The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-08

warm the loafers have nowhere TO sit
and nothing to white, and the dogs
and ieas have no proper hiding-placcs.
The juvenile grasshnpPers are still
alive and kicking down about Coiun
bus. The Citizen has been examining
their muscles, and thinks them capa-
bic of perfect locomotion, and that
they will begin to move in ten days.
The Waller county Courier is the or
gan OF whisky at Hampstead and yet 1t
prints this: "Shed Briaut, on the
plantation of X. r. McUade, one day
last week, stabbed a couple Of his asso-
ciates severely. Cause, too much ben
zine"
Martin has been furnishing his cor
rugated brow and Strengthening ont
his legs AID visiting Crooks every few
DAYS, that he may Toe as little like HIM
as possio! and all because q new post
mistress has been sent down 10 Sher-
nan.
The Corsicana Indss says that Gov
{ vnor Hubbard wins the pIaudits OF
the STATESMAN because he is supplying
the grounds at Capitol with water.
We are astonis that it wastes itself
on any liquid :rgeIlc than Santa
Cruz run"
f. W. Mooring. who supplies Texas
with imported wines AVID brandies
through New York, Is expected in
San Antonio, where supplies run low
in consequence of thS consumption by
tramps. They will saw wood for stiff
drinks, but not for food.
The Castroville Era says that cattle
have suffered more than usual this
winter, and that many of them are
very poor, and cannot live until spring.
Mr.. Lytle. largely Interested IN cattle,
will sustain heavy loss, though his
large pasture will greatly protect him.
J.W. Stephenson is making speeches
in Waller country rersus local option, >
while Waller and Reese are for prohi-
bltiOn. If these men are lawyers, and
YOU have a claim for collection, drunk
or sober, YOU would send 1t to those
attorneys that advocate the extinction
of whisky.
The Headlight properly declares that
the more prosperous the villages and
towns about Austin the more rapidly
the capital viii grow. 1t is only ncccs'
sary that the means of intercOmmunl-
cation between the capital and these
towns be perfect The towns. then,
| become distributing agencies for the
| city.
Smallpox IS causing great suffering
among the people of Chambers county.
4 number have fed their homes, buI
many others are forced to remain II
localities ravaged to an alarming ex'
tent. Physicians and experienced
nurses are asked for at Smiths Point,
Double Bayou, Turtle Bayou and Wal
lisville.
The New York Herald is in need Of
Texas editor. Witness the follow
ing: I'm Texas wild turkeys are one
| dollar a dozen and whisky is hfty cents
drink" eff you go to Texas TO grow
up with the country, you may buy ont
hundred acres of land for twenty-five
cents and be shot within ten minutes
| That is nation"
The ladies of BRENNAN have ;
Christian Aid Society that has done
much good through the winter. They
! are sound, too, we are told, on loca
option. The good danes of Austin
seem somehow to be quiescent anC
Enthusiastically indifferent and dom
care how much whisky is absorbed b.
the people.
A great many people in Texas, ''jus
for green's" are eating each Tint.
quails in thirty days, one each day
| These birds were never so abundant a.
now in this vicinity. Breeding, a
| ROckdale, has devoured SO many thai
his abdominal rotundity is immense
and his wings are sprouting Tor ;
blessed immortality.
A great revival Is III progress il
Denison. All the protestant preacher
are actjve participants and Murray seem
to think that the morals of the tow
will he greatly improved. In any even
we will hereafter give u share of ere
! dence to his statements affecting tn
| Red River and Rio Srandc Rai!wa,
ana NOel's mule.
At Il variety show in Griffin, B'l
Bland and Charley Reed were ''shoot
ing around generally" our intoIman
states, and killed j. W. Myers, - law
I yer, and one Barron, aud ore Bian,
was shot in the abdomen. County At
torney Jeffrey was shot through III
leo and The sheriff was wounded. Wins
| ky! Whisky!
| The Hampstead Courier, the whisE,
organ, states that the county Jail /
in II horribly filthy condition. and til
stencil in the cells most nauseating
! The law does not contemplate the pos
sibllity of prisoners wallowing ii
filth" The law, until whisky is re
pressed, does contemplate it and TIT
jail ut Hampstead will he packed I'll
whisky is made inaccessible to tn
many.
The Castroville Era says: owe ar
pleased to see Mayor Haas round il
uetter health" He has II square name
but mayors ought to be round un'
we'll fed. He IS the embodiment o
his town, and his own corporation l
generally kept fat, however lean ant
hungry that of the town whose estate
he administers upon.
The Gonzales Inquirer says tina
about one-half of the couutes in tn
State will vote upon the local oDt'o
question WITHIN the mex: month. Som
twenty or more have air, ady htId cleo
lions and declared for Prohibition AM
reform. whilst eight or zen Others lav
decided TO re- ain whisky aud its at
tendant evils, drunkenness and crime
| Austin is richer and more prosperoC
to-day than Houston. Il Is forty-eigh
miles from Houston To the BRAVO
river. From Houston to Lagrange
Is one hundred miles. Mixed train
now run to Wimberly, thirty mile
from Houston, consequently with
eighteen miles of the Brazos The cs
timated cost Of the road is $40, 900
mile, consequently 1000, COO build
the road to LaGrangc.
McGary proves by Governor Thomp
son that he and his father before hil
were sound local optIonisrs and neveI
drank. But the governor is onl
thirty years old. McGary Is 4 cente
marian, and McGary's father is olde
than the son, aud thus we are paine'
to look down into a yawning hiatus i
dates into which a river of whisk.
may have been fiowiSg from time in
memorial. Notary must get an olde
witness.