The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-28
a member of cousres. from Mississ, ppi

a member OF Congress from Mississippi
in the days Of Gen. jackson.
A Sunday School convention is ad-
yertised TO sit at H0uest Ridge, Fri
day, August %, in Limestone county.
We are afraid that the strip Of country
named is ;oD internally thiE snd mar
row for the convention 10 perch On.
Telegram: D.. Halen rqnts'irg
the $ ate health cf,icer to report L.
him before he does - the Governor is
an excess OF mOdesty only found in
those specimens Of nstural history"
brought to our shores by the Colorado.
l, is TO DC hoped tia, the people of
Mex;a will succeed in founding tht
Polytechnic Ios,i'u:c. Much m ney is
r, ulired and books and lab0fat ny ard
workshops AMI machinery. Bdf such
an institution is greatly needed n
TeXss.
The Sunday law was - strictly OBJ
served at Mason that parties who came
in to bug grave Clothes for = man who
had been accidentally killed were
compelled to return home without
them and bu'y the man as best they
could.
Freeman, negro Representative Of
Waller county IN the Legislature,
writes a letter 10 the Courier. telling
the negroes Texas is the best plsce;
that they are doing we'll nougb, and
had better let Kansas alone for the
present.
One Burma, who won't boom any
more, baYing threatened the life Of
Fletcher of G. linesville, was shot TO
death by the later. Boumas and other
people should keep sober and refrain
from fourishing with pistols about
Texas village.
Bob Toombs says he hasn't been
Governor of Georgia because ne can
neither make aD agricultural address
nor sing a Sunday school hymn, but he
will say such Good things az the Aus
tin fair that every farmer aud Christian
will be delighted.
Waller county scrip is worth 80 to
30 cents. The Courier blames the
commissioners court for this depic iis-
ton, and it comments unsparingly
upon their conduct. The wonder is
how value can be attached to anything
IN so lawless community.
Capt. II chards of Fayette coun y
is experimenting with the early am
be. cane. He has already ma.ured
two crops this year, and Is preparing
for the third. This cane mstures in
two months ard two days; 1t makes ex
cellent sugar and syrup or molasses.
Mesilla Valley, in New Mexico, pro-
daces grape making a wine equal to
any known. This same superior grape
DIT sductIon is characteristic of the
country lying a'e1g the Upper Rio
Grande in Texas. IL is also celebrated
for the Longevity of its Inhabitants.
l. was not p. w. HurEdan, an ex
cel!ent and widely known citizen of
fredericksburg, who was captured as
a horse thief, but Z. w. Hudson. How
the types confnunded the two names
we can't see. BIT the papers have 1t
all wrong, and punish the wrong man.
An Irish well digger in DtWitt
county had blacksmith named Horn
make him an anger. for which he
failed to get pay. Horn took out his
pocket-knlfe and satisfied himself hy
cuttiag the fellows rcck from esr to
ear. The Irishmsn died in few mo-
ments.
The Oneida Community Is said to
have cleared $40 600 last year from the
products of its own Industry on zoo
acres Of land. | has vineyards, frnit
and vegetable gardens, great canning
establishments, and orchards, and is
rich with the riches thar can be created
out of the SOIL"
The two co'ored representatives, OF
Washlr gton county voted for the ri
diculous Sunday law, which, it is to be
hoped, is not the law. But it is GER
tainly no Democratic meas ure, and is
repudIated 10y everybody except county
attorneys and fellows in search of fees
AID plumber.
The irate editor of the R1ckport
transcript warns the owner of veneer
able swine with litter of seventeen
| pigs, that If he don't fix her nCZZle Sc
that she can't root under his fence to
admit the juvenile p.Tkers to a para
disc within, that he will shoot and
make pork cfeap.
The Round Rock Headlight is sound
on the b ble-in the-schoo!s question.
No such book can properly have q
place in such institutions. But boys
should be instructed in morals as well
as In intelligence, and yet the Bible,
we are tod, can have no place In the
public schools.
Green!aw, the energetic buggy and
carriage manuf u-er of Sherman,
has been burned out again, for the
third time. He had better come to
Austin. 1t isu't as fiery place as
Sherman, anyhow. The old fogie7 Of
this place take things coolly, and don''
care how the world wsgs.
Harris county is assessed at 50, 213,
S32. r fl ,ctiops upon the size of that
pile made some of its representatives
swell moustrously IN The Capitol. Nc
Lehman county, the Telephone include
is assessed at only Sc, 900, 600. which
accounts for the sweet modesty OF the
olu-hing Telephone.
Lamar county and Paris invi'e al
mankind to hear Maxey. Hubbard
Throck morton, Culberson, Lang, Ham
man, O'Neal and Dphoney. August
80, when provisions for 10000 will b'
dispensed. It's free thing. The poll
ticians will be required to tackle The
Sunday law whereat they do treTble
1t is said that strong ring is en-
gagged in the business OF depressing
State Treasury four per cent. warrants
The bell punches that go out soor
bring In $3.50 each to begin with, and
this will "niste" these warrants to par
More than two thousand punches a
$3.50 bring in $50, 600 at one whack
The r ,ckport Transcript, copy o.
which we forwarded to the 1cddGmi
des Sciences de Paris, still prZzies thu
philosophers of France. They have
concluded, however, that the pieiureI
of cattle brands must be designed Il
represent the signs Of an Indian tongue
spoken in Comanche and those parts