The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
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court, voted for prohibition.
Waxahachie county scrip is worth
90 cents-whlch is bad for Waxy.
Rev. E. d. CEisman, of St. LOUIS,
Is president of the Tehuacana Univer-
sity.
4 member of the cornet band at Cor |
sicana has baby 1t blows, we reck-
on, Its own horn.
Major John B. tones and Capt. Sparks
are resting for time in Corsicana.
They doubtless need repose.
The Lockhart Neacs Echo contains
fearful catalogue of farms and homes
advertised for sab for taxes.
DR.. Jacob Ditzer, in his lecture on
Genesis and geology, says the six days
of creation were lot twenty-iour-hour
days.
The Texas Medical College at Gal
weston holds III annual commence
ment exercises on the fifteenth of this
mouth.
The Ners Ech, says Lockhart has
been wondrousl, quiet o'nights and
days since prohibition squelched the
dramshops.
Rusk county rotes on Thursday to
expel whisky from the towns and vii
lagos and chur.hes and schools and
homes of the people.
The question of eligibility is urged
against Cabell md Conner, candidates
for the mayorslty in Dallas, and they
are the opposing candidates.
Honey Grove was so called in honor
of that sweet youth who Iuns the In
dependent, ana says of himself that he
is the handsonest man in Texas.
The assassination at night of DR.. J..
s. Webb at Workman, Texas, by some
unknown villain, still eXcites tie PEG
pie. A negrois supposed to have done
the deed.
Elk johnson has retired from the
chair editoria, of the excellent StOcl
Journal. Now that Elk quits, will the
editor be a shorthorn and soon
"blowed"?
There is a Gold Mine" church in
Virginia. Texas preachers, though
we hate to spa'e any that we have, in
quest of fat salary, should CORES
pond at once. a. .s.t
The Maine liquor law has proven so
effective that not single capital case
was brought before any of her court:
last year. How is it with us? Moe
whisky, more crime" is an axiom.
One bundled years ago the Metho
dists had ONLY twenty-four circuit rid
ers. Now they have over twenty thou
sand, and ttey toll more vigorously
than any priests of any faith.
If the honest, virtuous, Christian
people of Ruk county do not sustain
the Observer IS one man, they are false
J to themselves and to public and private
morals and intelligence and decency.
An exchange, full of malice and o
little wit, says "that extreme men al
ways cooperate. Thus we find Nor
ton and Mills happily cooperating il
hostility to tie grand commission"
If the whisky shops disappear Aus
tin will become the central seat of ed
ucatlonal institutions for Texas. On
good school is worth thousand bal
: rooms to the people and the State an
: city. ..-.-: ~. .
: Bro. John \. Sidener has returne
= to Tennessee rom Texas, and is goln
q to California in the spring. He wi
| o. -
Isncheros and farmers don't stick i
t California.
t The Guadalupe Times tells of
e nameless outrage upon the person {
Mrs. Chandler by negro at Rancho
Whom che resisted he kinea ne WIN
s. axe. The neighboss captured an
e hanged the brute.
r The CiUiliaa says that "Madam
g Davis, of Waco. has to face fifteen il
4 dictments for keeping bad house.
She has often faced Downs, and doesn
, tremble before the face of outrage
n law and decency.
d Our German fellow-citizens and tn
Q rest of mankind will be delighte
when the worldwide penny postal Cal
system goes into operation. German
It is treating with all civilized nations
Il effect this postal union.
It Rowland Hill said he liked enel
o getic prayer. 1t reached heaven b
10 fore the devil could get shot at
And that's the way Brother Philpo
u sent up his petition at the great loo
d option Opera House meeting Monds
l. night.
The Kansas City Times says: "Texs
is getting more immigration and SHOW
&c ing more signs of prosperity than al
2, other State In the Union. Nine of h
l. twelve railroads are completing e
tensions, and new and lively towns a
sprlnging up in every direction"
" Mr.. Hall, editor and proprietor
- the Dallas Commercial, one of the mo
prosperous newspapers of Texas, b.
gone to Tennessee, to return with
II wife, the daughter, if we are not mi
;, taken, of one of the justices of Il
). Supreme Court of the ancient commo
"a wealth.
+ The Gdlcestonian says that the ge
4 tlemen composing the party of Ne
= Workers in Austin to-day have an a
u gregate wealth OF not less than SAC
000, 200. Mr.. Phelps, of New Yor
and Mr. Blair, of New Jersey, are sa
Ie to be each worth ten or twelve miilit
E. dollars.
,r The Rutabagas forgot to enact coo
il to protect larks aud doves and pa
/ tridges and blackbirds and prair
/, chickens, and even now wicked, III
thinking men and boys are shootir
70 these Birds everywhere. Is. there !
remedy9 Birds are the only enemi
of grasshoppers. - aa -r
. The Sherman Register says: ono
that Congress has adjourned, we M
y expect Texas Congressman at home
4 few days to give an account of the
te positions. We are particularly anxio
If that our, distinguished representa-
shall have an early opportunity to me
his tarducers."
st Those ought to be ''good" goo
D, sold in the sold mission storep at S.
n Antonio. Those old missions diffu
an odor of sanctity and hoar, antiqui
over the venerable city. And its Il
e, hoariness of San Antonio that max
e the place eminently attractive in 4
eyes of many queer people.
A writer in the Bastrop Adcertist
ie says there are fifteen thousand Inhal
he tants in that county, and that s
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