The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-30
Miss stOrk, niece of Mr.. schleicher,

10 Oe nlguly accomplished, sPSaAiHS \
the English language fuently.
The sweet bushes that suffcsed the |
face of Mr.. Finlay all through yester-
day are ascribed to the circulation of
the Commercial on the floor of the |
House. That paper says he Is the
q" haudsomest man of the body" and
it nearly kills Mr.. FInlay.
Multltudes of sheep and cattle were
killed everywhere on the plains by the
recent northers of two weeks dura-
ton, and it is even stated that the de-
mand for grain will be lessened because
OF the loss of stock. II this. be true,
corn and wheat may decline in price.
A gentleman of Parker county treat
ed tramp to his breakfast and left
him at his home to find, on his return,
that the villain had attempted an out
rage upon his wife. He had also gone
to a neighbours and helped himself TO
a good horse and left for parts ur-
known.
The Tablet says bulldozing case is
being brought up by United States
deputy marshals and others against
Messrs. Wood and Scott, at Anderson,
in Grimes county. No bill, we are
told, will be found in this case. The
grand jury is a good one, and no fool
ish prosecutions will be instituted.
Last year in Texas there were four
subordinate oranges organized, four
teen surrendered their charters and
eight consolidated with others. There
were 1865 oranges in the State, but
only $50 are reported as active, the
rest being delinquent or dormant. So
reports the secretary of the State
Grange.
The musical accompaniment of Bro.
Penn was not the prosecutor of the
managing editor of the Teas Baptist.
His (Mr. Hart's) letters were alleged to
have been opened and letter is put
lished from the late Federal district
attorney at Houston, in which it is de-
clared that Mr.. Pope had violated the
law-but no true bill was found against
Pope.
Bob Olive escaped the law and went
to Nebraska, where he passed under
the name of Stevens. He had procured
an appointment as deputy sheriff and
was killed in attempting to arrest one
Ketchum, who, with another man, was
burned at stake. His remains were
brought to Williamson county, where
he formerly lived.
The Bonham Neaos gives currency to
that absurd story about the cracking
of stones by freezing in the new Fed
eral building at Austin. Nobody
should know better than the editor of
the Neaos that dry stones don't crack,
while those full of moisture and just
withdrawn from their hiding places
will show great assures if exposed to
intense cold
People who live in San Antonio
know nothing of the terrible ravages
of smallpox, said to prevail IN the ven
cradle city. A good woman who spent
night there came bowling away, mis-
taking the red flags of four auction
GERS on the old Plaza for those that
float in melancholy winds before pest
houses. She gave currency to the ir-
repressible rumor.
The Navasota Tablet should know
that attaches and employees of the
STATESMAN are not "barnacles. None
of them have sought an Office here OF
elsewhere. An editor proper is never
an office-seeker. If properly trained
and fit for the task he assumes and
the place he holds, there is no official
| position he could secure which be
would have.
An old man of Washington county,
named Bremen, while riding by Long
Point got mad at a number of dogs
that ran out to attack him. Iu draw
ing his shot gun on the cannes, using
the butt upon them, and with the muz
zle against his breast, one barrel was
accidentally discharged, the load TAX
ing effect in his breast, instantly kill
ing him.
Yesterday Mr.. Philpott and Other
members of the Legislature looked
through the STATESMAN Office and were
not only highly pleased with its ma.
chinery and appurtenanccs, but were
surprised at Its magnitude and the
amount of work being carried on in al
its different departments. At the time
there were over forty nen IN its differ
ent departments hard at work.
The Headlight, like most of the news
papers of the State, approves the prop
ositlon to make every man in the State
who votes at least pay poll tax. If g
fellows head be exceedingly light he
should be excused, but it doesn't fol-
low that the organ of Round Rock
taste and intelligence will go untaxed
even though they do sometimes revers.
the order of the two words constitut-
ing the name of the pretty newspaper.
Little Willie johnson, not two years
old. the last of family who went tC
Brazil with the McMullen colony in
1866, has just found his way to rela-
tives in Waco. On the ship bringing
them back from Rio de Janeiro last
summer died first child, then the
father and then the mother. The cap.
tain of the vessel took charge of the
child and gave it to an orphan asylum
in Galveston. At last little Willie wss
heard of at Waco, and the child is
now with kind relatives.
The Brennan Banner tells how 6
Snowman was treated at Sempronius
Fred Graham was exhibiting to 1875 Of
$50 persons, when about fifteen armed
men, under the influence of liquor, en-,
tered the tent. Some of them made
an attack on Mrs. Graham, blacking
her eyes and abusing her shamefully
They afterwards put coal oil on hi
tent, and but for the interference o.
citizens would have burned it up. Tit
citizens of Sempronius afforded hin
protection.
A cyclone struck Lockhart Sunday
ter. NJ. and destroyed nearly one
half of the place. A letter from Sena
tor Storey tells the story. Masonic
Hall, roof and upper story of Houston'
Hotel, twenty or thirty residences be
longing to hopeless and helpless gooC
colored people. We should help them
The court house was much injured AND
front of the postoffice blown away
The fury of the tempest was confined
to the eastern part of the pretty vii
lsge.
youthful Days and other Poems
: is the title of little book of tw'
hundred pages, for copy of whIcl
the STATESMAN extends thanks to tn
author. 1t contains the poems of r
B. McEachern, who was the first pupi
that entered the Blind Asylum in Aus
tin. This was IN 1857 when the inst