The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-20

heyy penalty upon property owners
reting or leasing property to this Glass
OF he community.
ohm D.: Hunt, who killed Capt.
Kilough, offended at comments,
writes a threatening letter to the
STTEsMAN. Il is dated the fifteenth
of February, and was mailed March
II, at Rockdsle.
Waco prefers darkness to light be-
caue its deeds sre-iolly. The streets
of the blessed town are no longer
lighted with gas. They talk about
renlng Col. b ID Taylor as a substitute
for The Gas Company.
len Thompson says, In letter from
Denver: "a bully good country this. ~
Thee's money there and it is laVished
upo the good things of tins life, or
Ber Thompson would not have discoV-
cred paradise in Colorado.
Hon. John Henry Brown is furnish
Jag the Dallas Herald with random
recdlections of a rollicking lifetime.
HIS adventures in Mexico and in the
early days OF the Texas Republic are
rich. racy, rare and fascinating.
Sour dirt from Brazuris county, pos
sessng the same properties as the sour
water of the well at Lullng, can be OBJ
tanned by writing TO DR.. A. T. Morris,
at Round Rock. 1t is sovereign cure
for dyspepsia and other diseases.
In Mason and McCulIoch couaties
the Indignation is great at being tackled
on Williamson county In judicial dis
trict. The western counties are going
to petition for a separate district, and
somebody has got to stand from under.
Gopzllas Enquirer: The convention
at Cuero adjourned without making a
nomination, the friends of both Stay
ton and Stockdale were seemingly
afraid to make an issue. Stsyton has
developed much unexpected strength.
The Burnet Bulletins Nickelville
correspondent says ''if Austin is so
mean it won't, we will build the mar
row gauge. II Burnet will start it,
there are half dozen gentlemen here
who say they will meet Burnet half
way."
The extinction of the criminal court
at Houston saves the people $11, 600
per snnum. Set up the whipping pest
and we will soon have little need for
criminal courts or penitenuaries, and
public burdens will be greatly less
ened.
Round Rock and Hampstead both
want to strip themselves of corporate
clothes. Both in the open prairie,
won't they shudder when smitten by a
northern They had better pull down
their vests and keep on their rusty
shirts.
When Yellow Jack refused, in Mem
phis, to kill off d.. Gray, of Denison,
he went to New Orleans and killed
himself. We don't see why good
fellow should not have the right to de-
termine which of the two worlds he
will inhabit.
Dallas is shipping eggs to Chicago.
If little Dallasses are Matched out in
Chicago, and the excessive piety of the
two places gets mixed, it will boil over
like big seidlitz powder and the con-
tlnent will be drowned in the filth of
the Inter- Ocean.
The Express thinks those Legislators
act wisely who declare the appropria-
ton for schools should be small. But
it seems that the State must burden
the people from year to year with
heavy taxes that itinerant Adventures
may be supported.
They discovered a male child care
fully wrapped In copy of the Calves
ton Neaos in the Trinity at Dallas. 1t
ID not the first time our contemporary
eyer miscarried, and has given birth to
many unfortunate and short-lived con-
ceptions.
As soon as the dogs heard of their
emancipation by late legislative enact
ment, they showed their appreciation
by taking special proprietary interest
in sheep. One butcher alone near this
city lost thirty or forty head of NUT
ton by the dogs in one night.
Telegram: The ''bloody fifth,". as 1t
has been nicknamed, now consists of
six companies, but if the Legislature
will keep their hands off the new mill
tia bill, 1t will soon consist of ten well
equipped and drilled companies. Sue
cess to Col. Rice and the fifth.
The new military law which goes
into effect September 1 makes all
members of the State military exempt
from poll tax, save the poll tax for
schools. Also, they are to be exempt
from any road or street tax, from all
road duty and from service on juries.
Rev. w. B. Rankin is charmed with
Northeastern Texas. He has been over
there distributing Bibles and riding on
the East Line road, which he says is
well built and we'll conducted. Austin
should have one like it to Brownwood,
and even further to the Northwest.
Judge D. McCrimmore, a peripa-
tetic editor of divers papers, C0uriers,
Bedc0ns and the like, is no more. The
papers he engineered say he was an
excellent good fellow, and one of
them, as an obituary, writes: ''Peace
to his ashes," which Is touching.
When live Yankees and others or
ganized ''Pomological' society in
Sherman, Martin gave 1t big puff as
boxing school. He said that s'if
any fellow wanted to learn how to
'pomer another, it only cost six bits to
learn in this elegant society,""
The newspapers are disposed to poke
fun at the colored member from WASH
ingtOn county who spelled the name
of Mr.. Benavides with a "iamin"
thrust in between the first and second
syllables. The colore statesman must
be Bible reader sticking to the old
text.
In regard to Harris county sending
its records to St. LOUIS to have them
bound, the Gonz lies Enquirer says:
Harris county is by no means soli-
tary exception. Can it be wondered
that county governments initiate State
governmental Where are the Supreme
Court Reports printed2 Not in Texas"
A Galveston merchant will erect on
Buffalo bayou. at cost OF $40, 900, a
cotton seed oil factory. Thousands of
dollars worth of seed are shipped from
Austin every year, for profit to be made
on them elsewhere, At the water
power just below Austin there should
be the best paying cotton seed oil fac
tory in the South.
]. n. Reed, of the house of A. 81.
Andrews & Co., of Chicago, and E. D.
Slater, found pocket-book containing
$40 end several railway 1000-mile