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JUSTICE MOCKED BY JURIES.
NINETEENTH LEGISLATURE.
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JI. H. SMALL,
Editor
Texas.
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AGENTS FOR
Jacksonville, Texas, February 20, 1885.
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FIRE BUGS.
The Philadelphia almshouse was de-
stroyed by fire on the night ot the I2th.
Twenty-eight lunatics, inmates of the in-
stitution, were cremated?
Entered at the Jacksonville I>ost OlHcc
fts Second-Class Mail Matter.
The New Orleans papers are breathing
indignation over the judicial farce recently
enacted in that city in the trial of the live
prisoners charged with the cold-blooded
RELIEVES NEURALGIA IN THREE TO
FIVE MINUTES.
Austin, Feb. 1G.
Senate.
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W. C_ BOLTON a Notary Public.
Mortgages written and acknowledged.
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And Manufacturers of Evaporating Pans.
Also, A Full Line of
Staple Groceries
Constantly On Hand.
THE
JACKSW'/ILlE INTELLIGENCER,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
R. H. SMALL AND T. M. McCLURE.
Two masked men entered the residence
of P. B. Kinkead, county treasurer of
Cass county, at Linden, on the night of
the 13th.and robbed him of $1000 in money
and $22,000 in state securities, afterknock-
ing him down with a pistol.
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“The two houses of congress have
pursuance of the constitution
- and laws and the' concurrent resolu-
row. I tions for the purpose of the discharge oi
Mr. Jones introduced a joint resolution the duty required by the laws in the mat-
authorizing the capital board to modify iter of counting the electoral votes for
the contract so that the outer walls of the i president and vice president of the United
new capitol should be constructed ot gran- Slates tor the term commencing the 4th
ite instead of limestone. ; of March, 1885. The tellers appointed by
Mr. Davis called up senate bill No. 30. the two houses will please take their
which proposed to abolish the Tyler i places.”
term ot the supreme and appellate courts. Senators Hoar and Pendleton and Rep-
Mr. Davis said he had made careful inqui- rcsentatives Clav and Keifer having taken
T wo negro men were shot and killed by
officers near Luling last Sunday while in
the act of piling cross ties across the rail-
road track.
The sheriffs’ aasociation assembled at
Austin last Monday, with a very slight al-
And Proprietors Opera House.
Corner Main and Commerce Streets,
AT THEIR OLD STAND,
JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
STOVES
Fire Bach Warranted to Last 15 Years!
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED.
A couple of Canadians have made an
invention by which telephoning and tel-
egraphing can be carried on simultaneous-
ly and over the same wire. The Chicago
Times-says it has been tested success-
fully.
The governor has signed the bill for
extending the time for payment of inter-
est on lands until August I, and it will
go into effect immediately. This law will
no doubt be a great boon to actual set-
tlers who have bought school lands.
The number of fires oceurrjng recently
at different places in Texas is suggestive
of incendiarism, It behooves the citizens
of every town to take steps to secure a
careful watch over their property at night,
to prevent incendiary fires, and to capture
the miscreants who perpetuate such vil-
lainies. The wretch who would set fire j
to a town for the purpose of robbing, or
to cover up a robbeiy or other crime, de-
serves instant punishment pt’ I lie severest
kind..
— DEALER in —
DRYGOODS,
Successors to Bolton Bros.,
Mm in ftitril itaiiiiB,
Month Side of Commerce Street,
JACKSONVILLE,
J. A. TEMPLETON,
Successor to J. A. Templeton & Co.,
Dealer In
General HManiiise,
MAIN STREET,
Next Door to Dr. Rudd's Laboratory, I
Jacksonville, Texas.
Thankful for the liberal patronage extend-'
ed in the past, I desire to merit a continu-
ance of the same only by reasonable prices
and square dealing.
