The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-14
Texas-Fnct. and Fancies.
Rev. Mcdonald pIucked twenty-five

Rev. Mcdonald pIucked twenty-five
brands from the turning at Tehuacana.
The unaffected piety of Tehuacana
is accounted for by the utter absence
of the root of all evil.
Rev. Mcdonald, of California, is en-
arting Major PENIS part of gathering
in the sinners at MexIa.
1t will be polite sc(h)ramble for
the mayors office in San Antonio be-
tween French and Schram.
Turkeys are worth only fifty to sew
Tenas33-fXe cents in BRENNAN. They won't
gobble here Tor less than a dollar.
GLADDEN., the desperate of Mason
county, sentenced for ninety-nine
years, is on his way to the penitentiary.
Silas G.. Buck is winning much fame
as an advocate in the Granbury district.
He is q terrible prosecuting attorney,
so says w. s. j. Adams, and he knows.
The Benton City Era says that Nc
Nelly's men have captured J. Wesley
Hardin and six of his gang, and also
Ed Perryman, OF the ''Concho section. I"
They have inaugurated a six.acre
graveyard at Tehuacana, and the board
of aldermen will at once open COM
munication with Dallas to have 1t
filled.
Ethel, the horsethief captured near
Palo Pinto and brought back to Gran
bury, while leaving Jail to go to court,
locked in the jailor and escaped to the
swamp.
Pamela is holding immigration
meetings where hogs are fat and corn
abundant at forty cents. and > good
crop of oats, the Wdtehman says, blesses
the county.
The Headlight man is now working
on the road, and the paper is therefore
neglected and upside down, and they
say it is the Lightlead that's the mat
ter with it this week.
Invy rse. the drop curtain of the
Sherman horse opera n. big adver-
Using sheet and the people that don't get
advertised are mad about it, and drop
curtain war RACES in Sherman.
The brentwood Gazette is hard up
for firewood, beef steaks, potatoes and
gobblers. 1t states that G. Robinson
alias John Wesley Hardin has been ar.
rested there for stealing a shirt.
The people of Texas will regret to
learn that Capt. Sparks, of Jones's
frontier battalion, one OF the coolies,
and truest and bravest of the citizens
OF Texas, is dangerously sick at Lib
erty Hill, in Williamson county.
The San Antonio Express says it il
''longing" for space to publish the
whole OF the lecture of Mr.. Brown.
Why don't it elongate itself. .Its
physiognomy is generally long enough
to contain brief jeremiad or An ex-
plosive joke. M
D. w. Nichol, of this city, has
bought q home at Rrownwood, and
wants to keep up the connection with
his present home by pulling the street
railroad and stretching il out after him
to his new home in the richest and
prettiest country in the west.
The CentrGI Team says ''our columns
are open for the castor bean discussion. -
How tired people must be of return
ing boards, Of stesrns and of Grants
misdeeds or foIlies becomes apparent
when all these themes are abandoned
by the feFaa in behalf OF the bean that
makes the machinery OF life move
smoothly. 80
Thanksgiving day was properly cell
ebrAted, the Ledger tells, in TehuAcana.
Thanks were given that Grant il per
mitted peacefully 70 disperse and or
ganize State legislatures and 20 deter
mine the result Of elections by return
ing boards and yet still give the coun-
try peace and order and some little
liberty, We reckon.
| Col. FAIconer. Of Bryan, came 70
Austin some days ago with the purpose
Of forming . connection with the press
Of this city, bot for reasons not