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SOCIAL VICES AND JTIISEHIES OP
WO.TIEX.
The crime of society consists in its
failure to educate children for self-sus
taining modes of life. The streets and
dram shops are hardly proper training
schools for youths of all ages often
gathered in these places and pointed
the way to perdition. Parents mean
while are singing psalms or praying
prayers that signify no more in restrain
ing wayward footsteps or in shaping
tastes or fixing habits than the idle
winds. There is no school of Industry.
Of books there are enough, and school
master ; but the worst boys and girls
are subject to few restraints and enter
the balls of no graded or other school.
Therefore the police tell of a band of
youthful thieves acd vagrants, who,
not many wetks ago, made successful
predatory descents upon merchants of
Pecan and other streets. Mere bovs
are discovered in haunts of lowest
vice and in dens of disgusting infamy.
We support strong cavalry and
police forces to suppress crime and
capture murderers and highwaymen
and yet sustain in each city and village
of Texas, In this social system which
discovers no employment for children,
a magnificent school for the produc
tion and training
For each villain
by the hangman
of desperadoes,
put to death
or incarcera-
ted by the courts there
a thousand preparing to take
are
their
places among idle, vicious boys that
frequent the byways and swear like
fiends in the alley-ways and dens of
- vice of villages and cities of Texas.
tern has been substituted for that fixed
by slayery, which made active physi
cal employment, especially on farms, at
least distasteful. It resulted that girls
were educated to be idle mistresses of
extravagant households, and young
men were all professional gentlemen
now tbe fair damsels must resort tn
ewing machine or riiano. and
young gentlemen are cofiverted into
starving protessionrbummers or
tradesmen's drummers. These modern
occupations of both sexes being great -,
ly overcrowded, the excess of industry
is thrust out and down into purlieus
of Infamy. It is time that heads of
, families of Texas had considered these
) facts. It is the great social evil of the
day, and demands a remedy. Broader
and juster views and a wiser civlli
zation than that which has hith-
t erto governed as have opened to
v women, as a modern statesman
asserts, many doors hitherto shut,
and to-day, in any civilized country
but this, any woman can earn her llv
lng by any employment for which she
Iiaa skill and strength. Her physical
endurance falls far below that of man,
and unhappily, in most places there ex
ists a prejudice against female labor,
hsving a disastrous effect upon her
, wipes as compared with those of men.
We have seen gross wrongs done the
ex by ignorant men in authority so
often, and especially in the matter of
salaries as defined by school boards,
that we have been compelled to be
lieve that woman, even more than the
negro, needs the ballot with which to
protect her rights and escape her
wrongs.
In art and literature and teaching,
where mere physical strength counts
as nothing, women's wages should be
as great as those of men and sex should
be unrecognized in these vocations.
The wages paid working women
hardly suffice for a mddeat support.
Salesmen's wages vary from three dol
lars and fifty cents to ten and fifteen
a ..doliy'f. week. Family governesses,
X'jJ&S poverty of the South de
'vdemind for their services,
receive more than one hundred
ars per annum ; the mighty army of
foaiale teachers and piano-pounders is
proverbially ill-paid aod half-starred.
If the teacher have a home she can
live well, but homeless and friendless,
famine often sulks nnseen beside her
. when she hies away with a smile upon
her street-face to do the drudgery of
her painful, tedious, daily tasks.
Now and then a woman has won
money and fame in journalism. But
these are few indeed. Roberts, ' of
Don Piatt's Ctyirol, who Bobemianiies
successfully for many newspapers of
the East, lives very plainly and spends
money very sparingly, and ahe ardently
loves the good things of this world. It
" should be remembered that we see and
hear of those who succeed in journal
ism but never of the countless numbers
that fill and sink down out of sight,
the sunlight fading from their tresses
and rose hoes from their lips. Their
lives were dreams and they went away
as shadows? And yet these uj happy
women Imagined that writing for the
press was the easiest of tasks. They
mistook fttftuy for capacity to think,
peTer;drcaaiiDgthat n profession
demands more careful training than this
Of journalism. Thi ran ni vim-
prehend the difficulties of a task that
'S only perfectly executed when to
signs of labor arc apparent. To be
ready with an article on any subject,
at any.hour, is the only literary capac
ity that can be relied upon for bread
and butter. It is talent and not pen-
CJ
s, and labor is the only genius
that finds ready sale in tbe mar
ket overt of newspaperdom. But
then there is another and hideous
field of employment for the untrained,
half-educated, incapable, grown-up
girls of the South. She who marries
for a living is most of all to be pitied.
Negro slavery had a very paradise in
every rice field and lowly cabin and
in meanest servitude compared with
tbe slave-life of such a woman. Her
good fortune then consists solely in
her ignorance, and she is well fitted to
rear such children as we discover
nnkempt and rudely clad, stoning
doves and dogs and betting marbles in
alley-ways of the capital. The meanest
servant's place in the meanest house
hold is to be preferred to this bargain
and sale at the marriage altar.
When we see strong men, willing to
work, everywhere idle; when we see
popular vices in politics leading even
to Communism that springs from idle
ness and ignorance; when the country
is overrun by tramps and the number
of depraved women is hardly les9, it is
time for those to think who populate
the State and are responsible for the
conduct of its future rulers. Boys
and girls should have trades rather
than professions, and the law should,
if common sense wiH not, compel it.
.No man can be consistent unless Lis
conduct appear to be inconsistent.
IIow a newspaper cojld advocate Til
den in 1876 and approve Hayes's con
duct in 1877 and then advocate Judge
Roberts's elevation to the gubernatorial
chair in 1878 involves apparent contra
dictions of policy which stupidity can
not reconcile with consistency. We
were for Tilden in 1876 because he was
opposed by the bloody shirt people.
of whom Ben Butler and ex-Governor
Davis were chief est. Hayes was
chosen by the worst elements of his
party, because it was thought he would
be their supple agent in bayoneting
the South. Nobody dreamed, while
Blaine and Conkling and Ben Butler
were Hayes's adherents, that he was
better than the great body of bloody
shirt fltunters who went howling
over the North. We thought that
Tilden was elected ; but seeing
Hayes made President by law we gave
approval to tbe act and regarded it rs
final. We could see no reason why we
should go with Conkling and Blaine,
or with those Democrats co-operating
with Blaine and Conkling, who
make it their business to denounce
tne resident, we do not approve
all . be does, but the great
leading acts and general policy
of his administration have been praise
worthy, and the Statesman chooses to
ay so. The Radical malcontents on
the one hand and Democratic on the
other are alike Radicals, and only dif
fer in choosing'dsIgrlationB for them
elves. "
A mellifluous writer for the Capi
tal abuses the Statesman soundly for
----- . ttmt Tnna Ttoberts
mat's never had an idea in h
venomous and denunciatory simply be
cause we have never Been or learned,
since the Apostles were no more,
that any miracle has been done.