J. A. TEMPLETON,
upon the evidence adduced in court, agree
that it was a deliberately planned murder, ! n,e committee rose, reported progress.and met in
executed by Ford, who was a judge of one i , >
of the police courts of the city, aided by
his accomplices, who were all officers of
his court. The case has attracted a good
deal of attention, not only in New Orleans,
but throughout the country, and the gen-
eral verdict of all who have read the evi-
dence is that the jury was stocked with
perjured jurymen, hired and bribed to
prevent a conviction. One remarkable
feature of this trial was in the fact that
the jury’ was composed of eleven white
men and one negro, and that the eleven
white men were for acquitting the mur-
derers, and the negro, solitary and alone,
with more virtue and honesty and regard
for his solemn oath and his obligations to
society than the eleven white men, held
out fora conviction. The verdict of the
public in this case, is that the integrity and
intelligence of the negro bears a striking-
contrast to the corruption and ignorance
or cowardice of the eleven wldte men,
who have covered themselve with infamy
in the estimation of all honorable men.
Commenting on this trial the Times-
Democrat very pertinently remarks that
the result isvery discouraging to the sys-
tem of trial by jury, and shows it at its
worst. All the bad points'of jury trials
are brought out in this case. It shows the
material of which juries are too often com-
posed. Good men either refuse to serve,
or are for some cause exempt, or they are
challenged, and thus juries are packed
with men who are anxious to serve in
order to acquit, or with men who are ta-
ken because of their ignorance. No intel-
ligent man who reads the papers and tries
to keep himself informed as to what is
going on in the world around him, is
qualified or will be accepted as a juror;
but ignorance is at a premium when a
prisoner is to be trwd for the gravest of-
fence known to tbe'law.
The result of this trial is a strong ap-
peal for a change not only of the jury sys-
tem in Louisiana, but of other States as
well, including Texas. The appeal should
be heard and answered with a proper cor-
rection of our jury system before these
shameless perversions of public justice
bring to our doors the sanguinary scenes
enacted in Cincinnati last summer, when
the enraged populace sought to avenge
the perversion of public justice.
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Corner of Bolton and Commerce Streets.
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This is the glaring iiead under which
what purports to be, in the outset, a
C 1!’"’ ant valued WOO- thrilling story of the late war, recounts
"surauoc. thc raarvelous d.u.ino, of onc q’lfomag
Flanagan in saving Gen. Sherman's am-
munition at Resaca, Georgia. The story
goes that all the ammunition of Sherman's,
army was stacked in piles, and covered
with tarpaulins: that suddenly a fearful
storm arose, and the lightning set tire to
the tarpaulins, when this fictitious hero
suppressed the fire and saved the ammu-
nition of the army, and the lives of 1000
wounded soldiers lying around it.
W e hate to spoil a good story, but the
truth is the operations of Sherman’s and
Johnson's armies at Resaca was during a
period of warm and very clear weather.
Not only was there no storm, but not a
cloud to be seen for days before, during
and after the battle. The artillery which
we helped to serve on that occasion was
planted in an open field, and we smeared
our guns all over with the “gun swabs”
to prevent them from reflecting the sun's
rays, so bright was that orb shining dur-
ing that hotly contested battle. We will
never forget the sunset of the last day's, joints with disorderly houses, and making
M. FREEDMAN,
The new court house of Henderson
county, at Athens, Texas, was destroyed
by fire on the‘morning of the 13th. All
the books and papers of the district
clerk’s office were burned. The records
and abstracts of titles to lands were in a
fire-proof vault in the county clerk's office,
and were saved. The court house was a
new 1 ' ' *
No insurance.
The Texas Press Association is being
used as a petard to foist one of its mem-
bers into a federal office.
battle at Resaca. After repeated assaults
upon the rebel lines, thc enemy had sul-
lenly fallen back a few hundred yards,
leaving a strong line of skirmishers en-
trenched in our immediate front, who
kept up an incessant tire. Just before
sunset a brass band on the federal main
us commenced playing
Home. Sweet Home,” when a man
named T. A. Hord, now city marshal of
Mexia, called out to the federal skirmish-
ers to cease firing, as we wanted to hear
the music. The firing ceased immediate-
ly in front of us, and gradually died away
on the right and left. The band played
“Yankee Doodle,” and some other piece,
when Hord called out to them to “give us
Dixie.” The band struck up “Dixie” at
once, and played it with animation, at the
conclusion of which the whole rebel line
yelled a hearty applause. This so exas-
perated tlie enemy that they opened on us
with artillery and musketry, to which we
cordially responded with the same kind,
and saluted the. setting sun with thunder-
ing artillery and roaring musketry.
