The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

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of crime and of the procreation of knaveTy.
Track-laying on the Galveston, Harms
burg and San Antonio Railway progresses
west of Kingsbury, but robbers down there
may get away with the IRON were it not too
hot to be handled comfortably. Just now,
therefore, the Legislature need enact no
bloody code.
Hughes, who was stabbed at Halletsville,
will recover, and, since there is no murder
unless death supervene, in such case, the
Legislature need not add this to the num-
Der of outrsges that adorn the aspect of
society in Texas as contemplated from
abroad .------
The people of Bastrop, in public meeting,
beg the Legislature to enact most rigorous
laws for the suppression of crime. There
Is a mode of expelling the last murderer
and highwayman from the State, and, fail
ing in this, of preventing the propagation
of the ''species." Fsa ono
No news from General Crook is deemed
conclusive by many that he has shared the
fate of Custer. Sitting Bulls star is still
IN the ascendant, and the constellation of
Taurus, shining so brilliantly when we cast
the horoscope of Grants administration,
portends its final eclipse in storm and dark
ness.
The railroad managers and their new and
unknown agents are moving Austinward.
One ring is anxious to have the Legislature
adjourn over, but Texas is not reduced to
the condition of Pennsylvania, and the
Senate and House do not meet and adj
journ as orders are telegraphed from rail
road headquarters.
Prof. Banks of this city, late of St.
Johns College at Little Rock, has been
properly assigned to the professorship of
modern languages ID Bryan College. He
has been successful teacher in this city
and was distinguished in Arkansas and in
Virginia as an instructor of youths. Peg
John Mccoy, of the shoe house of E. A,
Strong & Burt of Boston, has bargained for
a home and will spend the remnant of q
useful, active life even here in Austin.
There are other Bostonians who, having
studied Chronological and physical facts OF
Texas, will have homes in these sunny
ATTITUDES. .-r p" q.
. Paper collars melt and run down peoples
backs in San Antonio, and the paste makes
shirts of Nessus of starched linen, and
down there have on as many as dozen
shirts in varied stages of decomposition.
They finally get into the river and are
peeled off with scrub brooms. @
The Pamela Waterman has a weakness
for widows, and discovers many good points
in one when it tells of widow Mcpherson,
with five little children, residing about five
miles east of town. She has in an excel
lent state of cultivation twenty-five acres
of cotton and corn, with no one to assist
her in working it but two small boys. She
deserves a gold medal and the highest sea-
at the Centennial.
There is art and taste and originality re
quired in successful advertising. To make
it pay it must be so conducted that it makes
people talk as we'll as read, and then eacf
reader becomes an advertising agent. New
York merchants hire class of Bohemians
to write for them those curious and admira
BILE advertisements that occupy the page
of the great dailies. '. .. ..e
Northern papers call the robbers of the
Missouri Pacific express train ''Texisns.
If the Legislature accept the hint it nigh
be well to make this State too hot to holC
such desperadoes, and statute which would
fit thieves and highwaymen for service al
guardians of the Grand Turks seragllt
would not only free Texas of the presenc
of villains, but prevent the propagation o
the species. mo- t a .--
The Little Rock, Arkansas, newspaper
announce the death of J. j. Clendennin
one of the Supreme Court judges of tina
State. He was for many years judge of tn
Superior Court of Arkansas, and wore tn,
~ 81 al h<a,
his ermine was above suspicion. Arkansa
has lost one of its most valued citizens
and one of its ablest jurists. He died o.
the fourth instant. ID
The Waco Reporter says: Religious re
vivals are among the possibilities, it seems
at all places In the State except Austin ant
Dallas. The STATESMAN and Herald have
perhaps, unified the sinners of these dash
ing cities in Woodruff and Ciafiin clubs.
But what must be thought of that hardnes
of heart and reprebacy of mind which, i
the Reporter, resisted two months of Majo
PENIS earnest appeals9
w. M: McElroy, hanged by the mob i
Gonzales for the brutal murder of the haI
less child who was ravished and assass
mated, was nineteen years old. He sat on
horse, with rope tied to the limb of a
oak and around his neck, and wrote an al
fectionate note to his mother. When b
signed it the horse was led way, and
swung off into an eternity that he SCENE
to contemplate very calmly.
Northern newspapers are not only file
with accounts of the terrors of life an
death in Texas, which the Legislature dea
with without heroism, but they are no.
publishing infamous lies to the effect tina
famine threatens the robber-ravaged cour
try. On the contrary, Texas can feed, dul
ing the next twelve months, certainly
million more people than are now with
the States confines, and then corn will nc
be worth more than fifty cents, and whes
one dollar.
j. S. Sharp, the murderer of Alfred Con
| was taken from the Jail at Helena last wee
and removed to the stronger prison at Coz
zales The murderer's friends threatene
to rescue him. 1t makes decency shuddt
to read of such facts constantly recurring
and yet the Legislature would not shoe
the senslbilities of mankind by appealin
to the branding iron, stocks and whippin
post to exrermlnate thieves, and TO the ga
lows, in behalf of the security of life an
property. Why not hang horse and Gait
thieves and common highwaymenG
We have had deal of trouble with th
Hampstead Messenger. Hieronymus is e,
ceedingly hot-headed and is always smasl
ing the STATESMAN. We prefer peace.
is needless to say that Tilden orders it, an
therefore we persuaded the Austin ice ia
tory to serd two chunks of ice TO be apple
by the mayor of Hampstead to each side
the Messengers Uranium. If few chunl
are swallowed with mint and other charms
nothing shall be said about 1t in thes
parts. Mr., Swancoat forwarded the block
Clipped from the North Pole this morninl
To remove from the Mexican Rio Grand
frontier about six hundred Kickapoo an
Pottawatomie Indians-who for so mar
years had been raiding across the river int
Western Texas, sometimes as far east
San Antonio-to the northern part of II
Indian Territory, nearly two hundred mil
from the Texas line; and also to arranl
for the ultimate permanent removal of til
MescaIero Apaches from the Cbihuahl
border, back into the interior of Mexic'