The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

BY an unknown person. The aveLger of |
the murdered Miss Emma Voelcker made |
good his escape
The rape case at Van Alstine, near Sner-
man, is creating great deal of excitement
in the county. Huford, the merchant who
committed the rape, was arrested near the
edge of Denton county, and fowler, the
clerk who assisted, was arrested near Nc
Kinney. The parties gave bond in the
sum of $1,000 each.
A special to the D alas CONNER cial. from
Waco, says, the writer not having the fear
of the Governor before his eyes, .'rhat there
is an organized band of thieves operating
all over the State, and that they report 20
one general headquarters, and are aided 10
escape by persons little suspected in the
community in which they live
There want any preaching last Sunday
in Dallas or Kansas City, we forget which
but a sharp girl sent a note to each of the
pastors of the place. The missives were on
tinted paper, and written nicely. They
each contained these words: ''All is dis
covered-hy y" Nine of the preachers fed
to st. Louis and three went West.
The number of miserable ours adrift
about Austin and that howl through weary
yard where a son of Ham has his abode
reminds us of the fact that no man who
sees another die OF hydrophobia will ever
again own dog or let any one else own
one, if there's poison to be bought.
Many Texans will be grleved to know
that the Southern Life Insurance Com
pany, of Memphis, will distribute about
two hundred thousand dollars among its
creditors. But since the trustees will have
u fat thing of it there is no need for haste
in winding up the rundown clock Of life
that died by insuring against death.
The Round Rock Headlight says: 'Aus-
tin is great on toll. She once constructed
toll bridge over dry creek, with exclu-
sive right of way for crossing anywhere
within two miles Of the bridge. She now
wants a toll road, in order to force team
sters to go thirteen miles further than there
is any necessity for going" s5
The Brennan Banner thinks the negro
boy, of nine watermelon seasons, captured
ia the act of robbing bar-room till, will
make capital county attorney under the
new Constitution, or die at last in the pen
itentiary for want of proper stocks and
branding irons, or of surgeon to put
period to tile procreation of knaves. af
Newspapers and people along the line of
the Houston and Ell Paso narrow gauge
Houses road) concur in saying that it must
reach Austin to become part of the Austin,
Lampasas and Bolton road, and yet Austin
capitalists, save one or two, manifest not
the slightest genuine interest in the enter
prise This road to Lampasas and Bolton
must be built.
That fellow Baldwin, who outjuggled
the Juggling spiritualists, was fioored in
San Francisco when regular table Upper
proposed to take ten grains OF strychnine if
Baldwin would. Baldwin agreed but
didn't, and the other fellow became a cold
! corpus and nobody wept, save that Bald
win escaped. The whole business has be-
come public nuisance and unsufferable
sham. ''
There will be twenty thousand Texans in
Philadelphia before the big show closes if
rates of railway fare be reduced one-half.
But Texans will never pay eighty dollars to
railways and one hundred and fifty dollars
other expenses for the privilege of seeing
the worlds wonders at Pennsylvania's cap
ital. Governor Hubbard speaks in Phila-
delphla on the eleventh of September.
The Navasota Id6let says that in these
udJS pdIIlOIlC ClIILcuS SlG Ou Iu6 SuduJ Slue
of the house with iack-knife and whittle
dry goods box until huge drops of per-
spiration trickle down their manly forms;
then they draw forth a huge piece of soiled
linen, wipe the manly brow and exclaim:
"Tom Scott's got 'em; he's got 'em
wors'n'r he had the Twelfth, you bet!"
The whole Hebrew population of
of the couatry prefer Tilden to any man
who could have been nominated. Hebrew
newspapers do not fail to recognize the fact
that Tilden is the man for the times. They
suffer terribly from enormous burdens of
indirect taxation and there is not Hebrew
tradesman who does not rejoice in the OPP
portunity presented of voting for Tilden,
the very impersonstien of economy in gov
eminent. '-T a '' H.,' fi
| There have been, we are told, certainly
not less than twenty five murders in Brazo
ria county, and our informants, citizens of
the county, say that thirty murders have
been perpetrated there since 1866, and only
one man, a negro who killed boy and
robbed the store he guarded, has been
hanged. Even though his Excellency
thinks differently, the laws are not execu-
ted with any proper degree of vigor In
Texas, and crimes are more frequent than
ever before. 49,.
Travers Daniels, who is building water
works at Dallas, fixed them up at Birming-
hamin Alabama, and was to have shown how
primeval race, whose great mounds stand
near that mountain-hugged little city, had
subtefranesn- ssHedHets from the springs to
artificial caverns in which priests dwell
| Travers Daniels is brother of that marvel
Gus editor who made the Richmond Erans-
liner the terror of the Congress at Rich
mond. sr. ... rrr.
Tom Scott has no idea of extending his
road beyond Fort Worth or Weatherford.
He could not get fifty votes, not even all of
Blaine's adherents, in Congress; the ques-
ton is, does Tom Scott hold that portion
of his reservation beyond Fort Worth for
ever. and why should be who asks so much
at Washington be granted SO much more by
Texas than was given other railway bully
ers What secret force begat results So
amazing, and even when he does not pro-
pose to build Texas road <ls+a % ~
The Marshall Herald, most wisely edited,
says that it hopes the Legislature 6 will
continue in session until it fully completes
its labOrs. 1t may be q sacrifice to stay
there at such a small per diem, but the
I members ought to make it. The ma
should be placed in perfect operation be-
fore they adjourn" If this be not done,
Texas will always weep that the Fifteenth
Legislature ever had existence.
The Waco Examiner should do the Leg
islature simple justice. This. God knows,
Is NO difficult task The l. .gislature did
not adjourn to attend the TIlden and Hen
3 bricks barbecue. The learned lawgiveTs
worked faithfully till late in the day, and
bad been in tAeir-seats eight and fifteen
hours in each twenty-four for weeks. II
fisn'I laZiness that's the matter with them,
and We don't choose to say what il Is, since
it has already cansed SO much bad blood TO
be fomented- eaee inv 1fsz 4if
BED fish, cured in much the same manner
as cod fish and salmon, are nov being
brought from the cnast and offered for sale
n the-interioE- Of Western Texas This is
considered the finest fish on our coast, and
the business of curing them for market
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