The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04

these Will be forced to put an end 20
the retailing of whisky.
In illustration of devotion to "biz,"
the blessed women of Fort Worth
wear cows tails as chignons. Prop
srly curled and combed and lied, they
are said to be beautiful, aud petroleum
still rises in the market.
They used ladder to 90 down into
the big cistern OF eggnogg and hooks
to get it out in Houston, and they
would have invited the hook and lad
der fellows from Austin, but there
wasn't enough to 60 round.
They have a skating rink on pond
in Dallas. Brownlow never wrote OF
it; but he did allude to it, perhaps
very remotely, when ne said he would
fight Yaucy till hell frcze over, and
then fight him on the ice.
There was Jail delivery at Pamela,
but the escaped prisoners were pursued
and captured. Two terrible rascals
were OF the number, and the Wat:imoH
thinks their caLtOrs should be re-
warded by the St4te.
The Patron says: "Give US a fair
count, the New Orleans and Blrataria
Canal and the Texas and Pacific (as
distinguished from the Philadelphia
ana ST. Louis Pacific road, ana the
country will blossom as the rose.
Rev. DR.. Irving Is the very prince OF
impostors and Jeremy Didders. He is
ht-a q 70 o-fil
and if a good rail constituted one OF
them the world would re more COM
Portable, though the good parson might
not
Dir. House, of Houston, the narrow
gauge railway builder, entertained his
300 laborers and employees at his
Arcola estate, on the twenty sixth
ultimO. 1t was u royal feast. Mr..
Houses net profits for the year on the
farm are $50, 200.
The Age tells that the late Col. c. C.
Gillespie, whose untimely death is
everywhere deplored, was a native of
Georgia, State which, next to Ten
nessee, we believe, has contributed
most largely to the plumber of our dis
| tinguished men.
The thirteenth ineligible electOr is
one Pughe, an unnaturalized foreigner
in Pennsylvania. When the next pres
ldeniial election occurs, if we ever have
another, no man will be an electo r
whose pedigree is not as perfect as any
one OF Capt. Stringer's horses.
The city dads of Houston would suf-
fer no fire crackers or other fireworks
to be used in that metropolis, and the
whole population had to swallow the
fireworks they had laid in, and it hurt
their feelings and they didn't take 10
it naturally, as they do in Dallas.
The Galveston Griffin says: THE
Austin STATESMAN is unable to deter
mine whether it or the New York
Herald is the biggest paper" Didn't
somebody assert that he was "a bigger
man than old Grant And does the
Cirilian still question our modesty:
Fulton county is devlsing plans to
convert the school lands into scrip or
bonds or notes that can be easily totcd
away and slip out of pee pies fingers.
So many good men want the lands OF
the several counties that we don't see
why they are not instantly sold every
where.
Marshall, Texas, was never so dull
or trade so light, and it is curious tc
know that the Herald says thai nobody
advertised goods and the people never
learned what they wanted, or that thtil
wants could be gratitied, and therefore
Marshall tradesmen are penniless, and
the Herald is sad.
The balloon man charges the Calves
ton mob $50 to go up half mile. We
have seen several fellows here Ego up
for less than half that sum. But the
drinks went down. They call thu
balloonist Professor, Though he is mo-
Of the faculty of Bryan or other col
lege.
J. H. Ellis, handsome young gen
tleman, is traversing Texas in the in
terest of the Sherman Patriot. Every
Republican in the State should surely
read the Patriot, and every Democrat
that each may know what the decen
portion of the Republican party i
thinking ABOUT.
The Sherman Register is much dis
posed to poke fun at the dog law, Il
which the venerable and excellen
Mr. Allison gave origin. But the dog
law is the law, and if it cause tn
slaughter of a million of the canin
race in this city the world will b
richer and happier.
The Erdmansr and many other news
papers think that Judge Turner ha
sustained himself we'll in his brief pro
!, nunciamiento against the doctors
The doctors article would have bee
reprinted and read by many every
where in Texas If it had not been to-
f prolix. 1t was admirably well done
2 Paddock says the STATESMAN seek
to injure Fort Worth and that tn
Texas and Pacific road WON'T toddl
E away to Weatherford till in some FL
ture age when Fort Worth will hav
, cotton mills and population and nal
+ row gauge roads and every incident q
a populous, progressive, busy city.
Rev. Moses Allen, of Kentucky,
enacting the role of evangelist in Den
son, and Murray's unobtrusive = it
devilish unobtrusive -picty begins t
crop out in the Nelrs in an amazin
manner. He wants sinners to repent
: and especially those of them that BOZ
/ row and DON'T pay for the NetcS.
Lockhart and those parts go 70
local option on the twenty fifth. Bi
trunks are then succeeded by big II
: pentarce, and every fellow with ebbin
\ jim jams will knock whisky off II
! pins. 1t seems positive therefore TIA
, local option will be unanimously az
cepted about Lockhart.
Ignorant people down East sti
: speculate in supposed lots in the sur
G posed Mineral City, and deeds are still
: sent down to Martins town for regi:
tration. The world is full of fools
and there is nothing that somebod
went buy. 1t is only necessary to ad
vertise, you know, and the buyer vii
come up.
Goodies of Christmas tricks" is tn
headline and motto of the Brennan
Banner. Goodies" is a Congo tenn
We are told by the latest Unabridged
used in those Eleusiniau mysteries an,
arts practiced by the priestesses of tn
Voudou that are celebrated with grea
pomp in the Senegambian suburbs o
t Brennan.
Uvalde Burns has appeared In Shel
man and taken the pos!offfce. Uvald
Canon" is famous place in Texas