The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

donald's skull and left him as dead.
But Macdonald is reddivivus, and the
cracks hsye closed, and his head is
solid and leTel as of yore, and he
does not even give the name Of the as
sassin.
Allen harrisburg, the most infamous
murderer of Texas, has been captured
in Illinois. He is to be hanged in Cor
veil county. His associate villain,
SN afford, is still at large. Eight hun
dred dollars reward is offered for each
of these condemned scroundrels who
escaped from prison after sentence of
death was pronounced.
The police and sheriffs of Sherman
are now watching every rascal who
goes about the streets with concealed
weapons, and if they catch ana fine all
| the sueaks who thus contemplate muir
der and properly fine and imprison
them Sherman will grow rich and its
jail be filled to OVERLOOKING. 1t is
| against the law to enforce this law in
Austin, we are told.
The Mckinney Allocate says of the
venerable pile of rubbish, yclept the
State Capitol, that it is no doubt dis
( grace to the great State of Texas; and
PRIDE and thefequIrements of the State,
if not common decency, demand a
structure more in consonance with our
greatness and importance and good
taste and civilization of the people of
Texas.
One fellow who was q walking arse
nal about Sherman, like several we see
about the streets of Austin every day,
exploded himself at another in Sher-
man Wednesday and sent two bullets
into the breast of his unarmed adver.
sary. The wounded man will not die,
but the arsenal should be hanged. He
carried murder in his heart, or pistols
would not haYe been inseparable from
his person.
The Fort Worth Post calls a jolly
tradesman named Bennett one of. the
"Gibraltars of Fort Worth" We sup
pose he is the fellow they practice
upon with pocket pistols. 1t was Mr..
Pitt who alluded to the folly of cap
turing Gibraltar with pocket pistol
and the illustration of Mr.. Bennett's
genius by the Post is admirable, and
we need two or three Gibraltars In
Austin.
The Baptist Church at Coontown,
near Huntsville, expelled forty mem
bers. These met, organized the church
and expelled the other brethren, and
these again reversed ends on the other
fellows and showed them out, and the
church is becoming sort of Keely's
motor perpetual motion, and is too
earthquaky to be nice and quiet and
CONFERENCE.-The for plous and godly
men. The whole neighborhood is in
! an uproar about 1t.
Dallas is still ahead. Austin has a
man killed every now and then to the
great shame and modification of the
people, but Dallas always comes to
time and gets ahead. The Morning
Call tells of a Dallas wretch who
asked his wife and daughter to become
inmates of house of ill-fame, with
whose proprietress he was infatuated.
1t would be difficult to dig up such
painful facts in the slums of New
York or Boston or Chicago.
Ignorant, weak aldermen" the
Times says, ''are as fatal to town as
corrupt rasrals. They commonly prac-
tice," the Times says, "a false econo-
my and sacrifice health and comfort to
mean righteousness. They have never
known aught of decency in their own
private lives, and cannot be expected
to know the value of public health or
public comfort" The Times is rather
rough on the average lefty dad" but
then if the criticism be just it is the
fault of the people who elect them.