The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-07

was listened to with marked attention
by court jury and people.
The great Nat Q. Henderson is the
newsboy OF Congress. he folds up
the papers and hands them to the mem
bers as they come in Of mornings. He's
. bigger man than Grant.
The Tmpleeute is the daddy of the
story that w. z. Horne has tifty-two
children It worries Mr.. Horne, who
often took horn, but is not lineally
descended from Horne-tooke.
The parent Of insomnia is not tobsc
co but early piety and the more OF
those bitters prescribed for it people
take, the sooner will they sleep that
sleep that knows no waking.
The Headlight wants dog tax. 1t
does not like fees, or bowls by night,
or to have its shins nipped. Then,
too, the Headlight goes wool gather
ing sometimes, and loves mutton.
The Sherman REGISTER tells Its readers
that the Earth Boring Machine was
the invention of Q Sherman man. We
knew that Martin edited, but never
before that he founded the Register.
F. Stillman and W. Coe, New York
stockholders in the Texas Central, are
traversing the State with Messrs Jor-
dan, Swanson and Quinlln, managers
of the affairs of the great corporation.
The people of Georgetown are in
earnest about railroad connection.
They would connect at Brushy with a
line to Auatin, but as this seems i'm
possible, they will build to Round
Rock.
Brick Pomeroy, having learned that
eggs at Wholesale are 6 10 cents per
dozen, proposes to revisit Sherman.
He thinks, we reckon, it will cost Mar
tin and the Test very little to get rid of
Inn.
A man named Bob Tier had 800 in a
trunk and the trunk buried In pile
of corn. While he was away some
one went to steal his corn, and finding
the trunk they ritled that and took the
money also.
The Tribune says that the average
decline in the salable value of Texas
property, because of the contraction of
decentralization of silver,
is certainly one half. Tax assessors will
please take notice.
The only surviving son of Davy
Crockett came into Fort Worth the
other day. He was interviewed by a
Democrat reporter, but was not very
thinking more about
selling his cotton than of going through
the press.
Mr.. Ed Smallwood has retired from
the proprietorship of the Houston Age.
His successors are Messrs. Joseph
Smallwood and GeNrge W. King, con-
nected with the management of that
paper. The Age is now published in
the evening.
The Georgetown SIN says: "The
people of Georgetown will not build
west to connect with a narrow gauge
road from Austin to Lampasas; but
Austin can afford TO come via George
town to Lampasas and lose nothing by
the operation.
The Jefferson Jimplecute is respon-
sible for the statement that the wife of
Mr.. Wiley Horne, of Parker county,
recently gave birth to five boy babies
at one birth, and that all are doing
well. Mr.. Horne Is also said to be the
father of fiftY-two children.
Rev. Robt. Mckinney, of Whites
boro, heard a noise in his meat house
at night. and proceeding to find out
what was the matter, he was stabbed
to death by the thief. A man named
Matthews has been arrested, and will
probably hang for the dark deed.
The proposition made by thought
full contemporary to establish free
banks in Texas, like those of Louisi-
ana of former years, is rendered i'm
possible by the Rutabsga constitution,
which prohibits forever the establish
nent Of local banking institutions in
Texas.
Col. Lawrence, one of the oldest land
agents in Texas and without blemlsh
On his fair fame, is spoken of as a can
1ldate for the land commissionership.
he Is universally well esteemed and
nobody could get more votes about
The capital or st Lawrence, a town
named in his honor.
Llnk-not the missing thing that
Darwin talks about, but the good man
who links himself to Christians through
he Tems Baptist Herdl2-has found
his labors too great, and has associated
With himself in journalistic life Rev.
G. Pope, late edltor of the Baptist
of Nashville, Tenn.
The Daily Morning Call. Of Dallas, is
breezy and bright and very attractive.
Z is set sHoat by old hands at the bel
ows. Old Eolus himself had not q
better windbag than the pair who pro-
lose to enllven business and cemmer
:iai life in Dallas by forcing evers body
o read the vivaclous Morning Call.
Dallas. like many real cities, must
ave q scandal, and this time it was
tsrted by lady, which is a novel
act. Anyhow, pistols and coffee for
good many were in the prospective,
when this frolicksome lady took it all
Jack with the scratch of a pen, and
the newspaper reporters.
Rev. J. J. Clemens discusses hell in
galveston this morning at II O'Clock
Perhaps he went to Galveston from
Iouston to do this job ''becausc there
3 much water there" He will deliver
fiery sermon, and Houston, as every
'ody knows, couldn't stand it. But
shouldn't be personal or To-
al.
When we poked little innocent
IN and exaggerated balderdash at the
dItOr of the D.llas Herald, there was
% malice in it, and We have no doubt
70 enjoyed the badinage ~ we'll as we
i'd. II is only cosrseness of epithets
nd personal abuse that tffends or
Wounds a trained editor. We would
10 neither.
The Galveston Netcs is not only
,reat and enterprising journal worthy
I any city of the magnitude of Calves
On and of State hike Texas. but its
'Hand"-bills are superb. The placard
rom that Office announcing the coming
'oDders of Mardi Gras are absolutely |
unsurpassed by such work coming from |
'incinnati and Chicsgo.
The Dallas Morning Call thinks the
may overdo the thing
: claims that the best friends The
have are Democratic
'aders such as Voorhees,, Hendricks,
uckuer, and q host OF others. No
Democrat can afford to
ave his party for q new one of uucer-