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

Mr.. Hall, editor of the Iron Preacher, |
and an able minister of the Christian
church, of New Orleans, is in Sherman.
preaching with great power.
The baby show at the Capital Fair begins
to excite the women of Texas IN all diIec-
tions; and we hear of babies coming in all
dIrections-which is queer.
II by any possibility the scoundrels may
6e captured who place distractions on the
track of the railroad, the passengers eudan-
gered will surely hang them on the spot.
Hon. Jack Evans has gone away with the
Georgia Minstrels. He always had a taste
for the fine arts and was captured. we
reckon, by lackadaisical pinback Susannah
The Inquirer says that Grafton's Ant Elk
terminator slaughters them most effectuallv,
and Jim Jokes wants 10 know whether it
will knock che chunk out of mothers In
las.
Mr.. Keightley, who plays Louisville
psalmody on his little drum when he goes
beating over the State, acts as president of
the drummer's convention in session at
Dallas.
Those Georgia minstrels get away with
BRENNAN entirely, and if the aldermen have
the influence they would exert those colored
persons will spend there the remnant of
their lives.
The photographers of Dallas will send
specimens of their skill to the Capital Fair
and Capt. Marks will stand aloof unless
New York or Philadelphia or st. Louis
seek prizes.
We don't believe the Examiner would
rest quietly o nights, even if they gave that
man Newton enough dynamite not only
to blow He'll Gate but hell itself outside OF
immensely.
Live Oak county, where whisky has
committed many terrible deed of blood,
voted unanimously for prohibition-every
single vote beng in favor of the utter ex-
clusion of whisky.
The surveyors of the narrow gauge road
reached Fayetteville on last Saturday. The
present survey leaves Fayetteville out in
the cold one and a half miles from town.
There is much tribulation.
A black convict, hired to farmer near
Brennan, has been raising Ned in that
blissful town, and swears yet he is going to
clean out the place. The police put him On
the wrong side of the jug.
The Waxy Enterprise advises the interior
Democratic press Of the State, during the
calm to follow Tilden's election, to establish
paper that can be relied upon when the
storm comes, in Galveston.
The Col. Carter captured in Missouri is
not the Radical leader of New Orleans, late
of Chapel Hill, but he is one of the robbers
of stage coaches for whom rewards are Of
| fered by this and other States.
Brother Lang" is grangerizing over the
State and spoke eloquently, we are told,
last Monday down at Gonzales. tits charged
that he is canvassing for the nomination
| for Governor two years hence.
Our friend s., down the Avenue, in
stead CT on his ear, Is going off on his
| little long-eared Mexican mule. 1t is not
haudsome-the going off. But his friends
are bidding him a tender adicu.
A destructive fire destroyed three houses
in Bastrop last Friday. The Ad0ertiser
does not tell whose buildings were destroyed
though it devotes half column to the
story. Mayor Miller's barber shop went
up.
The merchants of San Antonio who gave
no encouragement TO the fair were being
persuaded by committee of generous citi-
| zens to attend to their stores themselves
and permit .hcir clerks to attend the eXhi-
btion.
Hon. John T. Brady figured most con-
spicuously at the ceremoniaIs incident to
the ads<ga:stratlGn of circumcision, accord
ing to ancient Hebrew rites, last Saturday,
in Houston, and we hope he will ever be a
better man.
Hermann, the magician, beats the spir-
itualists so badly at their own tricks that
they swear he has two or three special
devils in his daily active service. Hermann
is coming to Austin and will try the spirit
ual dodge here.
They tie tin cups to grasshoppers' tails
to scare them out of San Antonio, and the
Central Railroad Company should have u
big one attached to the neither extremity OF
their trains to keep them out of the way OF
the grasshoppers.
San Antonio is all agog about the big
circus, and there won't be small change
enough in the old town, when the show
goes away, to pay ferriage across the
Aazan ditch or that other whereat one
Charon takes toll.
Grapes grow luxuriantly about Lampasas
and there's no place where they do need
water. Concord grapes and wine do best
but most people over there manage to worry
down little whisky.
The Sandusky Register-in an article
marked and sent us-says: "O'Myers ha!
left those parts and John II. Williams il
stumping the district for Tilden and Her
bricks" Who is ON. and John II. w.
What have we to do with them2
Mr.. Narrow Gauge House of HoustOI
says it is ''going to be nip and tuck be
tween Tilden and Hayes" We can't hell
thinking Hayes will be nipped, aud tina
Tllden will tuck in several jolly nips Oh
the morning of the eighth proximo.
Many good people down at San Antonio
think there is phase of blasphemy il
Phil Dei's name, and the question of ,
compulsory change of Pills patronymic b!
the coming Legislature may beget wonder
full excitement In church and State.
McNelly did not make an arrest while il
Oakville, and the place became so stupidl y
quiet that Men. couldn't stand it. ii,
struck his tents and is now near San An
tonic. He will have his hands full keeping
that blessed recorders court straight.
Russell & Co., 81 Broadway, New York
RIc S6uulnp ClTCuiaIS 10 sou spOOneys, tell
ing them that if they will remit $40 they
will get the prize drawn by these innocent
in some lottery, on the books of which r
& Co. find the names of ticket purchasers
Mr.. McArdle, the artist, has gone (,
Philadelphia with some of his paintings
Texas will be represented in the art CALLER,
at the worlds fair. Mr.. Lockett, Of Bren
ham, has purchased of Mr.. McArdle hi
celebrated portrait painting of Gen. San
: Houston.
The Gainesville Gazette learns that tw
men killed man by the name of Blythe
at Decatur, last Saturday evening. Ate
doing the shooting they deliberately wakes
OIL IL the direction of Denton, aefying
, posse of armed men who were trying to al
5 rest them.
Lasus nature is game or trick or WOE