The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
Gen. Ord passed through Houston

there is something in the wind. p
The Brazos Plot tells of q mermaid 0
who hides her bushes in deep pool '
in large stream in the vicinity OF q
Bryan. Every one of President Gail
rights boys will now go fishing.
They have lively reading and must
cal club at Lockhart and want to get ,,
up an exciting competition with the :
Library Association of Austin. Can't =
We Bet EN- up against one another :
They are looking for a new grave t
yard in Dallas, and will sell the one g
now in use to q shoemaker. He wants [
the splendid lot of old boots those
blessed fellows wore in their last tramp. ,
Dan Price, son-in-law of Ms. NJ.
Harper, living near Georgetown, blew :
his brains out with q shotgun. The
suicide was the result of mental depres-
sion in consequence of financial emoar-
easements.
A negro named Sparks, on an excur-
sion train from Houston, without in
tending i, and supposings gun he held
to be empty, shot and killed instantly
another negro, named Nelson, both OF
Houston.
The Spectator man is modest, and
tells of his massive brain by relating
how the size of his head prevented him
from being dead-headed In hat store.
Certainly the Savoy people are not
all pigheaded.
VIM. F. Eames, telegraph operator,
was drowned at Columbus while bath
ing in the Colorado river few days
ming against each other, when he gave
out and went under.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad stands high in fnan- |
cisl circles. The road is mortgaged |
to the extent of $1S, 900 and its bonds |
are in great demand in New York at
eighty-three cents.
They've got spirits in San Antonio.
Poe's raven-she was reading it at the
time-taps gently at the headboard of
pretty girls bed, and most any fell
low might be guilty, or at least raven
Gus, in such case.
The toughest and most sacril0gious
punster of the Texas press is the local
of the Guadalupe Times. He hints of
good judges name by saying that
''Devine service will be held at the
Episcopal church tomorrow"
Miss Henrietta Lewis Buchner, of
. Paris, Texas, is full-fedged doctor, or
!. doctress of medicine, having Just grad
uated from the Wemen's Medical Col
lege of Pennsylvania. And now we
, pine to live in Paris and be sick.
A correspondent of the Prairie Farm
er thinks that David Whites bull,
from Grimes county. was the only thor
7 ough-bred animal in the cattle depart
= ment of the Houston fair. The writer
pronounces the animal good one.
They didn't take local option in Tar
j rant county, and the result Is that even
s druggists get things little "mixed, v
= and last week one of them sold arsenic
for soda, and it was the folks instead
n of the biscuit that must now rise.
e The Headlight says that in Round
= Rock rents are moderate, lots and
building material cheap, and that those
h who invest will find no reason for com
II plant during the coming season il
they but understand their business.
The Houstonians are sgitated over
!. their city's great debt. The old mar
ket house, which cost $400, 900, when
this debt was being created, has been
replaced by another building quite as
commandin :, which costs only $40,
900.
a The Waco street ordinances require
o every male citizen of proper age to
work upon the streets six days during
e the year or to pay tax equivalent to
e pie oppose It and desire the law re
pealed.
: In Norfolk, at the last election, III =
It der a requirement that payment of poll
a tax is prert quisite to voting, only II
negroes voted, against 600 at previ-
4 Gus election. Fifty per cent. of the
= white people failed to vote under the
u same law.
DR.. J. P. Rains, of Weatherford,
died from an overdose of chloral. 1t
is dangerous drug, the trouble being
, that no given quantity can be relied Oh
with safety, as what would be an in
e nocent dose at one time May at another
: prove fatal.
Water works are hardly regarded as
8 necessary in Houston, for when its
. people are talked to about putting up
t cash upon water they generally walk
\ around to the club rOorRs or make the
Y matter short by calling oyer at Greg
or's "Bank."
=, We feel authorized to say that they
have misrepresented Hon. r. @. Mills.
!, who says that he advised the farmers
at the Houston fair to plant Devon eggs
D under Cashmere goats to secure
proper breed of Mexican donkeys.
Mills knows thing or two about farm
ing, Mills does.
The Tri- Weekly Herald disparages
Col. Culberson when it hes d, an ar
ticle, defending him against the at
tacks of the press, lighting the
D wind" If it would insInuste that the
Colonel is bag of wind, we object,
, for when fully aroused he is nothing
less than tornado.
The Neaos tells of pecan tree in
San Saba county, the trunk of which
measures six feet in diameter, and a
, line drawn across Its branches at the
widest place measures one hundred
and fifty feet. 1t is healthy and sound,
and of course its age cannot be esti-
m tied.
Tom Bowers says he can name the
next Governor of Texas. It's not q
bribery case but only involves q gallon
of good brandy. And now If Bowers
is smart enough he will make a great
secret of the matter and drag in about
6fty would-be governors. The brandy
should be collected in advance.
The appropriation for Halls cempe-
nv expires on the fifteenth of June.
Propositions have been made for keep
ing the force in the field, private par
ties loaning the State the money and
taking certificates of Indebtedness fer
the same. These private parties are
more generous probably than the Leg
i,lature might be.
The Charleston Netcs and Cdurier
says Henry NJ. Furman (son of DR..
Richard Furman, of South Carolins)
who came to Texas three or four years
ago, is county attorney of Bell county.
A few months ago he associated with
himself in the practice of law his broth
er, John n. FurmaD, recently Of Edge
| 6oIl