The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25


proftably harnessed than between Austin
and Lampasas, and the Changers in coun-
ties north and northwest of Texas are
''currying" favor with the little animal.
Corn in Pamela county will not be worth
more than twenty-five cents, and thither
will 90 the immigrants. 1t would cost less
TO live in Dallas If that place and Pamela
were voked together by narrow gauge.
Corn juice would go down; but il is always
going dozen in Dallas, and the more 1t de-
scends the higher the price and the
higher do the people get.
The International Railway Land Agency
and immigration Bureau, managed by
Thomas F. Fisher at Palestine, would have
descriptive lists of lands along the route OF
the road which the agency undertakes to
advertise and sell. Mr.. Fisher would have
organizations effected in each county to
promote this result. Very soon he visits
the Fast, and will put the land, entrusted
10 him for sale, on the market Write to
! him.
John P. C. Whitehead, Solicitor General
| in Georgia, till his Office was emptied
through the intervention of the ever-bessed
| Bullock the hummer, has made Austin his
home He will devote himself especially
/
preme Courts of the State, even though he
was especially distinguished in the criminal
trials of Georgia. He is thorough master
of his profession and a most admirable and
eloquent speaker.
! Even the Lender does not pretend to
commend the conduct or materials of the
last press excursion from Texas, and surely
the business should be suspended. The
Burnet Bulletin properly says that sit is
disreputable for any body of men to travel
around without paying railroad fare, apply
ing for reduced rates at hotels, accepting
complimentary tickets to theaters, etc., and
the presence of all the press associations
in the world on such excursions would help
but little to make them reputable"
Prof. Tyndall's first act after marriage
was to have a cradle made with glass rock
ers. He ascribes babes petulance and
goutiness to loss of electricity. But it
seems rather hard to condemn the little tod
oilers to the care of "non-conductors. "
Then, too, very magnetic baby might, by
some accident, "shock everybody that
came about it. Electric eels (gymnOtus)
knock down horses that enter pools in the
swamps of Central America, and Tyndall's
brats may paralyze the old man when he
fondles them most philosophically. ..
People about Austin are nightly scar ID.
Few of them had reflected how very alb.
surd an intentionally absurd pirate letter
appears, till it appears in print. FitZhugh's
letter, written to amuse the gentleman to
whom it was addressed and therefore filled
with grotesque figures of speech and alb
surd exaggeraions, looks solemn enough
to make one shudder when seen in a news
| nd finn N
everybody except poor Fitzhugh. Will
people quit writing absurd private letters
J. ". Gray sends US the following mod
est appeal to the Legislature. J. w. has
not yet been furnished with his Shorty acres
and II mule" and the Solons of Texas will
proceed at once to settle the account:
AUSTIN CITY, Ma, 1S, 1876
To the members of the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives and the Public at large:
/ ask the aid of all; 1 want you all to
give me money to buy me a home.
haven't got money to pay my house rert
This is the first time that have asked fol
anything, and l hope that you will helE
me. Respectfully, ]. w. GRAY.
The gentlemanly Mr.. La Barras, Of
Brownsville, whose breeches and things, a:
dimly suggested, may have been out of re
pair, was exceedingly unfortunate, as the
facts are 9ueerly recited by the Age ellis
undrawn pistol fired in his pocket, contrary
to the code which is severely condemned by
the western newspapers. Had the Genera
drawn his shooter and deliberately emptieC
its contents into the corpse of his Antagonist
we imagine it would have been strictly le
gitimate, and stamped the bold avenger Of
immaterial honor as a gentleman of tn:
first water"
The Gatesvllle Sun published 'fgnotis'
(notice) having reference to horse. VIZ
located it, with commentary, for loca
purpose, in another place, and now give
the SaR credit when it was originally i'm
possible. The Sun must not grow black
or have spots in its face because we robbed
it of this funny paragraph it copied from
| the court house door. Our new court house
won't have door big enough for notices Of
this sort, and the courts will be forced tt
advertise in the newspapers, and therefore
the popular approval of the style of ouI
magnificent public building.
Titus county has Grange named "Shi
lob" which is odd; but the members art
not ''skintiints, though they have started ,
tannery, which is ouder, and they never
"woo" one another, which is oldest, anc
on its banner is inscribed the legend about
the old horse:
"If he dies I'll ten his skin,
II he don't I'll ride him a,in.
In other words, those Shiloh Changers pro
mote home industry and home manufac
lures, and never touch Cincinnati whisky
and drink home-brewed beer and native
wine. Model Changers are those of THU
county.
The Sherman Register is greatly dis
tressed, because, having pinned its faith
tor some months to the Examiner as it
Gamaliel in all agricultural matters, i
finds the Granger organ, when commenting
on modes of checking se-stealing,
saying: "The sheep alluded to are quar-
tered in this county, the bucks at McLaren'
livery stable, IN Waco, the ewes at farm
one mile from the city. We have had tn
pleasure of closely examining them ant
have not seen finer lot of sheep any
where" Doesn't B-o know the difference
between a sheep and a mu stang9 or is h
the agricultural Moses of Texas, as com
monty supposed9
The sympathies of the press are rendered
Bro. Link, of the Baptist Herald. H
} wrote too fiercely, and thus foolishly, il
condemnation of ladies who danced at
} centennial tea party, and a kin.man o
the good danes struck the pastor 70
his folly or goodness. Preachers must con
fine themselves to moral suasion, and be
ware of invectives and epithets. They ma!
think the conduct of the "sisterin - oftel
reprehensible, but in reproof must emplo
terms significant of decent respectfulness
involving no suggestion of depravity
or want of decency and decorum. Their
are little links involved in this cham o
thought to which we may refer at auothe
time
The editor and proprietor of the 'Peri,
, beautiful ladies' Journal, published semi
occasionally in West Virginia, called on u
. yesterday. The dashboard of his shir
was ornamented with studs about the siz
of crab-apples, his hair was divided imme
diately upon the meridian (by civil engin
eer no doubt), his luxuriant mustache huns
E over the entrance of his provision depO