The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

cents per Sushel; meal 40 cents per j
bushel; corn, new, 25 to 80 cents per
barrel; chickens ~ IL to Is cents
each; eggs 1-2 to 8 cents per dozen; ,
butter 20 cents per pound.
The first installment of Wash Jones's |
s'fiat' greenbacks must have reached |
Austin yesterday. An unusual number
of Greenbsckers we're on the street |
corners seeming to have no care for
anything or anybody. Their families I
are amply provided for and the country
alone calls upon them.
The few white Greenbsckers of
Pecan street were in q Brown study
yesterday. They don't know what 20
do about it. Ben Butler, Governor
Davis and Mayor DeGress all in one
day is rather too big load to carry:
and Robertson Hill on top of sll this
They are weakening under it.
When the Democracy of Houston
went on bender Thursday night they
stopped at the Telegram Office and gave
hearty cheers for A. c. Gray. Crank,
Tankerly, Kerlicks, II. P. Roberts,
Arson Jones, Grunewsld, ct ais, made
rousing speeches. They all said Judge
Roberts, ssnce they come to think
about it, was their first choice.
1t is stated by good authority that
the danger of falling victim to the
yellow fever scourge may in great |
measure be overcome 10y taking inter |
nally small doses of sulphate of
quinia, tincture of iron and chlorate
! of potassia, at stated intervals. 1t is
also recommended to frequently battle
the nostfils with solution containing
quinine.
Correspondents should write news
and not attempt to give views of pub
lie matters and things unless fully able
to do so. A stale communication must
be plodded through by an editor and
converted into correct English, and
then probably, after much time has
been devoted to it, it goes into the
waste basket because the sum and sub
stance of it is nothing.
The San Antonio Herald says it is
mistake to suppose circuses take much
money out of Texas. Then why do
they come? The tax is not too high
till it amounts to prohibition. The
circus never taught people anything
they ought to know, or promoted pub
lie morals TO any alarming extent; but
then it will do as we'll as bull and bear
batting in San Antonio.
The statesmen and poets that have
tumbled head, neck and heels into the
!, Greenbackers' party since Governor
Davis and Major DEGREES Topped so
incontinently, cannot be counted. The
moral influence of individuals. includ-
, ing Tracy and the oleaginous Senator
from Harris, is indeed peculiarly strik-
ing. 1t knocks Greenbackism entire
! ly off its pins.
Gonzales Enquirer: ''God and nature
: combined to make Austin, by reason of
its location, one of the healthiest places
J on the globe. Infectious diseases, even
2 lf'brought there from malarisl districts,
find no abiding place, and therefore the
STATESMAN deems it proper that Austin
should establish a hospital for the
|, refugees of the plague-stricksn cities OF
the plain, whose very winds are tainted
: with disease and DEATH"
Col. DIN Wellborn, Democratic
: nominee for Congress in the Third
, district, is a native of Georgia and
e thirty-five years old. He is graduate
e of Chappell Hill, North Carolina,
d served in Wheeler's cavalry during the
war, and studied law in Atlanta after
d its close. He was never candidate
for Office until nominated for Congress
by the Fort Worth convention.
The newspapers In Sherman make
r candidates fork up $15 for announce
ments. The cost of cards in the four
:, dailies, two of Sherman and two CT
Denison, lessons the number of can
e didates by half, and the people are
s spared infinite hand-shaking and idle
goose gable to which they must lis
g ten when meeting loquacious candi
date. In all it's aspects the press is {
, great public benefactor.
s Deputy Sheriff Mcmahon, of Wash
It ington county, was the officer who ar
IS rested Deputy Marshal Stegall and hi
# party st Burton. Though Stegall haG
papers to prove his identity, and re.
= sponsible parties were ready to voucf
for him, he and his prisoners were
- held. The excitement was intense anG
= for time it looked as though thert
. might be bloodshed. Mcmahon wa
watchful, but most indiscreet.
= DR.. c. E. Grant, evangelist, who ha'
r. been turning Satan down in Texas, ha
is lately been identified at Bryan as Geo
. Holmes, of Canada. He abandoned
e his wife and children in Canada, stolt
money and came to Texas as a mission
= airy to save heathens. At one time
4 was rumored he was going to marry
a young lady of Austin, and he did a
A last victlnlze poor female. He is t.
n be prosecpted-the sanctimonlous vii
lain.
, Capt. Jack Martin is making speeche
- against the ''fiat" money fellows abou
Sherman. We never could see the US
- in making speeches when one has
. newspaper, like the Register, reaching
directly and indirectly everybody il
the country. Martins vehement man
eV ner is lost in his newspaper, and ais
N the moral effect of them ponderou
~ legs, and therefore, he is like thos
10 good people called to preach. H
IN can't help it. His legs and ideas ru
away with him.
m Whether Purgstory springs, in Hay
ty county, are so called because felloy
IN goes there to get himself expurgate'
ct or because it is the halfway house
al perdition, we are not informed. Blu
it is a queer name for a watering place
D. We guess some sllopath named it be
n cause he detected blue ruin in th
- shape of blue mass in it, and when b
or wrote purgative the printer had it pun
m gatory. But we always heard it was
= nice place to go to-better than th
;, other little lower down.
Governor Throckmorton, in his lat
s speech at Mckinney, SAID the none
/, paid for conyicting and transporting
! prisoner to Huntsville would almos
y pay a mans expenses to the Information
y al Exposition at Paris and keep hIr
II at the best hotel in the city for
10 month. While the picture is probabl
r overdrawn, it cannot fail to Impres
o. upon the people the necessity of elect
10 ing men to the Legislature who wi
IN see to it that the expenses of crimins
process are reduced.
I'd Mr.. Ira Golf, gentleman aged
n years, who lived near Iron Ore, hs
rs been confined to his bed for some tim
Or with sickness. The other day his vii
&c was in the yard, when one OF the chi
er dren came to the door of the dwellin