But we have forgotten to mention the
patent medicine with which the man who
saved Sherman’s ammunition concluded
his thrilling narrative. Let it go.
OxeJ. D. I.ayton, of Lamar county,
shot a brakeman on the train near Cisco,
inflicting a serious wound in the back of
the head. The brakeman was adjusting
a bell cord, and Layton thought the brake-
man was'preparing to hang him, so he
pulled ont a pistol and shot him. I.ayton
was suffering from insanity resulting from
a sunstroke last summer.
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3 he Galveston News' Austin corres-p*ne in front of
pondent, in attempting to forecast the re-
port ot the penitentiary investigating com-
mittee, took his cue from the three mem-
bers of the committee who went to Rusk
with the predetermination of finding
nothing to commend or report favorably
upon in connection with the state prison
at that place. “The furnace is no account,
neither the iron smelted there, the wag-
ons built by the convicts, nor anything
else manufactured at the Rusk prison.”
Now, it is well known that the iron pro-
duct of the Rusk furnace has been pro-
nounced of a superior quality bv private
founders competent to judge'of the qual-
•ty Of the iron. The only difficulty to
be overcome in making the iron product
there successful is in the cost of getting it
to market. The ore is abundant, conven-
ient to the prison, and of a superior qual-
ih , and there is no reason why it cannot
be successfully worked. As to the infe-
J or quality of the wagons made there,
that is about of a piece with the balance
of (he News correspondent’s effort to
break down the Rusk prison, and pave
the way for working the convicts on
farms, a policy to which part of the com-
mittee are strongly wedded, but which
tlie people of Texas have as emphatically
condemned years ago, when the wood's
were full of escaped convicts, depredating
upon private property in nutnerotjs ways. ’
Ii the state cannot do better than go to ’
. farming with its convicts, it had better !
abofish jts systcip of penal servitude alto-'
get hei
Events at present indicate the possi-
bility of a war between Great Britain and
Russia. The latter country wants to es-
tablish a port on the Indian ocean, and
cannot have access to it without infring-
ing British interests in Afghanistan. The
evident preparations for war by Russia
in this quarter has aroused the British
lion, and it is not improbable that trouble
between the two countries mav ensue.
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It was expected that the investigating
committee of the two bouses of the legist
lature would have submitted a report last
luesday, but we find no mention of such
report in thc proceedings of either house.
Through private advices from Austin,
however, we learn that the committee
was divided in sentiment, a part of them
favoring the abandonment of the Rusk
prison and sale of the furnace, in order to
pave the way for working the convicts on
farms. A compromise report was agreed
upon, which, in the estimation of mem-
bers more .favorable to the Rusk prison,
would form the basis upon which to se-
cure at least some needed legislation in
the interests of that branch of the state
prison. We will publish the report in
full as soon as it is given the press.
In addition to the above I have addod to
My Store a
Millinery Department
Superintended by
MRS. FREEDMAN, •
To which we would invite the attenion of
Ladies. I am now selling
Strictly For CASH,
and can therefore give you
Better Bargains
| than any other house in Town. If you !
Bahn, c7.rminTtiv7 Syrup, ! want GOOD GOODS at. LOW’ PRICES, i
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: Respectfully,
M. FREEDMAN.
munds said:
“The president of the senate will open
the certificates of the several states in al-
phabetical ’order, and be now opens the
certificates lor the state of Alabama. He
hands to the chairman of the tellers on
the part of the senate the certificate from
Alabama received by mail, and to the
chairman of the tellers on the part of the
house of representatives the certificate re-
ceived by messenger.”
The certificate was read by Senator
Hoar, and announced ten electoral votes
poned, which was carried by a vo‘te of i l eleetoral votes for Hioma7 "a? Henffi
for vice president.
Senator Sherman asked the unanimous
consent that only the operative parts ot
the certificates beTead, the formal parts
being inspected by thc tellers. This was A jrrs zx i n/j r . ,
agreed to. and only a statement of the AgGHCS TOT GOO. K. Oyler Manufacturing CO. S
votes east was rend. . . . ...
