The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15

the last ten years you would think IL
was about enough to tend to-" He
acknowledged that he should.
'When have facts use them, but
when l haven't" remarked = leading
popular orator of Georgetown, ~ just
yell aud saw the air, and they de howl,
and Tine electrified and go on rising
higher and higher, tIll-well, keep
on going up and up till can't contain
myself, and collapse with big howl,
aud how the fellows do rosr"
The Dallas Herald says it is 8 fuffi-
cient answer to the argument Of the
STATESMAN against the proposition to
discover Texas that the CRAFTSMAN is
published at the present seat of govern
ment and, We may add, it is sufficient
answer to all the Herald says, that 1t
is almost crazy to live and breathe, like
the STATESMAN, at seat OF govern
ment.
DR.. S. W. March died unexpe ctedly
at Mount Enterprise, Rusk coun y, on
the twenIy-ninth ult.mo. 1t will be
remembered that he was sccu ed of
serious crimes, and gave bond Tor his
appearance before the district court.
Since his release frem Jail he hs been
drinking heavily, and it is SUI posed
died from the effects of lntemp france
and mental depression.
| Houston telegram: "The interior
towns of the State are still taking good
care of their sanitary condition. This
is all that is necessary. This is what
the laws of nature require. For this
is yellow fever sent. 1t is scourge
Of Providence to enforce clean iness,
ana thus blessing in disguise. There
is no excuse for dirty, filthy towns or
| persons"
On the eighth instant, on the Nueces,
at the residence of ]. NJ. Thompson
and his protege, Mr.. WHEELS. qurrreled
about beef, after which WHEELS left.
On the ninth, WHEELS met and fred at
and missed Thompson, when Thomp
son fired twice, hitting WHEELS in the
neck and heart. Thompson brough'
the body to Uvalde and surrendered
himself to the authorities.
the San Antonio Express says: ''The
charges made in an affidavit againsr
! u,
saulting and alb -tting an assault with
intent to kill one DAVIDSON, near Sell
ma, in this county, few days ago,
upon an examination before Justice
Evans at Selma, We're dismissed. The
evidence proved that the supposed as
sault was only freak of fun"
DR.. s. W. March died unexpectedly
at Mount Enterprise, Rusk county, on
the twenty-ninth ultimo. 1t will be
remembered that he was accused OF
serious crimes, and gave bond for his
appearance before the district court.
Since his release from Jail he hal been
drinking heavily, ana it is supposed
died from the effects of intemperapce
and mental depression.
The San Antonio Express says: "Gen.
Baylor, president of the Greenback
club of this city,. should at once assem-
BILE his club, and address them upon
! the importance of giving an ardent sup
| port to the State National ticket.
Should he do so, we would like to be
there. A perfect outburst of eloquence
would be assured when the sneaker
reached the candidate for Attorney
| General"
The other day respectable citizen
of Dahas received telegram from his
wife en- route to Dallas from {. visit
North asking him to meet her at the
Union depot. Failing to meet her on
the west bound train he went to Ter
rell, and on entering the sleeper found
his wife and a mutual friend In the
same bunk. A scene followed, and
would have terminated seriously had
it not been promptly suppressed by the
railroad officials.
A man may invest $50, 600 in two
hundred feet of worldly vanity called
church steeple and as much in pro-
noting the earache and terrors 10 the
sick by buying big church bell, and
yet for all that he may deal with his
sick wife as If she were brute and
leave her to solitude and hunger and
helplessness. One Darrah did all this
in Galveston and the courts gave her
divorce and half his wealth. 1t was
just.
The Dallas Herald says Judge Banks.
dale, who ably defended the train rob-
bers, Pipes and Herndon, has rec eived
letter from them, written in the pen
irentlary, in which they state that the
so-called confession alleged to have
been made by them while being con-
veyed to the penitentiarv, and pub
lIshed in the Galveston Neaos, is totally
false and without any foundation what
ever. They stoutly deny having been
in the train robbeTie,, or accessory to
them.
The Ielegrdm's "Unknown Man,"
says the Marlin Ball, was before the
war judge of the Fifth Judicial district,
then associate justice of the Suareme
Court OF Texas, and next presto mt of
the secession convention. During the
war he was colonel of the Sixteenth
Texas Volunteer Infantry, Cbnfe.' crate
States army. Since the war be has
been UaIted States Senator, ass cIate
justice of the Supreme Court; then
Chief justice of the Supreme Son It by
Executive appointment, ana in 1876 he
was elected by the people Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Texas.
The Baptist Church at Sherman has
changed its preacher again and we be
lieve Martin is at the bottom of it. He
is at the bottom of most jevilment
done about Sherman. Crooks, on the
contrary, devotes himself exclusively
TO secular affairs while Martin persists
in managing the church and the party
anu holding with the Hare and running
with the hounds and he seems to be |
better pleased that Wellborn was nomI-
mated than Wellborn himself. Martins
versatility of taste, genius, piety and
politics is as pleasing to the eye as the |
wonders of the kaleidoscope.
at Waco R. Q. Mills declared the
Democratic platform broad enough for |
everybody. He made an eloquent ap-
peal to the Greenbackers to stay with |
the grand old Democratic party that |
made this country the best on the earth,
and who are now labo-ing to bring it
back to the reign of peace, prosperity |
and happiness destroyed by its enemies, |
the Republican party and money aris-
tocrscy. But the Greenbackers demon |
strated the uncertainty of their cause |
by endorsing Mills for Congress. Mills |
is on the Democratic platform, and he
Is going to stay there as long as any |
man in Texas.
the Marshall Herald says that the
East Line Railroad has about twelve |
rnsiaa Of raa "A rrraI cd hawon1 pitt hurr