The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-22

iron mines, as 70 certainly would the
finest quality of building marble, in
Burnet county.
VIII Allen, q young man Of Wash
ington county, who has often filed re-
sponsible positions, has been arrested,
charged with wilfully and feloniously
burning certain store house, the prop |
erty of R. B. Stephens. He was sd-
mitted to bail in the sum of $500.
The Inquirer is anxious for the G On
zales county commissioners to import |
English sperrows 70 destroy cotton |
worms, insects aud hsss. The SPAR
rows are exceedingly small, and 1t is
possible they would have q tough time
of it with the average Gonzales flss.
An interesting local question was
lately tried in the county court of Fro
county. Bibb took out license to re-
tail whisky, and provided himself
with q bell punch. Subsequently q
vrte was taken in the precinct and To-
cal option was adopted. Bib was
trled before the county court for vio-
lating the local option law. He was
discharged, on the ground that the or
der for the local option election had
been maze at a special instead of
regular term of the court. There al
ways seems to be q way to beat the To-
cal option law and to get whisky.
Oyer two years ago John J. Tucker
left Galveston, and for long while it
was not known Whist had become of
him. He was 8 carpenter, and left
home in search of work. Mrs. Tucker
received letters informing her of his
''rs, :, ;,'Id etliEg ~ he circumstances
Irc:dep Drfcin ) : was left with
i've cml0,er e." care for, but death
talked III rg aui lore two of her lit
c en.s from her loving embraces. The
time! grew harder aud she gave up two
more children, and they were placed in
the custody of the good Sisters of Char
Ity at Galveston. A short while age,
however, she received a note from the
sisters, telling her that she must take
the children away-that information
had been received that her husband
was not dead, but that lie lived, and
was profitsbly employed at Mr.. II.
Grenet's store, in San Antonio, and the
woman at once made preparations to
go to San Antonio and investigate the
truth of the statements. Arriving
there, Mrs. Tucker repaired to Grenet's
store with dread and fear. Sac was
10th to give credence to the report
she had received, and when she
dropped in the store it was
more to tell her tale and ask
temporary assistance than with the ex-
pect4ncy of meeting the former part
ner of her bosom Her little boy &C.
compsnied her. Shortly after entering
the store, and while engaged in CONVEX
sation with some one who met her, the
little boy exclaimed, Mamma, there's
papa !" and mother sni child flew to
him as quickly as possible. Il is said
the reception on the pert Of the father
was rather cold and evidently as much
of surprise as it was to the wife and
her son. A brief talk was had, and it
is supposed the woman received money
from Tucker 70 take her back to Gal
weston, as she departed on the train
the succeeding day. Tuck was
lately married in San Antonio to Ger
man girl by the name of Mary Kipper.
The marriage ceremony was performed
by justice of the peace, Symlngton,
and the license, which has not been re-
turned, was taken out in thu name OF
Joseph Tucker,
A member of the minority in the
late church trouble at Dallas writes to
the Waco Examiner as follows: "Mr.
Link, with some good points, belongs
to that unfortunate class of men who
have I'll lcted Texas for the last forty
years. These men suppose nothing
was ever done right before their ad-
vent into this land of darkness and ig-
norance. Mr.. Link, as soon as be
dared, commenced to tear down and
destroy everything that had been done
in Texas for forty years. He even at
tackled the venerable creed of the Bap-
fists. Though he was opposed by
nearly all the Oldest and best men in
the church, he felt they were power
less, as they had no Baptist paper in
sstn ADVOCATE their. views. The
nounced as ''figure heads" He as.
sailed the president OF Waco Univer.
sity with a ferocity never to be
forgotten. Mr.. Buckner's great
sin was this: He commenced
the Texas Baptist as an organ
In favor of peace and har.
mony, and to prese:ve ali that Baptists
had done in Texas for forty years.
Very soon the greatest and best men in
the State rallied around him and, by
toll and prudence and zeal, never sur
passed in Texas journalism, be has
gained wider circulation than MIR.
Links paper, which is really revolu-
tionary paper. Mr.. Buckner's vim has
become necessity for Mr.. LIS revolu-
tionary schemes. 1t seems, to effect
this more surely and speedily, Mr..
Link removes from Houston and pro-
poses to join the Baptist church at
Dallas. Mr.. Buckner gave the pastor
notice that, as Mr.. Link had published
ISLANDERS against him, utterly destruc-
tive OF his influence, religiously, fnan-
cially and socially, he must retract
those ISLANDERS before he could fellow
ship with him in the church. A large
number of the oldest and best mem
bers of the church gave the same no.
tice. Yet, one dark Monday night, not at
a regular conference, in the absence of
all Mr.. Buckner's friends, Mr.. Link,
contrary to all decency, Baptist law
and usage, was struggled into the
church. Only eight members out of
three hundred voted for him. Mr.. Buck
ner consented, for the sake of peace,
and to avoid diegrsceful church
difficulty resolved to endure it all
quietly. But very soon, it seems, Mr..
Link mopped up the little pastor and
put him in his vest pocket, and by fl At
teripg the money men of the church
with his plan Of making Dallas the seat
of the great Baptist University, while
Air. Buckner is q trustee and strong
friend of Waco University, got ma
jDrity in his favor. He arraigns Mr..
Buckner for trial mot before the whole
church, as the law of the Baptist
Church for 1880 years demsnds), but
before committee, packed commit
tee of Mr.. Links strong partissns and
Mr.. Buckner's enemies. As they had
violated two great fundamental prln-
ciples of the B4ptists, over sixty OF the
best members of the church entered
their solmn protest. Whereupon Mr..
Link and his little pastor, ard the ma
jority made up largely of boys and
girls and women, meet and turn out
Mr.. Buckner and his sixty friends"