, are convicted of conspiracy t
burn Indianola The town was fired i
. three places by the desperate knaves.
10 The Marshall Herald thinks the best LEI
= tiers from Austin that have appeared fr
er years past grace the pages of the Sherma
as Register, The Herald is conducted by on
Il whose approval is final.
"a .'The Tyler Democrat comes to US tn
IN week with new head. We confess tn,
!, we like the change" says the Stephensvil
~' Empire. Who put head on it and why
q The Houston Age, ever growing i
"a strength and usefulness, is ever changir
lg its proprietorship-neve Its creed. It
= nov owned by Messrs. Smallwood, Turn
& Johnson.
ii The negroes that undertook to expel I'll
al Voudouists from. BRENNAN by violence ha,
re been arrested and put under bond. A
> other Voudouist says he can defend himse
: with pistols if the witches fail him.
~ There are several papers in the State tn
don't know the difference between coal {
at and Democracy. They are always explo
& ing, and smell badly, and they are alwa
ii. badly burnt who touch or handle them.
rs Col. Fisher, of the International, is ma
tie ing rousing speeches along the line of b
81 road. He proposes, at an early day, To @
ganize an incursion scheme for all wishil
st TO immigrate from the Older Southe
States. i
40 In the notice of Hon. B. NJ Baker, Re
resentatiye of the Ninth District, an err
w was committed in stating that he was u
d. married, His youthful appearance al
he great popularity with the ladies led
no this blunder.
an Hartranft, Conkling. Cameron and Ora
have combined. it Is commonly alleged,
control the action of the Cincinnati CO
of venuon. This defeats Blisiow. and Civ
- Pennsylvania, and q chance for New Yor
~ TO the Radical nominee.
p Our exchanges that came in Saturda
~ Sunday aud Monday are grinniug with d
Ms light, and all tell the same pleasing sto
sc about the blessedness of their country, q
ri. fuliness of crops aud hopefulness of faru
"a ers. They are the salt of the earth.
.ai The Texarkana Democrat calls the STATE
% MAN "a court organ" whatever that m
=, be. lt so happens ihst the STATESMAN
= not addicted to .'urgsnship;n but q
a. Democrat knows what it is talking abou
ms even when nobody else cOmprehends it.
ar Every gentleman and lady in the can;.,
u OF cultured taste, should scan the beauti
nd and wonders of art illustrated in historic
paintings now exhibited in the hall of q
- House. These are products of Texas {,
n and genius, and worthy of repeated inspe
:. ton. sss a
{. q The TexHfksna Dsmoerat says that tv