The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

are not confined to their hands, and there
fore the distinction awarded John Plow-
handles by the Herald.
TeIarkana has 1850 Texans and 1850 Ar
but when the Texas tax collector
comes along the town is principally in Ar
kansas, and then the Arkansas tax grabber
them in Texas. It's astonishing
how the town vibrates when there isn't any
and Ill and Hot Springs are
several miles away.
The .ocdly San Antonio Express COM
mends juleps and ice cold milk punches to |
its blissful readers as If a genuine old |
Alamo fellow didn't know all about IT. or
ever deIgned to sip cold water. We would |
hardly have been more amazed if the Com
mercial had commended whisky 10 denizens !
of Dallas.
1t is the "social evil" question that now
most worries Waco. 1t has been worrying
mankind from the days of David and Solo
mon, and Waco will never solve it. Regu-
late and restrict we may, but extirpstiOn is
simply impossible. Take the world as you
find il, and do not assume the creators task
and attempt recreation.
Denison and Dallas boys have been mi
grating to Sherman, where drinks, except
for very long-legged lawgivers, are at ten
cents, and the loss of population has com
PEELED Dallas to come down, and Denison
absolutely sells three stiff drinks for quar-
ter. Competition is noble, and we are
mighty proud of Texas towns.
The Sherman Register thinks the constant
escape of convlcts from the penitentIary,
the greatest progressive calamity that befals
Texas. Mr.. Piper is here irqniriDg into the
matter of building the new prison pens of
the State. He is capable. trustworthy and
has the means to execute any contract ne
may enter into.
The Gladiator's editor cut his own throat
! at Centerville, Leon county. Poor fellow
drink! The title of his paper is misno-
mer. Gladiators slaughtered others and
not themselves; but whisky Is the great
| gladiator of modern times and Dallas its
| Vespasian amphitheater.
The Dallas stage robbers rode lesurely.
They were not proper fellows to be tackled
in trifing manner, and those good people
who went tearing out of town with infinite
vim and elan found hard riding toward
Winchester rifles very tiresome. So the
papers say, and that the robbers went
slowly into the Indian Nation.
''local option" Sherman invests in malt
house, and would create a market for
barley. But there is a marked difference
between barley and barley corn, and be-
tween beer drinker and beer jerker. Sew
eral good men we know don't seem to per-
ceive the distinction and take in all alike.
Liberty Grange No. 426 resolves that
lawyers should not defend robbers and
thieves. And yet the country's laws de-
clare that all men are inrOcent till convicted
by due process of law. How can the law
yer know the client to be guilty, while de-
nyipg it, until jury convicts? Liberty
Grange could make capital Rutabaga
convention. ..
Lots at Taylor, the International black
mail town, sell at high prices. Of course,
they would not if buyers knew that the
road was to be extended at once to Austin.
If Austin do not build the Lampasas mar
row gauge, the city deserves to be plucked,
and grass should grow in our streets, anc
Bolton, Salado and Lampasas should neve
be heard from in Austin. r., ....#
They have small Texas cow that cost
J $14, IN Houston, and gives 10 IA pounds Q
milk per diem, or SIT pounds per month, q
cents per pound, worth $28 81 per month
For six months she produces $173 % and
her food costing z5 cents per diem, she i
worth 1928, in SIX months. A dairy farm
: near Austin would pay enormously. Tn
water work YOU know, might increase tn
I production awfully.
1 The people of Texas are not going t
n auu Pun uey UlfTeuitr IutsS "
y lessened one-half, and even so with the CO.
e of living in Philadelphia. Rates must
d cOnformed to the necessities of hard time
and to the profits on crowded trains
= Moreover, that Sunday speculation on SUP
q posed public morals in behalf of taver
o keepers is quite intolerable. The poo
cannot lose sunday.
The learned and plous Waco Reporte
says that ''only five or six good Samaritan
a attended Daniels funeral" Our learne
contemporary should know that Samari
did not exist on any mp il Daniels time
and there were then no good Samaritans
e and, therefore, no such fairs and ice crear
: arrangements in behalf of great public en-
terprises as in modern times. The Reporte
D must go to Sunday school. .-
o A body of thieves went to the ranch c
n Mr.. H. j. Fry, near Burnet, and drove Of
400 head of cattle. Mr.. Fry offers a rewar
: for the thieves. This is better bushes
r than robbing stage coaches, and there is
~ sort of magnifcence in it that almost make
q thieving respectable. Why not say tina
these infamous cattle thieves are ''defaul
ers2" That's the way robbers and knave
10 in Washington and. New York are desle
It mated and tolerated. II .r.T
e Bonham doesn't seem TO like Governo
Hubbard or Congressman Culberson. 1t
Ii very queer. Two better or ADLER men d
G not represent Texas. The fact does il
is justice to the taste and intelligence of tn
er State that a central seat of enterprise an
progress does wrong to two such citizens
lie Does not the queer fact illustrate th
% strange power of one ma. when he holds
n newspaper as trumpet to his lIpsG
If Fort Worth's first acquisition from I'll
extended railway will be the bummers an
at deadbeats and rOughs and whisky-guzzle
II of Dallas. Obi it will be charming
4. Charming! Then the volume of trade an
"a of decent population will sweep over tt
progressive town, aud those unhange
will die of whisky and Fort Worth, aft,
< undergoing the process of purgation, wi
is become one of the most attractive an
2 busiest cities of the South.
Ig When the railroad committee meets tn
u morning, wouldn't it be we'll to define plaI
by which Commodore Morgan may be il
p duced to extend his Indianola and Cuei
Or road to Austin2 Trains, we are told, I
a. longer run on the proftless highway, an
ID to make 1t pay, it must be extended to tn
TO point of railway conveyance Such boz
is worth millions to Austin, and it migl
NJ be we'll for the committee to eorrespon
= with the venerable steamship monopolis
n One Cornish, of Waco, is advertised
es the cracker man. We suppose, too, he hi
<, the Tin and is RATHER" Lord Wellin,
ton once descended into Cornish tin min,
, till beneath the sea he listened to the wav,
y breaking above his head. Hence came I'll
saying, when lord played the fool, thi
!! one is ''half seas over" But the Cornis
le man of Waco was never in thar fix It