The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

popular play ever on the boards in Dali
as. You see the people are curious to-
earn how nights alone can be devoted |
TO bsr-rooms. Nights are made for
Dallas fellows to taper of in.
Thursday afternoon Major J. W.
Downs, proprietor of the Waco Exam
iner, was painfully injured by fall |
from his horse. The injuries are quite
severe, but the physicians think he
will be able to be out in few days.
On Wednesday two young men from
while riding through
Mountain creek bottom, ten miles west
of Dallas, were stopped by man who
presented a six-shooter, and relieved
them of about $500 and disappeared.
Out at Round Rock they have passed
a resolution to the effect that any
head of family who is too poor or
too mean to take the STATESMAN shall
be indicted by the grand jury for hay
ing obtained a wife under false and
fraudulent pretences.
When a fellow gets jim-jammed in
Nelsonville he sees grasshoppers in
stead of snakes, and the consequence
is, such is the moral effect of grass
hoppers, that a rousing temperance So
ciety is operative there, and the bar
rooms are doing nothing.
Col. Num-, of Bonham, has twelve
pound boy, and the family think there
are none such as this. He will never
see whisky sold by the drink, and the
parents are the happier for the reason
that the chances for his living and
dying sober are multiplied.
The bite of polecat is sure mad
ness, and so with that of whisky, and
the odor of the dying beverage is more
intolerable, and then it poisons the
souls and the cat only the bodies of
men, and yet most people seem to pre-
fer death at the hands of whisky.
Jury trials before mayors and jus
tees progress everywhere, and fights
and drunken rows, and now and then
a drunken murder occurs, and the costs
of all these trials are illustrated in the
endless advertisements of sales of land
for taxes in our country exchanges.
Montague county has invested $780,
900 In q house to accommodate lti-
gious and criminal persons "a court
house forsooth. Infinitely better for
the county if this sum had been gwen
as bonus to builders of an hundred
thousand-dollar wooden or cotton mill.
Mitch Cotton, Wood and Giles Tram
nell. the negro desperadoes, who were
concerned in the killing of Apple
white and Clendening some three years
ago in Limestone county, have been
arrested at Shreveport, Louisiana, and
Sheriff Love has gone after the fugi'
tives. .....
Lieut.. Moore, of the rangers, is driv-
ing all the thieves and robbers out of
Kimble county, where they were wont
most to congregate. It's time we were
having a big hanging match at some
central point to which the knaves may
have free access. Would not. Austin
do?
A bank book-keeper, at Dallas,
named McClosky, swallowed much
Dallas whisky for time and unable tt
get it out opened hole in the side oil
his throat with razor, but the doctors
came fooling around and sewed it up
and the man still lives, but must b'
hopelessly mad.
Mike Leach was fined five dollars fo
public drunkenness in Bonham ant
couldn't pay and was cooled off in thu
big ice cream freezer of that nice place
If they could freeze Mike to solidit.
and sell him out in chunks, ''thre'
fingers" will bring as much in Austin
as IN most towns.
Luke cambridge, colored, is nov
studying African physiology in tn
Jacksboro Jail. He was fool enough
to shoot his wife, and absolutely sho
her in the head, and the bullet wa
flattened out, and so was Luke, whit
now lies miserably in Jail. His wifi
says her head aches.
John Hampton, formerly of Collin
county, was killed a few days ago a
Fort Griffin while resisting arrest.
warrant had been sent to the sheriff o
Shackleferd county, issued upon tn
charge of theft. The officer attempt,
ing to execute the writ was compelled
to take his life in self-defence.
Dallas hires Mexican to captur'
and garrote loafng ours. He get
thirty dogs per diem. If our city dad
would do the same and then have an
other to capture and sack the lneffabl
stinks from back alleys and undraine'
cesspools in hillsides and in valleys
Austin would be decenter and health
Ter.
The clairvoyants, now that soun'
NAV be transmitted by telegraph, hav
added clairaudiant to technical descrip
tive epithets. The first word is French
the latter is Latin derivative, an
while the first is properly constructe
the latter is mispelled and tn
Latin form of the word cldrus shout
be adhered to. .~-
A vegetable dealer in the marke
house says that he put lime on cal
bages to protect them from grasshoI
pers, and that the rascally insects al
the unslaked lime and that sligl
shower falling on them they wer
cooked to crisp, and thus his cabbage
were saved. He HIMSELF is no cabbage
headed gardener. 81 .- .-.,...- :
Rankin & McCremmon, of the Brel
ham Baaner, are going clean ava.
Here is the painful editorial declara
ton to the women, ETC., in the Bdnn'
! of the twenty-eighth: "Avail you
self of the last chance and have you
picture taken during this week, as, "
positively leave at the expiration
the week."
Wednesday night, about mile we'
of Hearne, the International trai
5 bound east ran over and Instant
killed man by the name of Wilha
: Brown, German, employed as coo
! at the convict, camp of Col. Levi
He was lying on the track, as it is SUI
posed, drunk, and was not discovere
until too late to stop the train. r-3
The Lawrence Times, which WASH
very 'smesly.m5uthedn on7the wkisl
question, will be, ever hereafter,
that deplorable condition. a secor
big Touring mill is in process of CO
e struction at Lawrence. This fact a
e counts, too, for the fouriness of CO
Lawrence's speeches when he tall
about the town that bears his nsme.
Commodore Morgan becomes pracI
|. cally the owner and supreme master
v the Central Railway, subject 10 s.
o 600, 600 Of present and pressing lab
tiles, and about $40, 900, 600 bond'
+ debt, on which the interest will ha