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CHCBilI AND CO KM LPT
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We are exceedingly glad that Dr.
Philpott hat gathered fscts showing
that the church ia daily gaining
trencth and numbers, and that the
deril ia losing hit hold on mankind
Not Terr lone- tn a tery remarkable
Individual, who Lai twice circumnayi
r,iA th nlobe. addressed a raat
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throng In a Southern city. He dif-
, fered widely from Dr. PLilpott, who
liTea Tery rigidly within the pale of hit
church and its literature. There were
ihrea thousand Dcrsons listening to
the lecturer of whom we tell. He said,
substantially, that there were perhaps
thirty millions adult church memlers
, who were capable ct understanding
the significance of this membership,
Of these he said there were probably
five millions genuine, earnest, devout,
humble followers of Christ, accepting
bis tenets of faith absolutely and with
out doubt. Ho drew a circle about
these and separated them from the thou
and millions of earth's inhabitants. He
lhaa nrnceeaea to ICU OI niecuanil
m.rlxli nf cfreat and cood men who
were not oi me mccu ",""uu
Washington, Napoleon, Bhakspeare,
Webster, Clay and a long catalogue
was recited, and each named had gone
down that "broad road" and through
that gateway whereat camels are nev
er balked. The orator pronounced
. o-lnwino- tribute to the virtues and
genius and patriotism of these sinners,
nil nnintinir II n at the little r'lDS! COn-
taining the sanctinea live millions ue
v iuddenly exclaimed "All those in fa
Tor of going to hell say aye!" and
ru there was a shout "Aye!" that rent
th verv heavens. The mob was en-
- af
trapped. It didn't take time to think.
It was misled by the orator. But
these' are the facts very nearly
as they occurred as nearly as we can
recall them. We recur to them simply
to show that Dr. Pbilpott's estimates
and statistics effecting the relative
number of sinners and genuine, devout
Christians mav not be wholly trust
worthy. There may be one professed
Christian to each six professed sinners,
put wnen me eiuuru buu tuupiiH ui
. exact Christian measurement are
applied to faith and practices tne
fifty or thirty millions may dwindle to
five millions, and the twelve thousand
millions of earth-dwellers hardly recog
nize the little squad that sails away
with Dr. Philpott. These make much
rolse in the world and therefore think
themselves multitudinous, bat when
we apply the test of numbers and of
genuineness they may be very, very
few. That tbey do great good nobody
denies, but many suspect that they ex
aggerate their triumphs and numbers
and power. Each denomination boasts
of its multitudes, and each woi'ld out
atrip the other in the acquisition of
acolytes, and statistics they furnish are
not always wholly trustworthy. Tbey
lue
ICBUCI ami rw iihiii' .
read, while a foal sheet like the Police
Oatette, sold to one newsboy, lasts
week and is read or listened to by every
sooty urchin on the streets. It was
with that of "Appleton't and Harjter't"
monthlies AppleUm" is now i
monthly that we contrasted the cir
culation of the Police Gazette and Days
Doings. The eloquent preacher knew,
we did not, that the latter has been
oppressed, but it has many children
very like it. And then, too, when
Rev. Dr. Philpott went into the news
stands with his sevcro and solemn as
peet, asking for moral statistics, we are
much inclined to belicvo that the deal-
era gave him the best showing of
whieh the facts were susceptible. But
the church is doing a great and good
work and more and better than we
thought, and Dr. Philpott is one of its
most effective agents.
CONVOCATION OP T1IK
LtTVBK,
LKU1.H-
A correspondent asks why we do
not urge Governor HuUmrd to convoke
the Legislature. The reason is simple
but valid. If there be those who
think, as do many, especially of farm
ing populations, that divers laws should
be revised and remodeled and that the
Constitution must be reformed, It is
still qmite needless for a newspaper at
the capital to urge action by his Excel
lency. People might suspect the
Statxsman of selfish purposes but
the public printing is now done in Gal
Teston or Houston or Dallas as well as
ia Austin, and the people, unadvised
of the fact, are apt to ascribe selfish
purposes to publishers. Then it is er
roneously supposed that we have stock
In all the taverns and boarding houses
of the capital. Thero was never a
more grievous error. Having no
pedal interest in the printing bus
iness that is not common to all pub
lishers, and having "no fish to fry" for
any tavern and no public printing in
terest more than any publisher in Tex
an, we may be permitted to say that
many of the appropriations made by
the last Legislature have been, or soon
trill be, wholly exhausted, and that
grievous wrong, from this cause, has
aot only befallen the pensioned vitrr
aas, but many others to whom the
Bute ia indebted. The gathering in
of taxes U progressive, and there are
wanting laws uuder which money thus
collected may be paid out, and if these
large sums be thus withdrawn from
circulation, the government of Texu
co-operating with the Federal treasury,
the stringency will be nnprecedented
- property must still decline even
i. . ily In value. The less the
money in circulation the
. ;. lue of rt al and other prop
e leas the rewards of labor,
iqueezea us tightly enough,
v. ,i overnor Hubbard give the
ealth a "bear'" bug, every
the bond, land and warrant
.a will be utterly destroyed.
