The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-28

geouf splendor, and drift underfoot
deeper than they ever fell IN Valam
bro3s. Great focks of brown birds,
prairie chickens, curlews and par
tridges rise and wheel and settle over
thS solemn praires, that lie so still and
brbwn in the sun. l love my State,
every foot of soil, every leaf and twig.
aid this glory and beauty begets a
passionate patriotism"
The Ie1ds Neu Yorker again pub
fishes the article from the STATESMAN,
without credit, in which we produced
the Bryant's description of the prairie.
The Ne1o Yorker should know that the
eight last lines of the poem are not
Bryant's, and moreover il had 10 right
TO add the superiiuous words 20,
Texas" In wronging the STATESMAN
the NeJo Yorker also exposes lis igno-
rance of the author whose poetry it
appropristes. But there is much that
is valuable in the Nelc Yorker, and
much of this is derived from the
STATESMAN.
There are many 81 and generous
people in Austin. The little para
graph Sunday morning induced an ex-
cellent gentleman to send an IN
fortunate and helpless woman two
| dollars from DR.. SG:oot's church, and
several called yesterday to learn her
whereabouts. Charity should be sys-
tematic ard not spasmodical. Why
not organize an association to search
for and serve the poor during winter
Let us teach children to practice char
ity rsther than to squander money in
fire crackers, and we will have a race
of men rather than of murdere:s reared
IL Texas.
J The San Saba Meas surely has not
informed the sheriffs and constables
of its district that public drunkenness
and loud swearing in public places
are now lndictable otfenses. The Meas
| says sit is no uncommon affair TO see
staggering, drunken men on the
streets almost daily. Some of these
imagine themselves great politicians
and display their talent, in this di-
rection, to the annoyance of everyone
else, to their own disadvantage, and, we
might add, to their own disgrace. p"
Why not arrest the fools and cork
'em up" in the calaboose +?
We sent two terrible ,-urderers TO
jail in Jacksbn-1, and the Jacksboro
Daper saws .A4ey are not there, and asks
us to 'Se a little more careful about
copying from one paper and crediting
! another. The mistake was made per
haps; but Gus Young and Krebs are IN
Jail somewhere out west, and If they
are in Jacksboro, and kept safely, the
town and its newspaper should bt
proud of the fact, and we are sure thai
the editor would be perfectly blest il
the pair of worthless were hanged II
Jacksboro. 1t would advertise the
town and give its paper an awful sale
The San Marcos Free Press says O
the now venerable Gen. 10. Lane, O
Oregon, candidate for the vice presl
dency on breckenridge ticket in 1860
: that he was member of the indians
Legislature which met at Corydon il
1922. AS the clerk called tn
: roll, and came to the coun
ties of Vanderburg and Warrick, MI
: Smith says: 81 saw advancing
, slender, freckle-faced boy, in appear
!. ance eighteen or twenty years of age
@ I marked his step as he came up to m
. side, and have often noticed his al
. since. 1t was Gen. Joseph Lane, c
n Mexican and Oregon fame in ATTIC
o years"
Judge Fleming, of the Brownwoo
l. district court, in his recent charge
e the grand Jury, defended his own plai
J. speaking condemnatory of juries tha
|, turn loose murderers. He said: "Whe
IS crime is prevalent; when the lives an
V property of our citizens are unsafe
h when the laws are not respected, whe
,r the courts are regarded as farces an
treated with contempt; when II
10 public sentiment of the country just
fes mob law; l think it is time fl
y plain speaking. This state of affai
may not exist in your county, and
= hope it does not; but it does exist
. counties-not far distant, and if the FRO
u er means ale not promptly used
:, prevent, it will soon reach you"
a. despite the danger of losing ha
"a the early-rising population of Aust
we give the statement of the San a
- tonic Herald that the Menger Hotel
now provided with an electric annu
d ciator. 1t became absolutely necessa
p to have some such arrangement. II
II guests from the North were continual
% rushing from their rooms, thinking Il
y hotel was on fire, whenever some hare
n n frontiersman or thirsty fellow fro
II Austin would yell out in the mornil
d before he got up for his cocktail. 4
=. he has to do now is to touch lit
oil knob, and in few moments his THU
en- is quenched, and he can turn over al
tie go to sleep again without calling o
I'd the fire department.
ed The assessed valuation of taxab
u property in Texas for 1876 is $780,
900, 900. The estimated revenues
the year are: From one half of o
per cent. on the total valuation, S
r. 800, 900; occupation tax, $3.50, OC
lis collection of taxes of former yea
en- $3.50, 600; office fees, $50, 900; tot
81, 995, 900. The deductions to
Ily made for cost of assessing and cole
10 ing and delinquincies are are S1S3, u
lie leaving a net revenue of 1901, 2
"a One-fourth~of the revenue goes to
ne-| support of public schools; it v
IN amount to $422, S12. The assessm
sIv for 1876 is $40, 600, 600 greater than
rm 1875, and SIC, 900, 900 greater than
for 1874. The debt of the State is s
f a 21O, 600, being an increase of S793, 8
The which increase is attributable TO
necessity for frontier defense and OF
extraordinary measures. Cover
'nu Coke says that under the former re
led nue. law one-t third of the properly 8
ere values in the State escaped taxati
md and that at reasonable estimate
ere assessment ought to be $3.50, 600, O
lis, The estimated deficiency in the re
tie, nues for the present year is $500, {
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