The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-30

MO, has been authorized 10 raise vol.
unteer regiment for service in case OF
war with Mexico. We are satisfied
that his services will not DC required,
though q great many have siguified
their desire toserve under him. Enough
applications for the qusrtermsster' po-
sition came in upon him to meet the
requirements Ter an efficient army of
invasion.
The kaufman .StdF says willy Throck.
is budding for the governorship, when
be talks about sparing no time from
his private for official business.
"Throck" may be a willy fellow but he
did make one of the wisest and best
governors that Texas ever had. This
was thirteen years ago, and it is recol-
lected how the people were cheated
out of just administration.
The Giddings Tribune thinks a strike
ought to be inaugurased q. home; that
idle young men ought to strike for
some profitable employment-the pillow
invites them, and the workshops say
come and feeble young ladies ought
! 10 ''strike" for the kitchen and relieve
their poor old mothers, who are sweat
ing their dear Old lives out over hot
stoves aud washiubs. All have to come
to it, and the sooner You ''strike" the
| better.
A Weimar farmer thinks all the
worm poisons humbugs. He wants
everybody raising cotton to set out
lamps, three to ten acres, as soon as
the miller season commences. Under
such lamp should be placed a pan OF
soap suds, in which the millers may be
expected to drown themselves. He
claims that this process will do more
killing and cost less than any of the
poison.
This boy came home with his shirt
on wrong side out, and told his mother
| he hadn't been in swimming; but she
| needed him not, and when she got
done waving piece of trunk strap
around in the air, that boy went right
out, walking Spanish, and told some
other boys that he would rather stand
/ up than sit down, and that the next
time that ne sat down on a hornets
nest ne was going to look in it first
and see ii the hornets were all at
| home.
All absent San Marcos wives are ex-
pected home instanter, the Free Press
having published what follows: "From
| iutimations We have had we greatly
fear some OF cur lady friends who, IN
the innocence and piety of their hearts,
| SnanGinrr THAR Of
| ing, leaving their husbands ct home,
are not aware of all the 'carryings-on'
| during their absence. We might say
more, but we soon to allow the use of
our columns to promote disturbances In
families ="
The Victoria Adr5cdte says it is now
currently believed here that the Nor
gan railroad will begin Its long
| promised extension to the Sunse: rou; e
before the expiration of many months.
Last week steam pile driver was re-
ceived for work on the road and is now
under the control OF Mr.. w. S. Slater,
an efficient engineer. The activity
lately shown by the management of the
road in repairing its bridges aud track
up to fist class order leads one to the
conyictionthat something more than an
Abandonment of his West Texas in
terests is contemplated by 4Ir. Morgan.
C.. telegraphs from Dallas that there
is some mistake about our report from
that city that Hunt is the proper man
for the district judgeship. G. doesn't
! know now which is the man, Cowart
or Hunt. He has hunted bo:h of them
up, and looked at then, and doesn't
know but that to be Cowart would do
| Just as we'll as to be Hunt. They are
both, so he says, excellent men, and
either of them would make good
judges. aa a.....
The Mason Meas Item tells it that
Brady City, McCulloch county, is the
| embodiment of thrift and enterprise.
1t Is well laid out, and is being sub
| stantially built. The hotel and other
Accommodations are ample and first
class. The rapid increase of the agri-
cultural element in that cnuntE. tho
| INTRODUCTION or new species of indus
| try, mining interests, and the erection
of grist and saw null near the town,
allspoiut to the rapid growth aud inn
pruvement of McCulloch.
The law exempts, from serving on
iuriee, all civil officers. undertakers,
druggists, telegraph operators, attor
neys and physicians in practice, millers,
all persons over sixty years of age, fer
rymen, railroad station agents, engi-
neers, conductors, vice-presidents of
railroads, schoolmasters, publishers of
newspapers, ministers of the gospel,
overseers of roads, and, in towns and
cities having a population of fifteen
hundred or more inhabitants, active
members of fire companies not exceed
ing twenty for each incorporated town
or city, ascertained by the last United
States census.
The Ne'es-Echo Gays: ave believe
that the attack upon Judge Ireland,
simply because he gave his opinion in
the matter. Is unwarranted and unjust,
and we Go maintain that the trade
against him was gotten up to strengthen
Hubbsrd's chances for reelection. We
have not beard of q single lawyer OF
any prominence who pretends to say
that Commissioner Groos acted contra
~ to the law, or that Judge Ireland's
opinion was not in strict accordance
Herewith The Aefcs-Ech0 is gov
erned alone by its own sense of Fight,
and will not pander to Mr.. Hubbard
or anyone else, simply because it may
be popular to do SO" 81.
The Free Press tells ot an ill-starred
affair that lately took place near Sour
| Springs. The guests had assembled
for a marriage feast when a note was
received from the gentleman announc-
ing that hc had declined to enter the
state OF double blsssedness. The
I guests proceeded to cat the good
things, but those who ate of a peach
cobbler were all poisoned. It turned
out that the pie had been cooked in a
pot which had been used for mixing
arsenic for destroying cotton worms,
and although it had been we'll washed
and heated red hot, still some of the
poison remained. The recovery OF
some Of the sick was considered doubt
full. Cd.
4 The Commissioner of the General
4 Land Office at Washington City. in re-
ply to a communication from the Sec
rotary of the Interior, has decided that
all that part of Texas known as Greer
county, which is situated north of the
south fork of Red River aud east OF
the one hundredth meridian, belongs
to the United States as part OF the
Indian Territory. This is an impor-
tsnt question, and will no doubt raise