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OSTERHOUT & BEMAN, PBOFBIBTOBS.
DEVOTED TO PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLES AND THE NEWS OF THE DAT.
ESTABLISHED. IN 1860
VOLUME VIII
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868.
NO. 14
Ctras Cotnrtrpan.
OSTERHOUT & BEHAN.
PROPRIETORS.
. *. OSTERHOUT BELLY ELLE.
C HAS. A. BEMAK. HEMP8TEAD.
To the People of Austin Co.
OFFICE—Olf BREMOS D, BETWEEN RED
RIVER AND 104 STREETS. ADJOINING
LARKE tf WATSON'S DRUG STORE.
All communications and matter
eerningthe paper should be addressed to
Osterhovt & Bemah, Hempstead, as
the Senior Editor will continue to reside
at Éelteville. ; " -
Be a Woman.
Oft I've heard a gentle mother,
As the twilight hour began.
Pleading with a son on duty.
Urging him to ba a man.
But unto her blue eyed daughter,
Though with love's word* quite as ready
Points she out the other duty—
"Strive my dear, to be a lady."
What's a lady T Is it something
Made up of hoops, and silks, and airs,
Used to decorate the parlor,
Like the fancy rings and chaira 1
Is it one that wastes on novels
Every feeling that is human T
If 'tis this to be a lady,
'Tis not this to be a woman.
Mother, then, unto your daughter,
Speak of something higher far
Than to be mere fashion's lady—
" Womau " is the brightest star.
If you, in your stong affection.
Urge your son to be a man,
Urge your daughter, no less strongly,
To arise and he a weman.
Yes, a woman! brightest model
Of that high and perfect beauty,
Where the mind and soul and body
Blend to work out life's great duty.
Be a woman! Naught is higher
On the gilded list of fame:
On the catalogue of virtue
There's no brighter, holier name.
Be a woman ! on to duty;
Hew the w w. U ftuui «II fclmi'w law,
Place high in the social heaven,
Virtue's fair and radiant bow.
Let thy influence to each effort
- That shall raise our nature human;
Be not fashion's gilded lady-
Be a brava, whole-souled, true woman.
The Ccwaid Traducir.
The undersigned, a committee ap-
pointed to prepare an address to tbe
Democratic people of the county, beg
leave to report, that they are novices
in political matters, and were thty
ever so well posted, would fuel great
reluctance in attempting any learned
political essay nnder existing circum-
stances. The issues which divided
parties in the palmy days of peace
and prosperity have all died out and
become extinct, and it is by us deem-
ed -impolitic and highly injurious to
reopen or again stir up those old
Whig or Know-Nothing issues,
which, under the metamorphoses of
tbe great revolution through which
we are passing have become extinct.
If, is for"us to face the perilous present,
and provide for hopetul future ; to
battle with the errors of the present
and establish the foundations of law
and order; and in organizing Demo-
cratic clnbs to engraft in their policy
from the first a high-toned, courteous
and parliamentary style and manner,
which will totally ignore tbe abusive
billingsgate of former parties and
substitute that courteous, open and
friendly address, which will tend to
unite and concentrate old parties, and
what is of equal value, enlist new re-
cruits into the Democratic ranks.
Never yet was an opponent won by
abuse or ridicule. Truth, justice, and
open, manly discussion and exempli-
fication of tbe peaceful doctrines oi
law and order, as set forth in tbe
great New York platform, and at our
recent Bryan Convention, are the
roads to success and to a victorious
political campaign, now upon us, and
of more vital importance than any
that has ever preceded it.
