The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-02-06
Te1.s-Faets and Ranele..

Mr.. Warner has sold the Cameron
Sentinel to Mr.. Beer. 4 suit entitled
"WaIne." against Beer" would de-
light the extreme local option people.
The Houston Telegrdm inserts
paragraph referring to the sale OF
school and university lands under the
proper heading of "eEimes and casu-
alities.n
The Gonzales Inquirer thinks the
proposition to rob the university Of its
land is a cunning scheme Of poiti-
clans to get their hands into the State
Treasury"
The veteran editor and accurate
thinker of the Marshal Herald inveighs
against the scheme to sell tie uuiver-
sity lands in all its ungsinly shapes
and aspects.
E. S. n. writes excellent articles in
the San Antonio Express advocating
the establishment of au agricultural bu-
reau. The public school system is SIS
much as taxpayers will agree TO tote.
Major Penn is nov strsightening up
the people of St. Louis. The building
be occupies is over crowded and one
hundred additions have been made To
the church. Brother Penn writes that
he is coming back to Austin.
Bayliss Rose, the excellent attorney
who spent several days, some weeks
ago, in this city, has discovered health
and prospective fortune at Bandera.
He is gentleman and q scholar and
will grow up rapidly with the country.
Johnny McJunkln is treasurer of The
nice little Greenback CLUB of which
Governor Hannah is president. Nc
Junkin is a betty name. ]. sound.
solid like gold and silver but really
tells of mythical paper and financial
balloonIng.
The Calvert Courier asks the Lsgis.
lature, standing ss it does, IN the pres
ence of murder on the Avenue of the
capital, whose very f4gstoDes are elo-
quent of horrible, ghastly deeds, tc
make the carrying of concealed weAp'
ons felony.
The Palo Pinto Mouataincsr IS abou
4 1-2 inches square, and still it INSIST,
that all sheriff and trustees sales
shall be advertised or law. Tnis ono,
newspaper is without guile or self
ishness aud the Legislature will enac
the bill at once.
The Calvert Courier thinks county
judges should be shorn OF much 9.
their power and patronage and espe.
ciallY of supremacy in school matters
Our county judge, Judge Smith, say!
amen to that, approving the assertion:
of the STATESMAN.
Alex II Stephens is the subscribing
witness to all last wills and testament.
made by fellows who killed them
selves with patent medicines. bu- m,
editor of the Texas Baptist Herald
certifies to the Liver Pau, and Is III,
great author, We suppose, OF the phil.
osophical inquiry, "How's your Liver
The pretty girl at Groesbeck, who
suicided because sine could not make
her name Jemima taper off with ''ie, >
Was borne to the grave by eight com
paniOns, who wanted to be in arm 4.
named, respectively, Abbie, Bessie
Carrie, Dhllie, Elite, Florrie, GeOrgi.
and Hattie and this is why this wal
thus and we can't refrain from crying
People in counties in which the loo
option law is executed and enforced
like it and will not revoke it. 1t has
done infinite service and wrought il.
finite good, and where it is not wei
enforced it often prevents drunken,
ness and crime. Nothing else has
saved Nat O., and yet Nat knows ne
law.
An adventurous youth was trying t.
sell an srmadillo for $50 in San Anto
MO. They are worth a dollar each
and as much less as anyone will Civ,
for them, in the vicinity of Browns
vile. IA armadillo Is only an opos.
sum boxed up in leather and bones
Il is the only animal that totes around
its own coffin.
According to tue State Comptroller
report the amount of commissions paiC
county assessors by the State for 1877
III tuO 'tilIE--h UANt-S VI ilI'
from $105 in Somerset county Il
So, 142. GO in Galveston couatv. Tn,
Bexar county assessor received from
the State So, 93O.51.
Sunday school managers IN Texas, o
all denominations, should write to Rev
Sylvanus G.. Landrum, OF Memphis
Tennessee, for copies of his Sunday
School Monthly. DR.. Landium is al
accomplished scholar, and gentleman
and writer, as well as a fame IA pulpi
orator. The Sunday School NJ DnthlI
costs seventy-tive cents per annum.
The editor of the Nountaineer, a pa
per 4 1-2 inches square, printed a
Palo Pinto, weeps that be can't give
his readers more reading matter
Should he not rather wait and Learn
whether they do not weep for fear b,
may give them more of the same sort
He spells wrsngling with an 81" B1
the Mountaineer Is lively, juicy, orig
inal little newspaper.