Another vigorous party organ thinks
the -Statesman buasi . Republican"
because it has approved much
of the conduct of Presdent
Hsyes. Again tbe Herald sajs, be
cause we prefer Russell's conservatism
and adhesion to Hayes, to Davis's
fierceness and alliance with fiat money
theorists, that therefore the Statesman
Is a moderate Republican newspaper.
Not long a&o when it was said that
a strong Mexican force was moving
towards the frontier and that therefore
war was inevitable and the Statesman
said that Diaz only proposed to co-oper
ate with Gen. Ord in the suppression of
raids, then it was alleged by a San Ac
tonio paper that the Statesman was
false to Texas and rather a Mexican
than Texan newspaper.
In re Terence to all thesa matters we
leave the facts to answer for them
selves, and that the grave cob pipe in
qmry may be definitively settled, we
suggest mat me writer who at
tacks us so vigorously about it
would save himself and tbe readers of
the Capital much annoyance by aa
dressing Judge Roberts on the subject
The Statesman said it and stands by
the assertion that the Judge smokes a
cob pipe. If this be Rtdicalism or
Hayeaism or Atheism our assailant can
make the most of it, never forgetting
in tbe meantime that the Statesman
has the right to think for itself and
say what it thinks.
I. U. IUavis, an original thinker
and an original character, for there
was never bdt one, and can never be
another R;avis, will deliver the open
ing address at tht approaching Capital
State Fair. He will tell as of the
North and South and East and West,
and of the commercial and political
mauons oi me sections as we were
never told before. He writes that be
only wants an audience, and they who
have requested him to speak ahall not
be disappointed. He may want grace,
but not vigor of action or intellect,
and whatever the imprejsion made by
i . ..... .
raiTia uimseu, cis peeca will be a
book of prophesies as wonderful aa
trutbral, and surely to be verified.
But it ia worth a Mecca-Like pilgrimage
to aee and near L. TJ. Reavia.
tam uuruiij ui me conduct oi a
n. .V. .1 ! . - . . . -
Southern Democrat, who has effected
an alliance with the Greenbackers, is
shown m tbe result in Ohio, where the
whole vote of the Nationals or Greer. -
backers is about 40,000. The returns
show that this voting force was ab
stracted mainly from the Democrats,
and thus the State has been transferred,
by eight or ten thousand majority, to
the Republicans. Surely, ia the face
of these facts, there cannot be discov
ered a aingle Texan who will remain
aa ally of the Hamman-DavU organi
zation. Wk owe Senator Maxej many thanks
for copies of all the speeches made
about two Senators who died with the
harness on, Lewi T. Bogy and Oliver
f . Slorton,
The AdcocalA, it is said, comes in
large numbers to voters of this Senato
rial district. The Greenbackers of the
Pacific States have planks in their plat
forms favoring government aid to Tom
Ssjtt's lailroad. and the Adcxate
woulJ further tbe scheme. Hence
voters receive gratis tbe great organ of
tbe Greenbackers and of the Commu
nists who oppose Judge Terrell. But
who pays for the publication of the
Advocate Is it not the people who
want a strong government with Grant
ut its bead ? Communism is the means
proposed by which these people hope
to gain a pretext for changing our form
of government.
Bowers says the Statesman is an
infidel paper simply because it has
questioned the notion of special provi
dence. But then Bowers, in his lead
ing editorial of the ninth, says 7000
souls have perished of yellow fever."
Bowers doesn't even believe in the im
mortality of the soul. It ean perish.
Bat it is natural that Bowers should
question tbe stories he has read about
Bowers of Bliss. He has never eeen
any of them. 'He has always trudged
along in the hot sunshine. He works
like a galley-slave, and there ia evi
dently no repose for poor Bowers in
this world or the next. No wonder be
thinks tbe souls of the thousands who
have died of
ished."
Yellow Jack have "per-
We haye before us a brochure of
twenty-seven pages, reprinted from the
Magazine of American HUtory for Octo
ber. It is entitled "The Texas Revo
lution. Distinguished Mexicans who
took part in it, with glances at its
early events," by R. M. Potter, U. S.
A. Prefixed to the pamphlet is an ad
mirable steel engraving of Gen. Sam
uouston. iDe likeness is almost a
copy of a photograph of the hero
statesman, owned by an attache of the
Statesman which was recently copied
by an artist of this city.
Jcdge Terrell spoke at Burnet on
the ninth. There was a large number
of voters present, and everybody was
convinced of the utter fallacy of Green
backistn. The Judge spoke for three
and a half hours, and a gentleman who
listened to him reports that his speech
was probably the ablest be ever heard.
It certainly must be gratifying to the
people of this district to know that
they are to have so able a representa
tive in the State Senate as Judge A.
W. Terrell.
Somehow or other the Bonham Xem
seems to think that a newspaper can
tell the truth on any subject and still
be Democratic It remarks that "the
Marshall Herald needs to get over the
absurd idea that a paper cannot be
Democratic and speak the truth. Many
journals which compliment President
Hayes because he deserves it are as in
flexible in their opposition to the Re
publican party as tho vilest slanderers
of tbe national administration can be."
Our telegrams show that reports to
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington show that the cottor crop o
the Southern States will reach 5,000,
000 bales and that Texas produces one
Wthf this..l-crjditida-Q;- the
crop is combatively higher in Texas
than in r.ny other reaching 103
Tillman, the Greenback candidate
for tbe office of Governor of Tennessee,
baa acted like a wise man in abandon
ing a cause that is a hopeless one. He
was the third man put forward by
these Tennessee fiats for the office, all
of whom, after going one eye on it.
gave up the job. A similar action here
would put an end to a half-Hamman
movement in Texas.
Briqada GcRRARA,of San Antonio,
succeeded in securing a pension b
cause he proved that he was a Texas
soldier in tbe Alamo. Why have we
neyer heard of this hero until the pen
sion act made survivorship of such an
event pay? Do the people of San An
tonio really believe tbe story now told
by Gaerrara?.
As in St. Louis tbe business men cf
Austin should see to it that one day ia
devoted to the interests of the Capital
State Fair Association. Many thou
- J - J .11 a ...
aous oi uouars nave Deen invested in
the undertaking, and all of it for the
credit of Austin. The stockholders
deserve honor for self-denial, so liber
ally practiced.
The Mexia Ledger says that Ben But
ler, Kearney, Brick Pomeroy, ex-Gov
ernor Davis and every tramp and
worthless vagabond in the nation is in
favor of this Greenback party. This
of itself, it seems to us, would be
enough to disgust an honest man
with it.
And now it ia told that five Metho
dist missionaries have been killed and
eaten np probably by cannibals in New
Zealand. Tbey are as bad over there
as the "niggers" in Timbuctoo,wbo ate
np the missionary and tbe hymn book.
too.
