The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-13
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The San Antonio Herald says it is all
very we'll for the city authorities to exter-
inmate dogs, but il a business man, having
no biting dog about the premises, resorts to
firearms and kills Galveston drummer or
SO he is liable to be fined by the rolicking
recorder.
There is likely TO be great row IN Dal
las. The uiscoverer of cheap method of
converting corn into sugar and molasses
talks about setting mp his machinery in
that blessed town. Whether he will be
suffered to use corn in such sacrilegious
manner We are not permitted to say.
Henry Taekett shot and killed John
Leonard in the San Jacinto Hotel, Wednes-
day, in Dallas, and the Legislature contem-
plates the event sorrowfully enough, no
doubt, but has not the nerve to frighten
knaves by uplifting the utmost terrors of
outraged law and decency.
An Austin correspondent of the Brenham
Banner says that Austin and Galveston CO.
operate to compel the nomination Of Hon.
John Hancock for Congress, and, therefore,
''the ring" had the convention called TO
meet in Austin, that outside pressure might
squeeze out Clint Giddings and Seth Shep-
ard.
The Waxy Enterprise says that Calves
ton wants break-water, and Dallas needs
| wind-Greaker. Houston wants ship
channel, and San Antonio wants to be the
capital of new State. Jefferson wants u
penitentiary, and Tyler would take nearly
| anything down to the capital of Eastern
Texas"
1t is proposed to gather in Austin all the
Sunday schools of the city and of adjacent
towns, and even from Houston, anu have
them move through the streets of the capi-
tai, all singing the Centennial hymn of
American freedom. The bands OF the city
and of the several towns represented are to
| accompany them.
In Denison those pious, good people
over there have got Tilden and Tllton hor-
| ribly confounded, and most of them swear
they won't stick to TIden if he don't go
back to his own Betsy Jane. when every
body knows that Tilden, like old Buck,
never had any Betsy Jane. Diana rddicicd
wouldn't blush in Tlden's most gracious
presence.
The Bolton Journal says that the railroad
will surely be extended TO that place, and
that MIR. Groesbeck, vice president of the
Central, agreed to visit Bolton and see what
terms could be made with the people. Mr..
Groesbeck will be tie next Tuesday, aud
it is to he hoped that some satisfactory ar.
rangemert can be made with him To build
the road.
A letter from Cleburne says: "Rlin in
abundance. Wheat will average in the
neighborhood Of ten bushels corn has Il
prospect of about forty to tIty bushels
oats cannot be beat; cotton looks rather
| backward on account of the cool nights
vegetables are hard to excel; sweet potatoes
in abundance if they mature"
The source OF much CRIME in the West
results from confusion of great cattle herds,
and then, too, the Free Press says: sin
the portions of the country that are being
rapidly settled up, the ire of stockmen is
kinded against all who, in any way. tres
pass ON what they consider their natural
Pastures the free prairies of Western Texas. "
Dr. Smoot stands among the create st
and best men of Kentucky. He is fully en-
dorsed by such men as DIR. Stuart Robin
son, of Louisville; DR.. W. K. Boggs, OF
Memphis; Rev. VIM. Dubose, Judges I'm
derwood and Graham and by his whole
church and presbytery, and by the good
and responsible men of Bowling Green,
| heuNuchy. lie Is nODle man, anu MS
Christian character is unimpeached.
Inspired with hopefulness by recent po.
| lltlcaI ana partisan eveuJs Juey sHUY NJ
COrsicana, ON the fourth, with wondrou.
enthusiasm, the hymn:
"Ny countryl u OF thee,
Nv, ct land liberty,
OF thee | sing
Land where my fathers died,
Lam OF the Pilgrims PRIDE;
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring"
Mr.. Joseph Sherwin, late architect oi
this ci.y, now swelIs around in Denver
Some Michael Angelo, in making up Sher
wins architectural outlines, put the dome
in front of him, but the underpinning II
stout and firm to resist the desolations o
time, and around the shining summit eter
nifty must play. He is said by n Denver
paper to weigh about two tons and to loOl
like Pixies Peak on wheels.
The people of Denison celebrated the
Fourth by having silver half-dollar tackeC
on top OF II creased pole forty feet high
the money TO he the property OF the climb
ing captor. We haven't learned whethe
the postmaster or the John Knox preach
er of that town raked in the whole pill
and the whole glory or not. If they didn'
they can't compete with their kind dowI
in these parts.
The San Antonio Express is informed
that Pierce's road is progressing finely, ant
that by the end of July it will reach th'
Guadalupe. All hands are working vigor
onsly, and the Express WAS assured that Mr.
Pierce would continue To build after th'
Guadalupe bridge was finished. Its in
tormant WAS an ultimate friend of the Utfi
GERS Of the road, and has made up his mine
upon this point from the knowledge CLEANED
i'll private conversations.
The Old Folks Association of Westerr
Tennessee celebrated the Centennial Fourtl
Of July with bonfires and illumipstions
Charles ID. Mclean, ninety years of age, .
boon companion of David Crockett, San
Houston and Andrew jackson ia the early
years Of the current century, read the Dec
laration OF Independence, and tx Congress
man Avery pronounced the historical ora
tion. Col. Mclean has descendants in thi,
county.
Elder w. ]. Jones, of the Christian
Church, writes July 4, 1876, from Wash
ingtun county: ave had f0rty-sx Addi
tions: thirty-tive immersions, eight from
the Baptists, one from the Methodists, and
two restored. We had glorious time, in
deed. Two old Texas veterans (oRe seventy
years of age were Immersed. One CsthO
lie became Ubedient tO the faith. To GOO
be ali the glory. | expect to brgin pro
tracted meeting at Elgin about nexs SItur
day evening"
Last Monday morning visitor of the
Lady Gay center Of fashion in a place o
which We have heard occasionally, nHmec
in honor Of sedAie, quiet sld fellow wh'
WAS once Vice President of the United