The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-04

aui', and the young ones have sill been
apuzed. Bro Penn Is . moral revo-
luriOnist. He tskes In about $50 .,out
Of the wet" He Is deYoat Baptist.
Baptist Herald: 'sDr. Chaplin is
assisting the PASTOR. Brother Wright,
10 meeting 81 { gin. HE church at
Austin is doing good Sork by per.
hitting irs PASTOR 20 evangeliZe 70
a while. DIR. Chsplin's way f spend
ing vacstion may not be qu''e an peas
ant as lolliDg around q y stering Llace,
bus it Certainly tells for the Gauss of
the Master.
The Burnet Bzneti', st Il masthesd d,
says that Swift Ogle is editor and pro.
prietor. 10 an editorial paragraph the
paper ssys that D 5. Osle. editor of
be 3 uetiR, has been absent week
and thar his friends fear he has been
'egliy dealt with How mauy Ogles
run the machine, snd is the editorial
name or the head lisa corrscti Is the
story ''selll"
Tne citizens meeting st Galveston
ieciat, d hist the G ,vernor was doing
great wrong in his delay, and resolved
5hst the resolutions be teiegrsphed to
the press OF the ate, snd that the
papers be requested TO take the part OF
G ,lvestop, al of which was modest
request. The STATESMAN paid for
the dispatch, but regarded it az too
full of bosh for publication.
Col. Will Lambert, chief clerk Of the
House, writes: "As look at the ie-
crris and understand parliamentary
uSsges and the Senate rules, the Seust
never did concur in House smeudm~n,
to article 1856 nf the Penal Cod :, and
therefore the Sunday lsw' is not the
Law. Il found its way to the enrolling
cre' k and tFeuce to the Governor, who
never agp-Cvc it, nproperly."
Hannah, the ne6 apostle of the new
Greenback faith, ls winning new fol.
lowers day by day, but be don'r win
new converts all the time-nOt hei
Reverend JOSIAH Hanman of lard is
said To have worried h,mself So much
because his name sounded like Ham.
nan that he took rope and Re crested
his congregation to hang him 100 feet
high. He had got crsZi on the sub
ject.
A cOlored man was drying a buggy
or q doctor in Hearne. He let the
horse run away and it destroyed other
vehicles. The negro was Il 1t d in the
mayors court. and when seDtt nee was
pronounced the excitable negro drew q
repeater and began firing around indis
1 NJ ID a oil L.,
<,lod. falling ON n H.,or of the may
or's Office. Such Is the story told by
passengers from Hearne.
They have rousipg camp meeting
over at StrickliDg, not far from Buruet.
the iDte EFT in Solemn things was such
that thieves had matters their own
WY. Horses, saddles, blankets, hats
and pO, textbooks and even the coats
If those WHO grew hot at the altar and
had shucked themselves were incOn-
'iuently toIIed off by the uarepentant
tnaves. We think DR.. Chaplin and
Bro. Penn would do we'll over there.
Bu'ne' county tax rolls for the year
1878 show the amount of county tai.
1891 So; snow the amount of poll <
Tax t.r 1879 $13sS; total county
for 1879, $6469 SO; Safe tax; $6759
81; S ate nj tx. 1896; total 3 ate
tax for 1879 $9535 81 Total State
and county AK $40 005,69 There are
1929 children between the ages of S
and il. The rolls show large in
crease in live stock over latt year.
: Corr" says q farmer in the Patron,
sis scarce; let us raise all the turnips we
can; thy are good food for cattle and
hogs. Much blowing will have to be
done on grass next year which oxen
can stand better thar, horses; therefore,
let the oxen be kept in good order dur
ing the winter. Let US SOW small grain
for winter pat ture. Cattle. mules and
even horses will thrive on them IN win
ter. Huston county was once consid.
cred wheat county. Let US try wheat
again."
The trial of L. NJ. Nofsipger, for the
murder of Louis Cline, has been con-
clu4ed in the district court st Gaines
vile. The jury found him guilty and
sentenced him to be hanged. Cline
Wa killed on the night of August z,
g87S. while sleeping 10 bed W tn his
wife at his home, four miles north of
! D xter. Nofsinger had been an adj
mirer of Mrs. Cline, but she had dis
csrded him and married Cine. The
murder was committed in revenge for
this action. II is likely Nofsinger will
tske al appeal.
In the suit of the Texas aud Pacific
Railroad against r. NJ L1sk, in which
an effort was made to jmpel the mu-
niniDsl authorities Of BDnham to Issue
$26. 900 in bonds to sal railroad and
to levy tax t. pay interest and sink
ing fund on the same, il was held n
pleas on demurrer that there was only
9Itsi contract aud that the condl.
IONS had meyer been complied with by
the railroad company. The company
denied all pleas and the case goes over
to the next term OF she court.
The Michael Brothers of San Antonio
failed g me- weeks age, their liabilities
being $4,000. When the failure took
place hardly anything was left in sight
xcept empty whisky barrels. The
Wher day q lawyer, acting for Pay,
Thompson & Olstricher, had an attach
me0J WATIanJ served upon uIy most
choice barrels of liquors hid away 10
San Antonio cellar. They were labeled
with the firm name, and now there is
going to be dispute about who will
hold the whisky, the shrriff or another
person who was selected to hold the
whisky
Mr.. Robert Largen of Snuth Gsbrie,
doesn't fly a'ound. any more like he
US d to. Ylu see he was idle Sunday
Toe Sunday law shut him up at home
ike y j4ck-knife. He couldn't do a
burned thing that was sensible or
anu ing except 60 and hear an ignor-
AIT fellow rant in a log church ten
N les distant. Therefore he went TO
oal'Dg with an empty pistol and shot
himself through both bis legs. It all
came of the wIckedness and sinfulness
of that awful Sunday law.
Mr.. Hart, the sweetest chanter of
divine minstrelsy whose uDctuous notes
have ev filed the bellying sails of The
'O.d Ship of q On" Is now attached
70 the fortunes of the eloquent d
Chaplin. Over all the bilIowing sea
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