Georgetown Watchman (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 19, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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* TEXAS ITEMS.
The Killing of Shebiff L. C.
DeLisle.—We learn the follow-
in? particulars of the above affair,
which was announced through a
dispatch to Gen. Bucll, in our
extra of this morning, from the
Marshall stage driver:
Mr. DeLisle went out to the
residence ot Stephen Lott, on the
Port Caddo road, some three miles
from Marshall, for the purpose of
arresting Lott on some old chargc.
On arriving and meeting with
Lott he remarked: You are my
prisoner ; Lott replied, I reckon
not, and started to walk off, when
DeLisle commenced firing at him,
tit of the shots breaking his
(Lott's) leg. Lott then drew his
pistol aad feed, the shot striking
DeLisle in the head and killing
him ob the spot. Lott was, some-
time back, sent to the Lunatic
Asylum at Austin, where he re-
mained, we learn, until recently.—
Jimpiecutc.
Lott has since died from the
effects of wounds received in the
rencounter.
Military A uresis .-Club-foot
Dixon, one of Baker's men, and
two men named Tiller, were
brought down from above yester-
day, and lodged in the stockade.—
Ibid.
The Waco Examiner says that
on Friday the 11th afternoon
Sheriff Morris went oat to arrest
two men named £. M. Clark and
J. W. Merrett both said to be from
the neighborhood ojj Bolton, charg-
cd with cow stealing. Having
traoei them up for aone time, he
found them in the edge of the
praire on the Dallas road about
eight miles from town. Mr. Skid-
more was with him. The two
men " tried on their heels," and
gave our dual posse a hard race.—
They were captured, but Morris
had bo overheated hit fine roan
that within a few minutes after
they reached town the horse died.
McLennan oouaty hat never hid a
more efiettat sheriff than Mr.
Morris, and if thi value of this
horse cannot be legally taxed
against the eeanty in his regular
expense list, we think the dozens
ought to repleee the horae V
private contribution. H e had
been offered $1$5 in gold for him
just before leaving town.
Let some friend of Mr. Morris'
leek into the welter a*d see wtaf
is the moetftcsibfe mode of replac-
ing the "late lamented.11 Mr.
Morris wW aee4 another food
horse before long. There ere. we
fee*, plenty of eow tfcrfevas and
:: i' '
A mWfpoalent to the Exmimr,
writing ttom Maridealn, Boeqne
County, says:
O wm in of large stocks of hems
in tills countv are alreadv talking
WACE1KSOM * FOSTER,
VOLUME X
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS*'
gum ■ aa 11 ss ■ •; sm
«f establishing ranches lower down
the country, feeling that thegrare
in great danger here, and shoeld
they do so, you may soon hear of
of Indian raids into McLennan.
Bell, Falls, Milan, and other coun-
ties.
The wheat crop of this county,
which looked so promising in the
early part of the season, has cot
turned out so well as was expected.
It is full of smut. Corn, cotton,
rye, barley and oats give promise
of better results. On the whole,
our eounty is in a thriving cond-
tioxS, and the next census will show
large additions to our population
and wealth.
Attracted by a crowd at the
door of Messrs Tarr & Cooper's
Photograph Gallery on yesterday,
we called by to ascertain the cause
of its gathering and upon entering
the door, seeincr several soldiers
on guard, also our worthy Sheriff,
W. H. Morris, in attendance, in-
quired what it was for, when tre
tvere informed that Clark Jones,
w!>o has been codfined in jail at
this place for some weeks past hav-
ing been convicted ot murder in
the first degree by the District
Court of Falls eounty and the
decision confirmed by the Supreme-
Court at its session in Tyler, was
having his photograph taken ; and
having some cariosity to see how
he looked we approached the part
of the room where he was. Im-
agine our surprise when instead of
a villainous countenance we beheld
as fine a specimen ot a man as one
could wish to see, sitting perfectly
calm and self-possessed, with his
sister, a beautiful young lady,
standing by his side, one band
resting on his shoulder, having
their photograph taken.
He is about 26 years of age, five
feet ten inches high and weighs
aboet 160 pounds ; light hair, bine
eyes and fair skin, with very regu-
lar features and high forehead.
We understand that the Grand
Jury of Falls county fonnd five
true bills against him for mnrder.
—Waoo Examiner.
Major X. B. Saunders of Belton
has been called upon by a large
number of the citizens of Bell coun-
ty, to ran for Congress in the 4th
District.
