The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-08
re1a.-Faet. and Faneie,. ,

Te1as-Faets and Faneies.
Rsbbi Browne will take IN Hemp |
tead.
Tramps absolutely desolate San An
tonic.
They begin to shoe. tramps out
West.
Senator Coke leaves Waco for Wash
ington to-day.
Milan square is to be the grand plaza
of San Antonio.
Bosque county enacted prohibition
by 80 majority.
Hieronymus thinks that Tilden is
not the coming man.
The Odd Fellows from all quarters
are moving to Galveston.
The farmers about Hampstead are
preparing for heavy crops.
Katie Putnam is fascinating Down.
tonight and waking up Waco.
Galveston will have fresh 10: OF
city dads on the fifth proximo.
The monte bank fellows and police
are at war with one another down in
San Antonio.
Mr.. LOUIS Schmidt, late of Detroit,
had his foot crushed by locomotive
at Navasota Friday.
Mrs. II. Josephine Williams, who
captivated Austin, is now winning the
smiles of staid San Antonio.
A rainstorm and thunder and light
ming set all the San Antonians ''pGter
nOstering," one day last week.
Whisky floors most people. but it
has "raised Cain" down at Bastrop,
and the AdCertiser goes for 1t.
Hampstead. if prohibition be de-
feated, will be the proper site for a
paper mill. Rags will SO abound.
! c. C. Gibbs, the excellent general
freight agent of the Sunset road, is
providing headquarters in San Ante
MO.
/ The Silver City New Mexico) Her
! old announces the death of Frank
Lane, late of Comanche, Texas, OF
smallpox.
! The. colored school .: Hampstead,
under supervision of Mr.. Reynolds. has
eighty pupils making commendable
progress.
The Navasota Tablet man requests
his creditors TO present their bills to-
day, and he will tell them when to
call again.
Major Thomas w. Perryman, OF
New Braunfels, is no more. He
lived many years on the Cibolo, in
Guadalupe.
We are sorry to learn that the excel
lent and able editor of the Galveston
4. Christian AdUOcat6 is stricken with ty-
phoid fever.
San Antonio papers concur in de-
clarin2 that local option is no go in
that venerable city of fixed habits and
unfixed populations.
! Hon. Thos. NJ. Paschal, judge, and
John G. Sullivan, district attorney of
the Twenty-fourth Judicial District,
both live in Castroville.
There is letter at this Office for Mr..
/ Jordan, late editor at Dallas, and more
recently of some weekly paper of the
interior. Where is he 2
The press of the State seems well
. pleased with the report of DR.. Frank
! Rainey, and the condition of the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum.
The Sherman Register told that hard
story on the people and magistrate of
! White Rock in Hunt county. Martin
gets off good things very often.
DR.. Carothers spent day In the
vicinity; of Hampstead shooting birds,
and came home freighted with wild
geese, ducks and prairie chickens.
1t isn't spirits that make Paul Bre-
mond's turntables go spinning round,
and 1t isn't spirits that set car-wheels
to gathering over the narrow gauge.
Rabbit, the soap man, has a compel
itor in Austin who proposes to keep
the cslaboose clean as final test of the
value of his saponaceous compound.
w. D. Galloway, of the Travis
House, at San Marcos, whose sudden
death VIC mention. was native of
Georgia. He was fifty years of age.
The District Court of San Antonio
IS dealing with land and other pirates,
and tinlng drunken fellows 800 for
every staggering or other big drunk.
The Bolton Reoiep thinks Congress
man Mills made the ablcst speech de
llvered in Congress in opposition to-
the electoral count compromise meas
ure.
People can endure milk and cider
editorials but are making an awful fuss
in San Antonio about milk and water,
sold as milk about the streets of that
city.
A gunsmlth at Giddirgs put pistol
to his head last Saturday and made a
round hole in his forehead. He was
still living Saturday night, but must
! have died.
The Waller county Courier, however
devoted to whisky, sends the remedy
with the disease, and devotes much
space to :he commentator of Parsons
Purgative Pills.
Tramps are becoming intolerable
nuisances about Austin. Give to none
who won't saw wood or clean out the
stable. When they loiter about place
call policeman.
San Antonio is to have manual
labor poor house." Col. Chandler, OF
our city dads, proposes to have the city
work house devoted to the manufacture
of cedar buckets.
The mob that sought to take a per-
son from the Falls county Jail was
thwsrted by the courage of the sheriff,
and we are sorry to say that Texas
bosts of too few such sheriffs.
The Denison NetcS states that ''CroolSs
is having his front painted" It's be-
cause We are going to have peace ana
Crooks didn't want to look 50 much
like grim-visaged war any more.
The Corsicana Observer re quests US 10
say that Mr.. Thomas George William
Henry Bascom alias ''Star Freight. -
late of the Hcarne Enterprises, Is nc
lenger connected with that paper.
Martin says that the "Denison Daily
Cresset uses six inches of display head
to every two inches Of reading matter. y
Then it is only head-strong, and il il