With a national debt of over three
thousand millions of dollars, contract
ed by the policy of the Republican
party since 1860, and with an outlay
ror expenses of Tbe Government and
interest on the national debt of three
hundred and forty millions per an
unm, we contrast a national debt,
previous to their accession to power,
of less than a hundred millions, and
an annual outlay for expenses of Gov
brnment and interest, of less than
sixty millions. Add to this the fact
that fifteen hundred millions of dol-
lars have been collected from the
people during the last three fiscal
years, poured into the treasury of
tbe government nnder tbe control of
this party, and that ne diminution of
the national debt is perceptible, but
instead, an increase is reported; that
ihis party has bad full and entire
control ot these matters, and are rap
idly emptying tbe pockets of tbe
people without any reduction of the
national debt or any abatement of tbe
overwhelming system of revenue
they have established, or any other
adequate return, and we get a glance
at the foundation of our financial dis-
tress, and an inkling of the true cause
of organizing opposition against them,
So much for money matters.
When we contrast our political
condition now with what it was be-
fore the war, when we reflect npon
the annihilation which awaits our
race under the miscegenation procli-
vities of Radicalism; the elevation
by them of military over civil gov-
ernment ; tbe destruction of our social
and labor system, and look through
the telescope of their principles into
the gloom aud ruin foreshadowed by
their policy as already developed,
money matters, of whatever magni-
tude, sink into utter insignificance,
and we are roused to a sense of de-
termined opposition to their policy,
which must and will succeed if con-
centrated, organized, reconciled, and
directed to the objects we have In
View. In order to effect these im-
portant results, we have first, to en
deavor to arouse the people, who
have become discouraged from
sense of continued outrage under
military restraint. If they could but
see a gleam of hope in the future
they would need no arousing, but
with eagerness and avidity unite and
concentrate their efforts with ours in
tbe accomplishment of this glorious
A • .. . result. That hope inspired the Dem
A prominent journalist in New I . . . ,
York, who is perfectly bald, has offer- j * * tb°7 a6reed to meet ,n
$1,000 for a tale that will make his' ^6W York to establish a platform of
hair stand on end. principles suitable to the times, and
nominate a candidate upon the plat-
lorm. Seymour and Blair were
unanimously selected as an embodi-
ment of the principles growing out of
the new state of things, by which
civil law could
, , . upon his bald bead—I knew by the
be «gam elevated L£ughtfal ]Qok npon y8 fac&_!
over military law, and a peaceful, knew by tbe emotional fiush upon
prosperous, and happy government the strawberry on the end, of the old
organized out of the debris of the re- free liver's nose, that Simqu Wheel-
Tb«t "J
maud inspired the old representa-1 becauseal| tiie8e were symptoms of a
tive patriots of Texas, when they re- | reminiscence—signs that he was go-
solved to assemble at Bryan and put ing to be delivered of another of his
forth their enerves in this behalf; tiresome personal experi^-but I
m • , , , I was too slow; he got tbe start of me.
and that gleam of hope, caught hre Ag near ag j 'CRn ®ec0llecti the infHc_
and inspired by the acts aña priaci- (¡qq was couched in the following
pies of these assemblages, inspires us language:
wbile we write—inspires every one " We was all boys, then, and didn't
as he reflects on Ha present state of f?r onl7 }°,
,. . , „ , , school, and keep up a revivin state
affuirs,turns his mind from the gloom of devilmeDt ali the time This yar
and despair of the past and yearns, Jim Wolfe I was talking about, was
as every patriot should yearn, for a the 'prentice, and he was the best
return of the palmy days of prosper-1 feller, he was, and the most
.. , . . forerivin and onselfisb, 1 ever see—
y before the war- We arS« earnest" I well, there couldn't be a morebuBifier
The midnight assassin, who steal-
thily breaks in upon the sanctities of
the private home of a family, and
thrusts bis stilletto into tbe heart of
slumbering innocence, is no gi cater
villain than he who assail:. his neigh-
bors good uame—invades the hallow-
ed courts of the temple ot bis well
deserved and hard earned fame—
breaths blight aud mildew upon bis
spotless reputation—and leaves in
his tortuous tr ck, tbe sli*ne aud ven-
om of a basilisk.
