The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-24

They have unearthed petrifed giant
at Dallas, and the bar-room hard by is
said to furnish the choicest whisky 10
Dallas. 1t is cid and oily and its popu-
larity grows with the spreading of the
story that the giant died in front of
that bar-room.
Lampasas county Is preparing for
much larger crop than last year, and
Austin does nothing about q narrow
gauge railway, while Georgetown is
about to reduce wagon transportation
for the upper country about eight and
half miles.
The Changers Life and Health In
surance Company, of Mobile, estab-
llshed Texas department, and now
there is probability of the company
suspendiDg business, for the Texas de-
partment refuses to go along with it in
the insurance march.
The body of man, supposed by
some to be John Abel. of Atascosa
county, and by Others Jacob SDyder,
was found on the railroad track at San
Antonio. 1t was crushed and mutilat-
ed by the cars, but there is q suspicion
that it was murder.
The editor of the Rockdale MeSsen-
ger knows more about hell than any
other man in Texas, and the probs.
bility is that some day he may know
more. Breeding, 30 doubt, has much
to do with his insight into the future
| state of the condemned.
The Register doubts Col. Lang's abil-
ity to run four mile race, but thinks
he makes an excellent quarter dash.
Whether the quarter dash applies to
the mastersbip of the State Grange we
are unable to say, but the four mile
dash applies to the Goveruarship.
j. g. Peterson, an auctioneer of
Denison, has been performing illegal
marriage ceremonies, and has gotten
| into trouble. The couples he has
| spliced will have to get tied over again.
Or if experience has made them dis.
satisfied they may go their way rejoic-
ing.
Hereafter, in rendering land, as.
essors will describe the same, as TO
abstract number. as it is described on
the abstract. They are required to
identify every tract rendered for assess
ment, by inserting the name of the
original grantee and the new abstract
number.
The Lampasas Dispatch says:
'Duung the twenty years of Throck-
morton's political life in Texas, we
hov 81 L..
hand in any bribery case, nor has he
ever been accused of lending himself
to any one in aiding them to swindle
the State"
Sheriff ]. ]. Strickland, of Burnet
county, resigned for several reasons.
There was no money in the office ex-
cept from criminal business, and this
has about given out in Burnet county.
He had also been urged by Major
Jones to take command of one of his
companies and he will now do 80.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette says:
From every quarter comes the newe
of mischief done by whisky. Men
killed, homes made desolate, women
and children brought to degradation
and poverty, and yet we hear men con-
tend that the traffic in whisky shall go
unrestrained by any statute law"
The new owners of the Western
Narrow Gauge Railroad say they will
do nothing until the old owners do
certain things, and the old owners say
they will not do those certain things
until the new owners do certain other
things, and 1t appears quite certain
that nothing is to be Immediately con-
summated.
Deputy United States Marshal Ran
kin, while at Hampstead, received a
requisition from Galveston for the per-
son of man living near Bellville, and
Notwithstanding the hard rain and the
fact that the BraZos had to be crossed
in skiff, he delivered the fellow in
Galveston in less than twenty-four
hours after he had received the redul-
sition.
When times are hard business mel
reduce salaries of clerks, having no
families to q minimum hardly paying
enough to darn the seats of trowsers
worn out in sliding over counters. But
corporations never see the necessity
for reform. The people must foot the
bills and sinecures are multiplied and
salaries grow or remain as when dol
lar was worth, In purchasing power,
one-half less than to-day.
Hon. A. Doris, of Twelfth Legisla-
ture fame, is looking out for number
one at LockhaIt. He advertises in the
Nsps Echo a am now selling good
hide bottomed chairs for So per set
six in set. / will take cow hides
and corn delivered to me at the market
price. Bedsteads cheap. l warrant
all my work. A. DORIS" Doris
could hardly be deneminated a COW
hide legislator.
Capt. ]. D. Freeman, of Brazoria
county reports that from one hundred
and ten acres of land he cut crop of
sugar cane during the year Just past,
which averages over two hogsheads to
the acre. He settled with his sugar
maker, allowing him pay for 25, 600
pounds of sugar. or in commercial par
lance, for two hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
dence of what Texas soil can produce
when properly Manipulated.
A boy aged about eighteen was ar
rested and placed in the calaboose
charged with carrying a pistol at
Whitesboro. Ten men, armed to the
teeth, took him out of town and hang
ed him by the neck to tree, until
speeches, to make him confess him
self a hOrsethief, or connected with
thieves. He protested to the last he
was no thief, and was finally taken
back to prison. When tried before a
legal tribunal he was acquitted.
Gen. Rice Maxey, father of Senator
Maxey, is dead. He was Kentuckian by
birth, but immigrsted to Texas over
twenty years ago and located in Paris,
Lamar county, where he practIced law,
with his son, S. B. Maxey, as his part
ner. About six years ago he retired
from the practice, having spent long
and honorable life In the professors,
and since then he has devoted himself
to home pursuits, to the cultivation Of
fruits and flowers, and to his family.
he was wise ana good man.
Tennesseeans in Texas, standing
aloof and contemplating the changeful
fortunes OF the greatest city of the old
which has been sorely
plundtred by knaves and adventures
in Office, will be well pleased 10 learn |
that ex-Judge Flippin, an admirable
scholar and gentleman, has been re- |
elected mayor of Memphis by vote of |