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

invitation, and the railways |
proper civilities. He is a good
great man.
Somehow or other similarity OF
sounds suggests the peculiar faith Of
Rev. Mr. Ditzler. RaHtidz0 means to
sprinkle, and though the learned d.
vine never rants he rantldzoes every
body that will let him, and he gets
multitudes.
Howard Sawyer. of D. Appleton &
Co, has L baby at Bonham. The En-
cyclOpedia of fuss instead of that of
universal knowledge will now be toted
around Texas. 1t will be roarer if
1t make more noise in the world than
It's paternal ancestor.
i majority of the counties that have |
voted under the local option law in
Northern Texas have disapproved pro- |
h.bltion. The people say they will |
wait and see how it works down south. !
| In fact, the weather has been too cold |
to stop hot toddies.
Prairie dos towns are nuisances.
| They are numerous in Coleman county
and more destructive to the grass than
| a large flock of sheep. Singular 10
say, they have made their appearance
! there within the last five years, and
now cover the whole country.
There are one hundred and forty
papers now published in Texas. If
each would pledge to give Texas
paper mill company Its undivided pat
ronage, mill would be quickly built
of sufficient capital and capacity. Here
is chance to put theory into practice.
Count US in.
The Comanche Chief says the pros
poets for the wheat and corn crops of
that county are more promising than
they have ever been heretofore.
Next year there will be enough pro-
duced to supply all demands of both
home-folks and those who come to
find homes with US.
The doctors down at Corpus are in
trouble. TIE Times says that los me-
Gicos estan quejandose de la immensi-
dad de buena salud que gocen la popu
lacion de este pueblo y vecenidad
ValganGs Dios de DIR tales quejs pnr
IN tempo Observation-Disclosures
senores medicos.
A horse fell into g we'll in Galveston
and created great alarm by kIekin :
J and laundering violently for some
hours at night. People thought the
island undermined 10y monster of the
deep, or that the devil fish, sometimes
called wharf company" had got the
Ne'rS by the jugular again.
The local option newspapers are hot.
;, The importation of frozen lager in
refrigerator cars 10y Brueggerhoff &
. Heidenheimer knocks the temperance
people off their pins. There is no re-
sisting lager frozen in the depths of
mother earth's bosom and emptied into
= the thirsty Threats OF the capital.
Twice In two years has the Bolton
Jail been forced and prisoners taken
out and hanged. And yet the sheriffs
of the county 'spot" no murderer,
l tie law is ruthlessly violated, and the
l sheritfs and peace officers-are they
: blind or impotent? What does Gov
ernor Hubbard think of such officers.
S a fellow failing in trade in Sherman,
:. and closing up, when leaving finds ku
d klux epistles under his door, and gets
n on big scare and flies to the Inter-
Ocean. Martin seems to think th'
4 dealer a great fraud, but if he car
+ hoodwink his creditors the cost tC
). Texas signifies nothing.
f The excellent representative of tho
Neacs in this city, Mr.. Thornton, hav
/ ing become deacon in city church
and Mr.. Hand to be alderman, and Mr.
&c Belo being deacon of Trinity, in Gal
Il weston, the people will begin, after
time, to concede the unmixed piety o
our Galveston contemporary.
. The names of all the railways o
- Texas have been CONT acted by tn
" press, and necessarily. They now sim
) ply say International, "Sunsc
Route" "the Narrow Gauge" Pau
y Bremond's Road" as distinguished
a. from the other narrow gauge, ant
as "Douglass's Tyler Tap"
v Jefferson is mile or more from til
j. railway, and the Jimplecute woul
j. move the town to the road or the roar
Id to the town. Nobody Can see the jim
lie pie from the road, and JimpLe is ''cute
ID enough to observe that it is simple c
Jimple to hide its hight, its nose, t
49, say nothing of those new clothes, IN
% der Il bushel.
VI Mr.. John F. Dexter, the gentlema
II, who runs so extensive land agency 6
Y. Menardville, writes that the late dis
:, coveries at the old Spanish fort nea
1h that place are interesting. He state
is that the cannon and musket balls di
is covered are one hundred and fifty veal
IN old, and that the former are made {
Il wrought iron.
Rutabaga county will be as spotte
Vn morally as if it had leprosy. 1t h;
Ike adopted local option in spots. Som
ed districts have voted for and other
as against whisky prohibition. 1t wi
1t result finally that all the arrant, inye
crate, incurable whisky guzzlers wi
81 get into the same districts and the
"a they will have delectable little h--s
~, their own.
in Reckless boys placed a skeleton
er an old bachelors bed at Nacogdoche
but he had been twice victimiZed
til jm-jams and only insisted that IL
nc deau fellow should keep on his Ow
'ot side of the bed and then he snereC
in When a fellow gets used to JIM jan
in nothing can scare him. We advise a
moderate drinkers to go in for jir
jams. It's so refreshing.
. The people of Corpus Christi al
--11r happy. Thier organ says "f The pr,
;ts gressIve little railway: 'NuestrO C
;ts mino de tierru esta prugr, s,ando biel
ochu milins esta couclWdo va (dia
de Eu.ro) V Tue lnsprcci 'nado por a
NC gunos scuores coinerclantes, ante ay,
by qulen tuvierUn bien est presarse {
Tor sur compiemeIto. iuO!a por Laredo
Inv The Age says that ''the paper mil
of Georgia have literally crushed Of
20 all opposition. They make it just
cheap as it is made North, and
ne course can save the difference IN freigb
DO an item which amounts to thousanC
,o' of dollars every year in daily office
1t and hundreds in weeklies. And b
sides all this they take commendab
ct, pride in patronizing their own Peep
b. IN preference to foreigners"
'as They have quit importing live turtl
ne to serve up for photographers in d.
OK las. One of them got to crawlir
around under a table at which son
rs, OF the boys were taking n;ps, and &c