The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
Mr.. Bailey of Mason county. climbed

AlSS W SCI lpt uSCEs HIQ pulling III
gun up muzzle foremos', he climbed
into eternity.
Huatngton's engineers were locst
ing the route OF his road at Messillt
when Mr.. Long lett TIE place abou
two weeks ago.
The Dallas Herald contains taste
full and deserved tribute to the person
81 virtues of Mr.. Childs of the Paula
delphia Ledger.
Water thieves are annoying tn,
hcusekeepers of Corsicsns. They visi
cisterns at night aud take water ava!
in lsrge quantities.
Two hundred citizens of Dal as me-
and petiuoned the Governor to call q;
extra session of the Legislature 20 re'
peal the Sunday law.
Major Penn is working up sinners a
Lampasas. He washes the spiTitua
being while flesh and blood Is purified
by lifo-givIpg waters.
When q Srasshopper nights upon III,
ground in Bell county he is immed!.
s,ely cooked. The knowing ones
stay among the. leaves.
A tanned buffalo brewses about the
public square in Comarche. Il Il {
G.eenba, k orator over there that they
csll the bull of Blshsn.
Walter Blown & Co.'S New W. k
wool circular of August q Iot,s Texas
wool: Eastern, % II 30c; western, %
TO 2Gc; inferior, II to 22c.
The Telegram thinks that each flee
holder should be made to foreswear
whisky, and that It's avoidance should
be part of his sworn duty.
The nice holiday soldiers of D :risou
carry umbrellas instead of inconyen
ent muskets on dress parade, and Mur-
ray makes fuss about 1t.
An emirently pious cuss goes howl
ing through the streets of Corsicana,
Prepare to meet thy God ~ rs like
Jonah among the Ninevites.
Bro. Corky is eager for another re-
ligious row with Bro. Kilgore, who
was somewhat gored though not killed
in their former Tc-encounter.
Boyrt)n, of the Herald, we infer
from the statemei.s OF the Comanche
Chig, has three legs. He has rheume-
tism and must suffer n heap.
A car load of camels passed up the
Central the other day. They were
shipped from the camel rancho neal
Elgin to circus company in Missouri,
Brenham will have only half It's usual
supply of corn, but the Banner smiles
when rofl?cting that this failure of tie
crop does not lessen the whisky crop.
No doubt the test will be made.
Preachers deliver sermons for money,
and the Sunday law clearly prohibits
their putting in such service on Sun
day.
And now lite Kansas City corpor-
alton Is about to swallow the Dalla.
and Wichita Railroad at O single gulp,
and the town is in a stew as usua
about it.
Justice Rsynal, the excellel gentle
man who taught the people of Denisor
how TO cook and eat, died, aud wa;
buried with distinguished honors las
Tuesday.
The yellow fever that sff1icts Hous
ton seems somehow to affect mainly
the relations OF young fellows Of tina
town to the girls of that peculiar per
suasion.
Burns, who has been appointed ser
gear t-a.-2rms for the Legislative com
mittee on land frauds, was Honey
chief clerk in the State Treasury de
partment.
And now they claim to have discov
cred petroleum at Brownwood. The,
must prove their assertions about golC
and silver first and then begin to ge
up coal oil fever.
At fredericksburg the Sunday law,
and those who attempt to enforce it.
are held in supreme contempt. The
people who made this law will do well
to steer clear of Gillespie county.
It's great mistake! All those ex
citing, exaggerated articles in the Tex
as papers about the desperate, ruinou:
drought were written last Sunday wheI
the whisky shops were all closed.
Deface stamps on cigar boxes G.
the hapgers-on of the Federal courts
10 North Texas will get you for $500
and keep you in hot water for years
until you pay costs and dOuceurs
George Smith was killed with kni :,
by George Chamberlain, at Paint Rock
Chamberlain was arrested, tried ant
bail refused, and then the officers le
him have leg bail and that's the enc
of it.
Only one saloon was open last Sun
day in Waco. 1t did smashing bust
ness. 1t belongs 10 a pair of gooC
Hebrews. They closed its doors OF
Saturday, and threw them wide opeI
on Sunday.
The Messenger doesn't seem to thinl
that the Lord ever gets within thou
sand miles of fashionable watering
place. We reckon that's the reason
there's such q smell of birthstone abou
Lumpasas.
The Houston Age reviews at length
the pamphlet published by County At
torney Trigg, designed to show tina
Mayor D. Gress cannot be mayor anC
at the same time an officer of thu
United States army.
T. J. Crooks, publisher Of the Sher
man Courier, was tried for violating
the Sunday law by publishing news
paper on Sunday. The jury returned
the following verdict: ''Not guilty a
charged in the complaint"
Don't tell it TO Blaine or to Shermsl
that four negro men beat an Elz
Pinkston in Houston almost 10 dealt
Tuesday morning, before day, and lef
the poor creature wholly naked in til
doorway TO one Rccco's kitchen,
A saloon owned by Hebrews wa
kept open in Waco on Sunday, the ga
loon having been kept closed on st
urdsy. The proprietors were arrested
and a test case is to be made out of it
A. j. Evans is retained for ths de
Tense.
A colored dame in Houston, havini
hen roost depopulated by a colore'
neighbor, caught hin at last in fla
grante delietU, and she flagrsntly IIcke
him. 1t fact she took off most of hi
hide. She held him still with littl
pistol while the bark was taken off.
After full discussion Of the case O
the Hebrews of Waco who obgerve
Saturday as q. holiday and thea KEEP
their bar-rooms open on Sunday, the