The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
re1..-Fae,s ana Esners.,
Jake Bradley pulls hemp at bryan
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soon pretty girl Of Waco.
Currie, the Kansas jAyhawker, is
trying on the insanity dodge.
Willie Rodgers, at Morales, shot and
killed himself accidentally Tuesday.
The crop of hsngines should be
precisely equal 10 thst of murders.
The unsolicited and assessed poll
tax is $24O, OOO-a dead loss 10 tax
payers.
The musical amateurs of Houston
will give & Porter benefit Monday
night.
West Virginia too has adopted the
Mofflt register, and this may console
Texas.
Judge Nancy is going to speak
everywhere and dares Judge Epson to
meet him.
Prof. B. Miller's $4,000 residence at
Dallas was burned by incendiaries
Wednesday.
Mr.. Watson, of the Rondale Mercury,
says almonds flourish here as well and
perfectly as peaches.
Sheriff Hamilton, of Houston, is in
hot water about Mary Fitzgerald. An
ugly stew, we reckon.
Many of the. leading newspapers OF
Texas are utterly opposed to the re-
nomination of Tilden.
They have lively times in San An
tonic among the quarreling newspapers
and cockpits of Sundays.
The eight youths expelled from the
Bryan Agricultural and Mechanical
College have been restored.
Elite Abingdon (name and parentage
unknown), poor, unfortunate and de-
PRAYED, took choral and is no more.
Mrs. Talbot pleases the people of
Bryan by her curiously ''ipspired" lee.
lures. She is said to be an excellent
| woman.
The proficiency of Dallas brass
band In blowing was never acquired
by the representatives of that nice
town sent to the capital.
Gilbert, of the Palestine Railroad
News, spells Hoxie with 'cks." He
must have been bathed in his youth in
wet weather free school.
The Legislature should not adjourn
till the Bagdad debating club hal
determined "whether penitentiary
convicts should be hired out"
The Brszos Valley Guide says rair
is badly needed. Wheat is looking
we'll, but early corn, grass and gar
den vegetables are suffering.
1t is sad, but John r. Baylor says
he won't be an independent candidate
for Congress. He isn't so much il
love with greenbackism after all.
The Dallas Commercial complains
that "we are very dry" We wondel
whether an ocean of whisky would
allay that Unsuitable Dallas thlrst4
1t is we'll enough for our lawmaker!
to know that the Virginia newspaper
say crimes are fewer than ever before
since the whipping post got out on it,
mission of mercy.
| The Quill and Other western paper
are we'll please with Col. Ford's ex
cellent and exhaustive frontier prOtec.
ten speech. Old Rip is always sens
ible even when wrong.
Rev. DR.. John, of the Galveston
Christian Advocate, has been doing {
good work and conducting a success
full revival in Houston. The Telegram
| looks better than it used to.
A forger from Waco goes up for TIVE
years, while poor devil who stole {
gray mare is jagged for five years. a
| Hebrew jury sent up an old-clothes
thief for the horse thiet's term.
The genealogical Rev. T. ]. Drane il
starting fifty acre apple orchard q
Marlin. He always had weakness
for gardening, commonly ascribed tt
his fondness for Milton aud Paradis
Lost.
Drought prevents the coming up o
corn about Mexia, and if the Houst
pass Romans local option law Mexit
won't need half as much corp juice a
1t used to, and the place will still b.
happy.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee de
cides that sleeping coaches running
through the State are taxable. TIL
question will be soon and finally set
tied by the United States Supreme
Court.
The Wsco Telephone wants an sac
| hn IF h,
second regiment of Texas volunteers
Nobody need apply, we suppose, who's
legs cannot tote him off with marvel
Gus agility.
Most of the leading citizens OF Bren
ham are candidates for the mayoralty
The chief purpose of mayor in Bren
ham is to exterminate fleas, and TIT
worst fl9s-bitten old gray will prob
ably win in this race.
A brutal fellow at Wiunsboro whip
ped his wife, and popular indignation
properly makes the country too hot tt
hold him. He is one of the sort tina
should migrate speedily to Leadville
or Kansas would do.
MANY Veterans" writes to The
STATESMAN denouncing members o.
the Legislature who voted against tn,
pension act. OF course it goes to tht
waste basket, as do all communication
of an irresponsible nature.
The gold diggers at Bagdad have
gone down about thirty feet and en-
| countered a stone wall. Who built III
When2 For what purpose2 Is there
such a WALTZ The Bsgdad correspon.
dent of the Headlight tells about IL
The Denison Herald man ia sixty
two years old, and yet he calls him Of
the Marshall Herald, ''Fsther LOugh-
eryl" This longevity of Texas edi-
tors is due to the sweet guidance and
protecting care of the State police.
Tom Brown, colored, convicted oil
murder Mt Waco, is imprisoned for life,
while Abner Walker. white, is to be
hanged. The Globe Democrat will
please observe that Waco juries think
it better to die than be penitentiaried
Dallas has clear comprehension OF
its needs and in this behalf owes much
to the STATESMAN. Il ia about to erect
a $50, 900 Jail. 1t will hardly oe fin
ished when the Legislature adjourns
and the good people of Dallas all get
home.
They grow weary OF John Smith al
Waco and name them now with refer
ence to the length of their legs. Thus