The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

II custom. J. was the mud that scared
.hom IT The -ige says a dreige tOat
IS needed GIoag the main thorough
fa.es.
Tas tyler Courier is not satisfied
b The growing disposition through
ut the State TO have the Supreme and
Appellate Courts lit permanently in
Austin.
Sixty thousand young salmon were
turned loose in the river at Jefferson
on December 30. The fish commits
SION Is just now stocking the waters OF
Texas.
4 Texas judge, in his charge, said
"Blnish whisky and the pistol from
Texas and crime will cease in this
State" But how are We to Danish the
whiskyf
Mr. VI. Boxer, county attorney of
Kimball county, while descending
ladder. fell and fractured his leg.
Amputatiou WAS necessary. from which
death resulted.
The force at work on Sabine bar will
continue It's operations until twenty
feet of water Mt low tide is reached.
1t will then be the best harbor on tie
Texas coast.
Frank Ruston was killed in Parker
county 10y Charley Black. They and
Others were hunting in the WOODS, and
Ruston was mistaken through the
bushes for deer.
Just think of Bullock, Spencer, Du-
rell, Kellogg and our own Gen. David
son, who left Taxas so unceremonious-
ly, being placed along side of the Sa-
yior as "sons of God"
Dallas took on bit Of sleighing the
other day. Everything that could he
converted into sleIgh was utilized,
and the whole town was out aud moY-
ing in wild excitement.
a petition from tho Sarnnd Texas
Regiment asking the Governor To re-
tain Gen. VIM. Steele IN the position
of Adjutant General has been pre-
pared for presentation.
District Attorney Spencer stated in
court that the State impeded his pro.
gress in the Grissom case in Houston,
in not providing for the transportation
of most important witness.
Judge Cook having granted the
fourth continuance in the Grissom
do just as well to suspend the prisoner
instead of continuing his case.
Greenlaw, the Sherman carriage ma
ker, outstrps all rivals in Texas, hav-
ing made and sold $50 buggies and
carriages last year. The timber of
Texas is the best in the world.
The changed attitude of the Mexican
forces on the border, and the fact that
Cortina is closely confined in prison by
BiaZ makes the reorganization of the
State force less than a necessity.
A railroad section hand at Clarke
vile bravely drank one = quart of
whisky at two drinks, and then lay
down in all humility and gave up, not
only the whisky, but the ghost.
Among other kinds of gatherings in
Fannin county during the holidays
was "weod cutting" parties, where the
neighbors assembled at the houses of
widow ladies and cut up their wood.
A Dallas man, Thomas Charleston,
sometime married in St. Louis to Mrs.
Annie Morton, has since discovered
she was his stepdaughter. They are
stepfather and daughter, man and wife.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks
that the only way for Dallas to secure
recognition from the State government
is to perscvere. 1t thinks DIR. Carter
should have charge OF the deaf mutes
at Austin.
Marshall II. Levy, an express mes
senqer, was shot by W. s. COrley, also
in the employ of the express COM
pauy, at Waco, but Levy's time had
lot come, and he will be all right in a
abort time.
The death of Mr.. George Hancock
will defeat, for time at least, the
construction of the narrow gauge rail-
way. He had agreed to invest in it
nnt-,hird of his valuable property at
Lampasas.
1t is asserted that not more than one
third of the convicts in the Texas PEN
Itentiary have received the rudiments
of an Eoglish education, and not more
than half of them know how to write
their names.
An unknown man, "A traveller, cnm-
mitted suicide at Segmn on the first OF
January, by cutting his throat, while
in bed at the hotel, from ear to ear.
He had said in conversation that ne
was an Englishman.
Sulphur Springs has q municipal law
against cock-fghting, but, at the re-
quest of numerously- signed petition,
the town council suspended the law,
and the average citizen enjoyed holt
day season of cock-fghting.
The Marshall Herald is mistaken
when it puts Austin in the same debt
category with Houston and Galveston.
The debts Of the last named cities goes
up into the millions, while Austin's
debt does not reach 500, 900.
Nine hundred Indians are reported
absent from the Sill reservation, on.
hunting expedition on the head waters
of the Peas river. They say their
families were starving and they were
compelled to resort to the chase for
subsistence.
A planter, it is said, voted twenty
Cinnamon at tie late election in Call
vert. In reply to the official question
il he was citizen, one of the ileathens
SAID: Mclean man sskee Chlnaman
if he swearee on blige booke like Mel
lean up-stairee. - i- 3at
The New York Mil says there are
i've hundred of the seventeen hundred
Texas penitentiary convicts in prison
and the rest are hired out. la one in
stance a rich fellow is hired to his
wife. He has the worst time we reck-
on of any of the lot. 'H
Judge Robertson has decided in the
contested election cases of Smith
county, that the Radical county Judge
and county clerk were elected, that the
Democratic district clerk was elected
and sdju6ged a new election as to the
other candid ates.
Cattlemen complain greatly at the
of cattle at Fort Griffin.
The inspector, it is said, rarely ever
looks at the cattle, but collects his
fees as though he did. Many imposi-
tions are exercised upon droEe<s, and
the matter should he righted. %
The Denison Herald wants to see the
whipping post revived. So does the
Springs Gazette and the North