: ,.tr w commands 13 or 13 per
ia faultlcsa collateral. If
f i. ature be not convened to re
. ' -ea affecting borrowers and
' .- , enabling the first to "desig
- homestead as con ten plated
'; ' Constitution, every debtor in
- S " bat happened in older States,
"' ' wholly rulneJ. The tax lawa
' tend towns of 10,000 iohabi
i the tufffsg in corporations
must be restricted or there can be CO
prosperity or progress or public im
provements, and the State must perish
because of the ignorance and timidity
and demagogism of its recent lawgiv
ers. The farmers are most anxious to
have the smoke house and barn tax
rescinded, and since the financial ne
cessities of the fitatemake the convo
cation of the Legislature at an early
day an absolute necessity, there can
be little barm in adverting to a few
facta that may make the Governor's
proclamation the next prominent event
in the political history of Texas.
THE KB.HPEB TBtSIBT AGAIN.
The Statksmah has denounced with-
oat stint the brutal mob thac atsassi
nated Chisholm and bis wife and
daughter, helplesa prisoners in a public
jail. The deed is indefensible and
will mark the spot where Chisholm's
daughter tell when shielding ber
father's life with her own with infsmy
forever. They who caused this self-
sacrifice of a devoted child should go
hang themselves. They are gibbeted
to infamy forever. But we are not un-
willing to give the long-suffering, out
raged people of Kemper county a fair
audience. In the meantime these peo
ple should never forget that nothing
but the gallows and the rotting corpses
of the murderers of Chisholm and his
uaugmcr, bwmjIujj to and w in
sighing winds and suspended as were
the sons of Mizpeh, a prey for the
eagles, can ever atone for cowardly,
brutal infamies done by those who
spared neither helplessness in prison
nor woman nor recked of woman's
tears nor were shamed by woman's de
votion and lofty heroism. Let the
bloody knaves, even with this defense
before them, go bang themselves. It
is written by an admirable gentleman
and scholar who says:
It afforded not a little gratification
to me to represent properly to a num
ber of distinguished gentlemen at
Houston the people of Kemper county,
Mississippi. Haying lived near the
border of Kemper many years, and be
ing well acquainted with every party
mentioned by the papers in connection
with the Kemper tragedy, and being
thoroughly familiar with all the circum
stances out of which grew the unhappy
event, I was able to place my friends
in a different light than that which is
thrown upon the affair by newspapers
outside of the State. The greatest suf
ferers are the wife and children of John
W. Uully, for whose tears and whose
darkened home there seems to be no
commiseration. The murderer of poor
II tl Dawson, and the assaasin of Ball,
at least by proxy, are canonized, while
Capt. Gully, who, amid all the tempest
of war and all succeeding persecutions,
remained firm in his attachment to
home and country, is merely mentioned
as a poor unfortunate. In the mind of
those who know the history ef the last
twelve years, there is not a doubt but
the assassins of Gully have met their
reward; at least 'that those who in
spired his murderers have reaped the
whirlwind. The DeKalb massacre
doubtless affects adversely the good
aame of Kemper county, and looks
black in print. Yet it resulted from
nothing but the intolerable wrongs
heaped upon an sitlieted and down
trodden community, the last of which,
Gully a assassination, hurled the indig
nation of the people beyond the
boundary of endurance. Dr. Rosser,
poor boy, though he died in error, was
of blood shed at Guilford's court bouse,
ny, and frenzied by the wrongs and
foul death of his friend and the hope
less wail of his widow and children.
Of those killed in and about the jail, I
could a tale unfold, but accepting the
maxim, nihil de mortui nitibonum, for
bear. Uod forbid that any one should
speak lightly of the daughter who at
tempted to shield her wretched father
with her own person. It is but another
instance of that devotion which in
spired Alcestis to die for Admetus. No
one has received more evidence of
faithful friendship and affection from
woman than your bumble correspon
dent, nor can any other person more
willingly throw a flower or drop a tear
upon the dead daughter's grave.
A SPEKCII FOR COL. LING.
The Rutabagas are delighted at last.
That tax on the smoke house was al
most fatal. Then there was the re
striction of municipal taxation to twen
ty-five cents on each one hundred dol
lars in towns of 10,000 and fewer in
habitants. This baa stiffened Waco
and many towns with deadly paralysis.
Then there is the tax of two and a
half percent, for towns of more than
10,000 people, and this places Austin
and Galveaton and Dallas at the mercy
of the tax-grabber, and makes the rab
ble, which the Rutabaga proposed to
restrain, more lawless and ravenous in
these places than ever before. Then
the constitutional homestead exemp
tion provision is so indefinite that while
money abounds ia St. Louis at eight
per cent., we cannot borrow at all on
real estate, and the Grangers are pay
ing from one to five per cent, per
month. To avoid the necessity for the
restriction of suffrage in corporations,
the timid rascals inhibited expendi
tures unless a majority of the "tax
payers" assented, and yet, since the
mob elects those who use and expend
public money, the taxpayers will never
vote for a tax. There can be no pub
lic work prosecuted or improvement
or progress accomplished. The State
is fettered by that folly and incapacity
which distinguished the framers of its
government. w bat to do with the
Rutabagas, how to dispose of them,
and how to reward them tboee terri
ble fellows who use the Grange as a
political machine we could not telL
But when Col. John S. Mellon, of SU
Louis, publishes a circular in which
he atatesthat "Rutabagas fed to swine
are infallible remedies for hog cholera,"
we repeat the suggestion that Col.
Lang may make it known, reading this
article, wherever he speaks ia Trias.
It will do the Constitution-makera and
the hoga a great deal of good.