Bob Toombs says that when Alx
Stephens dies his district will send his
executor to Congress. It's the best
they can do. Alex H. S. has no chil
dren.
Rcssian money is worth only 46c on
the $1.00 and yet it is based on tbe
entire property of the country. Even
this is too indefinite to create confi
dence.
J. B. Simpson and John Henry
Brown are both coming to the Lsgisla
ture, and Dallas does not contain abler
or worthier men.
The AtalancA says Memphis and
Shelby county constitute one vast grave
yard.
An English officer sent on a special
Dtistuou or me war ctuce included in
his accounts an item of one shilling
iur porter." i ne war omce sent him
ft. . . M.. M 0
a formidable letter by return of post to
iuiurm mm mat tne government did
not pay for hia beer. He explained
that the shilling was for the man who
carried hia luggage, and then received
anotner note advisine htm that ha
should have charged for "porterage."
w nen ne next made no bis accounts
me crucial charged one shilling six
pence for "cabbage" eonsiderins! that
that was the proper way to set down a
cnarge lor cab ture, but be promptlv
received another wigging f- making
nnautnonzea investments in vetrt-
lADie.
Kaufman county will have a local
option contest at the general election.
Bob Inicersoll on (he Flnancea.
No better, clearer or more log'cal
speech on the subject of the country's
finances has been made than this of
Bob Ingersoll. It contains no word
that would effend the prejudices of the
best or worst of us, and everybody
should read the unique production :
We have bad in our country a mag
nificent infiit.oa. We have built with
in twentj-Sve years some 73,000 miles
of railrjai, and in order to build tbat
we spent about $3,000,000,000. Well,
there was work for everybody. We
had everything growing, aod there wa9
prosperity all over the land. Every
body worked for everybody every
body wanted to employ p jmebody else.
In the meantime tbe war came upon
our hands, and in that we fpent $10,
000, 000,000. For w b at ? To build u p !
No; to tear down and destroy. Every
single, so'itary dollar that was spent
was wasted by us. Bu as a matter
of fact, we didn't spend the money
we only agreed to. We scattered all
over tbe country certain notes which
we sgreed to pay, and we nave not got
them paid yet. In my judgment it
did not take as much patriotism to put
down the rebellion aa it will take to
pay tbe debt. A man cm be brave for
a few minutes when he is right 11 tbe
line of battle, and when he looks and
sees that nobody else runs. Ic is com
paratively easy to do tbat, and be shot
down at the post of glory. It is com
paratively easy to die for a principle.
But it is mighty bard to live for it. It
is bard work to get up at 4 o'clock in
the morning and work until the sun
goes down, and do that for a life.
I say we spent all of this money, and
we bad what they called prosperity,
and while that was going on the young
men left tbe farm, and said they did
not want to be farmers. They said :
"We won't farm it; we will go to the
city." Every man tbat could get $300
worth of goods on trut became a mer
chant. Tbey wanted to be dentists,
lawyers, doctors something that there
was no work in. When tbey could
not do that they would start an insur
ance association. '1 hen they sent their
agents all over the country ti get your
property insured, to get your life in
sured, and every moment ycu would
have the picture of a coffin thrust in
your face to see if you wouldn't insure.
And those agents would cooie and sit
down by you and talk about your last
struggle with that monster death.
They got a certain share of the premi
um, and they insured anybody. They
insured consumption in its last hemor
rhage, and the money fl wed into the
society. As soon as the fellows began
to die the company closed its doors.
Then tbey bad fire insurance compa
nies. Tbe agents of these also had a
share of tbe premiums, and I tell you
tbat for six, eight or ten years they
would have insured an iceberg in per
dition. Then the merchants filled all
the cars and all tbe hotels and bars
with runners and drummers. Every
man that you met bad three carpet
sacks filled with samples. And in tbe
meantime we had tbeb ankrupt law, so
tbat every man who couldn't pay his
debts might take tue benefit of tb;.s law.
Then it all went to the clerks, etc., of
the courts. I never heard of anybody
getting more than 3 per cent, on any
claim in my life.
All at ence in 1873 there came a
crah, and the brother that had staid
at home and worked on the farm saw
in the paper that his brother, who was
president of a life insurance company,
was a vagrant and a vagabond. He
read, too, that the railroad bad failed,
and tbat it was in the hands of a re
ceiver, and that its bonds were as
worthless as tbe first autumn leaves
that grew on this earth. Then he be
gan to think that he was doing well
himself; and the fact is that the men
who cultivate the soil are to-day tbe
richest, on the average, of any class of
mn-US!ir-GU- Then we Sot
hard times. Everybody who had a
mo:tgage as an adornmenri bis prop
way Lu-gcmMj iLaw theiy the
prosperous times again is Uin go
in debt. Suppose I bought a farm for
$5000 and gave my note for it; and
then I bought herns ani wagons and
gave my note; ana tnen l bought a
piano for Mary and gave my note, and
sent James to school and gave my note.
ana tney ail run a year. What a mig
nincent time I could have for that
year. Then when they came around
and wanted me to pay the note, I would
say, will give you little notes for
the interest, and let them run another
year." What a splendid time I could
have for another year. Finally, when
they come and say they have got to
have the money, what would you think
it 1 were to say to them, "I never had
a better time in my life than when I
was giving those notes. All that is
necessary for universal happiness and
peace is to let me keep right on giving
my notes." i say to mem the reason
of hard times is because they have lost
confidence in me. Tbey say the reason
mey nave lost confidence is that I have
not cot tbe monev.
Now, it is precisely tho same with an
inaiviauai tbat it is with the govern
ment. I say here tc-day tbat every
farmer ought to know that he can't
make tomething out of nothinz. The
United States government can't make
money. It can make what it calls
money. It has not the power to make
it ; it has tbe power to mae you take
it. In other words, it bas tbe power
to make every creditor take it, and no
body else. If you go to buy a busbel
of wheat and you have got "fiat"
money, the man can siy. "I will take
$1 in gold for that wheat, but I want
$5 if you pay in 'fiat' money." IIow
are you going to prevent him? Tbe
money you have got is good simply be
cause ii promises to pay. xsow it is
proposed to bave money that we will
promise not to pay. If nonsense can
go beyond that, I cannot conceive the
route or path that it will take. Then if
Congress says you must take it. Con
gress must fix the nrice of vprvth!nr
It must fix the price of wheat ; it must
nx tne price of making a speech in a
lawsuit; it must fix tbe price of every
article, or else it cannot make its
money good.
