The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-20

tention OF taking out and lynchlng
Post ana Smith, the suspected murder
ders of McDermott. The sheriff and
deputy succi fully resisted the mob.
Joe ArmiBgol, amerchsDt of Hearne,
whom every body was willing Hst,
absconded with $50. Geo in cash, ana
bis cred RS are dancing aroEnd in All
directions looking for what he left be-
hind him. L. is though. he has gone
to Spain.
Tne Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad is quietly moving its line
along at the rate of Two miles per day.
l. has been extended twenty-five miles
from Richmond, beyond BJvine, and
its course is coward and upward"
so to speak.
The gas well near the old Vine GROVE
pustoffice, on the old AustiA stage road,
ten miles from B .strop, is no humbug.
II is 8 twelve-inch bore, 152 feet deep,
and when ignited throws q widespread
ing flame fifteen feet IN height. The
boring will be coLt.Dued.
The Supreme Court of Texas decides
that the Constitution DOS not, OF
itself, impose q mechanics lein tor
work snd labor done or material fui-
nished on railroad, its Tosdbed ana
chartered privileges, nor does 1t re-
quire the Legislature to do go.
A cattle man, james Thompson, ar
rived in Dallas, reports that a fight oc-
CURED in Wheeler county, in the ex-
IRENE West, between the United
States authorities and the citiZ ms OF
the county, relative to arrests made by
United States deputy marshals.
The Clay County Journal say i'm
mense beds Of salt have been found in
the Elm Fork of the Big Wichita,
seYenty-fve miles west of Henrietta.
Two wagons loaded with 5000 pounds
of the salt sold in Henrietta last week
at one and half cents a pound.
Col. j. S. Thrssher, who lately died
in Galveston, was at one time consul at
Havana, and newspaper correspon-
dent of considerable note. For time
he was attached to the editorial staff
of the New York Herald, and then be-
came its correspondent in Mexico.
Curry, the murderer of the actor It
Marshall, IT is said will escape. The
witnesses from abroad will not attend,
and if they do, he can propably get
another continuance. and thus it will
grind on and innocent blood will be
unavenged, aud the country curse the
courts and the devious ways of the
lawyers.
The leading D NJ 1crats OF DIllas
have advanced money to give the EDen-
ing Times first rate start. E G. Nc
Cure and w. z Sterret are to edit,
and it Is to be TepIe5t tative D4mc-
cratic paper Ole Of iis first suggeS
tions is State convention in March to
choose delegates to the national con.
vention.
About $50 negroes from Nacogdo-
ches, Shelby and adjoining counties
are now at LongYiew in a destitute
condition. They had been led to sup
pose that upon their arrival at Long
view they could get tickets to Kansas
at So esch. A book had been sent to
them and from it they caught the Kan
sas fever.
Vice President Crosby, of the Texas
and New o ;leans II ulroad, has ordered
four locomotives, four first class, eight
second class, four express and four new
baggage cars, for his and the Louisiana
Western roads. These do not include
the four sleepers which will be used.
Travel will be opened over it to New
Orleans by January 1.
Messrs. Morrow 6 Hickok. the owners
of the California trotter St.Juliar, that
recently tro.ted,a mile In San Francisco
in 2:12 1-2, have refused an cffer of
SAC. 900 for the horse. He will start
on the eighth instant, over the Oak
land, Col, track, to beat his own time.
st. Julian is ten years old, was sired by
volunteer out of mare by Henry
Clay.
The Msxican government has a
scientific corps in the field tracing up
the mineral line that has cropped out
in such richness in the Sierra Mnjlda,
and it is said the mineral lines run iu
the direction Of Pf,sidiolel Nortr, and
that confidence Is expressed in their
marked appearance again in the Che.
natl mountains on this side of the Rio
Grande.
We did not deplore the impossibility
of ascerta,ning the "cost" but the cast
of the play evening before last at the
opera house. IL was the types and
not the reporter that substituted the
one for the other word, even as IN the
editorial the word Idiots, was sub
stituted, naturally enough, no doubt,
for editors" and smashed the sense
OF an editorial.
Capt. Atkinson, chief of the Calves
ton police, has issued an order to the
sergeant of his force II quiring him to
notify the men that they are not to go
to theatres as ''deadheads. His order
winds up as follows: t'Under no cir
cumstances will they apply for sdmis-
sion except when they are prepared to
pay. The law designates the manner
in which theatres, etc., shall be policed
Hon. George Washington Jones hiss
gone down, 1t is given cut, to measure
the depth of the Braz)s, but he is q
shy coon. He is going to promise
those daIkies that voted against him
in the last election taat if they will do
differently next time that it will make
it unnecessary for them to foelawsy their
time on Oyster creek and Caney PLAN
tations. He will promise them fats by
the Car load.
The Glendale (Mo) train robbers
are supposed to be IN North Texas,
and great Excitement exists there.
Alien Palmer, brother-in law OF
Jesse James, was arrested on Monday
night on the edge of Cook aud Gray
son counties by Sheriff Everheart of
Grayson county, and lodged in jail at
Sherman. A posse went out from
Sherman on Tuesday night to hunt for
others of the gang, whose trail, it is
thought, has been struck.
The well near Bsstrop which emits
the very gas that Eliminates this city
will be used to give light and warmth
to the Advertiser Office. We always
believed that the earth was hollow and
Inhabited within, as we'll as on its ex
terror surface. All these cubic miles
of space within the fifteen miles OF
earth-crust were no: purposelessly
made by 0mniscience, and the gas that
esospes near Bastrop leaks from the
mains Of some mighty metropolis.
which Benefits ship will visit If It
tinds its Way TO Ssmmes' Hole and go
Ia thereal.
One Of the boldest thefts of horse
vet heard Of, isreporled from Luling.