Georgetown Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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thorized agent at Breuham aud else*
where.
Unexpected Return of a Man
Lost; Supposed to be Dead.—
We copy as follows from die Peters-
burg Index of the 9th :
Uy the afteruoou train from tlie
West, on Wednesday afternoon,
there arrived in town ayoun^man
named John Collins, a former
citizen of Petersburg and known
to many of our readers. In the
early ) art of the war he enlisted
us a private in one of the companies
which went out from the city, and
which composed a portion of the
41st Virginia Regimeut, Makone's
Brigade. He participated in sever-
al battles, but at Chancellorsville
he wu^reported killed. His com-
panions in arms believed him dead,
and the sad intelligence was com-
municated to his wife and child.—
His body was naturally supposed
to have been buried, as the bodies
of many so'd ers killed in a fierce
battle are, unidentified, aud it is
even stated that his funeral sermon
was preached.
The war went on and the war
ended. Four years of peace have
followed. Battles aud incidents of
the war are fresh in the mind, and
the dead arc remembered with
affection, aud their deeds are not
forgotten Collins was only thought
of as dead—as one of the patriots
who had gone from all scenes of
strife and trouble, and it was only
when he stood before them in per-
son that lie was able to convince
them of their great error. He left
the Confederate lines at Chancel
lorsviIle,and remained out of them
during the remainder of the war.
He then went West, sought employ-
ment, never communicated with his
friends at home, and on Wednes-
day ouly came in searcls of his
wife and cliild, whom he found true
to his memory
We doubt not that others, who
are also believed to be in theii
graves, will tarn up "all right"
yet.
I'khsonal Influence.—Blessed
influence of one true, loving human
soui on another ' Not calculated by
algebra, not deducible by logic, but
mysterious, effectual, mig ity as tbe
h idden process by which the tiny seed
is quickened, and bursts forth into
tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing
tasseled flower. Ideas are often poor
ghosts; our tunfilled eyes cannot dis-
cern them; they pass athwart us in
thin vapor, and cannot make them-
selves felt. But sometimes they are
made of fleshj they touch us with
soft responsive hands ; they look at
us with sad, sincere eyes and speak to
us in appalling tones j they are cloth*
f d in a living human Soul, with all its
conflicts, its faith and its love Then
4heir presence is a power, then they
hake us like a passion, and we are
drawn after them with gentle com-
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MlKEflSO\ & FOSTER,
Editors and Proprietors.
VOLUME 3.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1809.
NUMBER
pulsion as
drawn to flame.
man ufactories, railr 0aq9*- asd
BEKF PACKEUIES. j'r
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Jefferson (Texas) has a great beef
pavkery, at which, it is threatened,
more beeves are to be packed hereaf-
ter per day than in any other simi-
lar establishment in the world. One
thing hurries on another, and now
•Jefferson wants a cotton and wool fac-
tory, and has already Bub<*2rila6d $50,-
000 for that purpose; whereupon the
Shreveport Southwestern remarks:
If 1000 brick houses were put up
this year, and town property should
appreciate 100 per cent—the city
growth of Shreveport—its future
growth we mean, would not be as
much promoted by their construction
as it would be by a couple of manu<
tacturing establishments with the
Jefferson capital of $50,000 paid up
cash.
Will the people of Georgetown,
one of the most desirably situated
towns in the State for manufactories,
continue to sleep with their ejes open?
" A good illustration of what man-
ufactures will do for a place, wheu
encouraged, is afforded by the flouri
idhiog town of Canton, Ohio. When
the iuventor of mowers and reapers
went there a few years ago, it was the
dullest aud least progressive town in
the State, and was retrogading iu
Wealth and population, lie asked for
$10,000 from the citizens to help him
start a manufactory. They raised the
mocey and loaued it to him. The fol-
lowing are the results of the invest-
ment : A large reaper and mowing
manufactory, two large agricultural
implements and plow manufactories,
one of stoves and hollow-ware, two of
hon e rakes, one of farm wagons, one
of cultivators, one of wrought iron
bridges, one of soaps and candles,
aud others more or less extensive —
These are not small concerns. Tbe
machine interests alone supports
twenty-five hundred men. The town
has trebled in population, quadrupled
in wealth, besides opening up and de-
veloping a home market for farm pro-
ducts, which is stimulating produc-
tions and eurichiug farmers in the
country tributary to it. That is the
way the smart people of Ohio do bu-
siness and get along.—Exchamje.
