The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-02

that McNelly has departed, sings very low
IL when he sNears at the cattle thieves of
the country round about. It was said of him
that he is not so much afraid TO dcnounCe
the kGaves as TO 90 about after he has done
the devilment. But his nerves are growing
steadier, and he declares 1T last that 1--WE
are not afraid to go out home through the
brush or to publish paper in Oakville.'
McNelly is q greater reformer than TIlden
and preacher than Penn.
A high school that wanted gratuitous
advertisement, editorial at that, sent copy
of Its prospectus and pamphlet to the Age
Its success in deadbeating our Houston
contemporary was not very great In fact
it wasn't even satisfactory, and the pious,
good school manager Is grievously dis
grunIl-d because newspapers absolutely
have the daring audac ty TO demand pay
ment tor the use Of type, ink and presses,
whether employed by the godly or upgodly,
or by candidates or Congressman.
The E.ran'iner says that the wheat crop is
never more than partially destroyed 10y
grasshoppers in this State, while in other
large grain growing States, and particular
ly those upon which Texas IS accustomed to
rely, the destruction Is sometimes complete.
Admitting it, therefore, not improbable
that the crop in Texas will be cut shoct, the
argument would be in favor not Of with
holding seed from the ground, but OF put
ting in more to meet the probable deficit in
other quarters, and make up for the proba-
BILE partial destruction in this State.
1t was shown, among ether curious facts
developed in the investigation of election
frauds in tins city, that Judge William AL
eXander, who did not vote at all, voted GER
tainly, according to the papers, four times,
and the excellent and learned gentleman is
surely puzzled. His friends tell him they
can't doubt bis truthfulness, but insist that
he took an afternoon sicsta on election day
and went to the polls in state of somnam-
bulism. 1t was the possibility of this con-
duct of the Judge and that $50 other sgp-
posed people did the same thing that legal
ICES the late election.
VIM. Postop, of Lockhart, Texas, sells
merIno wool cotton seed at one cent each.
Each stalk yields from 200 to 400 hollis, and
the cotton stalk looks like q sasSafras bush,
while the cotton itself looks like lambs
wool and must be very valuable. Each
1900 pounds Of seed cotton makes a 500
pound bale. The finest, softest velvet
flannel may be made of this beautiful pro-
duct of Mr.. Poston's lamb's-wool cotton.
Write to him and don't pothcr the STATES
MAN about it.
William and John AXE, two big fellows
of San Saba county, had a regular fight
| with panther hand-to-hand highland
| succeeded by the dextrous use of a knife
| in killing their adversary, and thus it hap
| pened that it was the panther that died of
Axes and pains and putrefyipg sores. If
| Bob Akers of this ancient family = had
| been in this little family row while his
| courage Yves oozing out at his fingers
ends" hewould have gouged the eyes OF
| the beast and the flood of heroism We are
| always reading about would have exploded
| the beasts Uranium like quart of dynamite.
| But it is an uncomfortable way of killing
bears they have over IN San Saba.
Some villainous scoundrel who wanted to
have the STATESMAN soundiy cursed got a
wasp's nest and wrapping a newspaper
about it put 1t in Martins chair. We had
nothing to do with it and know nothing
about it, and yet when Martin went out at
the top OF the house tearing his clothes in
| the most shocking manner he left wcrd
with the ''local" that the internal STATES
MAN was what was the matter with him, and
that be would "come back" at us after
awhile. They were rubbing Martin with
! sperrits and concentrated lye squeezed
out of the Register, and he was getting a
little comfortable Tuesday.
The Waxy Enterprise says 'tit is Indis-
putable, that it is the interest of the Dem
ocra.ic party in Texas and if the princi-
! Piles OF that party are correct, then it is
the public interest-that the party should
,have first class paper at the commercial
center of the State. 1t is lamentably true
that we have no truly Democratic paper at
| Galveston, and none occupying anything
like commanding position or influence in
the State. We have several large towns
so-called cities in the State, but their
newspapers seem incapable of taking q
broader view of men and things than a
birds-eye view of their own supposed
city" or a view through the key-hole oil
the vault of some rich corporation"
A paper like the Herald adds more to the
wealth and rcspectabilly of a towns popu.
lation than all drowsy drones grasping al
dollars glistening in streams of luck OF
business, and expanding not one in promo
ton of works Of public good. The Herald
TOO, is toucbstone of popular intelligenc,
and good taste. Strangers see Marshal
through a fortunate medium for the place
and people. How crcditable to the TASTE
and intelligence of Marshall that the pape
is we'll sustained! Even those whose pre-
JUDGES and opinions it may often Offend
have the good sense still to sustain it. l
serves the many and promotes public goot
even though, if honest, it must now anC
then wound RESPONSIBILITIES of,individuals
But Marshall is inhabited by tasteful anC
educated population and is one of the mos
attractive places in Texas.
The eastern terminus of the Southern
Pacific is 600 miles distant from San Fran
cisco and as far east as Elko on the Contra
Pacific, which is the same distance by rail
Seven hundred miles will carry the South
ern Pacific to the western border of Texas
or to within 500 miles of the western term
nus of the completed Texas railroads, or i
other words, 1900 miles will bring this lin
J t. our own city, which is east of Omaha
and is 1900 miles distant from San Frar
cisco. The distance from St. LOUIS to Sa
Francisco will be about the same by th
Southern and Central routes, and to Me-
Orleans the same by the Southern as t
Chicago by the Central route, thus makir
San Francisco about 900 miles nearer I
tide water ciG New Orleans than Uid Oh
cago, and still New Orleans is comparative
ly making very little effort 10 complete he
railroad connections with the Texas raj
roads leading to the Pacific coast.
! James Anderson, the son of Judge JAIME
: A. Anderson, of Tennessee, has been lul
ing buffaloes in Callahan county. He Wa
crazy to kill one of the beasts and riding
fleet horse left his companions in pursuit (
herd. He shot at an antelope, the bullC
struck the ground, was objected from j
downward course aud penetrated the anti
lope's body. 1t fell dead on the plain. Il
: failed to hit the filing bufflloes, but dri'
r ing them into q gorge in the GuadaluE
: mountains the herd went down a perpeI
: dicular height and when James came TO IL
8 spot he looked down and the buffalo
P sought to kill lay dead thirty feet below
e He had both the antelope and the buffAC
E but while he was on the ground to fire ;
: the buffaloes his horse escaped and fled I
the encampment and caused consternatio
I by inducing the belief that he had bee
slain by red men. He has had enough {
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