Tub speech of ex-attorney Trigg and
the argument of Col. Coop wood have
satisfied most people that Austin is
without a major. Infinite trouble will
come of the fact, and while we do not
doubt Col. DtGress's purpose to serve
the city with fidelity or hut capacity
for the task, be ia aot mayor and can
not be. Uis strongest competitor, for
whom nine-tenths of the fixed citixems
of the capital would have voted, seems
alao to be ineligible because of hi Inter
est ia the water supply company. . The
vote cast was light, and rarely little in
terest waa manifested in a contest ia
which the facta affiHwg- the eligibility
of both upirext was commonly known,
an i yet the two were supported very
generously. They should deem them
selves Battered, as they were, and quit
this sort of books.
Hon. L. J. Storey is pleased to say,
and triumphantly, that Col. Darden is
fully sustained, in all that he baa dene
in reference to the corn-crib and smoke-
house tax, by the Constitution and laws
of Texas. If Col. Darden had done
less or acted differently he would have
stained bis soul with perjury. But
Darden preferred the right to popu
larity and sought to obey the law
rather than injunctions of demagog
ism. Moreover, the excellent Comp
troller knows full well that the surest
mode of freeine ourselves from bad
laws is to be found ia their rigid e
forcement. The rood people that
sent stupid fellows to the constitution
al convention will soon employ sensi
ble men to reform errors into which
incapacity fell, and before Major West
has convinced anybody that these law
givers knew what they were about.
Col. Darden will have a new code
written and the farmer relieved of
thei niquitous tax which pokes its
uelv nose, at a most inconvenient sea
son, into his overflowing bread basket.
Gen. Boo Toombs amuses the multi
tude when he speaks. There is the
lightning flash of genius in bis tierce,
vindictive, epigrammatic sentences
that give intellectual delight; but no
body is influenced by his incoherent
declamation. He is Prometheus
chained to the rock of the dead past,
sod Hie vulture or disappointed ambi
tion gnaws at his heart-strings. We
live tor the future. Bob Toombs's
neck is twisted aud his face fixedly
turned backward. He is great even
in his sullen madness, and it is only
unfortunate that when he speaks and
the people applaud his opinions are
ascribed to the audience. On the con
trary, men born since Toombs passed
from fields in which he gave direction
to popular opinion now direct com
ing events, and Northern newspapers
that deem Toombs a representative
exponent of Southern opinion are
grievously in error.
The reported appearance of cholera
in the vicinity of Brownsville will Bug
gest to the new government of this city
tbo absolute necessity for the perfec
tion of a mode of draining the gutters
and alleys and cesspools on either side
of the Avenue and along Pecan street.
It has been stated that Col. DeGress
proposed to distinguish his adminis
tration by effecting the thorough puri
fixation, so far aa possible, of the gut
ters whence foul miasms arise by day
and night, and whence typhoid fevers
are diffused, and where cholera and
yellow fever may find a breeding place.
No mayor could leave a prouder mon
ument to his fame than the fact that
be inaugurated a system of sewerage
that blest the capital with healthful-
ness and attractiveness through all the
years of its existence.
Ex-GovEiiKon, Gen. Ames, son-in-
law to our Ben Spoons, and late Gov
ernor, so-called, of Mississippi when
province of Grant's empire, becomes
the resident manager ot Cock-eyed
Ben's sheep ranch in Colorado. Ames
was always sheepish-looking and de
voted to the wool business. He made
his jack by it in Mississippi.
voir, en the Gulf coast of Mississippi,
between Mobile and New Orleans, and
preparing his memoirs. He is in ex
callent health and looks younger than
he did a few years aro.
The last survivor of the first mission
aries sent to Texas, forty years ago, by
the Methodists, preached last Sunday
in Bryan. His name is Robert Alexan
der.
An Alabamian, visiting New York,
had an interesting interview with ex-
Governor Tilden on Monday last. He
said to Mr. Tilden that the people of
the South were convinced that he had
been fairly and lawfully elected to the
office of President of the United States;
that the people of that section, in com
mon with the great body of the people
of the whole United States, thought
that Mr. Tilden, as the lawfully elected
ruier oi tne country,should have taken,
early after the election, a decided atti
tude and insisted upon bis rights; that
had he done so, and the proper an
nouncement of the vote of the elec
toral colleges been prevented, the
Uunse of Representatives would have
elected him according to the forms
of law, and made itself respot Bible
for his induction into the office which
belonged to him. Mr. Tilden listened
intently to the remarks of his visitor,
a gentleman nearly twenty years ha
senior. He replied that te b I id thought
carefully and most conscientiously
ever the subject in all its possible
phases ; that be had become convinced
that should he adopt the course.sug
gested it would be resisted by tbe
Radical party to tbe extent of drench
ing the land in blood; that be shrunk
from the responsibility of precipitatine
another terrible civil war upon his
country nen, and consented to the con
promise which averted so dread a dis
aster. He felt aa .keen It as anvone the
impropriety of tbe means by which the
present result had been brought about,
but, for all that, he did not regret his
action. As it was the people of tbe
United States understood it; the Dem
ocratic party to-day occupied such a
proud attitude before the country as it
had never occupied berore, and no
mortal power could resist its triumph
ant marcn to success in 138U.
M. Bartholdi, the sculptor of the co
lossal "Liberty." it. accordiosr to m
article by Chat, de Kay in Scribner fee
June, the author of a design for a grave
stone of singular vigor aud boldness,
uich commemorates the men fallen in
French ranks during the late Franco-
German war. What the feeling in
Col mar at annexation to German?
must be, can perhaps be learned from
a brief mention of the design. The
bead-stone is severely plain but mas
sive, and upon it one reads these words
only:
"MnrU en CoinhaMant
H Scpuutw lifJO. 1
The grave ia covered by two great
slabs of atone, but one of these bas
been pushed up from below by an arm.