But some gentlemen say that Con
gress bas the power to make monev.
and I want to ask then, one question ;
I want yon to think about it: If this
government has the power to make
money, why should it collect tsxes
from as? Why don't they make it
and let us alone f If this government
can make a dollar or a thousand dollar
bill just that quick flapping his hands
together, why should they mske us
labor day and night, and make ns pay
taxes to support them ! If the gov
ernment can make monev. let them
make it and let ns alone. Bat. in
stead of that," this great government
comes np hers into this county with
the bayonet and compels yon to pay
taxes. It ia like tbe ocean trotting
around to borrow a little salt water.
or like the sun tryin? to get the loan
of a candle from some poor devil tbat
nas worked weeks to make that can
die. So I say to them, if tbey can do
it, let tbem do it.
Very well, if the government can
make money, how much can it make?
How will I get my share? now much
ia it going to issue! Some mt.
"enough to produce prosperity." But
how much-they can't tell. Some say
they are going to piy np the bends
and bring money ia tbat way into cir
culation, and then business will be
prosperous. But I say business will
be prosperous when tbe country is
prosperous. But if yru get too much
paper and it does ro down, who loan
it? Tbe man who bas earned it and
happened to have itm his possession
that ia the man who loses it. Ton
need not be afraid but what the smart
people the people. -on Wall street
will take care of themselves. Thev re-
quire locr ton irom every man that
goes by their way ; but the farmer, the
labeling man that has worked and has !
been given some cf the money, he I
loses his labor, unless tbat money is
worth as much as it wa thedsy he rr
: chived it. Bat they say there is not
j money enough. I say there is plenty,
p'enty ; I ish I could get it. We
don't tack money. Tbe banks have
got plenty of money; a certain portion
of tbe people bave money. We are
licking collaterals that is what we
are lacking. You can get all you
want on call in New York at one and
one -half to two per cent; and do you
know why you don't go and get it?
Because you haven't got tbe collater
als; and if we are going to pass a law
on this subject, I would like to have
Congress pass a law furnishing us col
laterals. But it will not do; there is
eo foundation to it. When that mo
ney gets out it has all got to be paid.
Call it "fiat" money call it what
you please; tbe reason tbat a gold dol
lar is worth a dollar is because you can
buy the results of the same smount of
labor that it took to dig that gold dol
lar and to mint it, including all the
fellows that bunted and didn't find it.
If you take a piece of paper and say
that it represents $3 to $10 it only
represents it because there is a promise
to pay that money it is only good
when you believe that the man or
government tbat made the promise is
good, aud you can't go beyond it.
Suppose you could blot from your
mind tbat there was such a thing aa
gold and silver what is a dollar, just
leaving gold and silver entirely out?
You bave got a "fiat" bill that says it
is $10, and it is valuable because it
never will be redeemed. Gold and sil
ver is valuable of itself. When I take
a $10 gold piece and go to Englaud, I
have to sell it the same as I would a
bushel of corn, and all that spread
eagle nonsense doesn't add one solitary
farthing to its value. And when
a sovereign 'comes here from Eng
land, we don't care anything about tbe
beautiful picture of Queen Victoria, or
any other girl. It is worth so much
and no more. But they say that it is
tbe stamp of the government that
makes it valuable. Why not stamp
them tecs, thousands, or millions, and
let us all be millionaires? It won't do
We will never get prosperity in that
way. Slowly, steadily and surely our
money bas advanced ; slowly, steadily
and surely tbe world has had more and
more confidence in the industry, the
honesty and the integrity of Amer
ica, and to that extent our money has
advanced until it has finally clasped
bands upon an equality with the pre
cious metals. We are just inside of
of port. We came in, tempest-tossed,
every sail torn and rent, and every
mast by the side; and these wreckers
stand on the shore and say if you want
prosperity put out to sea once more.
We don't want to we want honest
methods. No man lives in a country
whose money is under par that he does
not feel a little nnder par himself. I
never took out a bill that was at two
or three per cent.diecouot that I did not
feel a little that way too. This great
and splendid republic, with the most
intelligent and the best people in the
world and I say the most honest I
want its promise te be as good in every
part of the world as tbe promise of
any other nation. I want the green
back to be preserved ; I want to bave
gold and silver behind it; I want it so
that if I should go into tbe furthest
isle of the Pacific and should take out
a greenback, a savage would look at
it and bis eyes would glitter as if he
looked at gold. Then you feel like
you are somebody; like you had a
great and splendid nation, and even
tbat old flag would look better if every
promise of tbe United States had been
redeemed. And you never know bow
much you feel like that until you go
to a foreign country. When I was
there a few days ago, I just happened
to see that old flag it looked to me as
if the air had just blossomed out. I
want to feel tbat way all my life. I
want to feel tbac man is capable of
governing himselfaaihftt-a-xepjlbli-canoyeriJment
is the very acme and
T " i i r . 1 I
ueigut oi national nonor.
Austin, October 14, 1878,
Editors Democratic Statesman:
The Carnival of Crime " about
which so much has been said seems to
be at this time in our State closely
competing witn me "Scourge" which
we nave thus far escaped but which
is disrupting and destroying moral, so
cial and physical life within the con
fines of our sister Southern States.
And, like that "Scourge," it seems as
though almost impossible to stay its
death-dealing course when once it be
comes developed in the body politic.
If newspaper reports be correct
there is a systematic effort being made
by medical scientists to discover the
origin and cause of the one with a
view to its prevention. Woald it not
be well at this time for a similar effort
to be made by our political scientists
of the othei ?
If the following suggestions, thrown
out in the interest of society and good
government, could impress upon those
wno are at mis time so ambitions to
become our lawmakers the necessity of
some such action by our next Legisla
ture, certainly, an important step will
bave beon taken toward the desired
end. Tbe maxim tbat "An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure" is
certainly applicable to this ca9e. And
there can be no surer preventive of
crime than the knowledge that punish
ment wiu toilow swilt and sure, which
is not by any means the case now. as.
nn fortunately, we all know. Then let
our law-abiding people insist that the
touowing changes be made in our crim
inal law:
1. That all felony cases be forced to
trial within twelve months from dste
of arrest, and that witnesses be sum
moned and placed under bond for their
appearance at tbe trial as soon after tbe
commission of the offense as practi
came.
2. That the sureties on all bonds in
felony cases shall designate and de
scribe the property that qualifies them
to Decome sucti, and that such bond
shall become a lien noon such property
irum tne aate oi signature.
o. mat me "stock. law" be so
amended as to do away with the in
spection of hide;, and substitute there
lor norses and mules. Tbat parties
moying animals e. norses, mules
or cattle, from a county where there is
no inspector, shall be required to have
the certificate and seal of tbe district
or county clerk to their bill of sale or
(if in their own brand) a copy of their
Drana record, nnder a penalty or fine
not less than $33 to both buyer and
seller, and in all other cases the certifi
cate and seal of tbe inspector.
