The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
Ts1as-Facts and FuncIe..


sits st Corsicsna April 90.
Young corn is growing finely in the
southern tier of counties of this State.
Some of the women don't seem to
know where to wear their liver pads.
The Fort Worth Democrat aud Gle
burne Chronicle don't want Tilaen any
more.
Mrs. j. T. Hillmsn OF Memphis will
spend the spring and summer in Aus
tin.
The newspapers seem to think that
Mardi Gras stupidities will be no more
in Texas.
The Greenbackers' congressional con-
vention meets at Seguin. The date is
not fixed.
Blrnum's mensgerie is to be the
next sensation among the boys and
colored people.
Divers good fellows have left Round
Rock and other neighboring villages
for Leadville.
The Victoria Adoocate says the child
is not born that will live to sec Texas
subdivided.
Mr. Singletsry writes singularly po-
etical letters to the Pittsburg Magnet
from the capital.
The Tenth Infantry in Texas and
the Twenty-second in Chicago will
soon change places.
The patentest thing On Nat Q.'s out
side is the beverage that seethes and
Kisses on the inside.
The Galveston Neaes thinks the sum
appropriated for the wet weather
schools much too great.
A. B Csrley, of Cotton Din, like
the T'erds Baptist, opposes State aid to
denominationsl schools.
The Sulphur Springs Observer says
that those who do not support the gov
eminent have no right to run it.
It is said in Galveston that the Gov.
ernor will approve Finlay's bell punch
and the bsrbed wiref ence bills.
The story Of printers death is told
in the graveyard at Brownsville by the
suggestion crossing of the sticks"
Eight cadets got drunk in Bryan
and were expelled from the Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College last week.
The builders of tue Navasota Mar.
row Gauge propose to try their hands
on the Austin, Lampasas and Denver
road.
Rev. W. <. Hall has startled Bolton
by faithful portrayal of its sins, and
the Journal looks better than il
| used TO.
Hydrophobia, the papers say, has
broken out among the calves in Waco.
1t is earnestly to be hoped that Dow ms
may escape.
Bate, of the Bolton Journal, was
fitting about in Waco last week. He
10 not of the leather-hesded sort, mol
is he Eighty.
The Jmplecute was not hurt by the
last frost, but other tender vegetables
like peas aud beans were withered
about Jefferson.
The doctors of Texas will spend g
day with Jack Martin in Sherman.
They have selected properly for this
purpose the first day Of April.
The hang everT fellow who commits
| IThe Jersey lightning" means death.
It's only the lightning they dabble in in
Texas.
Col. John Hand mot of the Calves
ton Nescsl was met by two masked
highwaymen on the road near Bolton,
on the twenty third, and robbed OF
$125.
1t is proposed to abolish fences in
Camp county. But how will they keep
up the magnetic editor of the Magnet.
Some special provision must be made
in this case.
The Waco board of aldermen have
thrown up the contract with the gas
company and substituted one with
Downs. No city was ever so lustrously
illuminated.
| The work of grading the Louisiana
Western Railway has begun at Orange.
A large force of laborers was put at
work. Another will begin at the Don
aldsonville end.
The Fort Worth Democrat asks
'WhY does FELTON, sell hats so cheap
lyf" The solution of the mystery con,
slsts in the fact that it is so cheap to
keep" the FELTON,. a-
The newspapers say that Judge
Fleming, of Comanche. is one of the
eloquent, learned and brave, and pure
in both public and private life.
Ex-senator Goldthwaite, of whose
death the Ais bams papers tell in sad
dest terms, was u mnst learned judge.
He was an uncle of the famous lawyer
Of Houston.
Vera Cruz is building a narrow
gauge railway to Alvaredo, and Ell
PrOgresso says that Mexico, in local en-
terprises, Outvies the citizens of the
Southern United States.
Messrs. Bowers & Son of Hampstead,
the most successful spiritualists OF the
age, are credited with the resurrection
of Judge McCrimmon, who was killed
by all the newspapers.
President Allen, the longheaded
owner Of the Iron Mountain Railroad,
proposes to buy the Tyler Tap Narrow
Gauge and extend it indefinitely across
Texas even to Austin and Houston.
Gen. Baylor is to be the. Greenback-
ers' candidate in the San Antonio dis
trict, and the fiat Indian baby business
and paper money are already comment
cd on Dy the reckless newspapers.
Martin it was who discovered the
good man who went of from Sherman
and hid out for q week. II it take a
rogue to catch rogue, even so it takes
one Eighty fellow to discover another.
Tom Allen, the great railway man
ager and owner. Of 81. Louis, proposes
70 buy the Tyler Narrow-Gange and,
makieg 1t connect with his Iron Noun
tain road, extend the narrow-gauge in
definitely west.
A good exhorter in ID alias preferred
the pedo-Bsptists to the Blptists, be-
cause 4 fellow could jine the 'pcdos''
without taking Of his six-shooter.
He insisted that good Texan alters
kept his powder dry.
The San Marcos river is always low :
est in winter. because It's springs are at
the base OF Pixies Peak where the
snow and water freeze, and then the
Erca Pa Ia ihirstiest lnr nirad