The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

Al EIScslouC COuutN lew nights
ago WiIliam Martin. aged co, and his
son were fred at by assassins add the
old man instantly killed. Father aud
son were riding along the road from
Fairfield when the aSssssips attacked
them. The son was thrown from his
horse, his skull fractured and his mind
deranged.
Brennan Banner: "Dr. Rutherford
has impressed upon his deputies the
necessity of being more watchful and
cautious the present month than ever.
The strictness of quarantine should not
be relaxed so long as the epidemic con-
tinues. 1t has undoubtedly saved our
State thus far and should be kept up
vigilently."
A. h. Shepard, living near Longs
point, Washington county, was called
from his house by two men on horse
back. One of them snapped q cap at
him, but he jumped behind q big oak
tree as the buckshot load of the sec
ond barrel lodged in it. They then
rode away, and Shepard can give no
reason for it.
Though the story has not been told,
as it should have been, in tae columns
of the Adrestiser, still many of the
people Of Bastrop county have learned
that the Capita! State Fair will begin
on the twenty ninth OF October. Many
of them will probably be here. Much
tine stock at least is expected from
Bastrop county.
And now comes the Cirilidn in dc
Tense of Tom OchIltree as laboring
mans candidate and says: "We are
satisfied that Major Ochlltree, if forced
by circumstances, would not hesitate
to put his hand to the pillow, perhaps
with less reluctance than some of his
critics." Wouldn't Tom Ochiltree
make royal ploughboy
The Waller Courier says it has
"known ]. W. Stephenson long" and
it might have added when he was short,
or Stephenson is the luckiest fellow in
those parts. Stephenson will be attor-
pey down there. He is an awful pros
ecutor, and is gong to chaw up that
circular saw destroyer of the public
peace at the Hampstead tavern.
VIII the farmers. it is asked, make a
good display of farm products at the
Capital State Fair2 They generally
look well to their intetests, and as a
great many strangers will be in Austin
at the fair, they will be apt to show
them what our soil brings forth. The
| agricultural department of the fair
! should be, next to the stock show, its
most interesting feature.
Texas farmers will be pleased 20
learn that Prof. Riley, the national en-
tomologist, hes returned to Washing
ton, after an extended journey in the
cotton States. He reports the cotton
worm inactive and the prospects good
for ascertainlng the entire history of
the pest. He hopes to entrap the first
moths to sudden death by the use of
poisoned sweets. Prof Riley's agents
re still at work.
A man arrested for stealing break
fast at Dallas, pleaded, by way of con-
fession and avoidance, that he had
spent IN a hospital while sick the
money he had previously earned pick
ing cotton, and had stolen the break
fast to- keep from starving. He was
punished by Imprisonment one minute
in Jail, and turned loose by the officers
with money for one days supplies.
At Waco, while Parson Jockey was
in church dong what he could for the
glory of God and the good of mankind,
some miserable thief mounted his
horse and started in the direction of
Meridian. The parson thinks the fell
low to be young man, and if he
catches up with him, there won't be
much possibility of his ever reaching
life's meridian ON this side of Jordan.
Age: "Those who dislike the action
of DR.. Rutherford will continue, of
course, to criticize and censure until
the quarantine season Is past. II In
the end, however, it is realized that he
has been the principal agency in
those Ilg!d quarantine sn @eaf btsfsrt that
from Texas, his ample reward will be
in the gratitude the people will feel
and express to him."
Telegram: The Texas press is howl
ing against strict quarantine simply
because they have been debarred from
northern papers two or three weeks.
Pity but some of these editors had a
touch of yellow jack, they would be
willing to keep out letters as we'll as
newspapers. Some of these men will
kick up row in heaven if they ever
get there, which is not likely, because
the devil has been quarantined out of
1t.
The decision of Judge Williams, of
Galveston, that fine for refusing to
work road, is NO more than an ordi-
nary judgment for debt, and does not
subject man to personal arrest or i'm
pnsonment, practically exemp:s from
road duty every man who has no prop
erty subject to execution. Yet, with
out the law very plainly provides for
imprisonment. Judge Williams must
be sustained by the higher courts.
III 1882 a youth of Bastrop went to
the Union army, bidding adieu to his
sweetheart, beautiful young girl of
Bastrop. They corresponded till the
great battle of Charlottesville. Then
she heard of him no more till a short
while ago, when, after many adven-
lures in foreign lands, he turned up in |
Bastrop end claimed the hand of his |
old sweetheart, now a handsome VIC
man of thirty-two. They were quietly |
married.
c. B. Hoadley, white teacher in a
negro school in Wallace Prairie. was
taken from his home and severely
whipped by band of disguised men.
1t was from very good authority that
the mob was composed of colored men
who were incensed at Hoadley's init
macy with the wife of the colored
man with whom he was boarding. If
we mistake not this same Hoadley, as
3 carpet-bagger, was organizing Green.
back clubs among the negroes some
time ago.
The exterior of the Rockport Tran
script in the oldest patented outside in
the world. 1t was transcribed -
therefore the name Transcript) from
he tombs Of Egyptian kings. We
sent q copy of it year ago to the
French Acadamy OF Sciences, and they
nave been at work on 1t ever since.
One old fellow says that the whole
hing has reference, If he is not MIS-
AIKEN, to Pharaoh's lean kline or to
Ioseph's Bull of the Woods. They'll
ret tie hang of it after awhile, and
he translation will be fled away with
he Arundelean Marbles in the London
library.