The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

AuAdub WOQQeI.
The Galveston county commissioners
court have unanimously resolved t.
ratify the contract of President Kop
perl with DeDuistown, Cross & Co. il
regard to the Gulf, Santa Fe and Col
orado Railroad. The stakeholder,
meet on the sixteenth, when the matter
will be finally closed.
1t is officially stated by Capt. Lee
Hall that Buffalo Bill has been with
hin, and was not in Fort Worth at
the time he is charged with killing the
saloon keeper who wanted pay fol
drinks. 1t was some other fellow, but
the case shows how responsibilities are
often shifted to bad characters.
1t seems that none of the editors il
Sherman want the office of hide in
spector. Crooks was trying, not long
ago, to skin Martin alive, but somehow
the business became unpopular and
Crooks quit, and the vacant Office is
hollow and empty and without an in.
cumbe 1t. Ills the only Office in Texas
in this sad fix.
The three men who plstoled DR..
Calder to death on a public street IN
Dallas adjourned, the Register saws, to a
restaurant near by and partook of din
ner and drinks, while the lifeblood was
yet flowing from the six ghastly
wounds they had inflicted upon their
victim. Dallas is such nice, good
place, anyhow.
The Gen. Hurst mentioned by the
Fort Worth Democrat as of Austin is
agent of the United States Treasury
Department, examining at this time
revenue offices ill this State. He is
from Mississippi, and is a son of Judge
Hurst, who in 1864 occupied place on
the Supreme bench of that State. He
served in the Confederate army.
The fate of Henry Collins, who died
miserably of his wounds, and of Bas
and the terrible punishment which
Comanche county inflicts upon another
wild man, show that the ways of tie
drur ken and vicious and murderous
are hard to travel even in Texas.
Junei are apt to overshoot the mark
and no suspected man escapes.
The Age says of DR.. Swearingen:
''He Is gentleman, Christian and a
good physician. He belongs to fam
lily that is noted for works of charity
and benevolence, and will work with
the devotion of a martyr in the cause
he has enlisted in" DR.. Manning, his
companion, Is a gentleman of rare per-
sonal attrac'iors. and is physician OF
acknowledged ability.
The Sherman Register says that DIR.
Thos. E. Williams, who left last even
ing for Memphis, is young physician
who was greatly respected for his
pleasant ways, uniform kindness, and
unpretendlng manner on all occasions.
He is well read physician, and was
gradually building up lucrative prac-
tice here. He left in response to
summons from the Howard Associa-
ton.
Houston Age: The Comanche Chief.
Greenback organ, resents the charge
as an insult, that the Greenback party
is made up principally of negro vo-
tiers; and Stephen Flynn had us an
nounce that a Greenback meeting at
his store in this city Monday night
was for white men only; and yet in
this county the GreeDbackcrs have no
hope OF success, except by the colored
vote.
One of the principal amusements at
a camp meeting in San Saba county, it
would appear from the Meaos, is for the
boys to disfi9ure horses just fer the
fun of the thing. At least the Neaos
advises those going to the camp meet
ing ''to have: their horses" names
reached before coming, as it will do
away with the necessity of the boys
having it to do during the services"
W. L. Hall, an excellent gentleman
and good newspaper man, is forced, on
account of the health of his wife, to
retire from the management of the
Dallas Commercial. He has leased his
interest in the paper to A. T. Clark,
and the firm will hereafter be Adams,
Worley & Co. The Commercial is gen.
orally in excellent condition, and such
has been brought about by the excel
ent management of Mr.. Hall. i
Instead of the cleanest. the multi
Jude gathered has made Holly Springs,
lndrained and unwashed, filthy, |
'dorous place. Kept in it's normal |
condition Holly Springs was safe, as
shown by its exemption from the fever
Or the past six weeks. But filth and |
aims have provided for the coming of |
he plague, and the elevation of Holly
springs gave not, like that of Austin,
my perfect security against the advent
If the plague.
The publishers, Ludden & Bates, of
Savannah, Georgia. have sent us the
modern song, Darling,
listen to My Story" Certainly she
will, if it is the "Old, Old Story"
nd you tell it sweetly, but do not be
90 hasty In your woolng. Send her
irst copy of Harry Percy's beautiful
lew song named above, and thus
PEACEFULLY hint your intentions. There
eyer was prettier song written, and
myers are wild over it.
The San Slba Ne,os says the irregu-
arity of the mails is very singular.
the mail comes through
rom Austin in two DAYS and then in
hree or four days. 'fVery recently"
avs the Neaos, I'VE particularly wished
o receive the STATESMAN of certain
ate, as early as possible, which ought
o have arrived the day after publica-
ion, but we were disappointed, it hay
1g been missent to Cape Girardeau,
iIssouri, arriving in about ten days"
Maxwell, the U. s. Army officer who
Ias sentenced to the penitentiary for
NO years for duplicating his pay &C
cunts, was heavily ironed when he
assed through San Antonio surround
d by guards and denied the privilege
conversation. His late comrades
at a distance from him, and
! his degradation he presented pitt
BILE appearance. He denies that he
OF his position in the army for SER
ices in helping to count in" Hayes
! Florida. Gambling, he says,
rought him to his present state of DIS
race.
The Galveston Journal Of Commerce
redits the Te1as NeD Yorker with an
rticle entitled the "Blessedness of
exas." 1t appeared originally in the
and the last eight lines of
le poetry and the prose prefxed to
lie verses were never seen by Bryant.
these last lines be inferior TO Bry-
ats preceding stauzas neither the
1uy-11I of Commerce nor Terms Ne,,