The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-10-30

a crop of wheat Have sowed all
the land they could get seed to SOW
and now, if the grasshoppers again
destroy the crop, it will be ruinous
We are no lover Of cold weather. bu,
we now long to see il as earnestly as
Il city scourecd with yellow fever
ever longod to see frost, 1t is n
mater of bread and meat in one
case, and of life aud death in the
other One is about as long as the
other is broad
The following items are from the
same paper.
We heard it rumored yesterday
evening that Hardin Hart, Of Hum,
county, had been killed -Jeftrson
Times
A mistake. You ought to know,
by this time, that his sort never get
killed and seldom have the good
luck to die.
IIoMIcIpE.-On Friday evening
Christopher Franklin was shot and
killed upon the public square. The
Sheriff Bland, had summoned +. W
Miner to assist him in arresting
Franklin. When the Sheriff and
Capt, Miner approached him, he was
on horseback with his pistol in his
hand. Miner and the Sheriff both,
called upon him to surrender, and
not to raise his pistol, the former
gentleman at the same time leveling
upon him not ten steps off, double
barreled shot gun. Franklin needless
of consequences, was bringing his
revolver down on Capt, Miner, when
the latter discharged one of the
barrels Of the shot gun in the left
side of the unfortunate man, who at
once tumbled from his horse, aud
died In few minutes.
Franklin was somewhat intoxica-
tod at the time; had just violently
assaulted and knocked down with
his revolver young man Of this
place, and had threatened to shoot
him or any one who "took it up,
and was in the habit Of frequently
coming to town and "cutting up;
tina, is riding furiously around the
square in very boisterous and threat
ening manner to the great annoyance
Of the citizens, and the terror Of the
women and children.-Paris |mdi-
Gator.
We learn from our townsman, Mr..
Ike Largent, who accompanied the
pnrty in pursuit of the Smiths and
Gilchrist, that while on their way to
Upshur county, their home, they
killed a DR., Payne, at Jordan Saline,
and also killed a mao named Roper,
in Upshur county, who had given
information that led to the arrest Of
Smith. The younger Smith being
shot through the thigh, induces the
belief that one of the parties killed
made 40 effort ut defence. The per
~ from this place came upon GilchrIst
in cotton pen in Upshur county,
at the edge of Cypress Swamp. The
pen was Immediately surrounded, but
he had, upon first sight of the pur
suing party, sprang into the brush,
which was very dense, and was lost
to sight When Mr. Largcnt left,
the friends of Roper we're in pursuit
with dogs, and, it is to be hoped,
they have been caught, and that JUS
tice, swift and sure, will be meicd
gu. to them Nc Kinney Enquirer.
The subjoiued paragraphs, are
from the same paper
We are informed by Mr. Rector Of
nerton county. that while the Dep
uty Sheriff was conveying -- Don
aldson to Denton from this place,
where he had been confined in jail,
to be tried for the killing of koker,
he was met By a party of men with
blaekened faces in Elm Fork bottom,
and compelled to release the prisoner.
We understand that there was some
shooting, but did not hear Of any
cae being hurt.
II il truly lamen,able stato'ol
affairs when i is almost matter OF
inpossibility to bring an offender
against the laws to trial, or execute
should he fail to escape before trial.
Who is to blame for this2 surely not
the people. The administration Of
the law has been taken out Of their
hands, and they are powerless to
bring about reform without resort
to mob law. We certainly live in
progressive age, and under an aggres
sive government
The Waxahachie Argus record,
the assassination of Mr.. Tubbs, on
Trinity River in Kaufman county
on the 9Th inst,
INpASs.-Mr. NJ. W. Nor,hing
ton, Jr., just dowu from Lampasa'
Springs, informs US that's party o.
citizens, Eve in number, had a 6gh
with band Of eighteen Indians II
Brown county, and captured iron
them % head Of saddle horses an'
mules. &c Indian is supposed Il
! have been mortally ~ounded, as h
was assisted in their fight by one o
the party,--Georye'oen Wa'ehmo''
Grasshoppers have left Bolton
f of,cr destroying all garden veseta
hlcs