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

They are going to give woclen manu-
facturer the ground and water power to set
up his mill in San Antonio. But Austin
hasn't the pluck or public spirit to build
twenty-five miles of narrow gauge road
that assures the building, with absolute
certaintv, even If Martin, of Shermln, pit
the Capitol on wheels and yoke the San
Antonio Herald to the portico, of mag-
nificent city.
At Fort Griffin no contracts were let by
the 9uartermaster this year, there being a
efficiency OF wood, hay and grain 10 last
through the winter. Il is probable that
some Of the cavalry now NJ Fort Concho
will be sent there to winter, as the cor
tractor there, it is said, failed to put in any
hay, none being procursble nearer than fifty
TO sixty miles of that post.
The Free Press says "Dr. Marks is singing
in Benton City" On the contrary. Dr..
Marks, better known as Capt. Marks, Is
one of the active members of the photo
graphers' convention now discu sing i'm
provements in fue arts at Philadelphia.
Capt Marks has au lnfinitude of music in
his soul, but does not pour it forth on
B nton City. He breathes it into pictures
! of the faces of pretty women whose like
ntsses he makes.
A large owner of city property in San
Antonio is weeping himself to death be-
cause he has no broad acres just around
any supposed depot of the Pearce railway
He wants to levy black mail alike upon the
people and the railway, and several shrewd
old coOns about Austin are shedding floods
of penitential grief in the same painful
manner when they read of the deeds of the
progressive International.
ara oaI1op, so;Iors oftao
commend smacks," says the Ne,os. And
the Nelos might have added that if not
''tars" themselves we have seen several on
a tar-e, and if not ''old salts" it wasn't be-
cause they were not salty, aud If not sail
ors it wasn't because they were not high
flyers, and if always in a good humor one
never passes another that she does not look
| a-stern.
The Headlight tells of a negro and white
man fighting because the white man mud
died the stream from which both were drink
| ing. The negro, more muscular, was about
to kill the white man when a WAGNER
threw a stone at the black and broke his
shinbone-the Headlight says skull" But
it was the shinEone, for the negro died, and
the wagner, leaving his team and .trumen-
| tun, fled to parts unknown. 1t was not
his purpose to kill the Ethiopian.
The Indians who stole about forty horses
above Fort McKavett were pursued and
lost all except nine. None of the red ras-
Gals were killed, though the whole race
should be exterminated. Why may not
Sherman be persuaded to deal with them as
tenderly as with rebels athvart Georgia and
at Columbia. Leave no wigwam standing,
destroy the last buffalo. and thus destroy
the last red mau or force him to live on the
reservations.
Judge Gustave Cook is in very poor
health at present, suffering from wound
received during the late war. Not long
since bullet and piece of Confederate
grey, the Express says, were taken from one
of his shoulders, we believe, by his surgi-
cal attendants. He has suffered great
pain since the performance of the opera
ton, and his visit to San Antonio will be to
seek recuperation. The Houston air does
not agree with him.
One hundred and fifty-fve miles from
Sherman to TexaIkana. The unfinished
part of this road was perfected as rapidly
as any ever built on this Continent. Ii
Huntington didn't smash Tom Scott he ad-
ministered, or somebody for him, the big
gest scare that ever set the illustrious Tom
going. How well the road is built and
whether can be accepted as perfect road
and approved by his Excellency remains to
be seen. Gen. Bragg's dietum in such a
case would be final.
Would it not be we'll for Austin mer-
chants and house owners who read Mr..
Stuart's letter and the appended, and many
like paragraphs in the papers. to meet and
talk the matter over 1t costs very lit e
to build a narrow gauge road twenty five
mi few f6du Is about to BE established be- be-
tween Lampasas and Round Rock, cia
Georgetown, and will soon be in GOOD
condition. The route will be some eight
miles nearer than the old road. and will
sooa become very popular thoroughfare. ="
That lantern jawed, excessively proper
journal of Galveston, the Christian Adg0.
cate, has been sending the STATESMAN, we
are told, to perdition for some horrible i'm
morality or incredibly made apparent by
the writer of these solemn paragraphs-al-
ways SOLEMN. The AdC0cate is so awfully
proper and straight-!aced and puckered up
with problematical piety that it can't APP
peciate Dke, and we don't write for peo-
pie of that sort, and do not want their com
mendatlon. Their fiercest criticism is the
praise we covet.
The Waco Examiner is informed that last
week the south bound passenger train was
boarded at WORKMAN station, on the main
line of the Central road, by two men
masked and heavily armed; other armed
men stood at the depot seemingly ready to
spring on board. The, conductor discoy-
cred them and signaled the engineer to start
the train, which was done, and the masked
men leaped from the moving cars. Evi-
IDENTIFY it was their intention to rob the
train, but failing to act promptly their
plans were frustrated.
The funniest thing in nature, except a
salutatory, so-called, is valedictory pro-
nounced by fellow getting out of a news
paper. He seems vainly to imagine that
his departure from the world of letters will
leave the world in starless darkness. even
as his assumption of the editorial office was
the day-dawn of the universe. We can
| never help wiping our woe-stricken ewes
| when reading model valedictory, and the
things are 80 internally saddening that if
editors don't stop writing them the press OF
the State must become pitiable Niobe
The mystery of the plains north of Aus
tin has been partially unfolded. The Bel
ton journal of the seventeenth saws ''day
before yesterday dead man was found tied
to horse near MlstersvIile. The body was
so badly mutiated that it could not be
identified. The horses head was confined
to the horn of the saddle by the bride
reins. 1t Is probably the man alluded to by
the Il ickdale Messenger short time since.
We suppose the dead man got along very
well without any thiT-> -, -~ut -rne
- nave had hard lime OF it with
his head tied Up TO the saddle for over ten
days"
On Kings ranch, on the San Gertrudes.
more than 10000 head of sheep are con-
troiled by one man, johnson Thirty seven
men are employed shearipg sheep, averaR.
ing nifty pounds per day To the man. The |
wool is fine, averaging ten pounds per an
nun, shearing twice. He has one flock of |
bucks, 800 head, very fine Merinos aud |
CotsWold. Some of them SHARED as high |