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

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Z IS soon as caught.
Pink Higgius's murder of Merritt |
HsrTen in a whisky doa al LampasAs
was tic most irishttul ami brutal Of Ail
devilesh deeds aone in the West. The
cost of this bloody act TO the people Is
enormous. Courts, witnesses, jailors.
sheritfs, delays, appeals, and blundeIs
will cost the Io!I!ug honest people of
Lampasas county not less than $50. 600.
1t doesn't pay to cultivate Pinks #
the Higgins SOFT.
Nat Q. Il. has q modest way OF as
serting his own self-reliance and self
love when he tells that he always con-
fesses q keen sympathy for a newsps-
per man when he seeks Office. Nat is
a tirelesS place seeker, ami often wins.
But in this case he pretends 70 be talk
ing about the selfish ana irrepressible
ambition Of Mr.. Hand, of the Macs,
who wants miserable alderman's
Office.
Horace Cone has been making ad-
mirable railroad speeches away down
IN Nacogdcches. DVcet DE d0ses) les
| peoples lie Nacugdochos, and thus he
goes from county to county providing
| for the different sections of his narrow
| gauge, and thus we are To have in
! Texas the first mathematicaliy,c con-
| structed road in the world. We have
one pri>moidal; now one of Comic
| sections
There are no doctors at Ennis OF the
code of ethics operates so vehemently
over there that the doctors advertise
not Mt all. No doctors name appears
in the Reriao, and migratory pill-ped-
leIs might well look to Ennis as Il scene
of useful activity. Two people died
there last week and one had his skull
cracked with a poker and whisky
punch and it seems somehow to us
that 4 doctor might get an occasional
j Oh over there.
President Paul Bremond, for the last
day or two, has been paying off the
contractors on the East and West Mar
row Gauge Railway. So far he ha!
paid out $40, coo. How strange the
emotions OF an editor who absolutely
plays second fiddle where the boss mu
slcian makes so much silver jingle OF
the iron and CToss-ties of u railway
What strange feelings course down Il ,
fcmOral artery from the coniCal pock
cts of Vice President Cone!
The court of Bell county made mis-
take in ordering the whisky prohibi
) ton election on the second Thursday
, ninth instant, when it should hav
been the second Tuesday, ninth in
slant. 1t may he n sufficient Cause t,
set the election aside, and incur the eX
pensc and excitement Of another cleo
ton. Why don't the county cour
order an almanac from the New Yoll
World and then its politics and date
, will be kept straight.
D. NJ. Wisdom, a wealthy citizen o
, Jackson, Tennessee, will probab!
make Austin his abiding place. Dr.
Arlington, famous dentist, propose
To examine the indentations of thi
!, country, its hollows and molars-
Pagers mill is one of them-tkat h
may dwell in a softer climate wher
. maiarial breeZes are unknown and tn
soft breath of the tropics fans eve
, blooming roses, and where, If woma
: have bad health, it is for want OF
5 good dentist.
: A negro of Hampstead has said thu
:. the Law will not suffer an utterly ILL
- crate person to serve on a jury, an
now it is proposed to deprive him {
the right to squan6er money an
brains and morals in re tail dram shop
= The negro does not like it, and yet,
!, the one case, jusIiCe is melted out
r. those accused of crime; N the othe
/ the colored man is restrained in i
a tlicting ruin upon himself, and there
If neither reason nor self-love in his o
position to ''prohibltion."
u The brilliant star IN the consolidate
lie Of Cygnus is said to be rapidly CO
l. sumed by flames that envelop it. Cap
It Marks, who is given to star gazing, n
IL only when pretty woman would ha'
lie her likeness made, but when the ski
d are clOudless, says that the constell
ton of Which the star is member
le countless millions of miles away, al
4 that the star was consumed an age b
4 fore we be..eld the flames. Lig
y. travels with infinite rapidity, but d
~ lance, too, is infinite.
Of The STATESMAN said that when Il
to party leaders and officeholders al
n seekers were through with their on
contemplated conflict, that a desp
IN would be the country's master, al
Of then, and not till then, would Texas ha
q sufficient reason to fight. This SEEM
mr. plain to many people; but the Quad
90 lupe Times could not see through
=. and calls it ''medly." We do u
- propose to be "meddly''some, b
of would like to know whether the Tin
ever understood that two and tN
make -four!
Walter Forbes, of Sherman, sued t
No Michigan Central and secured jud
70 ment and could get no money.
n attached and sold car of the compa
~ that got lost and was at benson. TIL
in the Central Company refused to b
nm the car or to let it stand on their ira
nf the companies all help one anotl
steal it seems-and Walter ordered
. shipped to him to be delivered 60
III the platform at Sherman" and t
g; Register says the Central caved q
by Walters car stands on the track q
he costs nothing.
VI " They have the original article in tt
y: nessee. There it has been rainl
III snakes, and fellow can get his boz
m. full without paying for them in /
bar-room5. Martin can now have
'locaI" option, either remaining
ie Sherman and taking them in the usl
o. liquid form, or, going back TO his {
IA home, take the snakes straight. Pr
u, Henry, I'll the Smithsonian Institute
Is hss sent for peck OF. these snakes Il
a. he may analyze them and thus disco'
er the Original elements of Martins p
de ferred beverage.
7"
The people Of Mexia have desig
lis upon Fishburn. They want b
ut killed of, and thinking that "
as and hot toddies would finish him, III
of Knocked LEGAL option in his distr
At, higher than a kite, and Fishburn g
DIS kIteing, each sunrise, to imbibe
IS, usual draught of tanglefoot. I
'e- worse the condition of his legs, I
lie brighter the fires of his genius, and :
Die Ledger, without liquor, would he
tolerable. and the local option "
les beaten in the county eco votes.
al Limestone county there were OIL
no thirty votes for whisky.
ne The very epitome of whisky Is fou
ct in the blazing, sulphurous hell of