Tbe sentiment has b*en most truth-
fully and graphically enunciated, be
who can choke the sweetest flowers of
social love, and taint them with dis-
ease—and in the paradise of earthly
bliss, where the plants of virtne
flourish, spread the malaria of moral
desolation—the poison of hatred and
distrust—who gladly would, were it
possible, crush his neighbore charac-
ter to dust—grind to powder every
vestige of his public honor and pri-
vate value, and build upon the rains
—who can write infamy upon the
brow of others to prove his own pur-
ity-— is neither man nor beast, but a
heartless demon.
Those who have seen their dear-
est interests trampled upon—who
have known what it is to have the
priceless gem ot a good name sullied
by tbe pestilential breath of cold un-
pitying slander—these best can say,
the calumniator has no heart,—no
conscience,—no soul! If the light-
ning's flash ever darts from Heaven
to strike the guilty down, it will blast
the hopes of murderers, such as these.
But bad as is the vile defamer oí
the living—yet far worse is he who
exhumes from the peaceful shadows
of death, the departed victim of his
envy, to bold him up to the gaze of
the woild, as a target at which to
hurl the pestiferous shafts of his ma-
lignant hate.
In such a monster, there can be
found no trace of the image of God;
but in room of this, is seen every ap-
palling and disgusting lineament of
the archfiend of perdition*
An enterprising bill poster in New
York has the following sign over his
chop door:
Go torth in haste with bills and paste,
Proclaim to all creation.
The men are wise who advertise,
In thep resent generation.
Jim Wolfe and the Tom Cata,
Bv Mask Twain.
I k'new by the sympathetic glow
jump he give he'd shed some china,
and every squirm he fetched he drip-
ped some candy.
" And blistered ! Why, bless
on soul, that poor soul couldn't ree-
/ set down comfoitably for as much
as four weeks..
!y upon the people, the working,
laboring classes, professional as
well as mechanical, to turn their
thoughts once again to these mighty
objects; our lives, fortunes, and sa-
cred honors are involved in the issue
of the present contest. By arousing
boy than what he was, take bim bow
you would ; and sorry enough I was
when I se<t him for the last time.
" Me and Henry was always pes-
tering him and plastering hosB bills
on his back and putting bumble-bees
in bis bed, and so on. and sometimes
we'd crawl in nnj bunk with hiia, not-
r;
Correspondence.
to a concentration of effort, not luke- withstanding his growling, and then
, , , . , we'd let on like we was mad and
warm and secondary, but zealous, fight ^^ ^ gtir him np Hke
hearty and determined, we may pre- jje was nineteen, he was, rnd long,
serve them intact; by pursuing a and lank, and bashful, and we was
contrary course and yielding to gloom fifteen and sixteen, and tolerable lazy
and despair, we lose everything for an<* worthless.
, , . .. ... "So that night, you know, that
ourselves, and entad rum, disgrace I my aiater Mary give the candy pullin'
and shame on our posterity. they started us off to bed early, so as
There is one class of voters among the company could have full swing,
us who claim our earnest, friendly and Wo raDS on Jim to have some
«oqh.i1, «id .jrmp,tby. E° nci- 'on„- 0nr w Mlo lh<
pated not only by the result of the elli and ab0Qt ten o'clock a couple of
war but by actual legislative enact- old torn cats got to rarin' and chargin'
ment ot every - Southern State, they around on it, and carry in* on like sin.
