The Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 21, 1870 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. IV. . GEORGETOWN, TEZAS, MAY 21, 1870.
NO. 5.
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S. OLDHAM, Jr., Attorney at
• Law, Houston, Texas.
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M. STYLES, Dental Surgeon, Austin,
Texas.
GEO. WHITAKER, Lawyer, Burnet,
Texas.
DR. JOHN E. WALKER, Physician,
Georgetown, Texas. Office at R.
Sansom's store.
FJ. MANLOVE, Attorney at Law,
• Austin, Texas. Prompt attention
given to all business entrusted to his care.
JOHN T. COFFEE, Lawyer, George-
town, Texas. Office next door above
J. L. Brittain's store.
¥M. H. HENDERSON, Attorney at
Law, Georgetown, Tex. Practices
in the Courts of Williamson and adjacent
counties.
GRANT & CLARK, Dental Surgeons,
Austin, Texas. Office—Room 24,
Avenue Hotel. One of the firm will be
in attendance at all hours.
Hughes & Montgomery, At-
torneys at Law, Georgetown, Texas.
Special attention given to all matters en-
trusted to their care.
G (Established, Austin, 7857.)
T. BOARDMAN, Dental Surgeon,
• operates with all the latest im-
provements. Teeth extracted with little
or no pain by the use of Rhigolene Spray.
Office—Side cnteranee, rear of Rust &
Co.'s Store, Avenne, Austin.
JW. POSEY, Attorney and Counselor
t at Law, Land and Collecting Agent,
Georgetown, Texas. Practices in the
District and County Courts of William-
son and surrounding counties and in 4he
Supreme and Federal Courts at Austin.
Prompt attention given to paying taxes,
buying and selling lands, <fec.
¥P. BEALL, M. D., Physician and
• Obstctrican, Georgetown, Texas.
Bates of Chara es:—For visit and medi-
cine in town, (specie) $2 00; for mileage
per mile, $1 00; for prescription in ordin-
ary cases, $1 00; for extracting teeth,
$1 00; for Obstetrical attention in an or-
dinary case, $10 00. For all other ser-
vices a corresponding bill will be charged.
Prompt attention will be given, and
prompt settlement will be expected. Of-
fice with Hughes & Montgomery. At
night, at residence.
Female Jurors.
Alas! alas! for empannnelled wo-
manhood ! We have before us an ac-
count of a mixed jury in Laramie^
which hung for two days and nights.
"The ladies looked very pale and
weak," says the reporter " when they
came in to render the verdict.
" Pale and weak"—he didn't tell us,
though how the husbands looked at
thisjudieial conlinement of the angels
of their households ; rather red and
angry, probably. Nor, did we hear
how the babies looked, deprived for
forty-eight hours of their natural sus-
tenance ; nor how pantry and store-
room looked, after the unchecked
ravages of servants. In fact, that re-
porter s interest centred in the mar-
tyrs, and we are left in the dark as to
the results of the experimental self-
sacrifice. He didn't know his busi-
siness, and we remain in the tortures
of unexplained doubts.
Still we have one point tVappui—
they looked pale and weak! A hung
jury didn't agree with their bodily
health. Forty-eight hours of fasting
and quarreling would have reduced a
Zenobia or Boadicea. Did it agree
with their mental condition when*
they found themselves within the sa-
cred home precincts?
Cannot our readers imagine how
loftily these female jurors held them-
selves toward their uuhappv spouses;
how they snubbed the children, and
witli what scorn they looked at the
narrow duties of their menage; how
they argued the case over and over, in
the domestic circle, and browbeat the
'•hausfader" (the old-fashioned—
" hausmutter" is no more) if he dared
to disagree with them.
We can fancy all this, and a great
deal more, to which we will venture
to give utterance, as we do not know
how soon some avenging Nemesis
might arraign us before a mixed jury,
and then—(fare le hup.
If we mistake not, it was a murder
case brought before the Laramie jury,
and it brought in a verdict of man-
slaughter, or justifiable homicide. Of
course the women leaned to mercy.
Cela va sans dire. Justice with them
is no cold, stern abstraction, but an
active, compassionate principle. A
beautiful trait of womanhood ; but
we are not quite so certain of its
benefit in the administration of the
laws. There is a possibility that it
might turn loose cut-throats and
thievs without number 011 a commu-
nity, and there is a moral certainty
that the world would not be improved
by these same thieves and cut-throats.
These are deductions from the Lara-
mie experiment; perhaps false ones,
for as we again repeat, the reporter
didn't do his duty.
We only know the ladies looked
" pale and weak," but whether they
passed under triumphal arches on
their return home; whether they
were waited on by a deputation
and dined, and toasted, and took in
all the sweet savor* that modern fame
presents to the lips of her chosen vo-
taries, we know not. No houses were
unroofed for our inspection. No first
words of greeting between husbands
aM their emancipated wives reached
our listening ears. Nothing in the
wide world but—the ladies looked
pale and weak.
