The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-22
A Sad Story.
The glOries OF our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things:
There Is no armOr against fate;
Death lays his icy hand oil kings;
Scepter and crown,
Must tumble down

The glOries OF our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There Is no armOr against fate;
Death lays his icy hand oil kings;
Scepter and crown,
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked seythe and spade.
Nature calls us to mediate of death
by thoes things which are the instru-
mentS of acting it, and God, by all the
ways of His providence, makes us see
death everywhere, IN all variety of
circumstances, dressed up for all the
fancies and expectations of every
single person.
1t will be remembered that when
the remains of young Ralph Keuchler
reached here they were accompanied
by co-student from the university
of Michigan, Mr.. r. d. Stevens, who
came to see his friend and compan-
ions mortal remains placed by
the hands of his kindred in the city
of the dead, where his father and
other loved ones rested after the la
bOrs of life. Mr.. Stevens, after per-
forming this last sad duty, started to
return to Ann Arbor, Michigan, via
Galveston, at which latter place he
was to meet Mrs. Judge Ballinger and
accompany her to Ann Arbor, as she
wished to visit her son who is attend
ing college there. Arriving at Gal
weston. young Stevens was taken
with pneumonia. Mr.. Camille Keuch-
Ter, brother of young Ralph, deceased,
went to Galveston Immediately on
hearing it to nurse his brothers faith
full friend. In this he was assisted
by Judge G. s. West and his son, of
this city, and the family of Judge
Ballinger. But heaven had decreed
that the spirit of young Stevens
should soon greet that of his former
companion, to whose memory he was
so devoted. A telegram to Prof.
Bickler yesterday stated that young
Stevens had passed away early that
morning. There were two houses on
earth made sad that two loving spir-
its-a veritable David and Jonathan
should be united in that invisible
world whose margin fades forever
and forever when we view.
Died
In Austin, Texas, at the residence of
his sister, Mrs. r. A. Chadwick, Sun
ddy, L GU udl 1CJ 1000, 1bCfs OOllA "
Wright, aged twenty-six years.
The governor Monday granted a
pardon to Thomas Collins, who
was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment from the district court of
Milan county, last spring, for theft
of cattle. The reason for pardoning
him are that he has lost one eye while
in prison, and can only distinguish
between light and darkness with the
other; and, because he was only about
fifteen years of age when sentenced.
The governor concludes his reasons
for pardoning as follows:
1T appears, further, that he volun-
teered the return of the animal, a
heifer, before prosecution be-
gan. He has a poor and wild
owed mother, and his longer
confinement and punishment would
seem to tend to cruelty, and to make
him despise his government instead
of reforming him, For all these rea-
sons he is hereby pardoned, subject
to revocation, however, at the will of
the executive, upon the first infrac-
ton of the laws, to be judged of by
the executive"
The reasons set forth the good char
acter of the youth before and since
conviction.