are crowded from their former happy Th®re was four inches of snow on the
, . ... . . , roof, and it was froze so that there
and irresponsible position, to one of wafi a right 8mart crast of ic# on it,
responsibility equal to ouf own, in and the moon was shinin' bright, and
political as well as the general affairs we could see the cats like daylight,
of our government. However much First,^they'd stand off and e-yow-e-
we may doubt the policy of such ^ ^l^one youVnow, Zml
sudden accession of inexperience bow up tht)ir backa and bush up their
at the ballot box, they are voters, tails, and swell around and spit, and
and have with us an equal voice in I then, of a sudden, the gray cat he'd
the councils of the government Lo- 8natch a handful of fui off the y®11"
.j ... 4. "J cat's ham, aud spin him around like
cated among us, with many ties that bntt0Q Qn a ^ door. Bat the
still bind as together not withstand • jailor cat was game and hevd come
ing the devilish influence ot secret and clinch, and the way they'd
societies to make us hostile, they Btill g°nge and bite and howl, and the
claim our bolicitude, our regard, and I m&ke the ^ ñf
consideration ; they are citizens. We P°« Weli, Jim he got disgusted with
cannot too strongly denounce to them the row, and 'lowed he'd climb out
tbe effects of these midnight orgies, and shake 'em offn that roof. He
on our minds as well as theirs; every ' ret!'y 110 aotion of doin' it
of our natures tepe. .ho L„,; ¡¡|^^
lia influence already developed thro | j|0 always bragged bow he wouldn't
these influences, and we weep over take a dare, and so on, till bimeby be
and deplore the results as already histed up the winder, and lo and be-
developed. To tbe newly emancipa- told you. he went—just as he was
.j .i. ' - • j nothin* on but a shirt, and it was
ted we wish to my-your truefnends rihort. Youought to have a seen him
are yowr old masters. To them you a creeping over that ice, and diggin'
are immediately dependent for em- in his toe nails and finger nails in
ployment, and out of your useful f°r 10 keep nim from slippin'; and
. i . r . above all, you ought to a seen that
industry the means of present sup- ,. . a - > • ., .
l_,„ . shirt a floppin'm tbe wind, and them
port. While you may benefit us by long rediklouB shanks of his'n a glis-
your labor we may benefit you by tenin' in the moonlight.
providing the means of honest sup- " Them comp'ny folks was down
port, and the foundation for your fu- ^efe onde/ th« eave8' the hull squad
I ... ... of 'em under that ornery shed of dead
lire se emen among us, in a and Waglj'ton Bower vines—all settin'
which, under the peaceful and pros- round about two dozeu sassers of hot
perous rule of Democratic politics as candy, which they sot in the snow to
set forth in our platform, is emphati- c00'* And they was a laugMn and
v"of ^£oJ
but under tbe corrupt, extravagant, arama that was goin' on over their
and wicked rule of those who are put- heads. Well, Jim, he went a sneak-
ting the false and deadly ideas of in' and a sntakin' up, onbeknonst to
equality and a living without work 'J16!11 cats—they was a swishin'
, , . , - , their tails, and yowyowmg and thret-
in your heads, will prove to be a land eu¡ü, t0 cIjn(¿ y/u kn °w> and not
cursed of the Gods for your sake?; payin' any attention, he went a
a land where envy, hatred and ma- sneakin' and a sueakin' right up to
lice, aud all that is unholy, unjust, comb of the roof, till he was in
and impious will be in the ascendent, a.íoot.and " bal,f of 'e.m' and
. ... . , . , all of a sudden he made a grab fur
and in which, under the accursed tlie yallar ^ j But, by gosh, he
rule of the Radicals, it will expire, go missed fire and slipped his holt, an
down to ruin with you, with us, with his heels flew up an' he flopped on
a||_ to his back, and ofPn that roof like a
."Amidst the wreck of matter j dart 1—went a smashin and a crasb-
And the crash of worlds." I in' down through them old rusty
Respectfully submitted, nd Wded the de d ?entrB
r J „ - p of all them comp'ny people !—set
okb, down like a yarth quake in them two
Wi Ahhenbeck, I dozen sassers of red hot candy, and
W. Chilton. | let off a howl that was hark from the
tomb!