The certificates for Arkansas was an-
nounced, seven votes lor Cleveland and
Hendricks; California, eight votes for
Blaine and Logan; Colorado, three votes
for Blaine and Logan; Connecticut, six
votes for Cleveland and Hendricks; Dela-
ware. three votes for Cleveland and Hen-
dricks; Florida, four votes for Cleveland
and Hendricks; Georgia, twelve votes for
Cleveland and Hendricks; I.lino-is, twenty-
two votes for Blaine and Logan; Indiana,
fifteen votes for Cleveland and Hendricks;
Iowa, thirteen votes for Blaine and Logan:
Kansas, nine votes for Blaine and Logan ;
Kentucky, thirteen votes for Cleveland
and Hendricks ; Louisiana, eight votes
for Cleveland and Hendricks: Maryland,
eight votes tor Cleveland and Hendricks;
Maine, six. votes for Blaine and Logan;
Massachusetts, fourteen votes for Blaine !
andLigan; Michigan, thirteen votes for)
Blaine and Logan; Minnesota, seven I
votes for Blaine and Logan ; Mississippi,'
nine votes for Cleveland and Hendricks;
Missouri, sixteen votes for Cleveland and
Hendricks; Nebraska, live votes for Blaine
and Logan; Nevada, three votes for Blaine
and Logan; New Hampshire, four votes
for Blaine and Logan ; New Jersey, nine
votes for Clevelfind and Hendricks.
The certificate from New York announ-
i ced thirty-six votes for Cleveland and Hen-
dricks. This certificate was read bv Rep-
resentative Clay, of Kentuckv. and as
some vague rumors were in the air this
morning that trouble would be made over
the counting of the vote of New York, a
murmur went up when Mr. Clay finished
reading, and announced that the certificate
of the electors was certified by Grover
Cleveland, governor. A slight manifesta-
tion of applause was promptly suppressed
by Senator Edmunds, who*ordered the
sergeant-at-arms to arrest any gentleman
or other person who disturbed the order
of the proceedings by applause or other
manifestation.
North Carolina, eleven votes for Cleve-
land and Hendricks; Ohio, twenty-
three votes for Blaine and Logan;
Oregon, three votes for Blaine and Logan;
Pennsylvania, thirty votes for Blaine and
Logan; Rhode Island, four votes for
Blaine and Logan; South Carolina, nine
votes for Cleveland and Hendricks ; Ten-
nessee. twelve votes for Cleveland and
Hendricks; Texas, thirteen votes for
Cleveland and Hendricks ; Vermont, four
votes for Blaine and Logan ; Virginia,
twelve votes tor Cleveland and Hendricks;
West Virginia, six votes for Cleveland ami
Hendricks ; Wisconsin, eleveiF- votes for
Blaine and Logan.
. Senator Edmunds then said :
“I have now opened the certificates of
all the states, and their votes have been
reported. The tellers will now make
their computation ami report the state of
the vote.”
After the tellers had devoted themselves
to figuring lor several moment.®, Senator
Hoar read and handed the report to the
presiding officer, who said :
“Senators and Gentlemen of the House
of Representatives—The tellers have re-
ported to the presiding officer the state of
the vote, from which it appears thst Gro-
ver Cleveland, of the state of New Y'ork,
received 219 votes for president of the
United Slates; that James G. Blaine, of
the state of Maine received 182 votes for
the same office; that Thomas /I. Hen-
dricks, of Indiana, received 219 votes for '
the office ot vice president of tlie United
States; that John A. Logan, of Illinois, re-
ceived 182 votes for the same otiiee;
wherefore, I do declare that Gruver
Cleveland, of the state of New Y ork, has
received a majority of the votes of the
whole number of electors, appointed as
they appear in the certificates read by the
tellers, and so appear to have been elected
president of the United States for four
years, commencing on the 4th day of
March, 1885, and that Thomas A. Hen-
dricks, of tlie state of Indiana, has re-
ceived a majority of tlie votes of tlie whole
number’of electors appointed, as they ap-
pear on the certificates read by the tellers,
and so appear io be elected vice president
of the United States for four years, com-
mencing on the 4th of March, 1885. and
the president of the senate makes this
declaration also as a public statement in
the presence of the two houses of congress
of the contents of the papers opened and
read on the occasion, and not as possess-
ing any authority in law to declare any
legal concession whatever.”
