The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-18

ers' courts, for each day and for each
fraction OF day be may serve or a.
tend ss such juror" Article 1868 o.
the same chapter reads rs follows:
Zach county shall be liable for the
expenses of food and lodging for ju-
rJrs impaneiled in case of feionI;
but in such cases no script shall be is
sued or money paid to the Jurors
whose expenses are so paid" Article
1854: A juror may pay his own expen
ses and draw his script, but the county
is responsible in the first place for all
the expenses incurred by the sheriff in
providing suitable food and lodging
! for the jury, lot to exceed howe7er,
one dollar and twenty-five cents day.
Road oYerseeTs and workers in the
county may find it to their interest to
peTuse article. Ais of the Revised Civil
Statutes. 1t reads as follows: ''It shall
be the duty of the overseers, within
ten days after he has had his road
worked, to file with the county attor-
ney of his county q complaint, in
writing AMI under oath, against each
person who has been summoned to
work on the road aud has failed to
work, and has failed IN furnish a sub
stitute, and has failed to pay one dol
| lar for each day he has refused to work
or furnish substitute, and also against
each person so summoned who has re-
fused to do a reasonable smount of
work or who has refused to perform
the reasonable directions of the over
seer" The Penal Code provides that
persons who wilfully fail or refuse to
comply with the above act shall be
fined in any sum not exceeding ten
dollars.
The Express gives an account of
cave within the corporate limits of the
city of San Antonio. L says that dur
ing the year 1874, having been told
that vast amount of money had been
deposited in the cave, Fred Bader, An
drew Bonnet and others resolved to en-
ter and explore it, as well as test the
truth of the report. Upwards of one
thousand feet of rope were obtained,
and Messrs. Bonnet and Bader de-
scended as far as it would allow them
Three different rooms were found. The
frat room was calculated 20 be about
thirty-two feet below the surface, and
was about 18x40 feet in size. 1t was
with great difficulty that the third
room was reached, and when the rope
was all used a stream of rushing water
was struck. Mr.. Bader states that he
waded into the stream until the water
csme up almost to his armpits. 1t was
very swift, aud the dasbipg of the wa
ter over rocks and down declines Gre
! ated roar that was constant and al
most deafening. Another expedition
is being gotten up to explore this cave.
1t is only about half hours walk from
San Pedro springs.
Gen. H4rdeman made the following
explicit charges before the Galveston
cotton board committee:
l charge that the house OF Moody &
Jemison render account sales by first
weights, instead of those marked on
the cotton, and by which the cotton
was sold, and that the first weights
were less than the weights marked on
the cotton. WIN. P. HARDEMAN.
| I charge that Masterson & Stafford.
eight months after the cotton was
sold, certified that the first weights of
| COb'Ou bOlu ny MOOu1 " O~LAieOA lOl
J. K. Walker, of Luling, were the cor
rect weights, when their books show
the weights by which they were sold
are greater than those given in their
certificate - in one instance seven
pounds, in another five pounds per
bale. VIM. z. HARDEMAN.
Gen. Hardeman was examined by
the committee. In his examination we
find the following:
In the further questioning of Gen.
Hardeman by the committee, Mr.. Wells
said: You have stated that first
weights We're not marked on the bales
at all.
Gen Hardemsn-No sir, not marked
on the bale, under instructions from
Col. Moody to Mr.. Stafford. The cot
ton was simply weighed and checked
on the book and sent to Mr.. Masterson
and he copied it.
Ger. Hardeman stated that there
was 254S pounds, or about that, gain
in 903 bales of Walker cotton-about
five bales gain.