The Arizona sentinel., 1890-08-30

ject. He tbereupon surrounded
himself with miscellaneous col
lection Of old Police Gazettes and
back numbers Of the postal laws.
and after lengthy perusals Of the
same, he finally announced his
opinion. He said that after due
elaboration he could find nothing
in the "Lah" or the stattoos that
would compel him, as a magistrate,
TO punish a white man for killing
Ia Chinaman, further, that, as the
+ coort had been put to considerable
! trouble by the otiiciousness Of the
complaining witness, the coort
would fine him Che complaining
witness two gallons Of whisky t.
be paid over the bar, o. once, or
stand committed, until the fine Yves
paid.
On another OCCASION during a
stroll was taking away down
n Williamson Co, in the ccn5re q
uXas, came across an old gentle
nan seated on a bank Of the road
side, near by lay the remnants Of q
broken Jug from which arose the
grateful aroma of the juices Of the
corn, sometimes called by the vul-
gar, sour mash. This old party
was weeping copiousiy. His tears
fell in such profusion that felt
called upon to enquire the cause of
his grief. He replied in broken
accents that General Jackson was
dead.
In order to console this venerable
relic of by-gone days, I gently re-
minded him that the General had
departed this life some fifty years
since. He replied.
at makes no difference, this is
the first [ heard Of it." Poor old
man. I wept in unison, but my
tears followed more on account Of
the broken jug, and its wasted
sweetness, than they did on account
Of the departure Of old "Cotton-
Bags" of sainted memory.
Jim Sawyer of Jeff Davis Co. is a
Texas gentleman who would COM
mand the attention Of any chro-
nicler Of the great Lone Star
State" James signs himself.
-. Sawyer, Esq. OF, and for,
Texas"
He certainly is a curio, and no
one cares to dispute his title to his
being a representative of the great
commonwealth. If they do, they
don't do it long, for jim is singular
ly aggressive. He is likewise adj
dicted to profanity and whiskey.
Whisky mostly. He has served
his country in every capacity from
that of deputy town-constable, up
to state senator, and throughout
all these various honors he claims
that he never yet disgraced himself
by wearing a "biled rag" meaning
a shirt. The Hon. jim was called
to San Antonio once on some i'm
portant business connected with the
disappearance Of some sheep be
longing to a neighbor Of his, and
after having adjusted the matter to
the satisfaction Of all concerned, he
celebrated the event by trying to
erect San Antonio into temper
ance town by drinking up all the
whisky available.
He failed. He failed dismally.
His last act in the alamo saloon"
Saloons in San Antonio are gen
orally called the "Alamo" on ac-
count of a disturbance obey had
there once with the Mexicans about
an old church called the alamo"
Any way the Hon. James visited
this particular saloon. There was
long mirror behind the bar ex-
tending it's entire length. jim
was debilitated. His countenance
showed signs of his efforts in the
temperance line. In fact the Hon.
James was drunk. After glaring
at the mirror awhile he said.
Eye lie! Pm not like thatw And
STOPPING down, he deliberately took
off boot from his foot and smash
ed it through the glass. jim paid
for the glass and was placed in jail
beside.
However some of these Texas In
teriors present another aspect. A
rather more pathetic aspect some
times. We all love to dwell on the
Old times "befo de wah." They
have left many a tangible footprint
in this "Lone Star State" Away
down in "Jack" Co. sometimes
called "Jack-borough" there dwells
to-day an old negro woman. She is
some seventy years of age or more.
Wrinkled, grizzled and thin. She
lives in little white washed cabin,
embowered by vines, and shaded by
old cotton-woods, and its minutest
corner, inside and out is as clean
and sweet as only a "nigger" can
make it. In a cosy corner Of this
same cabin there sits daily an old
man. He is a white man. He is
dressed in the hot months of sum-
mer in the coolest Of linen, spot
less. In the winter in the warmest
Of "store clothes" He is a para