Here the immense audience broke into
applause and cheers, which the presiding
officer attempted to suppress, but with
little success.
The senate then retired to its chamber,
and the house took a recess of fifteen min-
utes.
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B. HEARTH,T KECOMMEXD
, - ....„ . -.den’s Pectoral Balm, ----’
I convicts in prison, asking to change terms I 3?onic - •
| of ten years to life for imtrder. and pray-1 piepanffions on h-md h“Pply °f st:lnUsuV
mg that confinement for murder be only | marshen’s hi i s
ten years, as the average life of a prisoner cure Biliousness and Cor>"tit>stion’.
is only eight years. soDt l>^ J. 1,. not Gl.ts «(■ BRO.
utc3 before 12 o’clock the speaker pro
to clear the two first rows of seats tor the
-------------------------- — At pre-
cisely 12 o’clock the senate of the United
1 was announced, and, headed by Mr.
Edmunds and the officers of that body,
signed to them, the president of the
! and deliberate murder of Captain Murphy, i
,, F fl. 1 ! .... r .... . 1' 11 a • - _ Fill a • 1
extended over a period of about two weeks
and thc evidence was direct and conclu-,
give as*to the guilt of the prisoners. The ' the whole on the Peacock land bill, Mr. Mr/Bladffiurn' ’ “ '
published accounts of the tragedy, based i Pope in the chair. I Mr. Edmunds, in calling the assembly
nnnn tiw. -------I The bill was considered by sections, ' to order, said :
and after two hours desultory discussion I
announced further consideration to-mor-
row.
THE ELECTORAL COUNT.
Washington. Feb. IL—At a few min-
utes before 12 o’clock the speaker pro
l tern, of the house requested the members
Mr. Camp—To amend article 17, chap- accommodation of the senators,
ter9, of the Revised Statutes. -----
-------------------------—r --.‘r-j! | Mr. Evans—To regulate proceedings in States
of the police force of that city. The trials suits and prosecutions for libel. P
Mr. Fowler—To repeal thc act granting the senators tiled in and took the Teats
land certificates to veterans. signed to them, the president of the sen-
The senate then went into committee of ate seating himself by Hie acting speaker,
iji /m tlirx I 1 •» i • r\ 1 • I.' 1 • 1 • x / I Itill A f .. 1? 1.... 1. I.......
authorizing the capital board to modify
capitol should be constructed oi gran- . Slates tor the term commencing tlie 4th
istead of limestone. [ of March, 1885. The tellers appointed by
•. Davis called up senate bill No. 30. : the two houses will please take their
which proposed to abolish the Tyler , places.”
term ot the supreme and appellate courts. Senators Hoar and Pendleton and Rep-
Mr. Davis said he had made careful inqui- [ rcsentatives Clay and Keifer having tak< n
ries, and had concluded that the bill I their places at tlie clerk’s desk, Mr. Ed-
could not be passed ; therefore, lie moved : ' ' '
to postpone its consideration indefinitely.
Senate bill No. 153 (Johnson's bill),
changing the road law, was called up.
There were two committee reports, ami
the bill was killed by the adoption of Hie
adverse minority report.
The bill instructing the comptroller,
treasurer and land commissioner to em-
ploy females to one-half the clerkships in
their respective houses, was received from
the house with two slight amendments.
Mr.'Terrell moved that the further epn- ,
sideratioii ofthe bill be indefinitely post- | for Grover Clcveland'for invsident*and'
to 12.
Mr. Dayis then moved to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was indefinitely
postponed, and lay the motion on the
table. Carried.
Hanse.
A resolution devoting Saturday to local
and special bills was adopted.
The committee on state affairs asked
permission to withdraw their adverse re-
port on Fisher’s sailors bill. Request
granted.
Petitionsand protests were submitted
as follows:
Against Mr. Houston’s insurance bill,
and in favor ot tlie repeal of the valued
policy la w.
