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

Hon. Bob Taylor is ilAttertd ny Mr..
SDgletary in his letter to the Magnet
when he says OF the great and good
man from Bonhsm '1hat the genius of
Milton exhausts all the powers of s.
fertile imagination in depicting the
strstsgems of the fallen angels to re-
cover the heights from which they had
been hurled. Your readers ere as we'll
able as myself TO apply the illustrator
and discover the moral" Yves Col.
Bob kicked out of the heaven of De-
mocrscy, and how far did he fal2
E iitors anyhow, if other people
don't, always love one another. The
Bonham Messenger man is moved by
professional affection to go over to
Denison every few weeks to larrup
that awful sinner, Murray, who be-
lIeves in woman suffrage and spiritual
ism and things, and is bound to be lost
were it not for the good man of the
Messenger. The press gang should as
sist in sending missionaries TO the
heather.
st. Louis greg shops have CONSOLE
dated front of twelve miles. We once
put all the bsr-rooms of Texas, and
the ragged families, wives, children,
lop-eared, NANCY dogs, and glsss-eyed
horses, in one supposed city. Scenes
of death-murder, blood, violence,
wretchedness, grief and madness--were
such that Nat. Q, contemplating
them, became local opsionist. But
he has got over it now and Is happy.
Nat. g memory is not tenacious like his
thirst for cocktails.
The press of Texas does we'll to APP
prove the assertion made months ago
by the STATESMAN when it SAID, as does
the Chronicle, that newspapers affairs
should be conducted on business prin-
ciples. Its owners are required to pay
as they go, aud so should they pay who
use the paper. We despise the sugges.
ton of patronage" Nobody can ''pa-
tronizs" the STATESMAN. We want NO
service for which we do not give q
qtid pro quo, and propose to take care
of ourselves.
A rude, vulgar fellow advertised
another rs a coward in Georgia paper
The modest clerk was greatly annoyed
about it. A jolly, good nstnred negro
came to his relief proposing to whip
the trough" for fifty cent?. The trade
was made and Cuffy stated through
the same paper that he had undertaken
the little job and called on his hero tc
come to time. He declined to fight
| ha he
then the clerk declined to fight the
bully because he was rude, coarse
/ vulgar fellow, and there the controvel.
sY ended.
Bad-tempered is the editor of the
Taylorsville Times who grew furiously
mad when the amiable MAT O." init
mated that Taylorsville was seE on fr,
by the genius or flaming red head o
the Times editor. The Times theI
photographs the blear-eyed, handy.
shanked, splay-footed, humpbacked
knock-kneed and bow legged Gnst Q
end then adds personal insult to thes,
plain facts so humiliating to the con
duct of the Record. The sympathies
of the people are with Nat Q. who /!
generous and good natured. But the
Taylorsville man, aside from ebulitions
OF an ugly temper, gets up a tirst-ratf
newspaper.
Clak s. Powers was as brutality muir
dered at Pilot Point on the twenty
second as the actor at Marshall by the
fellow from Kansas. Holt Induced
Powers, citizen of Ohio, to enter 6
private room and there deliberately
shot him to death. The Legislature
should not adjourn till these murder.
ers from all climes and States, at.
tracted hlther by the looseness of the
laws administration, are made tC
know that swift hanging follows In
stantly in the footsteps of murder.
Mr.. Heppenstall, of Lockhart, sent
to the Archaeological Society of this
city, through the STATESMAN Office q
curiously petriied soft-shelled turtle.
The animal either lost its head by the
guillotine in Paris or swallowed it as
the Ex-Governor proposes to do when
he absorbs the ''goodthings" OF this
life. The turtle is only headless.
| Otherwise it was well pInlrlad for i'm
mortality. IG would be we'll to gather
IN museum in the new Capitol, the
Gas Mr.. Heppenstall proposes) curious
archaeological remains to be found in
! the State.
An Grant pedagogue denounees In
the Gatesvllle San the ''dastardly
Legislature which even proposes 20 in.
terfere with the sacred public schools. -
And yet the great philauthropist and
educator of America, DR.. Sears, de-
clared even here IN public speech
that it were wiser to cast 5000, 00O
into the sea than devote it to such q
system. Benefcent schools are de-
stroyed by the States system of pan.
dering to personal measures and parsi-
mony. The State corrupts its own
citizens and persuades each to say 81
can do no more for my child than pay
the tax for the schools" The exist.
ing school system proffers a premium
for popular stupidity.
One DR.. Bonnell came to Texas in
1886 with DIR. Sheperd, afterwards
Secretary of State, and with Henry
Serugge, orderly sergeant to Sam
Houston. They reached Houston In
January or February, 1886. Can any
body tell what was Serugge's fatef He
was young, slender, tall, of dark eyes
and complexion. These men, with
Caldwell, Brownrigg and four Others,
brought with them from Columbus,
Mississippi, q silken flag, on which
was written, in letters of gold, by
Miss Fort, afterwards Mrs. BIlbo, OF
Nashville, Tennessee, the words ''we
will conquer or de-" enclosing the
lone star. What became of that silken
banne,2 Is it among the archives OF
the State2
Letter from Ben. ThOmpson.
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