The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-24

was born in Tennessee sixty years ago,
commenced life as 9 tanner, read law,
moved to Florida and engaged IN all the
Indian fights, became Confederate judge of
Florida, resigned, entered the army as a
private. became a brigadier general, and
was elected to Congress in 1874. He will
be reelected this year. This gentleman Is,
we believe, the oldest brother of the dis
tinguished lawyer of Galveston.
jimmy Newcomb, Davis's whilom organ
grinder tells that two negroes were recent
ly skinned alive for rape near Seguin, and
the Inquirer IsdeT published on the spot,
seems 10 think somehow that Jimmy is the
biggest liar in Texas, unless he he the cor
respondent of the Inter Ocean, There has
been no rape committed and no negroes
have been hanged. But it lis. fact, and
jimmy knows IL, that certain people are
par ticularly addicted to the commission of
thai particular crime, and are always par
ticularly unfortunate in having their necks
properly broken. They have Jimmy's SYM
pa-hies and nobody's else. e-f I'D
Three desperadoes conspired to rob the
railroad agent at Harwood. They took
much whisky to screw up their courage,
and came shouting into the village. A
brave deputy sheriff attempted to arrest
them and was resisted. He summoned a
posse of gallant citizens and one robber
was killed, another wounded aud the third
captured. They killed an excellent citizen
nance. Name And yet the. criminal code
of Texas makes no adequate provision for
the terrible punishment of villains. None
of these people, the Inter Ocean should re-
member, are black.
S.lado College will commence its six
teenth annual session on the fourth of Sep
TENDER its accomplished president, o.
Ii. Mc9mber, gives assurance that no labor
or vigilance will be spared to make this
school even more worthy than ever of its
past high character. An able corps of in
structors will be placed in charge of the
classes, and thorough course of study
pursued. Rates of tuition will be very
low and board. moderate, while Salado is
most BEAUTIFULLY located. Its hills, its pure
and gushing waters, magnificent scenery
and refined society make it 3 fit location for
an institution of learning. aW win -f
We don't know, how, the wricer of the fol
lowing ever happened to obe newspaper
reader There must be some mistake about
] it. Newspaper readers soon learn to write
and their families necessarily absorb intelli-
gence. But by some mistake the STATES
MAN was forwarded for a week to w. Lor-
nigan who writes: ''Sur-Pleze don't sOnt
yer paper ennymoh to mea, ]. don't want
to ceep it ennymoh. Truly yoarn," Lor-
niganl Lornigan! We will send you the
paper six months for nothing if you will
agree to spell twenty words day. We love
Texas and would gladly have all its people
become intelligent and respectable.
The faculty, those venerable and fat and
lean old gentlemen chosen, and wisely too,
to educate young men and women at Bryan,
are nightly bothered about that great col
lege building with the chapel in the cock
loft. The professor OF chemistry is de-
vising plan by whinh the great structure
may be turned upside down With nitro-gly-
cerine. He heard once that Sitting Bull
contemplated the possibility of upsetting
Lake Superior and drowning out Chicago by
using levers and dynamite, and the Profess
sor doesn't see why great public building
may not be overturned and tighted by the
same agency. The attention of civil en-
glneers to the subject will be arrested by
these plain facts. - 9T'TA'r7
Many years ago when times were good
and when Col. Phil Claiborne and Hon.
John Hancock traversed plains. of bound
less solitude, where farms and homes and
towns and villages now abound, Uncle
Phil gathered the frOntiersmen at BastroI
and made them a rousing speech. Tradi
ton, less kind than to Patrick Henry, has
failed to preserve the whole Grafton; but
he became prophetic, and, anticipating the
greatness of Texas, said that 4 the timt
would come and was not remote when the
republic" would be traversed by railways
even as is the human body by the arteria
and venereal system. Nobody seems tt
have suspected the fun in the speech and
Uncle Phil never smiled, and ten year
elapsed before the people began to laugf
about it, and Uncle Phil says that thu
queer fact is the best evidence: that exists
of the progressveness of Texas.
One of the prominent advantages of tn,
city of Austin is its having been selected a.
the place of residence of several skillfu
and experienced architects. The natura
beauties of the place, no doubt, impeIleC
them, as men of cultivated taste, to max
Austin their home. Besides, the abundance
and variety of the kinds of building ston
and brick near at hand showed them tina
it was spot we'll adapted to the display o
their proficiency in their profession. In
deed, the fact that we have able architect:
with US and first class workmen in al
branches to execute their plans. will Civ
US permanent prosperity in everythin!
pertaining to building. Persons at a dis
lance who live on or near the railways tina
supply us, CAN now get superior plans will
the specifications for their execution, AM
the cut stone. ready to put up. To keep u
with the times they will have-to-eall int
play the talent and material that is nov
? within their reach. They will have to ge
their plans. specifications and ornaments
stone work where they can get them to tn
best advantage. 'sA