"bw, in conclusion, ir these sug-
gcauons were carried our, the follow
ing would be a few of the beneficial
lesults:
1. Tbere would be no more felony
cases "worn out" and dismissed aftr
innumerable continuances on affidavit
cf defendants on account of absent
"material vUnetaa "
s. Tbere would be no mora 'Wm
wo," and where a bond was forfeited
it wonld be collected and d laced to
the credit of the county, materially as
sisting to bear tbe burden of expense
oi cucn cakes a thing almost unheard
oi un ier tbe present system.
3. There would virtually be no more
lueu oi norses, mules and cattle, be
cause tbere wonld be no market for
Vrf tock' And our honest, hard
working farming fellow-citizens could
lie down to rest at night in Deace and
not have to guard their every-Jay work
animals to prevent their beini? stolen
during the night, aa is now tbe case.
Respectfully,
A Friend Of Civtuzation.
At a Bonapaxtiat demonstration t
Baesac, near Cognac, M. Paul de Cs-
agnac made a remarkable admission.
He said : "The republic of to-dav ha
nothing very remarkable about it. It
deludes honeat men ui) an45Liittw re
strains the mob. ir It luinl !,!
would be dtferrtd."
-Facta plane.
It
is so hesltbv abont Wil".! th.t
doctors cannot thrive.
Hayes & Andrews, of Sheiman, took
the premium at St. Louis for the ten
best bales of Texas cotton.
Isaiah Thummer, a colored man liv
ing near Houston, is cultivating rice of
a fine quality that produces sixty bust
els to tbe acre.
Hempstead no longer enforces special
quarantine, regarding it useless so long
as tbe State is carefully guarded at all
approaches from infected points.
A young lady of Bonham picks two
hundred and fifty pounds of cotton in
a day, ani says she is independent of
any loafer who can't do as much.
Crawford, the Hempstead shootis',
established an alibi while the guard
was looking the other way. When he
is found again the trial will proceed.
Sayera completely won Martin's heait
and Sherman's fancy, and Crooks
crooked himself reverently in the pret
ence of Sayer's genius and eloquence.
It is believed by many that Bob
Crawford, tbe Hempstead murderer,
was bung by tbe armed men. who, it
was stated at the time, "let him get
away."
Bob and Dock Thornton and Elijah
Estep killed a man named Lipsey, at
San Siba. Dock Thornton and Etep
are under arrest. Bib Thornton is
badly wounded.
The oldest man in Texaa is said to
be old Doc Brown, colored, of Marion
county, aged 123 years. Juaco Walker
beat that, having died in the same
county at the age ot 130.
Tbe Dallas HeraWt grand railroad
thieving ring dwindles down into a
small affair. The Houston papers say
no one connected with tbe Central has
had anything to do with it.
The new song, '-Put Your Armor
On, My Boys," as sung by Major Penn,
is destined to be a great favorite with
the girls; it sounds so much like "put
your srm around me, boys."
Telegram: A murderer is not a mur
derer if worth over $10,000. In that
case it has only been a little difficulty,
and the poor unfortunate fellow should
not be hurt. Sorry for him, etc.
Williams, of Bistrop county, sus
pected his wife of infiJelity and locked
her up. She outwitted bim and got
away, and Williams then got even by
shooting the wits out of her paramour.
Dec Thompson and E. Eitep, Jr.
bave been undergoing preliminary trial
at Han Saba for tbe murder of W. II,
L'psey. Thompson was discharged
and Estep was placed under a bond of
f 1U0U.
Noel's Sunny Homes says if the heirs
of tbe late Jesse B. Haynes will write
to him he will tell them something
good to bear; and so with tbe next of
kin to Ira B. Wheeler, killed at Mar
freesboro'.
C. P. Huntington, the great railroad
man, who proposes to build I. Pacific
railroad for Texas without government
aid, sent $1000 to tbe Memphis yellow
fever Batterers and $1000 to tbe How
ards of New Orleans. .
Seth Shepard is employed to prose
cute the Moores, who are charged with
tbe murder of Capt. I. G. Killougb
Tbe general strength of the LaUrang
bar is retained for the defense.-' Tbe
accused are wealthy.
Mr. Jonathan Soulea, of San Saba
county, was .willed by his horse rue
ning away and throwing him. Hi
feet caught in the stirrups, and bis
horse kicked and dragged him some
distance, mangling him terribly,
Tbe Guadalupe Times asseits that
the record shows Judge Ireland to bave
ever been the champion of tbe best in
terests of bis State, and that he con
ducTeif hiaiself as an honest and true
statesman who has never betrayed trust
,nJohV
curry, night Jaumsstef
Denson, was run over by a train. His
clothes and even hia boots were strip
pea irom nis person, ana yet he was
not seriously injured. Tbe hungry
me insurance men wiu otter bim spc
ciai rates.
Theo Noel is sending his photograph
to bis old friends in Texas. It is use
..1 1, 1 . M..
iui ss wen as oeautiiui. I hey use
them in grocery stores in Chicago,
where Noel lives, to frighten rats from
cellars ana to straighten the eyes of
crosr-eyed babies.
Rev. Mr. Gossweiler, the Lutheran
minister of San Antonio, who seduced
the daughter of a parishoner and ran
away, went to the valley of death over
on me Mississippi. He and his wife
and all their children are dead with
tbe yellow scourge.
Dallas appears to be tbe headquar
ters of the ring of railroad thieves.
irooKea transactions amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been carried on theie, which, added
to the grand steals elsewhere, will
make a colossal sum.
P. N. Morns, an enterprising youth,
forged at Dallas an order on Col. A
B. Norton, upon which he realized i
handsome suit of Clothes, in which be
went gaily up to Kaufman county.
wbere be was arrested, and now he is
to be taught morals a la code.
Barnes, brother of Sebe Brown, and
relique of tbe Bass gan , it appears.
has organized a band. Tbey attacked
Louisville, which was defended by
Sheriff Egan and posse. Sixty shots
were fired, but only one horse belong
ing to me uarnes party waa KUied.
Thomas Cornell, a remarkably
bright young gentleman of Denison,
went bunting, and mistaking a man's
bead for a partridge dosed it well with
small shot. It was John Darling
that got shot. He was only badlv
hurt. Cornell is still on the commnni
ty.
The East Liae railroad, cays tbe
Marshall Herald, bas been completed a
aistance oi seventy miles, and will
soon be running to Winsboro, twenty
roues oeyona nttsburg. Tbe entire
road has been built by a few enter
prising men without help outside the
line.
Over 4000 bales of cotton baye been
shipped from Round Rock during tbe
season, which, at " $45 per bale, will
bring $180,000. The Headlight's head
is not very light when it concludes that
such a sum of money in tbe communi
ty ongbt to drive away that awfal
monster, "bard times."
Texas is now quarantined against
Augusta, Arkansas, and tbe country is
sate. Augusta was drowned out and
destroyed by a fl lod a year or two ago,
uni iexas quarantines against what is
leit oi it. Tbe whilom village was
away up White river, in an inaccessi
ble swamp. But Texas is safe.
