The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
re1.,-Facts and FaneIe..


pests disappear.
Plantations about Sempronius and
Buckhorn are in beautiful condition.
Everybody is putting in cotton this
week.
Henry Sherrard was killed at Rich
mond, yesterday, by James GarveY,
nephew of the sheriff of Fort Bend
Our st. Louis correspondent is ad-
vised that local option triumphed in
Hays, Wharton, Ellis, Bell and Mata-
gorda counties.
The Corsicana OJsercer says its brass
band can knock the "hind sights of
in Dallas. Which would be
rough on the brass band.
Sherman has the measles bad. But
the pimples on Martins nose are not of
that sort, and he needn't swear about
the measles so dreadfully.
When Broughall struck the town,
Sherman went into hlstrionics and
Martin Is dosing his part of the town
with "local option" by the gallon.
Travis county, except the densely
populated districts of the city, will
adopt, il is said, the prohibition law,
and then Austin will be truly lively.
The good people of Comanche are
exceedingly anxious to have the opera
ton of the law suspended which author
ICES the people there to carry concealed
weapons.
Gan Saba hoo Aouriohing library
association, and the orators and readers
there, since local option went into oper-
alton, have quit going round the cor
ner to see a man.
The bite of polecat results in in
slant hydrophobia, So says the Neto
Era. We always thought it was the
odor that did it. It's wholly different
animal that gives fellow jim-jams.
Whitesboro, in Cooke county, carried
local option, but other districts failed.
Whitesboro is famous for its good
schools, and the people knew it was
the only mode of maintaining them.
The celebration of Maifest now oc-
cupies the brain of the average German
and the girls are dreaming of it and
the Turner's are full of it, at least
where local option does not prevent.
The colored people in Wharton
county, it is said, were induced to do
one sensible thing. They took the
advice of Judge Mccormack, and
voted solidly enough for prohibition.
If was lager, and not whisky, that
triumphed here, and the Herald should
so inform Its readers. The election
was carried by the solid vote of the
colored people who stood by the lager
party.
1t is stated that spirits of turpentine
sprinkled through the house once a
week is a sure preventive of scarlet
fever and other diseases. 1t is also
stated that it will keep moths out of
carpets.
The word colorado" means col
ored, and it was 1900 majority against
local option, and yet no living man can
tell why a negro, of all living men,
should not be foremost il hostility to
whisky.
Prof. L. T. P. Hollow-man is giving
readings in Georgetown, and Nat @.
is pumping thunder into him. It's the
biggest contract Nat ever undertook,
and it makes him elbow" even worse
than usual.
Major ]. W. Eldridge and his wife
are raising Ned and the devil and the
spirits in the liveliest and most aston
ishine manner at Little Rock, and the
Gazette says they are going to turn
Texas upside down.
The Fayette County NeaO Era says
Local option was defeated in Travis
county by 1900 majority, in Bastrop
I county by GOO, and in Colorado by
1000. The colored troops in said coun-
ties fought nobly."
The county court at Groesbeck has
voted the county judge a salary OF
| $1,000. The salary awarded by the
Rutabaga constitution would not feed
him, and Groesbeck judge ought to
have something for drinks.
The Rusk County OJssrcer says that
''Llberty," sometimes called whisky
for short, by colored people, is cock
of-the-walk over there. 1t is generally
so bad on the walk that it must be
some other sort of rooster.
The secret of the blue glass cure is
the simplest thing in the world. 1t is
the therapeutic action of the actinic
rays on the cerebro-spinal nervous sys-
tenn that does the business, and Mar.
tin is having his shirts made of it.
The finest garden the BRENNAN Banne1
man has seen this spring is that OF
Judge Bells, at Bel.ville. Irish pota,
toes are half leg high, and peas have
been in bloom ten days, with every.
thing else proportionately forward.
When the BRENNAN Banner wants to
travel rapidly and smoothly and with
painless feet, it resorts to sherry ''cob-
blers," and then staggers away beauti-
fully chanting the praises Of whisky
and lnveighing against prohibition.
Marriage licenses are refused in some
districts of Germany to persons ad.
dlcted to drunkenness. American 10.
cal option only stops the gin mill, while
that of Germany goes for the mill oil
the gods which doth slowly wind, etc.
Uvalde Burns and Mrs. Hattie Sum-
ner both are cheated, and Mrs. Page,
Of whom we may learn something in
the merry Wives of Windsor" is
postmlstre5s at Sherman. Martin is
now very fond of Shakspearean char
Scters.
Penitentiary commissioners, accord
ing to law, have been commissioned.
They are James e. Shepard, of Travis
county, J. T. Gaines, of Lamar, and
II. X. White, of Ellis. Their COM
missions were issued on the twenty
first instant.
Three drunken roughs named Boren
fired into house in Montague county,
where many persons Were dancing,
and killed an excellent gentleman,
James VI. Berry. The people will
hang them on the spot, but take care
of the whisky.
The surveying party of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad made
their advent into BRENNAN Wednesday.
They came in on what is known as the
ridge road" from BRENNAN to Bell
vile, and real estate prices are ad-
vancing down there.
The work of changing the gauge of
the Hampstead and Austin branch oil
| Morgan's road, occupyIng two DAYS,