The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-02

! he tEateilanZa q l nl0ne ltRllana OF the |
Urited States. which will have a branch |
society in Austin, has for its president Mr.. |
\. Vaccsro. Of Memphis; Mr.. ID. Bonanza, |
of New York, vice president; and Mr.. Vicar, |
of Baltimore, secretary; and A. p. Chic, of
Jefferson, Texas, treasurer.
There are many and constantly recurring
skirmishes around the walls of Matamoros.
Now and then luckiess greaser is knocked
over, and, luckily, last Wednesday night,
the notorious Abraham Garcia, alias Caballo
BlGnco who sailed out with Il party of fifty
men, was shot off his horse.
The kaufman Star editor is a youthful
and handsome bachelor. In any event he
says he has ''felt row and then the heavy
hand OF unrcYuted affection" Do the
pretty girls over there chuck the nice young
man under the chin with the folded hand
and have they quit kicking" entlrelyl
A correspondent says: "Three Methodist
preachers mistaken for government detec-
lives were shot by illicit distilIerymen in
Arkansas. Were those good men Metho
dists9 Wern't they of another denomina-
tionl They DO 60 for chicken-pie, but
were never suspected Of tins proclivity for
whisky"
The Homeacard Star is made to scintillate
by presenting the full text of Governor
Uubbard's admirable Centennial Grafton,
and by means of Judge Lochrane's letter
from Austin. The Judge becomes poeti
cally inspired when contemplating the beau
tiful and varied and ever changeful as
poets OF nature IN Austin.
The soft summer winds wreathed about
San Antonio arc beautifully curved and
bent by the melihuous tones of Baltimore
Martins charming voice. He sings divine
~ and has sung his house into a fortune;
but, loving music, they are necessarily
good fellows and deserve the luck vouch-
safed by this martin gale.
Crooks, of the Courier, is going to sell
farm and many Sherman town lots to-day.
No man can conduct a paper and serve his
country faithfully without forgetfulness of
self and devotion to schemes of public
good, and thus poor Crooks, bent beneath
the cares of State, must unload and drop
his real estate.
When the Gainesville Gazette man learned
that treaty had been made for the re-
moval of the Black Hill Indians to the
Indian Territory, he instinctively placed his
hands on the top of his head and wished
that he was old enough to be bald, and
ugly enough, like Martin, to scare the red
devils off the globe.
Three hundred and eighty-siX names
were found on the lists of those who voted
IN the late election in this county for which
no owners can be found. Our friend VIM.
Bray, who was in Boston on election day,
voted only twice. But that need amaze no
one. He voted by telegraph, and was only
blackened because charrcd by the light
ming.
They had baby show at the San An
tonic fair and the Herald is authority for
the sad statement that one of the officers of
the fair, who had been examining colts,
calves, etc. undertook to open an infants
mouth to see by its teeth how old it was,
and was nearly knocked off the hurricane
ttdeck of the p&goda by the indignant
| mother.
Mexican Indians tell it beyond the Rio
Grande that they came as far east as San
Marcos on their last horse. stealing expedi-
ton when they killed fourteen rancheros.
| The horse borrowing" system along the
Rio Grande is now carried on more extern
sively than ever, and the borrowers" in
variably forget to return what comes within
their reach.
Have the Democratic clubs of adjacent
counties distributed tickets having on them
the Eames of the Democratic presidential
electors? The Republican tickets are
printed in Washington and their distribu-
ton through the loyal leagues has already
been provided for. Every voter should at
once secure for himself and neighbors Til
den tickets.
A prominent Granger would have the
| press agifate the adoption Is the local OPP
ton law in every county. The politicians
are mopstrously afraid of it, and most of
them would rather 60 to the gallows Of
! some other fellow were to hang) than have
the question agitated. 1t will knock may
ors' and aldermen's Lice little plans awry
next year.
The IndaLola Bulletin will be published
at Cuero by Col. c. A. Ogsbury. He will
doubtless urge the extension of the Indian
ola and Cuero ROAD to Austin. If nobody
else will do it, Col. Ogsbury himself will
seize each end of our Austin city narrow
gauge, with the mules on it, and stretch
the thing north and south to Lampasas and
20 Cuero. There is nothing impossible to
enterprise and genius.
The Terrell Star says that Crank Hous
tor has returned from Southwestern Texas,
where he purchased 40, 900 head of cattle
and 5000 horses. He paid $40, 600 in sill.
yer for them. Dir. Houston intends tC
drive the beeves to this county early next
spring, and then ship from Terrell as the
St. Louis market justifes. He was offered
$40 900 for his bargain few hours after he
made the purchase"
An Uvaldo special to the Express says
that on the nineteenth the Indians in the
n .ighborhood Of the blackberry crossing q
the Nucces, twenty miles below Uvalde,
badly wounded one of Balls Bates's corpC
rails, and it being impossible to stop the fl "
of blood he will doubtless add one more tt
the score of the red raiders. The Indian!
seem to be still moving down the Nuecet
from that poins.
P. L. Edmordson's head is level when
he says that 'tbeing solvent, and having {
due regard for my obligations, and not i'm
pervious to the opportunities of nv credi-
tors, and wishing TO preserve unsullied m.
reputation for honesty and integrity by re
framing from mourning liabilities that
might not be able to meet, / have deter
mined, with this number of tn IndeF, tt
discontinue its publication at Go zales."
A poor and unknown young man begged
for employment for day or two about tn
SLIccLS vi I1OusIDHi anu Adltlus9 III oSSuiiui
it, went to the bayou, and, standing on it
brink, shot himself through the head. Tn
story going abroad everywhere will shocl
the worlds faith in the prosperity and &C
tvity of Houston, and make mankind be
iieve that there are those who think tn
oil capital to be good place to get ava
from.
The Gonzales Inquirer having lost hal
its head is Still ahead of many of its cor
temporaries, and the less it has the bette
the paper. 1t used to be Gonzales Lnquire1
Iader Soul-seareher and all that, and new:
gatherers wouldn't tackle it lest the bill
growing out of type-settiug couldn't b
J met. The more credit" they gave tn
! less money they had, aud many peopl
having made this discovery it Is plain ''LN
qairer' now.
The villainous pictures of Tilden an
: Hendricks that have appeared through th