The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-28

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OF children in school is a relic of bar.
barism, and we are sorry to say there
is much of it still in the world.
Crooks Courier says there is ''mis
sing link" in the very midst of til,
lightning rod on the Baptist Church il
Sherman. We had beard that NJ ,rt;r
was part and parcel of the Bsptis
Church; but why do people ins Al ;
joint of ''chain lightning in the mIds
Of lightning rods in Sherman? What.
the philosophy of it, Mr.. Crook?
The Sherman Courier says tina
Thomas, the express agent on tn,
train, is known to several men in thi,
town, who declare him to be a man o.
uncommon courage and determination
Mr.. Law, salesman for Eubank & Co.,
was an old room mate of his, and W,
believe Thomas had Laws pistol at I'll,
time he was oYtrpowered.
One hundred arrests have been mad,
of persons in Lavaca county who for
got to pay their dog tax. Austin dog
had big convention about it SUNDAY
right in front of the postoffice, an6
howled and snapped and fought abou
it or something else all night, to tn,
great delight of the sleeping bachelor:
of that vicinity. The police were Aot
around.
Patents granted to Texas, bearing
date of January 20, 1879, reported by
Paine q Grafton, attorneys, Washing.
ton, ID. c.. were to Thomas A. An
drews & Alfred G.. Edwards, of Gaines
vile, bale tie; William R. Lenard,
Waco, bale tie; John G. Randall,
Sulphur Springs, horse power; Johr
s. Thomas, Fort Worth, Jail cell.
Lavaca county is sad. In fact, the
dog loving members of society weeI
because Bose and Tige and Clip are nc
more. The. dog tax was convenien "
forgotten to be paid, and now each
dog is putting $40 and upward into the
district attorneys pocket and taking il
out of the pocket of the fellow who
loved his flea factory and sheep muir
derer and shin bitter so tenderly.
Henry Thurston, the Missouri giant,
now a resident of Titus county. has
issued challenge to any man in the
world to wrestie him, back-hold, side
hold or catch-as- catch-can, best three
in five, fair back falls, for $1,000 to
$4,000 side, match to be held in Aus
tin, Texas. Thurston is now 80 wears
of age, weighs over 300 pounds and
stands seven feet six inches in his
stockings.
DR.. Woolf, the surgeon present at
the Pena- Maxan duel, is under arrest
at MatamorCs. He is confined in
pleasant quarters and the authorities
show him every attention. He says
that when invited to take a ride ac-
cOmpanied with request to take with
him his instruments, he was not ap-
prised of an impending duel, and not
until the contestants were on the field
did he realize the nature of his miss
SION.
Winfield Scott Fly is the foremost
lawyer about Gonzales. Shrewd and
adroit and honorable, it was never
proposed to him:
Twill yOu walk into my parlor ~
Said the spider to the fly.
VIII your will you? etc.
And this fly never wIlted. 1t was not
to an ancestor of this Fly that Uncle
Toby uttered the inner al words, $50,
little insect; the world is big enough
for both thee and me-"
A shooting affair took place at Bryan
the other day between /. G.. and Rush
Randle, brothers, on one side, and
Henry Hodges and Milton Parker on
the other. Sixteen shots were fired,
resulting in the woundlng of Rush
Randle in the head, it is thought ia
tally. DIR. Morrison, locker on, re-
ceived painful flesh wound. The
difficulty was theresult of an old feud.
Hodges and Parker Immediately sur
rendered and gave bond in the sum of
$4,000 each to answer to the charge of
assault with intent to murder.
A prominent grocery house in New
York has sent letters to customers in
Texas saying that firm has ceased to
send out statesmen. They propose to
keep their customers posted by mail in
prices and samples. They propose to
sell goods from three to five per cent
cheaper than they have been doing
while sustaining drummers, which has
added one quarter of cent to the cost
of every yard of calico, the same to
every pound of sugar, and to every
thing else in like proportion.
Mr.. ]. E. Houston, secretary of the
Library Association of Waco, writes to
us as follows: 1--WE take great pleasure
In thanking you for having contributed
in the past to our Library Hall your
most valuable paper. We sincerely
hope that the STATESMAN will continue
to ornament our hall for years to come.
The association gave me special instruc-
tons to say that we receive no paper |
like the STATESMAN and none so eager |
ly read, and we wish it long and |
prosperous life"
A thirteen year old girl, living near
Lawrence, was assaulted by boy aged |
sixteen, named Willie Comes. Before
he could accomplish his vile purpose
the girls screams brought her father TO |
the rescue. G mes knocked down the
father, but at once fl-d. He was ar
rested on Monday, but escaped from
the constable. That night he was
again, arrested and committed to iail.
During the next night he again escaped,
'tole a horse and has not been heard
rom.
A gentleman writing from Cedar
Cr> Elk, in Bastrop county, declares that
he lives in the healthiest region of all
Texas; that a doctor who lives there
las nothing to do, and that hardly any
BODY knows him to be one; that law
Iers are unknown, and find nothing to
10, and that the farmers are busy at
york, preparing for fine harvest.
Much more small grain is being culti-
Tated than heretofore, and the farmers
re organizing better society, and
thinking less whisky, and things are
altogether lovely.
At the close of the war DR.. William
Iarey Cranes admirably well chosen
library and arci ;e illogical cabinet was
hipped from Shreveport in boxes to-
Yards Brenham. Three boxes disap-
reared and one or two were broken
pen by dlsbsnded soldiers. A family
q Eastern Texas found one of the
'oxes. but has never returned it. II
he press of the East will copy the
bove and tell their readers to forward {
he books or geological specimens to '
ir. Crane at BRENNAN he will pay |
harges, and the best interests of Texas
nil be subserved. d
The Sherman Register has an excel
mt "Locsl" in the person of Mr. p.
i Peters and the psper prosDerS. but I