The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-25

SANShh CSAOiSt oLO h6S icdu lle DiOl6
through several times. She lives entirely
alone, her house being near half mile
from her daughters. who is her nearest
neighbor. She does her housework, tends
garden, milks thirty cows evening and
morning, and has this year sold more. than
hundred dollars worth of butter She
will not permit fowl nor dog to come
inside her inclosure, which is a model for
neatness, and filled with flowers and shrub
berry.
A LAWYER IN BAD FIX.
A young attorney of our party is living at the
point ..of matrimony. with very little chance
for recovery. The lady of his love has a
rich but cruel father. who refuses his consent
to their union until the young sprig can
show him $4,000 made by his own exertions
the money to be counted ont on the ia
BILE in the presence of some party who can
detect counterfeit bills. After two years of
patient struggle and endurance he finds his
net capital to be just S. %, and few days
since he obtained an interview with his
sweetheart and told her that it YVES a
grounding case; that he couldn't make the
money nor borrow it for the occasion, and
must give her up. But the noble girl SAID !:
mo, my dear Johnny, l will marry you in
spite of my father, if we have to live on
bread and water" This struck dear John
ny between the eyes. 1t was more than he
had expected of her, but there was no es-
cape; so he folded her to his manly breast
and exclaimed: Bully for you, my pet,
we'll do it; you furnish the bread aid I'll
skirmish about and find the water" The
rascally minstrels travelling over the coun-
try have picked up this story, that came
from Mason county, as here recited, and
they palm it off on one of the Rutabagas
now In the Convention at Austin.
THE UNCIvIL WAR IN MASON
The condition of affairs in Mason county
is truly deplorable. We found the court In
session at Mason, Hon. w. w. Martin pre-
siding, but there was nobody in attendance
except those who were compelled to be
there. The people of the county are so
equally divided, actively or in sympathy,
between the prominent agitators of the IneaL
quarrel, that it is feared a grand jury cam
tneIf uuJy IufpaftfaIfy are -oeterred oy year
of personal consequences. Judge Martin
delivered a very decided and fearless
charge to the grand jury, and while he did
not fail to call all the lawless acts that
have been committed by their right names,
he imputed the principal wrong to
those citizens who raised the first mob
to kill men who were already in the custody
of the law. The war that has since been
waged has been one of retaliation, and the
Cooley party say that they will not rest un-
til they have killed two or three other in
dividuals whom they do not hesitate to
name.
The only thing the Mason people unite
upon is the STATESMAN. They all take 1t.
The truth is it is now hard matter to find
business man any where on this fronrier
who does rot take the STATESMAN. We
tried to find the celebrated Cooley himself,
to get him to subscribe, but he was non
comatti6us an sudmpO. This Cooley is not
the same one that was sent to the Conven-
ton from this region, a statement perhaps
due to most estimable gentleman.
PEWTER AND THE LIKE-KENol
Silver ore of the very finest quality is iy-
ing around loose all over Mason, and is cur
rent in small transactions. II you want
toddy or cigar you pick up prime
chunck as large as your head and let 1t ring
on the counter. On the piazza of the Ma
son House there lies a piece as big as wash
tub that Bridges took for weeks board.
They wanted to pay US with ore for sub
scriptions but we excused Ourself on ac-
count of the very great Inconvenience OF isa
| transportation.
| AT the present term of the court IN Ma
son a young German, Mr.. Rudolph Runge,
was admitted to the bar. He is far above
mediocnty. and his examining committed
say that he is already capital lawyer
Judge Martins court at Menardville has {
very excellen. c,erk, but he is one of the ole
'sforty-niners" and has, like all OF US, hi
| peculiarities. At the last term of th'
court in .Menard he was reading the min
utes, in which he bad left out some import
ant mqtter. His honor called his attention
to the omission, to which he replied, Ike
rect. iudae, kerect; go ahead" When h
finishes the reading OF the minutes he slam
the book together and cries ''kenor
''Hoo-Doosi"
We left Mason for this place IN cSmpan
with Capt. Willis Wallace, Of the eminen
San Antonio law firm, Teel & Wallace. Be
ing '.thrice armed, in Shakesperian sense
We felt no fear of the ''hoo-doos. Hoo
doc IL the local SYNONYM for ku-klux. w
spent night at Loyal valley, in the south
ern part of Mason county. When they iiri
desired postoffice in that region, after tn
war, no man nor woman could be found
J all the valley who could take the require
oath of office, and lrence its name. Nj
many miles from here we passed littlefstri
where German and his wIfesgefe both
work, one plowing and the other piliD
brush. Of these good people We heard
very touching story. Several YEARS ae
there came to this country young GermH
who had fed from the ''efete despotism I
his own land In flying, he had Parte
from a golden haired maiden, one of y
most lovely Of her sex, who had yielded
: his keeping the first affections OF her Tres
young heart. She vowed etsrnal hdeiit.
and he vowed to send for ber IS soon as
| could rake together enough RreeDback
He came, he saw, be conquered. he 1--we
a on sour bread and kase, wore blue cottc
! breeches, and worked like q governmel
mule for eight long years With syers hex
: struck his thoughts would fly to bis Gretchs
: Teufenfel still in Fsderlsnd, and the hol
: of e'er long clasping her ngain 70 his boso
made even the blue cottonAdes bezrabl
In the meantime his adored bad not be.
lying supincly on her back, but had mob
; done her psrt towards = start In the ~OTl'
n shs had even anticipated some Of her ioyel
: most cherished designs A. length q
happy day for Hans Dunder arrived |
had saved mp the money, and had sest I
9 his Gretchen. She came and brought vi
{ her three specimens Of her handIwoFk a
Z showed the beat part done towards anothe
c Bun Hans had . heart biz eao1gh for q
= He opened his arEas aud received his Crete
i en- ard heF-festher bedas OF course.
/. one embrsce. PETER.