The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

horse, as is a hobby horse, let them
mount the Moscow State Rerie,r, and
see how 1t happens that mule has
two legs 10 walk on and two to kick
withal.
The Castroville Era announces the
marriage of Mr.. Louis Heyer, six feet
eight inches high, to lady measuring
six feet in height; and now the proba-
billty is that together they may get
little Heyer.
james Mathis, who was killed in
Dallas, lived four hours after he re-
ceived his wound, though post NOR
team examination demonstrated that the
knife had pierced his heart to the
depth of an inch.
Binkley & Ingersoll have broom
factory at Strickling, in Burnet county
They are making four dozen brooms
per day, while they have capacity
for turning out twenty dozen, which
will soon be utilized.
Women now have the right to prac-
tice law in all the courts of Minnesota.
The law giving them such authority
does not state whether they shall ap-
pear in trousers and boots or in be-
witching feminine style.
The Meas Item says that Forwood 6
Cottingham, lumber dealers of Round
Rock, are drumming up large bust
ness in Mason and adjoining counties.
A little eye skinning would be good
practice Just now in Austin.
A country girl wrote to her lover:
Now, George, don't you fale to be at
the singing school tonight" George
wrote back that sin the bright lexicon
of youth - Webster's Unabridged -
there's no such word as fale."
The Dallas Herald claims that the
next meeting of the Legislature
shall submit amendments to the Con-
stitution, altering the judiciary article
and repeating the provision requiring
tax to be levied on farm products.
The grasshoppers are departing from
Fayette county, going north. The
season has not been so favorable for
years, says the Record, and the farmers
are all happy. FaYette will probably
make 50,0 bales of cotton this year.
Lawlessness at Mason is being su-
perseded by order and morality. A
Methodist revival is progressing up
there, and the late evil-doers are doff-
ing the six-shooter and gettlug them
selves checked for blessed immor
tality.
The Goliad grand jury, at its last
term, found only nineteen indictments.
In Gonzales county only sixty odd were
found, being a decrease of at least
thirty-three per cent. upon the find
ings at the previous terms. Halls
rangers are great moralizers.
G. P. Tasker, a millionaire from
Philadelphia, has bought ranch two
hundred miles west of Fort Worth,
and has gone there with his family to
spend the summer. He would max e
his hopefuls forget the destinations of
Long Branch, Newport and Saratoga.
One of the most tremendous hail
storms on record visited the neighbor-
hood of Fort Clark some days ago.
Sheep on the prairie, unable to reach
shelter, were slaug htered like firing
upon them with grape and canister.
One man lost fifty head killed in pen.
The Free Press puts it down as good
rule never to spend dollar out of your
county or town when the same thing
can be obtained at home for 81. 25. The
dollar spent elsewhere does not come
back, while the larger sum spent at
home goes around often and helps
everybody.
Upon the representations of Post
master Filley to the Third Assistant
Postmaster General, the through reg
istered pouch system has been ordered
into effect on May l between st. Louis
and TeXarkana, thus advancing all
such mail matter between St. Louis and
Texas forty eight hours.
When Cleopatra remarked to Mark
Antony so-called because of the re-
markable remark-''I'm dying, Egypt,
dying" she was choked on a pearl
very much like those for sale at Wells's.
In fact, people have quit casting pearls
before swine ever since Cleopatra man
ifested an appetite for them.
Some ingenious letter-wrlter says
that an editor of the STATESMAN is an
applicant for foreign mission. We
never went very deeply into the mis-
sionary business, but if Mr.. Hayes
would send a heather to the heathens
his alleged purpose of sending us to
China is as wisely conceived as his
South Carolina and Louisiana policy.
Joe Horner, who sat in the corner OF
The San Antonio Jail ON divers occa-
sions, hasn't resigned. He is coming
back, and will be welcomed by every
body. They may tie Joe up by the
neck to keep him among them. He is
a great pet down there, and much adj
mired; so much SO that everybody
there takes several horns to be the peer
OF Horner.
At Kentucky Ridge and near Travis
county, the crops have been seriously
damaged by the grasshoppers. But
their proprletors are not demoralized
by the discouragIng circumstances.
They are planting over. The soil be-
ing in excellent condition for receiving
the seed, The replant will make fast
time in growing, and perhaps do better
than the earlier planting. So thinks
the Brennan Banner.
There were only three Texas veter-
ans at the Bellevile San Jacinto Day
ball. There were John Terrell, Capt.
Reed and DR.. Reams. They were the
deserved centres of much delicate at
tention, which they received with q
modesty characteristic of the brave
and generous-hearted men they are.
Why didn't Col. MIlt. Swisher, George
Hancock, Gov. Pease and the rest
about Austin attendl
George Law is Morgan's representa-.
tive at Cuero in connection with the
road to IndIanola. His was a grand
character in many of its aspects-that
of the original old George Law, who
was the partner of old Dan Saffraus, OF
Gallatin, Tennessee, In the Indian sup
ply trade in Western Arkansas forty
years ago. Is this George OF that
stock, or of that which made France
mad one hundred years agol
Sherman, at the last term of its court,
sent fifteen to the penitentiary, the
terms ranging from one to ten years.
Lucy Chiles, convicted of completely in
the murder of her husband, and SEN
fenced to- sixty years in the peniten-
tiary, appealed to the Court of APP
peals, which affirmed the decision,