The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27


no newspaper now In Cuero. and there was
infinite darkness overshadowing those
parts whenthe Star ceased to shine.
Doc Adams calls Cole, of the rival
weaiherford paper, .'the lilliputian luna
tic, and Cole is coleric about it and calls
Adams a ''lousy loggerhead," and thus
pleasing Wit and fattering assertions of one
-apofher's worth delight the friends OF the
two jocose editors.
Bill No. 223, which has passed the SEN
ate, puts all the sheriffs of the West into
the cattle bu iiness and adds smartly to the
pr5titableLess of the sheriff's Office. But
since the act does not operate till the peo-
pie approve it at q special local election,i it
is by no means very dangerous.
We wish they would boil down the
nomenclature CT newspapers. 1t worries
type-setters TO print and editors te write
the long words Gonzales Inquirer ndez and
others of the same sort" Contraction,
economy in time, money, words and print.
ers' ink Is the passion of the age as en-
bodied in Tlden. ..,..,is..-l, nd, H..
The Burnet Bulletin says that at the
Marble Falls, on the Colorado river, If
teen miles from the town of Burnet, is an
inc xhaustible supply of msrble-blsck,
white and vaTiegated. 1t was stated here
yesterday that u marble quarry had been
discovered iRthe side of Mount Bonnell.
The two men sewed up in green COW skins
and found thus helpless in the woods near
Geurgetown won't steal any more cattle for
some time to come. In fact, unless the
Pythagorian doctrine of trsnsmigration of
souls be well founded. we may never more
hear of these hapless fellows in these low
grounds of sorrow. sr Jzsl O. 10 - r. 10
The Leader of the Leader publishes sue
cinct and lively history of his adventure
in Texas. He has had an awful time, and
has been betrayed by friends and beaten
by enemies and cursed by all sorts of peo-
pie, till his condition is even deplorable.
It's sad story, and fills column and q
quarter of the LeqGier. GA sss a.s.T s
BRENNAN imposes tax of one-half of
one per cent. for, free Schools and every
town IN Texas would do as well if those
who pay expended the tax or their chosen
representatives But lawmakers have not
the pluck tosmeet such an issue and dare
not restrict suffrage in corporations to tax
payers. They dread the rabble.
The Dallas papers get better dispatches
| from s.. Louis than those that come through
New Orleans and Galveston. The news
| gatheref for st. Louis is infinitely more
| skillful than he of New Orleans. Perhaps
he has access to the specials" to the st.
Louis press. Reform, Reform! South and
North, the cry is Reform!
/ The East TEXAS Patron says that Metho
dist centennial is suggested by Rev. DR..
| Philpott, of Austin. HE was to preach a
| sermon in that city on the subject on the
ninJh inst Our Methodist friends viii
4 hardly miss the opportunity which such a.
event would afford of celebrating achieve
ments of their church in the cause of chris
| tlanity." ...,
Dallas is printing $4,000 worth of pam
| phlets and employing an agent and lecturer
to distribute them. Dallas thus fights Ton
Scott,d Fort Worth and destiny with
printers ink and CAB and then finishes the
job by starting narrow gauge-the Dalla'
and Wichita road-tO Pixies Peak. Dalla.
is the gamest town in America and Austir
perhaps the most incapable.
The San Antonio Herdldis hard to please
We thought the Legislature might retain
the Tom Scott grant and give it to Western
| Texas roads, but the Herald is mad because
it supposed the Legislature would do THU
very thing. Now if Tom Scott gains his
point, will not the Herald this once, TO
the variety of the thing, put on q smiling
1 face and consent to remain in Texas9 u
The charming Miss Lula Haynes wa
married, "Wednesday, in Dallas, to tn,
| lucky Barnett Gibbs, the rousing city at
torney. of that blessed town. Among
trifiing wedding presents was a ten-acrt
lot and 10, 900 residence, and 1880 acrt
plantation hard blythe whole worth 500,
000, And still Gibbs isn't half paid for lht
awful job of prosecuting all knaves tha
come before the Dallas recorder.
| The surveyors and engineers of the
Texas Central road are making track,
about W. atherford, and Doc Adams dances
as if that cole = on his back were afame
and Dallas doesn't like the aspect of fact
! that, contaminated, must contract, very
materially, the area of Dallass trade. Tn,
Waco branch is to tap Weatherford, anC
| Waco's sympathies are now grievously di
vidcd between Major Penn and-the pro
gressive Central. y IS .7alt..s J9lfa aH
Major Horbach, of the Hutchins House,
advertised ito learn the fate and wherea
bouts of w. A., Wilson. of the Kansas Cit,
Times. The Dallas Commercial answers
why, MY dear fellow, don't You know
Didn't he start bank or two at Austin as
well AS at Galveston2a Didn't he buy III
several millions of acres of Ian and all the
bonds? Didn't he build railroads at Austil
as well as all over the State? OF course b,
did! At any rate he did all that up her,
and then, like the Arab, folded his ten
and quietly stole away a2h51 sd5oise
The Age says that Rust and Boyd, o
:he House, are emphstieally men, no
pulling sentimental old women. Rust sait
he was for breaking the neck of every maj
who robbed stage or stole from the per
! son; Boyd, that he would suppress Grim
at any price, and if necessary toaput dow
murder and lawlessness, would write tn
laws themselves in blood The sentlmen
will echoed by every honest man in tn
State, and nine-tenths of the people-al
but the murderers and thieves, and thei
allies and gsympathizers. . 1fdiv ns9
There are five or ten thousand squstter
on the Tom Scott domain These people
knowing that Scott had failed to execut,
his contract with the State, and that th
land really belongs to the State, have takel
possession expecting to have the preferret
right, each to buy his farm on liberal term
/ u1due ny tue OLhL6-i IL Il Oul OCOtL tfiump
and retain the, land he has forfeited, thes
citizens of Texas will never forget the han
that smItes or tie party that is dOminau
IN the legislature io 7
4 Gathright is president, Hogg professo
of mathematics, Morris commandment, MAI
tin professor of agriculture and Banks o
ancient languages. Such is the excellen
faculty and basis of organization of the uni
versity at Bryan. 1t was thought that boy
at Bryan would be taught to conduct, prin
and publishaa newspaper, and applicstIo
was made for the Bohemian professor
ship, but the Office was not instituted
+, iitors require a special trai ming, even q
do lawyers and physicians, and the fac
will YET be recognized at Bryan. s
There is an exceeding good man name
Alderman, on the line Of Pierce's road nea
4 San, Antonio. Aeky's land is worth twenty
i've dollars per acre, but relying upo