The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
Tex.s-Facts and Faneie..

Ialr OF tnat Town ''Di3Zc Ot i9ut Guu
world Of beauty"
The Greenbackers will make Gen.
B'ylor their candidate for Congress in
the San Antonio district.
The mineral springs of Caldwell
county, near Pierce's roadway, are
said to be the finest in the world.
DR.. Young has knocked the black
out of red eye in BeltOu, snd still the
Journal looks fresh and attractive
enough.
C1l. Norton used to sleep with
Hayes when they were boys. Col. n.
now has two pretty girls as clerks 10
run his postoffic'.
The conduct and bearing and sensi-
bic, practical speeches of Mr.. Good
B .ownwood Banner and other West
ern newspapers.
Gideon Cock, the Baptist preacher
1t was who said to his weeping brother
when asked, 'are you dying, Gideon ?"
answered, II don't know JIm-can't
The Netos Ech3 contains a full de-
scription of Sayers & Walton's stock
farm and of others like it. Some of
the finest cattle and horses in the
United States are produced in Texas.
Killing an innocent fellow at hotel
table by shooting him in the back is
murder in the second degree in the
eyes of Houston jury, as one of these
declares In the GrissoR-Brown case.
We don't like to tell it for fear the
boys wilfwan to pocket all the chips;
but Jim Neil, when shot at in Blaneo
while participating in a nice little
game, was saved by the chips in his
vest pocket,
The cock fight still progresses with
maddening excitement at Hampstead.
The Legislature has not been inyited
down to see the delicious sport always
opened with the sweet echoes of the
circular saw.
The press commends In strong terms
the appointment of T. L. Nugent to the
judgship of the Stephensville district.
Nugent and Fleming, of the West, are
esteemed among the foremost in abili-
ty of jurlsts in Texas.
The temperance man of the Lam
pasas Dispatch, fearing that many of
its subscribers may be dispatched by
tanglefoot, deYotes column of the ex-
cellent paper to the condemnation OF
mince pie-which is good.
Thirty-eight persons died in San An
tonic in February. If the Herald do
not mollify its mortuary reports, the
outside world will begin to imagine
that people of San A tonic think it
good place to get away from.
Mrs. D. f. Colson snapped an
''empty" pistol at her child and killed
it, at Dresden, Navarro county. Empty
pistols and non-explosive coal OIL are
the most harmless things in nature,
but keep on slaughtering the inno-
cents.
The San Antonio Herald SAYS the
butchers of that place have got into an
awful stew. It's a wonder they hadn't
found substitutes for them selves in
their tough steaks and soup bones.
The city fathers would charge too
much for market stalls.
The robbery of the ticket Office at
Mexia will not bankrupt the Central
or cause any material advarcc in rates.
The loss was $13. Fishburn was out
Sf town or the knaves would have
preferred to tackle his till tn that of
an impecunious railroad company.
The Headlight don't want Round Rock
blotted from the map of nations. 1t
fears that sher.ffs' deputies will not
protect the place against roughs as do
the mayor and police. 1t fears, too,
that laws of cleanliness will be neg
lected criminally there as in Austin.
The Chronicle is the newspaperial
"joss" of the people of our Canton In
Van Zlndt county. The Celestials of
this place don't seem to care durn
whether Hayes or Blaine prosper, or
whether the Chinese treaty be lawlessly
sbrogated by Congress or honestly ex-
ecuted.
At big meeting in New York at
Cooper's Institute, old Peter himself
(the Greenbsck sainD presiding, reso-
lutions were adopted advising Con-
gress to extend the International rail-
way to the Mexican capital. Our late
Mr.. Whiting made speech on the
momentous occasion.
Goliad county has lost 60 per cent.
of its sheep this winter and the rest
of the State 40 per cent, and yet the
Legislature enacts no substitute for the
violent anti-dog law and never thinks
of reducing rates of taxation or sus-
pending the school tax or atolishing
the war department.
Mr.. White, recently appointed
United States district attorney by the
President, certifies, in all tle papers,
to the virtues of the liver pad, and
everybody, when the Senate adjourned
without confirming his nomination,
asked Aleck, SLOWS y'r liver2" and
wearing the pad, he was very sad egad
he was.
The Houston Age objects to the
transfer of the records of Harris county
to Bernard & Co.'S bindery, in st.
Louis. But the policy of Texans is to
send abroad for everything, instead of
encouraging enterprises at home and
keeping money at home. Harris county
may be poor, but it keeps itself poorer
by hunting the cheapest man thou
sand miles away.
One Gary has discovered means of
using electricity as perfect mecEanI-
cal force more efficient and infinitely
cheaper than steam. Mr.. Gary is not
of kin to our Mr.. McGIry who still
sticks to steam. In fact many people
steam up before breakfast mechanical
ly every morning, but their electricity
Is all destroyed and they are limp, and
stupid as asses.
Professor Cooper was not successful
as an orator before the pedagogues'
that sat in this city. We
were very sorry about it, and now he
leaves Henderson ollege at the close
of the current session. He shoots as
widely OF the mark when he guesses st
the authorship of articles in the
as when he sought to pop
ularize the present system of public
schools in Texas.
We suppose that Hon. VIM. II. Bur-
CESS will hardly be a candidate for
Congress He has just been elected,
after long and heated CANVAS, TO mat |
It's against the Law 10 bold /
two offices at once, snd yet Dir. Bur