The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

fofmances, carrying of annually large sums
of money, and If the new law has the eject
to keep out all but first-claSs entertain
ments, 1t will prove great UeEeh, to the
country"
The Benton City Era demands II CHER
Female Education" They are high enough
now, In dress, in cost, in absurditles OF
fashions, begeJting an endless torture TO
themselves and curses to posterity, and thus
to virtue. We don't want any higher bus
more liberal educational systems, that
would relieve them of this moral enslave
ment to vices of fashion and society.
The csmel's transit through the needles
eye, as Illustrative of the difficulty of get
ting into paradise, is familiar to several D., Z.
pie; but the colored preacher last Sunday
gave it a new twist when he said that a re.
ligious fraud (Pharisee) could no more get
into heaven than raccoon could climb
through a s,ovepipe with Col. Swisher's
narrow gauge railroad tied to his tail.
The newspapers have been advertising
Sheridans cavalry powder, ard state that
1t will make even a mules coat look glossy
aud slick, filling outSthe crevices made by
famine and the depreSsions in lantern
jawed animals, and thus we see Martin
cocktails. And tins is what's the matter
when he kicks SO violently at the STATES
MAN.
When they find lot of old clothes in
the river down about Victoria they seem to
think that some dead Mexican crawled out
of them, and the coroner sits ON them and
dreams and fancies that murder was done.
1t may be that ''crownHr'S quest is more
comfortable sitting ON old clothes than on
n cold corpus, but it is funny that they
know that the breaches belonged to a Mex
lean because brooches pockets "opened
at the side AMI not from the top
The following appears IN the Eagle :
''Married.-In this city, Thursday, Novem-
bR 20, by the Rev. II B. Stewart, Mr..
James C. Holden and Miss Nargares j..
Kidney" Miss Kidney is said to be a
Beautiful girl, and we must congratulate
her that she is be- holden" to james. Bat
| it is queer name she loses when losing
her identity. 1t is tender and musical, but
not pretty, and needed wiping out.
1t was the most devout admirer and sup
porter of Mayor Wheeler who was so saw
agely operated upon by the colored sur
geon ON Pecan street. This surgeon, TOO,
was one of the $50 voters sold to Wheeler
for small city office, the night before the
last city elections. The good man operated
on by the murderous black says he has
quit voting the shabby ticket ana will here
after stand by decency and right.
Last week the engineer corps of the
Houston and Austin Narrow Gauge road
were engaged in surveying the route to the
route on the west side of the Brazos. The
road, according to this survey, wi cross
che river at a point above Mill creek, tax
ing Bellville, Jacksonville and Industry il
its route to LAGRANGE. Its coming to this
city depends upon the conduct of our peo
pie at the great narrow gauge railway meet
ing to convene here during the coming far
Everybody is making preparations for the
great State Fair of next month. The presi
dental election is forgotten aud each citIze IN
Is writing to friends abroad of the unparal-
eled attractions presented by the races
1t is said that the time of the fOur-mllt
heat recently made in Kentucky will bt
beaten here in Austin. Many old turfmeI
say that we have at least one horse that cal
make the distance in less time than thu
eourser recently become immortal at Lex
ingtsn.
Uvalde boasts of five dry goods houses
one family grocery, one saloon, two hotels
three schools, male and female. tw
churches, Methodist and Baptist two bee
markets, large two-story court house
Jail, livery stable, blacksmith, gunsmith
saddler, bakery, tin shop and TELEGRAPH
Office. leading to orr western boundary
the Rio Grande river, and eastward throug
the United States including ArkaaSa,o. Al
this and great zeal more they have, bu
no newspaper.
John Mckenzie, the pioneer sheep ma
of Live Oak county. has a pasture of 80
acres, in which he keeps his choice stoc
Of sheep, besides very fine horses and cows
and roaming at large over this pasture ar
beautiful focks of Cashmere goats. II
has many broad acres fenced and unde
cultivation. Mr.. Mckenzie has made tn
sheep business II lifelong pursuit, and wit
what success his accumulation of propert,
attests.
The following appeared in the STATES
MAN Sunday: 1.-THE mastodon whose bone
we're found Thursday in Dallas didn't die
though jammed." Tue writer intended t
finish the mastodon story thus begun, bu
\ venerable politician appeared sly breez
waited the sheet On which tho mastDdo
was to live immortal int the hands of
compositor, and he set it up without el
planning that the defunct animal was Jan
med between great heaps of earth and nc
: jim ammed like those who dwell above il
chosen graveyard.
Jones Williams, who jumped eff tn
express train to get his at that fell out q
! the Car window when he was noddin9
never wore it after all his trouble. iii
| neck was somehow out of fix and none q
his family seem disposed, since that day
: to jump off trains in motion. We dom
think that his mother-in-law could b
showed off. But Jones E. never said a wOr
about it and never complained. The famil
still have the hat; but Jones, he neve
turned up any more.
Judge o. A. Lochrane, distinguishc'
Georgian, who was in Texas a short tim
since, has written a beautiful letter abOu
the State, and especially Austin, which J
published in the Atlanta I INES. He men
tions, with much favor, our townsnan, J
P. G. Whitehead, one OF our goober
grabbing fraternity, and who, by the way
is mu;h I, p lsuded for his brilliant ard 10,
ical spte1h on the political issues of tn
day, delivered in the city of Austin on tn
seventeenth OF Oct Der.
The San Antonio Express, that eminent,
pious paper, said the other day that g Ton
Maynard is still In the CITY, making the bes
IF things" We supposed Tom was hare
up and in a bad fix, but bore it all. herr
as he is, with stiff upper lip: bur Dallas
God bless her, understood making tn
best of things" to mean, fip-fap, Thoma
and jerry IN deriDg the town 50 as to car
ny the city election, aud to mean, principa'
ly, whisky straight, and Maynard is mad a
chain lightning about 1t, AMI the Express i
terribly mortified to be thus misintei preted
p J. Murray, who used to be baggage
smasher at Houston. went to Canada snC
became drummer for the Prospect House
stranger leaving the place at night, anc
we'll pleased, gave Pat golden guinea. Pa
took it for shilling, and discovering, AZ
ter time, that it was gold, he pursued thu
traveller and rendered him the coin on th'
departing train. The traveller refused Il
take the money, and, lbs cad, has made Pa
his steward. and Pat, for his honesty, be
romes the MANAGER of one of the lgrgeff