On the farm of IL C. Chaney, Grimes
county, a monster rattlesnake, measur
ing cght leet in length and ten inches
in circumference, was killed. The
fangs were one inch long. Eoongh of
tbe snake's poison was taken from tbe
oag at the root of tbe fangs to nil a
large vial. It bas been preserved. .
Mollie Mason and Addie Kirk, two
wretched guls of Sherman, sought to
pnt a period to their wretched, unclean
lives Monday night. Bat the doctors
pumped tbe morphine out, and since
there are none to help, and none to
promote reform, tbe end must come,
and tbere are cone to pity or forgive.
Jndge Terrell, saya tbe Georgetown
wherever he goes, never falls
to increase the number of his friends
and adherents. His opponent should
withdraw in time to save himself from
ruin, lie is a promising young man.
an
and should not allow himself to be
overtaken at this time with utter defeat,
Tex
In Freestone couaty a few nights
ago William Sltrtio. aged CO, and his
sn were fired at by assassins and the
old man instantly killed. Father and
son were riding aloug the road from
Fii field when the assassins attacked
them. The son was thrown from his
horse, bis skull fractured and his mind
deranged.
Brenham Rmner: "Dr. Rutherford
bas impressed upon his deputies tbe
necessity of being more watchful and
cautious the present month than ever.
Tbe strictness of quarantine should not
be relaxed so long as the epidemic con
tinues. It bas undoubtedly saved our
State thus fat and should be kept np
vigilently."
A. K. Shepard, living near Long's
point, Washington c- unty, was called
from bis house by two men on horse
back. One of them snapped a cap at
bim, but be jamped behind a big oak
tree as the buckshot load of the sec
ond barrel lodged in it. They then
rode away, and Shepard can give no
naon for it.
Though the story has not been told,
as it should have been, in the columns
of the Advertiser, still many of the
people cf Bistrop county bave learned
tbat tbe Capital State Fair will begin
on the twentjoinib of October. Many
of them will" probably be here. Much
fine stock at least is expected from
Bastrop county.
And now comes the Chilian in de
fense of Tom Ochiltree as a laboring
man's candidate and says: "We are
satisfied that Major Ochiltree, if forced
by circumstances, would not hesitate
to put his hand to the plow, perhaps
with less reluctance than some of his
critics." Wouldn't Tom Ochiltree
make a royal ploughboy ?
The Waller Courier says it bas
"known J. W. Stephenson lonfc;'' and
it might bave added when be was short,
or Siephenson is tbe luckiest fellow in
those parts. Stephenson will be attor
ney down there. He is an awful pros
ecu tor, and is going to chaw up that
circular saw destroyer of tbe public
peace at me iieampstead tavern.
Will tbe farmers, it is asked, make
good display of farm products at the
Capital S:ate Fair? They generally
iook wen to tneir intetests, and as
great many strangers will be in Austin
at the fair, tbey will be apt to show
them what our soil brings iorth. The
agricultural department of the fai
should be, next to the stock show, it
most interesting icature.
Texas farmers will be pleased t
learn tbat Prof. Riley, tbe national en
tomologist, bss returned to Washing
ton, after an extended j turney in tbe
cotton States. He reports the cotton
worm inactive and the prospects good
for ascertaining the entire history of
me pest, lie hopes to entrap tho lirst
moths .to sudden death by the use of
poisoned sweets. Prof. Riley's agents
ire etui at work.
A man arrested for stealing a break
fast at Dallas, pleaded, by way of con
fefsion and avoidance, that he had
spent in a hospital while sick the
money he had previously earned pick
ing cotton, and had stolen the break
fast to -keep from starving. He was
punished by imprisonment one minute
in jail, and turned loose by tbe officers
with money for one day's supplies.
: At Waco, while Parson Lockey was
in church doing what be could for tbe
glory of God and tbe good of mankind
aome miserable thief mounted hi
horse and started in the direction of
Meridian. Tbe parson thinks the fel
low to be a young man, and if he
catches up with him, there won't be
much possibility of his ever reaching
nie's meriaian on mis side of Jordan
Age: "Those who dislike the action
of Dr. Rutherford will continue, of
course, to criticize and censure until
tbe quarantine season is past. If in
the end, however, it is realized that he
bas been tbe principal agency in
those rigid quarantine measures that
f"n rao pesMrcuw
from Iexas, bis ample reward will be
ID tbe
gratituae tne people will feel
and express to him."
Telegram: The Texas press is howl
ing against a strict quarantine simply
oecauae mey nave oeen ueoarrea from
northern papers two or three weeks.
J"ity but some of these editors bad
touch of yellow jack, tbey would be
willing to keep out letters as well as
newspapers. Some of these men will
a.i;a. up row iu oeaven it tney ever
get tttre, which is not likely, because
the devil bas been quarantined out of
it.
The decision of Judge Williams, of
Galveston, that a fine for refusing to
work a road, is no more than an ordi
nary judgment for debt, and does not
subject a man to personal arrest or im
pnsonment, practically exempts from
roaa auty every man wbo bas no proc
erty subject to execution. Yet, with
out the law very plainly provides for
imprisonment, judge Williams must
be sustained by the higher courts.
In 1832 a youth of Bastrop went to
the Union army, bidding adieu to his
sweetheart, a beaut.ful young girl of
uastrop. i ney corresponded till the
great battle of Cbancellorsville. Then
she heard of him no more till a short
while ago, when, after many adven
tares in foreign lands, he turned np in
Bastrop end claimed the hand of hia
old sweetheart, now a handsome wc
man of thirty-two. They were quietly
uiarrieu
C. B. Hoadley, a white teacher in a
negro school in Wallace Prairie, was
taken from bis borne and severely
whipped by a band of dissuised men.
It was from very good suthoritv that
the mob was composed of colored men
wno were incensed at Hoadley 's inti
macy with tbe wife of tbe colored
man with whom be was board inc. If
we mistake not this same Hoadley, as
a carpet-bagger, was organizing Green-
dock emus among me negroea some
time ago.
The exterior of the Rock port Tran
script in the oldest patented outside in
the world. It was "tran scrip ted "
(therefore the name Transcript) from
the tombs of Egyptian kings. We
sent a copy of it a year ago to tbe
French Acadamy of Sciences, and they
nave Deen at work on it ever since.
One old fellow says tbat tbe whole
thing has reference, if he is not mis
taken, to Pharaoh's lean kine or to
Joseph's Bull of tbe Woods. They'll
get the hang of it after awhile, and
tbe translation will be filed awav with
the Arnndelean Marbles in the London
Library.
