The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-07
BuRNEr. september 20, 1s75.

BuRxEr, September 20, 1875.
Editors Democratic Statesman Your young
man has inst arrived Bianco City.
Like ssyoung Lochinvar come out OF the
West. . he issrode all unarmed and he rode
ALI aionsv Through. some of the toughest
countEv On the habitable globe. But
ssthr, Oh all the wide border his steed is
nor : 1sbest.n The fact il, MurchisoD, who
keeps such fine tnrnouts and saddle horses
for city use, put of on this nnsuspecting in
diyidual genuine Mexican plug'-a reg
ular grass horse One comfort is that if he
is lost, Murchison win save his feed this
winter.
At Round Mountain, in Blanco county,
Mr.. G. V. Sawyer is the merchant and ssir
David Martin the hotel keeper. At Dir. Mar
tins house, which is a fine stone buIding,
board and lodging can be bad for ten dol
lars per month-real good board, consist
ing in part" of beef, bacon, chicken, corn
bread, biscuits, potatoes, milk, butter,
honey, coffee and tea, and whisky straight,
with few pies and things. As an abb
ding place dunng the summer, Round
Mountain is decidedly nice place. They
have good school there, and were having
a great revival of religion" but when the
fnCWp Va VI JOuA AOBACcChboSANO
had spread abroad, the meeting broke, and
the liable corps OF preachers were dis
missed as being no longer needed. Such is
the moral influence of the STkTEsMAN.
Mrs. Grundy said that young gentleman
belonging to one of the Austin banks will
take TO blmself wife-a very lovely girl of
Round Mountain. What is more proper
than to go to the mountains for ''twin
hills" as SOLEMN sayeth. ai a.t
Judge John B. Fonda, the main man in
these parts, was absent, but will send down
for the STATESMAN on the day of his re-
turn. 5 ia
\ lE THE MORMON CANYON.
The next place of interest is the ''Mor-
mon Mills, - on the road from Round Noun
tain to Burnet, by the way of Mr.. Robert
Burnham's Mr. Durham has beautiful
place, with bold spring rushing out from
under his front piazza. The Mormon Mills
(only one mill, by the way,) is situated at
the bottom of deep ravine which is sew
eral miles in length above and below
it. The sides Of this canyon are perpen-
dicular, will average one hundred and fifty
feet in height, and the country back for a
mile on each side is covered by an almost
impenetrable growth of cedar. In the year
1S46, about one hundred Mormon families
settled IN this spot, under the leadership of
Elder Kimball. They butt their cabins
along a narrow strip of bottom land that for
a little distance lies between the edge of the
creek and the foot of the precipice. They
built their mill at the upper end of this
narrow strip of land, and just below a cata-
ract of about twenty feet fall. They could
not dig trace" through the solid bluff,
so they constructed a wooden race and run
oil
it upon piles let into the solid rock bed of
the creek The water falls upon the top of
the wheel, making it an ''over shot" A
more perfect hiding place it would be hard
TO find this side the Rocky Mountains. A lit
tie Mountain Meadow" business could be
done there very easily. The Mormons re-
manned only about four years and then
went to Utah. Mr.. Kimball had but six
wives while there. "r
QUEER OLD COON.
The present population of the CANON are
not polygamists, though we met there one
on whose brow every god hath seemed to
set his seal to give the world assurance of a
man. He had fled from the approach of civ
ilization. lie was opposed TO system of
education. He thought railroads an I'M
mixed evil, and the magnetic telegraph a
great curse. AS for newspapers, they are
running the country. He had tried to take
one-the Cincinnati Enquirer that
failed to meet his views of what newspa-
per should be. Then he sent for the New
York Day Book, but when that offered a
a fve-doIlar prize for a two-doilar subscrip-
ton he concluded that was swindle. He
next took the Galveston Nesos, but soon
found that delusion and a snare. He final
ly subscribed for the Houston Telegraph,
which SO completely disguised him with
newspapers that he took a ''Bible oath" not
to suffer another one to come upon hi:
premises. In short, he was fine old NORTH
Carolina gentleman, one of the real Ole
stock, very different from the proprietor Of
the mill, Mr.. i. T. Moore, who is one of the
most liberal minded men in the country.
WHOLESALE DEYILMEST.
There were some Indians in Mason coun-
ty last week, who got away with several
head of horses. Near Double Horn, in
this county, few days ago, two negroes
robbed the house of German and outraged
his wife. The negroes have not yet been
caught. In the vicinity of the same place
a Mr.. Fox shot and killed negro who had
threatened to shoot Mr.. Fox On sight.
Something about this town and county OF
Burnet hereafter, if Murchison's mustang
holds out. liah' a't 4 PETER.
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