The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

! gauge road would be extended to
/ Brentwood ami cot Ia "Bsemnnd. as
| i. was printed, and branches will go
| oft to many prosperous interior towns,
and the sooner Austin strikes out the
better.
The Brownwocd Bmasr says Gov
eruor Roberts seeks to Obliterate the
free schools. When. Where Please
tell. He ought to but Dies not pro
pose 10 put an end To- a system of
wrong and robbery which naturally
breeds vice, and corrupis alike parents
and children.
Houston Is bound to have hang
ing. She has just condemned third
man to the gallows. GA the seventh
inst. Henry Quarles, barber, butch
cred his wife. Ia little over Two
weeks the jury rendered verdict Of
murder iu tue first degree. The evil
dence was too direct and positive for
Interference upon the part of the
Court of Appeals or Governor.
They are about to hang a fellow
named Austin Sims in Waco for shoot
ing one Melon. They are murderous
people over there. But Sims ought to
hang. The testimony is plain and di-
rect. He shot down an uparmed man
for mere words, and continued TO
shoot the poor devil when be had fal-
len and was helpltssly begging for
mercy. 49, l,-s.-...
The Lanpasas Dispatch avs "the veto
and anti-veto parties are having
lively time of it in the Legislature. The
cost OF this extra session in one way
and another will be about 500, 900.
With proper mar sgemeqt, this could |
have been avoided. We have wild
and woody set of men in our Texas
Legislature.
T. ]. VeaPs fruit crop on seventy
five acres at Jtffsrson is estimated at
$40, 900. When our nsrrow gauge con
meets with that from S.. LOUIS our
fruit-growers about Austin will send |
sway each year large quantities of |
pears and peaches, To say nothing of |
strawberries and grapes, to st. Louis
and Chicago.
A Weatherford le' ,r-writter says
"the county tax of this county is only
twenty five cents on the hundred dol |
lars, and to our farmers seyenty-6ve |
Gel I on the one hundred dollars. Is |
not that little cheaper than about |
So Is in the city and 81 e5 in the cum
ty of Dallas? But the man that lives !
in city can afford to pay for it's luxu-
ries." .--.--..
1t is stated by the Brentwood BIN
ner that Mr.. Goodson If the II )use
threatens to make the Bat1le7's editor
eat his words There are not more
than about 800 words in the Burner be
fore US, and Mr.. GoodsOn does not im-
pose very Big job, and we don't see
why the excellent editor should get so
internally mad about it. -.
One of the Redfiel 1s--all musicians
especially that one who used to grind
ont letters for the Cincinnati CONNER
cial over the signature avery" be-
cause he plowed deeply into Southern
fact, is now employed as. an editor of
the Jmplecute. He was won by the
sweet sounding name of the paper.
But with Ward Taylor to sing bass
and Redfield alto, won't she be rat
tier.
at J,fferson. since and after their
narrow gauge is built to Sulphur
Springs, large cotton compress is be-
ing rapidly put up. The foundation
gives some. idea of the building. which
will probably be the largest of the kind
in the S ate, covering nearly or quite
an entire block of groun1. The cast.
ings and machinery altogether weigh
over 400. 900 pounds.
The Charleston Ne,os and Courier says
OF the rawlings at Houston: Governor
Roberts of Texas has been preseI ted
by grand jury of one of the counties
of the State as unfit for the position he
occupies, and as counteDsncing crime
by his acts. He has likewise been de-
nounced by an Indignation meeting of
citizens. The particular offense charged
is commit ltion of the death sentence
of two murderer"
The cr,z! over pedeslrianism Is by
no means as bad in England as here.
The net receipts at Agricultural Hall, in
London, where the receI contes took
place. amounted to $4,000, of which
only two thirds go to Weston. There
have been enough enthusiasts hanging
around Marshall and Dallas bulletin
boards to make up bigger.pool than
that. Dallas is evidently the place for
international pedestrian col t 8.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College is to have a vegetable garden
of five acres, t include Irish and sweet
potatoes, and three acres in corn and
three In cotton. The rest of the land,
thirty acres in cultivation, is to be
sowed in small grain. Two acres are
to be devoted to horticultural pur-
poses. The grounds about the college
are to be plated by landscape gar
dener.
The Waco Examiner says that "Den-
lson has q sensation. Dunn married
widow Brown" 1t it were only ''done
brown" we don't see that there is any
necessity for this reference to the com
monplace event. But Dunn and Mrs.
Dunn's brother-in-law have had fight. |
Brown is accused of 81 ting fire to
Dunn's bookstore aud the troubles of
the family have been brought into
court anu the lawyers and costs will
get all that escaped the flames.
The goodness and virtue of a SUI
preme central government in Texas is
illustrated in the fact that Hearne has |
not sent an army down the Central to
lay waste, sack and desolate Houston.
Houston incontinently jagged Hearne's |
mayor, and Hesrne is eager to rescue |
its honored chief magistrate even by |
force if necessary, but here stands the |
grim-visaged Old Alcalde with a war
department at his back, and Hearne
shakes in its fit-bottomed boots and |
keeps the peace. There's nothing like |
State sovereignty.
A Northern farmer, being in Texas,
writes: II can say that in all other |
respects ] am much pleased with Tex
a., but with regard to free schools,
Texas is rot a success, and tell those |
who ask about them that il they have |
any children who need schooling, they |
had better leave them North to be edu- |
Gated, or else bring their teacher along,
as lere Is no school fund here, and not |
even free school house t. my knowl-
edge.
The Iron Mountain and Southern |
railroad will charge the gauge Of their
track on the twenty eighth of June. |