The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-17


number J0,63S have been held IN Northern
Texas. while the remainder have been
driven NYrth. A large number wintered
n NofJhern Texas have also been dri7en
North, which VIII MIKE total, { T the
season, Of between $50, 900 and 3.0, 900
head.
We don't know who d aeon Green msy
be; but the Free Pres says he has gone to
Aastin We don't have here many des-
cons. Green or other1ise. and since this one
Is lauded by the-Fres Press. we feel author
z@d 10 tender him the freedom Of the cry,
and strangers may przs this highly now,
since there are pretty girls liable 10 enjoy
II with the present awful laws e1aetea by
Tire Legislature.
Now it Is wickedly alleged, in reference
@ the ugly Tom Scott business, that Coke
has betrayed and sold uHt the Democratic
pay OF Texas, and LIA. has betrayed aud
cd III the. Grange of Texas, and booh
Dave cDaspired Together IN betrly and sell
out the State Of Texas, the Legislature of
fr Xas, the 30, COO, 900 acres If public lands
of Texas, which sail souu lie worth $500
d01, 600. to Tom SOFT"
Our Mttamoros correspondent Nv. a.
:. - writes that ''while in Mexico the En-
y native a ten niade from an herb known
rs 60lohochi, wnich Is of poisonous nature
and has the effect OF producing insanity.
Nv author for this says ne knows 1t TO be
true. Such weed grows here, bur do
not remember to-have heard of its cOnnec-
ton with poor Garlottds misfortune"
James A. George, who, we are told.
used to 60 to. a theological school, if We
mistake not, in Georgia, must have made
good thing of his pious training, since.
baying already died once, he is going TO
! Try 1T again. In any, event, he now pre-
tends to be alive after having been decently
| inferred by every newspaper in the State.
He is coming over to Austin and the pretty
girls needn't be scared. H. is no ghost.
Somebody who has sauutered along the
shores of the gliSteninc Guadalupe in sum
ms rtime must pity the mosquito that at
tackled the recalcitrant subscriber to the
Srguini Times He owes the Times two
years subscription. The mosquito bored
away in vain for two hours, and the edi-
tor was electrified with delight when the
demoraized insect folded his little bill (as
the editor had often done) end sticking it
in his vest pocket few away to find softer
case. such will be hard TO find.
Captain Bert, an old salt now naviga-
| ting the Rio Grande on the steamer John
Scott, is the most popular and skillfuI
steamboat captain OF the West. Frank
Mason is pu1ser of the craft and Jerry Gal
van, fond of the good things of this ME
makes a voyage at least twice each month
with Best and Mason. Tley have invited
the STATESMAN to make a round trip 4"
and the STATESMAN would accept, but it
might be captured by the rebels and lncar-
| ceIated. It has been the persistent friend
alike of L rdq and Tilden for two years
past. @ ..... .-. --....-.
The ST.. Louis Republican of the seventh
coolly and dispasslonately says: oh. r.
Mirks, banker of Austin, Texas, Is at the
Lindell" Major Marks is a great swell
and LOOKS Ike bioated bondhOlder, and
we nov sec v nat an impression he produces
abroad; but we would Like to see the pic
ture of the edICor VINO made that remark
about him after the Major has resented the
imputation involved in the charge that an
accomplished artist is only silve.;-slinger
and counter of shInplasters.
Our Rio Grande correspondent says that
Gen. Devin, lieutenant colonel of the
| Eighth Cavalry, 81 an admirable gentleman.
lie was also Enfatuated with Gen. Atexan-
der, Major Morris, Capt. Chiffon, Major
Lewis and Cass Forsyth, assistant quarter
master at Fort Brown, and with Col. II. G..
! Corbm, Capt. Wells, Col. Johnson, Capt.
Ropes, Lieus. Stevenson, O'ConnOr, Gil
more and Kane The WIVES of these ex-
cellent gentlemen, with music, dancing,
poetry, horses and hunting, make $, jnurn
at western fort delightful.
This story told by the Dallas Herald
doesn't seem to hurt Senator Grace very
badly. The Herald says Grace had been
drinking and frolIcklng with Governor
Throckmorton's sou. Hugh. The Governor
happened in Bonbam the morning after the
| frolic, and Grace beamed upon him with
the remark: Governor, l haven't the pleas
ure OF k4owing you but l am quite init
mate with your son, Hugh" That's a
! d--n poor recommendation, sir, replied
Throckmorton, as he turned from him"
| Au occasional correspondent of the
! STATESMAN writes from brownsville on the
sixJh that he and Bon Hendricks have been
tearing thiagsto pieces at grand fandango
in Matamnros given by General Fuero, lead
ing the Lerdo (Federa) forces, in that
blessed city. General Devin, commanding
| I'm ted States troops about Brownsville,
| John l.. HAYNES, customs officer at Browns
Vile, the American consul, Wilson, and
other local celebrities aud the officers of the
| Mexican forces at Matamoros. Our cor
respondent danced with "a charming Texan
woman, now the wife of a rich Mexican
and M4tamoros merchant.
/ A New Jersey corporation has agreed tC
! furnish Liverpool and London with beef nj
$50, 600 per cargo, each shipment to be
| landed IN ten days after tue beeves are
= Il. D..
vested in the scheme and a steamer con-
! strGcted specially for he trade Will soor
leave the docks. Won't it pay to ship from
! Galveston? How many days from Calves
ION 10 Liverpool? Cannot ice and cold
air currents be successfully used through
! fifteen OF. twenty days? 1t is unfortunate
II cattle must transferred TO New Jersey ana
slaughtered there The cost of beet
! shipped from GIyesrop MOULD he perhaps
one half less IN Liverpool than i fr, I'm n
New Jcfsey and shipped theuce to Liver
pool. -is..-.---., y
The conduct of men having Faust in
charge was simply brutal. H. was suffered
l9o be shot IS il he had been wild beas'
after hjecrioD, through two or three Yeas,
to-eSery brutality practised 10y jaIlors hav-
ing charge of foul dehs called i4ils. liz
was condemned for hte, and yet his blind
wife asserts his Innocence, and sif de-
clares him incapable Of crime His body
was chucked into a goods d and sent to
4 this poor, blind, helpless wife. He may
have deserved death. spd sa with his muir.
dtrer, aud the thrung that stood about him
and said they did not hear the gun hat
killed him-these should be pitied. They
tproperly hste murderers, Int have no re-
eafti lfnr Justice or the country's laws, and
are hardly butter than the worst.
The STATESMAN, after reading the Erin
I 'Rer's violent Remuneration of Tom Scott,
and assertion OF his failure and condemua-
4 ton Of his then ''contem plated robbery oi
The S.ate-the STATESMAN said that rs soon
4 rs Governor Coke's position on the gu astIuu
was known in Waco, that the E,aa.iher
would wilt. Our predictions were verified
| to the letter. The day afier C1ke's ms.
sage was received IN Wac, the hi-roic Er
aEjRerl came out ieTcey sgainsl bot HUut-
7 lnpftln ana SrOft and HnotircTou ba8 NJ