The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
Tezas-Facrs and Fancies.

MED the authorship of the tax law, so
odious to the farmers.
The fare from Austin to Luling, a
sweet and charming town on the Sun
set Railroad, is So; from Luling TO
San Antonio it is 50. The staging dis.
lance is forty-five miles.
Capt. Carter, of Pamela county, re
signs the Office of county attorney be.
cause it does not pay. He wants to GO
to live town-some place where Grim
inal cases multiply.
A stranger desired to settle his bill a.
the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, and
the straDgeness of such conduct in
these hard times induced jury of in
quest to pronounce the man non compos
mleHtis.
The traditional broom handle, of
feminine warfare, has been superseded
at Waco by the churn dasher, with
which a negress has been dissecting the
internal organization of her licge Sam
bo's head.
New York drummers now wear pa
per shirts with the advertisements of
their houses printed on the caudal ap-
pendage. These are useful when
charging round of nights by gaslight
in Dallas.
The Supreme Court of this State has
decided that growing crops and crops
not even planted may become the sub
ject of mortgages, and that they may
become subject to attachment when
planted.
The people of Fort Worth are in
arms against the brutalizing influences
of the dance houses which corrupt and
degrade the youth of the city to an
extent and with a rapidity that makes
decency weep.
Murray is felcitating himself on the
coming of Major J. w. Eldridge and
his necromantic wife. Watson'S .Spir-
itual Magazine pronounces him the
most wonderful medium, in some re-
spects, in the world.
Under the new code on the tax as
SCISSORS books of Burnet county one re-
turn entire stands: Zone pair spurs,
one saddle, one bride, two six
shooters" The horse had been pre-
viously taken for debt.
Hon. W. N. Ramey, so the Watch
man says, tells that the Fifteenth Leg
islature could have avoided the passage
of the Objectionable produce tax law.
And now the Fifteenth, sat one fell
swoop," has been cornered.
The Daily Democrat of Fort Worth
comes out in enlarged form and brim
full of news. 1t is now a seven column
paper, exceeded in size by only two
other dailies in the State. 1t is pleasing
to see neighbor thus successful.
Monroe Hughes, desperate charac-
ter, was arrested by a Mr.. Boyd in
Clay county. The flight of Hughes
and pursuit by Boyd was the scene of
a determined conflict. Hughes gave
up finally when his rifle was disabled.
The San Antonio Herald sho1ld quit
Its discussion of the States division.
West Texas could not support itself,
and such agitation will only drive the
East and North ID disregard its effort
at representation in the State govern
ment.
Major G. s. West, member OF the
late Constitutional Convention, de-
clares that the organic law of this State
does not require that tax be placed
on produce. He declares that the Fiji
teenth Legislature misconstrued its
provisions.
The. grasshoppers are playing the
mischief with the crops in Cooke coun-
ty. They are beginning to take off their
coats and pants, according to the pro-
cess lately described by our grasshop-
pei correspondent, ana arc going to
work in earnest.
They have a fellow with wings and
he flies over about Stephensville. The
Empire calls him Cage, and says: 'He
paid US flying visit" Cage must be
very handsome man or that editor,
thinking him the devil, would have
died of terror.
Hon. B. NJ. Baker, of Pamela, says
the Fifteenth Legislature is not to be
blamed for the produce tax law. He
belonged to the Fifteenth; Mr.. Ramey
belonged to the Constitutional Con-
vention, and the two are politically
pulling each others wool.
A gentleman of Waco advertises for
a wife. Applicants must not be over
thirtY-five years old, and unmarried la
dies, by the way, are never older than
this. Ugliness will be no drawback.
That man will certainly get wife if
prove effective.
The farmers in Pamela county are
about to rise in arms against the men
who created the present judiciary sys-
tenn and the produce tax law. Courts
and taxes, they say, will ruin them, and
yet Pamela county gave great big ma
jority for the present Constitution.
Sabert Oglesby, hero of the war of
1912, died in Coryell county the other
day. He was engaged in the battle of
New Orleans, and lived to the good
old age of one hundred and one years
and three months. He enjoyed q pen
sion from the United States govern
ment.
Tom Bowers laments the fact that
a little foundling has been lost at Car
thage. He says: "Poor little thing,
it came into this world through forbid
ben channels, and the probabilities are
that it had violent going out" Bow
ers is not only sympathetic, but
decidedly expressive cuss.
When the hail storms were knock
ing the chickens and grasshoppers off
their pins and breaking window glass,
the editor of the Free Press OF San
the grave and polite gentle
man that he is, did not remove his hat
when accosted by lady. The old hat
was harder than the head. we reckon
The Pamela Waterman says: "Pio
Nero, the head of the Romanish
Church, is gradually sinking" Could
The pious old Pope see these lines and
get view OF that editor he would, no
doubt, for few moments assume the
character of Nero and make Tom
Bowers think him the head of the
church heathenish instead OF Roman
ish."
On the tenth instant, when the Fort
Worth and Cleburne stage was within
six miles of the former place, it WIS
halted by two mounted men wearing
masks. The driver and the single pas
senger were ordered to keep quiet,
while the robbers proceeded to go
through the mail bags. 1t Is not
known how much booty they secured.
Neither the dnver nor the passenger
were molested.
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