What Railroads ao for Heal
Estate.—Acomputation, made with
great care by General John S. Shultze
of Maucbester, N. J., and presented
by him duriug the past winter to the
legislature of that State, as an evi-
di n e of the influence of railroads on
tbe development of the country, shows
that the evidence in value of improved
and unimproved lands on the line of
the Raritan aud Delaware Bay Road,
between Manchester and Long Branch
a distance of about thenty five miles,
during the five years immediately
succeeding the completion of said
road, was $10,195,500, on $6,£24,500,
and aggregate increase of o e nuncred
and forty nine per cent, per annum.
The time has come, in the present
of Texas, wheu there should be no
desponding on the part of our people.
These are times when we shou d
" meet all our fears and foes in the
van, and striking like men," toil ear>
nestly and look hopefully to the fu«
ture. There is a good time com-
ing and we confidently believe that
enterprise, industry and energy will
establish headquarters in Texas.—
Our wide-spread and fertile prairies
must give up the gay dress of flow,
ers wbich decorate their broad acres,
for the more profitable crops of corn
and fields of waving grain. The
horseman's shout to his stock, must
give way to the merry song of the
plowman. Sloth must yield to
growing energy, indolence to enter-
prise. Railroads must spread their
iron tracks, comuercial sinews, belt*
ing the country from the fertile lands
of Red River, to the unimproved
valley of the far off Rio Grande.—
These things are in the pale oi speedy
accomplishments, if engaged in with
unflinching determination.
u No leap, no fall,
No rilorte, no success at all.
Tlieu let us dare, do and achieve. 1
* LJ^jfcrson Jimjjlccuic.
WHAT WE BEGIN TO BELIEVE.
We bogin to believe that now a days
greenbacks make the man, and dress
the gentleman.
We begin to believe that the purse
is more potent than the 6word and
pen together, *-r
We begin to believe that those who
sin the most during the week are the
most devout upon Sundays.
We begin to believe that honesty is
the best policy—to speculate with un-
til you gain everybody's confidence,
then line your pockets.
We begin to believe in humbu-
ging the people out of their dol lars.
It is neither stealing n >r be ging, and
those who are humbuged have only
themselves to blame.
We begin to belive that man was
not made to enjoy, but keep miserable
in the pursuit aud possession of rich-
es.
We begin to believe the surest rem-
edy for hard times and a tight money
market is an extravagant expendi-
ture on the part of individuals—to
keep the money moving.
We begin to believe that pianofortes
are more necessary in a family than
meat and potatoes.
We begiu to believe that a boy who
doesn't swear, smoke and chew tobac-
co may be a very good boy, but is nat>
uraliy stupid
We begin to belive that if the
devil should die one half of the world
would be thrown out of employment.
We begin to believe that he has
most merit who makes the most noise
in his own behalf.
If we don't believe the foregoing
the masses do or at least act and con-
duct themselves as if they did.
Proof Reading.—Few persons
cut side of printing offices know the
importance of "proof.reading"—that
is the careful revision of the type af-
ter it is set up, for the purpose of re-
moving wrong letters, etc. For in
stance, a miserably scrawled mar*
riage notice is handed in, which ought
to read as follows :
,,Married : Oh August 1st, A.
Conkey, attorney-at-law, to Euphe-
uiia Wiggis.
"Love is the union of two hearts that beet
in softest melody ;
Time with its ravnpes imparts no bitter fu-
sion to its eestaoy."
The notice is handed to the com-
positor, or type setter, whose rapid
fingers fly among the type boxes for
a brief space. A "proof" or first
print is then taken off the type, and
the proof reader has the following
version before him :
"Married : Ou April lit, A. Don-
key, eternally at law, to Euphunia
Pig£,in«.
