The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
A QUEER DEATH AND RESURREC-
TION.

DIR. Mathewson, who was killed and bu-
ried and psalm-sung-over by the Bastrop
AdceTtiser, nearly year ago, came up,
like B4nquo's ghost, last Thursday in the
AdcsrtiSers sanctum. Tie editor jumped
out through the window, and the devil"
naturally seized the ghostly doctor and
kept the peace. The pale, doubtful, hesi-
tating, quilI-driviDg editor was finally in
duced TO come back and take it all back.
Fresh life was pumped, by the hand-press,
INTO SawbOnts, and the ghost is laid, peace
made, and BLsITOp happy III the return of
the hnnUTed physician who has been trav-
ersing the great Northwest. We killed
1 good and famous man once, and burned
him with Il proper hOnors. But he wasn't
dead, and when he got the paper and saw
it telcgraphcd all o9tr the world that he
was a reeklng cprpse, and when his family
began tn get letters Of coincidence, and
his chemist re was great lawyer began to
write to ms executor and transfer their
ia mess to the "Solon ShingIr" across the
street, our defunct friend became excess
lively animated. He telegraphed us in Il
qlet. modest way that we were ''the
d-dest liars cxtant, ami that he was com
ing to murder US in fact, and not OF. paper. -
We apolugiZ'd, having been mised by a
fellow, apparently sober, who had seen the
murder done when suffering in protracted
state of Il M jams" Then, too, came the
other lawyer who shot the first. HIS name
was made famous. He went by lightning
to the rcmutest corners of the earth, and
was pilloiicd in history irreclaimably as the
foremost monster and blondthirstiest
fiend of modern times. The truth
about him is that he would
not harm even a fly. OF course he was
furious now. But he grew ca!mer when he
learned the facts, and in order TO correct
false impressions, he and the detunct bar
rister and politician became eminently pat
rioric, and went over the country like a
pair of Ntmp IN lions, tearing and tlaying
with the bloody fdng5 of most teroclous
party leaders, the reputation of the OPP
posing party's masters. But now and then,
though years have past, we still receive Il
letter from the only man we ever murdered.
He commonly writes that II have again
heard of my death. An old friend of my
boyhood has just been advised Of my la
mented dCmrse and writes to my ncighbor
about it. [ have at least learned what will
be said of me after | am gone, and am
taught. while | live, so to enact my role IN
the comedy of life that men will at least
say Of me that | did not deserve to die so
violently as You alleged, and that the world
was better while | still lived" This law
yer is growing old. He is a philosopher,
md held, in former years, high Federal
and State offices. He was famous at the
bar forty years ago, but never forgets his
own untlmely taking eff for which there is
no punishment defined by the country s
laws. DR.. Mathewson has no remedy for
the wrong done him by the Ad0ertiser, and
whether he likes the style or not, he might
as well don ghostly apparel, lodge in a
graveyard, AMI practice ghostly medicine
we commend home ppathy-for the re-
naming days Of hls supposed life. The
newspaper having said it, the ''Dr." is
dead, and there is no correcting the asser-
ton, and, like other people, he must await
the regular resurrection.