The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
Texas-Facls and Fanc1es.

Burnet has a minstrel troupe of its
OWE.
Bishop Elliott has been preaching at
Goliad.
Judge s. NJ. Gose, of Decatur, is
no more.
Peyton was acquitted of the murder
of Roach in Galveston.
Bill Walker (colored) has been CO
victed of murder at Calvert.
"Louise" writes genuine poetry for
the Fayette County NeaO Era.
Round about Rutabaga's roost in Col
liza they vote down local option.
Gen. Hoxie is spending $50, 900 on
the road from Galveston to Houston.
The Goliad Guard tells that he of
the Gonzales Inquirer has been in Jail.
NJ. G. Harris, sklllful newspaper
man and editor, has bought the Dallas
Mail.
Cortina, though banished. still leads
his brigands and worries Revueltas at
Matamoros.
Precinct No. in Dewitt county
county slaughtered whisky by ma
jority of So.
Morris county, following the ex-
ample of Titus and Franklin, has
voted for prohibition.
Some of the counties give extra
salaries to their judges, and thus re-
pudiate Rutabagaism.
The Duly GalUcstOnian is all that Nc
Gary promised to make it. 1t is full
of news and dispatches.
We want most paper mill to con-
sumo the rags and supply the multitu-
| dinous newspapers of Texas.
Houston is agog about dead mans
bones found in the suburbs. Who was
he? and how put to deathg
They have steam velocipede in
Paris, and we commend it to Hierony-
mus for his one-legged railway.
Burns's one hundred and eighteenth
birthday was celebrated with great
| gusto by the Scots in Galveston.
They have hourishinG literary as
ISOLATION i'll San Saba, and the boys
run debating club not far away.
w. G. Sharpe, who murdered Henry
Harris, has been captured in Fort
Worth and returned to Kentucky.
II the women could vote on the
whisky prohibition question there
wouldn't be drainshop in Texas.
An Irishman-it must have been viii
lainously mean whisky-stole Judge
Bonner's boots aud buds at Troupe.
Can't the managers of our migniti-
cent city school induce DR.. Sears, OF
the Peabody school, to visit Austin9
They have been ''hopping'-the
people, and not the feas, the thermom.
!eter is too low-at the Menser Hotel.
| The Williamson County Record de
votes much of its space to the kindly
purpose OF advertising the STATESMAN
c. r. Prouty is port collector at In
dianola. Is he the Interna Ional Rail
road juggler of eighteen months ago
Col. p. II. Swearingen, of BRENNAN,
and his associates, cleared Wilson Brad
ford, charged with murder at Hemp
stead.
Some bloody handed scoundre
} burned the court house in Mason
county last week, the loss being
$50, coo.
I -
The jealous Aunty Tisdal (colored
shot and killed Norah Hawthorn,
near Hampstead jealousy, and not
jim-jams.
The colored people of Burnet count,
voted solidIy for the exclusion o
whisky from the county, and the vot
was six 10 one.
Lawrence voted thirty-three for fret
drinks and forty for prohibition. Thu
Colonel won't be going up there s
frequently now.
The Dallas Herald was sold under
trust deed to W. C. Holland Mr.
Simpson, the present excellent editor
! retains his place.
Why don't the Austin psdagogue
and school visitors induce Dr.. Barne
Sears, Of the Peabody blessed fund
10 come to Austin
II John Hand. ESQ, OF the Gasvesto
Meas. viii begin to swell itatonee. Il