'•Joves is the onion of two heads that beat in
softest melody ;
Time with its cabagos imparts no better
foot to an extra day."
The proof is handed back to the
compositor to be corrected. "D" is
taken out of Coukey's name, aud a
C inserted * "eternally" is altered to
"attorney," and so on until the whole
pa sgraph is in proper shape for the
public eye.
Quite a scene occurred in Bryan a
few days since, between the police
and the sporting gentlemen of the
town. An attempt was made to ar-
rest some gamblers, by the officers of
tbe law, when resistance was offered,
and several shots fired ; and clubs,
knives, &o., were freely used, three
men wounded, and the gamblers stood
victors, when Lieutenant Bennett ap-
peared with a squad of soldiers, and
bagging four of the gents carried
tbem to the military camps. Four of
the offenders were tried by the Mayor
fined $25 each for violation of a city
ordinance, and bound over to the
District Court for resisting officers of
the law. Clean then out, and " let
us have peace."—Austin Republican.
Ou AprtjT25th the mail stage
was attacked beyond Concho.—
'1 he dr yer with his Spencer rifl , 1
shut and killed one of the Indians
TWENTY ACRES OK HUMAN BOXES.
. A correspondent thus writes of the
Confederate burial place at Malvern
Hill, Va:
" The cemetery keeper offered to
act as our guide, and after showing
us the fort and its adjacent rifle-pits,
be escorted us to a large field on the
northwest side of the fort, and there
a most terrible scene preseuted itself.
Thousands of Confederate soldiers
who had fallen ip their desperate and
persistant attempt to take Fort Harri-
son, were buried by the Confederates
where they fell. Twenty acres or
more have just been plowed up by
the owner of the field, and the plow-
share turned to the surface all these
bkeletons. Over t'te whole tract the
bones are strewn in profusion, and
grinning skulls stare the visiter on
every hand.
Wheo the farmer was questioned
he said the land was now the richest
piece he had, and iu justification of
his sacriligious act, stated that " he
did't put 'em there no how." We
learned afterward that the bones had
been taken away by the cart-load and
sold to fertilizing mills in Richmond.
Two humane men, too poor to do any
thing else, came one day while we
were there, and attempted to burn
some of iLe boces to prevent the
wretches from carting them off. But
a long job they will have if they at'
tempt to burn them all.
Yet these are not the only fields of
Confederate bones we have seen, nor
the first instance of disrespect for
their dead that we have witnessed.—
Perhaps they are too poor, as they
plead, to bury them. Then in the
uaireof humanity, why do they rear
a stone monument, forty-five feet
square at tLe base and ninety feet
high, at Richmond, to the memory of
the "Confederate dead," in the cenu
ct ry, and leave their bones to bleach
in the fields ?
SINGULAR INCIDENT
15.
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I Many a sweet-fashioned mouth ha*
: been disfigured aud made hideous by
| the tongue within it.
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| Monroe Browlow, a young man
well connected iu Grayson county,
was found dead a short time ago, in
Fannin county. He had b?en killed
by some one. The Sherman Cctn-ifr
says 1 e had been cou.panionirg with
„ , „ , bad men lately. This is the story or
A correspondent of the retain-, .. , e ...
ma, (CI,) Journal and Argnst, ol i "r 100 of ou , J0"* ° "•
April 15th, relates the following JMuu* ,B® <ml comu"""-1"
singular incident: " | uons eorruPt £ood worab.—Ex.