This arm reaches out from the dark
opening of the grave and gropea on the
surface of tbe other slab for a sword
which lies a ear. Tbe arm and sword
are of bronze. The idea of this tcmb
reminds one of tbe Gothic gbastliness
that pleased Albrecht Durer and tbe
engravers of bis day, but the monu
ment is also one of those trumpet-calls,
silent but never-ceasing, which keep
alive hatred and finally summon a con
quered nation to terrible acts of retali
a ion. '
Belton is a fine town of 2000 inhabi
tants, beautifully situated ea the banks
of the River Leon, six miles above its
junction with the Lampasas. A con
siderable stream, called Xolan's creek,
passes through the town, and is crossed
by a suspension bridge. Tbe scenery
ia highly romantic and beautiful ia tbe
neighborhood of the bridge, and bears,
ia some respects, a striking resemblance
to Reedy river as it flows through U-S
city of Greenville, South Carolina.
Teams Facta aa Faaelaa.
Hood county wheat bas not been
damaged by rust.
Tom Pope waa fatally injured by car
wheels at Bonham.
Lice are destructive in tbe cotton
fields of Fannin county.
It is a misdemeanor to brand stock
in a brand not recorded.
Dallas has organized its fourth mili
tary company, the Lee Rifles.
Nine hundred cattle were sold last
week in Clay county for $10,000.
Too much rain has lately fallen in
south-eastern counties of the State.
Fannin county has its own ripe ap
pies. The fruit grows finely there.
Col. Bartow, of the Dallas Herald,
bas lost his only child s little boy,
Hill county will make an average of
over twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre.
The Spectator wants rats eztermi
nated. Then its fate would be inevit
able.
The wheat rust in Erath county has
done but little damage, and the crop
is fine.
The erection of the new court house
in San Saba county has been com
menced.
Mason county has received this sea
son. upon cattle and wool alone, over
1100,000.
On Thursday the question of local
option will come before the voters of
Ssn Saba county.
Tbe Rusk penitentiary is to be fin
ished by the fifth of next December,
at a cost of f 100,000.
At the end of the second week of
wheat-cutting in Grayson county the
crop is pronounced a good one.
Houston claims to be the best poit
tor a grain market in Texas. Pay the
best price, and this will settle it.
The Commercial calls Mrs. Mohl, cor
respondent of the Houston Age, one of
the "sweetest wrighters in the State."
APleasanton girl experimented upon
a bash I ui lover Deiore a uiue-giaas
window, r.nd he proposed at the first
sitting.
The last Fort Worth free conceit
saloon has "busted," and the propri
etor has emigrated probably to tbe
Black Hills.
How are tbe mighty fallen! Ben
Baker, of tbe Colorado Citizen, a most
respectable paper, has become mayor
of Columbus.
Hon. L. J. Storey, in the Netcs-Echo,
cives Major West "Hail Columbia."
The Major's subtle argument in that
case was very thin.
The general impression prevails that
an extra session of the Legislature i
necessary, and that it should be called
some time this fall.
It is now put down that the total
funded debt of the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad is $15,400,000; float
ing debt $3,700,000.
Gabriel's Mill is a new postoffice in
Williamson county. We suppose the
postmaster there "blows up" tbe pec
pie to get their letters.
A dozen good, sober farmers, with
their families, will immigrate this fall
from Pleasant Talley, Pennsylvania,
to Williamson county.
No confidence was placed in tax ti
tles in Grayson county, and conse
quently lands sold were almost entire
ly purchased for the State.
The Advance is a bran new paper
printed at Buffalo, Leon county,
place one year old and containing two
or three hundred inhaDitants.
wAbprmania JZ34.feet..abojfi Ude
Worth 634 feet. Austin is a litt'e
over GOO feet above the sea level.
The Jimplecute, in view of the dull
n?ss of the times, and the fact that
Texas has no Constitution, wants a
constitutional convention called.
A change of schedule is anticipated
on the International, the Sunset and
the Galveston roads. It will operate
against the interest of tbe Central.
One Cox, from Guadalupe, was mur
dered in Prairie Lea last Tuesday by
four bloodthirsty fellows named Car
penter, Parsley, Spring and Jackson.
The Bonham News approves Govern
or Hubbard's course in refusing to is
sue land certificates on what it terms
tbe Bernard and Caney creek swindler.
An exohange properly predicts that
the ifaiVs efforts to defeat Hubbard
will be as unavailing as that of a few
Dallas people to shelve Throckmorton
The editor of the Frontieitnan is in
honest man. He heads one of his col
umns "short stolen state-men ts," and
the Statesman will never quarrel with
him.
They may hang the fallow that stolt
the box of cigars from Louis Hefflin,
but the four murderers of Cox, over at
Prairie Lea, will go unwhipt of jus
tice.
The highest price yet reached for
wool in the Texas market was paid in
San Antonio. The clip weighed 15,
000 pounds and brought twenty-seven
cents.
Houston could supply a small army
for tbe invasion of Mexico from among
its loafers. Austin might thus offer a
regiment and feel happy. Let Lerdo
come along.
The famous George William Thomas
Henry Bascom, editor, etc., and in
augurator of newspaper enterprises,
has a new one called the Clipper in
Arkansas.
The public is informed, as the Head
light should know, that no tolls will
be required for traveling over tbe pro
posed macadamized road from Austin
to Bagdad.
