The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

and properly and painfully.
And now comes the sober-sided Guada-
lupe Times, that never cracks a Joke or
anything Ike one, and inyeighs against
the dissertation of the sparkling fountains
Of the San Marcos by erecting there an
abode of unutterable filth and villainy.
Ward & Dewey have been over to San
Marcos, and say they have not the heart to
destroy the beautiful river that leaps from
the bosom of mother earth bg filling its
very source Of life and LONELINESS with exc
CRADLE fifth from peniteutisry.
Every fellow in Dallas is taking stock in
all sorts Of Lotteries. A jeweler there won
a pair of earrings, that cost thousand dol
lars, IN New York gift enterprise 1t takes
an investment OF that much to make rings
20 around the ears of the Commercial
That was rard acis of Dallas-Dr. John
ston's parrot, of which we are told that
yesterday he vas fed at his usual hour
said goodbye to the lady who fed him,
and all of sudden said hold on a minute, ,
and then iumbed off his perch dead bird
Why don't the blessed Telegraph send us
copy of the Constitution with it's mar
glnal notes ~ There lie such broad mar
gin for Improvement that these ''notes" are
very ''promissory," and worth more than
those generally executed by newspapers.
The Grange REPORTER, of Tyler, has be-
come a first class LqU JouJnal. In any
event, one editor practices law and the
other serves on the jury, and the paper runs
itself Having been taught good habits,
it is very sober and discreet and sensible
witha.
Governor Coke should hang the murder
ers that hanged the negro thief, without
law or license, near Hearne. The negro
was constitutional thief of fifteen years
standing, but, for all that, was entitled to
a jury, and this mob violence must De sup
pressed.
That :olemn, long faced newspaper, that
never cracked a-jrke in all its goodly
life, says the location of the foul prison
pens of Texas at the head of the San Mar
COS, sis an outrage of the first water, and
should be denounced by the entire press of
the State"
Western Texas newspapers are well
pleased that Governor Coke is to be sue
ceeded by Governor Hubbard. They say
that the latter has ever been the staunch
friend of the West. We always liked him
because capacious enough to take in the
whole State.
Visitors are already gathering at Tampa
sas Springs. 1t costs less to go thither
than to Philadelphia. But narrow gauge
road would make Lampasas a city, ard
save million to Texas al nually expended
on foreign railways and at distant watering
places.
The San Saba Neos tells of ga horn four
feet lodg and twenty-three inches in cir
conference found near San Saba. It's one
Of the ordinary horns they take in Dallas
we reckon but how it was lost so far from
home is an inquiry that will puzzle arch@-
ologists.
The head of the Neocs may not be always
''level, - but when times are dull the paper
itself becomes wonderfully Square" Its
tail is now chopped off, except when the
Sunday edition appears, and then it is the
tail that wags the dog and not the dog that
wags the tail.
The Granger organist of the Examiner
writes as sweetly and confidently of the
charms of "Texan farm life' as if he
knew a lizard from grasshopper, or horned
frog from cockroach, or as if he grew
crop of clover instead of soap locks on
his Jove like front.
Capt. How is at Weatherford to deter
mine the route of the Waco branch of the
Central road. What will become of the
county If Doc Adams ever gain access to a
LOCOMOTIVES? First race, then fight for
possession of the track, and we believe Doc
will butt it off.
The San Marcos Free Press says "Maior
Marks is teaching singing school at Pleas
Ha cip DO N
and even pictures he makes are speaklng
ikenesses. But if that Free Press fellow
were around here just now he would know
how Striking they are.
All the newspapers of Texas are printing
the story that Capt. VIM. Walsh, clerk of
the House of Representatives, held the same
position IN the last two Legislatures. He
is a resident of Austin, courteous, compe-
tent and popular. Those who know him
best appreciate HIM most"
Marshal Bazaine, the great French
soldier, would spend spend the peaceful
remnant of his boisterous life in Texas, but
his Texas rancho is in McLennan county,
under the very nose of the Examiner, and
Baz. is afraid he might be blown up. He
has quit that sort of business.
Austin city bonds are said to be the best
municipal securities, commanding the
highest price of any offered on Wall street.
This fact is properly ascribed to the pamph-
let descriptive of Austin and Travis county,
recently issued. Several hundred copies
went to bankers of Wall street.
Hearne will have royal feast when they
lay the corner stone OF the cotton compress
We hope the day is not distant when every
cotton COMPRISING establishment in the
South will rot unused while cotton mills
convert the staple into thread or cloth at
each city and village in the South.
Miss Ogden, of San Antonio, the only
passenger who had the pluck to defy the
robbers of the Kingsbury stage coach with
its fifteen passengers, robbed by three men,
should be pensioned on the list of old vet
Grams that lessons of pluck may be engraved
on the memories of travellers out west.
The body of William Peay was disin-
tered Friday, near San Antonio, and the
head taken off and brought to that city that
an examination of the wound might be had
by board of doctors. The conclusion AZ
rived at WAS that his death was one of the
| fOulest and most atrocious murders on rec.
| ord.
The San Marcos Free Press describes 8
holster or crawfish drawn from the pellucid
waters of the Pierian spring at that place
''The crustacea was four feet long, and meas
ured four feet two inches from claw to claw. ,
We never question the verl-similitude Of
any story in the Free Press, but this is rather
ishy.
The once terrible Comanche and Kiows
now hunts buffaloes under guard. He nc
longer whites away his afternoons unre.
strained in scalp lifting, and under blue
skies on boundless plains. He is prisoner
OF State and dares not. nnguarded, leave
his reservation. How are the mighty fal-
len
Local option" Is supposed to have ref
ereDce to the right to drink behind, or, IL
front of the door, and BY the pint or by tn,
gallon, or, ION the sly" or pro bono pubiioo
But the great moral question lis lager III
intoxies,ing beverage ~ most exercises th'
intelligence ana digestion mills of the leg
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