The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

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Mobile rising sinners.
Blind Tom will be in Houston on
February IA, 10 and 16.
Dan T. Malvern, the great WAGNER
of Texas, is waking up Waco.
Waco has eggs at ten cents and the
Examiner and Lang are nest-hiding.
Col. Pierce, of the Sunset road, pro-
poses building fine hotel at San An
torio.
Capt. L. E. Edwards has gotten back
IN San Antonio from mis- western tnp
locating lands.
The Honey Grove Independent is one
of the most readable and attractive pa
pers of the State.
Old man Mackey was murdered the
other day by a mob at Hazel Dell, in
Comanche county.
Steer clear of five dollar bills ON the
First National bank of Hanover, Pa.
They are counterfeits. "s. .-.-..
Crooks, of the Courier, is to have q
partner in Brick Pomeroy. Such is
the latest news from Sherman.
The Jail in Plttsburg, Camp county,
was burned the other day, and negro
prisoner was burned to death.
The Methodist Church of the COL
ored people at Brennan is the hand
soonest church edifice in the place.
The Register says its "local editor is
sick kitten" Its editor. in chief is
always ''lyiDg up to hot brick "--in
his hat.
They knock down and rob strangers
at the railway depots of Denison and
Sherman, and people should keep away
from such places.
The Telegram says a negro child that
was fatally burned in Houston after
wards died. The Telegram ought to
explain ell about it.
The Denver Typographical Unions
secretary calls him the ''nsmadic ma
nipulator of antjmony," and warns him
to steer clear of those parts. .....
John Hancock got into a difficulty
with Ed. Nugent in q saloon at Clarke
vile, and the latter may die of pts
toll wound. Whisky was the cause
of it.
Every newspaper in Texas is adorned
with a sketch of the late Pope's life,
distracted from Appleton's cyclopedIa,
to which our readers are respectfully
referred.
Kester Msxan, the young lawyer
who was killed in duel on the Next
can side of the Rio Grande by Miguel
de la Penna, was most highly esteemed
in Brownsville, where he lived.
The Mexia Ledger calls it bad policy
for Texas business men to have Job
printing done away from home, and to
have 1t full of Typographical errors, all
too, to save few cents. @
II it be true, as stated by the Tablet,
that there are $50, 900 acres of land in
Grimes county that have-Rever paid
taxes, Comptroller DardeR will soon
be on the rampage in those parts.
o. o. Bill of Dallas, who has the
best collection of Texas curiosities in
the world. recently added to his cabi-
net q specimen of Martins wit. He
charges a dollar for going one eye
on it. u
, Rev. DR.. Read, of Shermen, Is going
to preach about hell. II there be one,
Martin will have deeper stakes in it
than any fellow in Northern Texas
that is to say, if they stake them out
on their original legs.
The latest number of the Cuero Bul-
letin tells US nothing of the present or
future of Morgan's road, whe ther it is
coming north or going back or whether
the fellow that makes the track gives
us lift or awful whack.
Mr.. Pounds, from Mississippi, is in
McCulloch county looking for land
sufficient to settle 100 families repre-
senting all trades aud professions ex-
cept lawyers, and Austin is prepared
to furnish these by the carload.
Msj"rI G. St-fford, of Houston,
member of the Grand Lodge of l. 0. o.
F., is we'll known sll oSer Texas for
his noble self-sacrificing impulses. Few
men have found warmer places in the
hearts Of the many than Ike Stafford.
One packing establishment in Full
ton, Ar; n 'as county, Texas, killed
10, 900 beeves the past season, and sue
cessfully canned two millions of two
pornd cans Of beef, besides thousands
of cans of turtle, tongues, soups, etc.
Col. Cunningham represents that
everything is working smoothly at the
penitentiary aud the pri soners have all
been comfortably clothed since he took
charge of it. He states that the de-
msnd for labor far exceeded his expec-
tatIons.
The Tfnes says: Thompson's
theatre, or dance house, is still in full
blast in Dallas" Il is commonly |
deemed a fiery furnace, and many
there be that go in therest and are |
burnt. They therefore call it "burst |
cork show" .t $3.50 @-e
A buffalo hunter, just in from the
Stsked Plains, reports having found !
the skeletons of two soldiers and their |
horses near Double Lake, about 100 |
miles northwest of the North Concho.
The indications prove the country near
Mountain Lake to be Indian headquar-
teIs. RVS ~ lr o. 50
The Williamson county Sen reflects
that If poverty be an objection to az
cepting the position Of Governor, how
can the present incumbent afford, to-
take it the second time, when he ia I'M
able to pay the $500 recently bor-
rowed to meet the pressing demands OF
his creditois7 los sir -ieI3
The use of circular saw beaten
with poker, to invite hungry guests
to luxurious table At Hempstead, has
induced the many readers -of-the Mes
'eaaer, which defends the practice, to
ienominate the editor of that journal
he Harmonious Hsrmonias, sometimes
called Hieronymus for short.
The Brentwood Banner says that
ady about fi.een miles east of Brown
wood. in that county, recently gave
premature biith to SIX, and some say
seven we'll Observation-Disclosures one
lime. This we. have iron 9 preacher
n the neighborhood. We have no
loubt that the story is literally true.
The Brenham Baaner refers to two
recent cases of hydrophobia. In each
Instance the wcunds healed. and only
lfter some months was insanity devel-
ped. Thea the man and the boy both
lied in terrible agony, And-yet civil
zed people living IN towns keep dogs
- eha haneG Of el,asr t1nn1an. rass.b 1