The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-24

oosed in the darkness. Disoufs1s q
an Ethiopian, he was subsequently AT
rested by the officers of Corslca1a q,
board the train. Miss Wood SCENE,
perfectly satisfied. she Is a brunette
handsome and well grown Tor her age
and says she left with her mothers full
consent, and that the whole troub.,
originated IN hea a5nt's wishing her L
leave with her, which the glrl did no
not wish to do.
In a recent decision the Appellat,
Court of Texas relterate the we'll es
tablished principle that drunkenness
does not lessen the responsibility 70
CRIME. The case was one where tn,
defendant murdered an old negr,
without provoca,ion while Graz,
drunk" Tee court says: Tempo
rsry insanity, produced lmmediatel,
from iutoxication, does not destroy lC
gal responsibility or constitute de
tense for crime, where the accused
when sane and responsible, makes him
self voluntarily intoxicated. The Law
makes mer, drunk or sober, RESPONSE
bic for the Immediate consequences O
their own acts. II state of tempe
rary insanity follows as the immediate
result OF drunkenness, the man i!
crimlnally liable for what he does il
that condition."
Martin is coming back to the Legis.
iatuTe. We are sure he Is. He say,
be wants "ree-hesded John Cochran
to come. II will be a sort Of relief tC
Martins ugliness. H0 couldn't sil
there bolt upright like lightning rod
without Cochran's flaming, rudy head
to show mankind the vicinity of Mar.
tins presence. He is the conductor
the rod-to lead eff harmlessly the
lightning strokes OF Cochran's and
other Representatives eloQuence. /,
Is quite impossible TO shock Martin.
We have tried it; but when Cochran
is charged with electric fires of genius,
as often happens, and he strikes Mar
tin, Martin confesses the delicious sen.
sation which runs a mile down Martins
spine, and then 1t tackles his legs and
gets down into his boots toward the
close Ct the week, and Martin is deli.
ciously happy. He loves to be electri
fed with Cochran's fiery elOquence.
Sherman Register: 1--WE are moi
averse to the heavy tcxation brought
about by maintaining this armed force
In the field for the protection of the
southwestern counties, if it Is indis-
pensably necessary for the protection
of life and property. But it is about
time to shake off sentimentalism and
look at facts. Reports for months past
haze shown the courts of that section
in full operation, crime being punished
by the civil authorities and many let.
tiers have been published, representing
the country as almost free from despe-
radoes, as much so, perhaps, as other
sections. But just upon the eve of the
assembling of the Legislature comes
the cry for protection again. 1t looks
little as if the people of that section
have lost sight Of their duty. They
have been protected too much by the
bayonets of the State troops. They
seem to lose sight of the fact that az
citizens they have duties in the mat Ell
of enforcing the law. Will they ever
awake to duty while military protec-
ton Is affordeda"
Tke Telegram, asking if the people
of Texas want crime suppressed, and
discussing the morale of State stand
ing army, says: "To keep a standing
army, gems d'arnaerie, to enforce the
law and protect the lives and property
of the people Is entirely contrary to the
institutions of an American State,
where the people, responsible fer their
own rights aid safety, create their own
officials and are, in an emergency, to
take the law in their own hands and
viudicate its majesty and supremacy.
When, then, our officers declare that
they cannot execute the laws, and that
they can get no aid and comfort from
the citizens, the question naturally arises
do the people want the law executed.
This is question they must answer for
themselves. 1t is a question of the
greatest moment to the whole State,
and it is question which, in the light
of the many crimes that are committed
and the few criminals that are punish
ed, many an observer will naturally
ask. II the people of Texas do not
wish crime depressed and the guilty
punished, then, by all means, let US
keep up the State troops. Crime must
be put down, life must be protected,
property must be made reasonably
secure, and if there is no other way to
do it let US have an armed soldiery in
every county"
At The St. Louis Fair the Information
al and Great Northern railroad, says the
st. Louis Journal Of agriculture, had
on exhibition a fine display of the
various products OF the country
through which it passes, and as well
of more than hundred samples of the
soil2 They had more than one huu-
dred different samples OF nearly as
many varieties of peaches, fifty of ap-
pies, twenty of pairs, and quite vari-
ETY. OF grapes, figs, p!ums, apricots, nec-
tarines, ounces, blackberries, cherries,
dewberries, strawberries, oranges, to-
matoes, Irish and sweet potatoes, Gu
cumbers, beans and many other
garden products, together with an
immense variety of samples of wheat,
corn, oats, barley, millet, broom corn,
cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, manufac-
tured sugar cane and syrup, specimens
of pottery, building stone, brick, iron
aud other ores, chemical woods, etc.
etc., almost without limit. Every
sample was carefully labeled and num-
bered, and catalogue handed to the
visitor explained py whom and in
what county the articles were grown
or produced, the product per acre.
when maturing, etc. THE Journal does
not wonder now that hundreds of
thousands of enterprisiDg farmers are
annually locating in Texas. 1t says:
''The fact of the matter is, there
is hardly an article entering into our
everyday consuption that cannot be
produced there to as great or greater
perfection than in any State in the
Union. Here is display OF
fruits that would do credit to
my fruit culturist in the world,
samples of wheat, producing from
twenty to thirty 1--WE bushels per acre
of oats, eighty bushels; corn, ditto;
'ugar cane with eighteen joints; cotton
i've to SIX feet high, and covered with
POLLS in the richest possible prufusion,
Ind when to all these are added her al
most unlimited cat tie ard sheep
'anchss, her capacity to manufacture
within her own limits almost any article
If commerceTwho shall dare even to
iresm Of the magnificent destiny that
Iwaits her. The display made by this
company was one OF the largest. best
Irrsnged and moGs interesting at the
air, and we are grstified "a see the