The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-29
They call Col. Crawford. Of Jefferson.

counties will he read and deposited beneath
of public ediices to be dug up /
and re-read one hundred years hence.
4 good brother complains to the Chris |
tim Messenger of costly baby carriages in |
which sisters haul their babies around these |
progressive times. When he was a baby |
they hauled them around by the hair of !
the head.
come to o. nights They just boil up with
the biIge water tina: people drink over
there.
Crooks is to be Macaulay straight here
after. De Is preparing history of Sher
man and Denison Ia be launched upon the
babbling stream rejecting in its bosom the
outlines Of other days on the Fourth of
July.
The Sherman Register says that George
II alfsnalf has learned with delight that he
has Il bouncing boy. Would George be
'alf and 'alf SO happy If the boy hadn't
bounced when he struck to toddlc ON
through life
Major Fitzhugh's letter, published in the
Capital, fills two columns. He claims that
the letter to Maddox was Intentionally alb
surd and ridiculous, and designed only to
amuse Maddox. 1t was exceeding y funny,
and no mistake.
Judge Killough, late member of the Con-
stitutional Convention, a man of excellent
sense, and faultless citizen, died suddenly
last week of congestion, at his residence i'll
Robertson county, where he had been
citizen since 1887
The Denison NeWS deplores the defeat of
Senator Terrell's stenographic reporters
bill. The editor of the NeIos always had q
stenographic crank in his head, and would
himself make good hand at airing vain
glorious men.
Seven young gentlemen, so called, got
drunk in Comanche and to remind decent
people why the town was named Comanche,
they went bowling through the village fir
ing pistols. The seven were captured and
tiHcd and Comanche proposes to change its
name.
The Stephensville Empire denies that ter
ribe statement of the Galveston Ne0s,
made not long ago when all Texas, accord
ing to the NeUs, was hanging people. ON
such event as the hanging of six men III
one day ever occurred in the Empires
county.
Dallas wants to abolish perqusites, and
thus stop stealing, and have salaries substi
tuted for present modes of legaliZng rob-
berries. But the new Constitution accepts
and approves the ruinous, cOrrupting and
depraved system.
Dug Irwin, an excellent Dallas editor,
lost $57 at the hands of a plckpocket. We
wish it distinctly understood that a Dallas
paper tells this incredible story; and isn't
it strange that the paper forgot to tell where
and how the editor got the money!
The old South Church of Boston, as
many Texans educated down East will be
grieved to learn, must be torn down, that q
commercial structure may rise upon its
ruins. Is there nothing sacred in the eyes
of cupidity7 Will Faneuil Hall be suf-
fered tn stand?
On Kings rancho are the horses Nellie
Grant with her beautiful bay colt six weeks
old, Sartoris, a horse, Pat Murphy and
Honest Kentucky John, both large fine
blooded bays, and a perfect model of a
horse, Young Lunatic, with fine turf re-
cord. ... .l ...-.
The Oakville Tribune sneakingly sug-
gests that Mr.. Rust is printer and is try
ing to get the Legislature to erect monu-
ment over his own honored remains. The
Tribune says M. Rust proposed to lift up
statue to an ''honest printer" if one were
| discovcrable.
Gen. J. B. Robertson, who represents
Texas all the year round in St. Louis, has
| induced wo lien manufacturer and a
cooper and cedar pail maker to go down to
Austin to look up the wool crop and cedar
brakes about the capital.
Mrs. Martha G. Taught went into bath
room at Lampasas, and remaining longer
than usual, her husband sought and found
her dead-suffocated by the sulphurous va
por, it is thought. The water in the tub
was less than foot deep.
Lampasas is going to have brass band
and balloon on the glorious Fourth. II
will thus be windy day for Lampasas.
Perhaps the balloon business is joke OF
the Neaos having reference to the windiness
of the ''orator of tug day"
Kings rancho and stock farm, of Santa
Geltrudes, is the largest in Texas, contain
ing in one grand enclosure over rs, 900 acres
1t Is forty-three miles around it, all seeded
in the mesquit grass with many large pools
of water, and many springs at the head O
the Santa Gertrudes.
The San Marcos Free Press thinks the
Fourth of July will only be remembered il
those parts as one of the causes of the lat
war, freeing the negroes, instigatiHg thu
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, cleo
ton OF Grant, hard times, and a day alto
gether fraught with i'll luck.
Gen. J. Wado--of whose forefathers W,
read in D'Aubigne's account of the VALID
eneses-gives each member of the Texs
| or afp
round trip tickets for one and one-ffth far
and the scalpers are instructing their Gus
toners in the art of whitening locks ant
using crutches.
The Gate City (Ark.) Neaos says EGG
go begging there at ten cents" which j
strange, since they told US at our hash bous
that if eggs made any 'fuss" they wer
afeard of ''feathers," and warn't worth
durn. 1t was fuss and feathers" tina
rotten egged" old Scott off the track ant
beat him for the presidency.
The Hampstead Messenger wisely says
, ''Nothing short of severe, swift and inevi
table punishment will deter evil-dispose,
persons from giving full vent to their pro
pensities. Our Legislators being incapabl
of devising means of suppressing crime
the people are forced to resume the power
delegated to their representatives"
The National Inder, at Tyler, is still hui
zaing because of Blsine's % nomination a
Cincinnati. 1t went into hysteria whel
the announcement came by the grapevin
line, and has been ''cavortine" so violentl
Chat it may control the postofflce at Tyler
/ that it has never been able to read or hear
and still has Blaine ON the brain.
, An eloquent preacher concludes privat
e letter: ITO write to you brings up tn
past for we are growing older. Back o
the hill slope, which we have assembled
are the graves Of our friends; down tn
hill, just before US, are our own graves
Let us cling in Perfect confidence to Hi
who is the resurrection and the life."
The fall in the San Antonio river, with
three miles of its source, is $50 feet, an
that no great mills line its banks smacks