The Beoham News says the wife
of a Mr. Hardee, who lives on the
Eowlett farm, on Bed River, in the
north part of that eoanty, adminis-
tered a doee of morphine to her
babe, a little daughter twelve
months old, on Monday last. Tfco
morphine was mistaken for and
administered as quinine, with fatal
results—the babe dying the follow-
day.
The Monitor says that the horse-
stealing business in Denton county
is played Oat Horse thieves have
been " swung up" to lipibe where-
ver caaght, and eow-thieves have
not been slighted.
Apples.—Can apples be grown
in Washington county ? Decided-
ly they can. Mr. William Watson,
the foremost borticulturest in Tex-
as, has just ornamented our table
with some" Red Astrachansso
bright, so fragrant, and so deliri-
ously tempting, that thoir appear-
ance might well seduee another
£ve into an exchange of Paradise
for a single taste. Those apples
were grown by Mr- Watson at his
Roaodale Nursery on a tree only
two years old and the Itcauty of
the joke lies mainly in the fact that
be has eae thousand trees of the
same kind. We hive bad some
Am in showing these apples around
to eminent and worthy old citizens
like Judge Gray, Col. Jeff. Alcorn.
Captain Jim. Dallas, G. W. Gentry
and James Matson, and plaguing
them for having lived in Tcsap
thirty years without any apples
| their places They all say they j«S|
' put out trees instanter, and 90 w$l|
we.—Brenhan§ Banner. J >
'
Mr. Thomas Moore, son of Mqj,
A. W. Moore, ot Bastrop county,
was shot on Friday night last, it
the door of his own store-house in
Webberville. The assassin took
his stand in the dark, and as Mr.
Moore stepped out of the store,
shot him, the bullet taking-effect
in the hip, which produced a pain-
ful and dangerous wound. The
assassin made his escape.—Bastroj
Advertiser.
THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR.
The 'Fat Contributor' says funny
things about song writers:
The author of " Take me Back to
Switzerland " never wns in Switzer-
land. The nearest he ever came
t ) tt was sitting in the William
Tell saloon, eating Switzer-kase—"
kase" why, it was the best he could
do.
" Mother, I've Come Home to
Die." hasn't spoken to the old wo-
man for years, and wouldn't go
near the house, Besides, he is one
of that class of spiritualists who
don't believe they will ever die.—
His health was never better. His
mother is nothing but a mother-in-
law, and she is dead, anyhow.
44 No one to Love," having just
killed ofl his fifth wife, naturally
felt like the devil about it.
There is the author of44 Old Oak-
en Bucket," too ; there wasn't a
bucket on the farm, water being
drawn with a tin-pail and a cistern
pole.
[We were under the impression
that it was drawn in a large East
Tenn. gourd attached to hoop-pole.
—Ex.]
'• Oft in the Stilly Night" used
to get on a spree, and made the
stilly night howl till day-break-
•' Shells of Oeean " is a humbug.
The plaintive poet who represents
himself as wandering, one summer's
eve, with a seabeat thought, on a
pensive shore, was raised in the
interior of Pennsylvania, and ne-
ver was ten miles from home in all
his life. 4* Gathered shells, did he?
All the shells he ever gathered
were some egg-shells back of his
mother's kitchen.
44 Hark, I hear an angel singing"
spent all his evenings at the con-
cert beer saloon. Angels, indeed!
The44 Fat Contributor" adver-
tises for proposals for marriage,
which must be directed," Proaosals
to board and clothe the 'Fat Con:
tributor' for an indefinite period,"
accompanied by three sureties that
the bidder won't elope with anoth-
er man.
ITEM8 FOR COLORED READ*
BR8.
The papers have announced the
appointment of Col. J. W. Mason,
of Chiquot county, Arkansas, as
Judge of the Slerre Leone or Cape-
town Court of Arbitration, provn
ded for under the treaty for the
suppression of the slave trade.—
Col. Mason is a colored man, born'
a slave in ArtofeOsas, made free by
his staster, end educated at Ober-
lin. where he graduated. He after-
wards entered the University of
Paris, wbeaoe he graduated with
honor, and entered the French ar-
my, io which he served with di*
tiaction, coining oat of the Crimean
tsar, it is stated, with the rank of
colonel.
