The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-09

story about the coal bed near Austin is well
founded. Is the stratum six feet thick, as
stated, and where is itl II the facts be
facts, the owners are worth millions.
The Governor has peremptorily and prop
erly ordered the convict White, hired out at
BRENNAN, 10 be confined within the peni-
Tertiary. He will bc imprisoned for three
years and then tired for other crimes.
Our friend Martin, OF the Register, made
an eloquent speech, II reply to Bigger, IN
the absence of Thrnckmorton, last Thurs
day, at Sherman. Bigger isn't as big as he
was. Ia fact, Martin demolished him.
When the woodpile has disappeared and
the potato pen is empty, and neither pig in
the poke nor venison nor buffalo is drying
in The chimney, then many will weep that
they squandeled $500 at the Centennial.
The practice of Throckmorton and Brown
will not admit of the latter gentleman's be-
coming circuit judge. In Other words, it
won't pay good lawyer TO quit good
business to sit on the bench in Texas.
Those loose kneed, BILE sr-eyed, whisky
guzzlipg young men of Dallas who go
shooting TO cool off, fire among farmers and
horses around Dallas, and it is getting to
be dangerous to go blowing in those parts.
Boston is the only great city in the Uni
ted States which has never been garroted
and plundercd and robbed and discredited
and disgraced by the seizure of its govern
mept by those having no interest in its pres
perity.
Miss Ida Cook is reading to the good peo-
pie of Sherman. She doesn't read the
Register to them, but might find some of
its articles about the STATESMAN good read
ing almost anywhere. It's lively subject,
anyhow.
L. B. Hendren, slender, palC-yellow,
young man, twenty-six years old, of glib
tongue and very large white eyes, who has
been selling book of poems for d. Apple
ton, is no agent of theirs, and is pronounced
deadbeat.
A citizen of Jefferson, having an aviary,
was about to construct an ape-iary, but
some of the neighbors thinking that the
Leader might deem 1t a little calaboose con-
structed for his special delectation, the
scheme has been abandoned.
Mr.. Hahn, he of the Menger House, a
capital fellow the newspapers say, is visit
| ing Austin. The word "Menger" is a
| Mexican corruption, we reckon, of the
| French word '-mdnger," to eat. 1t is the
] abode of San Antonio luxury.
Lake Wilson, of Bonham, has been
speech. making over there with Judge ]. Q.
| Chenoweth. Lake is bright and pellucid
and sparkling, and one can see through
! him, but no women at least will dare say
chez )noweth the other fellow.
The Oakville Tribune is now mild and
peaceable as blossoming toadstool. The
only memory of blood and violence that is
excited comes up when 10 tells that blythe,
shot by Ashbel, is now recovering" and
that's all the world need know about it.
Great credit for generosity and uuadul-
terated goodness is awarded the local OF
the San Antonio Herald because he would
not give the names of the baby show judges,
and greater because he refused to publish
| the names of babies that were distanced.
! The Gonzales Inquirer puffs the producer
of a seven-p FOUNDER potato and the potato
will puff the proprietor and thus producer
and consumer are both pulled and the in
! finitude of good Effected by a breath is illus.
trated. Every little word and act in life
| counts.
When fellow wanted to go scot free in
| Western Texas he had only 10 change the
venue and get into the Goliad Jail and he
was free. But they are making one there
now that makes the Guard shudder when
contemplating its vast stones and iron
gratings.
People from Georgetown say that the
! speech made there by Major Whitehead, OF
| the bar of this city, was the most effective
aud eloquent pronounced in that place for
many years. The Record eulogizes it and
Capt Peeler's brief address with great
earnestness.
Payne and Catchings, the two villains
hanged last Friday, at Kaufman, warned
"the boys" in their dying accents to ''be-
ware of kerds." Schenk's moral game
brought them to the gallows. They muir
dercd an old man named Love, about
twelve months ago.
The hail storm about Golisd knocked
down the pecans and saved the breeches of
the climbing boys of that county to the
value of several hundred dollars. The re
suit is that they don't seem to care CONT
mental down there about the devilment OF
the wistful grasshoppers.
A correspondent says that the excellence
and projections which we properly as
cribed to the volume containing the pre-.
| C0GulnSS VI ObdtC H1CuiCdi <ASSOOiatiOu
are due to the care and skill and taste OF
DR.. j. H. Pope of Marshall, chairman OF
committee on publications." etc.
The business of life insurance in San An
tonic has taken a new twist, and if it pans
out well it will knock all the old compa-
MES, except the Life Association of Ameri.
ca, off their pins. They only pay $50 to
get policy of &c. 900 for one year. The
Express is nightly tickled with it.
Sherman and Denison have thrown
enough dirt at one another to build the Rcd
River and Rio Grande Railroad, and we
| have always been amazed that Noel didn't
have the Nesos and the Register employed az
wheelbarrows in making vast embankments
of blackness towards Fort Worth.
The animal placarded ''the sacred COW, .
at: the San Antonio fair was q descendant
of Brahmin. Anyhow, we have read Of
the Brahmin bull, a very different animal
from the Pope's bull The milk of the sa-
cred COW would bear moro watering than
the common hash house commodity.
In all the towns and villages in Texas
the people are saving wood and piling il
under sheds at back doors to make them.
selves and homes comfor' 'ugh the
| few weeks of cora They
don't have - earn
his breal'
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