The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

sins, but that J. w. Throckmorton was
more directly responsible for the elec
ton of E. J. Davis than any other man
in Texas. And we are 1T q loss to
know how this comes to be asserted.
The Bastrop Adrertiser estimates the
damage to crops IN Bastrop county by
the grasshoppers st less than one eighth
of one per cent. and We are of the
opinion that the damage To all the
grasshopPer region of Texas from these
pests will not exceed this estimate,
even if 1t reaches it.
Paine K Grafton, patent attorneys,
Washington CRY, advise US that L.
Share and 5. y. Reams, Of Austin, /
Texas, have patented handsaw. We /
want one that will saw wood without |
the colored attachment, and Messrs.
Share and Reams will supply the great |
public necessity no doubt.
The Chicago, Burlington and |
Quincy, the Missouri, Kansas and |
Texas, and the Texas Central Rail- |
roads have entered into combination |
establishing fast freights, which will |
90 into effect the first of June. They !
will run 200 cars and seven sleepers |
from Chicago to Houston and Calves /
ton.
Goodhugh Wilson, the ugliest man
n ali Texas, even more noted than was
once "Nouldboard" Smith, went out
upon the prairies where the hoppers
could get good view of him, and
they couldn't stand 1t. The panic
spread, and Wilson can make his for
tune, if he will, in the western terri
tories.
Hon. W. W. Lang thinks the pro-
duce tax just, so says the Headlight,
and he argues that most of the crop,
being sold ON the first of January, and
money and property acquired being
taxable, the remainder in the hands
of producers should be taxed to make
taxation uniform.
Professor Cornell has been lecturing
to the people of Deaison on the origin
and history of the devil, and they are
rather impressed with his great charac-
ter; III fact, q little more agitation OF
this q lestion would make the DONNA
ton of any other spiritual Influence,
except corn juice, doubtful.
That brave young girl, Miss Cornelia
Chisholm, who was wounded while de-
tending her father at the Kemper af-
fray at Meridian, Mississippi, has died
of gangreue in the arm. Her father,
whom she so nobly defended against
his assassins, succumbed to his terrible
wounds a day or two previous to her
| death.
A stevedore's wife was burned to
death with coal oil at Galveston, and
the GdlCestOnion says the family should
have used Insurance Oil. Insurance
oil is infammable, and broken lamp
that was filled with it is always fatal
to life and to homes and houses. The
law, if common sense does not, should
compel people in cities to use gas at
fixed rates.
Matt Woodlief, a sporting man, well
known in Texas, and Ericsson, the city
marshal of Houston, had fight with
pistols in Houston on the fifteenth.
Woodlief was shot three times through
the body, and Ericsson was shot once
through the lower part of the hip. 1t
is thought that the latter will die, and
there is but little probability of the
other living.
Capt. Lee, of the United States
army, commanding at Fort Griffin,
with forty of his men, and ten Tonka'
way Indians, surprised band of Co
manches one hundred and fifty miles
west of Griffin. killing four and cap
turing SIX squaws, sixty-nine horses
and twelve lodges. One negro ser.
geant was killed. This band had beer
depredating upon buffalo hunters.
Matrimonial fever RACES in Camp
county. 1t premonitory symptoms are
weak respiration, followed by some
excitement, and personal and often
P0Noionota demonstrations when least
observed, eliminating IN honeymoon
idiosyncracies. All this is followed by
gradual return to reason, after
which, in due time, responsibilities
bring about normal condition.
Klmble county now has legal exist
ence, and Junction City is its capital
Judge Blackburn presided over thu
first court at Mlller's ranch, where ht
, made public square and Silver anG
; Honey streets. They found bee tree
, in the square, and the bees "swarmed'
while the court sat in the open woods
and settled on the courts saddle
bags, and the new town had peach anG
honey made on the spot.
! During the last year Lanpasas coun
~ has had three county attorneys, tw,
county judges, two district clerks, TIVE
surveyors, two assessors and two com
missioners of precinct No. 1. Some
thing is the matter with either the Off
GERS or the law. The resigning officer
, complained of starvation. OF tn
county officers elected at the last cleo
ton, only the sheriff, county clerk anC
treasurer still hold the offices to whicl
they were elected.
The Ne,rs Item tells that Indians, o.
|, white men in the guise of Indians, hav
been making pretty extensive depreda
tions during the past two weeks il
Kimble and the country west or tina
county. On DEVILS river, a good man,
horses were stolen, but no person is re
ported killed. 1t is reported that III
rangers captured five supposed Indians
ana took them to a creek aud mad
them wash, when they all proved to b
! white men.
The Victoria Ad00cdte says that unde
the vIgilant administration of Cover
nor Hubbard the West 10 rapidly bein,
rid of Its desperadoes. More importan
than all, his activity has aroused from
: its lethargy the whole moral weight o
+ the transit Colorado section, an,
strengthened it into positive progress
} sive force susceptible of development il
the interest of law and order until i
| equals any emergency.
4 A little girl eight years old writes t.
} us from Wellington, Kansas, to SEM
E her brother back to her. She says
Papa is insane, and / want yol
, to come home. Papa calls you
name eSerytime he speaks" Tn
, child then adds: 'Put this 10 tn
. newspaper, and will love him Away
!, who sends back to me my brothe
, Benz. II. Bowman" We hope ever
; paper in Texas and Kansas will cop
!. Miss B. Bowman's letter.
Dallas produces some of the sharpes
- of business men. Linskie, one of it
, undertakers, failed to secure pay for
! casket IN which body had been bU
ried, and to protect himself agains