The Tri-Weekly Herald say Hon.
Wm. Neal Ramey's last letter readr
more like a cock and bull storv than
an "analysis," which he was pleased
to term it.
The bail storm, a week ago, in
Fannin county, did some damagi
Orchards in its line of passage were
stripped of fruit, and corn and cotton
badly damaged.
A barbecue was held at Kaufman on
'he fifth in the interest of tbe Sabine
Pass and Northwestern Railroad. Land
donations are being liberally subscribed
to this enterprise.
Mrs. A.' II. Mohl, correspondent of
tbe Houston Age, attended the races at
Dallas, and will go from there to va
rious part of tbe State. She is a lively
and cultivated lady.
A party of three gentlemen from
Illinois have just been visiting Clay
county, where they purchased 15,000
acres of land, and tbey and friends
will settle upon it.
Sherman sent twenty white men,
eight negroes and one woman with ber
child to the penitentiary. Martin's
gallantry should have aot permitted
the last named case.
The deputy sheriff of Walker county
abandoned a poor lunatic on the streets
of Uearne. He had been taken from
the asylum at Austin to make room
for a more aggravated case.
The taxable property of Fort Worth
amoanta to aboot $1,350,000. The city
needs water works, which will coat
$55,000, and its charter authorizes tbe
ale of $73,000 hi bonds.
The UeadUglX man speaks of those
who reflect upon his patent oatsile as
"meddlesome d rosea." He will make
them sing a different taae if they
doe't stop buzzing about bias.
Gen. Ord passed through Houston
on the fifth, comer to ban Antonio,
from his conference with President
Hayes.' The Houston Telegram says
there is something in the wind.
The Brazos Pilot tells of a mermaid
who hides her blushes in a deep pool
a large stream in the vicinity of
Bryan. Every one of President GatL
right's boys will now go a fishing.
They have a lively reading and musi
cal club at Lockhart and want to get
up an exciting competition with tbe
Library Association ot Austin. Can't
we &3t em up against one another :
They are looking for a new grave
yard in Dallas, and will sell the one
now in use to a shoemaker. He wants
the splendid lot of old boots those
bleated fellows wore in their last tramp.
Dn Price, a son-in-law of M.t. M.
Harper, living near Georgetown, blew
his brains out with a shotgun, ine
suicide was the result of mental depres
sion in consequence of financial embar
rassments.
A negro named Sparks, on an excur
sion train from Houston, wunoui in
tending i and supposing a gun he held
to be emDtv. shot and Killed instantly
another negro, named Nelson, both of
Houston.
The Spectator man is modest, and
tells of his massive brain by relating
bow the size of bis head prevented him
from being dead-headed in a bat store,
Certainlv the Savoy people are Bot
all pigheaded.
Wm. F. Eames, telegraph operator,
was drowned at Columbus while bath
in" in the Colorado river a few davs
aeo. He and a companion were swim
ming against each other, when he gave
out and went under.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad stands high in finan
cial circles. Tbe road is mortgaged
to the extent of $18,000 and its bonds
are in ereat demand in JMew X ork at
eighty-three cents.
They've got spirits in San Antonio.
Poe's raven she was reading it at tie
time tape eentlv at tbe headboard oi
a pretty girl's bed, and most any lei
low might te guuty, or at leosi raven
ous, in such a case.
The roughest and most sacrilegious
punster of the Texas press is the local
of the Guadalupe Timet. He hints of
a good judge's name by saying that
Devine service will be held at the
Episcopal church to morrow."
Miss Henrietta Lewis Buchncr, of
Paris, Texas, is a full-fledged doctor, or
doctress of medicine, having just grad
uated from the Wemen's Medical Col
lecre of Pennsylvania. And now we
pine to live in Paris and be sick.
A correspondent of the Prairie Farm
er tbinks that David White's bull,
from Grimes county, was the only thor
ough-bred animal in the cattle depart
ment of tbe Houston fair. The writer
pronounces the animal a good one,
They didn't take local option in Tar
rant countv. and the result is that even
druggists get things a little "mixed,"
and last week one of them sold arsenic
for soda, and it was the folks instead
of the biscuit that must now rke.
The Headlight says that in Round
Rock rents are moderate, lots and
building material cheap, and that those
who invest will find no reason for com
olaint durincr the coming eeason ii
they but understand their business,
The Houstonians are agitated ovei
their city's ereat debt. The old mar
ket house, which cost $400,000, when
this debt was being created, has been
replaced by another building quite as
commanding, which costs only $40,-
000.
The Waco street ordinances requne
every male citizen of proper age to
work upon the streets six days during
the year or to pay a tax equivalent tP
pie oppna it tnd desire the law re
pealed.
In Norfolk, at the last election, ui
der a requirement that payment of poll
tax is a prerequisite to voting, only 1?
negroes voted, against 609 at a previ
ous election. Fifly per cent, of the
white people failed to vote under the
same law.
Dr. J. P. Runs, of Weatherford,
died from an overdose of chloral. It
is a dangerous drug, the trouble being
that no given quantity can be relied on
with safety, as what would be an in
nocent dose at one time may at another
prove fatal.
Water works are hardly regarded as
necessary in Houston, for when its
people are talked to about putting up
cash upon water they generally walk
around to the club rooms or make the
matter short by calling oyer at Greg-
or's "Bank."
We feel authorized to say that the
have misrepresented Hon. R. Q. Mills.
who says that he advised the farmers
at the Houston fair to plant Devon egg
under Cashmere goats to secure
proper breed of Mexican donkeys.
