The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

those seeking relief from unpleasant
matrimonial connections.
a squad Of United States troons
overha1led the Uvalde mail robbers
A sergeant among those robbed mr.
sued with small force. After a chase
of about twentY-four hours, the rob.
bers were overtaken and cap.ured
hoerner, the condemned pirate who es-
capped ten or twelve days before from
the San Antonio jail, was one of the
robbers caught, with two horses he
stole at San Antonio. He had lust
been consigned to the penitentiary for
ten years, and this last Job will make
his term lifelong one.
The grand jury of Bell county pub
fishes an address to the people, in
which they state that "a healthy pub
lie sentiment in favor of the suppres-
sion of crime, supported by prompt
and active peace officers, is more eth-
cient to that end than all the detec-
tlves, policemen ana soldiery that can
be equipped. They are night in that.
When the community determines that
villains shall not exist, villains as an
institution will become defunct. If it
be desirable to have villainy become
rampant, all that is necessary is for the
community to wink at crime, and peace
officers to turn murderers loose on little
bail.
The Rusk Observer thinks there
should be bloodhounds used in the
West to capture robbers. There would
be no escape then for the thief, the
burglar, the robber or the assassin, ex.
cept perhaps to get aboard of rail-
road train. There is no failure in well
trained dogs. They are as true as the
needle to the pole, ami will trail their
man through q crowded city even, and
select him with unerring certainty
from among an assembly of thousand
people. They will trail him as well if
he Is mounted, as if he is on foot, and
he may have forty-eight hours the
start of them, and yet they will follow
his track.
Bucking mustangs cause most spinal
diseases among men in Texas, and the
proper remedy has been discovered,
which we commend to those who
don't care to be ''drove up" 1t is on
ly needful, we are told, to have under
the rear of the saddle an electro-mag-
netic apparatus, which he works by a
little handle. One wire is carried
| through the rein to the bit and carried
to the crupper, so that a current once
set up goes the entire length OF the an.
Imal along the spine. A sudden shock,
we are assured, will stop the most vio-
lent Corpus Christi So mustang or the
most obstinate jibber. The creature,
however strong and vicious, is trans
| formed into sort of inotfensive horse
of wood, with the feet firmly nailed
to the ground" CuriOusly enough,
the opposite effect may be produced by
a succession of small shocks. Under
the influence of these the veriest screw
can be endowed with vigor and fire
indescribable. Long always rents out
his mustangs with the magnetic appa-
ratus attached to Vau ghan's two-story
and basement saddle.
The figures given by the Cleburne
Chronicle of the number of acres of land
owned by some of our rdnclterOS would
prove interesting to some of our young
men. Messrs. Coleman, Mathis & Full
ton have in Arkansas, San Patricio and
Neuces counties pastures under fences
inclosing 200, 428 acres; Capt. Kenne-
dy has, to the southwest of Corpus
Christi, 1872, 900 acres, and Capt. King
175, 900 acres. In the same vicinity
other parties have, in the aggregate,
900 900 acres; and about Indlahula, in
Calhoun county, there are 90, 600 acr, s
belonging to different pessons. In r =
fugIo county there arc rs, 600 acres.
McCampbell & Bros. kncar Rockport,
have $4,000 acres; John Wood,
near st. Mary, has $4,000 acres
Mr.. Thomas O'COnnor has 10000
acres; John Wealder has %, 900
acres, the last four all in Refugio coun-
ty. In Bee county sundry persons
have $4,000 acres; and in Atascosa
county $4,000. In Live Oak county
there are 1000; in Victoria county
45, 600 acres. Butler has, in Galveston
and Harris counties, 60, 900 acres; Mr..
Sam Allen, in the same two counties,
has 1870, 900 acres. Mr.. Kuram, In
Jackson county, has $4,000 acres
Pierre, Vayle s. Co., same county,
have 80, 900 acres, and sundry persons
IN that and adjoining counties, 100,-
900 acres. West of San Antonio and
in other parts of the State there are
many large enclosed pastures, the own
ers and dimensions of which cannot be
given.