The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19


is moved 10 sing:
Don't ycu see III, 81 ,ck smcs, rising
out you hear her pSdd e, heating,
'Oh rock me, julia rock Tie. etc"
Julia ought to stone him.
Col. Claiborne has gone home from
Georgetown, where the people Toasted and
toasted him for two or three we, KS. He
likes ''tOssts, not the brown bread sort OF
the vapld verses and sentiment Of Lucullus's
tables, but the live liquor that constitutes
the bash. of wit, of force ana of weary
genius.
The Mckinney Enquirer SAYS that "local
option" is sgitated al Greervile. We new.
er see a fellows hand shske and lips quiv-
er, and then, when liquid he'll sears his
throat and his greasy dim eyes I'LL with tears,
that ''local option" is MOI ugItated in our
bosoms, and that's what's the matter a,
Greepville.
The Houston, Austin and FL Paso Mar.
row Gauge, in the person Of President
House, and the H,ustun and Shreveport
Narrow Gauge, in the person Of Col. Gone,
We are told, will he represen,cd AT the State
fair railway meeting. Galveston. too,
should send broad gauge delegation of its
narrow gauge Austin and FL Paso line.
Col. S. III. Russell of Marshall, it is
reported, will run az Republican caudi-
date for Congress in the Second District, in
opposition to Hon. d. B Culbelson. As
that district is known to be Democratic,
and Dave Culberson could not be beaten,
if it were not, Col. Russell had better pass
in his checks.
The people of Austin, with no dissent
ing voice, will regret the proposed depart
ure OF ii N. \. w. ID Berry, as announced
by one of our exchanges and copied in an
other place. He has won troops of friends
IN Austin, even as his excellent wife has
made lasting and cnviablc impression
upon society in the capital.
The visit of II. b. Plant. President of the
Southern Express Company, in company
with other capitalists 10 Denison ana Fort
Worth ard what they said about the i'm
mediate extension Of the Red River and
Rio Grande railway to Fort Worth and
Austin, excited much interest in Denison,
sherman and Fort Worth.
Thomas Henry Bascom retlres from the
chair editorial of the Hearne Enterprise.
The paper in which his note of resi- gnation
appears is dated October IS" and we are
led to infer that the resignation takes eff.
feet on that day. But this of Hearne is
an enterprIsing paper and takes time by the
forelock as the Times does by the fetlocI..
The sale of musical instruments in oil
Southern countries is enormous. There is
music in every Italian home and so il
Mexico, aud Texas bids fair to bee me thu
| abode of music if not of poetry. Plan,
makers agents are everywhere and Mt ever,
well-to-dO merchants and tanners iireside
| a piano or organ or both become indispen
sable adjuncts of comfort and home life.
Z. c. Jones, since he discovered tina
Tilden does Lot owe his nomination to be
ing Colonel" has accepted the appoint
ment to preside over the election at thu
Bull Creek precinct. He intends to Sc
that Bull Greek becomes "Bull Run" il
the coming contest, and says: ~ am jus
this much of military man, by snakes"
They did not invoke the Intervention o
God, or of his ministers, we are told, i
inaugurating the career of Bryan Univer
sity. His EXcelency made histories
speech, or rather read it President Gath
right delivered brief and pertinent ad
dress, aud the thing was done. Cod
ministers stood aloof. Was there not eve
prayer9
The Fayette county Ne,c Fra is patented
en- one side. German on the other, and ha
one original English page. 1t has thre
editors; one in Chicago, Memphis or s.
Louis, whence the outside comes, the othe
"A learned German who doesn't approve tn
follIes of Carl Schurz. and the other is tn
English contributor. 1t must be JON
stock concern.
Bob Craft, who used to engineer the grea
railway hotel at Tuscumba. Alabamr. In
been transferred by the subimity of Dallas
luck to the Commercial at Dallas and tn
genuine fatuess of the people, as oil
tinguished from the pulTcry done 10y whisk
and the press, is due to Bobs culinary al
and luxurious tables.
TIE Sherman Register forgets. The ind
vidunl mentioned never tasted it after Sc,
ing Dallas. Competition with that Die sse
town in the coed work of destroying tn
villainOus stuff would have been madness
He 1.-THE had hauled OF for repair
years before but might have given tanglt
foot another tussle but it was written nbo,
each portal of the goOdiy town gidi Aapo
Cd Llas) ct mort, and he didn't want to.
Somebody criticized Governor Hubbard
figure of speech, when he spoke at Phil,
delphia of Texas as IA land flowing wit
milk and honey" The Examiner think
the laudation as just when applied TO Texf
rs to Cauaan, and the intimation eyideutl
is that Governor Richard is no more e,
travagant than was Moses, which is rathe
rough on Moses.
That African grass that 'makes drum
come" will not only be cultivated wit
sedulous care where ''local option" pre-
walls, and whence whisky is eXilcd bu
most good men will envy the luck IF Ne
buchadnezzIr, and we must accept a
asst, when contemplating the condition q
Dallas, the truthfulness OF the assertio
hat ''all flesh is grass"
Several new spapcrs of Texas tried it on
each spinning the most incredible biograph
ical sketches of men " 10 came here poor an
suddenly became rich. The innocent Pad
dock, of the Fort Worth Democrat, too
of the premium, and the Sherman PitriO
def, it's hat, yields the prize and pr,
nounces p. the champion Tyre of Texas.
doesn't spell the word that way, but W
make the concession to PIddOck's love y
music.
The cat IN Camp county that has tw
heads and one body and tail, got after tw
mice the other day, and was uncont:nentl
killed and exploded when the two rodent
took different routes for different holes
yard apart. o. course the two halves q
the feline were laid out just yard apart
| and the old woman that owned this cat say
that the next of the sort, 10 avoid calam
ties of this painful nature. must be eros,
eyed to keep the heads level.
The Dallas Herald has much 10 say o
Iong-horned cattle, and the people owe
there have much To do with long ''horned
drinks. They practice FIR them in child
hood by swallowing ''norned" frogs back
wards, and however solemn any remarl
one makes. even like this some Dallas Eel
low hardly always suggests ''in a horn,
or IN be bowed" If don't, AMI Their,
upon and streight~ay he swallows the dyni
mite.
Mayor Fulton wants to know tight nov
and telegraphs his Excelency 20 find GU