The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
FAIRFAX. of the Transcopt,peutal

q SICK man laboring under fits comes
over from Dallas q porcupine is ad-
ministered for Indigestion and i'm
jams.
The people at Lagrange no longer
take their dogs with them to church,
and those places are quieter and more
orderly than before, and the dog tax,
till the demagogues begin to hunger
AID thirst after colored votes, is still
popular.
Every New York newspaper Is full of
advertisements of "Blue Glass; It's
supposed by its shadows to cure
rheumatism and nervous disorders, but
fails to give brilliancy or strength to a
demoralized, spawned and broken
wlnded newspaper.
The State volunteer brigade lately
organized at Galveston has for its brig
adier-geneIal T. w. James, of the
Texas Military Institute; first regiment,
4. S. Roberts, of Austin, colonel; sec
ond regiment, Robert Rutherford, of
Houston, colonel.
Tennie Clafiin, who spent Sunday
in Austin, has had vision in which
Hayes or TIlden appeared as a ghost |
before Tennie's startled optics. Ten
ME insists that one or the other is
going to die at once, and this assures |
the other perfect peace.
The CHIEF thinks Governor Hubbard
should offer reward for every muir
derer, proportionate with the degree |
of crime. 1t would cost the State |
k,a, h.
ing compared with the importance of
suppressing crime and restoring the |
authority of law.
1t is wisely put by an exchange,
even Of Dallas, which says: Keep
good company or none. Never be
Idle. Always speak and act the truth.
Make few promises. Live up to your
engagements, and never use kerosene
when you can get gas, and give whis-
ky wide berth.
Charles Montague, Capt. A. Pue,
Sam Mott and Col. Ed. NJ. Ross form
substantial nucleus for dense popula-
tions In Bandera county. CLANCY
brothers, from Tennessee, who went to
Bsndera for the double purpose of &C.
quiring wealth and health, are succeed
ing in both.
The Waco Daily Examiner exclaims:
"Down with horse and cattle thieves!
Subscribe for the Estrdy Journal your
sell and get all your neighbors to do
likewise!!" If subscriptions to the
paper will get thief down, why do
not State attorneys and policemen fur
nish it to the knaves
The scholar and poet who keeps a
fruit stand across the street tells US
that the word 'dates" is derived from
the Latin do dare dedi datum, because
this fruit is given by Providence to the
Arabs. When the Egyptian makes
"do"nation of dates to the hungry
priest his enemy's call Is said TO be all
do"
The street railroad in Palestine was
worse than profitless, and the iron and
mules are for sale. All the whisky
mills were at one end of the line, and
when fellow once got there he never
had money enough left to get away,
and thus the travel was all in one di-
rection, aud down hill and towards
perdltion, and now the people are for
local option.
Luke Finley's story, as recited in
a sleeping coach last week, caused
fellow to dream as the cars stopped
suddenly of ''the regular old Bull
bunch, and he, thinking that the end
of all things had come, leaped from
the train at Hampstead, and, running
away, has never been heard of since.
The story itself is one of suicide.
Mountains and valleys in Bandera
county are arranged by nature as if for
picturesque effect. There you will find
land as fertile and productive as any
in the State, with the finest sheep
ranges. The valleys are all rich, and
nearly all have water through the dry
est seasons. The mountains are pecu
liarly adapted to sheep and cattle.
D. C. Stone must be hard headed.
A column of solid reading matter is got
up in the Galveston papers to enable
: Mr. Stone to understand that he, d. G..
s., is a candidate for the mayoralty.
Then, 700, a whole lot OF people certi-
, fy to the fact that D. G. s. is good
man and worthy and capable. But the
\ SUI "Oulu OSCh AO1C ChSSt4h 2
if it had been shorter.
Seventeen private soldiers in the
French army, during Napoleon's time,
raised themselves 20 the following dis
tinguished stations; Two became
kings, two princes, nine dukes, two
field marshals and two generals. The
descendants of one of these kings still
live in Florida, whittier Col. Faiconer,
t of the late Bryan appeal, is going to
: become member of the royal cabinet.
The infuitude Iof speech-making by
excursionists and citizens some days
ago exhausted all the gas of those parts,
and San Antonio is in physical and
l moral darkness. The thoroughfares
are only Illuminated by the shadows OF
{; the stars in the bosom of bright
= rivulets that sparkle in the streets and
by the genius of him who sheds luster
5 on the fourth page of the Herald.
I Shiloh Grange 1865. of Pleasanton,
o has furnished the county council agent
q with $25, to be invested in a choice Sc
D lection of Seeds for distribution among
the members composing it, to be tested
by cultivation. Such a course by all
i, the Oranges would be 10 their ad van
: tGge and place the most profitable
q seeds in every community, SO as to give
a the hasbandmcn the greatest yield for
their labor. .a-
| The Fsyette County New Era says
that ''the saloon-keepers are dropping
! the STATESMAN. But where it loses
E one indignant patron it gains ten, who
i admire its fearless advocacy of the
local option law. All honor to the
81 STATESMAN. Reform is the word.
: Down with the liquor traffic. Up with
t the wiie's happiness. Here we take
/ our stand-moye us if you can"
Merlin A. Davis, chief engineer OF
the fire department of Galveston, and
George Fitch. of the same city, were
most useful and agreeable of those who
e ministered to the delights of excur
! sioDists to San Antonio. 1t seems that
r q river of wine courses over the sand
s ''bar" beside which Galveston reposes,
while Davis and Fitch are ever minis
s tering spirits"
, Jacksboro is the most quiet, orderly
j ''city" in Texas. People do not even
t disturb nature and the Sunday re.
: pose of created things by going to
church, and the cheerful voice of the
$ preacher and of the 'turkil dove" is