The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-15
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of the San Antonio press.
Lampasas county will now vote on
"local option" by precincts.
San Antonio is to have its kinder
garten and Austin needs one sadly.
Rev. H. NJ. Burroughs is lecturing
eloquently on local option IN Lam
pasas.
Local option" was defeated, it
seems, in only three precincts in Collin
county.
The Menger, of San Antonio, like
the Raymond, of Austin, is over
crowded.
Forty-two public schools are oper-
ated in Hill county, with an attend
ance of 100.
Sparks's rangers have been after
Pink Higgins, the latest blossom of
Lampasas chivalry.
The Rockdale Messenger says grass
hopper eggs were not destroyed by ice
and frost and snow.
8Ir. Christoff, of Nelsonville, has
patented cotton compress, said to be
the best in existence.
The court house in Mason county,
recently destroyed by fire, was of no
value, the Burnet Bulletin says.
The people down at Nacogdoches take
stock freely and subscribe land to Bre
l.
way.
Sam G. Craft engineers the LulIng
Reporter. He is one of the "Craft, !"
and thus understands his business and
will succeed.
A panther, from the jungles of Fort
Worth, we reckon, went pirouetting
through the streets of Jasper last
week, after sunset.
Judge Duval has appointed John H.
Wilson United States Commissioner for
Grimes county, to fill the vacancy Gre
ated by the death of Cad. G. Harm.
Prof. Whitehead, of dancing school
fame, seems to think that Breeding's
legs would be more manageable if he
had voted whisky out of Rockdsle.
Col. Frank NJ. Johnsons' picture,
taken Saturday by Major Marks, will
be engraved and go into the next edi-
| tions of the several histories of Texas.
Center Point, in Kerr county, con-
tains about two hundred inhabitants,
and is delightfully."- located on the south
! bank of the beautiful river Guadalupe.
Won't the San Antonio Herald man
tote US along with him, just to keep
him down and level like when he
starts to the humorists of the press
convention9
Rockport boasts of the excellence Of
leather Finished" in its tannery. The
proprietors are almost crazy to gel
hold of the tough hide CT the Tran
script man.
Highwaymen ply their vocation moi
only at Cuero but at Rockport. Al
each place two knaves have cleaned
out sober, good citizens stopped or
the highway.
Mckinney, too, boasts of its cour
house, for litigation and lawyers anG
crime, instead of cotton mill, to pre-
vent shame and misery and poverty
and crime.
They are re-exciting the KnowNoth
ing question in Galveston, and for thu
reason that most office-seekers anC
placeholders are foreigners. Such il
the argument used.
The wheatfeids about McKinne7
promise an. abundant harvest; but th'
young grasshoppers are around, and {
fierce frost is needful in March or the,
will bull-doze the crop.
Grasshoppers in countless myriad
have appeared on Joe's creek, in Aus
tin county, aud cattle are dying ther'
by the score. What relation to ont
another have these facts?
The railroad company, 1t seems, ha
no registered title to the reservation,
so-called, at San Antonio. They die
reserve it with much vehemeuce-thos'
good people that donated" it.
Many Milan farmers are competing
with one another in the production o
swine, goats and sheep. The next fai
will show what has been accomplished
and what can be achieved in Texas.
c. R. Prouty, the port collector a
Indianola, is said by the TranScrip
to be an admirable gentleman; but j
he wants to have his surname changed
everybody about Austin would hell
him.
The robbers that killed Hiram Har
Dor on the Concho burned his Wagon
and with it his money. Only little
silver was saved, and national bank
were the benehciaries of the transac
ton.
J. D. Thompson aud Arden r. An
thony are the owners, etc., of the Sa
voy Spectator, a suburb of the Bonham
Neaos, which the Spectator resembles
Fannin county has newspapers enough
and they are all good.
The architects state, so we are told
that the specifications in the peniten
tiary bids and proposed contract arr
so defective that new advertisement
and lettings will be Indispensable t
the States security.
The lOcum tenens of the Galveston
Christian Adc0cdte calls us the sat
tempt at-wit" man of the STATESMAN
We never made an "attempt-at" him
We were not stupid enough to blunde
in that direction.
Whisky went the way of all thu
earth last Monday at Lockhart. Thu
Neios Echo seems sad. Whisky filleC
so many eyes with tears while it liveC
that they may well run over whel
looking into its grave.
A bucking mustang with a tough
customer on his back made q success
full surgical job of it. The San Sabi
Necs says he made the spliHters fly
The fellow must have been bursteC
first and then kicked in pieces.
Wesley White, seventy-seven year
old, and two grandsons of ten anC
twelve years, made fourteen cottol
bales and corn and potatoes and vege
tables enough for twenty hash house
last year in Pamela county.
The Register discusses the "differ
ence between a Democratic and Re
publican administration" and forget
to say that it consists to an a!armin;
extent in the fact that some other fel
low might get the Waco postoffice.
When Martin gets his feet and toe
frozen this winter he will ',eoin n