The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-31

SD unwsshed person. Since water
works came IN v,gus In the capital
! and bathing is populsrizs3 "musk-
uiaE" Christianity is msinly ex stinct in
Austin.
That great aud good man Col. r. S.
Stevens. OF the Missouri, Kansas and
| 4 x4s II i,Toad, who was once bum
ming around Austin when the Ruta-
oagas held the fort and the capital,
will donate five acres of land and con-
tribute $500 from his private purse to
establish general hospital for railway
employees. 1t should he at Austin.
d.. P. c. VIM was found, last
Tuesday, dead. about three miles from
Burditt's we'll he left Luling in a
buggy Saturday, and nothing more is
known of him until finding his body.
There we're 70 signs of violence, and
his death is supposed to have resulted
from exhaustion. He was candidate
foT State Senator in the last election.
He lived at WIrut1n.
The Express tells of gentleman of
thirty years experience in Wilson,
karnes and Atascosa counties who
declares he never knew the present
drouth in portions of those counties
exceeded. Unless rain comes very
soon, he says, the loss in cattle will be
immense. They may survive the pres
ent season, but they will not live
through the winter. Many are already
moving their stock to other pastures.
The people OF Bell county may erect
| monument at Bolton in memory of the
three boys, two killed, who were fred
upon by an old farmer when discover
ed stealing his apples. Such monu-
ment would serve better purpose than
gallow5 for the lnsanely selfish old
man. l. "V~lA nrnduca honest bows In
| Bolton forever, and make Infamous Vbe
name of the slayer.
We are told that the practice of the
Texas press of pronouncing all who
differ with them liars and hog thieves
! :s becoming monotonous, and shows q
want of thst composure and Judicial
fairness which give weight To argu-
meut. As rule, 1t Is not wise to show
more temper and righteous Indignation
toward those of opposite opinions than
5 customary among Texan newspapers.
The Comanche and Brentwood brass
banda had a coStest at Brownwood
last Friday for q silver cup, aud the
championship of the twelfth judicial
district. 1t resulted in sweeping
victory for the c 'msnche boys But
the sad result is inst everybody for
ten miles around is deaf as post, and
Gen. McCulloch will have to start
big branch of his asylum over there.
The Lampaaas Dispatch says the
drought still continues and VIC fear the
cotton crop will be cut short. like the
wheat and corn. The weed is small,
the bolls are dropping off and in some
cases the cotton is dying. We look for
sure enough hard times next year-not
the imaginary hard times so much
talked about laet year just before the
election by TIE Grecnbsckers.
When the International Railroad, al
the crest Union railway station, in St.
Louis, set up fountain of ever How-
ing ice water, which is the best pre-
tentative of drunkenness ever devised,
and when all the world went thither
and drank, and calle1 down heavens
choicest blessings upon the great Texas
railway corporation, the GLObe-DemOcrat
was enraged. But the fountain in ST.
Louis has been the best cad" ever set
up by Gen. Hoxie.
Crooks is not only going to take the
press dispatches, but advertises his loss
of $40, absolutely stole from his left
hand (uHgreased) breeches pocket. We
might believe that yarn about the dis
patches, for fellow gets a months
credit on that score, but this thing of
TeAas editor having $40 is rather steep.
Won't Crooks give us at least one in
credible yarn at time? We can't
worry it all down at once.
A great many people would like to
have the rapist AXE hanged four or five
tinAos-~-at ioaet once for each capital
offense he has Committed. The doc
tors, with electric batteries and things,
may come to the rescue and resuscitate
and revivify the reckless, souIless
wretch, after he has been decently
choked to death by Sheriff Corwin,
and then we can have it done over
again if the friends of different victims
Vi AXE lnSlSC.
The Sherman Courier says: "Our
business men are consulting about the
matter of constructing a narrow gauge
road from Sherman to Greenvllle. or
some point southeast of the city, SO as
to connect with the St. Louis and Tex
as narrow gauge" The city of Austin
seeks connection with the same road at
Waco, but then it takes time for a
mossbsck to understand that it is a
ground hog case. Sherman may fail;
Austin cannot.
A Texas steer, with horns seven feet
from tip TO tip, endeavored to get into
the back door of the Lockhart Neaos-
Echo office last week when pursued by
herdsmsn. The office was vacated
by everything but the Washington
press, which, stiffered with age and
rheumatism, couldn't get off. The
editor and devil hoped out and if a
steer were addicted to Cpl" this one
might have filled himself to stupefac-
ton.
In order to assert the magnitude and
vast number of people that dwell in
Denison Murray exclaims in pretended
rage: Danison is the only city of
5000 inhabitants in the United States
without a public hail." There never
were more thar. people in D.ni- |
'soH, and when the number, on the last
Fourth OF July, was thought to exceed |
that number, Murray had the excess
killed of, and now he is trying to
smooth it all over again.
The Dallas. Herald Commercial says:
Sin Hunt county there are 1915 white
yiales and 1885 white females, SO col
he'd males and 60 colored females, all
slIthin the scholastic age, who are en-
lktled to an education in the public
arh0ols" How and by what right aud !
w acquired Who decreed it that
mtwas right that d 4llss should pay for
i've education of the children of Hunt
T,unty Should Dallas be forced to
n. nd missionaries also to Hunt
8 One Stalsworth, an industrious, good
fellow, as represented, but addicted
now and then to the bottle and then
ugly and pugpacious, was shot to death
by unknown men in the dark Friday
night. StAlsworth at the time was in
charge of deputy sheriffs. who had ar
rested him on a peace warrant. The
slayers of Stalsworth shot one OF the
deputies, but not fatally. Stalsworth's
slayers should De hanged.