The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

for caput covers with circular blue
glass window panes inserted in the
tops. 1t cures bsld-headeduess, and
may go further and cure fellow, who
took on too much whisky in the late
unpleassntness, of misery In his stom-
ach.
The chief citizen of Georgetown is
Mr.. Euphrates Taylor. His progeni-
tors must have INDUCED a taste for
orientaiism in nomenclature. aud it
must have been this nominal pres
ence of the ''bright, shining" river OF
the East that expelled the Living
stream of whisky that once flowed 3
maddening torrent through George
town.
The Castroville Era says that Rev.
Elk johnson, late of the Stock Journal,
''skips off on his ear" The Era man
evidently knows how it is himself. He
generally travels that way. His ears
are his motive power and strongest
characteristics. His parents shipped
him out West in his early youth that
the vacant country might hold his ears
When he shakes them now the shadows
of great clouds tremble on the plans.
Stokes, The newspaper letter-writer
from Bolton, who tells such awful
yarns against the local option law is
''nOn c0mpos" The mans brain was
burned out years ago by whisky and
he left Mississippi, as one in this office
happens to know, because Texas was
supposed to be more healthful place
for such people at that particular time.
Stokes Is u proper man to oppose local
option. The Bolton Journal says
Stokes's brain is muddled like his facts.
The Pamela Waterman Is the source
of much tasteful literature and of
many nice expressions, commencing
themselves to civilized people. 1t
says: g. One jeremiah WIggles Ewing,
the surface editor of a patent
squirt newspaper at Palestine, is
blind in his worship of his virtually
admitted political god, Judge Rea-
gam" and then Wiggles bitterly de-
nounces him of the Watchman as gin
gerpop Bowers" whereupon every
body is expected to laugh.
Uvalde county, on the tenth, voted
whisky out, and Uvalde will get awful
''high" on cold water; but there will
be fewer people dying in their boots
and fewer cattle will be stolen and
many immigrants will be attracted by
the prevalence of good order, and
schools will flourish and the money
wasted in whisky will give clothes and
food and shoes and intelligence and
happiness to wives and children and
pretty homes on the prairies.
The Gonzales Inquirer says that in
"view of the threatened destruction
OF the crops by the grasshoppers, would
it not be advisable for our farmers TO
make arrangements for procuring a
supply of Northern seed corn? Some
have already taken this timely precau-
ton, but the large majority have not.
This corn natures about three weeks
earlier than the native seed; and it
will be remembered that in the spring
of 1858 it produced good crops when
the latter failed almost entirely"
In Murray's absence from benson a
good man of that town, supposing he
had gone down to see Martin at Sher-
man, went thither and, knocking &C
Martins door, poked in his head and
asked SIS Murray-in2" Martin had
been lying up drinking red pepper tea
and things to sweat off the whisky.
'sWhat did you ask?" beloved Mar =
tin. SIS it murrain?" "Do you take
me for sick cow, d-n you2" The
Denison man lodged Martins bootjack
and fled. Murray, who was in Austin
yesterday, after telling this yarn, start
ed back. He won't stop IN Sherman.
Cattle herds gathering are enumer-
ated at Gonzales as follows: Dilworth, i
Littletield & Dowell started 5000 head
for Kansas last Wednesday. Littlefield
Sc Houston started with 5000 on Thurs
day, and will start 1000 more on the
first of April. Dilworth, Littlefeld s.
Houston will start 5000 head on the
twenty fifth instant. Dilworth, Little
aeld & Hodge will have 5000 head
ready to start by the twonty-th1ru IN
slant. Dilworth s. Littlefeld $500
head by the first of April. l.. M.
Kokernot Is making up herd of 1900
steers, to leave on the first of April for
Fort Worth.
When a gal would gently jilt her
fellow over at Groesbeck, the thing is
done, as the NcU Era man has seen it,
after this fashion: When the loving
swain Is leaving he finds his saddle re-
versed on his horse; he mounts the an
imal, rides off backwards, indulging
in prolonged smiles as he recedes from
the vision of his jularky, who leans
gracefully over the fence, reciprocating
every evidence of his continued good
will and cordial feelings; she kisses
her hand and waves it towards the
sorrow-stricken but gracefully grin
ming youth. He holds his horses tail
with one hand and bride rein in the
other, and signing sadly, moves away
into the distance and the woods.
They can't operate the fire alarm tel
egraph in Dallas because the thing
keeps the fire engines and hook and
ladder fellows always on the trot over
there. Every time fellow takes two
or three fingers of Dallas local option
and his inwards begin to fzz and fry
and he smokes like tar kiln, then the
internal alarm telegraph rushes around
to all the fire companies with .he news,
and sway they go, and never have a |
chance to stop. They must have pro-
hibItion or no fire alarm telegraph in
Dallas, and the people are in brown
study about it.
There was sudden sensation in the |
Oakland church Sunday. 1t appears
that a young lady member of the choir
became so anxious to examine certain
exasperatingly pretty bonnet in pew
back under the organ loft that she lost |
her balance and turned somersault |
down upon the unexpectant congrega-
ton. The minister had only reached |
when he was shocked by a
view of striped stockings
and the bald-hesded man. underneath.
had just selected his smallest coin for
the heather, when pair of two-inch
heels struck him in the back OF the
neck.
We have on our exchange list .one
peculiarly queer newspaper. 1t tells
is that all religions are to certain ex-
.ent involved in obscurity. It is said
hat Mahomet was born at Mecca, in
August, A. D. $40, and was originally