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

not CO0duCI the competition QElll as
he thought it should be, he marched
his company off the grounds. He was
obeyiDg military ethics" however.
and was therefore right. 1t caused no
little unpleasantness, however, but
the laws are severe and they must be
obeyed. Paddock was never known
to yield point in anything.
Some time since it was published
that an ex-Msjor General in the Con-
federare service had enlisted as pri-
Yste soldier in Texas in the regular
army, and there has been great deal
Of curiosity exhibited as to who the
reduced General might be. 1t trsns-
pires that the man is Major Gen.
Stockton, who Is a graduate at West
Point Military Academy, and vent
into the Confederate service, reaching
the rank named. Upon his enlistment
he was not sent to the frontier with the
ordinary recruits, but was detailed for
clerical duty at the War Department.
When big fellow like Senator
Maxey comes along, very bull of the
woods, believing and tearing up the
ground and making the miserable
Greenbackers quake, then Martin
pitches in. He knows how to make /
himself conspicuous. When Maxey |
draws the multitude, it is Martin who |
occupies the front seat and pronounces
the benediction and doxology. He |
knows how to make himself seen and |
felt. 1t 1t were not for Martins al |
mighty painful modesty and ponder |
GUS legs we don't see how he would get |
along at all in this miserable, selfish |
| world.
While playing at dice, in Hampstead,
a quarrel arose between Robert Fink
lea and Bob Crawford, and they came
to blows. Ed Young then shot Fink
lea, killing him instantly. The blood
on the floor was washed away and all
traces of the murder removed, and
Finklea's body was dragged the dis
lance of a square and deposited in
front of his (Finklea's) saloon. Young
is the station agent at Hampstead. He
Is under arrest. He was released on
proving an dliJi and VIM. Wheeler
has been arrested as one of the parties
to the shooting. Crawford and
Wheeler have been under guard.
Changes of mail routes and postof-
fees established, etc., for week ending
September %, 1878, and reported by
A. N. Zevely, agent for mail con-
tractors, Washington, ID. c.: Route
}31146, Weatherford to Fort Griffin,
service increased to six times week
from October 10. PostOffices estab-
and postmasters Observation-Disclosures,
Lamar county, ]. II. Norwell; PItts's
Store, Burleson county, N. G. Pitts;
Collins, Nueces county, y. r. Peters;
Clarendon, Douley county, j. w. Rec
ord. sconlinued-Latonia, BraZoria
county; Lolita, Kaufman county;
Pierce Junction, Harris county, Rea-
gers, Ellis county.
Cnc Dolores Cantu Sanches and his
wife, which being literally interpreted,
as every Austin pedagogue will attest,
signifies "Griefs to be Sung and his
sanctimonious wife," are notified by
the moribund Herald of San Antonio
that their home is to be sold at auction
next week. The advertisement states
that the dolorous pair borrowed 5000
at per cent. per month in 1856 and
have failed to come to time. The debt
now exceeds $500 and the canticles
of dolorous Dolores Cantu y Sanches
will be painfully melancholy. Our
sympathies are aroused to such an ex-
tent that we don't charge money-lend
er a copper for this advertisement.
Parties are going out from Denison
to the buffalo range with material for
canning their meat. The Denison NeaOs
, says: "Mr. johnson has had years of
! experience in canning meat, game and
; fish of all kinds, and is confident that
, the canning of buffalo meat can be
done at so small a cost that the bust
ness cannot fail to be grand financial
success. Present indications justify
the prediction that the buffalo wi
roam nearer the settlements and in
greater numbers this season than they
have done for several years. One man
recently killed 600 head in two weeks,
which, at an average of 800 pounds,
. would make $50, 900 pounds of meat
that was left to waste upon the range,
az only the hides were saved"
Ryan, the Nesos's agent, who manip-
ulsted Montgomery, chief clerk in the
; Secretary of States office, in stealing
|, the STATEsMAN's bid for State print
ing, has been getting off smart CORE
spondence to the Neaos from Houston
about DR.. Rutherford, and row he is
i smarting under fearful beating given
8 him by the Doctor. Ryan got up DO.
gus letter about the Doctor, and be
should feel thankful that the Doctor
e only used his fists upon him, until he
e beloved for quarter, instead of treat
| Ing him worse. Ryan is twice as large
] as DIR. Rutherford, but there is moth
/. ing mean or little in the soul of the
petite Doctor, and he could least en-
dure the ungentlemanly acts of an IN
0 civil boor.
The Brennan Banner calls attention
r to matter which should be corrected
8 by the next Legislature. 1t frequently
= happens that sheriff. and other lega
! sales made in pursuance of writer
d notices posted on court house doors are
= unattended save by spectators who
1 make a business of buying property
= in this way, and the party at whose in
! stance the property is sold. Such par.
ties are generally satisfied il enough is
t realized to pay their claim, and thus
valuable property Is often sold for g
? mere song. The only remedy is to
, cause ali gach sales to be advertised in
. newspapers which End tbai.s~ way tt
|, the greatest number of people in tn,
n county where the property is to b,
\ sold.
-e The Globe Democrat says: "We lear
= from the Texas pape rs that Mr.. L. U
/ Reavis will deliver an address at thu
Austin Texas State Fair. which open
on the twenty-ninth of October. Tn,
address of Mr.. Reavis-on 1.-THE NoTtl
. and the South" including a pre-
v sentatiOn of the important com
q mercial relations now growing
g up. between st. Louis anC
|, Texas, via the st. Louis, Iron Noun
;, tain and Southern Railway, and III,
4 new commercial and political destin.
of Texas, as manifested in her terrific
- rial extent and geographic position
will all be worthy of the highest in
terest to our people IS well as thos
d of Texas, and we can assure all con
j. cerned that Mr.. Reavis's address will
Z be no secsnd-class affair.
d Victoria Adcocate: "The free school
y in this county opened on the first in
u slant, beginning with good attend
l. ance. The action OF the State Boart
}; of Education In supplying the trustee