The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-02
In bitterness Of spirit, the druggists

confess that quinine has gone down at
last. A heap of them take little tods
to make it stay down.
A Lee county man gathered $50
bushels of mesquit beans and finds
one bushel, as morse feed, equal to
two bushels of corn.
a subscription is being raised at
Houston for Prof. Cevor. The man
Snyder, who destroyed his balloon
should be prosecuted.
DIR. Rutherford visited Indiauola,
Corpus Christi and Brownsville. In
diGnols and Brownsville have adopted
the regulations proposed.
Collin county, and Jim Harris, an old
colored man, has started goose ranch
at Porter's Bluff, Ellis county. Feathers
are IN view in both instances.
The people not far from Houston are
almost persuaded to hang a negro sup
posed to have placed an obstruction on
the International Railroad track.
Two brothers, separated for ten years,
met in the Sherman Jail. They had
both been arrested for horse-stealing,
and one was sailing under an aliss.
Prairie burnIDgs are greatly damag-
ing the stock interests in Texas. Pee
pie who thus destroy pssturaee, even
carelessly, should be made to suffer.
Senator Msxey made speech IN San
Antonio on the twenty-third. He was
the guest of Gen. Ord, of the United
States army, while in the Alamo City.
The Houston barkeepers propose to
pay the occupation tax of $3.50, but
never to use the bell punches, and fight
them in court till the Legislature meets.
Mr.. Frueblood has half brother of
the celebrated race horse Ten Brock at
Sherman. He is three years old, and
made mile in 1 40 as q two-year old.
Capt. Lee Halls company consists OF
twenty-five men, differed as follows:
Capt. Hall, Lieut.. Oglesby, Sergeant
Warren, Corporal McGuerry and Cor
poral Allen.
Fifty dollars in currency bills, sup
posed to have been stolen from the sta
ton masters cash drawer at O4kwood,
were found in mouse nest in one COL
ner of desk.
Major Penn, it is said, will prob
ably come to Austin to convert sinners.
But what about this sad calamity bus
iness2 The Elijah plan should be in
stituted instead.
In Coryelle county a young man
wanted to marry girl. The father
opposed, and it was finally settled with
Winchester rifles, with the loss of the
young mans nose.
When "Nat O." was ''melted to
tears" as stated the other day, at
Major PENIS camp meeting, the boys
gathered up enough liquid brass to
start respectable law firm.
George Carribo, baker boy, was
killed by some descendant of the Mon
tezumas and his body was cast into the
Rio Grande. 1t was all, says the It0O
LGredOS, for few piloncios.
DR.. B. G. Wren, OF McDlde, finding
it impossible to repress demoniacal
thirst for whisky, wrapt about him
brightest vestments of spiritual faith
and blew his own brains out.
The Austin correspondent of the
Telephone calls the great big bell punch
clerk of the Comptroller's office "Col
Sweetwater." We always thought
there was something sweet about HIM.
A white pigeon lately flew into the
Sherman Jail and alighted on the graf
ing of the murderer Toettsl's cell.
He took the bird in, and keeps it, re-
garding 1t with superstitious sentl-
ment.
Isaac Michael, of Michael Bros,
liquor dealers of San Antonio, has teen
arrested on an Indictment of the grand
jury charging swindliDg. Claims
against the concern are held mainly in
st. Louis and New York.
AT Waxahachie, for assault with in
tent to murder, one man was sentenced
to the penitentiary for two years; for
theft of horses, another man was sem
fenced for eight years in one case and
for FIVE years in another case.
The Fleming Neaos of Houston, at the
request of Mr.. Dumble, refuses to make
public the name of two boys who shot
his son in an effort to assassinate him.
And why should these youthful assas-
sins be protected for one daya
Had it not been for the wharf mo-
nopoly and exsctions of trade the Cen.
trail railroad, under its present manage
ment, would have been operating in
favor of the Island City and Morgan's
ship channel would not have been
known.
A Mexican across the Rio Grande
disemboweled his wife, and as a pun
lshment was placed in the army. And
now if the Gringos would only make a
descent upon the little band at the Ma
jsda mines more reinforcements would
be secured.
George Kendall. president of the
liquor dealers association of Houston,
is brick. In any event he has beeh
filling peoples hats with them for a
quarter of a century. He is spoken of
as president of the State liquor dealers
association.
At the late Holiness camp MEETING
at Corsicana, one man under the in
fluence of specification exclaimed /:
Somebody tell me how happy 1 feel. "
Another cried out 'Bully for Jesus"
1t brought out many of the natural
characteristics of men.
1t is claimed that the Waco extern
sion of the Central will double the
properly values of Bosque county, now
million and half. But it is said a
town site has been purchased, seven
miles from Meridian, and il this be so
the town will be killed.
Prisoners in the Brownsville jail, IA
in number, overpowered the jailer and
escaped. One was recaptured, and
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