The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-09

the Endorsement which they expected.
They know that the mass of the people APP
prnve their acts. This district is determined
to put stop to all land grabbing schemes. Z"
Some queer genius Is explaining to the
faithful in Houston how Hermann is a
great spiritualist. He pretended here only
to practice arts of legerdemain, and in do
ing this be trauscends all spirits that ever
made table dance aud trot around room
or write upon hidden slate or read ques-
tons in folded papers.
Forty thousand gallons of sorghum is
the crop. and the sweetness of the pretty
girls of Henderson county is long drawn
out. They weigh 40 pounds each, or, for
430 girls of marrisgeabie age, as shown by
census tables, there are ninety five gallons
of syrup, or two big barrels for each big
gal. The juiciness OF those pretty women
is demonstrable by facts and figures.
Instead of putting the dry goods store
on the back of the bride, they just take
her aud the groom and the justice into the
store, and have the ceremony celebrated
| there. 1t saves money and stitching and
mantuamaker's bills, and Decatur prospers
and population multipliGs, and the boys and
girls are not afraid to be yoked together
Tor life.
There will be no such jockeYing at the
Austin races as is said to have been prac-
ticed at Dallas. Let men shape the course
of events here who cannot be induced to
participate in robbing the people who be-
come to a great extent the guests of the
capital. We know, however, that mana
gers of the races ut Dallas were themselves
incapable of wrongdoing.
Messrs. Gibson, O'Reilly and Treadwell,
of San Antonio, are not desperately de-
| lighted because of the attachment mani
tested for them by Austin people. 1t isn't
pleasant to be mistaken for others, and
when these Others happen to be horse
thieves and robbers it becomes vexatious.
But somebody had TO be arrested and c.,
o. and Treadwell must grin and bear 1t.
When two fellows guzzle mean whisky
all day and ride out of town together, and
! one of them is never seen anymore, they
seem to think at Gainesville and at San
Saba that somebody is defunct. And they
do say that 1t is best for the law to prohibit
people riding about in pairs, even as Grant
does by his awful proclamation in South
| Carolina.
Dixie Allen, executed by the cold-blooded
mob at Lockhart, was frightened terribly
when he facet death and begged piteously
| for mercy. But the bowling mob jeered
him, and the lifeless corpse of the dead
fend and murderer was found Sunday
morning in the bright sunbeams swaying
to and fro suspended beneath a bending
weeping willow.
This is free country, and everybody
has the perfect night to think and speak as
he pleases, to ue Radical, an atheist oil
heather just so long as he does not inter
fere with the equal freedom of Others tC
differ from him. Texans are cosmopolitan
They are from all the States and from Eu
rope, and have learned to practice the phi
losophy involved in these facts.
The Fayette county Neo Era says the
Surveyors of the narrow gauge arrived
here last Wednesday; returning to the Bra
zos they will survey the fourth route" l.
there single citizen of Austin confessing
interest enough in the city's well.being tC
inquire whether the line adopted will lead
in this direction or towards New Braunfels
or Waco2 Austin is a queer place.
One Jacob Burnstein, who is said to have
fred Houston not long ago and destroyed
many buildings and much personal prop
erty, has disappeared. Vim. Cohen, who
was suspected of the incendiarism, com
mitted suicide. Burnstein used to live in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee. II caught, hI
will have little mercy at the hands of the
many whom he is alleged to have ruined.
Mr.. Wells, a gentleman of fortune from
Philadelphia, who spends each winter il
Austin, is jealous in urging Austin prop
erty-holders to build the wooden mill anG
narrow gauge road to Lampasas and to the
wool-growing and mining counties north
west of the city. He will aid generously
Rev. DIR. Rogers is earnestly cooperating
with him, and the two schemes, we arr
told, prosper.
They must practice it at the dinner table.
They must sling plates and dishes at one
another on all occasions when yery inter
esting family controversies arise. They
couldn't acquire such skill in any othel
manner. Only last Wednesday young
wife at Goliad saw hawk coming dowI
like bolt of lightning among her chick
ems. She SHE'D tin pan at it and it fell
dead al her feet. HosrI
Tom Crooks, of the Sherman Courier thu
ugliest man in the world if not in Texas,
vowed, the Register says, to kill the first
man he may encounter uglier than himself,
and Martin is scared out of his seven senses
if he ever had any, lest Tom should ha,
it suggested by a mirror when he comes
bowling and waddling about the Register
Office that Martin surpasses him in trans
occidental, ungodly ugliness.
Why does not the Bryan Appeal Post Civ,
the name of the preacher who struck tn,
boy at the depot there9 He is gray-haired
and erect, but since he may not be punished
by the church and the law will not aveng,
the boys wrongs, and the supposed fol
lower of Jesus did not even apologize 20 tn,
urchin, the press should interveneif onll
for public decency's sake. st
The Fayette county Ne,o Era says: "on'
more of Governor Coke's pets is held il
durance vile. He wantonly shot Bohe
milan woman, as she was returning hom'
from field labor. She has since died. M
provocation assigned. The festive youth i
now safely quart cred in our county Jail.
We, are only curious to know in what sens,
the murderer is his Excellency's pet. Is b,
an escaped convict? 49,,
A monument should be reared over tn,
murdered Dixie Allen. 1t would tell 'w'
invaluable lessons. One sI~
own crimes and horrifv
| the descendants
lesslv o.
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