The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-15
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hcAan-Ea ctn ana Eanctea.
The people OF Hill county are blissfully
contemplating glorious crops.
Smith county will make more corn than
was ever dreamed of over there.
People say they wouldn't know what to
do with the coming enormous crop of
corn-if it wern't for Dallas.
Gen. Grifith's family have returned
home from Austin, leaving him here. He
seems to know how to take care of himself.
Hill county people deserve great credit.
They captured, after desperate resistance,
two horse thieves and would not suffer a
mob to hang them.
Major Penn wants all Waco to fast Friday
and the Examiner says: Suppose we all
try i'll" Does the suggestion include,
drinks and ballast
Bishop Doggett, great man in any as
sembly of great men, will preside over the
deliberations of the North Texas Annual
Conference at Longyiew next October.
There is no Abatement of interest in re-
ligious matters at Waco aud great crowds
have fiocked to the Baptist church where
Brother Penn lectures. Even lawyers take
deep interest in the matter.
Green corn, fresh tomatoes, cradles for
oats and for the babies of dads who feed
them, juicy melons, luscious figs and three
and half inches of rainfall Sunday night
bless the homes of farmers about Austin.
A letter-writer says ''Sheriff Rsby has
lit out Centennial wards, leaving his wife
and children and taking with him good
looking girl" It's the sort of rabies that
affiicts many people that has done for the
late sheriff of Coryell.
The ErpOsitOr, having taste for the fit
ness of things and for geography as fine
art, opposes the creation of new county
alongside of Hill, fifteen miles wide and
forty long. Why not name it Scsntling,.
and have it weatherboarded for ten-pinl
alley2
Hot Springs of Preside county may be-
come as famous as those of Arkansas. Since
Morton has been washing himself at the
latter pool of Sloan, many virtuous people
are afraid to go thither and Preside may
become the worlds great ssnitarium. These
springs are of the temperature of 112
degrees, clear rs. crystal and fathomless.
There was copy of Lieutenant Cover
nor Hubbard's admirable inaugural in which
it was stated that "ships were laden with
richly-freighted argosies." This was the
work of copyist. The original manuscript
shows it, and the Mexia Ledger is thus right
in asserting the impossiblity of such
blunder at the hands of such a scholar as
Governor Hubbard.
1t is proposed TO make every master OF
Grange deputy sheriff. 1t is "fat take"
for the Changers and the Examiner is
tickled that il conceived the happy thought.
pt,fx hat 10 ho Of oh ~,
less they may be punished The peniten-
tiary is a big joke among knaves and unless.
each Oranges master be armed by law with
a lash of scorpions his Intervention in be-,
half of law and order will be ungvailing.
H. w. Wade, late cast iron member Of
the Constitutional Convention, who voted
as he = pleased, writes of terrible tenn
pest that swept across Hunt county. IL
was as sudden and unexpected as terrible,
and left a narrow path of desolation along
which it travelled. It's course, six miles
| from Greenville, was from northwest TO
southeast and its path was mile and
half wide.
The Brentwood Eagle boasts OF the
healthfulness of the place. Perhaps that
accounts for fellows climbing trees out
there and tying leather cords about their
necks and to limbs of trees and Jumping
off. II is this vigorous exercise that makes
people so full of life that the current over
leaps itself to enter the river of death.
Governor Coke and the Legislature should
dam it up, even as The whole country will
at once proceed 10 damn it-down.
The latest patent medicine is Webb's
Texas Grange Specific for horses and mules.
The NeU Era says, ''We have tested IT."
and adds, 1--WE have been furnished with
several doses to let persons test IL free OF
charge" IL the editor ever have any abom-
Unable disturbance, We would advise him To
try the stuff first, or some other mule. il
it be "a Grange specific" the Examiner
will take gallon per diem, and the web
footed discoverer OF the marvellous nestrum
! can sell out entirely in Waco.
Ed. Reese, who went stranger and was
''taken in" at Brentwood, was found dead
hanging TO the limb of 4 tree near that
lively little frontier town. He came from
Highland, Ohio, four months ago. He was
an industrious day laborer and no cause can
be assigned for his horrible taking of"
II the Legislature propose to invest the
Governor with power TO see that the laws
are executed, brilliant opportunity for his
Exceilency's immediate intervention here
presents itself. The persons suspected OF
the infamous brutal murder are II. b. Var
borough. constable; w. S. futile, mayor
of Brownwood; David Breckenridge, mar
shall of Brentwood, and g. B. Holland.
These have been arrested. and II men hold
ing such positions be capable Of such enor-
mites what security can there be for life or
property where they reign.
A TICKET composed of Tilden and Thur.