The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-28

i've anu Blk udfS Oiu.
The excessively cold weather made the
Baptist Herald come out in "double
sheet" Its proportions are grand, and
it is an excellent and progressive and
most sensible newspaper.
The Age says: "a real estate agent
reports that there is not house for
rent in Houston that he knows Of"
A real estate broker used to be the
foremost of Texas Know-Nothings.
No wonder the highwaymen are
seeking security east of the Colorado.
Eleven we're hanged ten days ago at
Fort Griffin and foaE more captured
are en- route to that merciful village.
Excer. that of Galveston, Brenham
boasts of the finest opera house and
theater in Texas. Rankin would not
let them have peace till it was built.
But Hampstead has the finest gong.
A nice colored dame has been lee
turing in Galveston. Her husband
was her principal auditor, and his fail
ure as family ''comnlssary Of sub
sistence" was the subject OF ker dis
course.
The Buffalo Baysu, ha4-ri and
San Antonio railroad hal Iex-
teuded to Clbolo station, tel s this
side of San Antonio, andAEN likely
be finished to that city Hthe tenth
of January next.
At half-past 0 J. NJ. Sunday, the
thermometer in the shade stood at
twenty degrees above zero and at sun
rise at eighteen degrees above zero.
Il was the coolest snap we have known
in Austin.
I'VE deplore the fact that the press
man of the Bryan Appeal Post made
the last number illegible, and the
delights of Christmas thinking arc
shut out from a wide district of Tex
as. 1t is sad.
A Dallas fellow, having two death!
in his family, traded a rafting, wheezy
old sewing machine at $75 for the two
death boxes at $65. He took the IN
dertaker's due bill for $40, paJ able il
coffin trimmings.
w. L. Wilson, Worthy Patriarch o
the Sons of Temperance at Brennan
insists that some of the brethren wan
''recess." He means, we imagine
that the rules should be suspended
during the holidays.
When the Dallas soap factory is Il
full blast and sewerage perfected thu
cleanliness and heslthfulness and goo,
morals of the town will add infnitel
to its attractiveness and to the valu
of homes and property.
1t doesn't do for .he press to CRITICS
public officers in Fort Worth too SHARP
ly. COPYRIGHT, city marshal, shot N
H. Wilson for doing this and Wilson
] legs are in bad nix with an ounce ba
dangling about in them.
1t is said that parties largely inter
ested in the Missouri, Kansas an
Texas Railroad have organized a con
pany, to construct railroad from Der
iSon to sulphur Springs and Mineol'
there connecting with the Internt
tional.
It is necessary part of fashionab
entertainments at Jacksboro, and eac
4 carriage and buggy and hack, freighte
with the blessed women, is turne
over on its way home from the dance
Now and then leg or arm is broker
but the boys seem to like it.
Louisiana oranges are worth Sc
to 81 per barrel in GALVESTON and file
t of vessels, frelghted with this trul
was expected there yesterday, whe
the price must have fallen, and sever
people will send US barrels for givir
them these juicy facts.
f The Bastrop Advertiser learns tn
Major Moore has coo on his his far
o that gave birth to four calves in Oh
year. But we would like to know
before proceeding to comment on til
loose uSness nature, whether the Ad0t
Il tiSer always spells so1o with &C."
, The female suffragists of Texas a
:, notified that Mrs. Cady Stanton al
II the rest of the sort meet In January
Washington. They will lie over t
d March and with broomsticks and pea
o defy Grant and bayonets and see tn
the right man is peacefully made pre-
/. ident.
~ When Governor Hubbard revok
the order giving Wallace of Sherma
= the debtor from Atlanta, to the guar
ianship of the crazy, greedy credit
70 Jacobs, Jacobs proceeded to Atlant
and thwarted of his purpose to exit
s money by force and violence, be sh
ut himself.
Having no reference to recent
n coming festivals In this city, it Is IS
n that the saddest thing in nature, Mt
to throwing bad-tainted kittens il
ID mill pond, is a lady at church,
other festal occasion, drowning two
AS three flabby Galveston oysters in G
Ion of thin soup.
~ Now that the Dallas and WITCH
p' road is provided for and in course
construction, Dallas talks of buildi
oil another to Cleburne and another
of Palestine. 1t ought to have seve
toward the Holy Land and offer ev,
,r- possible inducenent TO travel in t
peculiar direction.
Major Penn has tackled Satan
he Galveston and conducts revival at
- Second Baptist Church. He might b
. stopped az Houston, but the city d,
down there are in Jail and they may
~ psnt, removed from the gay woTl
on temptations, without the majors
on tervention.
The Dallas Herald wants Us to t;
lar stock in the banner to be made and !
to scented by Texas to Georgia as
res 'sbanner Democratic State of
South" Who win take stocki "Hi
is in your checks Austin did not m
y the bet bu. must pay the ''piper
~ seems.
The Pleasanton Sick Journal
ice ever predicted the smashing of viii
N. by local option in Atascoso couI
- and we imagine that the reason is.t
nobody has asked the editQ<>e DR.
for several weeks. II Ac'
'er over 70 Austin We viii
zen nip.
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