The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
The Cleburne stage was attacked six

The Cleburne stage was attacked six
teen miles from Fort Worth by a pair
of masked robbers, who halted it re-
volvers in hand. Money was demand
ed, but no one had any save one man
who offered them thirty cents. This
was Indignantly refused. A lady on
board had one dollar but she was not
molested.
An exceedingly bad state of affairs
is reported at Richmond, Fort Bend
county. 1t appears that the man Jones,
who shot Baumgart without the slight
est provocAtion, is still at large and on |
the streets every day, no attempt hav
ing been made to arrest him. The peo-
pie petition the State to aid them in |
indicating the law.
There isn't any Greenback club
stuffed with POmeroy's genius, in
Hood county and it was announced
over there on a greasy placsrd that
Hannah was going to talk to the
people about money and things. They
thought it was q hoax, having heard
that one Hannah had been hanged in a
very elevated way some three thous-
and years ago.
Palestine, for the first time in its
history, has been visited by a disas-
trous fire, destroying nearly all of
what is known as New Palestine. The
losses are put down at 500, 900, with
but small insurance. The best in
sured merchant was Henry Ash, who
had S13. 600 on SIC, 000 The Laclede
! Hotel, worth $4,000, was uninsured.
They furnish people with ready
made babies in Sherman. A good man
of that town, having a dozen, more or
less, of his own. found somebody's
else at his gate Wednesday morning.
1t was in basket, nicely wrapped up,
but there was nothing to indicate name
or parentage. Martin was seen max
ing tracks by that house early that
morning.
Turtles weighing 400 to 500 pounds
are sold in Houston at $40 each. We
don't see why they don't put Houston
on the backs of these things that the
town, in summer time, may crawl up
to these heights at Austin and then
crawl back in the fall. Perhaps that
is what they are doing even now.
Everybody is putting himself outside
of these turtles.
Texas quarantine authorities go as
far north as Colbert Station, in the In
dian Territory, and stop goods for fear
of infection. They recently stopped q
lot of fresh oysters packed in ice, as
also lot of butter, aud it is now su2-
gested that these semc officers be placed
on ice to save them. They are soft
enough, however, to make preservation
almost hopeless.
Sea shells of almost every variety
known in the waters of the Gulf of
Mexico are to be seen along the sides
and upon the tops of the hills IN Hays
county. They are also covered with
volcanic rocks, bearing every mark ap-
parentIy of having been thrown to the
surface from subterranean fires. 1t is
plain that the sea once covered the
whole of this country.
In the Chenati mountains on the
upper Rio Grande, surface ores were
found to contain 81 to so per tor, and
at a depth of twenty feet $23 per ton,
besides 1900 pounds of lead. Surface
ores in the Chenati mountains cons ist
chiefly of lead in the form of carbon
ates and oxides, with small veins of
"galena." The latter and the carbon
ates contain the same amount of
lead.
They have a big scare in Sherman
because Mr.. Drake, from Memphis,
. was shipped thither without regard tc
quarantine. They would duck Drake
if they could find him. Martin doesn't
seem to have any sympathy for Other
birds and there was never such fiuttel
as this incident excites. Martin, who
is web footed, stands firm and swears
= that, "sink or swim" live or die, the
Drakeonian code shall be executed and
Drake eXlled.
The Register calls Senator Maxey the
able financial elucidator of North Tex
as. Lur is Latin for slight" and from
. that word this ''elucidator" is derived
: The derivative term is long drawn Ou
8 like nasal melody and like Martin
himself, whose first sweetheart, among
{ cedars of Lebanon (Tenn.), was nance
Lucy, meaning the light of the hills
, But she put Martin out and he flickeret
and found socket to expire in IL
Sherman.
, The estimate made In Gen. Ludlow
8 office of whisky on hand in the Thir(
District on the first of October show
O over 60, 600 gallons. This is all stand
ard whisky and Is aloue for drinks
. There are consequently at this TIM
within the limits of the State for tn,
, same purpose over 200, 900 gallons o
whisky, to which may be credited
much of the lawlessness now rampant
Where intoxicating drink is plenty
, crime Is in proportion.
E. L. Antony, of Milan county, VIII
waits to be reelected county attorney
solemnly says in his circular to the dea
voters that he has battled for two year
and half ''on behalf of the supremac1
= of the law and order against the unitet
= efforts of the bar" If this be so, thel
/. these bad lawyers of Milan count.
{ ought to be disbarred, and gooC
q teachers of the English language sub
stituted for them. Education is salt
# % be the foe OF evil.
, The danger of yellow fever will no
e be past until after the first killing
If frost. The Houston Age says tnas III
Ie first case of fever in Houston in 1916
d was that of Governor Van Zsndt, VIII
was taken down with it on October q
y and from which there followed fiftee
hundred cases. The Governor hat
been on a visit to Galveston, wher
;. there were ten or twelve cases, and n
- turning to Houstonwas Immediately ia
. ken sick and in few days died.
The Israelites of Marshall celebrate,
) their new year with appropriate honori
All their stores and business house
= were closed. The day was originall
l. called Yom Peruah (day of BLOWN
the trumpet), and Vow Ho-Sicoao
:, (day of memoraD. In later times
however, these names have lost the
significance, and it is now celebrate
u only as Rosh- Hasnanah, or New Yea
te With it begins the ten penitential day
: ending with the Day of Atonement.
II The members of the senatorial an
70 representative committee, to invest
gate affairs of the Indian Nation, e.
!. tended their excursion to Denison an
10 enjoyed its hospitalitIes. The part
) was made up of Senator Saunders, c
II Nebraska; Senator McCreery, of Ker
q lucky; Senator Armstrong, Of Illinois
v | nar Hoalrar If Miasiaeinni. ConOreas