Mills knows a thing or two about farm
ing, Mills does.
The Tri- Weekly Herald disparage
Col. Culberson when it heidi aa ar
ticle, defending him against the at
tacks of the press, "fighting thi
wind." If it would insinuate that the
Colonel is a bag of wind, we ol ject,
for when fully aroused be is nothing
less than. a tornado.
The News tells of a pecan tree in
San Saba county, the trunk of which
measures six feet in diameter, and a
iine drawn across its branches at the
widest place measures one hundred
and fifty feet. It is healthy snd sound,
and of course its age cannot be esti
m i ted.
Tom Bowers says he can name the
next Governor of Texas. It's not a
bribery case but only involves a gallon
of good brandy. And now if Bower
is smart enough be win make a great
secret of the matter aad drag in about
fifty would-be governors. Tbe brandy
should be collected in advance.
Tbe appropriation for Hall's compa
ny expires on tne niteentn oi June.
Propositions have been made for keep
ing tbe force in the field, private par
ties lnaniner the State the money and
tiking certificates of indebtedness fcr
the same. These private parties are
more generous probably than tbe Lefe
idature might be.
Tbe Charleston Neics and Courier
says Henry M. urmaa (son oi ur.
Richard 1 urman, of Bjuth Carolina;
who came to Texas three or four years
ago, is county attorney of Bell county.
A few months ao be associated with
himself in tbe practice of law bis broth
er, John M. Furman, recently of Edge
field, South Carolina.
The GuadalupefTVwu baa no longer
a preacher conducting it. It ia
thought that even John L. Stephen
son can supply all tbe piety it needs,
and the preacher bas quit. Mr. S. is
aa old band at tbe bellows and to the
extent that a newspaper is a wind-mill
will make the concern grind out the
richest mental pabulum for tbe hoi
poUou
The Sulphur Springs Gazette says
that a secret organization ia being gen
erally formed m Northern Texas to
bnnt horse thieves. Tbe object of the
order is aot to take law into its own
hands, but to take guilty parties and
tuns them over to tbe eoaatituted
authorities. Such aa organization
should be extended over the entire
Bute.
Tbe district court at Llano sent a
young maa by tbe aame of Stephens,
w bo is only eighteen years old, charged
with the theft of two horses at Llaao,
to serve ia the penitentiary, ia one
case tea years, aad ia tbe other five
year. , Morale Young men as well
aa old ones should aot attempt to ride
two horses at tbe same time.
Dr. W. H. Halliwell, of Denison, is
charged with malpractice. The dead
body of the lady was carefully exam
ined by a committee of competent
physicians at the request of tbe hus
band, and upon their report a warrant
was issued, but the return is non est in
ventus, which means that tbe doctor is
after saving his bacon.
The debt of the city of Galveston on
February 28 was $1,803,618.90. The
total receipts for the municipal vear
were $278,461.14; expenditures, $323,
523.89. The excess of expenditures
over receipts is $45,002.75. A funny
thing in connection with this matter is
that the Houston Telegram pokes fun
at Galveston about if, forgetting for the
moment the wretchedness of Houston.
Ose of our merchants advertised
$5 reward tor a "tbomas cat" yesterday,
and this brought Dim, we are told, a
wtgon-loadof doubtful thomases. They
were of all sorts and ages and condi
tions, and he is going to set up a young
man in tbe furrier a business. The cits
not killed for their skins may be ship
ped to Constantinople to be used as
hand grenades.
The Telegram gives the full offi
cial roster of the Second Texas
Regiment as follows: R. Rutherford,
colonel; J. G. Eblen, of Dallas, lieu
tenant colonel; J. S. Moore, of Gal
veston, major; Charles L. Martin, first
lieutenant and adjutant; J. A. Dozier,
first lieutenant and acting quarter -
master; J. T. Byles, M. D., surgeon;
J. Larendon, M. D., assistant surgeon;
Rev. J. J. Clemens, chaplain.
The Dallas Herald should know that
the seventy-four prisoners confined in
the Travis county jail are collected
from many portions of the State. The
fact is a tribute probably to prison
management; and then, too, it is a
sad thing to reflect that a human being
is always so closely locked and barred
as to deny bim all probability of es
cape, which must be credited to the
side of local charity.
Jake Coleman, colored, of Kerr
county, bad Mr. Posey make him a
plow stock, which broke, as J ate
thought, without any cause except bad
workmanship. Posey made him
another and charged for both. Jake
talked loud and put on a fierce atti
tude, when Posey felt his smithship
Insulted, and without ceremony sent
Jake to a country where no ploughs are
needed nor settlements demanded
In commenting upon the dangers
consequent upon the use of coil oil,
we placed all the ditterent brands in
the same category. More thorough in
formation leads us to acknowledge
that the one known as "insurance oil,"
on account of its purity, is so denomi
nated because it reaches a standard en
dorsed by all insurance companies. It
sells higher than any other coal on,
and properly, too, because it is safest
of them all.
The Tri-Weelly Herald would try to
make it appear that Hon. Wm. Neal
Ramey is "verdant," when he asserts
that flings at the Constitution are only
made to create prejudice against it.
asserting that "the new Constitution
has few if any defenders outside of
the convention that framed it, and who
are justly held responsible for such a
miserable piece of bo-.cb work." And
now no doubt Ramey feels called upon
to fall behind Major West.
