The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

Hon. Roger Mills Is grinding out
foury speeches over about Bolton.
and the journal lauds the distinguished
gentlemsn's taste and elOquence and learn
ing.
Ginger-pop and cake provoke the elc-
quence and grateful tears Of the Nacogdo-
ches Neios. One VIM. Weight pumped It
into the swelling bosom of the dead headed
editor.
John Hallon and J. f. Shook fought one
another, though esteemed gentlemen, as
savage purps snd Arabs do, and Shooks's
arm was broken by billiard cue Al Nacog-
doches.
Diaz, the revolutiOnist chief. with TO-,
600 men, is said to he seeking fight at the
city of Mexico, bu: it is quite impossible to
gather the truth from Mexican news
papers.
The iron rails and live-oak Gro sizes of
the progressive International are the only
| things that don't seem to set well on the
stomachs of the gay and festive grass
hopper.
They keep a string band in San Saba.
1t might he used to hang fellows classically
withal that they may die, as Mmabeau
wished, ito the sounds of delightful
melody"
Cook county boards Migrants and tramps
and idle blacks at big hotel. Why not ?
W'ernt they born with the kingly right of
suffrage stamped upon their sovereign brows
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Northern knaves and swindlers are still
peddling out town lots in supposititious
places in Texas. There is no such place as
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should say 81.
The Bolton Journal complains that it
doesn't receive the STATESMAN regularly
The Austin and Lampasas and Bolton Mar
row Gauge will remedy the deplorable evil.
Nothing else can.
Fresh eggs are retailed in Austin at
twenty five cents, AMI in villages around at
ten and fifteen cents per dozen. Sweet po-
tatoes are worth one dollar per bushel in
Bastrop and scarce.
Mr.. James Neal and Miss Sarah Row
were welded last week at Granbury II
he ever ge.s into row with her lie should
kneel and ask forgiveness. She is said to
be charming woman.
The Age thinks that there are judges
whose conduct and morals would be I'M
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airy. And this comes of the blessedness of
the new Constitution.
Frequency of court sessions, Of one sort
and another, the Chief says, will bankrupt
the people. But the CHIEF forgets. The
new Constitution was made for place hold
ers and not for the people.
The Dallas and Wichita road, to be
Joined by the Austin and Lampasas Narrow
Gauge and extended to Denver will be fin
ished to Denton by the fifteenth of Decem-
Der, as the contract requires.
w. H. Newman, the courtliest and per-
haps most skillful of general freight agents,
is traversing Texas and fixing rates from all
points over Tom SCOTS lines. de will be
in Austin during fair week.
There is but one dram shop in the two
counties of Newton and Jasper, and they
are going to eXterminate that sink of mi
guilty by means of the local option law.
Every good citizen assents.
c. W. Crozier, who was piously inclined,
and ran Sunday paper for time in Aus.
tin, has bought an interest in the Bryan -ip
peal. We wish him better luck in this ven
ture than blest him in his first.
The bull-dozing correspondent of the
Inter- Ocean enriches the last number OF
that sweet-tempered, Veracious newspaper
with stories of frightful outrages done
blacks everywhere in Texas.
The grasshoppers overwhelmed Fsyette
county last Wednesday, They part thei,
hair in the middle and their shirts button
behind, and backing their ears they 90
through county in a day.
The LImpasas county attorney, the Age
says, after a fight, was landed in the Jug.
Most county attorneys often get on the out.
side of one, but they always have rare and
queer people about Lampa-as.
The chief feature of the Jefferson fail
has been the 800 race, mile heat, between
Blalock's horse, ALI Johnson and Owen.
horse, Red Buck. The former won the
race by tifty-seven feet; time 2:15.
The Austin Capital State Fair Association
will send a special representative to each Of
the preceding fairs i'll Texas to induce lead
ing exhibitors to send the products of Their
skill and industry to the capital in Novem
Der.
We have not heard the note of wild
goose yet on its migration South, thou q
we hear of them passing over other sec
tions. JtferSOn Jimplecute. We are sorry
to learn, 10y this kindly announcement, Of
the suspension of the Louder.
Cotton crops result magnicently about
Granbury. The fields are still white as
snow clad hills of Down East" and the
ViGette says "R. p. Crockett gathered two
bales off his peach orchard" 1t grows Oh
al the trees up there we reckon.
The strong minded women all maintain
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cedes the right of women, as citizens, to
vote, and several in Texas are going t.
: TRY it on and we think it will fl, anc
that they'll give RadicaIlsm fits every
where.
1t is a good paper at McKinney-the En-
quirer-but it derives none Of its il sprotiOr
from the rare genius of those pats who pu
the culinary swine-fattening vegetable
kingdom and Sambo to bed together anC
gave us a basic code of laws worthy of it,
paternity.
\ Denton county will produce this year fif
teen thousand cotton bales. and many est
mate the product at twenty thousand. SD
years ago there were SIX bales of cotton
raised IN Denton county. This season the
crop will bring over seven hundred thou
sand dollars.
A fellows head isn't level, or he exagger
ates his capacity when, after week or two
at Philadelphia, he undertakes to give
mankind any proper conception OF the Cen
teunial. newspaper can't hold 1t, anC
An ordinary head can't grasp or measure o.
describe it.
Sam Barrett fred twice at Col. John Dill
lard, at Mount Pleasant, and woInding hin
and his horse fled and is hotly pursued
Di lard is not seriously hurt. 1t is necessary
to state, since we exchange with few
Northern ''bloody shirts, that despite th,
folly Of such deeds both men are white.
Nobody can ever question the wisdom
and goodness of an overriding providence
Dick Taylor, in Hill county. was whipping
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