The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

reckon. Col. Timmops and B. z. Dunn
have been making the welkin ring down
about LaGrange. The Nep Era was de-
lighted.
Commodore Alfred G. Gray, of the navy
of the Republic of Texas. aud of recent
years of the Philadelphia and California
Steamship Line, died few days ago in
New York. -
Longs coaches, fouI in number, went
out yesterday each conveying about twenty
passengers. On one was the Fay Temple
ton troupe. They have gone TO Breeding
at Rockdale.
The Houston ASstells of an ancient pipe
carved in an owls shape and dug from
mound in Southwestern Texas. Swante
Palms antiquarian society wants it. Can
the Age get il!
The newspapers at Dallas talk like hang
ing the postofice fellow that was so handy
with his little pistol last week. He ought
to be strung up by the neck il the facts be
properly given.
An Eagle Pass correspondent of the San
Antonio Herald says that Porfirio Dias, the
great rebel leading Mexico, was thoroughly
beaten near Monterey and Cansbe has been
beaten at Tampico.
Capt. Scudder, of Galveston, will GER
tainly see at Austin the most beautiful site
for city and for its fair grounds to be
found in America, and turfmeR say the race
course is simply fsultless.
Whisky vendors give it up and NO longer
oppose the collection of the occupation tax
fes ened on them by the State in Dallas and
Sherman. When thew let down. all the
rest will (dlmmoth) cave.
The new laws of Texas show that the old
law requiring the registration of births has
been repealed, and it doesn't matter now,
Murray may be glad to know, whether a
brat have any daddy or not.
An honest, good negro voted his cotton
receipt in Bonham for Hayes and the rest,
and left his ticket stuffed down in the bot
tom of his breeches pocket where the loyal
league fellow had placed it.
Denison is proud of dense'y dark colored
dame who has grown from $50 to the
weight of $50 pounds in three years. She
has gained just as rapidly as Murray has
lost ponderosity which is queer.
There is great dissatisfaction and maybe
a war of races about down at LAGRANGE
because only one of the four pages OF the
Ne1 Era is TeutonIc (too-tonic). The
people prefer lager to busthead."
Long is having one of his stage coaches
furnished with extra double gearing and
under pinning to haul the Nova Scotian
giantess to the International Railroad sta
ton. She weighs upwards Of two tons.
Hon. Pryor Lea has patented process of
making stone The editor of the Guard
wants pair of grinding stones to put In
the mills of the gods that do slowly wind.
We reckon that's what he wants with them.
Corn is worth from twenty-five to thirty
cents, bacon three and four cents and beef
two to four cents throughout Texas, and yet
the Inter Ocean says we make all this wealth
while shooting people and drinking mean
whisky.
R. F. Webb, of this city, is Ho ,sier,
and thinks he will go to Blue Jeans Will
liams when he dies; but then Hoosiers of
that sort never die, and there is no reason.
that we can see, why they should.
They have a place called Dog Town in
Burleson county and when fellow gets
fairly into 1t he feels so mean that he 1s
forced to suicide. Such was the sad ending
of LOUIS Goodwin. He shot himself in Dog
Town.
Mr.. Miller, of this city, takes the con-
tract to supply the army at San Antonio
with $50 horses. He bid $112. He must
buy Northern horses, and people ut San
Antonio say he won't make an everlasting
fortune.
The Gonzales Inquirer has been stealing,
ga new market for American Beef" from
the Victoria Adpocatc and the Adcocate in
Inmates that it might have been silent If the
greedy, gluttonous Inquirer had only COB.
bled a ham or two.
The Wcatherford Times says Turkey will
fight Russia at the drop of hat. Tur-
keys fight that way, but we believe when
one of those articles has been dropped and
is lying around loose that Turkey will strut
up to it and wade in.
Jerome BoRaparte, whose ancestors mi
grated to this country from district of
country some twelve hundred miles south
of Corsica, is on trial in San Antonio for
stealing corkscrew. He was hard-up, and
needed an eyeepener.
TIE first act of Tilden's Administration
will be to suspend ha6eas corpus and have
the publication of his blear-eyed pictures in
Texas newspapers instantly stopped. No
body will weep if the editor of Ell Demo-
oreta and Martin be hanged.
If Ghenghis Khan, of Dallas, invade the
country about Austin he will encounter a
Tamerlane in Olenick. But isn't the liter
airy taste OF mercantile communities of
Texas illustrated in the historical names of
these heroes of the yardstick
The Texas election returns are always be-
hindhand, and it is yet impossible to give
official figures. 1t IS certain, however,
that we send solid Democratic delegation
to Congress, and that Mr.. Tilden's majority
reaches sixty or seventy thousand.
The jolly Goliad Guard exclaims ooh!
what a cutting off of heads there will ber'
Even so; the guillotiue will be run deftIv.
but whether by Tilden or Hayes remains
to be seen. The chances seem to favor the
suPerinteDdency of the job by Hayes.
Thirty-two and half miles of Houses
narrow gauge are finished. 1t will be rapidly
completed IS miles to LAGRANGE. The
builders are exceedingly anxious to come to
Austin but will wait and see whether we
propose to build a narrow gauge towards
Lampasas.
The Wool-growers Association organized
with such enthusiasm and eclot at Victoria
do not propose to cultivate that peculiar
dark, tibrous, kuotty vegetable that -four
ishes most in Wharton county and grows
like moss on live oaks on the knotty knobs
of Robertson Hill.
Atascosa county, it is said, will vote
solIdly for prohibition on the fourth prox.
II crime be perpetrated hereafter in Texas,
nc wilt soon be true that knavcs with bloody
hands and malignant hearts can't rush into
court and say whisky did it. There1l be
no whisky in Texas.
The great cave in Llano county has been
explored one mile from its entrsnce, and is
as full of wonders as the Mammoth Cave
one or two departments are 100 feet high,
and there is a liver within that our CORE
spondeDt dared not cross. The cavern
should be thoroughly explored.
The Ler4nr tells of an Ethiopian pater-
nal ancestor Tyhtl yrouId not ar,ana The rad