The editor of the Columbus, GaM Them girls—well they left, you
Sun, heard the following delicious know. They see he warn't dressec.
chant recently, and wrote it out for for company, and so they left; All
, . done in a second; it was just one
the benefit of literature, I^esy. mu- ^ w&r whoo nd a 6wishJof their
sic and melody, rhyme and rhythm : | dreggfc8 and blarme the wench of tbem
was in sight any where
*' Jim, he was in sight! He was
gormed with the bilin, hot molasses
candy clean down to his heels, anc
had more busted Bassets hangin' to
Nelsonvt/le, July 25, 1868
Ed. Countryman.—i agua greet
you. Many things of importance
have transpired since writing my
last. The prospects for crops are
not so favorable as when I wrote
you, owing to the superabundance of
rain, and tbe planters of this section
are beginning to apprehend danger to
their hitherto promising crops of cot-
ton, being in anticipation of the cat-
erpiller; should it turn out, however,
that their fea are unfounded, from
the present prospectB there will be
undoubtedly the largest crop of cot-
ton made for many years, and will
enable the people to realize and pay
their indebtedness this fall in Legal
Tender, as cotton is now bearing a
fine price in the market and tbe ten-
dency is upward.
Tbere is, generally speaking, a
great deal of interest thioughont the
country on the subject of public
schools, which subject has been
much neglected sinee the war ; but
the people of this city have taken the
lead in this all important matter,
The bone and sinew of the country,
pursuant to a previous call, met at
Nelsonville on the 7th inst., at Lewis
& Flake's Hall, the use of which
tendered by Messrs. Lewis &
One golden tress ov his har I'll twine
In mi helmick'a sable ploom,
And den in some well warmed work'us
hall
I'll seek a freedman's doom.
And if by the watchman's band I falls,
As I sneaks 'round de town of nights,
I ax jist one tear from Elizabeth dear,
Furdis champion of equil rites.
him than if he was a Japan Princess
¡ —and be came a prancin', aud every
was
Flake, for the purpose ot holding a
meeting to establish an academy at
this place, and to devise ways and
means to erect a suitable house for
that purpose. Rev. Mr. Baker, of
this place, was called to the chair and
Z. W. Dixon, Esq., appointed secre-
tary. The chairman explained the
objects of the meeting in a clear and
forcible manner, showing the great
importance of the subject to the ris
ing generation, and also making
some suggestions in reference to the
construction of the necessary build-
ings, &c., taking into consideration
the comfort and convenience of both
the Btndents and teachers, which re-
ceived the approbation of the meet-
ing by great applause. Professor
Prouty, of Bellvil! , being in attend-
ance, was unanimously called for, and
responded in a handsome manner,
urging the people to educate their
children both mentally and physical-
ly, showing them clearly that the
time had arrived when the youth
must learn to work as well as to read
and write; that labor well directed
was essential to the preservation of
good morals, good society, and good
government, and was, in fact, the
foundation of happiness, peace and
prosperity. His remarks were well
received by the people. Upon mo-
tion, the following named committee
was appointed by the chair to select
and purchase a building site for the
erection of the academy, viz: Jnc.
Manly, Joseph Willis, E. C. Wil-
liamson, D. D. Nelson, Jas. W.
Bethany, and Z. W. Dixon. Tbe
committee after retiring and making
a personal examination for said pur-
pose, reported a selection upon one
oí the lots owned by D. D. ÍTelson,
Esq., one of the committee, where-
upon Mr. Nelson, wishiug to pro-
mote the ends and objects of said
meeting, made a public donation of
tbe site selected by the committee
for school purposes, which gave uni
versal satisfacti:a and harmonized
he meeting generally. The chair,
upon motion, appointed a building
committee, to draft plan, draw speci-
fications, and to let the contract for
the erection of the academy building,
sealed proposals to be received by
Mr. Jno. Campbell, chairman of Baic.
committee, and left at Messrs^ Lewis
& Flake's store, Nelsonville, Texas,
They must be sealen up and markec
"Sealed proposals for erection of
Academy at Nelsonville, Texas,
Bond and security will be required
for the faithful performance ot the
contract, and the committee reserve
the right of rejecting any and all
bids at the option of said committee.