San Saba 2Tetes: "The Statesman
makes mention that an Austin liquor
firm shipped 12,500 pounds of liquors
uu uccr vo iue iroouer in nnn
This was a good day's business; but
tne recora oi mat whisky transaction
is not complete with tbe announcement
referred to. Tbe frontier will send
back to Austin, through her eonnti
papers, tbe record of a long line of
quarreis, sentences to tbe penitentiary,
and probably a half dozen murders, aa
an indirect rtuult of of that sale. Let
any who will put this on their books
and after einkiajj a bulance report tbe
pronts 10 tne woria oi the dsy's busi
ness."
Forepangh sends a magnificent ad
vertisiag ear into Texas. It is com
manded by Mr. Toole, a most nerfect
gentleman, who has visited Texaa
once or twice before in advance of
great snows. 11 rs. Toole accompanies
bcr husband, and along with tbem
comes a force of ten men, who bill the
towns ana do all the advance work
necesiary. The car ia a magnificent
palace, with sleeping rooms, business
room poking apaitment and storage
' nd tbe gectlemsji and ladv
employees travel with the
- ae and comfort. The cir
ca a jntoenegerie will make tbe grand
round la Texas.
the
AV
ti.oritirs at headquarters was received
yesterday from Wilson' ranche. on
Johnson's creek, conveying tho infor
mation that the Indians were raiding
in Kerr county in a large body, in tbe
vicinity where Johnson creek fl jws in
to the Guadalupe river, and that tbey
bad killed three little girla and a small
son of a stock man named Dowdy.
They have also stolen and are driving
off a large number of horses and cattle.
It is supposed that there are some
Mexicans among them. They have
gone towards the Rio Grande iu the
direction of Devil's river, and the
troops have been sent in pursuit of
tbem. These depredators are suppof
ed to be a portion of the Cheyenne,
who left Arizona several weekj ago
and took up their line of march to
wards Texas.
Statement of changes in mail routes,
etc, in the Bute of Texas, for week
ending October 5, 1878. reported by A.
N. Zevely, agent for mail contractors,
Washington, D. C. : Route 31418
View Bluff to Jasper, service increased
to three times a week from October 13;
route 31534 Yorktown to Stockdale,
service increased to three times a week
from October 20; route 3128S - Tlano
to Pleasant Valley, discontinued from
October 19; route 31801- Tyler to
Athena, service increased to twice a
week from October 20; route 31511
Dallas to Pleasant Valley, service in
creased to twice a week from October
20; route 31338 Linden to Kildare,
service increased to six times a week
from October 20. Postoffice established-
Dry Valley, Montague county.
Postmaster appointed A. Johnson.
Postoffice discontinued -New Phila
delphia, Wharton county.
The startling revelation as to a grand
combination of thieves, composed of
officers, conductors and agents of the
Texas and Pacific and of the Houston
and Texas Central railroads, lately
made at Dallas, was too much to be
lieve at first blush. It sounded much
like a sensation, but facts go to show
tbat this matter will knock much of
the shine out of Tull.s and Ham and
all those brilliant thieves who bave
lately claimed so much public atten
tion. The Dallas Herald says: "When
the full particulars are made known it
will shake the social and especially
the railroad circle of Texas, from cen
ter to circumference. A bulk of facts
bave been in possession of attach:es of
tbe Herald for some time, and while
tbey cannot be made public this morn
ing, for reasons which it is not necei
sary to state, tbey shall be given to tbe
public sooner or later. Prominent
merchants and business men of this
city are deep in tbe mire, and when
names are given, which are omitted
now for obvious reasons, it will com
pletely dumbfound aod astonish not
only the public at large, but the guilty
parties themselves."
Tbe vivacious and fresh Comanche
Cliief is edited by Mr. Hill. He has
been astride of the tripod for some
time, and long accustomed to talk to
the people through his newspaper as s
mouthpiece. His habits have become
fixed and he can't think when on his
little legs; but the people, knowing
that Hill knew it all, were determined
that he should tell it rot undo ore. Hill
marched np in the presence of the
crowd, ascended the goods box and
having exclaimed " Fellow-citizjns,"
and then, having choked, he again
yawked and again exclaimed "Feliow
citizens and my fair countrywomen,"
and then a mule brayed and poor Hill
became an invisible little valley, lie
subsided and sneaked away. But then
he is a brave fellow and tells tbe truth
about it, and narrates tbe facts after
this. melancholy fashion: "Years of
patient toil aud repentance cannot
erase the embarrassment caused us by
a failure in trying to make tbat speech
at tbe court house the other night, and
we'll never forgive tbat rotten-egg
brigade for not putting in its appear
ance." He evidently wanted somebody
to kill him.
Breeding and his neighbors have
been awfully bothered, because when
children abound and the weather is
hot, maternal mi'.k is scarce and tbey
have to resort to cows. Bat the cows,
too, qait furnishing the lacteal fluid
and Breeding was at tbe end of his
productive genius, and he is not given
to giving milk, except tbat of human
kindness, and there was mrch distress
about the dry cows in Breeding'
household. He examined his cows
and found their teats "chewed" in an
awful manner and Breeding shed tears.
He watched at the cowpen till the
moon went down, and then a razoi
backed swine that Breeding intended
to run in the sweepstakes race at our
fair, sneaked in no the "cuppeu" and
tackled tbe co-v's teats and sacked
like tbe pnmps of Capt. Mather's wa
ter works. The cow gave way entirely
to the sow's persuasions and 6be be
came a fountain of lacteal juiciness,
and the shad-bellied swine granted in
joy. Next morning Breeding invited
Dr. Prewett and all his neighbors to a
fox chase, and thev went in pursuit of
tbe long-legged hog. The does tracked
it by tbe "milky way," which it pur
sued, and at the last advices Irom
Rockdale the people were still absent
from town, hounding down the hna
that almost begat a famine among the
undergrowth of Breeding's moral vine
yard. Major Penn'a right bower, V. C.
Hart, has published a neat little pam
phlet containing some michtv nirn
reading. People who have listened to
his marvelom notes should read bis
more wonderful words. He goes for
Brother Pope, tbe good man wbo rani
tbe Baptist Herald, after thin a.fni
fashion : "I denounced him as a 'con
temptible scoundrel.' whereupon ha ex.
claimed, 'I'll be damned If I'll take
tbat.' I reproved him for nsing such
language. He said, I do not care a
damn if I am a Baptist preacher: I
swear I'll not let any man attack mv
honor.' Now. as to Mr. Pope's nain?
tbe above "cuss words.' I aav that be
did. He says tbat he did not. I do
not know who was present and did not
think to look out for witnesses never
once thinking tbat he or any other
would deny it. But aa he hfs dnil
it I have taken the trouble to
secure a certificate in writing
hich yon will carefully examine.
Mr. Hart proves too much when be
proves tbat Rev. Mr. Pope bas a weak
ness for lager, even when everybody
must know tbat a Baptist, like Mr.
