The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

sengeF, $sf,4F0 TOT; mall. sTU,g OF; ex-
press, "a. $50 90; misceilsneous, 81, SO ~;
total, 1886 ga 54; corresponding period
last year, sS0J, 149 So. tt't't!
The Waco Esamiaer Is now friendly to
Hubbard Not long since it denounced
him as Unfit 70 take CCke's plsce. 1t will
see that Hubbard makes an able Executive,
aud afterFhe has rlcare3ethe Coke debris
cut of The way he will put the Safe n a
wsy 10 sail along fairly.
The Dallas Herald says that the rs-elec-
ton 81 TbrockmoIion !, u slgnal tribute 10
his worth. Which shows how sadly We
were mistaken. We couldn't help thinking
thSt il Was a mild, modest sweet way Da!-
las and those parts had Of telling Bigger
that he is slupendOus ass.
The Messenger tells Of a-wonierful me-
teor which shot across the sky from horizon
Nobody saw il but Hieronymus, aud the
occurrence took place not long after he
had participated in The efgaaizstion of Is
temperance society.
E. ii. Kahn, whose advertisements ell
all the Dallas papers, Is among trsdesmen
the yeritable Gheu.is Kahn. Hs smites
down all opposition, bsGaatses the pen is
mightier than the sword. The pen wins
power for the Jradcsman as the sword did
tor the couquerer of the Orient.
Clampctt, cowardly assassin from Mich
igan, shot aud killed man named Goode
in fuaeral procession at Atlanta In Hop1
kins County. He WAS at his frst funeral,
liked it and provided for another. Per-
hsps, too, there wa. collision with the
undertaken who owns the village grave:
yard.
Ills ExceilenCyciss an@ex pert an sppnint'
ments, but exceptions exist in everything,
He appointed twenty-one notaries in Travis
county when the blessed Constitution al.
lows but twenty. Who must be ex-edi One
at least, and he must have done the Cover
nor some extra service to make it appear
proper.
F >'The-Guad atdpe Times sthlaks that if .the
counties would give up their little fairs
and unite in one district fair they would
get up a good one - one that would not
only pay, but that would be interesting to
attend. The Times com plains that the coun-
~ fairs are not giving satisfaction either in
exhibition or financially.
Letter writers passing through Austin
speak in glowing terms of it's beauty. and
of the taste displayed in it's i'm provesnents.
The new court house is regarded as one OF
the very finest buildings in the State, but
what OF the smoke which envelsps it from
day to day, and must soon blacken ito
walls, and thus destroy this beautyi
The Goliad Guard says Governor Coke
promised Col. Lang not to resign till Feb
ruary, and that Hubbard should be nothing
but a "fgment and figurehead." A bsaut
tiful fgurehead he would makel He il
always square anyhow in his dealing and
looks like the figure a." and is infinitely
ahead of most people.
The Transcript says: Governor Coke
retircs from Office just in time to impose up
on. the broad shoulders. Of Hubbard re-
probabilities under which, we are afraid
he will reel and stagger. The sweetly per
fumed penitensiary question is not the least
of them, though. We. believe the tax and
financial question will prove the feather
that breaks the csmers back"
D.; j., 6. Owens, Of New. Orleans, hal
been assigned the place Of Or. Bibb at the
Lunatic Asylum. Dr.. Givens was reared III
Kentucky and educated in Europe, having
spent ssverd! gears in the SCHOOLS OF. Ersncl
and Germany. Especially was he devoted
to the study of those peculiar mental ana
moral Diseases entrusted to his charge by
the trustees Of the asylum.
The death of Dr.. Richard Harrispns OF
Waco will he deeply deplofed by every
good man and Honest gentleman who ever
encountered him.. Has twin bother, Isham.
fell heading a charge Of his regiment al
Okolons, mississippi DR.. H was the
brother of Gems. Tom and James Harrison,
Another brother Dr.. Moses H., is distin-
guished CITIZEN of Eastern Mississippi
The sensible merchants of Marshall made
up pony-purse so-called, and circulated
throughout the tefptburfng counties each
day 1000 extra cosieeG of the Marshall
Herald. TheFacheme pays. Trade is rapidly
concentrated at MstshatI, and the adScr+
isers gin pthose~napers haze sbeer greatly
pr6fted.~ But tits the nSrro$ gauge to-
wards Lamp9sas that will enrich most
tradesmen and property holders of AUSTIN
!. IIAPetef Copper tiaket wa 'presehted At
Dallas. They are the renowned: For
President, Peter CHOPPER; for Vice Presi-
dent Samuel Fs Carr solicitors for the
State At large, W. K. Btfmpdss, of Ooflin.
Sanford Elliot, of Grraes. First district
......,. SECOND district, T. GA, Mills, Of
Smith; : third district, Fl. P. Dngan, OF
,Grayson; fourth district r. w. Thomas.
of Grimes; fifth district, ...,... sixth
district, D. Beach, of Gonzales.
Here -is'a little extract from the laws Of
Texas, which may be. al Interest TO SOME
ssnguine politicians, whose argument"is
wageE:,s TIfsSt person sis1E SVAeiher bel
fop, or after tho happening. Of any public
Eelshtiont lbRH Within tSis1 lFEgsf. bf
bet in any manner whatever upon the rel
suit of stpp,suthi e4eotion, iho shall DE fined
net lsss'tiiah't wsnty-liEel noriidre than one
thousand dollars. ~ IA number of penalties
have recently been recovered for violations
of this law in, other e6uhties.,.,.,, ,...,sA
e- Edwin HtFwess judg sc In Wharton county,
says through the public prints that he wan,t
FIVE or.six. h6hesG inter gent teachers, who
can furnish. evidence of good moral char
ac,er,s. to teach the colored1 free schools l
that county, and would prefer those having
no politIcs;~or very conservative, rs ap6litit
clans have been a curse to US, and the de-
stroyeFs of our peace and pr0spefity'for 10
these many years, Forty dollars per month
will be- paid, school tonconsists Of from
tEeuty.fiye toforty scholars ..,r'',. ia"
f. The Ledger insists that the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, should have been
located where all the agricultural products
could be easily grown. and where imechauiE
cal arts have come show 70 be put into
practical effect Had the school been lol
ca.ed on come slreaRwbsrs lands aye fert
tile AID SwdteT power esshy 6btaired,A Ill
might become real agricultural and met
chaGical school where these branches could
be- prsctica4 y, isn;.h:s 3yut ,,ysLAt can be
done where it is locatedf Nothing that ID
not wholly theoretical
It iSn'tssl1se TO gesr Qice. shoes s9d hrsadl
cloth in Sherman. Martin doesn't do it,
and ibua4 j 10 Jagjn. lsgs = pr. BFigg'ura
blowing into Sherman, ffgged out in 81
this sort Of unqualified splendor and the
police got alter him, and the good doctoi
had 20, GET ceFti6este ofsidentity and
moral character. Everybody in town ex
pected to have their safes and heads; blo5n
open by some awful Stokes Just from sing
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