The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-31

forward vigorously.
Gel. W. S. D-leDy talks asous lear
ing Columbus aad making his home in
CJmenche. There will be biz
vacuum 10 Columbus aud great eGpzr-
sion OF Comanche. He is gentleman.
scholar and lawyer
Ben Jones. c. J. Porter, liz. VII
liams and John Can;rell vii! De peni-
teDtisTied for stage coach robberies bE
the evidence of their pals. Jack SIer-
rett and o. +. LoagiVer. The trial
progresses at Dallas.
Sherman concludes that no cleaning
of town avails anything that does
not drain of the sinks sud filthy pits
IN every back yard, aud Sherman has
not the sponduliI TO do this. aud Sher-
mau therefore does nothing.
Ashley Morris, a Dallas county
negro, believing that to procure saliva
ton he must kill himself and family,
made the attempt By morphine. An
old negro woman administered melted
lard, rusty nails, tobacco and things
and they all got over il.
The greaainess and general juiciness
Of the Hillsboro Exposition. is due to
the fact that corn meal over there sells
at 75 cents per bushel: chickens, bit
apiece; eggs, from to 10 cents per
dozen; beet, cents a pound; nut
ton, 6 cents; butter, biz.
One II. G. BTasterson, a jeweler at
Cambridge, in Chambers county, took
laudaDum tn make him sleep forever
because pretty girl jilied him. They
don't have girls pretty ald sweet
enough to produce such results any,
where but in Cambridge.
- Murray knnus- tho sirlA psnisen
as we'll as anybody and says any one
of them will browse all over pair of
ugly whiskers and brush the paint Of
her lips with a moustache. and throw
up her hands in holy horror if she
finds a stray hair in the butter.
Hillsboro, a little village compare
lively, has raised $50. 600 to build q
branch to that place from the 81. Louis
and Waco Narrow Gauge, and yet
Austin has not resurrected the $50, 000
required to assure the construction oil
the narrow gauge to Lampasas.
An elegant lady, returning from
church Sunday, declared that when
she saw the shawls on those Smiths
and then thought Of the things heI
own poor girls had to wear, il it was
not for the consolation of religion, she
didn't know what she should do.
There is no water in Cleburnc. Cts
terms are empty and the people, that
use water at all, have it from spring
in the country. They do not wash
| their faces over there any more, and
there is no telling how strong the Rad
ical vote will be at the next election.
Governor Roberts was received at
Houston with distinguished honors and
| by q great throng. Speeches were
made and champagne drank. Where
vert the $4,000 people and the grand
jury" that recently damned him in
| Houston for Communication Of murder
er's sentence.
the Telephone proposes,to place in
the hands of a high joint commission
ITS subscription books, with those oil
| the Examiner, that the word may know
| which of the two papers has the great
est circulation in McLennsa county aud
Waco. The Examiner isstold to put
up or shut up.
Johnson county has subscribed fol
$50, 900 worth of stock in tie Cleburne
and Dallas narrow gauge rGd, and vel
| the county of Travis, with all its
boosted wealth and the sea Of govern
ment, dies of the dry rot or want Of
| $50, 900 invested in the northwestern
narrow gauge. VI So
Mr.. Charles E Goodng, who has
resided in the Indian Territory thirty
four years, says that very murder
committed there within his knowledge
can be traced directly 10 whisky, and
he defies any one to question his
statement, and they ars talking nL1n-
cal option among the rsd brethren.
Mrs. NJ. x. Lees, Idly of rare lit
erary taste, went to Shrmau, became
mad and has been ordeed to the asy-
lum. 1t seems that onetevy published
card assailipg the wonn's character
because she owed hin and couldn't
pay, and the woman's with impugned,
she was made sick and 'eut mad.
The members of t. Legislature
should have salaries likeCngressmen.
Texas is too broad Stat md affected
by too many interests b haze Legis-
. | 20 hxry .or1
cal existence. But theI thfRutabagas
thought they knew il ali and had
done all that eyer would e required.
The Lampasas Dispatd sss we have
: not had 30 crowded or 8 gy season
, at Lampasss for many yets as the
present. Nearly every loue in town
has some boarders, tie otels are
=. Spreading themselves aid he dense
forests for some -distane ound the
: various springs are alive vitlcampers.
The premium list of the ,smpasas
fair in the ladies' departmen.mounts,
the Dispatch says, to fiftenJer cent.
more than that offered at th Capital
(Austin) fair. This shoul + revised.
Our fair does not occur tillthdast dlys
of October and first of NGelber ind
3 there is time enough to rened a bun
: der.
Two lawyers in open court bsnled
the lie round about before San5aba
Judge. 1t made everybody feel ably
: and the San Saba Netos wees atnt it
n and the Lampasas Dispatch ID dis'sted
: and all the papers are talkinL aht i
r as a great shsmesfaWyeIust
the,Giss-oHtside modest world asGi
,tates ample. .F
nmis- Pile weeds on. the holes okd
the and let the weeds decay and IN
Dali pests are IsA4sE-destroxed. -p- NJ
If this fail, cover the hole and
man space about it with white sand.
,hsar cannot travel over the slidID@
He without staggering about like h
land men. They vote for local optin
migrate.
: MO They have one poor devil, !
80 Perkins, quaranIined at Red
80, Station, on the NJ. K. & t.
49, .Sao Rutherford did it. Perkins is 3
' up and swears by all that is blst
blue that be never heard OF EN-
unos but the Doctor concluded WAS
So and there Perkins stuck andill
'unts for forty days.
Ban Nathan Same who doesreoae
Psalms, but is a nice 20 nof