The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-11

eral hurt, but no one killed.
The city council of Houston or
dained that saloons in that city
must be closed at II o'clock at night.
A young man named Weeks, at
Elgin, accidentally shot himself with
shotgun, and died in about six
hours.
The Bonham Neics thinks Senator
Maxey is pleading the "baby act" in
connection with the star route
frauds.
The Houston Post now pays its
printers on Monday instead of
Saturday, and the Sunday edition is
sprightly.
ApropOs of the expected short
corn crop, Texas papers are advls-
ing farmers to plant more grain and
less cotton.
San Antonio Light: "Austin is
to have driving club San An
tonic needs Il driving club the
worst sort"
Dallas has accepted the PROPOSE
ton Of the Texas and st. Louis road,
and that line will run from Mount
Pleasant to the former city.
The Dallas Herald heads an arti-
Gle capital coming southwark"
Pfouts, one of the proprietOrs of the
Herdid, returned from st. Louis the
day before.
The Blanco Star ViRdicdtor says n
rich man can afford to wear common
clothes, but poor man, 10 command
any respect or attention, must put
on stylish harness.
Mr.. T.. Pilot, of Houston, has
purchased the fremont Opera
House at Galveston. 1t will be
managed this season by Captain
Sam Ashe, of Houston.
The amount of property assessed
in McLennan county for the year
1881 is seven million, three hundred
and eleven thousand, nine hundred
and sixty-five dollars.
The VanZandt County Chronicle
wants no gerrymandering i'll redis-
tricting the state for congressman. 1t
says: "The legislature should act
us though every county in the state
had good congressional timber"
The Terrell Times in discussing
Governor Roberts and the thanks
| giving matter, says: "Of course he
| gets the usual round of abuse, which
makes so little impression on his
honest old heart as rain poured over
o ducks back"
The Denison Tribune, a Republi-
can paper, says: "We hope to sec
Governor Roberts nominated for a
third term just to see how few OF
the Democratic Texas papers, who
are now abusing him, will have the
nerve to oppose him then"
The Dallas Times thinks that: 'In
| the beautiful hereafter, if towns
should become spirits, Galveston
will be found, with hands extended
standing on the corner of the New
Jerusalem asking for aims. 1t is
the beggar town of the state"
The director-general of the At
lanta cotton exposition suggests
that Texas may be represented in
the mineral exhibit by specimens OF
coal, iron ores, gypsum, silver, lead
copper, marble, etc. Free transpor,
tatiOn will be given for all exhibits
in this department.
BRENNAN Banner: "Since the
late rains cotton is looking better
growing aud fruiting rapidly. On
some farms considerable open cot
| ton may be seen, and some are pick
ing in Austin county. Farmers also
report large quantities of cotton dy'
ing out since the rains"
The Houston Age sometimes asks
very pertinent questions, as witness
the following: docs anybody think
that the fealiy of the people of Texas
| to the government of the United
States is so doubtful, that they must
prove it by donating a day tC
thanksgiving and prayer for Gar
field"
The Dallas city council having
failed to furnish the city with gas
the members thereof are catching il
hot and heavy from the press. The
| Herald calls on the aldermen tC
provide light or resign, and the
Times SAYS: awe must have gas il
it involves the whole country in
civil war. The owners of the works
can't stand things the way things
are standing"
Nearly all the papers are going
to issue first of September editions"
We may except the Dallas Times
which saws: ave will not issue a
September edition. We make this
announcement in order that the
public may not confound us with
either the Dallas Herald or Calves
ton NeicS. We do not believe in the
chrome, prize-box, extra edition
racket"
The Independent Blade offers the
| following sarcastic sentiment to the
daily newspaper and the spirit OF
the age in which we live: with
the combination of telegraph, the
associated press and enterprisin9
dailies we can enjoy a feast 81
blood any day as soon as the mail
gets in. There is solid satisfaction
| in knowing that man has just had
an ear bitten off in saloon in Dial.
las, that another fellow has been ar
rested in San Antonio for whipping
his wife, and that horse thief has
| been hung in Jack county for steal
| ing blind mule. People may have
got along very well without such
information in the past, but in the
present progressive age we cannot
afford such ionOranceo
Texas merchants are entirely toe
| literal in the construction of Ian.
guage. The Fort Clark Ne,cS fur,
nishes an illustration: A lusty
railroader, of broad Teutonic dia'
lect. stepped into one of our store:
| last week carrying a little brown
Jug, and asked for whisky. Being
informed that the ardent was moi
kept there, but that he could buy
vinegar, he says: "Vel, dot ish him
| wants vinegar" The clerk drew
the vinegar and brought it to him
Drawing the stopper and taking s
smell, blank look of disappoint-
ment and surprise spread over his
broad face, and he said in low
tone: "Why dis ish vinegar
Certainly says the clerk, faint that
what you called for 70 Ivy, yaas
| dot is vot L said, but 1 wanted
whischky and 1 dot you only called
him vinegar like Won schtore in
Dhanis vat sells him dot way" Being
informed that Bracket merchant;
were not that kind of hair-pins, the
clerk kindly emptied the contents OF