The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-02
OVER THE CITY.
Stray Notes of Home Interest Picked
up in Reportoriai RamDlings.

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Roger Hartman, a young whit
man. was found guilty of horse-steal
ing yesterday and given five years i
the penitentiary. The case OF Waite
Morgan for killing Henderson wa
taken up in the afternoon and wi
probably occupy all of to-day.
HARD TO FIND.
It seems that the University stu
dents are having hard tune In secur
ing commencement orator. The
first wrote to Senator Vest OF Missouri
who couldn't come. Neither coulC
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier journal, the next man asked
Their latest choice has fallen on Hon
Olin Wellborne, of Dallas. No re-
Spouse 10 the invitation has yet beer
received.
AFTER SALOON KEEPERS.
The Grand Jury has found some
thirty or forty indictments against
saloon keepers for selling liquor tc
minors. IL was shown that some OF
the University boys had been in the
habit of getting liquor somewhere,
and Judge Walker charged the Grand
Jury especially on this subject. The
fact that some of the Grand Jurors
had minor SONS who occasionally
needed assistance i'll getting home
may have stimulated the somewhat
thorough investigation made.
GEMS FROM 4 TEXAS QUARRY,
Is the title OF very neat and inter
esting book, published by j. s. Rivers,
of New Orleans. The book is made
up OF literary offerings and selections
from leading writers and prominent
characters of Texas, edited by Mrs.
Ella Hutchins Stewart, of Houston.
1t is intended as a Texas contribution,
ia the literary line, to the Worlds In
dustrial Exposition, and is gotten up
In the best style, and contains some
very handsome Illustrations. The
agent is now in Austin, and will can
vaSs the city for subscriptions.
BAD LAW.
DR.. Carver was lined yesterday
before Justice Won Rosenberg for
shooting bats without license. 1t is
hardly probable that the great marks
man knew it took any license. Any
way he paid up cheerfully. But the
point to be made is this: it ought not
to require any license for the exter-
mination of the aforesaid winged nui-
sances. The next Legislature should
provide a bounty for their destruc-
ton, and DR.. Carver ought to have a
purse for the thousand that he
slaughtered the other day. Anybody
that has lived in the same house with
them will recognize the equity of this
statement.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The following note is self explain
tory:
Editor Statesman,
The report in your issue of March
81, of bat Shooting. by the Austin
Gun Club, is as correct as your repor-
ter usually gets "city locals but we
request that you give credit where it
is due, for the one bat killed. The
honor lies between Mr.. Frank Ham
ilton and Col. Peeler, the captains of
the opposing teams. The eloquence
with which both gentlemen plead their
claims to he leather-wing rendered it
impossible for the referee to decide.
When last seen they were returning
to the city still keeping up an ANNA
ted controversy. Doctor Carver and
several other jealous Sportsmen
claimed that the Arab pitcher squeezed
the bat lifeless before he threw it up.
'Quien Sabe?" ONE OF THF CLUB.
Yes, they have adjourned at last.
That is to say the Nineteenth Legisla-
ture is thing Of the past-"gone to
join; the innumerable caravan etc.
1t is sad thing to have to chronicle,
but it is true. Amid the universal
gloom that hangs like pail over the
city, let us try TO be as cheerful as
possible, and bear up under the
heavy stroke of affection like
Texans OF true grit should. Let us
not yield like frail reed to the breeze
but keep stiff upper lip, though it
Wrenches our heart strings with a
forty~horse power wrench, to see the
Solons leave. 1t is going to go fear
fully hard with US for awhile, but
Time, the great healer, will bring COM
For several days, at least,
every thing will look lonely,
and desoIate-especially in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Four-eyed
Browns. That merry haunt that so
oft resounded with the jocund laugh
ter of the honorable gentlemen from
Jollyville and his blithesome col
leagues, will percbance wear drear
and forsaken look since the jolly gen.
tlemen have again sought their
native heaths. But amid the
laments that go up on every
side there is ray Of cheer, a single
drop of consolation in our schooner"
of Indebtedness. 1t is this: They
Will come back in the sweet hereafter.
Perhaps the identical lot Gas whole
will not return. In fact this is scarce
ly probable, when one stops to reflect.
Some VIII die, some will reform (that
is, give politics "the shake') and not a
| few will get showed under" SHOWED
under is a slightly metaphorical
expression for trying to get elected
| but failing, on account OF a scarcity
of votes. But then other legislatures
will come-there isn't a doubt of that
"The poor ye have with you always
saith the good book, or something
similar. So with Austin. 1t has a
permanent lien on legislators
which gives it the bulge
on Fort Worth and Other
aspiring Texas cities for all time tt
come. Here is the "balm in Gilead,
that should alleviate the weo of board
ing house keepers, saloon men and al
otner citizens of our proud Capital
Therefore cease repining and look onl!
to the day that shall usher il
another band of statesmen, VIII
along with their laborious duties a
Lawmakers, shall yet find time t.
buck the tiger, open the Jackpot, re
vile each other, and quaf old rye, evel
as did their predecessors of yesterday
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