The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-28

who has invented an ingenious water
faucet, through which water is drawn
as cold as ice. Boiling water placed
In any receptacle and allowed to run
through, will be fond cool and fit tC
drink. The faucet contains numerou:
small tubes enclosed in larger ones,
and between the outside of one and
the inside of the other certain chemi
Gals are placed which produce the de-
sired effect. 1t is cheaper to freeze the
water as it passes through the faucet
than to make the water IN the vessel
cold with ice.
The Marshall Herald says the Su-
preme Court has confirmed the judg.
ment OF the district court in the county
seat removal case, but at the same time
decides that there was no law in force
for the remoSal, aud that the whole re-
moVal proceedings are void. So the
county seat will 90 back to Canton as
necessary consequence of the decis-
ION. Hill says be would advise the
Wills Point people to make no further
opposition. Let our friends all know
the good news. The court decided
that the entire election law by which
the county seat was changed was I'm.
constitutional, and that there had been
no legal election.
Sheriff Coalston, of Mason county
Kentucky, passed through Dallas few
days since with Taylor and Ed. Mar.
tin, brothers, charged with the murder
OF a young man named Gaitskill, in
1874. Taylor was captured in Shsckle.
ford county and Ed. in Tom Green.
The Herald describes them as large,
well made, fine looking men, and theiI
four years exposure to the hardships OF
frontier life had not robbed them of
that elegant ease of manners that be-
comes the man of cultivation. The
killing was brought about by Cats
kills msrrJing their sister against the
will and consent of their parents. The
two brothers were tried for the murder
and sentenced to be hung but managed
to break Jail.
The San Antonio Express is exercised
over the tax question. 1t claims that
the average taxpayer is the victim of a
we'll founded apprehension that the
taxes, State, city and county, will
grow in the future as rapidly as they
have in the past few years, and the
question arises, "How long will we be
able to stand9' We venture the pre-
dlction that fer mauy years to come the
issue in all county and city elections
will be this very question, SO universal
and absorbing is the interest felt in it.
1t is very easy and natural that those
who have to shoulder the burden are
anxious to know if it is not possible to
elect representatives who will make it
their business to see that the life Is not
crushed out of communities.
Col. j. NJ. Wade corrscts an error
inadvertently made in the STATESMAN,
and in correcting it says: - notice
the patriotic offer of 500 for the re-
covery of the Twin Sisters, and beg
leave to correct an error which might
prevent their recognition. They were
not brass pieces, but iron. The writer
was present when they arrived at
Groce's plantation, on the Brazos, a
short time before the battle of San ia
cinto, and assisted in mounting them
on their carriages. The boxes were
marked hollow ware and we were
informea at the time that they were a
present from the ladies of Cincinnati,
and had been forwarded by the broth
er of Hon. David G. Burnet, then
resident of Cincinnati. They were un;
boxed and mounted by +. N. More
land, w. SCillwell, r. o. Harris, (now
in Tennessee), John NJ. Wade (now of
Austin, Texas, John P. Terrell (now
of McDade), Richardson Scurry, Ben
Mccullough, D. T. Durham, Tom
Green and Alf Benton "a nephew of
Hon. Thomas 81. Bentop), all of whom
served the artillery at San Jacinto."
Parson Bounce, a pious colored
preacher of Waco, resolved to do away
with the arguments of Beecher and In
gersoil, and to prove there is a hell,
lake of fire, where lost ones roll in eter-
with molten lead as cooling drink.
the night was little cold, and good |
Deacon Jumper had borrowed" the
usual supply of wood from a neighbor-
ng white hoodlum's woodpile. Tie
oarson got into his subject and warmed
Up while the good deacon piled the |
wood in the stove and the brethren
md sisters, under excitement, began
% throw off most odoriferous in
,ense. The preacher Numbered, while
he stove roared, and the wood
,rackled to assist him in his SMILES.
Che heathenish hoodlums had lost
much wood on account of these pious
leYotions, and a few 'loaded" sticks
we're prepared just to assist in finding
'ut where the wood went. The
preacher had about used up Beecher,
fter demolishing Ingersoll, and the
could verify sniff the
when there was a terrible
xplCslon. Hardly a member of that
escaped without being
'ruised or burnt, and the fiery torment
5 established at Waco, and it is be-
ieved the devil was made manifest in
nat stove.