" A novel sight was witnessed j w p Wll Snperine«n nt
a few days since, by Mr. Uaftucv,I . „ T ^
who lives near Bodega diayj °f I'-hha Instruction "> Knox conn.y
While plowing near the coast, his Tenuessese, whs, it is said, " chloro
attention was directed to an uuu-j f°r,ljpd " and lobbed of $0000 at the
sual commotion in the water, near-! Burns House, Chattanooga a few
ly a mile from shore, which proved | nights ago. Of this amount $fi00;
to oea conflict between fi\c sword-1 belonged to the school fund, while th<i
fish and a sperm whale. The retIiaiuder wa8 private fllDdg.
ocean was quite calm, and as they
neared the shore their movements
could be plainly seen. The whale
was no match for his smaller anta-
gonists, who seemed to understand
his ouly means of delense, and
displayed considerable knowledge
of tactics in parrying with their
formible adversary. In making
their trusts into his sides, they j bells?"
would keep clear of his tail, one
blow of which would have be n
fatal to them. With maddeic.
fury, the huge nv nster of the deep
would strike right and left, earn-
ing the water to boil by the force
of the blow—and then he would
dive deep io escape the relentless
fury of his tormentors, but he was
Lamartine was hsked by a friend if
he did not spend too umch money iu
advertising. " No," was his m ly,
" advertisements are absolutely nec-
essary. Even divine worship (fr him
Dicu) needs to be advertised. Klse
what is the meaning of church
A Mexican who was with the beef
herd of Mr. Carroll from Gozales
county was shot and killed by a man
who was also a hand with the herd
near this place on Tuesday morning
last. We have not learned ths name
01 either party, or «he nature of the
Pictures.—A room with pictures
in it, and a room without pictures
differ by nearly as much as a room
with windows and a room without
windows. Nothing, we thiuk is more
melancholy, particularly to a person
who has to pass much time in his
room, than blank walls and nothing on
them ; for pictures are loop holes of
escape to the soul, leading it to other
scenes and spheres. It is such au
inexpressible relief to a person en
gaged in writing, or even reading, on
looking up, not to have his line of vi-
sion chopped square off by an odious
white wall, but to find his s< ul es>
caping, as it were, through the frame
of an exquisite picture, to other
beautiful, and, perhaps, idyllic scenes,
where the fancy for a moment may
revel, refreshed and delighted. Is it
winter in your world ?—perhaps it is
summer in the picture; what a
charming momentary change and
contrast ! And thus pictures are con
solers of loneliness; they are a sweet
flattery to the soul; they are a relief
to the jaded mind ; >hey are windows
to the imprisoned thought; they are
books; they are histories and ser*
icons—which we can read without the
trouble of turning over the leaves.
The McKinney Enquirer of ti e
17th inst, srys :
We have been shown by Sheriff
Wilson an order issued by the com-
mander of the post at Greenville, un*
der instructions from Headquarters
Fifth Military District, offering $1,000
reward for the delivery at that pos',
of each and every member of "Lee's
Gang." The language is somewhat
ambiguous, and gives no names, but
requires proof to be furnished that
the person delivered is one of*'Lee's
Gang," which we suppose means Bob
Lee's party. The original copy
can be seen posted on the Court House
door.
Some one has written a book for
Prince Napoleon. It is entitled "The
followed and soon brought to the | ,',®Pute *hich led to such fatal results,
surface. Deep gashes could be i Mellon Journal.
seen in his sides and the bloodI x
(lowing freely. The fight w: s wit-L «•«• •*• <* <Md
nessed for nearly an hour, when the | 0W9 . 10 thelr "wium
whale, in the agony of despair, j on ^ *n8k* Theych«n ed their
started for the shore, flinging him- constitotion so as to draw a revenue
self upon some low rocks, and soon | per. capita from the members. The
died fro . the efieets «1 his woi nd?.' ne*t meeting is to be held at Mans*>
Gashes two feet deep and &.x feet field, May, 1870.
long were made in his sides. Many j
in this city went to sec him. He; BIT by a Rattlesnake—A lit-
was between fifty and sixty feetj tie son of Mr. J. P. Mahan, of this
long. The third day the tide rose city, was bitteu by a rattlesnake yes-
high enough to float him from the j terday, while attending a school pic-
rocks, and he floated out to sea., njc> near the residence of Mr. George
A Correspondent of ihe Galveston j l>aker- The heroic daughter of Mp.