An exchange says: "F. W. Chand
ler, tbe man who furnished the means
that secured Austin ber excellent water
works, when other capitalists were
weak-kneed, is candidate for mayor of
that city and deserves election." But
it is water that is at a discount here,
and the Rutabaga convention made it
so by the infamous code that upholds
meanness and dishonesty, and places
the worst elements in every city in
Texas in absoluto control of adminis
trations.
"W.," on old Texan, writes to the
ceased, of Terre Haute, Indiana, did
not, as has been stated to the contrary
in many papzrs, attend at a duel be
tween Geo. Sam Houston and Gen,
Johnson. The affair occurred in 1837,
and was between lien, ifclix Houston,
if Mississippi, and Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnson, between whom there was
rivalry for the command of tbe army
ot lei as. Oen. Sam Houston was at
the tim? President of the Republic of
tijxas.
A correspondent writes: "Tester-
day I took a ride over the prairies to
saiaao, a oeuutiiut village of nine
hundred inhabitants, lying about nine
miles west of Belton. Salado has
flourishing college, and is especially
celebrated for its spring. This spring
s tne nnest l nave ever seen, it bub
bles up from a bed of rock with
loud murmuring sound, and emits
volume of water sufficient to propel
mill. The water is cool and singular
ly ciear ana ueauuiui as it rolls over
its rocky bed to join the adjacent
nver."
It is strange that the more intelligent
citizens of Waco should oppose the
irdinance requiring every man to woik
on its streets six days or pay a fine
quivaient to this time. The enforce
inent of this law gets something out of
worthless loaters, who do nothing for
a town. It involves the best citizens
to the extent of only a few dollars, and
it ought to produce well improved
streets. Such a law in Austin we
would regard as a wise one. Such
law is tbe only way in which to reach
those who now do nothing for the
community in which they exist.
New Philadelphia, in Wharton
county, jut one mile from Bernard
station, on rerce's road, is growing
rapidly, and a gentleman from Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, who has just
spent some time there looking into
matters and prospects, tells it in ilous
ton that he is satisfied thousands of
people will eventually move from the
old to the new city. A college is soon
to oe established at JNew Philadelphia.
aad heavy capitalists who are building
up this colony are determined to make
of the enterprise a grand success.
They have gone into tbe midst of one
of the finest garden spots of the world
A letter writer says: "Belton is
tbe county seat of Bell county, which
is near the center of tbe State, and is
regarded as one of the finest tannine
counties in Texas. It is rapidly filling
up with an energet:c and industrious
population, consisting almost cntirelv
of white people. I do not tbink that
I have seen more than half a dozen ne
groes since I left Waco. At the close
of the war tbe population of this
county amounted to about two thou
sand. Tbey now number between fif
teen ana twenty tnousand. Llurmz
the few days I hve been in tbe county
i nave met wun a number of boutb
Carolinians. Tbey are all delighted
wun tne country ot their adoouon.
and are generally doing well." .
A writer lor an .Eastern paper says
of tbe country about Salado, that "con
siderable attention ia paid to tbe rais
ing oi cattle aad sheep ia this reeioa.
Tbe traveler, as be moves over the
prairies, is almost constantly passing
use cowt ana oxen oi the larceat size.
Ti. rt . . .
i u mucn cows, many oi them, are a
wonder to heboid. - A day or two ago
1 saw in this town a cow which yields
six gallons of milk per day. One never
urea of looking at ber symmetrical and
magnincent proport'ons. As far as 1
nave Deea able to aaeertaia. the laws
are faithfully executed, aad tbe officers
oi justice are diligent and earnest ia
ineir cHorta to repress crime of every
kind. Ia these respects I think that
Texas will compare favorably with the
older States."
As aa evidence of what industry aad
perseverance will accomplish oa a Tex
as i arm, we cup the following farts
from aa exchange j la 1873, llr. W.
H, Jones, of Llano countv. wbo was
itbooi pecuniary . mesjaa. fenced a
field of Uod, the owner of which was
unknown, and made a crop. Tbe next
year he repeated the process. The
two crept, assisted by his wife, wbo
engaged in teaching, placed him in
funds sufficient to enable him on the
fifteenth ot October, 1374, to purchase
490 sheep at a cost of $640. He bas
since told S9o6 worth of sheep and
wool, and is now shearing a thousand
bead and expects to sell a clip of four
thousand pounds, at 25 cents, or $1000,
tbe present season. He has 1300 sheep
of all ages. He bas bought four Me
rino bucks, which cost $200. He has
been u lie red and refused $3900 in cash
for his flocks, nis receipts for wool
in 1875 and 1S76 were $956. He con
siders bis present flock worth $4000.
Mr. Jones has alto over a hundred
head of cattle, including twenty milch
cows in use, furnishing an abundance
oi toe nnest milk, cream and butter.
He has alao seventeen head of horses
and a span of mu.es. He owns 480
acres oi land, on which he bas built a
comfortable frame house with a sub
, stantial stone fence around the yard
All the result of five years' labor and
tbe investments above stated.
From tbe New York .Tune financial
circular of Forster, Ludlow & Co. we
are enabled to gather tbe following
points: Texas ten percent, bonds of
1384 are firm at par and interest, and
are largely lought when offered. Pen
sion bonds, teu per cent., sell lower.
owing to the fact that coupons are
paid in Austin, aud because they are
redeemable in I3,y. Texas seven per
cent, gold bonds are in fair demand.
with 103 offered and 109 to 110 asked.