Against disbanding tlie rangers.
For the repeal of the valued insurance
policy law.
Eight petitions for constitutional prohi-
bition amendments.
Two petitions for extending the time of
forced collection of taxes. *
For permission to Galveston city to
issue $100,000 improvement bonds.
'fhe following billsand resolutions were
referred :
Mr. Kimbrough—To establish a system
of public roads.
Mr. Moore, of Travis—To authorize W.
M. Wilson to sue the state.
Mr. Page—A resolution to require two
sessions daily of the house during the rest
of the session.
Mr. Woods, of Kaufman—A bill to pun-
ish peace officers for knowingly permit-
ting gambling houses and gambling ta-
bles to be run.
Mr. Barnett—A bill to change and ex-!
tend the time of forced collection of taxes.
Messrs. Humphrey. Davis and Gunter—
Bills amending the Revised Statutes.
The bill co require the land ifice. treas-
ury and comptroller’s office to employ fe-
male clerks came up on final reading.
Mr. Moore, of Travis, offered an amend-
ment fixing the date at which the act shall
go into effect at January 1,. 188G, which
was adopted.
Mr. Cavitt offered an amendment re-
quiring that half of thc state offices be
filled by females. Ruled out of order and
the bill passed.
'The house bill making gambling a felo-
ny passed the house without further
amendment.
Tlie house bill to equalize and distrib-
ute to counties the taxes on rolling stock
of railroads came up on third reading.
The emergency clause added by Mr.
McKinney, of Walker, was amended by
Mr. Foster, of Grayson, to provide that
the tax on the rolling stock of roads part-
ly in Texas an l partly in other states,
shall be only for the amount of tlie whole
value of the rolling stot-k of the road in
proportion to the mileage of the road in
the state, as compared to the mileage of
tlie road*out of t he state.
'Tlu’re being no quorum on the vote to
pass the bill, the house adjourned.
Austin, Feb. 17.
Senate.
A memorial was presented from thc
New Y’ork, Texas ami Mexican railroad
company, asking permission to sue tlie
state for land certificates alleged to be due
at ttie time of the repeal of the law grant-
ing certificates to railroads.
Judiciary committee No. 2 reported a
substitute for the bill classifying opium
the keeping of thc same a felony.
The bill bringing aidermen of cities
within the bribery status was reported la-’
vorably.
A bill was introduced to provide for
printing and binding 1000 copies of the
Revised Statutes. ‘ ■
The bill increasing the penalty for sell-
ing liquois in local option counties was
reported favorably.
Air. Traylor offered a resolution that a
committed of three be appointed to con-
sult with the owners of granite quarries
with a view' to purchasing tlie same by
tlie state.
Air. Kleberg offered a resolution to ad-
journ sine die on Alarch 17. Referred.
In committee of the whole the land bill,
pending yesterday,, was discussed, and an
amendment that purchasers shall be en-
titled to buy one section of watered and
six sections of dry land was defeated.
Ilonse.
Sir. Cavin moved a reconsideration of
the female employment bill, and asked
that it be spread on the journals. Tlie
bill was in the hands of the senate. Tlie
chief clerk informed the senate that the
house had reconsidered the bill. This be-
ing incorrect, placed the thing in a terrible
mess, and so fixed it that it cannot be con-
sidered again without a four-fiftlis vote of
either house.
A petition was presented by Mr. Tipton.
from citizens of Hill county,- for a law for
working roads by taxation.*
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Air. Woods, of Kaufman—That sheriffs
and constables be allowed, 10 cents per
mile both ways, all expenses of self find
prisoner for conveying misdemeanor pris-
oners from one county to another.
Air. Ramsdell—Al a king a fine of $25 to
$50 for cutting down or gathering nuts
from pecan or walnut trees not the parties-
ow n.
A communication was received from ex-
Governor Bell, asking for a pension, pro-
testing against discriminations against
veterans not citizens of tlie state, and set-
ting forth his services for Texas. Referred.
A communication was received from • Marsden’s
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Small, R. H. The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1885, newspaper, February 20, 1885; Jacksonville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1326737/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.