The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-01

that his intended wife was eighteen years
old. when she was only seventeen, has no, ,
as has been published TO the contrary, been
pSrdoned. No petition even for his pardon
has been sent 10 the Governor, thOsgh it
should be. and his release, if possible, OBJ
tanned. His offeuse was no crime affecting
society, and his wife is more affected than
any one else from his act of thoughtless-
ness
Every mile of road that Tom Scott has
built in Texas, except the portions of very
recent construction, has cost twice or thrice
its value II will cost the State, if Scott
build it, the thirty-two sections per mile
granted to mis- extravagantly constructed
road, and be will build the Texas portion
of the highway, and distribute the land
among his pals if he secures the thirty
| two sections. But he requires, we are told,
! the Legislature TO adjourn over, for his &C
| CON modstion, till next winter. This will
| hardly happen. 1t is the Pennsylvania
Legislature that sdjourns, and is convened
at the beck and nod OF Tom Scott.
There may be lesson to Austin in the
statement OF the Guadalupe Times that San
Antonio is to give Mr.. Pierce one hundred
thousand dollars when he gets his road
graded to the Cibolo. We would like to
make one little prediction in regard to this.
Mr.. Pierce will grade his road to the Cibolo,
| receive his one hundred thousand dollars,
finish his road that far, and there build a
town. Mr.. Pierce is no fool. He knows
that when he gets that near he is all right,
whenever other roads take new start to-
wards San Antonio all he will have to dc
will be to call for another subsidy. San
Antonio has never yet failed to give one
when called upon" '-F
The Sulphur Springs Gazette says OF
the representatives of Cherokee, DR.. c. @.
Francis, Senator. and DR.. NJ A CASTOR,
| Representative, that the former has prac-
ticed bis profession in Rusk since 1854, and
! for many years has stood at the head Of
the profession. He was surgeon of Locke's
regiment, and is gratefully remembered by
the soldiers of that command. DR. Fran
els has fine, well balanced, analytical
mind, and will make an able Senator. DIR.
/ CASTOR has practiced medicine near Alto
since 1865, and stands in the front rank OF
the profession. He was major of the
Eighteenth Texas Infantry, was a gallant
officer. always at his post, and in battle
faced danger with admirable GOODNESS. He
was a member of the Twelfth aud Thir-
teenth Legislatures, and made an honest,
faithful representative. Cherokee has Just
cause to be proud of her Senator and Rep
| resentaBive. .5 raa -l.l..-
Some wag told the story that careful
! painstaking reader of the Telegraph, dur
/ ing the war, kept a tabular statement of
the number of Yankees killed every day
| by lightning in the head lines to the 1ele-
graphs daily accounts of battles, seiges
and skirmishes, especially in Texas and
Arkansas. The painstaking statistican
| found, by laborious additions, that the sum
total of the slain exceeded .bya million the
whole population of the Northern States
and he quit figures as lying devices of
knaves, and he has not, at this good hour,
the least faith in census reports or multi
| plicaton tables. But now GENES the Gal
weston Ne1os with its murderous statistics,
and it heads off the belligerent Telegraph
and all its blissful sensational memories,
and outstrides the Inter- Ocean. Read its
headlines of the twenty-third instant
Seventeen HangIngs-Nine in Jack
County, Six in Erath and Two in Bastrcp-
Lives Sacrificed Without Due Process OF
Law-Two of the Lynched Innocent-Re-
turn of the Tarrant County Posse to Fort
| Worth Without the Stage Robbers-H ow
the Latter Were Armed fer Desperate Re-
| sistancei" At this rate of death dealing
by the News, Texas will be depopulated by
the hangman.
WE believe now that success Is impossible
without New York, and we are going to get
New York by nominating Tilden. We
don't like him as we'll as Western man,
but that is not the thing. We fear a
| Western man cannot carry New York OF
any other Eastern State, so we drop the
West and go for Tilden.-See Cincinnati,
/ Inanan Il !