The colorul people of New
T
NEW
SPRING ud SUMMER GOODS,
Gditers iid Proprietors
CJRDAY, JUNE 19, M69,
NUMBER 16.
ork gave a grand reception to
benc2er D. Bassett the new color*
consul general to Hayti. The
took place at the Zion
lurch, and there was a very large
Spdience of the best colored people
pf New York. Bassctt, in the
course of a speech, said diplomacy
was a new field to the colored
racet of this country. How t ey
would succeed remained yet to be
seen. But one thing he knew;
he brought to the work an honest
heart, a generous purpose, an
unflagging industry, and aa jrievat-
ed patriotism.
The London Daily News says:
Hie African royal mail steamer
Athenian, which left the Mersey
for Madeira. Teneriffe and the
west coast of Africa on the 10th
instant, took out several negroes
and negresses, who, after a long
term of servitude in Cuba, return
to the newly formed tree colony of
emancipated slaves at Lagos. The
released slaves, so far as the wo-
men are concerned, were certainly
above the ordinary standard of
their type, so far as intelligence
and attire go. They, by industry
and frugality, purchased their free-
dom in Cuba, and are now with
a good competency going home to
Lagos to commence bnsiness in
new colony. Mr. Edward Button,
from the Anti Slave Society, Lon-
don, and Mr. Boyd saw them off.—
Democratic Exchange.
MTLTTAIIV COMMISSION.
Since our last issue the memora-
ble trial now progressing in our
midst makes haste slowly. Wil-
liam B. Ochiltree, who returned to
this city a few days since, has been
apprehended, but is not, as yet,
arraigned with the accused* Jor-
dan Solomon, f rcedman call to the
stand testified, that on the night
of Octobcr 4th, 1868, he was stand-
ing near the Methodist Church
when the firing commenced near
the woods. He ran to Schluter's
stable, and peeped through the
cracks of the fence near it, and
saw men ooming into the jail gate
among whom he recognized Cols.
Crump and Alford. He immediate-
ly beat a%hasty retreat in the direc-
tion of Tom Ward's black-smith
shop, and while on the way thither
he heard firing at ihe jail, and
directly thereafter Anderson
Wright came running towards him.
Witness helped Wright to conceal
himself in one of the rooms above
Ward's shop.
Dick Figures, one of the princi-
pal white men who have turned
State's evidenco, was next called
upon to testify. He manifested
considerable trepidation, and told
his tale in a scaracely audible tone.
60 great, indeed, was his depres-
sion, that he was affected to tears.
With miugied pity and contempt
the dense throng listened to catch
his slightest whisper. Ere he had
been long upon the stand he gasp-
ed out, that he wanted the protec-
tion of the court against the citi-
zens of this country. The Com-
mission replied, that they would
pledge him the protection of the
United States' Government. 2 he
witness then testified, in substance,
that he came front his home into
Jefferson on Sunday evening, Oc-
tober 4th 1869. He saw a crowd
of men collected at Hughe's Wagon
Yaid. Soon aaw some of the men
disguise themselves, and leave for
town. Recognised several of the
accused, who are absent, among
them. Witness was told by Bad
Conner, that a mob to kill Smith
was being made dp by Mabry,
Pratt and Hauflct. Witness joined
s. c. h. morrow*
r. ti. PRICE,
the mob just befere it entered the
jafi yard. He saw a man whom
he took to be Mabry in conversa-
tion with a sentinel. Recognised
Saufley as the man who called for
Lockhart and Sanford at the jail-
gate. Recognized John Zfcnman
as a leader among those who took.
LewisGrantand Anderson Wright
t • the woods* He thought it was
Hanegan who ordered Lt. Dubois
to surrender on penalty of death
Heard it said in the jail-yard, that
George Gray was the man that
first entered the jail, and witness
saw him taken out apparently much
injured in a conflict with Smith.—
Witness thought it was William
Alley who fired the fatal shot at!
Smith. He said. that Muse was!
ordered to take command of the
men engaged in breaking open the;
jail door, and that Muse dragged
Major Curtis away from the jail-
door two or three times. Witness
was of the opinion that Curtis
would have persuaded the mob to
desist, were it not for the persis-
tency of Muse. Witness said that
Richard Stewart was taken out
and killed after the death of Smith
He said Anderson Wright and
Lewis Grant must have been taken
out during the confusion caused by
the first entrance into the jail-yard j
After the mob had killed Smith!
and the negrors, most of those]
that were disguised, removed their |
disguises and dispersed. Subse-j
quently a large crowd of citizens
met at Freeman's Hall, and two
squads were organized to patrol
the town. A number proceeded
to the residence of Judge Cald-
well, accompanied by Pratt and
Saufly. Witness and Col. Alford
joined them when near Caldwells.
