The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

Austin in the person of one Capt. |
Billy Pitts. "Pitts," SAID the loqua- I
cIous Judge, sis a noble specimen of a
native Georgian, and wherever l met
Georgians IN Texas l found them
warm-hearted and true to the old hills
OF their nativity, even as was Billy
Pitts. do not recall an instance
where they were not proud of being
Georgians, and when Pitts talks about
it he almost struts himself to death
but no man is more highly esteemed in
Texas"
There are about dozen churches in
San Antonio, the most notable being
the cathedral Spanish and the Epis-
copal (St. Mark's). Every day At
twelve o'clock, the chime of bells in
the cathedral ring u merry peal, max
ing sweet music. st. Marks church is
by far the most beautiful in the city.
The style is Gothic. The windows are
the most striking feature, being filed
with colored glass of the most appro-
pirate style and finish. There are sew
eral public free school buildings, i con-
vent and college, two hospitals, the
United States Arsenal and grounds,
Hall of the Alamo literary society, the
are and many other public buildings.
"A Baptist association in New York
is collecting subscription to buy an
elephant. The beast is needed by
missionary TO the Gale tribes who de-
sires to travel where OK carts cannot
al -, A 80
about $780," We know several Bap-
fist and Methodist and Presbyterian
churches that have elephants to sell.
What is singular about it here The ele-
plant rides the congregation and n,
the congregation, as in Africa, the
elephant. But those colored brethren
were always progressive and thought
full and wise and would never tote an
elephant or anything else if they could
help 1t.
Goliad county swept away the bar
rooms last Saturday by 295 to ell.
The Victoria AdUocdte says of the re-
suit that "the majority for prohibition
throughout the county Is larger than
many persons expected. The fight was
hot and heavy, especially in the town
of Goliad, where whisky has done so
much injury. The opponents of the
measure used money and whisky freely.
The law-snd-order people throughout
the county were aroused, and deter
mined to make one effort toward re-
deeming the bad character of our coun-
ty. Goliad feels once more like hold
ing up her head. Six whisky shops
will be closed by this public decision
of the people. These 'doggeries'
have bred riot, theft, bloodshed, MUIR
der and lawlessness." ....
People from Kansas and from the
Indian Territory, and very many from
Paris and Bonham, are here to be
treated for various diseases by DR..
Wooten. Why not have a great hospi-
tai established, in which poor and help
less and pennIless strangers may be
cared for at the cost of the city and
county, Such institutions must be
maintained. The care of INDECENT and
helpless sufferers falls very heavily on
the generous and kindly, and these
should be relieved, and the burden fall
alike on the just and unjust. These
last, as often as the philanthropic, be.
come diseased and penniless, and are
smitten with age and want and help,
lessness. The private and public hos
pital might be side by side, and the
cost of maintenance would be greatly
lessened.
No sooner had the blessed town OF
Waco-the town favored of Coke and
thus of Tom Scott, who would again
capture Coke-no sooner had Waco
voted down prohibition than drunken
| negro, Perro Davis, shot and killed
police officer Alfred d. Neal. Nea
was attempting to arrest the negro
After shooting Neal, the colored
whisky keg endeavored to kill his wife,
who was standing beside HIM with al
infant in her arms. But what signify
few dozen murders and bloody heads
and broken noses and poverty and
madness. Rum pays money to county
courts, and mayors and policemen, and
the percentage on taxation, If whisky
were exiled, would not be great enough
to support tax-collector. Let whisky
be king, as now. No sane mayor
would have any other master. Hi!
fees are all from whisky.
That good man, Uncle Jim Hill, o.
whom George BAbcr tells, when enact
ing the role of phrenologist, had thu
barber we were talking about as hi
subject. He placed the barber on ;
chair, felt of his head for long time
and then remarked: civilian, yoI
is too sanguine. When you lend none,
you expect 1t back. You are bilious
You want to be honest, but you hasn'
the necessary character; you ism
hopeful; you is bowed down witt
grief most of de time; you has an ca
for music; you has de worst feet OIL
de Abencw; you is de right sort of
man to wheel coal down hill for hi;
wages" William rose up, pitched
Uncle Jim over the cook stove ant
Ander the bed, and split panel of tn
door as he went out. The row brough
in policeman, and the performers ap
: pear before his honor this morning.
The vision of the shower OF snake
near Denison came of the effects of
dream that visited Murray of the Ner,
Martin was sleeping with him an
Murray, magnetized, saw Tin severa
horns) the snakes falling from til
clouds and on his bed, and within
about his limbs and body and in hi
hair, and each particular snake stoo
on end and each was sea serpent, an
Murray in a somnambulistic conditio
: wrote the sensational editorial abou
sDakes in the clouds and on land an,
sea that has amazed the whole country
1t was this vision of MURRAY that smot
the returning board at Washingto
} with mortal paralysis. All this cam
of acute sympathy between the tw
editors. The whisky wa. Martins
the dream, Murray's; the snakes, typ
cal of the woes of Texas, on whic
measureless and countless within
curses are showered from each storm
cloud Of whisky.
A letter-writer for the Herald say
: that about one mile and /. half fror
the main plaza OF San Antonio, IN
northeastern direction, are situated IL
San Pedro Springs, the principal on
of which flows from under a large owe
hanging rock, forming with man
other smaller springs quite a lare
{ stream. The place is called San PedI
3 Park ard is the property of the city
E 1t is tastefully and artistically laid oil
as park, and has many small artificii
. lakes, fish ponds, rustic bridges an
gravel walks, large, spreading live oa
} and pecan trees, with many ornaments
= shrubs and vines, forming a delightfl
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