The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-14


speaks well, too, for the delightful
climate of seguiu.
Radkey & Cayett are to start branch
TIN and hardware store in Lampasas.
They need deal of boilers and stew
pans and gridirons in Lampasas and
in the sulphurous region just below.
In fact, the place is always in a stew
about something, and the Dispatch
seems TO be chief cook and bottle
washer in those parts.
Joseph" dlios "Yusef, prime min
lister. and sometimes called ':roper.inp
for ''Pharaoh," is the Austin CORES.
pendent of the Burnet Bulletin. He is
paid 50 per week and gets $50 worth
of gossip, and now aud then ropes in
an innocent advertiser. Why doesn't
each interior paper have vivacious
representative at the capital?
Eighteen coaches, in two sections,
came crowded from st. Louis and
passed Little Rock last Wednesday,
and five from Memphis, all crowded
with immigrants to Texa'. The pas
sengers from Memphis were mainly
from Georgia and Alabama. Hoxie's
net work of advertisements and ex-
cellent passenger accommodations cap
tuie most Of these strangers.
They rugged out Ward Taylor, of the
Jimptecute, in fresh new suit; but
forgot to give him a shirt and he is
still in the condition of Father Adam
before the fall, shirtless. Somebody
proposed to give w. T. this needful
garment, but he was in such raptures
with the freshly favored new je ans
coat and trowsers that he forgot the
shirt entirely and now advertises for
one.
Everybody in Dallas is now going to
heaven, if they can get there. At
Major PeDn's last revival meeting,
when several had joined the church
by experience, a nice young man
came forward with his license and was
married at the altar, and thus the good
work goes bravely Oh in all directions,
aud Dallas may become as famous for
it's piety as for It's deviltry. 1t may
get entirely penned up after time.
The International ReUie,s is the heav-
lest of American magazines discussing
the gravest questions III morals and
government. The last Number tells
of "the origin OF parliamentary repre-
seG.stfon in England" of transcen-
dentalism in New England, of Italian
journalism, OF the Chinese question in
the United States, of contemporary
literature, etc, etc. A. 8. Barnes &
Co., of New York, are the publishers.
The Bolton Journal seems to think
that the bow-legged Fishburn's
breeches were cut out by tho circular
saw used as gong at Hieronymus's
tavern. We had thought that the curve
of this saw was designed to give ''fits"
to the rotund stomach of HierDnymus.
1t almost killed US once in unfortunate
journeyings towards Houston, and we
now take the other route ola the Inter
national. That saw has been the rum
Of the Central.
In BRENNAN the mayors court fines
man fifty dollars for carrying a six
saooter, and confis Gates the weapon be-
sides. This Is the way, the San Saba
NecS says, to deal with the article;
heavy fines and the loss of asix-shooter
will make most of them cease to relish
practice which they find don't pay.
But If the police rob innocent, unsus-
pecting strangers and let the city roughs
go unwhipt of justice, the law should
be wholly imperative.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road is to be extended at once to Sher-
man, tina: it may escape exactions
levied by the Central. The Central
has been charging $36 per cor for the
nine miles between Denison and Sher-
man, which g rather steep. But the
Central is the NEST wisely or unwisely
managed corporation on the continent.
The dispute is between the managers
and the rest of mankind, and there
seems to be no way of settling it.
The reason the Ledger always moves
in circle is because of Fishburn's
cussed bow-leggedness. When these
crural appendages of Fishbura get
much tangled there is no comprehend
ing the course of his hebdomadil p1b-
LEGATION. The phrase "going on a
bender" had origin in the conduct and
career of this extraordinary newspaper.
1t is original, racy, and Fishburn is
not an idler or borrower, and therefore
the Ledger takes and is taken.
East Texas papers especially laud
Mr.. T. p. Maritime virtues and personal
worth, and the press OF the State ap-
plsrds the Governors appointment of
this gentleman to the private secretary
ship and of Mr.. Searcy to the position
lately occupied by Colonel DeBerry.
Meanwhile, all the pretty girls about
Austin and society people regret the
departure of Captain George Dashiell,
who served Governor Coke and the
commonwealth so efficiently in the po-
sition~now filed by Mr. Martin.
They are enforcing the anti hard
swearing and blasphemy law in Bren-
ham, and most of the people there
think of seeking Admission to the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum. They don't
know how to get along without little
spiciness in their sweet conversations
and quiet colloquies which this Boston
born law seems 10 iuhibit. The country
at large commiserdtcs the woes OF
Brenham. Many good parents down
there seem to think that they would
like to have the rest of their children
born tongue-tied.
The success of the little pamphle,
descriptive of Austin and Travis county
induces its publishers to contemplate
the preparation of u book containing
engravings OF public and private build
inPs ami of hkenesses of prominent
citizens and full descriptions of town
and country and OF adjacent towns and
historical and personal sketches OF dis
tinguished men and OF public-spirited
merchants and lawyers. Such G vol
ume, prepared carefully and published
tasIefully, will serve the couAtTy and
its people, and especially those of towns
and villages.
The people of Georgetown hare been
awfully fooled for eight days past.
Nat Q. has been here in Austin, and
darkness has oyershadowed Mats vii
lage, hut yesterday Nat projected his
rubicund physiognomy from the Sec
ond-stnry window Of his office, and
everybody got up and rubbed theii
eyes ana put on their clothes and went
TO work, and the town bears an aspect
of unwonted cheerfulness and activity
after sleeping week. L iitors are al
ways useful members of community,
and Georgetown would die of mani
ton IL it were not ''countenanced" by
Nat Q.