The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07

liners, appointed by the district court.
and stand examination in anatomy, chem
istry, physiology aud 'a0tcria meiiod, before
they eau collect their bills. Any one vio-
lSting the law is liable to be indicted, fned
and imprisoned.
Lsmpssas people are taking stock in
narrow gauge from that town to Round
Rock. they say they'll build it, and Aus
tin may 90 10 perdition. But we don't be-
lieve thar Austin will so even there, how
ever earnest its seeming anxiety. unless
somebody else build the broad gauge de
cezasUs ieerai over which the old fogies may
60 in hearse-iSe sleeping coach.
Ed. GaElick, of the Columbus Citisea, is
nervous when lie gees nosiug shout Ger
man culinary department. Nd" is not a
contraction for edible, and we make the
suggestion IN his behalf that he may not be
devoured some bright morning when
browsing about town on flowers CT fancy
10 be digested and 10 adorn the pages Of
the Cdi-eH
The Eipress says OF the stalwMt Con
gresham that Mr.. Schlelcher is 'sfully en-.
ervsted to meet the, important duties
which will devolve upon HIM when Con.
gress Meets He always looked much en-
ervated, as If he could not tote public
burdens or moro than PAIR of cotton
bales.
The editorial ssnc;um of the Benton
City Era is furnished with a stove, but 1t
has no pipe, and he sticks to his work
while cold blast for several days has been
pouring down from the Northwest. The
editor is dried, and looks like q smoked
herring; but the paper is fresh and viva
cious enough, and never fishy.
Hon. Galusha 4. Grow is in Houston,
The people of Austin would be pleased to
see the old heas devil of the International
Railway ring that frightened our unsophis.
ticated juvenile friend. DeAIorse, out of
forty years of an otherwise useful life, and
made Hon. John Ireland stiff and rigid as
apoker. His nerves will never get over 1t,
and the coming of Hon. Galusha may make
him grow worse.
1t seems that two North Texas doctors
packed a baby's head, it having brain
fever, in forty pounds Of ice ana the little
fellow winked out. We DO not doubt the
learning and skill of these doctors, but can't
help suggesting that it would have been
cheaper and more in consonance with prac-
teal love and tenderness If they had let the
the next exploring expedition to the Polar
ocean.
Whenever a fellow gets robbed about
Denison those rascslly papers always have
it that 1t was done on the fisherman road"
This is evidently intended, by innuendo, to
suggest that Martin is highwayman, and
he should resent it. lie is stretched out to
the crack of doom and is seven feet high,
and in the way of man, is peculiarly
high. We have seen him awfully elevated,
but those Denison papers don't deal fairly
with him.
The press is nightly pleased that Capt.
Scarcy IS Secretary of State and worthy to
succeed Col. DeBerri. The ..y" was put
10 this. name wrongfully in America, we
reckon, like the nose. The latter would
constitute a good handle to bring his head
in withal if he were guillotined and the
Uranium were accidentally left out of doors.
But there is no accounting for queer ways
OF spelling peoples names. II Col. De-
Berri ever return to the land of his fathers
he would be Due de Berri de Cleburne.
Mr.. Caskey and Elder Price arc turning
Dallas topsy-turvy over infant baptism.
The debate draws immensely. Caskey, we
happen to know, is an original, vigorous
thinker and popular declaimer of rare at
tractiveness. OF ME- Price we know moth
ing; but they say i'll Dallas parlance, for
which we are not responsible, that he is
trump" a remark we would not make
unless we knew what was trumps.
The middle about the presidency has
caused the susp ension of work and of Noel
on the Red River and Rio Grande (DenisoD,
Fort Worth and Austin) road. The old
mule that has been hauling dirt there for
twelve months has been taken cut and
killed. Murray and Martin celebrated the
funeral obsequies of the mule, and Noel
OF the railway. It's a great relief to the
country that the three arc dead.
1t was that tiighty genius and excellent
gentleman, Martin, of Navasota, who in.
jected the law against printers in the new
Constitution. He it was who compelled |
the late Legislature to accept the lowest |
bids tor printers work from whatever
quarter the bids come or wherever the work |
was to be executed. This people wept that |
they could not get the published laws |
and Martin became Horch rock. HiHc !
lille lachrymG. His head is fountain of |
grief.
A horse took fright in Sherman while
u
window and out q: another Of the court !
house, and juries, lawyers and the wig and |
wOolsack and papers and clerks and benches
were upset and knocked eudwIse, aud JUS |
tice is thus farce in Sherman. The law |
ycrs called this incident, as they do most |
other accidents in which :hcy share, ''7eB, |
in re- The old hurso was named Rem-us !
and it is notable "Reminiscences in the his
tory of Sherman. Ea 80
The sheriff aud posse went to arrest
murderer named VIM. Hoff, In Goliad coun.
ty. They surrounded house in which |
two youths were sitting at night, and
them out OF their wits, one fled
and was shot four or five times by the reck-
less, timid, lawless rlurdereis who proposed
to punish murder. The boy thus killed is
named John Scbewiz. The law should pro-
tect its own person and punish the mis-
deeds of It's agents more terribly and surely
than it does the crimes of common high
waymen and murderers. vaaaar
They want to move the dead further from
town in Dallas. II the dead live aeun
and wake up as they lie down, practicing
their same old habits and iDdulging their
old tastes of this life, as some people be-
lieve, it will be cruel to the last degree to
transfer the old soakers to such distance
from accustomed elysian delights, dance
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