The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

Mrs. Armstrong, of Denison, at
tempted to commit suicide Monday
evening last. She had previously ar
ranged her burial apparel, and invited
her friends to come over in the after
noon, and charged them not to forget
it. Just before they came she took
twenty grains of morphine. One of
the friends invited came in lust as she
took the potion, and sent for doctor
and q stomach pump. The doctor and
the pump inverted the order of events,
and the morphine, somehow, got on
the outside aud the unhappy dame
still lives.
The Mexia Ledger is just in condemn
ing the quarrel and its terms between
the Messenger and the Journal. The
original assault of the latter did not
justify the violence of the Messenger,
and it is also true that the officers of
the International road should know
that the Messengers editor never wrote
save in promotion of the interests of
Texas. He came from the Courier
Journal office Kentucky Democrat,
Col. w. Won Rosenberg, of this
city, referring to the paragraph in
Sundays STATESMAN denouucing un.
heard-of cruelties to COW, into the
hoofs of which iron nails were driven,
says that his ''son's farm cannot be
termed properly suburban 1t lies
twelve miles south from Austin, near
Live Oak prairie. In justice to suburb
an neighborhoods l deem it necessary
to make this correction. The cruelty
committed on the poor animal is such
a monstrous, horrible act that, while
there is no law on our statute for its
punishment, the neighborhood Of Live
Oak prairie should bear the odium
which might attach to the deed"
In view of the onward march of
grasshoppers,i it IS suggested that plant
ers save double supply of seed. We
are scarcely able to judge, says an ex-
change, OF the damage these grasshop-
pers may do. 1t would be well to be
prepared to meet the worst. The grass
hoppers will soon be ready TO march.
II they prove as bad as Is feared, and
consume the crops, there will be
plenty of time, provided u supply of
seed is sowed, to plant and garner a
second crop. The idea suggested is no
novel one; it is simply to provide a
light repsst-s lunch--for the grass.
hoppers, and when they have marched
on to begin planting a second crop fol
real cultivation.
Fields, of the Comanche Chief, il
young, handsome and fop. He
wrote to Dan McGary to invest himself
with a clean shirt, forwarding the
stamps to pay for it, and to represent
him (Fields) at the balls of Mardi Gras
Dan bought the shirt, a very exceed,
ingly stiff one, and, unused to such
articles of apparel, he crawled into il
the wrong way. The stiff collar anC
bosom were returning boards on which
Dan had to sit, and they sawed BAR
and made him uncomfortable, and now
he wants the Comanche man to pay
damages. Dan can't sit down, an6
moreover the tail of that shirt that wa.
ruffled and tied about Dams neck pro
truded above his ears and blinded him
He fell over al omnibus on the Strand
knocked down lamp-post, and wa
only saved from drowning by boz
fishing for shrimps, who Melted severa
drinks by netting Dan.
Judge x. B. Saunders writes to e.,
STATESMAN, under date of Bolton, Feb
ruary 16, 1877, as follows: "My at
tentIon has been called to an arti
Gle in the DAILY STATESMAN of the fiji
teenth of February, in relation to al
injunction granted by me in favor Of
party in Georgetown, in which arti
ticle it is stated that Judge Turner
was applied to but refused to grant the
injunction, and my action in the prem
Uses is characterized as violation OF
common comfy between judicial Off.
GERS As you have been led into error
in stating this matter SO far as l am
concerned. and as feel assured, from
your high character as journalist, you
will not Intentionally do any one q
wrong through your paper, l desire &c
say that when l was applied to for the
injunction, the reason assigned for no
applying to Judge Turner was that hi
was then too far off from Georgetown
to be reached before the local option
law took effect in Williamson county
, No mention was made of any applica
ton having been made to Judge Tur
ner, or of his refusal to grant 1t, and
granted the suit, as my fiat will show
subject to his action on it thereafter
l believe l have as full and lively
( sense of the true comities resting be
tween judicial officers as any one, anC
never violate them Intentionally
: Again, the injunction does not relat
to the whisky men" of Williamson
county, but only affects the man VIII,
applied for it. granted it because, il
, my view of the law, he was entitled t,
it. In conclusion, l will state tina
, there is no stronger friend of local op
ton in the State than myself. sup
: ported it heartily at home, and woul,
rejoice to see it prevail in every count
in Texas"