The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-08

W. 9'A1AtN" ~ N4ONA u iASAA one.
oae Hewitt, of Montague county
and two of his friends, the Laboms,
resisted the sheriff, who sought 10 ar
rest Hewitt, The sheriff summoned
1 posse anu found Hewitt in the north |
east corner Of Montague county. The |
sheriff ordered the party to surrender.
but they refused, and opened fire upon |
the posse. The fire was promptly re-
turned, and firing was kept up for |
some time by both parties. Ben La
bonn, of the Hewitt party, was killed |
outright, and Red Labcm and Capt. |
Hewitt were mortally wounded. OF
the sheriff's posse two were killed, but |
their names are not known.
The Luling Reporter, whose town
was once almost infamous because of
the de7ilish deeds perpetualiy done by
drunken men, says that under the po-
tent influence Of local option "a bar
room is metsmorphosed into drug |
store, and a market into 'bullpen.'"
The facts are that drug stores sell little |
more whisky after than before the |
.prOhibitory law is enforced. Men can
not afford TO pay for prcscri ptions by
doctors and then for whisky. Such |
pople will keep keg ut home, and |
their habits will only affect themselves.
When they die their influence is for |
gotten with their names and deeds.
A lamp flared up threateningly in |
the Baptist CAurch at Longview and |
scared the sistering, who 6ou't like cx-
plosions of that sort. 4 brave brother |
picked it up, aud bearing it down the |
aisle to the door threw it away. The |
explosion that ensued scared the horses |
and buggies and carriages and drowsy
negroes, and all these fed in all direc-
tions. The alarm spread and over the
country went the story that the town
was on fire and that the end of all
things had come, ana not until the next
day was quiet restored. Coal oil isn't
healthy, and NOW Longview is discus
sing the cost of gas.
The Houston Age tells that con Sun
day dirty and extremely obscene lit
tie sheet, called The Street Gazette, APP
peared il town and was sold vt lively
rate by four or five newsboys. 1t was
personal and assaulted private charac-
ter in a most reckless manner. On
Monday Judge Martin directed the po-
lice to arrest the newsboys who at once
gave up the names of the printer and
publisher. They were brought before
him yesterday morning and the prin-
ter fired $40 and publisher $40. The
newsboys were discharged. The COM
munity owe Judge Martin vote of
thanks for promptly suppressing the
vile thing"
Jefferson has a murder mystery. On
the nineteenth of January man about
twenty-five or thirty years old, accom-
panied by young lady about twenty
years old, fair complexion and blue
eyes, registered at the Brooks House rs
A. Monroe and wife, St. Louis. On
his trunk was the name of 4. Moore,
New Orleans. The woman was we'll
dressed and wore several diamond
rings. On the twenty first of January
she was found dead, with a bullet hole
in her temple. There was no clue to
her identity. The cnemlsc which she
wore when murdered bore the mark
NJ, 1877, in indehble ink. The man
disappeared.
Five victims of municipal law were
fined by the mayor. The costs to the
people of Austin is not less than $50
taken from the pockets of popular in
dusty by the popular vice of drunken
ness. AS the law exists and operates,
city jurymen and policemen and mayor
are paid by taxpayers, and not by these
drunken tramps. They may ''work
out" their fines, but their ''services"(O
are paid for by the people, who pay,
in addition, their board bills, and the
ury, which is filled by emptying the
pockets of taxpayers. The system is
Infamous, even as the vices and follies
punished are developed and made oper-
alive by whisky mills.
Navasota h IS eight and Galveston
only seven candidates for the mayoral-
ty, and these seven have tapered off on
lager to three, White, Fulton and
Stone, and the last may be first. Kop-
perl, the Ne,oS'S preferred candidate,
was beaten for the nomination. Kop-
perl is man of finance and the Neaos,
too, has weakness for finance and
Kopperl would have been good man
for the place, better than the other
aspirant, Dick Nelson, better known
as holy Dick" because he sits down
muchly and edits the Spectator, and
makes spectacle of himself when his
breeches wear out. But Dicks clothes
last longer now since he don't go row.
ing any more.
A telegram from Houston to the
Neaos, which stated that the Governors
staff attended the can-can, when en- route
from San Antonio to Austin, was @
joke. The writer of this and three
employees of the State witnessed the
achievements of Madame Rentz's min
strels, but they did not attempt the
can-can on the felicitous occasion re.
ferred to, and the Christian Adoocatt
weeps idly. We are of the fixed opin
ion that if these thoughtless young
meu OF the Capitol grounds had known
that Madame Rentz's people ever in
dulged In the grotesque attitudes and
genuflexions of the can-can they could
not have been forced to the Thesplar
hall at Houston into which they
were lnnocently betl aged.
The Denison Ne,cs says that "Gover
nor Hubbard and Hon. o. N. Holdings
worth, secretary of the department O
public instruction, arc to ACCOMPANY
DR.. BurlesOn wnen the latter visits Den
ison to attend the examination of ou
public school at the close of the ses
sion. Let them find not only the
school, but the building and every
thing connected with it in the most
satisfactory condition. Denison will
receive $500 from the Peabody funC
this year, and If we are found to be a,
progressive as we ought to be a mucl
larger donation may be expected mex
year. DR.. Sears said he would aid the
best schools most Eberally-that ht
would help those most who helped
themselves"
The Dallas Nail says shat a signif
cant editorial appeared in Mr.. Throck
morton's home organ, the Herald, a few
mornings since, in which 1t was pre-
dicted that the Inauguration of Mr.
Hayes would cause the early resump
ton of WORK upon the Texas aud Pa
citic. This can probably, in a measure
account for Throckmorton's detection
to the Radical camp, and but corrobo
rates the prophecy of the Nail, tina
wien the interest OF the people and The
interest of the Texas and Pacific Rail
road came in conflict, James w
Throckmorton would not hesitate Il
sacrifice the people fer the benefit anC
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