Pope, could never descend to a debil
itated beverage of tbat sort. But the
pamphlet is a curious paper and wili
arrest tbe attention of the accustomed
auditors of tbe sweetest singer In all
Israel. Good people ought to know
the bottom of this affair, and it would
be wrong ia tbem to eyen attempt to
amoote tbe matter over. Mr. Hart does
right ia ventilating it.
Last Bundsy a minister was address
ing a Sabbath school. Interspersing
hia remarks with questions on tbe life
ana exploits or Samson, be asked,
among others, tbe following: "With
what remarkable weapon did Samson
at one time slsy a number of Philis
tines?" For a while there was no an
swer, and tbe minuter, to assist the
children a little, commenced Uovioe
bis jaw with the tip of his finger, at
tbe same time aaTlttr. "What's tbisf
bat's thist" Qaick as thotsebt a little
fellow, quite innocent of mischievous
intent, replied, "Tbe jaw bone ot an
s, air!" A. Jon a titter ran through
tbe school, in which the minister was
compelled to join.
African explorers will probably ride
oa elephant ia future. CcL Gordon
has proved by experiment that tame
elephant soon learn to live on leaves
and grass, as the wild elephants do.
and keep la good condition. African
travel will thus be mora pleasant and
much safer, as the natives), it is said.
wiu not ventnr to attack a etm 1 1
. . . . . - y i
The San Antonio Herald of
eighth ssys that a dispatch to the
Cnrepran.
Bicycles are coruinj into vogue in
England as ccclerUaiical conveyancer,
enabling clergymen to it remote
parts of large country parhhes.
Count Von Arnim, Prince Bisrnack's
victim, has bought in Bohemia an es
tate wbici. confers a seat in tbe Lni
tag, and. it is thought will be natural
ized in Austria.
Prof. Mendelcff, cf St. Petersburg
University, has been coraotissinncd by
the Russian Government to study bti
loons in Europe, especially ia France,
and his tour will lat a year.
The Crown Prince of Germany has
refused to pardon Mr. B shop, the
English newspaper correspondent, who
was recently senteccfd to two years
and six moniha' imprisonment for high
treason.
Only small fragments unfortunately
have been recovered of mhat was once
evidently a colossal statue near tbe
Ponto 8isto in Rome. These are of
the fiaest Corinthian bronze and are
heavily overlaid with gold.
Mile. Valliante and M. Gultry, pupils
ot tuc raris vonservatoire, have been
fined $3000 dollars each for aingfniMn
u
at
opera in uraaseim, tbe lule being that
me conservatoire pupils n:us. first o
Ter their services to theaters subsid
ized by tbe State.
The Prince of Wales is too much of
a country gentleman 'to be a had fe!
low. He is now devoting considers
ble attention to the solution of the
problem of acclimatizing grouse on his
estate at Sandringharu. He is rearing
young birds from the egg, and has fair
prospects of success. Even a prince
has not always time to go to the moors.
A notable improvement in watches
is reported from Chaux de Fonds,
Switzerland. By a peculiar process
tbe figures on the dial aro rendered lu
minous, so that if exposed ouco during
the dsy to the sunlight they remain
phosphorescent and visible throughout
the night. Preparations have bee
made for the production of th;
watches on a largo scale.
' i
with tbe presidential party, u
bis visit to Minnesota. On one occa
sion a person, on introduction, in
quired: "Are you tho mau who killed
so many people in South Carolina?"
Gen. Bailer, without betraying an
noyance, pleasantly replied: "I pre
; i i r 3
sume you have killed mre men than I
bave." He was unaware that ho h
got ahead of his questioner, until
kA-ft. 1 L t . 1 I . , '
I
"i i j inujju iruui uic ojaianucra Piigi
gested an inquiry as to the cau
when he was informed that the mi:
was a docter.
Dr. Gratz, of the Jewih Mumtsrhrilt,
discusses the probable site uf Sinil,
and locates tbe mount of revelation in
Seir or Edom instead of on the peiin
sula known as Sinai. The heig f ho
fixes upon is Djtbel-Araif, vich
overtops all the surrounding Alls,
and is surrounded by tablelands,
on which are traces of the -fenced
e nclosures ot a pastoral peoplei7
ably the Amalekitss. Dr. Grat?t
tifies the Yam supb, common!'
dered tbe Red Sea, but literati
sea of weeds," with the so-call
tAP lklfAS Wki.h W.tltll mat'
march of the Israelites nortlJ
east from Egypt.
TXR SALE A past ore con'ilnlnel
A lying near TDornda e, on Uracil i
protection; near? menlti grata;
acre. Kor Danlrulara. Mudreaa M. A.
Tborndale, Williamson county, Tci J
QTOCKMEN'S UEADQU
(KIKoanl'BT'S OLD STN
Tbls popular establishment, rnJ
iivcry ana leea suoia and wkii I
iDnrnOKUiy overtisulra and put I
order for the accommodation o;
men and thj traveling publl
panmeni is nrn-cissa in ever
the alahle, with "the sbrd alt
ins; over 103 tails, afford u
t b mwm rt Im.. 4 .1.11 f
auto auacutu a large wagon
with an abundance f Ire.h wn'
ifea. Tnooe bringing rtork t
maiket, will find It to their Inf.
us. A full supply of forage j
iwm' 10 suit ine limes.
splHwSm n.F.llKNRICK
W. F. BEN,
Trinity
North of H. ill
a v . .1
at uva vft, . " t
nor
a 1
Cheap
Cash.
Blieot Iron.
Water and Cava Pipes
WOOD AND WILLOW WARK.
IlOOFINa 4KD 1 1,'TTIiIl ING ioas
on abort notica. '
my33DWIr
AnMoMatB Female Miite.
The twraty-serentb year, divided Into twC
sessions of flu months carh, bevln. Beptenilter I
J. 1878, and nidA JuneS. lKitt. This Is an eatah- I
Usktd school, with experienced educators, Iu- f
eatod iT-a dtjr lamed for health and re-
fined s7- The coarse of stnales . varied
aDdthoroiNk0ftomprlsin(; Latin. Ureek, Preach,
ttnlsb, t.efrtsn and English, ph losopliy, I
Mathematics, Kotaoy, Astronomy, Music. Ursw I
Ing, Palatini;, VKancy Work, etc Each boarder i
so out f Qroiah tier own toilet articles, towels, a
pair of blankeas, a pair vf sheets and a pair of
pillow caaes. (Boad, Tnltlon.l tithta and Koet
per session, advance. $iuu; Music, with use of 1
for partlciars address
Kit V. J. bMlTD. Austin. Texas.
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ifajueofw ""'"-live yl-. jpa-ingtb sta
oeot. frei o s-,0dls with julf cmnrs-s iu
ine scnoor aeawtin e department ny
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w caiaioue aiol m tt.
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Chairman of ihe Faro It v.
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For finalor,
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Far Vonnf Attormty,
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