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Hogs Perambulate - Rapid Progress - Pocket Pool and Liquor - Cooperation of Every Good Citizen
30 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.
Hogs perambulate West Pecan street as if that section belonged to them.
The work on the state sewer is progressing very rapidly. The pipes are now being laid along Brazos street, opposite Horst’s pasture.
It is a well known fact, despite the protestations of parents, that boys between twelve and sixteen years of age play pocket-pool and drink liquor in several Austin saloons.
The city marshal and Justice Von Rosenberg will receive the hearty approval and co-operation of every good citizen of Austin in the work of closing the gambling houses.
Whooping Through the Streets
29 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
THE COURTS.
Mayor’s Court. Hon. W.A. Saylor, presiding; Tom Purnell, clerk.
His honor had quite a party yesterday, vide the following:
John Black, for carrying a pistol and whooping through the streets, and for an assault, and for being drunk, was fined $44. This is the man who was not going to be taken up last night, but who changed his mind under the logic of three pairs of nippers.
Agreeing to Get Pistols and Settle It - Mansion a House Decent to Live In
28 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
STREET SHOOTING SCRAPE. Two Gamblers who Proved Wretched Marksmen.
At 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon the throng of citizens who usually crowd the Avenue at that hour were startled and terrified by rapid shots being fired from near the Iron Front saloon.
It proved to be two gamblers of Austin settling some old score in the midst of the most crowded thoroughfare of the capital of the state of Texas, [How does that sound?] The facts, briefly stated, as gleaned by a Statesman reporter are these: Jim Moore and Pat Cavanaugh are, or were, partners in the notorious gambling hole on Pecan street, fell out about some dispute in a division of spoils some three weeks ago. They have pretended or appeared to be on friendly terms until yesterday, only occasionally renewing the quarrel. Over a bet in Bob Holman’s gambling house yesterday they had a fight and went down stairs, agreeing to get pistols and settle it.
Meeting a short time afterwards on the sidewalk in front of the Iron Front, words passed, and Moore slapped Cavanaugh in the face. The latter jumped off the sidewalk into the gutter and behind a carriage, and fired at Moore. Moore stepped into Simon’s restaurant behind a brick pillar and returned fire, regardless of the fact that the sidewalks were crowded with promenaders, and that the avenue was full of buggies and carriages containing ladies and children.
Seven or eight shots were fired, frightening several ladies and children very much; but miraculous as it may seem, no shot took effect. Two ladies were passing along by SImon’s when the first shot was fired, the ball passing between them. They ran screaming, one in her fright starting up the steps leading to the gambling hall, and the other going up the millinery stairs. The balls scattered around promiscuously. Mrs. Geo. Levyson was shopping in at Schoolherr’s and had left her little child in front in the carriage. The firing in front and directly toward her child so frightened her that she fainted. A horse belonging to Dr. Sam Richards was shot in the leg badly.
Sergeant Chenneville and Officer Hutchinson arrested both parties and carried them to the courthouse, where each was placed under $1000 bond to appear at court this morning. The bonds were given.
Now, the above are the facts of the shooting; and, it may be remarked, that comments were not few. The reporter heard but one expression from all good citizens, and that was, that for two men to choose a thronged avenue, crowded with women and children, on which to settle a dispute with two large pistols, was not only disgraceful but that it was wanton in the extreme. To this view of the matter the Statesman will send up a hearty approval. Just think of it! Your wives and daughters and little children can not go down town with any assurance that they will not be killed or maimed by a bullet fired by reckless men who neither regard themselves or anyone else. It is time that the citizens of Austin were arousing themselves on this subject. If the officers who are sworn to perform their duty do not see that ladies and children are frightened nigh to death and innocent lives put in jeopardy by the shooting bouts of men afraid to settle their disgraceful rows except with guns, then the citizens should arise, hurl such officers from positions and public confidence and tell the gamblers “you must move.” From the numerous and emphatic expressions heard last night, public sentiment is aroused. The people here who have any regard for their families and their neighbor’s families are not going to submit to insult and outrage any longer. Such is the general sentiment prevailing now, and it is about time that such was the case. Austin can never hope to have people send their sons and daughters here to school as long as gambling is carried on in the open and shameless manner which prevails here, and which inevitably leads to such scenes as was witnessed yesterday.
The Governor's Mansion.
Since the present legislature determined to make the governor’s mansion a house decent to live in, great changed have taken place in the appearance of things up there. The yards are being beautified, shrubbery trimmed, fountains put in order, outhouses repaired and painted, a new stable built, and the mansion itself painted outside in a tasty manner.
