The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-08

arrested at Arkadelphia, in the latter !
State, and carried back in chains TO
Texas under reQusition. The officer
had been on his trail for some four
thousand miles. This Gardner has
.'weede1 q wide row. of mortality,
and, afflicted with mania for whisky
and murder, should be hanged.
Brother Casl.ey is following up
Rabbi Browne and reviewing his lee
lures. The Rabbi will not debate with
him, and Caskoy follows IN his wake
and reviews his speeches on the cruel
tiXion; and SAYS he Is going 10 drive
him gu. of Texas, or make him deSlSt
from his attacks on Jesus OF Nazareth
Austin would hear Brother Caskey
first on this question, excited by Rabbi
Browne, and then on local option.
The Galcest0HiaR, referring to our
ocular statement that Ex-Governor
Lubbock was selling caul;tiowerS on
the streets al Galveston, says: "Gou
might Just - we'll have stated the hos
pj;able purpose for which Governor
Lubbock was selling the csulihowers.
I, was generous" and "beuefcent."
ana nos 'hospi:able" purpose. he is
always going about doing good, and
there was 10 need Tor the explanation.
San Mlrc0s is to be watered by a
wind mill, which is queer. Why is i.
not already flooded and drowned OUT
by the Free Press The Free Press says
that "Mr. Malone says the entire city
of Austin is supplied with water by
one pump at the foot of the Avenue,
propelled by GO-horse power steam
engine. He thinks a wind mill will
afford San Marcos u sufficient supply"
1t Is popularity of drunken people
that the drunken they become the So
berer they deem themselves, and Judge
Neill, of this city, fines each fellow, as
| the law directs, when he comes before
! his unique court declaring himself SO
Der and Incapable of getting drunk.
Hence We find many Sharp people
! dragged before his honor who, being
| sober, pretend to be drunk that they
may escape punishment.
DR.. Caskey, OF the Christian Church,
says: II am not prosecuting Rabbi
Browne for difference of religious
views; not one word has been said by
me about his religion. He slandered
the Jesus whom l preach; slandered
him as man, not as q God, for his
divinity was not involved. defended
Christ and exposed the Rabbi. This,
and this alone, is the head and front
of my Otfense against the Rabbi, and
the press who amuse themselves by
eulogizing him.
Capt. d. Hardnett has contracted
to lay the iron ou the Tyler Tap rail
road. Part of the iron has been re-
ceIved az TeXarkana, as also the en-
CINE, Governor Hubbard, which will
bc at Ferguson in u day or two. Build
ing of the depot houses was begun
Monday by MeSsrs. Brown II Co., of
Tyler. Austin should pr;frer fixed
salary Of $4,000 per annum to Col.
Douglass that he may be induced to
make this city his home and build for
US a road towards Brentwood.
The Dallas Herald Is pleased to say
that it is gratified to note that the pos
tai affairs of the Dallas Office have been
properly adjusted and that there is
shown to be a balance in favor of Judge
Norton. That gentleman has suffered
serious losses through the negligence
or criminality Of employees, but Re has
promptly paid them all out of his own
pocket. The Office will remain in the
hands of Judge Norton until the fourth
of March in any event, and possibly
longer, if the high commission happens
to decide the wrong waV.
Highwaymen make it uncomfortable
for those few people having shckel'
about their persons to travel about
Henderson, and the people have quit,
and no woman pokes her nose outside Of
her window, and there is no gossipinl
or gadding about, and the old fellows
! don't 90 to town TO come home buOay,
and the people somehow seem to like
| the robbers, and very certainly they are
exercising IL very benefcent influence
until local option may be adopted.
Paul Bremond and Horace Cone are
eminently successful in gathering
means Tor the construction of the
Houston and Shreveport narrow gauge
; 1t is only unfortunate rhat each town
in Texas may not boast of such citi
Ems rs Bremond and Cone. Here we
hav. charter providing for richly
endowed road which expires in sixty
days, ard yet there is no oEo to lcac
the way, and no one seems disposed
| to make the consti uction of the rail
= way profitable 10 himself and to thu
city and county.
: The San Saba Nc5rs says that De
Mdttos, of Austin, has been through
the country, and wherever he went hit
transfiXed the leathern cushions o
: stage coach seats with patent sewing
machine needles, and every fellow thai
7 gets aboard coach gets stuck, anC
, now the men and women travelling
. about out west stand up, supportin;
each other in the tenderest manner u,
= the Numbering stage rolls and swing
about like ship ut sea. In fact, the
travelling public sc m to like the style
| and DeMattos's name and needles arr
| blessed out West.
, The San Saba NetcS says that ''Mr
II. Maxwell, living on the San Sab'
: river in this county, raised last yea
, thirteen bales of cotton and two hun
drcd pounds over, on seven measured
acres of land. This county has no
{ been considered anything extra for cot
ton growing, bat if any county Cal
! make better report We would b,
: pleased to hear from it." San Sab
Is famous for onions and roses anC
pretty homes ana fair women anC
bright sparkling streams OF Twin!
water, which the people rarely mil
with whisky.
If people would comprehend til
value of self-extending narrow gaug,
towards the northwest, they should
. study facts like those given affecting
Brownwood, which, even now, has {
population Of about 1000; two gooC
schools, three church organizations on,
church house and union SUNDAY
school of an average attendance of 81
pupils. Brown county has a popula
ton of near COCO. The county il
watereG by the Colorado river and tn
Pecan bayou, with numerous smalle
streams and creeks. Jack oak timber
pecan, walnut, elm and COTTONWOOD
grow along the streams and valleys.
They had Z colored sheriff over in
Magnet county; but they haven't 1
cOlored sheriff any more. Court sa
while the snow covered the face o
mother earth as great towel. Jake
the sheriff, bought a quart Of whisk,
and ct.rfaI Hu