The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

co. nnen these befall the town Is
lone for.
Il is stated, In view of the coming
war with Mexico, that
Vast is drawing for HdTPer's Weekly
lfelike portrait of Governor Hubbard
mounted on a sixteen foot charger,
eading ten thousand men across the
hallows and sluIces of the Rio Grsnde.
;Ol. Will Lambert rides calamity be-
ide his Excellency. The sun blazes
iercely upon the valorOus chieftain
md upon the moving squadrons, while
he innocent Mexlcans line the western
hore of the river, delighted to believe
hat the ''thieving Gringos" are bring
hg them q live cotton bale.
1t Is thought that, as Grenada, Mis-
Iissippi, is far interior town where
IN epidemic never prevailed before,
he ravsges of yellow fever there would |
arrest the attention of inland Texas |
towns and make them thoughtful. 1t |
lies directly on the line of rsIlwsy COM |
between New Orleans and
the North, and in getting there it
jumped the towns of jackson, Canton
and twenty Of lesser note. 1t is like
Texas in 1878, striking Calvert and
Columbus the worst. The surest way
to keep the disease off is to clean up
towns and give it nothing 10 feed on.
1t tattens and reyels in filth.
The Fort Worth Post says: "The bar
of this city, so far as we have been
able to learn, favor the Hon. J. J.
Good, of Dallas, for the supreme
judgeship. A North Texas man is en-
titled to this Office. and there is not a
better man, nor one more able to fill
the important position, than Mr..
Good" That a judge of the Supreme
Court should be the ablest and wisest
and most industrious lawyer in the
State, nobody denies. We do not pre-
tend to say Judge Good is not the man,
but he is not the man for the reason
that he lives in Dallas. 1t is not To-
cality to be honored through a citizen,
but an arbiter of human rights to be
chosen for a great commonwealth, and
this suggestion of sectional selection
of such an officer is simple folly that
would be ridiculous were 1t not Grim
inal."
The Register tells that Crooks, of the
Sherman Courier, had two shirts when
he went to the Fort Worth congress-
ional convention. The original grew
solled, and Crooks stuffed it into his
wallet, and the other was only worn in
daytime land on state occasions. At
night sessions Crooks sat bolt upright
in his linen duster and gray trousers.
A washwOman went to Crooks soon
after tea and took away both shirts,
when she was instructed to clean but
one, and Crooks was left in bad fix.
But he faced the music like little
man, and told the boys, who were de-
ploring his condition at breakfast next
morning, that Father Adam never wore
a shirt till after the fall, and that he
himself would never wear another.
We have an editor in Dallas who will
never shave, and now there is another
to be known through all time as the
Great Shirtless.
The first campmeeting of the Sew
enth Day Adventists was in session al
Rockwell from the ninth to the thir
tenth of August. Six counties wert
represented. Says a correspondent il
the Fort Worth Democrat from tbel
midst: "Their work is but two year
old, but there are $50 adberents. They
are ardent Bible students, holding TO
a simple natural Interpretation. The!
expect the soon advent of the Saviour
but set no time. They keep the sew
enth day to obey the fourth command
ment, teaching that Sunday is hea
then Catholic day, for which there is NJ
scripture. They teach that the dead
are 'unconsciously awaiting the judg
ment and that the wicked will b.
finally destroyed or burnt up. The!
publish largely, in eight languages
with offices in California, Michigan
and Switzerland. Missionaries are il
many foreign lands, and others to b.
sent to every nation. They expect t.
warn the world of the soon advent o
the duty of keeping the seventh day
They are Jealous, temperate and de
voted to their work. The leading
lder is the one who wound up
Elder Caskey at Terrell in June last.
The Fort Worth Post believes in
religion "that visits sick people; re
Iigion that mixes potatoes with 1t
prayers; religion that places som
bread in barren cupboards; religion
that lays some fuel upon deserte'
hearthstones; religion that closes it
eyes IN the quiet hush of the eVenin
and arranges plans to remove som
burdens from a neighbours shoulders
and thinks of little unostentatiou
things that it can do to make desolat
homes bright and cheerful with gifts.
The good paper illustrates with stor
of Suffering and death: Mrs. Well
was turned away from the city hosp
tai, and, with her children, has. reside
in miserable apology for tent. Th
recent rains flooded the place, and th
poor, sick and dying children were 6
! the mercy of the wind and the rain
! Sunday evening enc of them died
4 If there was a sermon preached it we
, a silent one, and Marshal CouTtrigf
j was the minister. Certainly th
child was not panoplled in the fancie
} might of wealth; 1t was not buoyar
) with rosiet hopes, nor enyironed againS
z want; neither did 1t have happy HON
2 to live and die in; therefore nc, bel
! tolled out the solemn news of its deatf
nor no concourse of friends followed
9 to its place in the church yard. TIL
mothers grief is inexpressible. N
, human pen can family picture th
agony of that mother, while bendin
: over the lifeless remains of her dea
' child, and at the same time heedin
: the agonizing walls of other sick an
dying children"
2 Frank Jackson, the train robbel
= who made his escape at the time Sal
\ Bass and Ceeb Barnes were killed. 1
e Round Rock, has been seen in Dento
county. He was well mounted on
e BAY horse and armed with WiRche
ter rifle and brace of pistols. Il
! said that he did not intend to act tt
! coward, as some had thought he woult
by leaving the country, but that he il
|, tended to hang around and avenge tb
J wrongs of Bass, who was the be
! friend he ever had. Every dog hi
: his own day." he said, land I'll hay
mine yet, and you bet I'll make it tel
\ I'll get nv work in on them when the
I are the least looking for it." He sal
that Underwood had gone off to live
. peace, but his wife and childre
were still in Denton county. Jacl
$ son was not wounded in the figl
e at Round Rock, as was reported. Wht
e speaking of Bass he appeared to iii
! up, and would become greatly excited
g swearing vengeance against Jim Nh