The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19

each day, which, at fifteen cents each,
cost $4,000 per diem, or 81, 100, 900 per
annum. And yet people ale astonished
that bankruptcy pervades Dallas.
Charles Jones was bitten by an "or-
iginal" hydrophobia cat, while on a
buffalo hunt $50 miles west of Cam
bridge, Texas. He went in search of
mad stone, and finally, on the even
ing of the eighth day, found one in the
possession Of E. S. Lee, near Wealth
ertord. He gave his horse for the
privilege of using the stone. 1t "stuck, :"
as 1t is termed, thirty-three times, and
Mr.. Jones was relieved of his suffering,
which had commenced with all the
dangerous symptoms of hydrophobia.
Four men rode into the town of Cas-
troville, on the tenth instant, seized
the court house, saturated everything
with coal oil, fred it, and quietly rode
into the dark. The citizens went to
the rescue of the records, but saved
only the county and one book of the
cattle records. District court records
and State papers were all DESTROYED.
While attempting to stop the flames
sixteen shots were fired by the incen-
diaries.
The Sherman Register says that Major
Swanson, superintendent of the Cen
trail, is on tour of inspection over the
road. He is remodeling the method
of conducting business in the offices
along the line, and reducing the force
very materially. Six clerks were dis
charged from the Houston office, and
corresponding reductions will be made
everywhere. By lessening the force
and cutting down salaries, the expenses
of the road will be greatly reduced,
and the rule of "pay as you go" put
into practical operation.
Jack Hardy, the Dallas horse, owned
by Major ]. E. Barkley, won a three
quarter mile dash in New Orleans, in
1:22 IA, beating the celebrated horse
Redman, coming in easy three lengths
ahead. There were seven entries.
Hardy sold as favOrite, 80, to Redman,
second choice, %. and the field z.
This time is remarkable, being equal
to about 1:40 for the mile. His best
time previous to this race was in Chi
cago, when he beat Bell Bruce, in mile
heats, in 1:44; third heat IA "a.
He is five years old, and is by imported
Phaeton.
hr. Thomas NJ. Goodnight, an able
professor of Tehuacana University,
writes in the following manner to the
STATESMAN: 81 write to inclose the
amount to pay for your Weekly for
this year. Allow me to thank you for
your papers conservatism in politics,
and its honest, upright course in the
late campaign against whisky. You
deserve the thanks of all well-wishers
of society. 1t Is refreshing to find a
first class newspaper independent of
the whippers-in of party, and conducted
in the interest of the people who read
it. Hence subscribe myself"
The Denton Monitor tells of a Mr..
Isaac Withers who killed himself fool
ing with pistol. Withers had traded
for pistol, three of the barrels of
which were loaded. He discharged
two of them Tut the third ene snap
ped. He snapped it again and again
some half-doZen times-but it would
not fire. At last, playfully, he essayed
to point it at one Holt, but the latter
firmly told him not to do it. Withe1s
tLen held up his left hand and snapped
at it several times and, doubtless to as
sure MIR. Holt of its harmlessness, he
placed the muzzle to his right temple
and fired. The ball passed through his
head, and he was corpse.
Parson.Lacy, and his son, in Bosque
couhty, according to the Hill County
Record, have been guilty of cold
blooded murder. The elder Lacey,
because a stranger came to his gate
riding one horse and leading another,
accused him of being a horse thief.
The stranger denied the charge and
proposed to Lacey that if he would go
with him to Meridian he would prove
to him that his suspicious were ground
less. The parson went for his gun and
the stranger for his horse, but as he
saw the gun presented at HIM he
lodged around the corner of the house
Here he was met by the younger Lacey,
also armed. He was shot in two
places and killed.
To those persons or families here
abouts who have the "Texas fever"
we commend "these few lines" from
newspaper correspondent in that State:
'tApples can not be grown here, and,
while cabbages and potatoes grow
luxuriantly, they will rot within two
weeks after being taken out of the
ground. Residents of cities dare not
allow grass to grow in the yards around
their residences, for fear of furnishing
hiding places for tarantulas and cent?
pedes. And at present l can say that
I have not tasted well-cooked beef
steak since 1 have been in the State,
and more than half the time have not
had milk enough to color coffee, to say
nothing of the utter impossibility of
having any to drink" A Columbus,
Ohio, paper publishes the above. There
are apple trees growing even now
luxuriantly on farms about the capital
of Texas. A new country sparsely
populated is not first devoted to the
production Of fruit, but of bread and
bacon. But now that the adolescent
period has passed, peaches and apples
and all fruits that grow in the Gulf
States will be produced as successfully
here as elsewhere in the same latitude.
The Cuero Star says: "True, when
Luling was the terminus of the rail-
road, there were ccngregated there
large number of bad characters, but
the good and honest citizens took the
matter in their own hands, and gave
them to understand that if they re-
NAMED there they must respect and
abide by the laws. Not relishing this,
as soon as the railroad passed on they
went, never to return We are glad
to learn that this most desirable re-
formation has been effected even at the
cost suggested of mob law. But in
what have we wronged Luling since we
spoke the confessed truth, even as the
Star tells the truth of Austin when it
says: ''No two men were ever muir
asEed in sRE disRfls afH in ahygl ingt aR
Austin say as much7 LulIng has no
dismal dens, for local option reigns
supreme here, and the gamblers and
cut-throats who came here, mostly
from Austin, have returned to their
old haunts in the Hill City" But why
are those Luling people SO thin skinned
Why swear and rear and tear their
hair9 We spoke of the place as it
was and as we knew it before this great
reformation occurred. The mail rob-
bers, like ourselves, were not cogni-
zant of the great change and naturally
went thither to share and squander the
spoils of war. Our contemporary
would do us justice and copy this our