The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-15


whacks "local option" by taking
drink his town grows 500 in popula-
ton. Monday.it was 5000, Tuesday
$500 and Wednesday 5000. If the
Democrat man should percbance 60 on
a regular bender" Pantherville
would turn up with 10, 600 people As
the twig is bent so the trees inclined,
and they spell ''twig" with an IS"
and 1t Is always turned upward.
Many persons were "bsptized by i'm
mersion" on the Galveston beach last
Sunday. Is the word immersion"
as above used, redundant Z If Brother
Ditzler were here what tempest we
might excite by that simple question,
and then if Brother Caskey came along
at the same instant such storm would
rage as never before exhausted itself
beating on the oceans depths and lift
ing its pillows to the clouds.
Mr.. James L. Gooie, the superin-
tendent of the Texas Baptist printing
establishment, was married in Dallas
| Thursday to Miss Maggie Buckner,
| daughter of Rev. r. c. Buckner, one
of the editors of the Dallas Baptist.
| The missionary, generous spirit of the
Baptist seems to be professional rather
than practical, since it keeps all this
unauthorized goodness inside its own
family. But no charming woman,
! having "done Goode, could have done
| better.
The Comanche Chief insists that the
county court adopt the order asking
| Governor Hubbard to revoke the IL
cense to carry arms In that county.
The court can say, the Chief tells US,
whether the dangerous practice shall
or not longer prevail. 1t does seem
that the reputation of our county and
our people suffers when it is known
that, while counties far West have
abolished tie practice, Comanche still
sanctions the bearing of firearms with
in her borders.
Railroad scientists declare that broad
gauge passenger trains carry in rolling
stock and machinery, three tons of
dead weight for each passenger, and
two tons of dead weight for each ton
of freight. In order to reduce the ex-
penses of transportation it is proposed
either to tighten the machinery and
rails with increased durability of the
narrow gauge, or to pack more passen-
gers and freight into the same space on
the broad gauge l:nts.
The Fr0ntierSmaR, of Kerr county,
tells US that Center Point has ''school
room furnished with large heating
stove, $50 square feet of blackboard,
painted seats and desks, and the school
numbers sixty seven pupils in regular
attendance. Greek and Latin classes
are porting over the compositions that
swelled the brain of Caesar and Memo
phon when Rome was in her glory and
Athens boosted of Pericles and AS
pasta"
There is a law in Missouri forbiddlng
the shooting of quails and prairie
chickens from the first of February I'M
til the first of September. This law is
made to promote the destruction of
grasshoppers, and if Breeding lived in
Missouri they would plenipotentiary
him for life. He eats thirty partrldges
per diem and makes them stick with
pint of local option. And his
''pints" are always logically and well
taken - one Immediately and consecu
lively after another.
A well-dressed man, with black
mustachc, stepped into passenger car
at Marshall and asked colored woman
to hold baby for him but moment.
The train went on, and no one came
to reclaim the infant. The woman re-
, turned to Marshall to discover the
party who handed her the Child, failed
in her purposes, and all Marshall is on
the alert to find the daddy of that
baby. He must be discovered, and
should be placed for ninety-nine years
in a founding hospital as nurse to
those who go fatherless and motherless
through life.
: The chronological Bellows absorbs
and doesn't blow. The Leon Cabinet
says he did pump much thunder into
Jewett, but inhaled much more chain
+ lightning. He Is flourishing and in
funds now, having settled no bills, the
C4binet says, in Jewett. The nozzle OF
Bellows is rubicund, and he keeps it
shining as "a guiding post to local
Cptionists, and therefore the temper
ance people deem him great public
! benetlc.or. Then Bellows always
shows which way the wind blows, and
he is eminently useful.
A great many newspapers have been
!, copying an anonymous letter to Judge
> Peasants threatening his life it he en-
forced the law against red-handed
crime and whisky. We get more let
tiers for publication with genuine sig.
natures than we can print, and an as
sassin too cowardly to give his name is
too cowardly to do murder, and there
! fore we need not print the letter, stat.
t ing that the threatening letter was al
bOsh. Our readers and printers are
saved deal of trouble, and it is 6
. good rule to print nothing, the writer
being unknown.
The Sherman Patriot is a very prop.
err, sensible and truthful newspaper,
and it has the hardlhood, even in Tho
very capital of tom Scott" to de
clare that the recently received map oil
: the Texas and Pacific Railroad, Of
which We were telling, is properly
= mounted for hanging" We said thai
the author of such a fraudulently de
: ceptive map ought to be mounted ,
and hung" and Col. Thompson,
) the admirable general ticket agent, go'
awful mad about it; but we now refer
him to his own newspaper to establish
the justice and truthfu!ne.s of our in
nocent remarks.
l Mr.. Wentworth, surveyor of Kendall
county, is locating in Edwards county
a hundred or more land certificates or
account of the Texas Land and Immi
grafton Company Of St. Louis, of which
= Hon. 3. Graz Blown is president,
who sells lands at the rate of forty
cents per acre, aud presents the pur-
. chaser of $40 acres ticket from st.
, Louis to Austin and return. The loca
+ ton of over 10000 acres of tillable
land and its probable early occupation
, by thrifty population, cannot fail tC
beget beneficial results to this city. II
is only needful for US to start narrow
gauge towards the Northwest.
That eminentIy pious paper the
! Stephensville Enquirer, published in
Nugent's and Fleming's bailiwick,
says: 1--WE do not wish to be consid
cred too officious in this matter, but
r would advise the Baptist and Metho'
dist denominations of this place to put
! roofs on their churches-also, some
: windows and aiittle flooring would
not be amiss." Perhaps weather.
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