But it is the inside of the building where the greatest improvement has been made. The hall has been freshly painted and a light brown, bright figured carpet put on the floor. The governor’s private sitting room at the left on entering is frescoed in oil, the walls an ungrained oak color, and the ceiling a sea-green; it is very pleasing to the eye; the carpet is a fine Brussels, red figures on a dark ground. The double parlors are frescoed in oil, the color used being flashes of roses, and is very beautiful. The carpet on the floors of the parlors is very fine -- the finest Brussels, of a beautiful yellow ground on which are sprinkled tea and moss roses. M. Kreisle Co., the state upholsters, who furnished and refitted the house inside, have displayed a commendable taste in blending the colors of the carpet with that of the walls and ceiling, so as to make a gentle contrast that combines to give a pleasant sensation to the mind. The dining hall has been newly painted, and oil-cloth put on the floor; a stair carpet, deafened, is on the steps leading up stairs, where the same evidence of taste is found to have been displayed by Mr. Kreisle in choosing carpets and furniture. The bed chambers have all been newly carpeted; and in the governor’s bed chamber -- the southeast room -- one of those extra fine bedroom sets of furniture Mr. Kreisle has had on exhibition at his store has been placed.
The entire house, appointment and furnishing, presents a real home-like appearance, and is a very great improvement over the old mansion in the past few years.
It may be remarked that the little trees planted out in front of the grounds are anything but aesthetic, and it would seem that, after waiting forty years to think up the kind of shade and ornamental trees to be planted, a much better and handsomer variety could have been selected.
Coffin In Washout
25 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
A Coffin Unearthed by the Rain.
Judge Tegener yesterday found a coffin lying near the road, in a slight “washout” on West Pecan street, near Judge Moore's residence, and he took Dr. Cummings and impaneled a jury of inquest. The coffin contained the remains of a white child in an advanced state of decomposition. Dr. Cummings judged it to have been six months old at its death, which occurred about 12 months ago. The front of the skull was all broken in; but the doctor could not tell whether this was done by the concussion of the coffin in being carried along by the water, or before death. The coffin was a fine, black covered coffin, with silver-tipped fastenings; but none of the city undertakers remembered to have sold any one like it. In accordance with these facts, the jury returned a verdict of death from an unknown cause of an unknown infant, and the remains were buried by the county.
Displaying Pugilistic Qualities of a High Order
21 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
An Austin Amazon.
A crazy negro woman created quite a sensation in the neighborhood of Alta Vista Institute last night, displaying pugilistic qualities of a high order. She, among other symptoms of eccentricity, rushed into the yard of the institute with a whoop that would do credit to a sample of Comanche, and nearly scared the fair occupants out of several years growth; and it was only after the most determined efforts of a party of men who hastily gathered, assisted by Justice Von Rosenberg, and the almost total wreck of a light wagon, that the modern amazon was conveyed to jail and locked up. She was, we are informed, in jail at once time on a charge of lunacy, but by some means was again at large. Some of the party of captors received severe bruises, and one of them insisted that the best remedy for her complaint was to knock her on the head at once.
The Sports of the Storm King
16 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
The Storm.
At 3:30 PM yesterday the electric spark wrote the words on the little instrument in the front or telegraph office: "Heavy storm at Lampassas and Burnet; traveling towards Austin at about 50 miles an hour; damage feared. " In less than half an hour afterwards heavy clouds were seen scudding along above, and hurrying, and twirling and driving, as if driven by a relentless master. Soon hundreds of people were seen on the streets, anxiously looking towards the north at the apparent sports of the storm king. In less than 20 minutes from the time the black clouds were seen rolling down from the hills of the north, a cloud of dust told that a heavy wind was stirring things; then the signs began to screech and swing as if trying to tear themselves from their fastenings and escape to shelter; then a sand fog came down, and merchants began to shut up their front doors and windows; people began to hurry hither and thither; hats begin to blow off, and numerous Pickwickian hat chases took place; and then the wind “came down like a wolf on the fold” -- or words to that effect. For about an hour of the wind blew a second-class hurricane, and then the rain began to fall in perfect cataracts; and in ten minutes the streets were flooded.
Dogs Occupying Seats Should Be Kicked Out
15 MAR 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.
CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.
“Dogs occupying seats in streetcars should be kicked out,” is the way several parties express themselves concerning the too common nuisance here.