The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

tue hcssJ o.anCueS OF great i've OAK.
4 sad story comes from Wise county
Henry Freezing, a young man of much
accomplishment, was engaged to Miss
Mantling, whose father objected to his
marrying. They eloped snd the young
lady's father followed and overlook
them, and he revealed his reasons for
his opposition TO the union. 1t inVol-
we'd the origin ana birth of young
Freezing in shame, and afterwards
learning 1t to be true from his father,
he put an end to his life.
John Postoak, a half-breed, was
the murderer of Mr.. John Ingley and
wife In Arkansas, for which be is to
die on the twentieth of December
The Iugleys lived in an out-of-the- way
place, AMI an only infant child, twenty
months old, was left in the house with
the dead bodies of its parents for
eleven days before :he situation was
discovered. 1t was almost dead from
starvation hut was saved and is now
growing up under the care of friends
in Hood county, Texas.
Three men, William Heart, James
Gray and Mr.. Smith, near Marlin,
quarrelled. Heart rode up to a squad
OF men working the road and told
Gray to get out of the way. as he
(HearO was cavalryman. Gray re
piled lie was as good a man as Heart,
and If he wanted anything to dis
mount. at the same time taking off his
coat. As he turned facing Heart, the
latter sho: him dead. Smith started
toward him with q hoe, when Heart
fired at him also, hitting HIM in the
cheek. The usual escape is recorded.
The Court of Appeals of this State
has rendered decision of some inter-
est to our local authorities. A was in
dIcted for keeping a disorderly house
The proof was that A was the owner
of the house and rented it, knowing
the unlawful purpose for which it was
to be used. The court held that the
defendant could not be convicted, be-
cause the offense of keeping a disor-
derby house is not llade by express
terms of the statute to embrace the
lessor or owner of the property who
rents it, differing therein from the
statute on gaming.
Governor Hubbard has revoked his
quarantine proclamation, saying that
he is Satisfied that there is no longer
any danger of the introduction of vel
low fever into Texas from districts
now declared to he free from the in
lection. "-NetoS-F Echo. What an Irish
bull to,be manufactured by hippopot-
amusl Nobody ever supposed there
was danger of the introduction of the
fever from districts declared to be free
from the Infection" The Governor is
apt, in his rosiest and olliest speeches,
to utter commonplace sentences, old
as the eternal hills, with the fervor
and vehemence of infinite originality
but when he goes about the task of
forcing his piety into print he gets
things, like drinks, infinitely mixed.
Two men went from Dallas to Penn
bina, Dakota, to identify the body of
Collins. They had it exhumed and
photographed, and they are now back
IN Texas ready to swear to che remain
being those of William Collins, one of
the Bass accomplices. 1t is we'll
known to certain officers that Henry
Underwood and Frank Jackson are in
Dakota, and that they were near Penn
bina when Collins was killed. The
United States troops at Fort Pembina,
a few miles from that place, since
learning who they we've, have chased
them westward into a desolate region
filled with trees and underground. As
the country affords them nothing to
live upon, and it is not settled, they
are bound to retrace their ste9s sooner
or letar, when their capture is almost
certain.
I Git is sad, but alas! too true! A pri-
vate letter from Humboldt, that sweet
place so miraculously preserved by
Providence for Its ineifable goodness,
even when wicked Memphis went
down, states that the flat village has
been smitten at last by the plague and
three persons have died there since the
''scourge" was removed from Memphis.
1t is not so bad that Humboldt thus
suffers, but that Major Penn loses caste
somewhat as a prophet. Everybody
prophesied, like the Major, that Mem
phis would be scourged, we, for its
tilthiness and the Major, for its sins,
but when the Ma jOr said that Hdm-
boldt would go scot free because Hum
boldt listened to his voice as of one
crying in the wilderness of the murky
Obion, along whose classic banks Davy
Crockett used to shoot bears--it is this
defeasance of the Majors prophecie s
that makes US feel bad.
The United States District Attorney
for the Eastern District of Texas died
on Monday morning last of
an attack of apoplexy in the city of
Houston. Judge Baldwin was native
Of New Jersey, but was a resident of
Houston for many years before the
war. During the war he wrote pam-
pblet entitled Common Sense" in
which he predicted the fall of the
Southern Confederacy. For this he
was arrested, as we'll as the job printer
who printed the book, as traitor and
put in Jail In Houston. He was after
ward sent to Mexico by order of the
authorities. At the end of
the war he returned to Houston, where
he resumed the practice of law. He
was appointed to the Office of district
attorney by President Lincoln, and
still held the position at the time of
his death. He leaves a wife and a
married daughter.
The Commercial notices an evil and
tells about a remedy that may be ap-
piled: "a short-sighted legislature,
with no practical knowledge concern
ing railroads or appreciation of the
value of time, made a law compelling
trains in this State to stop at
every station not less than five minutes
"A law that is an imposition upon both
the railroads and the travelling public,
but Of no earthly advantage to the
towns along the roads. The law is not
generally observed, but the railroads
realize the fact that by violating it
they lay themselves liable to annoyance
and prosecution at the hands Of any per-
son who may have a petty spite against
them for some real or imaginary wrong.
50 great has this annoyance become
that it is rumored the leading officials
If the Texas railroads will soon hold a
to devise means to put an end
to the Inconvenience at least as far as
the travelling public is concerned. We
hear it stated that one proposition is to
make all regular passenger trains
g through trains" stopping at only the
principal towns along the tine. and
carrying all local passenger traffic on
freight trains. This would be a pref
~ severe remedy, but it would cause
the people themselves to demand the
repeal of the present unreasonable law,