Houston six per centf. are unsalable at
thirty cents. Galveston bonds are
neglected, its new funding bonds
being offered at T7 and 73
ceuts. Sau Antonio bonds are
n demand at ninety cents. City
f Austin bhnds are not offered, the
holders being determined to keep
them, as they are regarded the best
Texas municipal bond. Dallas bonds
are dull. Denison bonds are held at
eighty cents, with only sixty bid
Denison is in uefault on ten per cent
school bonds. Uarnson county bond
command only thirty-three cents.
Travis county ten per cent, bonds aro
much desired, but holders deem them
too good to sell at any figure. Bexar
county eight per cent, bonds are
held firmly at ninety-five. Smith
county refuses to pay interest on bonds
issued to the International and Great
Northern Railroad Company. Texas
Central Railroad bonds have improved
upon the following figures : First mort
gage command 75-76 cents, second
moitgage 52 5o. Galveston, Harris
burg and San Antonio six per cents,
are in great demand at 93; Galveston,
riouston ano Henderson seven per
cents, are Blow oi sale at 80 cents asked,
75 bid ; International and Great North
ern bonds are dull. By reference to
the price of Harrison county and Hous
ton city bonds it will be seen that the
negro-governed districts are regarded
in financial circles as next to irrespon
sible. Col. Cnlberaon Defended.
Gatksvillk, June 6, 1877.
Editors Democratic Statesman Your
Daily issue of the first of June con
tains unjust strictures upon Col. Cul
berson, tbe best, noblest and most gen
erous of men. Wo know not in wbat
connection Col. Culberson had occa
sion to use tbe language of which he
is charged, but knowing him in the
shades of his private, professional and
political walks, familiar with the gen
erous impulses that have ever charac
tonzed his conduct, we do know that
there was under discussion some point
to be legitimately attained by the re
mark, else it would never have been
made- The motives imputed to Col.
Culberson are unjust.
You assume by inuenda to trace the
motives of Col. Culberson to political
ambition. In this you more than ever
mistake thecharacter of this gentle-
nate solicitude for the welfare and
happiness of the human family he loves
nothing as he does 'ais profession. In
this Texas affords him but few equals
and no superiors. Then why fear
Hubbsrd? He has never sought polit
ical fume or position ; he don't seek it
now. the sequel to his present posi
tion is that he has only gratefully sue
cumoea to tiic aemana oi the people,
a people who knowing his rare attain
ments, legal ability, high moral and
eminent ability have unamiously, the
second time, called him to the watch
tower of their political liberties. That
the Statesman guards bis Excellency's
iuir uuiub auu uusuiuea reputation with
a viguancc in Keeping wun its wontei
zeal, we have no objectiou, and would
not even ourselves disarrange the least
gauuy learner oi nis executive cap
But
we certainly dislike to see good
meaning and honest men thus assailed,
the purity of their purpose impugned,
meir private ani proiessioual aims am:
objects destroyed and themselves
classed as second-hand pcttifoggers,and
this, too, for no purpose other than to
superfluously show that an infallible
Wovernor is yet without error.
Respectfully, J. C. Stonk
If Mr. Stone be not stony-hearted he
will spare us further criticism, and
especially do we implore mercy in be
half of Governor Hubbard. As for
the rest, if Col. Culberson, whom
we
honor and respect, can stand it,
so can the Statesman.
even
Tbe New Orleans Democrat tells that
Gen. Ord is a descendant of George IV
of England, by Mrs. Fitzherbert. a re
putable woman and distinguished
actress, with whom the handsome but
heartless Prince Regent lived for manv
years in the strictly moral and religious
relation oi nusoand under a marriage
solemnized by a Catholic priebt. Under
tbe laws of England this marriage was
maae an illegal one, and George IV.
was never man enough to recognize ita
existence and validity, but most basely
and cowardly disowned it, whilst be
declined to recognize and admit to his
household the Princess, to whom he
had been married in conformitv with
tbe law. The son of Mrs. FitzherbertL
by ueorge IV., was consigned to the
care of his tutor, whose name was Ord,
ana wno emigrated to this country,
bringing this young pupil with him.
This son of George IV. adoDted the
name oi nia tutor, urd. married into a
respectable Virginia or Maryland fami
ly, and bad two sons, who were named
Atlanticus and Pacificua. The first
named was sent to West Point, became
an nicer or tbe United States and is
now tbe commander on the Rio Grade.
Tk tL. 1 a 1 w-
' umcr uruincr, racmcus, was an
educated lawyer and polished centla
man who engaged in the practice of his
proiession in mis city about thirty
years ago, and is well remembered by
nis contemporaries of the bar. He
emigrated to California with his wife.
who was a native of this city, and is
now a prominent citizen and judge in
Jones Brothers Sc. Co.. the VmnV
publishers, have just issued "a popular
history of tbe United Stata
aboriginal times to the present day."
T. ..11. - ... l - 1 J
x KiH vi iuu aborigines; the Piorae
men in tne new World ; discoveries by
the Spaniards; DeSoto in Texas;
cxan nisiory ; growth of the colonies ;
lormauon of the constitution ; history
of tbe late civil war bv an impartial
judge; the centennial of independence;
ana closing wrtn the inaugural of
President Hayes. Tbe book is simply
invaluable for its charts of American
history, so arranged that the date of
any event may be instantly ascertained.
Those Improving an opportunity to
secure this chsp book will be con
vinced that tbe many encomiums so
freely bestowed upon it by the people
and press are deserved. Mr. T. N.
James, aa excellent gentleman, repre
sents the bouse of Jones Brothers Jk
Oo. ia Texas,
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