The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

and law suits, AMI in view of the prep I
aratious now being made, a forward .
movement towards Gonzales and Aus /
tin may soon be expected
The DenisoA Crssset says that ''three .
car loads of Texas raised coffee went /
North ria the Missouri, Kansas and |
Texas Railroad, "Wednesday. 1t was I
consigned TO parties IN New York City. !
The raising Of coffee IN Texas has been !,
experimental with and found, after u
tair trial, to be q successful enterprise. !
With her vast extent of territory, /
variety of climate and soil, Texas is !
capable of producing all the products |
of nearly every cline under the sum-"
1t wounds deeply the dignity of an
average Texan city" along Texan
railway if trains be not halted tie
length of time mentioned ia some alb
surd Rutabaga statute. Pierce's trains
have been stopped and fined by =
mighty magisterIal dignitary at l.uiing
and at Seguin. The justice OF the
peace at Seguin fined the conductor
! So, and it was paid and the train
went on. The mails and passengers
and valuable freights-all must take
| off their hats and stop for dr. nks five
minutes at all these towns. Itse Ia
5agatslle
Mrs. y. A. C. Wilson has recovered
| her pension as the widow of Texas
Veteran, the late William F. Wilson.
! Jack Hayes, as we are :old, fought his
first battle IN 1889, on the Perdinaies
under the command of Capt. Wilson.
Austin was then first surveyed and the
plan Of the present city defined. The
papers in this case of Mrs. Wilson show
her admirable character as wife and
patriot. She will make Austin her
future home. Major Joe H. Stewart
was the solicitor who secured pension
for Mrs. Wilson.
Houston is awfully happy just now
because the mastery of the Central is in
the hands of the best friend the veneer
able city ever had. Commodore Nor
gan will extend the road in whatever
direction is necessary to gather in
Houston the commerce of Texas. The
machine shops will be so enlarged that
all its work and repairs will be done
at home. The headquarters of the road
will be at Houston. The Texas and
New Orleans road will be at once COM
pleted as soon as men and money can
do it. The steamships now plying be-
tween Houston and New, Orleans will
do more service than ever.
The Texas Observer, like ali proper
newspapers and people, deplores the
defeat of prohibition sin the beautiful
State capital, where the supremacy of
sobriety and decency is so essential to
sober and decent legislation" More
over, the Observer might have added,
the world abroad judges of the de-
cency, Intelligence and good morals of
a State by these conditions of its CAPT
tai, and Austin is between two rivers
the Colorado on the one hand, and
that of whisky on the other. The lat
ter is much more nearly navigable for
Morgan's steamers.
Waco is the only place on the COM
mon highway, from Austin to Dallas,
where whisky can be sold, and when
Dallas fellow in Austin starts home
ward he travels faster when in ten
miles of Waco than locomotive, and
then when he is going in on the home
stretch and catches the first ruddy flush
of Dallas morning cocktails, he is en-
dued with new lite, and, under whip
and spur, dashes into the place, and
with mouth, ears and eyes agape, and
: expanding his lungs to the utmost ten
sion, he gulps IN the whisky-impreg-
) mated atmosphere, and swoons in
ecstacy and jim jams in the arms of
, his blessed family.
Those of our readers who have seen
picture of CULVER, in old editions of
Swift's works, in which that worthy
: stood astride of two villages of
| Lilliputians, and extinguished a
: great confagration in one of
them, can appreciate the responsible
position OF our friend, the redoubtable
: Col. Loughery, who now stands with
! one hoof planted firmly in his tn
t weekly at Marshall, and the other, ten
miles away, IN the midst of his weekly,
at Jefferson, while he diffuses over
J both the genial, refreshing, generous
harmonIes that make virtue and good
morals tructify and bless the people OF
those parts.
3 Major j. w. Eldridge, remembered
by many Texans as an artillery officer
: in Bragg's and Joe Johnston's armies,
and for a time, we believe, of Lees
2 army of Virginia, is now the foremost
: eXponnder of "spiritism" of our time.
His main purpose is to demonstrate,
l through the practical intervention OF
I spirits, the Immortality of man. His
wife, his chief assistant, is Virginian
woman and in her youth of rare beau
! ty. MAJOR Eldridge is an earnest and
! attractive speaker, and whatever we
/, and others may think of 1t, honestly
I and absolutely believes that he has per.
. sonal interviews with those who have
died. Strange stories are told by
those intimate with him of the revela-
tions from the other life made through
him to jewellers in this. Heis coming
A to Austin called" as he says, by
f spirit influence. Where is Baldwin,
,, They have nice, sweet, seductive,
exhilarating drinks at our fashionable
bar-rooms named in honor of three
/ eminent preachers of this city, and. a
. great deal of nominal" piety now
warns the inner man who is thus as.
tonished internally beyond all coDcep.
ton. When Il thirsty wretch feels the
: ruddy head of Brother P. or Brother
: w. glowing down through his tende r
bosom, or his esophagus and other parts
swelling when the Rev. Doctor from
the top Of the hill goes gurgling down,
there is experienced evidently an ex-
uberance OF supernal beatitude, and the
imbiber has beatiiic jsrks and jim
jams. 1t Is in any event a good thing
on the part of these jolly barkeepers
to make God joke OF a very serious
business, and we can't help approving
these reforms in the technical nomen-
clature of exhilarating beverages.
The Houston Age is happy to state
that "Mr. Dodge is still in town. Mr..
Cornelius Ennis, the New York finan-
cial agent of the company, is stopping
at the Hutchins House. We received
a letter from Mr.. Grow, at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, yesterday, ordering the Age
to be sent TO MIN at that point. Judge
Duval, of the Federal Court, has post
poned his decision in the motion for a
receiver, for thirty days. 1t is known
that that will be the last of it. Com
modOre Morgan is expected in Houston
on the fifteenth or sixteenth OF April.
When the floating debt of the company
is paid off, 1t will turn loose bushel
of money in Houston. This is looked
| nnnn a crraat aarafpo hlaos.--