The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-26

tnat haseE Nilhelm enjoys above all
Others. Il is civiliziDg in its influences
and Heidenheimer and Miller are great
philanthropiSts as we'll as excellent
merchants. In one year from to-day.
under the civilizing Influences of Bud
weiser, Austin will either build a mar
row gauge railway or a turnpike to
Liberty Hill.
Sheriff Comstock, of Mensrd county,
in returning from Hunt county with two
prisoners, was set upon by ten we'll
armed men who demanded the release
of the prisoners. Comstock told the
spokesman he would give them 10
only after being shot down, and that
he would get one man at least himself,
VINO should be the spokesman. The
mob, alter a second demand, held a
parley and retired. The mob wanted TO
murder the prisoners. As they left,
COmstock called to them and told
them not 70 tell to the people of Hunt
county that one man had "toed off,
ten we'll armed men, and they prom
ised they wouldn't.
Swinging B" writes from Blanco, of
the river of that name, that ''it is the
type of this strange life of ours, bright
and beautiful in its cradle, laughing its
merry morning away through the flow
cry field of the valley; plunging, with
the recklessness of youth, into the
tangled brakes and marshes of San
Marcos; harryIng thence, full grown,
like earnest manhood with its noisy
and busting activities; it subsidies at
length into hfe's sober midday in the
placid Guadalupe. When it goes forth
again, it is down the inevitable decliv
ty of old age, sinking deeper and
deeper, in spite of doublings and wind
iDgs innumerable, until finally lost in
the bitter sea of death, that nelan-
choly bourne from which there Is nei-
Their escape nor return"
Changes of mail routes and postof-
fees established, ETC., for week ending
September II, 1873, and reported by
A. N. Zevely, sgent for mail con-
tractors. Washington, d. c.: Route
1879, Henderson to N4cogdoches, ser
vice increased TO three tunes a week
from October /. Route S1l60, Del
Rio to Brackettville. service Increased
to three times week from October /.
Route 31477, Srephensvllle to E4sland,
service Increased to three times a week
from October /. Postoffices tstab
lished and postmasteIs appointed:
Hookerville, Burleson county, P. L.
Caney; Gee Prairie, Burleson county,
Charles Clark. Discontinued: Hill
Creek, Basque county; Volts Cross
ing, Burnet county.
The Marshall Herald thinks Govern.
or Hubbard made very serious mis-.
take in asking Christians to fast and
pray on Sunday, as the day is COM
memoratlve of the resurrection of
Christ, and is on that account a season
for rejoicing. Says the D.nison Ne,os,
I'VE do not think Christians will ex-
perience any serious difficulty on this
account. 1t is customary to wear SOL
emn countenances on Sunday, and also
to pray. The fasting is seldom if ever
attended to any way, and the request
to do 80 is formality that no Que is
expected to comply with. Bat if any
one has any conscientious scruples
about the day, he can have none to the
contribution box, and the money IS
greatly desired in the afflicted :, lite,
just now"
All the quarantine people were sit
ting Thursday in Hous ton. They are
DR.. A. p. Brown, of Jefferson; DR.. ].
II. Allen, of CorsicaDa; DR.. II. ].
Hunter, of Palestine; DR.. F. K.
Hughes, of Dallas; DR. R. Rutherford,
of Houston; D.. K. Harrison, of Col
umbus; Or. ]. L. Cunningham, of
Hampstead; DR.. r. II. L. Bibb, of
Austin; DIR. II. Matkin, of Hearne;
DR.. j. A. White, of Huntsville; DR..
N. P. Powell, of Willis; Mr.. r. D.
of Jefferson; MIR. john K.
Wiley, of Huntsville. The object of
the meeting is to devise ways and
means of attaining concord of action
in relation to a uniform system of
quarantine on the coast and border. Il
was recommended that the association
call the attention of the next Leglsla-
ture to the propriety of organic ng
State board Of health and enacting
proper quarantine laws.
Cars on the Jefferson and Sulphur
Springs East Line narrow gauge aIe
now running to Leesburg, six and a
half miles from Pittsburg. The grad
ing is finished to Scarborough, twelve
miles from PIttsburg, and is nearly
to Winnsboro, twenty-one
miles from Pittsburg. The entire lire
from Winnsboro to Sulphur Springs,
twenty one miles, is in the hands OF SUBJ
contractors. The distance from Pltts-
burg to Jefferson is estimated at fifty
miles, and from Pittsburg to Sulphur
springs, forty-one miles; ninety one
miles in all. The twenty miles from
PIttsburg will be completed early In
October, and the remaining twenty
1ne miles, it ID hoped, will ba finished |
oy Christmas. Messrs. Cunnin CHAM & |
Ellis, penitentiary lessees, are pushing
The work theoretically. Times are |
getting better and we expect to see the |
good people OF Austin making q con-
ract with Cunningham & Ellis to run |
he narrow gauge from this city to FL |
'aso. Austin and Travis county are
vice as rich as Jefferson.
The San Saba Nescs gives, no doubt,
! correct account of the killing of s.
). Brooks, county attorney. Between
rundown and dark, while going to his
boarding house, little distance out of |
he town of San Saba, he was fred |
'pon several times. Brooks ran to Mr.,
1alden's house and fell. Il was found |
hat be was shot through the right
rm, through the left shoulder and |
hrough the body, and the last named
wound was pronounced fatal. Brooks
tated to several that he would die and |
hat be wanted to make q statement
'efore the proper authorities. Accord
ngly the district clerk, was sent for
nd the wounded man, in his diving
declaration, stated, ITO the best Of my
and belief IL was Jim Brown
hat shot me-; stating also that Blown
ad called to him on the road, attract
ng his attention, and then shot him.
nd that there were two other persons
nth Brown whom he did not recop
iZe. Mr.. Brooks stated further that
e, himself, was uDarmed and that be
an TO the house as soon as fred upon.
OF the Lynch horror the Neseagsr
ays: Friday morning the remains of
be eight children were discovered in
be ashes and lying together IN threes
nd twos upon the spot of ground over
'hich the children were ia the habit
( sleeping. Dir. Lynch tells different
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