The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

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/, night, Bob Holman's bird still coming
out winner. There were several hack
| fights in the afternoon, and consider
| able. betting was done. Three birds
gave up the ghost in the ARRAY.
| The finishing work on the Temporal
ry capitol is being rapidly pushed to
completion. There is painting and
sand-papering, and scrubbing and. pol
isbing; but paint, scrub, and polish as
best they can, it will never be more
than q very cheap and "a very plain af-
fair anyhow. ",' 80 '-- 80 49,
+, Ifyou are tired of life and wish to
end it, there is now no necessity for
buying filthy drugs that will turn YOU
black in the face, after you are dead,
liYou only have, to walk around the
streets of Austin, Especially north of
capitol square, to get a tirst-claSS dose
OF neck break. --.. =
! The Inauguration of Governor Ire
land and installation OF other state of
ticers will probably take place about
the 18th of January. Comptroller
Brown says he took charge of the Of
/ flee on the 18th of january, 1881, and
he expects to Yacate just two years
from that,date. .-.-.. ...-- -,
The shipments of cotton up to date
are 26,OOO bales, which is 1000 bales in
excess of last year. 1t is expected
that 10000 bales more will be shipped
before the season closes, making H.
600 more than last year, or nearly
| double the Quantity, last years ship
ments being 1900. bales. ss,y...,. /.
! AT the meeting. of Capital, Lodge
No.1Il, EO. D.. f., last night,. the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing term:N. g., r. C.Shelley; ".
g., g, T.. -Dagnan; II. Sec'ty., Z. B.
| ConneQ; 7. 'Sec'ty., CIV. Patterson;
Treasurer, L, L. Wren; rep. to G.. L.,
CIV. Patterson; alternate q. L., l.. L.
| Edwards. 's...s r,- 90. ..,., e.
According to his usual custom at
| Christmas time, Mr.. Lundberg yes
terday presented to each Of the pfiso-
uers in the county Jail two splendid
/ cakes. Such liberality is commend
able, and Mr.. LundDerg deserves the
thanks of the public as well as the
unfortunates who are the recipients of
his bounty.
The contribution box which Mr.. NJ.
c. Murphy had placed on his counter
! about week ago was this morning
| emptied by the secretary of the exec
utivet committee for the poor, and it
contained the sum of eight dollars and
eight cents. MIR. Murphy was ever
| urgent in requesting contributions,
even at the risk of driving customers
from his house. .s.. ,.ii..a. ,s f.
| There is a water pipe protruding
| about foot above ground on East
Pecan street, Just in front of Col.
FISHERS residence. One OF these days
a buggy or some other vehicle will
| run into it, and then there will be
more accidental injuries to record.
But; then, we ought not to speak of
these things, DIS they all help to make
items for the reporters. -
1. A farmer, who had butchered three
| hogs, was bringing them to the city
yesterday, but when he reached town
he was aStonished to find only two of
the dead porkers in the wagon. He
| turned and drove Back several miles,
! but he could find nothing of the miss
ing corpse, and he believes that when
he was driving at pretty lively rate
in coming towards town, some one
slipped up behind the wagon, pulled
the pig out and carried him away.
On Tuesday night last wicked boy
was attending the festival at the
Christian church. After partaking of
all the goodies and teasing the girls he
went on a tour of inspection. The
festival was held in the basement, and
this wicked boy on, looking up at the
| ceiling discovered a nall knot-hole
in one of the boards. Scarcely sooner
seen than done, hewent up stairs, crept
up to the aforementioned hole, lighted
a fire cracker and dropped it through.
The. fiery missile fell and exploded
| right between a. young lady and her
beau. .Tableau! .. 49,. s..i D.. =.
Every day complaints are made
about the condition of the streets in
the less Travelled parts of the. city, and
/ yet there appears to be no movement
made to improve them. Here and
there are deep gullies made by recent
rains, and persons driving along them
after dark are in. great danger of
breaking not only their vehicles, but
their !necks as well. No long since a
man had both legs broken in conse-
quence of a ditch down. in Mason
town. and last week u man barely
escaped breaking his limbs when his
wagon tipped into ditch in the upper
end of town. - -~.t', "a! IN : %
!. About 9 O'Clock the fire bello was
sounded for sixth ward, and all the
hose carriages, trucks and fire engines
turned out and Went in search Of the
confagration, but they sought in vain.
The fire could not be found-at least
not the kind of fire they were looking
for. 1t is supposed that the watch
man, at city hall mistook' the rising
moon for a fire;:or else the man who
Remenyi had put: out of the opera
! house avenged his wrongs by running
up to city hall and yelling ''frep If
such was his plan, he succeeded adj
mirably, for nearly every man in the
gallery got UP and ran down stairs
with {" tremendous noise. ReIneryi
himself looked like a man who had
been struck by lightning. ---''' L.
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