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


organized the first church of this char
ae'er and purpose in the United States.
They have q Polish Jew in Denison
named Julep, and the fellow has near
" run his little legs off keeping out of |
AuTrsy's va. Ii shower and freeze (!
come, sud he be iced over little, and |
Murray be in town, the Polish massa-
ere will be renewed and Murray's |
stomach viii be Warsaw and the mint |
and things Sdioed up in the tsar. /
No man appreciates the virtues of
him who carves out q juicy beefstesk |!
more keenly than hrs Excellency, and !
the butchers and the people know how |
to get at his bowels Of compassion and
tenderloin. When they bought cattle
without taking bill OF sale, not know
ing that the Grsngererous code required
it, his Excellency was the man to par
don them. He couldn't help it.
The Cirilian tells how 'fsable knights
of the whiteYash brush are actively
engaged in Galveston in the business
of coating fences and outheuses with
covering at entire variance with their
hand when general renovation Of
premises will result in identifying the
same and also in promoting the health
of the occupants" Austin needs no
whitewashing. - z
Col. Torrey, the vine dresser of Gran
bury, the Vidette says, sis progressing
finely in his extensive Improvements.
faaoal h. 3
blowing, planting and setting out his
young fruit trees. His next work is
the building of very large cistern on
the Peak, which is now under contract.
Col. Torrey will, erelong, give ample
proof that even the sterile hills of
Hood county are valuable. Wool and
wine are destined to become staple
productions of Texas" rF
Old Rutabaga, Of Collin, thrust him
self in Throckmorton's path last week
at Mckinney, when the tacile, fluent,
vivacious, able Congressman, the In
guirer says, ''flayed the rude old cur
mudgeou alive" He therefore is a
peeled turnip now and will never more
become food for Radicalism to prey
upon in Texas. He it was who turned
over half the towns and one-third of
the counties of Texas to the sway of
Radicalism.
The Cigilidn-tells that the track of
the narrow gauge railroads now being
laid along the north section Of Ninth
street, and also, at intervals, on A or
Water street. From the energy
evinced in this respect, we may expect
the track to be laid to Kuhn's wharf
by the end of next week. The work
on the other end of the road is being
pushed forward rapidly, and we may
soon expect to see great beneficial re-
suits inure to our City through this new
enterprise. -........
]. Clarke Swaze, killed at Topeka,
was q Georgia Radical editor at Griffin
and Macon, where he threw his villain
GUS bileinto foul newspaper. He rode
rail from Griffin and was drivenfrom
Macon, we believe, or should have
been, and simply because he lived
there only that he might insult and
outrage an impoverished and tyrant-
ridden people. He was, no doubt,
properly killed. The man was mad, q
crazed fool. .. ., ~s.-.e.. go
The blessed .limpleeute don't contain
much reading matter when the sold
man" is uncomfortably lazy, and the
machine then runs itself, but now and
then it injects muZtlm in pdr0O, and in
paragraph congresses thewisdom and
genus of dozen ordinary newspapers
Its latest apothegm is involved in it,
statement that "Joe Jackson has
bought amagniicent jack to keep hi:
blooded bull company" and then the
limp. adds with singular sang trOiC
"them three is hard to beat.'' ~
, The Corsicana Tablet tells that '.sdul
times don't interfere with Justice Ter
rel in his dispensation of law and jus
; tice. The 'calp of Constable Jone.
may be heard almost every hour in the
day." And the call of the constable,
and the mob he gathers, and the
, DRINKS and idleness and costs ano
bad morals and hard swearing dis
pensed constitute school for vice and
poverty which should scar the face OF {
tablet of stone with deep seams carved
by trickling streams of grief.
The bogus half-dollar pieces in or
: cuIation, of which the public should
, be particularly cautious, are composed
of anthony, lead and tin. A genuin,
half dollar weighs 1922 grains; thu
anthony and lead and tin hambug
weigh only 14s grams. Type metal il
also used by the counterfeiters. 1t i
) electro-plated first with copper anG
5 then with silver. 1t weighs 1872. o grains
like the real half dollar, but the colo
, is not good; the false pieces are thick
er than the genuine, and the device
, are feeble and faulty.
The following spicy communication
explains itself: Editors Democrat
Statesmdn-Cases tried IN the distric
e court of Williamson county, yesterday
State v. John Maxwell, charge witt
, theft of two ponies; verdict guilty
| punishment seven years in the peniten
/ tiary. State v. Alvin Wilkinson
charged with murder; found guilt
l of murder in second degree; punish
ment five years in the penitentlary.
t Williamson county is going to build
! court house for this sort of justice, t
= cost $50, 900, so says the Henderso
o Record. ... -...-. . ...--si
t They have highwaymen doing
e lively business about Jacksboro, an
s when it was proposed to vote whisky
j. which steals the few brains and moral
/ people may have out of Jacksboro, til
l. sweet town turned up its Indignant
I'd plugged, nose aud stood by. whisky, an
now robberies of all sorts are progress
!, sive and though people are stopped b
:. Robin Hoods on the highway and mu!
r sure nder their watches and purses
q there are many more knocked dow
# and stripped to poverty by tanglefoo
and Jacksboro is in an awful fix.
It Young county, one of the younge
n of the daughters of Texas, cultivate
' last year, the county judge say
n IL, 600 acres of wheat, 10, 000JacTes {
+ corn, 6000 acres of oats, $50. acres {
/, barley, and 1000 acres of rye. Ave
). age yield per acre; Wheat, 10 Tbusf
4 els; corn, % bushels; oats, 20 bushel
barley, 20 bushels; rye, 90 bushel
;. Estimated production: Wheat, 100, OF
bushels; corn, 420, 900 bushels; oat
y 120, 900 bushels; barley, 5000 bushel
n rye, 1000 bushels. Home .consum
d ton: Wheat, 175, coo bushels; cor
D. 42o, 600 bushels; oats, 40, geo bus
G. els barley, 5000 bushels; rye, 20t
l.. bushels. Surplus for export: Whoa
IS 5000 bushels. so n, n. $50
"Ruminants" chew the cud, ar