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

room, Where sherffs ought always 10
he found, and George was terribly
wounded, both parties firing. Jones,
the sheriff, was unhurt.
/ A business correspondent of the
STATESMAN, writing from Weather
ford, says ''If Governor Roberts
choose to suspend the public schools
ana accumulate fund and perfect the
system, the people won't cry about it. +"
Even the newspapers of San Antonio
don't talk any more. IN their smoky
way, about the smoke house tax and
begin to tell of Leaiville. There is no
telling what will be the degree of in
tense excitement In other places.
The Bolton Journal says: "There
are five mills on the Salado alone that
have an average capacity of iS5 or 200
bushels per day. Toe Bolton City
Mill alone, when all its machinery ar
rives, will doubtless be able TO grind
276 bushels per day."
The young fellow the Meridian Blade
tells ABOUT, who rode ell over the dis
trict to borrow two dollars to pay for
license to marry, promised five dol
lars for it, payable next fall = in
babies (0-at So. so apiece.
"a petition is circulating in Belton,
and being numerously signed, asking
Senators Coke and Maxey to use their
Influence to secure the appointment of
Mr.. George g. PendletOn, of Bell
county, as United States marshal for
the northern district of Texas.
The press approves Mr.. Linn's four
per cent. bond scheme for home clrcu-
(aton. But the question is, how can
we make four per cent. bonds circulate
when we would make a million half
dollars worth of pedagogues and war
department circumgyrate3
Fred A. Rice and Capt. Hyatt, the
builders of the Navasota and Mont
gonery road, say that if the people of
Austin have half the spirit and vim of
( those of Navasota, they will build for
Austin and Bolton and Lsmpasss the
neatest narrow gauge on the continent.
Hon. ]. B. Simpson, in pretty
speech, presented valuable Jewels to
Miss Ellen Cummins, the actress in
suited by the Kansas william who killed
the actor Porter at Marshall. All Dial.
las welcomed the corps OF sectors.
Barrymore is still unable to travel.
Brother Penn, our Texas Evangelist,
is going TO tackle Waterson and Louis
VILE. We don't see how Texas will
get along without him. The State is
Dead Sea OF salty sin. and Penn il
the only little rainwater Jordan empty
ing into il.
FaHnin county paid the pedagoguei
500 and the people want to know
why all this money is wasted. Not the
slightest good is done and only your
money is taken out of your pocket tC
pay for the idleuess and progressive
stupidity OF his children.
Ben. Butler made chairs at thirty
cents per diem, and thus paid his way,
he says, through college. We guess
this accounts for Ben.'s determination,
when in Congress, to keep everybody
in his seat, while Ben. himself keeps
the floor.
They haven't seen drunken fellow
or heard the cheerful pistols startling
voice in Workman since local options
gentle sway was insugursted. But
Gnat Q.'s sweet face shines in George.
town like the cleaning locks OF rosy
fingered Aurora. But ''Nat. Q" was
! always an s-roarer.
The law doesn't suffer man to vote
who is not twenty-one years old. BY
the same right the law will not suffer
a man to vote who does not value the
privilege" enough to pay SO for 1t.
The people can enlarge or restrict the
number of voters as they choose and
as they have ever chosen TO do.
''Nst Quart" speaking OF one of his
friends, says che ia half jackass and
half orsng.outans. and that he is
''s0rry for him." Nothing so thorough.
ly arouses Nat g generous sympa-
thies as the sufferings of a jackass OF
orang-outsDg, and it was needless for
Nat to say he was sorry for the animal.
The Rockport Democratic conven-
ton, after dropping a tear on
Schleicher's grave, asserted an undi-
vided preference for Mr.. Stockdale as
the next congressional Representative
of the district. Our ancient friend
Pierrenot-which being translated sig.
mites Peter KnOt-was secretary and
T. r. Stewart chairman.
Mr.. John U. Smith, writing from
Rusk, Cherokee county, says corn is
all up and looking well, and so with
the babies, and they are decidedly
prosperous. Hard times compel q re-
ductlon of taxes and Mr.. Smiths
neighbors will be well pleased If the
Governor stops the pedagogues in
their mad raid upon the treasury.
Our pious exchange, the Baptist
Herald, devotes four columns and NEST
of its adye rtlsing space to the Liver
Pad. 1t is padded" fore and aft. In
fact it will soon be fashionable to be
in this fix in Texas, and then you
know how the dear creaturesLthe
newspapers-do go crazy to be fashion,
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There have been for years past many
spiritualists in Hampstead. The town
is full of them. The Courier of that
place is even made to believe that
Judge McCr1mmon, who has been dead
several weeks, has been seen there
walking about the streets and tack
ling steaks at the Circular Saw and
other hotels of that sweet little town.
The Boston bread man, who used to
sing of the glories Of his cuisine in
Austin, has prospered and owns a
pretty shop at the Dallas railway sta
ton. He dispenses every luxury TO
hungry humanity and still sings the
old song OF "Boston bread" Bishop
Haven will swear the story to be false,
but the Boston baker 10 only prosper
Gus in Dallas To the extent that he
cries "Here's y'r Boston bread mani !"
Those rabid pedagogues athirst for
the juiceness of the wet weather
schools say Immigrants won't come
unless free schools invite" We say
immigrants won't come where taxation
is two per cent. We don't waHt i'm
migrants who are too mean to educate
their own children, and these are best
won to Texas by good private schools
and churches: No man was ever roped
into Texas by free schools. They
brighten civiliz alton from our borders.
The shares of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe road that were owned by
the county of Galveston were sold at
public sale on the fourteenth, in sc
cordance with the act of tho Legislature
authorizing the same. The syndicate
who became the owners gave the re-
n,,i,a1 bond Of A0nA nnn thaA fhn rond