The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13


sway with and married lady named Pa
thence. The next Sunday he preached from
the text LET US run with Patience the
race that is set before u.s." We would ven
ture the remark that if they wore pin
backs IN those days he rather got Patience.
The sad demise of one of numerous
statement that
-Four doctors tackled Johnnie Smith;
They biistered and they bled hi o.;
With squils and antl-b bilious pills
And ipecac they fed him.
hey stirred him up with calomel,
And tried 10 move his liver;
But all in vain-his lit soul
" as waited DER the river.
The only difficulty in the way of giving
credence to the solemn assertion of the
Bolton Journal that Mrs. H., of Bell county
has the identical Ratchet with the letters
G. w. carved ON the red painted handle
that the country's daddy used to use, is the
fact that G. w. had no 'lineal descen-
dants" and these are said by the Journal to
have the implement.
Col. John s. Ford, State Senator elect,
started for the seat of government, and
went around by Brashear, aboard the
steamer from the West. The elements
caused it, and if the law permits mileage
for the most practicable route, covering this
case, he can have a realization of the adj
age, ''it is an ill wind that blows nobody
good"
Half the newspapers in Texas recited
some local blood-and- thunder ku-klux MUIR
der on the first inst, and the Inter Ocean
gobbles the last one of them as bloody
facts, and waves the bloody shirt in ecstacy.
Meanwhile the thieves are robbing banks
and defalcations are countless, and each
day there are fresh developments of knav-
cry at Washington. .......-
The San Antonio Herald man wants those
good and piously eloquent brethren and re-
vivalists, Hall and Crea, to go back to
Houston and preach several weeks from the
text 'sThou shall not bear false witness
against thy neighbour" and then talk a
month or more about notes in other fellows
eyes, San Antonio thinks Houston doesn't
see itself as others see it. y,fy =.
There has been so much, one way and
another, said about that little affair that &C.
CURED some time ago between Cain and
Abel, that Cain, in killing things, now con-
fines himself mainly to cats. He will give
twenty-five cents each for their scalps.
When Coke's new cavalry get well on their
! legs the Comanches will hear of the Bastrop
speculation and go to lifting cat scalps.
Cain is good map. '.','
The San Saba Neaos man has been bum
ming around Austin, and took in Cooks
building and Ssffroi and concluded that
Austin is growing vehementlY. He thinks
that Baldwin has finally demolished spirit
ism, and that the narrow gauge to Tampa
sas is an indispensable public necessity. In
fact, that editors head is level enough to
| ha in Oh pnr do ha nd
hard enough for paving-stones.
The difference between the murders
done while Coke is Governor and when
Davis was Governor consists in the fact
on the head out west, and then, according
to Davis, it was the negro that caught it.
Davis's cavalry were to protect the negro
CHkes to protect the people, white and
black, and especially against the desperadoes
out west. M ~ !--
| Hugh McCree, who killed y. Knight in
Lampasas on election day, was arrested last
Sunday in the vicinity of Buckner post
office. They talk, of drowning him in the
Lampasas sulphur springs, but since the
ID is supposed to have a lake of the same
sort, the good people concluded to make
his majesty their kind substitute and execu-
| toner, and thus McCree, for the present,
goes scot free.
1t is an awful crime as painted by the Tele-
graph. The people of Hopkins county in
duced a poor, helpless paralytic to take his
wife and child in wretched wagon to
Houston. The wretched ex-Confederate
thought to make living by selling books.
He is helpless and starving, and will be
sent back, and Hopkins county, when foot
ing the bill, won't feellike pretty Polly Hop
kins when footing the light fantastic toe.
If "the more the merr1er," then Bonham
will laugh itself to death, which would be-
OF course, very sad, and thus the more isu't
the merrier, and people ought not to say So
But Bonham has three jolly newspapers, and
reckless fellow is going to start a fourth in
the GRACEFUL village. The new paper is
to be entitled the Farm and Fireside, and if
anybody is burnt, we hope it won't be the
excellent proprietors.
There are but few babbling brooks to
greet the ear of the immigrant in Milan
county, though instead of eutbreaking
fountains and whirling rivulets, Nature has
given her deep ravlnes, and by throwing
small earthworks or dams across the streams
the water may be held in ponds the year
round. The northers from the mountains
and the breezes from the sea keep the water
found in ponds continually pure, aud art
takes the place of nature.
If it hadn't been for the persistent lee
lures, in season and out of season, admin
lstered by the STATESMAN, Dallas wouldn't
be rejoicing in anticipation of a $50, 600
brewery. Lager beer will flow, and the
great city will go swimmingly along in that
highway of wonderful prosperity it has
pursued, obstructed alone by an undammed
river of whisky. Lager will soon fill the
scorched channels, and Dallas will be-
better place.
The virtuous Free Press says: Sand now
1T is said the stage robbers were from Aus
tin. A man named Norris has been arrested
there on suspicion. A rather rough point
to the sermons of our friend of the STATES
NAN. We beg him not to let Austin crowd
us in this way" We cannot help ii.
When Austin reprobates would do partic-
ulaTly devilish deed they go west till they
strike San Marcos, there everything is
lovely for them and they sail in.
The Fdyette County Neio Era hasn't soul
for the fine arts. 1t ordered a copy of the
picture entitled "The Lost Cause" and,
seeing 1t, proceeds to say with fearful ewes
The magnifcenee and touching qualities
OF the picture are not worth d-n. A
good fagelation at school is decidedly
more touching" stThe Lost Cause must
be striped. In any event, that was the
condition of the Nee Era man after the
Pedsgogue's duty was done.
They who would serve the city, county
and State, and send abroad in letters a
readable description Of Austin and Travis
county, should send Us orders for the
descriptive pamphlet. It appears Saturday.
Twenty thousand copies will be printed.
Folded, each fits an ordinary envelope. The
several railroad companies should distribute |
them. They will draw hither countless
numbers from Philadelphia. and give peo-
pie in the States an accurate idea of our
homes in Texas
The 7esas CddSt says shat work is pro-
crossing on the public school building. in /
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