The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-11


his body. IL is supposed the deed was
done by some desperate, who feared arrest
by the sheriff @
The assassination Of Vim. Pesy and
wouading ot his VIE stiH excite the pso-
pie oi SsO Anranio, and the pablie wuUld
gladls hear that n sior Wood w ard had CAP
tured tne t~s robbers whom he pat 10 q Eht.
Can't The Express enlighten the world as TO
prospectsl
The S4n Antonio Erprgss hiss a standing
advertisement declaring it to be s'the only
morning paper west of the Colorado" We
suppose it regards the San Antouio Herald
such slow coach that IL it doesn't really
get out till next day though of even date
with the spry cypress.
The Lampasas Dispatch don't want the
Legislature to go tearing about over the
country TO one horse shows or fairs. The
session only lasts four or FIVE months, more
Cr less. and then the good and faithful
public servants can go where they please,
and stay all night if they like.
Whom we alluded jocularly, yesterday,
to the dimensions of an Hon. members
boots we never dreamed that the foot or
skull above it were empty, aud such must
be the fact if the owner grow angry about
a Jest, and then We might fancy that the
skull is as empty as the cowskin is full.
If the 1886, 100 cattle that go out of Texas
this season. weigh only 400 pounds each
and are sOldlat three cents the income is
$3, 991, 200. Besides her cattle Texas has
many and more resources from which to
draw great annual incomes thaa any other
state IN the Union.
The San Antonio papers are nudging the
new postmistress very tenderly under the
chin and saying gentle things about her and
currying favor with the good dame Each
newspaper fellow likes to be on good terms
with the head devil of the postoffiee. Post
office bills, under.existing laws, are onerous.
Gen, Diaz IS recruiting and organizing
his forces for an advance into the interior
of Mexico. 1t is positively asserted that
Gen. E'cObeaO, with strong force of gov
ernment troops, is on his way down. The
Sentinel thinks this may hasten or retard
the movement of Gen. Diaz.
A petition is circulating in Mckinney,
and numerously signed, asking the Leg,sIa-
ture to punish horse thieves. First offense,
whipping post; second, whipping and
branding; third, hanging. There would
versed. and it costs infinitely less.
The Mexia Ledger calls the ''organ' the
'sPap Gauger And what is that Is it's
enmity or friendship measured by the flow
of pap z" Then the Banner calls the
M0ring Bull the ''Pera1a6ulatiag iSpher0id'
which isn't ball, and since it doesn't go
through (per means ''through'O fellow, it
isn't '.pe'ambulating." Fsr
What is the peculiar attractiveness of the
''Secret Springs" country, and why called
''Secret SprIngs" We want to know be-
cause we would like to comprehend the Sc
cret springs of those motives that impelled
Radicalism to prefer any ybody to Coke. The
Cambridge Northsoest is always talking
about the Secret Springs country.
There will be no m ire snuff dipping. if
heard doctor say yesterday that snuff
dried up and withered the calves of peo-
ple's legs, and that's the reason member
of the House from the southwest got so in
fernaly mad when Hebrew friend of ours
wanted to sell him a snuff-coored coat.
Major Marks, the Austin photographer, is
making pictures to be exhibited at the
Philadelphia Centennial and all the hand
some members of the Legislature are having
their faces copied. Austin bellies are to be
forwarded as photographed and bird ds-eye
views of the Typographical charms of the
capital.
In directory of the House and Senate,
just published, Col. A. T. Rainey is repre-
sented to be Republican" OF course
this is joke. But Col. Rainey must think
it rather rough, aud typographers who per-
petrated it should be brought to the bar of
the House, and made to answer for Icon
tempt" .....
Five new stone stores are in course of
erection at Lampasas, showing peoples
faith in the extension of our street railway
to that upper faubourg of Austin. thou
sand people, more or less. would go up to
Lampasas to get drinksever Saturday and
stay over Sunday, il the narrow gauge
were built and the = local optiun " law
enforced in Austin. Ha ut
The Dallas Herald, referring to the dead
head excursion contemplated by the press
association under the leadership of the
Lendef, says .'.he Herald is opposed to
this whole system of annually beating, 10y
an ingenious fiction of dead -headism rail
roads out of their Legitimate fare. Pay as
you 60, and preserve your own self respect.
c. H. Chappel has been appointed As
sistant General Superintendent of the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad. This is news tha,
will take the people of Austin by surprise,
but agreeably go. as Mr.. Chappell was Gen.
eral Superintendent of the NJ. K. s. T. and
had produced favorable impression, bOtl
as a true gentleman and a competent off
c:al
The election Of the member from Bren
ham, who wasn't in his seat when the House
convened, and didn't want to vrte, and die
vote for Tracy, is undergoing investigation
and the Banner says that he will be lifted
entirely out Of his boots. We d9 not SCI
why the Banner mentions the fact Several
cart loads of ordinary fellows might bt
lifted out of those pleasing boots.
The Waco reporter, a solemn, sensible anG
fearless exponent of opinion. says sunless
| good and sufficient reasons can be shOwI
that the real interests Of the press and the
people of Texas can be subserved by an ex
curslor, we for one are opposed to any NOR,
| junketing expeditions of pleasure, a Ia dead
| heads and bummers, on the name and credit
of ''the press of Texas."
The San Antonio Express's special dis
I
patch from Austin, dated May 8. says o
the proceedings in the House that Coke
| opponents succeeded Ia rffectiDg an ad
jlurnnseni, which was trne. No loss o
time IN the Legislature can be aseribed {,
Coke's adherenis- They bad nothing t.
| do with the extraordinary scene in the Sen
ate, designed to postpone an election.
The Dallas Commercial went mad whel
/ L.
the following fashion: -Hnoray
Glory enough for one day. Sound th
Whang doOdlei Strike the Tom tom
Richards himself asaini Coke eiecte
! United STATES Senatorl SIxty-eight vote
ON the first rallotl ..JJhnny will 90 march
ing back again. The "Jol.nDy~ Feferrei
to is not be Of Seguin.
Once, in January, lssa, the mercury feI
to three degrees below zero at Fort Stock
ton, and In June of that year il rose /
one hundred aud twelve degrees, and eve