The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-06

Of absence for one week from the House, to |
recuperate We don't like to blow on him, |
but be turned up in Dallas-an awful place |
to recuperate in. But it's change of scene |
that Col Campbell wanted, and he will get |
it. Dallas is scenic or nothing.
And who the 49,. is Harry Haynes, and |
by VIVA. authority did he say, as reported /
by the ComanGhe Chief, THAT the local OPP
ton clause was the principal ground Of the
SrATEsNAN's opposition to the present Con
stltuuOEi'
Mr.. james Wick, the florist and horticul-
turist of Rochester, New York, is doing
much TO promote the production of flowers
and vineyards and orchards in Texas. Here
we must have, with fountains and flowers
Of all lands and climes, the most beautiful
homes IN the world.
The conduct and deeds of the Texas re-
vivalist, Major Penn, serve to show that
" hen a lawyer is converted he is the best
trump in the deck-of the ship of Zion,
and when this last trump sounds and he
hands in his checks, he will surely have his
measureless, undylng reward.
The San Saba Ne,es says: ''For large
hearted, whole souled people fat babies,
! tile crops, gushing springs, green valleys
and sleek cattle, we put San Saba against
any county in the State" As the blessed
women are not mentioned in the brilliant
catalogue, we suppose those babies talked
about grow on trees.
The domination, and certainty of cleo
ton, of TIlden and Hendricks has so re-
kindled fires of patriotism everywhere IN
Texas, that even LAGRANGE is going to
have big Qualification, barbecue, brass
band and streams of Oratory on the ever
blessed Fourth. Washington Jones is the
speech-maker of the day.
ct. N" left Houston for Marshall some
time ago, and the Age says he has not since
been heard from. There is much anxiety
about him. 1t is supposed he feared Red
River may turn backward, and drown the
imaginary Red River and Rio Grande Rail
way that T. N. bulit, more than year ago,
from Denison to Austin and the Gulf.
Miss Jessie French, of McMinnville,
Tennessee, whose poem, "The Brownie of
the Press" appeared New Years day in the
STATESMAN, read monody of wonderful
beauty and originality before the law class
of Vanderbilt University, at the recent com
mencement in honor of the memory and
virtues of the late Chief Justice Nicholson.
Two more Texas boys are carrying off col
} legiate honors; one at Cornell University,
the son of Mr.. E. NJ. Wheelock, of Aus
tin, who has been graduated; and the other
J. ID. Pitts, of Limestone county, who was
awarded the 500 pr'Z. for the best essay
on Early English" Both these young
gentlemen are eleUeS of The Austin Military
Institute.
Lockhart, like most of the towns Of
Texas, has grand centennial celebration
to-day-a barbecue, bran dance, music and
pretty girls. It's the blessed women that
make the boys patriotic; but they do more,
like Tilden, to excite hopes Tor the future
than blessed memories of the past, and
Lockhart, under such inspiration, will
dance its little legs off to-day.
The Waco Examiner says innocently tina
sat one time we were of the opinion that
John had lost his grip on the lower house
by straning for seat in the upper. John
will learn after awhile that the people are
not to be dragooned into line of policy,
and the papers will always have finger in
the pie when it comes to making respresen-
tatlves in the Senate or Congress"
The Hillsboro EapOsitOr says that ''tEe
sheriff of the Austin jail attempted to force
cents, and brutally struck him because he
refused to comply with his unlawful de-
mand. This fearful outrage was at the cap
ital of the STATE, and while the Legislature
is in session. "A blow to the citizen is a
blow to the State )"
Two years ago the STATESMAN urged the
necessity for concurrent action between
Mexican and American authorities on the
| Ora do no Of ifrht
in both directions to pursue thieves across
the river. The plan is now operative, the
Mexican General RevuelteZ has already
hung four COW thieves, and sent back tC
} the Americans four American fugItives from
Justice one a man named Harris, from De
Witt unity.
The Commercial says the wheat crop OF
Dallas county, last year, was 700 900 bush.
els-25 per acre. This year the yield pei
acre is about one-third as much. The
> acreage, however, this year, is % per cent
more than last year, and hence the crop oil
this year amounts to about 800, 900 bushels
The product of the State last year was owe
10, 900 5000 bushels. This year it will no
exceed 4, 600, 900.
When we told W. H. Newman, of thu
Texas Pacific, to see Austin and die M
out Immediately, as the Messenger supposes
He may take his own time for that; out WE
were impatient to see him at the capita
4 that he may confess its charms and no
r leave the world on some wild train, believ
S ing, as he does, that Marshall is the cAolc
est abiding-place of man.
| That European correspondent of til
: Marshall Herald who had himself shot t.
a i h,,F ha
! isn't dead at all, but in New York. Hi
3. name is j. A. George. He subjected HIM
6 self to pangs of death, ON paper, merely I
test the devotion of a woman he loved
: and she is awful mad about it. She dom
d like to he fooled, and will never be happ
Il till the Heralfs "Our own correspondent
goes and hangs himself or rides fat hors
or in stage COACH to San Antonio.
There is no calculating the boundles
generosity and spirit of forgiveness of ed
q tors. There is Sam Wilson making a vale
II dictory to his readers, and quitting TIL
business, who says, with tearful eyes: /
those who could and should have patron
Is lied their county paper, but Who hav
e failed to do so. we have to say, May tn
S Lord forgive them" Sam knows tina
n nothing less than the boundlts IS mercy c
pOtShSO OuaA PibJ Vi P1iNSA N'''S
country bumpi.ins and fancy fellows abou
e town who fail to pay for the LEGAL paper.
re The San Antonio Express folds lis prett
d hands across its peaceful breast since there
IL no use crying over split milk, and say
e softly and tenderly 20 the blessed Repubi
cans of Texas: 1.-THE partisan press can no
3, hurl their thunderbolts, and while the ba
a tie RACES, the Express will assume a pos
a ton as it were between rough seas an
,r stormy skies, and gather in the scene"
a is content, the reader will observe, I
gather in the scene" There are no spoi
''Ihs load of poles, " for the hapless Expre
- to gather IN"
9 Texas evinces little apparent interest
h the discussion of questions affecting accti
!. to the valley Of The Mississippi. Viii
Eads builds jetues that must be extende
each year into the Gulf, the people an