The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

much harm everywhere.
We cant hear, accurately, from Cuero
since the STIR set; but hear that villains
are again rampant down there.
Another new and inexpensive process of
tanning leather within a month has been
invented and patented.
The Houston Age would have the victims
of Tom Scott's wiles, in the Legislature,
pilloried to everlasting infamy.
The Commercial says whisky cures snake
bites" OF course snakes around Dallas
have finally curled up ami quit.
Timothy DousL q boy nine years old, the
only son of his parents, was kicked to
death by d vicious horse at Denison.
The Dallas Herald says that Representa-
tive Martin writes or the spot" which is
very true, but he never hits the mark.
The murderers of blacks in South Caro-
lima are denoninated '.White Sioux" and
we don't want any of the sort in Texas.
The bayou at Jefferson is now fourteen
feet deep, and the .implecute can't wade it,
and its circulate on is thus somewhat con-
tracted.
The Baptists are building an excellent
church in Stephensville, and the Empire of
Satan will be restricted greatly in its in
huence. .#t .a fU -i+1
1t seems to us now that somehow it was
double jointed and not "joInt" resolution
OF adjournment that passed the two houses
of the Legislature.
The area of Texas is 275. 365 square
miles, or 175, 594, $50 acres, and is one
fourth larger than France. Tom Scott own
ing about one-tenth.
The Dallas Commercial urges the people
to hurry up and take the water works
stock" but they don't, and won't, unless
there's ice and other fxiDs.
Tom Scott has not, as charged, pocketed
the Democratic party of Texas. He has
only horn-swoggled the Governor and a
majority of the Legislature.
Brennan has a member of the bar so
black that his black cloth coat is dingy
brown by contrast, and his checked shirt
looks like hole in the sky. -
DR.. Graves is chosen city physician of
San Antonio. The city dads perhaps want
ed q graves yard when hiring the pill ped
dler got both at one fell swoop.
The prospect of the early completion
of the Trans Continental Railroad lends a
prosperity to Sherman not before enjoyed,
and property is steadily advancing.
Gen. II. P. Bee is the guest of N. O.
Green at San Antonio. Col. Coopwood
postpones his visit to Saltillo and Monterey
and returns from San Antonio to Austin.
Brick Pomeroy is devoted to Peter Coop
er. What service brick can render a
cooper remains to he seen. But old Peter
may like to have one in his little old hat.
The San Antonio Express contains a de-
served and tasteful tribute to the virtues
aud worth of the late George Gibbons,
stenographer and local reporter of this city.
The Victoria AdUOcate says that John
Ireland still dreams of sitting down in
Washington, and now in 'Gustave Schleich-
er's seat in the House. The AdcOcate pro-
tests. 1 A :.
Seaman, the baker and landlord at San
Marcos, broke his leg Saturday. We reck-
on it was sunstroke. 1t knocked things
hard enough here Sunday to break most
things.
The success of Tom Scott surely wrought
terrible results when the Dallas HeruM is
to the Register depicts deplorable condi-
ton of affairs at Austin"
The odorless apparatus for the cleansing
of sewers and sinks and removing contents
of cesspools should be used in every town,
and especially in those like Austin, limo
cent of drainage and sewerage.
An order for Joseph Ney to leave the
country was posted on the court house door
at San Antonio and he only Mayed, and
at Uvalde a like decree was addressed
Dick Num-, and none objected.
The San Saba Nei0s still urges the neces-
sity for the construction of the proposed
comprehend the torpor that distinguishes
the conduct of Austin property holders.
Those opposed to Tom Scott often pro-
posed to fix the per diem of members al
two dollars per day and have a called ses-
sion. But this wouldn't do. Tom Scott:
interests would have suffered.
i The Dallas Herald rises in its boots and
denounces with unmeasured bitterness the
conduct of the minorities of the Senate ano
House They should read it and see how
teuderly they are beloved by Tom Scott.
| We didn't know that Gen. D. Y Ports
was inclined to depart this life or that be
had announced his purpose to do thi:
thing; but the Express says 1t is quite
thankful that he is still In the land of th,
living.
The St. Louis newspapers abuse one an
other terrifcslly but cooperate when money
is involved. They notified the printers
unions some days ago that hereafter thel
would pay only forty cents instead of forty
five per thousand ems.
The number of immigrants is even nov
increased in this city by the proximity o
the terminus of the International road, anC
already travellers from the West take tn,
stage to Round Rock rather than the car
to Hampstead and Houston.
!, g Judge Reagan's announcement as a can
: didate for reelection to Congress appears
in the AdUccdts 1t is not one of the Chris
tidH ADVOCATES, though published in Pales
tine; but it Is gvca thing and the Jude,
knows good thing when he sees 1t. 10
Boston doctors say many people die from
pois IN derived from soap made of greas
taken from diseased animals. We reckon
that the reason, one of our learned law
givers avoids the use of all detergents anc
, has n "tuC Ochta BifVu aoft III euO O"pieOi
Peaches are worth 81 SO per bushel il
, Brenham, and the girls there have peach
; blossom CHEEKS and dewy lips aud brigh
: eyes and forms Of hours, and Brenhsm
when the wind blows. strongly from tn
sea, is q delightful abode of love and lassi
tade. ~
!, Capt. George Mellersh, of Dallas, is Eight
) ing the occupation tax through the courts
HES unconstitutional, the Captain says. 81
pleads his own case, and does ap his argu
nepfs in verse. They will, no doubt. b
! uriR'ed in the next volume of Texas Re
hports. at4
An Immigrant wagon passed under on
window yesterday containing eleven chill
sren. and the mother of these YVES as Wig
orous Ms when the hrst was born on tn
Drawing Chueky in Washington county
East Tennessee, There David Crockett frs
saw the hight.
There was no little negro inside the va