The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

49, = 49, NO0AsS INV diSI 4OIcNCI.
Eggs arc at ten cents in Austin, but
much cheaper in San Saba. They
throw them by the peck at negro min
strels over there, and though the
musicians don't seem to banker eggs
actly after them, the people keep
Smelling them out until every black
face is ;ingcd with the "yaller" and
black wooI is glistening white.
The Gonzales Inquirer says that "the
opinion obtains that the Morgan road
VIII be completed to Gonzales BY Au-
gust. The preparations being made
leave but little doubt on the public
mind that the work of extension will
be commenced within the next thirty
days, and that the road will be rushed
through as rapidly as possible"
The German editor and publishers
next door TO the STATESMAN Office are
good men, but made o sad mistake
when they printed an auti-local option
circular for the Swedes. The lager
beer people found 1t out and they are
giving Hans, the printer, much cuss-
ing. It's . pity that the very imper-
sonation of lager should thus get in
voluntary into ''h0t water"
Maggie has Hdrper's Weekly contain
ing the picture of Henry Watterson, of
the COurier-J0urnGL, with his first
small detachment of those 400, 900
men in arms" The generosity of the
artist is illustrated in the fact that the
baby is the least possible like unto Its
daddy. Mast must live, even as it is,
in lifelong terror of Watterson's wife.
Gas costs 81 per 1000 feet in Gal
weston with water transportation for
coal brought in as ballast, and here, in
Austin, with all rail transportation for
coal we only pay So per 1000 feet. 1t
is the cheapest and best means of illu-
minatiOn and safest for the wife and
children who are never cooked and
! fricaseed save with coal oil-non-ex-
plosive of course.
Mr.. Estep, who was shot some weeks
ago, at Lampasas, because he had killed
Taylor's dog, fingered until few days
| ago, when he was relieved of his suffer
ings by death. We know nothing of
the parties, but it seems that very sriv-
ial causes bring about very momentous
results. Man had better take less
whisky and submit to an insult than
to stain his hands in his brothers
blood.
The NeO Era says that the county
of Limestone is one of the wealthiest
In the State of Texas. She has to day
within her borders over $4,000, 900
worth OF taxable property. Her scrip
is at par, and she has money in her
treasury. Her educational facilities are
uurivaled by any county in the State.
Her prestige in these respects has been
gained through q series of the most
trying universities.
The Sherman Register says the
STATESMAN "cannot contemplate the
bare facts in relation to whisky guz.
cling. They make its head swim u
Even when these 'naked facts" are
clothed most artistically by the REM,
who rends the Register, we still shud-
der when contemplating them, and
while "bare facts" and theories make
our head swim, it is whisky that makes
Martins float down to perdition.
| The San Antonio Herald man was
last seen toting the street railway from
Palestine and dropping it in front Of
the Menger Hotel. We are curious to
know what will become of that wooden
wheeled Mexican wagon freighted with
hides, drawn by ten oxen driven by
three MeXicans followed by fourth
who led a yaller dog-what will be
, come of this peculiar civilization if 8
street car rattle from the Menger to The
railway statiOn2
Myriads of grasshoppers are to bt
seen all over the country from the
size of flea upwards. They ar,
beginning to work on the tender vege
tables, and we fear that garden truck
will be late in finding its way TO ou
tables. The farmers are afraid tt
plant, thinking they would most likely
have to plant over again. The Dis
YutrH suys we trust they will grow fas
and soon take their departure, never
to return again.
The Caldwell Eagle says that "the
Austin STATESMAN is doing herculear
work for prohibition. Its arguments
based on actual facts aud figures, can
not be answered. Ptpers published il
cities where the whisky influence il
powerful and wealthy are too offer
bulldozed by that influence. Not 81
with the STATESMAN; it works for tn,
good of the people with zeal and in
dependence most gratifying to ever!
friend of peace and order"
The Lampasas Dispatch says that
man was picked up on last Monday b,
:. Deputy Sheriff McKecver under suspi
cious circumstances, and IS now in GU
Jail. He was riding a gray horse anc
leading gray mare Doth unbranded)
carried needle gun, and both he ant
the horses seemed jaded. He wa
asked if he had not pistol, which h
denied, but upon examination, a fine
ivory-handled six-shooter was fount
upon his person. He claimed to b
one of the Wesley Hardins.
The Austin county correspondent O.
the Brennan Ncrs says: 81 find grass
hopper eggs which, contrary to GU
preconceived idea, after being exposes
to the air for the space of minute o
so, hoped off as briskly as q maidel
of sweet SIXTEEN and equally as wei
prepared and as anxious to create mis-
chief. This Will cause considerable dc
e lay in corn planting, as, from the a,
ccrtained habits of the insect, the
S will linger FIVE or SIX weeks before MI
= grating. Taken altogether, the pros
pect is not SO encouraging as it Nigh
be-"
The Burnet Bulletin says: eth
c Galveston Nsics has daily circulation
of nearly 1000 copies" AS Austin
r railway system is perfected, and tn
: people along the roads learn that tn
latest news is accessible through tn
STATEsMAN's Geographic pages, on
circulation viii rival that of the NceI
1t grows apace, and for the reasol
hat the STATESMAN is fresh and vi
vacious, and goes for the right an,
never bends to a vulgar prejudic
of ignorance OF succumbs to the die
tates of corporations or alliances anon
unworthy party leaders.
Ennis county contains 1000 squar
D miles. AS to the population there ar
no official figures since 1870. The
: 1t was 1900 and it has more than dOu
bled since that time. At the last cleo
, ton for governor, ahuut year ago
!, very nearly 5000 votes were cast. 1
other States the ratio of voters to tn
number of inhabitants is as on to six
but so many single men come to Tex.
! that hora II NAV mo reckoned AZ ono q