I made a visit to Sempronius to
hear Col. D¡ Laudes, of this county,
(who had the honor to b« one of the
representatives of the Conservativa
party in the late Convention at
Bryan,) discuss the great political Is-
sues of the day, embracing the plat-
form of the Conservative and Demo-
cratic parties both North and Sonth,
and also the platform upon which
Seymour and Blair, tbe nominees of
said, parties, stand npon, in the next
presidential contest. But kt! and
behold! upon my arrival, I found
everybody and every thing in a great
state of excitement. Mr. Doe. Scales,
(a secessionist, politically,) was lying
a corpse, having only a few moments
before been in the enjoyment of good
health, but now had met an untime-
ly death at the hands of one Austin
Middleton, who was a Union man,
and who immediately fled to parts
unknown before tbe civil authorities
could arrest him.
I have beard recently much com-
plaint by the people abont onr jus-
tice's courts not being held accord-
ing to law, &c., our last legislature
having enacted a law requiring the
county Judges to claseiiy and so ar-
range our justice's courts so that no
two courts in the connty shall be
held on the same day. The inten-
tion of the legislature is obvious;
that is, that the connty attorney shall,
at least, have the opportunity of be-
ing present at each and every court
when it may be necessary, inasmuch
as he is receiving a regular salary
therefore, in addition to the fees al-
lowed by law. Under the present
arrangement it is impossible for him
to discbarge his duty as on officer,
the justice's courts all conflicting,
coming on the first an^last Satur-
days in each month, thus entirely
disregarding the provision^ of the
law to the great detriment ot the
public. Tbe attention of onr connty
Judge has been repeatedly called to
this matter, but to no avail. Is there
no way to have the laws of the coun-
try enforced in this respect 1 Would
or would not a mandamus reach this
case 1 as much interest is felt in tbe
subject, a reply :>s respectfully 3o!:-;it-
ed through the columns of your val-
uable paper. I learn that in many
counties in the State tbo new system
nnder the law has been adopted;
that is, classifying the justice's
courts so that no two in the county
will conflict, one with the other, and
that it v. orks admirably. Why has
it not been done in this county? let the
people know, and if any one is to
blame, lot the people know it, and in-
asmuch as our State Convention is
now in session for the purpose of
forming a constitution upon which
the organic laws of the State are to
aereafter made, and we have a sys-
tem, which if carried out, in the opin-
ion of Legal Tender, is a good one,
and would perhaps be so in the opin*
ion of the Convention now in sesBioj,
and if so wonld avoid any necessity
of future legislation on that enbject.
Wo have a law abiding people, who
respect our laws be they good or
>ad, and who are clamoring tor the
other, and his interests and those of
hie client snffer in conseqnenee. We
hope to see this matter remedied.
storibs About Whits Ants.—
Travellers from the East have t«U
some woaderful stories abont the rav-
ages committed by the white ant, but
the following, from an English mag*
azine, are the* latest j
"An odd story is credited in India
in regard to the voracity of the white
ant. A gentleman having charge of
a cheat of money, placed it on the
floor, where it waa speedily attacked *
by these destructives, who soon anni-
hilated the bottom of the box and
bags containing the specie, which fell
piece by piece into the hollows of the
termitie's burrow just underneath tha
floor where the box waa placed.
When the coin was demanded it was
not to be fonnd, but the attacks of
the ants were incontestable, and tha
sto>y got abroad that their teeth were
capable of devouring metal. Soma
years afterward*, when the house
was undergoing repairs , the whole
snm was found ¿everal feet deep in
the earth in the midst of the nnts*
nest. White ants once ettacked a
British ship of the line, tbe Albion.
