The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-30

of Skinny and the like, ride goat They
intend 10 JON the Sons of Malta in after
years.
\ good woman, though thoughtless, left
ser child alone in the house at Hsllettsv;ile,
and came back to lind the child cooke to
a crisp.
Dallas, the H<raH says, sadly needs a
soap factory Several of them would be
required TO cleanse the fame of the awful
place.
Rev. a. 5. P. Ashby has the cure of souls
At Bolton, assigned to the place by the
Methodist conference. He has undertaken
i big job.
The Literary Society of Brenham talk 5
of inviting the Library Association of
Austin to attend its anniversary celebration
next week.
People IN San Antonio don't believe that
the james Brothers have been captured
but that they still roam over the plains of
We stern Texas.
Twenty miles of the East Line road were
completed last week, the charter was saved
and the JimPlecute is happy and LeddeT
bhssful about it.
The Pittsburg Magnet was not only mag
nctizcd but galvanized last week, and is
beautifully copper-colored, as it was always
copper boitomed.
J. G. Brown is floating towards Austin
on the balloon of universal suffrage. He
will take Ed p. Marshalrs place as floater
in the Legislature.
Weatherford boys got gloriously drunk
anyhow, and ii TlIden isn't President they
have enjoyed the supposed as keenly as
they could the real event.
Seventy five persons, coming to Texas
from St. Louis and Memphis, were more OF
less injured at Afkadelphia, Arkansas, by
the wrecking of train.
The San Antonio Express has become a
straight unadulterated Democratic paper.
How does this happen2 Whence does it
derive It's present beverage?
Burglars do their worst work in San AT
tonic in the afternoon, when the women of
the houses are dabbling in the backyards
in the AlaZan CT other canals.
Baked 'possum stuffed with ''inguns' and
sandwiched with sliced roasted sweet po-
tatoes is the j1iciest dish that ever delighted
an African sybarite about Austin.
The San Saba Dramatic Association has
evaporated, or if there were any whisky in
it, it has been swallowed up by the course
of events in that blossoming town.
Governor Coke is not very piously in
clned. Anyhow, in the present state OF
affairs, he doesn't seem disposed to make
much fuss about Thanksgiving day.
Rev. Sam Watson, of Tennessee, is com.
ing to Texas again, and this time he pro
poses to discuss spiritualism and Presby
teriauism from a biblical standpoint.
Ascension Martinez, Mateo Castillas, Ju-
liauo Cobarubio, Pedro Gonna and Juan
Reyes have proven, in San Antonio, thai
they are entitled to Texas pensions.
John Allen, a horse thief captured al
Me,lina, in the midst of a crowd, escaped
from the sheriff, mounted a horse and
though shot at by the community, escaped
Large quantities of pecans are being
shipped North giG the G.. H. and H. r. R
and the I. and G. N. r. r. The crop tbi
year.is very fine both as to quantity and
quslity.
We thought they had blown it up o.
killed it or shipped it to Turin parts, bu
they have brass band in Orange to scar,
people withal who go over the New Orlean
Railroad.
Most of the Dallas chivalry spend hour
of excitement and dubiousness, while th'
returning board waIiops the country ant
Tilden, meandeIing from grocerie t.
grocrye.
A pair OF rogues plundered the residenc,
of the Catholic priest at Denison, and tn,
piety that, in this case, makes 1t swear 81
vigorously.
Since they have a steam fire engine il
Fort Worth the people devote most of the
time to the contemplation of its squirting
aud it fills and empties cisterns and make
the town lively.
A cotton seed oil mill is going up in Dial
las. II requires an infinite quantity of ole
aginous fabrication to prevent friction il
the rapid revolution of wheels of progress
over there. Even some of the women ar
deviiish fast
Denton, too, went clarifying and shouted
itself hoarse and the lawyers numbered
but Denton has been in tears ever since ant
IS worried about things in New Orleans t,
a painful degree.
When fellow gets the "chunk"-a con
traction for the term 'vital spark"-
knocked out of him over about San Anto
MO they call him res .jldieata, which i
reasonably judicious.
The bar-rooms and billiard saloons ar
open all night in Fort Worth, and most o
the population seem to be somnambulists
but they take drinks just as naturally as i
they were wide awake.
Major ~ Whillden, an old Texas edi
tor, is pumping Texas thunder into Penn
sylvanIa newspapers that he may impe
Pennsylvanians to seek homes along thu
line of PIerce's road.
If Lon Harper, Of Central America, will
present his sunburnt phiz and prosperou
whiskers at the STATESMAN Office he ma
encounter an old schoolfellow. L. Fl. lief
Dallas for Austin Friday.
SIN Antonio ought to attract those Chris
tan people who would go to an Enou be
cause there is much water-polla udata-
there, but. men 90 thither mainly becaus
there's something to mix with it.
Weatherford is pronounced the futur,
great city of the Northwest, and that is th
reason why the STATESMAN has been 81
anxious to start railroad from Austin il
thSt direction. Il must be built.
DR.. Everett, of Dallas, drives pair o
horses, and these ran away, and the Herdlc
tells of the terrible event, and thus sgaiI
the Doctors code is violated, and one o
she craft is beautifully advertised.
Siesta Dura is the name of the latest borl
town of Medins county. The people ar,
not all Nah comedians though they believ
In Medina and ia the ''profi and in siest,
dara-a hard snooze-after death.
Nearly alt the people of Sherman, be
cause Of cheapened insurance rates, ar
abandoning coal oil and taking gas. Th
price has fallen there, as here. In fact
Martin would make it cheap anywhere.
That patent ironing machine is in Sher
man AMI Marta says il Murray's wi
had been stErci,et aud smoothed by tn
patent i cogIdu't be fiAtter. Score one 70
Martin. l. Is machine wit, but good 70