The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-04

candidate Tor mayor OF jefferson. " as l
here ever SO great name, to fill 80 small |
IN office But he is running on centen-
lialisIn and the name takes. He will thus |
be good nominal mayor.
woman having with her three children I
left one on the train on the international
road with box beside him addressed to
W aldo, Willis couRty, Texas. Did Waldo
have anything to do with it If SO, the
boy is on the wrong road.
Hieronymus is great public benefactor
ard if Hem pstead would obey his ipjnnc-
lions 1t would not sound q circular saw as
q gong for its hash house but become a
city and have cotton as well
a saw mills in aud outside of peoples
stomachs.
Dan McGary writing to the Banner seems
TO think that he or Hon. John Ireland
would well adoru a seat in the United
States Senate. Dan goes into equity about
it and files bill Of complaint and gets his
own head into 'chancery" and will be sore
ly punished.
Fort Stockton is three hundred and sew
entv.four miles northwest of San Antonio
on the road to FL PasO. The fort is garri-
soned by four compsnies of United States
soldiers, and and one thousand and two
hundred people live there, mainly stock
raisers of all colors and nationalities.
Capt. W. H. Price, Representative OF
ROCKY wall county, is Democrat, Granger
and Hardshell Baptist preacher and good
and true man. We had a lively time with
The preachers in the Constitutional Conven-
ton, and having made friends with them.
intend to eVade such calamity in future.
Merchants in Dallas are introducing the
time system in their stores, requiring their
statesmen to report at a certain hour in the
morning and TO take specified length OF
time to go and come from meals. No
fellow is allowed time now for more than
six drinks, and strike Is apprehended.
The Houston Commercial says: THE
Press Association of Texas will meet in
jefferson, on the seventh of June. Leader
calls upon the citizens to contribute liber
ally for the entertainment OF editors. All
that is necessary is to procure demijohn
of whisky to every five head, and lariat
for the euitor of the Rdncher0."
If any of our friends IN or out of the
Legislature are stockraising they may be in
terested in the following "Knotiss," posted
on a barn-door not far from the brewery
''noIiS that we will Stand a jack an horS
ate Mexykoa was South Sid of town
will Bee thar the twelf of the mounth."
| Thomas McGhee and C. r. Johns own a
gold mine in Llano county, on Pecan creek,
which is shipping ore to St. Louis that pays
5000 per ton at the mine. The shaft is only
thirty five feet deep A mining town is to
! be sold out in lots and tavern erected.
Rev. j. Q Kinchey is going to preach there
of Sundays for little nuggets.
Why don't the Sabines of San Saba gath
| er the bones of the mastodon discovered over
there, paste them together and send the
| huge monsters frame work to the worlds
far? The animal must have been twenty
feet high and twenty eight feet long. The
tusks were sixteen feet long. 1t was
double the size of common elephant.
Several horses have strangely disappeared
Wilson county, and every unknown fel
| low who goes pirouetting through those
parts on a good horse is liable to an uney
| pected attack of ''men-and-get his" neck
broken. The doctors call it MENINGITIS fo
short, because the rope is five feet long, ant
it always gets them.
! Twenty millions of silver ia the vault
of the Treasury will soon exterminate th'
fractional currency, and if the Fedora
financial man hasn't enough he is author
lied to draw ON the infinite resources o
this column of the STATESMAN fol jewels o
thought and go den fsncies, and the silve
cloud-lining that we read about.
There was much excitement in the Senat
when the drawing for terms of offic
was pending and especially was Their
weeping IN parts of the gallery when Mr.
Brady drew a long term. Senator Grac
ings he jerked out the ''longest" papers il
the hat Luck smiles on the god-ik
The San Marcos Free Press says tina
track laying on the sunset route is progress
ing rapidly. There are over hundre
convicts employed. The bridge across tn
Guadalupe is fast approaching completion
and in few weeks the locomotive will b
putting across it. The next station we'
of Kingsbury will be Butler.
David Lawhorn, of McDsde, claims tn b
the oldest editor in the State, he havin
established the first newspaper in the State
the 7'eran and Emigrants' Guide, publishe
: in Nacogdoches county. This paper VIZ
: started in 1885, and IN the latter part {
1886 was compelled to suspend, as thing
were getting little too warm for I'll
devil" in that section.
The Austin letter of the Sherman Regi
e ter says that Coke and Ireland "don
speak when they meet" 1t is the on
I occasion in the lives of these two gentl
men, of which we have heard, when the
!. won't "speak," and it is we'll that the Re
lister makes note of it, and now we a
told that Judge Hancock, too, is almo
crazy to speak.
The mining population of Llano an
: Mason counties are writing to the STATE
MAN to know when we will start the mario
gauge to Lampasas. They want branC
z right now, and are most crazy about
j How are they going to get supplies ar
clothes aud picks and tanglefoot and pie
s and all that from Austin, unless Aust
merchants first send out the narrow gaug
: Que Waldron, superhuman "boardir
n house boss" instead of emptying the CO
/ tents of his hashery into Nike Houston
little ''s:ommick" filled it with lead fro
''pepper box" and Nike is sick un
e death, and if Mike die Waldron will pu
: hemp and dance on nothing. Dallas
: bent on hanging somebody and mainly
D cause this thing of shooting people is &c
ting to be monotonous.
$ An idle newspaper reporter, an excelle
!. Bohemian, ran jolly foot race for 500
n side, 100 yards, at Dallas, with railros
q eonductor, and the newspaper man haviI
an extra head of gas abOard-he had be,
A off duty for six Weeks-absolutely sail,
away like a balloon, and the other fello
!. couldn't see him, though he was suppos,
to be regular cranky locomotive with dri
! ing wheels and furnace in the seat of
breeohes. There's nothing like n Bohemii
to make tracks.
Our correspondent Peter animated We
= plainly in one of his letters that such W
!. the fiourishing condition of the Free P,
- at San Marcos, that the editor of thai i
stitution was one of the robbers of the sta
Is coach. The allegation Is denied with I
s. coming ii@Tceness by the editor, and Pet
= viii have TO fight il out. The editor sa
,e tearfuily that his creditors are very 5
10 l becaust. al p,.;efts nefversion of facts