The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

5 a town of householders. The people
lwn the houses they live in-the renters are
strangers and soiourners. Not being a rail
Dad town, its business is marked by its
sure method. and until a railroad
reaches here, the new conner will find it
lard to get a Judgment; but with rail-
-oad, all the undeveloped resources of the
place will burst forth, and afford ample
room for new enterprises"
viii Lambert, the local editor of the
was robbed at Breuham of six
teen dollars. No editor, with such re-
sources, has any right to be running for q
public Office to be conferred by the Lepis-
lature, and thus the robbers have not only
stolen viii Lambert's trash" but his
office, and he is to be pltIed. Since pity
melts the soul to love-" Will becomes the
favorite and, after all, he may have been in
partnership with the Brennan editor and had
himself plundered. In any event he is the
proper man for the place he seeks.
A letter from Lampssas Springs SAYS that
the Lampasas Hotel is we'll kept by Mrs.
Bates and already occupied by many stran-
gers. The town is larger than strangers
generally suppose and is surrounded by low
wooded hills which one must ascend before
they learn that they are not in the midst of
a boundless prairie. The spring is an open
pond, thirty feet across, and though six
feet deep its clearness and purity are such
that, contemplating your face Swallowed in
its pellucid depths, you would think it
hardly foot from the CLASSY surface TO the
sand below.
The '"True Love Story" in the Nacog-
doches Nea0s has been stopped. 1t was done
by a public meeting, o. the sheriff, we
reckon. Anyhow no community could
have endured its protraction. 1t was dedi-
Gated to Sam Wilson, we believe, of the
Observer, and Sam went over and squelched
this Bulwer. Orion, the editor of the
Neaes, writes particularly well-with poker
no doubt. lie talks about making his
mark, and Sam w. lodges, and Orion
ortn't to do so any more. L. L. Loggins,
and not loggerhead, as some have supposed,
is the Emma D. Z. N. Southworth of those
parts.
The newspapers of interior counties be-
gin to express themselves very clearly in
reference to Tom Scott and his scheme.
The Granbury Vidette says: ''Mr. Hunt
ington is antagonistic to Scott. Hunting.
ton says that his road, which has now foul
hundred miles in running order, running
south fro n Sacramento, will engage to
complete the road clear through until il
meets or forms junction with some Other
road in Texas in six years, and that without
cent of money from the government, Oh
even an Endorsement of the bonds" And
this tickles the fancy of the Vidette--and
why not2
A correspondent says of Milan county
that ''there is much good land here wait
ing to be brought from its wild state. The
most of Milam's acreage is still clothed IL
Natures own robes, which, by a slight
touch of art, could be turned into bloom
ing fields, not alone of cotton, but of al
the cereals. All kinds of grain grow
here in the most luxuriant style. Thii
county now contains about ten thousand
inhabitants, and the soil is so rich and Sc
well adapted to agriculture that thirt.
thousand persons could grow rich in thi
county by agriculture"
Recent attempts at forgery by the altera
tion of the dates and amounts of writer
checks and drafts have resulted in investl
cations as to how erased writing ma; b,
rendered visible. Various chemical pro
cesses, more or less efficacious, have beef
suggested, but the simplest process yet de
vised is said by Capt. Marks, of this city
to'be by photographIng the suspected pa
per. This is founded on the fact that fee
bly-colored substances, while very slight.
affecting the eye, act powerfully upor tn
sensitive film in the camera. 1t is only nee
essary, therefore, to photograph the sus
pected paper to bring out in the proof tn
effaced writing in an entirely legible con
dition.
There is much anxiety in Sherman be
ano his child were bitten Sunday by a MAJ
dog. Why will people living in town
have dogs and fleas and bowls through
dreary nights and hydrophobia and flea
and cuss because they can't sleep o'nights
and nervousness when We visit our neigh
bors and big stinks when the dogs get wet
1t makes us sick to think of sultry summer
time and villainous dogs in Texas villages
The further south one goes the worse it is
until we get to San Antonio, and Their
the dogs have scratched all their hair Of
and have leprosy and spotted fever, ant
the people don't sleep with them and fon
die them as in other places.
In the western district of Texas, every
where, sheep are rapidly substituted TO
cattle. 1t Is stated that the whole of South
western Texas, except the great fenceC
ranches, will be monopolized by sheep in
few years, and that cattle raising and graz
ing and driving will be transferred TO thr
northwest, to the Panhandle and the StakeC
Plans. But there is room enough in tn
country for the raising of cattle and sheer
sufficient to make this one of the most pros
porous countries in the world. In the mean
time, while the herding and grazing of wilc
cattle will be removed to the northwe est
and the southwest will be more devoted t,
sheep and wool raising, the rearing o
blooded horses and short-horn cattle viii
be carried on at stock farms throughout thu
cou ltry, in connection with suitable farm
ing.
The Home,oard (Atlarta) Star says of Sar
Antonio that ''its commerce is fed by {
hundred little towns still to the westward
and as the country beyond embraces the
great cattle and sheep region, this com
merce is growing daily. But San Antonio
while it will continue to grow as a CONNER
cial center, is destined to be a manufactur
ing center, and offers the best inducement:
of any place on the cor tinent today fol
enterprise and capital. Here is water. power
enough to turn all the mills of Lowell OIL
Manchester; here Is the raw material al
hand; here abundance of labor that can be
utilized, and here Is a market" That's ex.
actly what we have been swearing about
Austin for fifteen months, and that Star.
gazer must retract or qualify. He must be
looking at San Antonio through telescope.
1t is generally himself that he thus con-
templates with infinite satisfaction, and
then he is right about it.
Up to Saturday last, the lower sulphur
spring at Lampasas had ceased to flow
through four days and nights. There is
evidently a demand for sulphur down
stairs, and we hope our readers on the from
tier and the stage coach robbers and traders
at the several posts and whisky guzziers
and fellows that firt GU. pistols and kill
men for mere wOrds-we hope all these
good people will reflect that this stoppage
of the flow of sulphur from realms of aW-
full infinIty is a great moral fact in nature
more significant than the dancing of a horn
pipe by an electrified table or the awful
of any oracular witch of En-
dor. But this cessation of the flow of