Alford and Saufley endeavored to
dissuade Pratt from attempting to
kill Caldwell. Pratt insisted, and
they finally went along. Nat.
Caldwell, aged about 15 years,
was captured and interrogated as
to the whereabouts. A negro was
also taken with him, but his hiding
place was not divulged. Saufly
and Alford then made another at-
temgt to dissuade Pratt, and it
was then agreed to return to the
city. Witness stated it was very
difficult t? identify most of those!
in the jail-lot on account ot their j
disguises* A few men were qndis- j
guised and did not seem to care j
whethethcr they were reeognised I
or not* Towards the close of his j
testimony Figures said, that had!
been induced to testify against;
the accused by the fear of punish-:
ment tor perjury, and for the of- \
fence charged against the prisoners, j
On being further questioned by the j
Court, he said, that he gave hisev- j
idence voluntarily, and without
being influenced by threats. A
letter was brought into Court yes-
terday during the examination,
which Figures denies ever having
seen. It was picked up near his
tent in camp, and contained an an'
onymous request that he would not
testify agaiust the prisoners.— Jef-
ferson JimpleciUe.
nORROW & PRICE,
ffflo&s&aft Mi mAtt
DEALERS
if
wtr wi
CMJTHT2fO, JPOTJOMt
lUtR, CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES,
QUEENS WARE, HARDWARE,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
WOODEN WARK,
TIN WARE,
SADDLER?,
CASTINGS,
TOBACCO
FAAftLi WIMHMBRIE3.
W A X T E I) .
Wool,
Bacov,
I La*i>,
Floue,
Country Produce generally, for which tha
highest market prices wiil be paid.
. MOItiOW A PRICE.
READ
THIS.
The celebrated *' Crbstuc 8itr*r Dir "
has just been neceWcd by Mokbow k Prick,
in quantities to suit purchasers.
It is the best, quickest, most effectual and
cheapest rentedy (or the Scar extant
It has been thoroughly tertediu different
ways by experienced Sheep Raisers, and
the Proper biRSCOfOXB tor its use, to in-
sure a speedy and safe cure eau be seen up-
on application to them. To be brief, they
refer to K. J. Chamberlsin of Bell eounty,
and James Elliott of this eounty,
M. L P. are the ftole agents in this eounty
for the sale of the Valuable "Cresyfic
Compounds.1* and have reesived in addition
to the *'Sheep Dip," the folio ring:
Cresylic Screw WormOiatmeut-aAodiAof.
" Laundry Soap* tkt U* far djbtht*.
" Toilet Soapa—{perfumed) the Jbettfor
the human skin.
*' Salt Rheum ijoap—best for sores.
"Carbolic Disinfecting Soap "—the best
remedy far sorts on animals
They guarantee the above Compounds to
do aU that tbey are reoommended for, and
can refer the incredulous, to reliable men
who have tried them.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
williax A. blair having filed his
account for settlement final as administra-
tor of John It. Catterton, dee'd., to be ac-
ted upon at the neafc Probate Court Of Wil-
liamson county, to btgin the last Monday
in Juue, 1869, all interested are required to
appear at said term of court and contest
said amount if they <ee proper.
JOKAS shell.
Clerk Co. Court, Williamson Co.
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0.i«VK.
Georgetown,
Texas.
ESTRA YS,
SAN SABA COUNTY.
TAKEN UY by J. B. Harrell, County
Commissioner, one bay roan bone, bald
face, both bind feet white, six years old,
14* hands high. Branded D on left shoul-
der. Spanish brand en the left thigh.
Also, one bay horse, about 6 or 7 years
old, 14| hands high, three white teet, star
in forehead, snip on nose, some saddle
marks and branded M.
Also, one black s pcokled ox, marked crop
and unber-bit in the right ear. Brand Me
on the right shoulder, same on right hip and
S years old. d. D. LOW,
•US Clerk, 8.800..
-:o
KER08KSE OH.
A good article, at75c. f) Gallon, at
Willl keepoenstaut!y on hand a com-
piece assortment of
DRY GOODS aad GROCERIES,
w
RICH fie#iNeoH aa cheap an
be can afford to make a liviug
at the business, for cash or mer-
chantable produce.
Wli. H. CA&K,
Avenue, *
Consigvmenta Uktted and prompt re
tunw t adr. Hfckrs to tli^ A*iUhe iler-
;hant . * l2-M
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