She was-obliged to put into port in
consequence, and had to be broken
up*
These creatures are mutih relished
as food by the natives of the interior
of India, as well as by those of Af-
rica. In India, before the migration
of the ants, two holes are bored in
tbe nest opposite to each other; on
the leeward aide, a pot is placed*
which has been rubbed with aromat-
ic herbs; on tbe windward side a fire
is made, the smoke of which drive*
the insects into the pots. These
captured victims are then securely
fastened in, dried over the fire, and
ground into flour¿ and made into pas-
try which is sold to the poor people,
but which, if used abundantly, pro-
ducer dysyntery. At tbe time of tha
migration of tbe anta in Africa myr-
iads of them fall into the water, when
the natives ekim off the surface with
calabashes, then grill them in irott
cauldrons over a largo fire, stirring
tbem as coffee is Btirred. The na-
tives eat tbem by handsfula, without
accompaniment or other preparation,
and consider them very delicious*
They are said to resemble in taste su-
gared cream, or sweet almond paate.
The Hcttentota eat them very greed-
ily when boiled, and grow tat and
plump on the food. They also con-
sume the pupss cf the ants, which
they call riee, on account of ita re-
semblance to tbat grain. They cook
these in a small quantity of water,
A large nest will sometimes yield a
bushel of the pupte.
If you desire to impress thepublitf
that you have the bast warea, and
tbe best prices, and are worthily en-
titled to their patronage, aovebtisb
YOCSSE&. Do not expect to accom-
plish everything Kith one trial, nor
two, nor three, but keep at it, and
you will 6urely win.
Have some system abont your ad-
vertisement, and let that be yonr sho-
vel, then dig away at the people—
keep at it, and you will as surely
get through the dull times and bring
more custom than you can attend to.
as that boy went through the snow
drift with his small shovel.
At Indianapolis, a few nightaainco
an alarm of fire was raised, and a
half dozen mokes, some of tbem in
enforcement of the laws, end expect j cool and airy undress, rushed out of
our officers to do their wholo duty,! burning building. " Now, aaid
fearlessly, impartially, and faithfully,
in carrying cut the strict letter of the
law. Stand irom under, ye who are
in tault 1
Promising you more anon, I remain
yours, respectfully,
LEGAL TENDER.
In answer to the questions of *'Le
gal Tender," we would say that such
a law was passed by tbe last Legisla,
ture, giving tbe county Judge the
power to so arrange the justice's
courts. If he has not done h?s duty
in the promises he can be compelled
tn do so by issuing a writ of manda-
mus. If tha classification has not
taken place such courts are to be bol-
den as heretofore, on the first and
last Saturdays in each month. We
are surprised that the change haa not
taken place, as the law Í3 positive
upon the subject, and makes it obli-
gatory upon tbe county Judge to
make th6 classification. It ia ex-
tremelv inconvenient under the pres-
ent arrangement and enfada much
loss to gentlemen of the law, as,
should be have caaes in two courts,
by their being held upon the same
the head of the family, indig
addressing tbe wise of his besom
" Now you see what you get for steal-
ing —'s shingles. God a'migh-
ty knows you stole 'eni, and I knowa
you stole 'em, and this is what you
get for it.
They have a Home Jonrnal up ia
the woods of Northern Michigan, and
it publishes tbe following •• society
news: " " Mr. Mis-quah-wah-bow-
you ia engaged to Mis-quah-wah-qnet
o-qua, daughter ot Ne-be-nah-ah-nah-
quot-wah-be, the mighty hunter :
Mr. Mah-kah-da-wah-bo-you to the
dark-eyed Miss Mah-kah-da-qna:
Mr. Ah-ne-ne-wah-bo-yo. to the
belle of tbe forest, Miss Ah-qua wa-
bo-ao: and Mr. Kish-ke-ne-je-kah-
kan-shln to the chick-we-nanch Misa
Ae-xua-ke-che-one-o-qua."
" Sam," said one little nrchin to
another, " Sam, does your school-
master ever give you any reward of
merit V' " I s'pose he does, " waa
tbe rejoinder, " be gives me a licking
regularly every day, and says I mer<
it two! "
Said little Tommy to the occasion*
al physician,t—
•' Ma declares yon are such a duck
of a doctor."
" How so, sonny ? "
Why, because pa said you were
••
day be is bouud to neglect one or the such an unmitigated quack. "
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 5, 1868, newspaper, August 5, 1868; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180305/m1/1/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.