Ciciiian, writing from Richmond, i Baker, Mary, applied her lips to- the
Texas, says : j wound, and sucking the ptvimu firom
A mammoth beef packery is soon to j it saved the life of the fad. Thi+
be established at this place, by a coin-j young girl is a true Heroine.—
pany from New Orleans. In connec- i Times.
tion with this enterprise, two light
draft steamers are to be placed on the
river. The "factory" is intended to
be of capacity sufficient for slaughter-
ing seventy-tive pr alunc rel beeves
" More Hanging.—Mr. Stelzer, of
Polot Point, informs us that two
brothers named George, were overta-
ken aud bung on Polk Creek last
, ., ... .. ., ! Monday by a party of men who had
daily. Ihis will considerably auga - „ , , ,
\ .L. | . • e ,, / . . followed them from Hill eountv,
ment the circulation of Benton mint! , J*
* . • where they bad stole some cattle
drops among stock men, and as a> ....
. . which were found in their possession,
natural consequence, among others^ F '
. ? ! They acknowledged to have been en-
too. 1 be steamers will be an immense j * * . • . , , „
. Cl „ ... 1 gaged in stealing horsed and cattle for
benefit to tanners residing on the' . , . , . ....
. , . , _! (he last three years, but didn't want
river, in whose bams thousands of i , „ r.
, , , , . , . to hang.—jSckinney Lwtuirtr.
bushels of corn aro quietly reposing ,
as food for weevils, as the present j Three yonng men, each of whom
low prices will not justify hauling it' '8 enamored with the same young lady
to the depots with the added freights ">et in a .private room in this place a
and charges from thence to market.; night or two ago and were delifeera-
I trust the company will prove as sue-; ting about how the affair should be
c* Siful as the stockdolders can rea-1 -I'Om^'d. They finally greed to
sonable decire. The stock interest of i draw for chances, the lucky one to
the State is sec< nd to none other! have uninterrupted privilege until his
within her broad borders, and every . fate is decided, and accordingly three
measure that tetds to develop this,! strip" °f paper, on whieh was written
is commendable. ; 1st, 2d, 3d, were placed in a hat and
^ j drawn tor, the btst two in three.—
Success.—The successful man is . '
not necessarily to be envied—not
always the happiest man. Human
nature can not have its own will
long without becoming deteriora-
ted by it. We are appointed to
struggling our highest life is devel- J Inviolable fidelity, good humor, aud
oped. The time will come when f coo,plaeancy of temper outlive all the
the laws of our present condition j fc'iariE8 a ^ne face> make the
This is a novel plan of adjusting at ch
matters, and we think, decidedly pref*
orable to an exchange of shots.—
Stand aside numbers two and three.—
Red Land Jit aeon.
will cease, and when we shall be
able to bask in the sunshine of
success without virilty, or enerva-
tion of our virtues. Till then, it is
our wisdom to accept our lot, and
make the best Of it; to seqjc for
enjoyment in our work, rather than
in what the work produces—to till
the soil, and dismiss all needless
anxiety about the harvest—to be
more concerned that we should be
right, than that we should succeed;
in fact, to bear ourselves liku v el
disciplined soldiers, with whom
strict obedience is the most sacred
of obligations, and are thereby
absolved from responsibility as to
its results. Then, so lar as success
is vouchsafed to us. it will be grate-
ful ; so lar as it is denied, it will
Political influence of the Bonaparie J not disconcert us. Thus living
Family." our life will be its own success
decay of it invisible.
Fears of famine io Russia which
poor harvests for a number of years
past have induced, are now fully re-
alized. From Finland, Livonia, Es.
thonia, and Courtlaod, from the
s! ores of the Gulf of Bothnia and
Lake Peipus, from the lowland* of
Poland, and from t<he densely peopled
towns along the Baltic- o ai, com a
the same sad story of death. There
is no seed corn to be had for tl e crop
of this year, bread having long been
obtainable only at famine prioea, has
now become unattainable at any price;
pestilence hts made its appearance,
and is adding its horrors to the air
ready ovuflow ng cup of mia iy press-*
ed to the lips of the stricken people
of th •jse unhappy laodd.
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