The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
Texa-racts and Fane,s..
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Sada White is the great stage line
owner at Round Rock.
Brennan and Washington county
are going to tackle whisky next month.
Powdered slaked lime protects vege-
tables against grasshoppers, and lime
is cheap.
Hon. Guy II. Bryan wants the Gal
weston Custom House and should have
1t, we reckon.
A blackbird killed in Houston con-
aimed the undigested remains of PAT
grasshoppers.
The Lockhart Neies Echo says the
grasshoppers are dying and the living
moving North.
San Marcos and San Antonio deplore
the death of L. Z. Cocrehsm, a bril-
liant young lawyer.
Georgetown prospers and new houses
are constantly constructed despite the
adoption of local option.
The Corpus Christi Gazette deplores
the alleged injustice done Capt. Nelly
by Adjutant Gen. Steele.
VIM. Bond, A. B. Garner and A. D.
Jaynes, of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road, are in Houston.
The Rockdale Messenger is in a de
lectable state of beatitude because the
grasshoppers are already moving North.
The crazy man, coming down from
Bolton to the Asylum, is not, as gen.
orally supposed, the conductor of the
Recie1o.
There are seven candidates for the
mayoralty in Navasota, and there will
be an eighth provided Billy Smitheal
don't run.
County treasurers should remember
that the law requires the financial con-
dition of each county to be published
annually.
The Oldest colored inhabitant of
Georgetown is no more. 1t was the
sudden shutting off of whisky by N.
@. that did it.
Howard Sawyer, of D. Appleton 6
Co., is pirOuetting with the jolly man
of the Herald at a Mexican war dance
in San Antonio.
Navasota ships 10000 cotton bales
this season. The proceeds, for whisky
and things, are spent in Navasota and
amount to 100000.
Several good Republicans have writ
ten North that universal suffrage is an
exceeding bad egg, or that whisky is
an exceeding good thing.
The negroes of Jefferson had HAYES
celebration Saturday night, with mu-
sic, torchlight procession and speeches.
They were very happy.
A farmer near Corslcana last wear
raised two bales of cotton to the acre.
and sixty-flve bushels of corn. Such
farmers are always local optionists.
The average size of English girls
waist, is twcnty-four inches. We can
not speak, from actual facts, of the
circumference of these things in Austin.
And now the doctors say that inter-
nally and externally applied sulphur
cures scarlet fever; but local option is
no cure for diseases of whisky in
Travis county.
Commodore Morgan has steamship
on dry land. 1t is called his special
train, and passed down the Central
road to Galveston, the Navasota Tab
let says, Thursday.
Now that Loughery is on both sides
of the Jimplecute won't it be squeezed
out between the upper and neither mill
stones9 It's fine pair that the Colo
mel now wabbles.
A stone building three stories, 90
feet long. 65 wide, at Navasota, costs
only $40, 900. 1t is Shumaker's cotton
seed Oil mill, grist and planning mill.
1t will employ sixty men.
The Jefferson Weekly Journal is
new paper published on the material of
the late Leader Office by Messrs. John
NJ. Snyder and Dan McAIullen. 1t Is
large and beautiful sheet.
District conrt for Shelby county con-
sists of Hon. A. j. Booty, presiding;
Tom G. Davis, district attorney; J. NJ.
Luckey, district clerk; A. w. Brown,
sheriff. A good lot of fellows.
The cattle men of Medina have
formed an association and gathered
fund to be used in capturing and hang
ing cattle and horse thieves. They
ask Pierce to extend his road to
Leona.
The scientific expedition into Texas
led by Prof. John A. Myers, of Irving
ton, Indiana, will reach Dallas July 1.
Ice and things will be furnished the
female adjuncts of the expedition at
public cost.
The colored man who had his nose
and cheek badly smashed by drunken
mans fist, when arrested, seemed to
think he deserved his fate, hut said,
when wholly sober, that next time he
wouldn't vote for whisky.
The Wood County Flag says: "It
happened to be our lot to know Mills
in the days when the souls of men were
tried, ind we exult in the conviction \
that ne is as great in craftsmanship as
he was chivalric in war;"
Put peck OF young grasshoppers
under blue glass, and IN two days you
will have 1000 spring chickens big
enough for any hash house. Anybody
who doubts need only buy bird in
market and smell it as it fries.
A squad of Lieut.. HALLS men, with
Deputy Sheriff John r. Lewis, brought |
into Gonzales, last week, two men |
named Fairchilds, arrested on capiases
from Lee county; charged with assault |
with intent to commit murder.
James D. Brown, the general passen-
ger agent at Sedalia, publishes letters
which good-looking women write to
him. He can't help. it. The dear
creatures will write them. And he
wants people to know that he is ire
sistible.
The San Marcos Free Press has gone
into the resurrection business and pub
fishes a fresh and lively letter from old
Joe Lane who has been buried for
many years in Oregon. He still lives
and is loyal Democrat, and believes
Tilden to be president.
The CastrovIlle Era charges Us with
having said that an ass edits the Waco
Estray Journal. We didn't put it in that
coarse way and said it only by indirec-
ton and jocularly. But if the Waco
paper advertise reward for an estraJ