•' Oh weak and impotent conclusions."
—Exchange.
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For the Watchman.
A Ghost Story.
In my schoolboy days, which was
lang syne, but of much more recent
date than Massachusetts witchery and
necromancy. There was to be an ex-
hibition of youthful ideas in a neigh
boring school, which I wished to at-
tend, and in order to expedite mat
ters, I concluded to go a part of the
way the previous evening. So after
supper I mounted my steed. I being
about 15 years of age, my road led
directly by our academy near which
was a large church, and 3 or 4 acres
enclosed with a stone wall, used as
a receptacle for the departed dead, in
which were a great number of tall
marble tombstones, to mark the last
resting place of ttear^ep
ones, and by the side of whose'wans;
under the by shade of some tall black
locust trees, a class-mate and myself
were wont, daily to pore over the an-
cient love of Virgil, Homer, Sallust,
Minora and Majoria &c. Just as I
passed our place of study, I involun-
tarily cast my eyes over the sombre
grave yard, when, Oh horrible! some-
thing, to my immagination, the fae
simile of a human being, and shroud-
ed 111 habiliments as white as the
driven snow, met my astonished gaze,
seeming to rise out of the vaulted
grave, hard by the tall white marble
stone and proceeding a few paces
vanished from view. When lo! an-
other, similar in appearance, arose
and to mv mind it too must be from
the great eharnal house, proceeded j
as the first, and sunk from view, appa-
rently into the cold dark tomb. Anoth-
er, and another arose, and thus they
continued until the whole graveyard
presentd a sublime scene of shrouded
living dead. Surely this was enough
to make the bravest heart quake! but
although I made 110 special claims to j
great bravery, yet I had a kind of
pride in my disbelief of Ghosts,!
which forced me on, close bv the j
wall, although my direct road left the j
wails near where I discovered the |
first ghost. Determined, though my hat j
was raised by my hair standing on |
end, to solve the mystery and prove to
my fellows, that all things in white,
were not Ghosts although nights, dim j
vista might lend enchantment to the j
view and thus I plodded on, and thus j
the shrouded spirits rose and vanish-
ed from my startled vision, until j
near the upper corner of the grave!
yard, where I must leave the spirits j
to their night revelry, when one, the
monster of the whole rose majestically !
and—rattled liis bell—mv hair fell.
my hat resumed its place—and now,
dear reader, if you don't believe I
saw Ghost,—why just believe I saw
a flock of sheep.
LeMoxd.
Mother's Grave.
Why seek for a line or sentiment
To place above her clay ?
There is no marble white enough,
Her virtues to display.
There is no language strong enough,
Our sorrow to portray—
But the sacred name of Mother
Says all that words can say,
And is the fullest tribute
That loving hearts can pay.
Then carve upon the tablet
That marks her place of rest,
The words we leamed to utter,
As we hung upon her breast,
And in that simple utterance
Our fondest love expressed,
For the hallowed name of Mother
To us was truly blessed,
Then carve in enduring letters
The name we loved the best.
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From the Brenham Banner.
Wreath-Bearers Addresss to
Queen of May.
Most gracious Queen, upon whose regal
brow a coronet,
V crownoffiTowers, fresh from his pure
hand, is set,
Nor pains the classic temples 'round
which they cling.
Sweet Sovereign peerless Queen of the
Realm of Flowers!
Thus I my homage pay, as round thy
faultless form I fling,
This, my votive offering—a garland bright
from perfumed bowers,
Of richest, rarest, choicest flowers that
bloom in blushing spring.
Wear them, lady! and as they with re-
fulgent beauties glow,
And vie in splendor with the noon-tide's
glittering sheen;
So may thy reign be glorious, thy actions
noble—pure;
Thy life and virtues spotless, most loved
and lovely Queen!
May 1. 1870 IIexrico.
Another Desperado Killed.—The
notorious murderer from the Rio
Grande, Fred Pell, was recently killed
near Lockart Pell had been cap-
tured some months ago, and was turn-
ed over by the military authorities to
the sheriff of Karnes county. On his
way to Helena for trial, attempting
to escape, he was killed. Pell was a
member of the Taylor gang of bandit-
ti, and was present at the murders of
Major Thompson and also of Captain
Lyttleton. There were numerous in-
dictments against him for deeds of
violence and crime. Thus perish un-
lamented the shedders of blood.—
Austin Journal.
The word "white" has become so
odious that Sumner is going to have
the President's mansion painted
brown (the color of our 'colored *
Senator Revels.) Instead of "white
1101186," the name which it has borne
so long, it is henceforth to be known
as the Great Brown House! More
progress!
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Foster, W. K. The Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 21, 1870, newspaper, May 21, 1870; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235847/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.