The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

and whatever Dan McGsry is feeling
for is commonly worth nabbing.
John F. Dexter, of Mensrdville,
sends specimens of the balls lately I'M
esrthed 1t the old Spanish fort. One
is wrought iron ball weighing three
pounds; the other is of lead, and
weighs one and half pounds. They
are st least $50 years old.
Galveston has six candidates for the
mayoralty-among them D. c. Stone,
the regular Democratic nominee; II.
c. Leonard, r. L. Fulton and George |
B. Nichols. Frank Fabj has declared |
in favor of Stone, and, If talking has
effect, he will be the next mayor of the |
Island City.
The Brennan Banner is opposed TO
the prohibition of the retail whisky |
business in its town and county, but |
SAYS that the assertion THAT prohibit |
,iCa would diminish the revenues of
the State Is the veriest twaddle that |
was ever offered for the consideration
of any people"
There bad been a discussion about
| the cost of dress, and she WIS wrathv.
Its all very WELL" she pouted, "for
you to expect woman to be
an angel; but I'd lave you to
know, sir, that | wouldn't be even an
angel unless my wings could be cut
goring. There, now -
A passenger on the International has
observed that the mail agent neglecls
| to throw Off the STATESMAN at the sew
| eral stations from Austin to Hearne.
He has other things to do and we lose
$40 or $50 per diem because of his
carelessness. Can't he save it for us
hereafter.
A landowner and letter-wrIter in
view of the triumph of prohibition,
says: TELL immigrants to come to
Goliad county. Plenty of cheap, rich
lands, water (without whisky IN iD,
health, schools, churches, and thou
sands of the most beautiful spots for
homes in Western Texas"
The people of Austin county are
proud to say that there are only three
inmates of their county Jail. But who
knows2 Perhaps a regiment lately es-
capped, or a good -natured mob like that
of Bolton, may have promoted Jail
delivery, and therefore this painful
emptiness, or, does local option obtain
in that county?
The Messenger properly declares that
whisky costs community hundred
times more than the revenues produced
by it., 1t is the cause of continued
courts and court expenses; and if
witnesses and jurors alone could stay
at home, tilling the sol, they would pro
duce more by far than all the whisky
licenses.
The San Antonio Herald man grave
ly tells US that "the young grasshop-
pers are on the jump, because it is
spring time now, we reckon" The
"poetical license" of this sentence is
confessed when everybody knows it is
because ''spring time comes gentle An
ME-" The very essence OF the poetical
idea consists in the gentleness of An
ME.
Prohibition goes into effect on the
tenth proximo at Goliad. The old
soakers are having their jugs filled,
} and the barkeepers are moving out or
, changing their occupations. There
were no animosities excited while the
, question was discussed, and the people
and the whisky dealers concur in wish
ing to give the new order of things a
fair trial. ...---..
M. Offenbach, while in America,
, failed to notice one popularity of sea-
board civilization. A bachelor in New
, York Will go mad over one girl; but
married man is usually smashed on
at least yellow-headed actresses.
That is what's the matter with Austin
even now, and it will be week before
the place will get over the effect of the
last visitation of the can-can danseuses.
The Fdyette County Record says
'sFIom persons who had been out of
town last week, we learned that the
grasshoppers were Matching by the
quadrillions. They do 1T here with
a sort of "doubie shuffle' and not by
quadrille-ions, and whensone of them
/ 'shuffles'' off this mortal coil about
500, 900 put it on, and thus they con
. tnue the dead marcn-which is the
! march of redoubled life"
The court house at Seguin Is gray
{ granite concrete and succeed in imita
; ton of variegated marble. 1t is very
{ beautiful. But why people invest
, wealth in court house to waste theil
wealth, before they do in cotton mil
to make bread and intelligence and in
dependence for the otherwise helpless
l we never could understand. it is the
j lawyers that invert the proper order O.
events.
The Spectator, the ThunderJOlt, thu
y Dan McGary, the Eagle and the Grill
q ian, the ''Brother John" and the Nesc
$ are the newspapers of Galveston. YOU
pay your money and take your choice
For downright piety the McGary stand
t foremost and for fierceuess and chair
: lightning the TAunderbOH isn't cir
o cumstance to the Adcocate. The CiUH
q ian is mild and smooth and nice, TIL
Spectator is color blind, seeing nothing
but bloody shirts, and the Ne1os is tn
news.
Der little thing; she is only abou
8 four years old. She was walking dow
the path from the west wing of tn
Capitol to the gate. Her dress wa
only an inch or two below her knees
J. She came to a wet spot, and with wha
9 grace she threw her little right hanC
I around and grasped her skirts-not ex
actly lifting them, but gathering then
n in-so neatly and nicely. 1t wa
: worth gold to see the wee thing &C
s with such grace
: Hirschberg does not pay for hi
lads" in the Br,nham Banner il
s drinks. lbs a mistake. The Bdnne
8 is always sober; though sane people
$ seeing how it opposes prohibition
1 would not think SO. BIt Hirschberl
keeps the Banner straight by SOM
, sort of hocus-pOcus, and he poke
toddies at it when it toddles arounC
: the corner of mornings before break
fast. 1t is always bright and early
!, : and it's Hirschberg's destinations tina
get it out of bed.
The Goliad Guard says that fears ar
entertained by our farmers that grass
II hoppers will destroy the coming crop
We are told that the past week o
warm, pleasant weather has caused tn
c Matching process to commence, and tn
r ground in some portions Of the count
g is literally covered with these littl
= pests. Should this be the case, GU
e only hope is in having a cold snap t
r kill vegetation, and leave them moth
It ing to subsist upon, in which EXTERN
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