The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

of Lee county. They elect the right sort of
sheriffs. Achilles was not more invulnera-
bic than the sheriffs of Lee. The last one
they created over these was shot last week
and penetrated by nine buckshot hut ne still
lives unawed, unterrifed and unkilled. His
name is J. VI. Brown and they can't knock
the black out.
The Blanco Busy Be, which is not blan-
ket sheet, but keeps things warm and lively
about Blanco city, so called. says "a gold
and silver mine has been discovered within
fifteen miles ofthis place. The ore Is yielding
a large per cent. of the pure metal. This
is DO humbug or sensation article A great
rush is being made to the place and the
best biologists pronounce 1t a success. ="
Sam Wilson wants everybody charged
with crime 70 tender him fee" for their
defence. II they were assured that Sam
wouldn't take it and then wouldn't defend
them We believe everybody would take
pleasure IN gratifying him and make the
tender. He is too good an editor to be
much of lawyer and should adhere to the
profession he honOrs and that honors hum.
The Comm0ner, in doing Mr.. J. c. Chew
injustice, led US to do him wrong. Mr..
Chew, we are told. is not only Texan by
long residence, but well fitted by education
and lifelong training for the place he fills
as representative of Texas at the Phila-
delphia worlds fair. What was said of
Adventures representing the South in Fed
eral offices can, therefore, have no reference
to Mr.. Chew.
One Bond shot and killed another fellow
near San Antonio last week for calling him
a son of a -, which Bond was not, as Oar
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winianlsm wouldn't satisfy Bond, and he
wanted further security against the absurd
assertion, and he gently sent an ounce of
lead through an ass's head for the palpable
lie. Bond is a great fool and a murderer
withal
The Young Mems Christian Association
have addressed a circular to New York
merchants appealing to them to let female
clerks be seated when not on duty, as
standing for twelve or fifteen hours is ruin
Gus to the young wcmen's health. The
truth is, the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of this city prefer to do the heavy
standing around themselves
1t isn't healthy to live in the vicinity of
San Antonio. They keep shooting people
indiscriminately over there. The last in
tended victim of the assassin was one Tan
prairie, and was shot at twice Tandy's
dreams were disturbed and he fired at his
enemy, who fed. All these terrible deeds
are done by the same villains, the robbers
of the stage coach.
There are in the bounds of the Tehuacana
Presbrtery eighteen congregations. There
are under the care of the Presbytery five
licenti ates and six candidates. There are
cDnnpItpd iuht
lions SAG members, eightySeven of whom
have been added during the past year.
There has been contributed by these con-
i, gregations, during the past year, for the
various church purposes, $4225.
1t is good joke on California that a
good quiet man of that State came all the
way to Texas to have himself lifted out OF
his boots and 1920 IN gold out of his peck
cts by Texan stage coach robber. Such
was the luck of V. M. Moore passenger
on the Kingsbury coach, and two United
States soldiers - heroes these with Win
chester rifles sat beside him. Did the
robbers have ''pals" in the coach
The Dallas Herald says that "Col. F. G.
Piner, of Denton county, is achieving a
splendid reputation for himself in the State
Senate. An expert parliamentarian, a fine
him future of great promise. He has,
although this is his first experience in a
legislative body, taken a leading position,
and North Texas has in him a representative
who will faithfully watch over and guard
her interest"
Judge Lytt Moore instructs his sheriffs to
summon none besides decent, intelligent
jurors, and the great mob of deadbeats that
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district and swill mean whisky and perjure
themselves and pocket jury fees has been
scattered to the winds. The whisky shops
don't like it, but Justice is administer
and decencv nrn.~-.'-1 --I-1fSeTS ueGesIa-
UIe sJlnks of an average courtroom are
dissipated.
Jake Summerville, the villainous MUIR
derer of Charles Roberts, has been captured
by an old gentleman named Sanders. Gov
ernor Coke had offered a reward of $3.50
for his apprehension. His capture was
comparatively easy, however, and in three
hours thereafter he was safely lodged with
in the Jail walls at Calvert. Mr.. Sanders
found Summerville in the vicinity of Mays
vile, Milan county, and within fifteen
miles of the scene of the fearful crime.
1t isn't bad idea of the grand jury OF
Bastrop county, who recommend and re-
quest Senator Ledbetter to bring before the
Legislature the Importance of amending the
present laws so that district judge, upor
information of grand juror, may issue ar
attachment, to be served between terms
for witnesses to appear before him at the
next term of his court. This is done fol
the purpose of holding witnesses who man
age to be absent whenever court is in ses
sion.
If the one-legged railway from Pris
modal City do not go to Hampstead
Hampstead will be legless, its whole leg-iti
mate business disappears and it will be a
helpless as Austin when all the COUNTIES
. north of US 90 to the road at Round Rock
where the International will linger list
lessly because the depot grounds on tn
Avenue are inaccessible. Every fellow
e thought he could make his jack who own
l water lot, and the depot became vapor
, and the whole scheme, and the riches o
Mexican lot owners, evaporated.
We have sometimes limited at the littl
foibles of Dallas in a tender, kindly, reform
atory way, and have intimated, yer,
e modestly, that people over there loved Il
t fight, and drank little, and now and thel
l showed a sort of disposition even to xii
: one another. These innuendoes were yer
modesIIy ana mildly ana tenderly Suggest
: ed, but now comes that outrageous Athen
Courier, and declares that Dallas is " en-
a vIous and Jealous" Dallas wants to stes
, the Supreme Court from Eastern Texas an
. the Courier is riled about it AMI talks ug ly
: The Rusk Observer, referring to the estat
y lishment of branch penitentiary at Jeffel
f son, says that members of the legislature ar
r interested in 1t and article 3, section 80 G
the Rutabsga code declares that "a membe
a who has a personal or private interest i
=, any measure or DILL, proposed, or pendin
before the Legislature, shall disclose the fac
. to the house of which he is member, an
: shall not vote ths-eoa- THIS, we take II
! means an GdUerse interest as well as an
other.
The people Of this vicinity don't pre-
: pose to pay S92 so for round trip tickets I
:, Philadelphia. Texas pays vast sums l