The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

Tor lliuen.
Major C. S. West, no doubt, feels that
his record is beyond attack. SINCE the Hon.
Neal Ramey, OF Shelby. the gen.
.leman who could make constitution lat
pne fell swoop," has published letter en-
iorsing him.
A negro boy was thrown and killed by a
mule. at Brennan. Saturday, and the Fed
sral Constitution now authorizes, In Grants
eyes, the arrest and imprisonment of all
iisorderly mules in this blessed common
wealth.
Judge Reagan in old times practiced law
in buckskin breeches. 1t Is said he never
su fered them to get wet. They might then
have become contracted by drying aud
squeezed him out, and he was pever "froze
OUT in his life.
Mr.. Lang, simply because there was a
question of possible rightfulness of which
he never thought. has refunded to the State
Treasurer about $50 - to which he might
not have been entitled under a clause in
the new Constitution.
The Denison Cresset learns that James n.
Young, spiritualist, will make tour of the
State this fall and winter with material
izing medium" He is, we think, too late
The spiritual swindle is extinct in most
civilized counties.
The Express says that Hon. J. Fl McLeary
will probably appoint Rev. H. S. Thrall, of
San Antonio, Hermann Seele, of New
Braunfels. and some one from Kerrville, as
the board of examiners of applicants for
admission into the State Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas.
If Mr.. W. w. Spivey's successors are
his equals, the Henderson Times, which he
has sold, will remain one of the most use
ful and readable papers of the State. Spi-
w is district attorney, and therefore can
not run a newspaper-not even a weekly.
We are told by fugitive that since the
rangers were removed from the head of the
Guadalupe, at the Bee Cave, the Indians
have come down into the country and
stolen every horse ten and twenty miles
above Kerrville. If any people were muir
dered. our informant was not advised of the
fact.
Hardin county instructs for Sam. A. Will
son for Congress against Reagan. 1t Il
flattering to the intelligence and worth OF
Sam A W, but whether the county viii
ever be called upon TO strut itself to deatt
for this deed we are not able to screw our
selves up to say.
What has become of Timothy G. Hardin,
originally from Orange, Massachusetts
Has he widow or children? Can some ole
Texan tell us? He could serve them by In
forming u.s. And does anyone know the fat
of Henry Scrugge, who came to Texas IL
1886 6 with DR.. Shepherd, from Columbus
Mississippi
A preacher of this city, who proposes tc
play the good Samaritan, and docs it mos
modestly. has bought horse, a very know
ing imal that was long used by ont
of the fastest young men about town. Thu
preacher is now carted about very pleasant
ly; but the horse always stops where thu
present owner ''can do most good"
An Englishman is establishing kanga
roo rancho near San Antonio, and to Coop
woods camels and ostriches these will b.
added We need hippopotamus or two
to battle in the Colorado. and llama
from Peru, and pair of elephants, ant
Texas will have profitable animal crops o
infinite variety.
And now comes the innocent Lampasa
Dispatch and with fearful eyes says: ''Thi
same fellow Terrell, alias Forest, anOthe
alias, Terrier, got US for So. so advertise
ment, and the landlady, Mrs. Bates, o
the Lampasas Hotel, for his board bill
That deputy sheriff of Austin ought to b
made to hunt him up"
Europe Illustrated is the title of thu
most fascinating book, for tasteful, iutelli
gent people, that has been offered for sal
L Ti1TcsU E17ssruIe sprClmefs OF IN
graver's art, and scenes and buildings ant
men represented are those deemed mos
wonderful in the old world.
Since Governor Coke, to the astonishment
of everybody, having danced the Schottisch,
with Representative Martin and the rest
will probably attend the grasshoppe
convention to which he is invited bv Gov
ernor Pillsbury, of Minnesota. All the
governors of all the grasshopper-cursed
States are to attend.
Jack Reardon, one of the highwaymer
who robbed Gruber's bank, in Dallas. ha
been captured. Is there no law to hang him
and why should such race of men be per
petuated? The service of surgery should
be invoked whenever a thief or robber OIL
burglar is captured. Vice, like virtue
is hereditary.
The colored parson they keep in Jail il
Bonham is not employed as chaplain of tn,
institution, as the Inter Ocean mi - vainly
imagine; but the security of the CHECKER
crop was demanded by other divines and
the poor brother was forced into retirement.
1t is exceeding sad To see him thus cut
off in the midst of his usefulness makes us
weep.
Col. George says. in his lecture, that he
saw a woman in Servia whose nut-browu
face was cast in the very mould of the
sphinx. Those moulds have lasted several
years and the sphinx is something less than
10, 600 years old and the woman if like the
sphinx, must be hard old case, and yet the
impossible st" George says she was
charming.
Bishop Garrett has been to Sewanee, the
seat of the Episcopal University of the
South. Bishop Quintard met him there,
having succeeded in securing additions to
the University endowment fund among
IN England. Bishop Garrett
made profound impression wherever he
preached in Tennessee; so Col. Shegog
writes to the STATESMAN.
The principal occupation of jewellers in
ass SC us W COuNiSb III ultA-
leans. One Mexican corpse was found,
last week, in the Uvalde road, another in
the carriage road, and another near Bells
perforated with bullets. Per-
haps the good people out West have Just
thought abcut avenging the Alamo mas
sacre.
william D9ds2n, ~, Of m E5e Is Z. -.
d hiteen children, and to have 40 grand
and 1874 great grandchildren; total
'l9. He had ninety. which he could count
1t one time, in the Confederate army and
here were several others of whose wberea-
'outs he had no knowledge. He died in
lis nineIy-eighth or ninety ninth year.
The Herald says the coIored people have
'een holding a distracted meeting three
weeks near that town and the uproar has
'een perpetual When one preacher breaks
Iown another steps on the stage and con.
lnues the thunder-pumping and the atmos-
here for miles around is in a dreadful
tate of intolerabie agitation.
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