ARTICLES ABOUT
TYLER AND SMITH COUNTY,
1871-1875
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 4, 1871, p. 2, c. 1
Personal.—Among
the late arrivals we notice the names of . . . Hon. George H. Slaughter, of
Smith. . . .
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 5, 1871, p. 2, c. 1
Personal.—We
have had the pleasure of meeting our friend Hon. Geo. H. Slaughter, who is in
this city with the halo of victory about him, his enemies, Wood and Hunt, who
trod to get the inside track of him in Smith county, having been removed from
office by the President. We would
have published his late Declaration of Independence, but we mislaid the paper
containing it. George is looking
well and appears to be ready for a shindy with any of the dictators who may wish
to tread on his coat tail. We hope
when the Legislature meets the Radical caucus will read George out of the party.
It would be a great satisfaction to them, and he will feel better
after it, we are sure.
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 21, 1871, p. 2, c. 1
In the
Senate yesterday Mr. Douglas, of Smith, presented an important memorial of a
convention held at Tyler recently, praying for a division of the State.
The convention assumed to represent the people of twenty-one counties.
It was read and referred to the Committee on State Affairs, which
committee was instructed to report by bill or otherwise, and one hundred copies
of the memorial was ordered to be printed.
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 25, 1871, p. 2, c. 2
[Summary: Democratic State
Convention delegates]
Smith—J. P. Douglas, George Walker.
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 25, 1871, p. 2, c. 4
[Summary: Votes—Smith—4 (1 vote
per county, plus 1 vote for each 5,000 plus 1 vote for any fraction over)]
DAILY AUSTIN REPUBLICAN, January 30, 1871, p. 1, c. 5
Central and Senatorial Executive Committee chosen by the Democratic State
Convention
6th District
J. P. Douglas, Tyler
DALLAS HERALD, February 18, 1871, p. 2, c. 4
We
have received and placed upon our exchange list The Nursery.—[Tyler Index.
Now,
Judge, come up to Dallas and get that pretty black-eyed nurse, and all
your trouble will be over.
DALLAS HERALD, February 25, 1871, p. 1, c. 4
The
Tyler Index is clamorous for a division of the State. A certain young man spoken of in scripture was equally
clamorous for a division. His fate
may be found in the history of the prodigal son.
Perhaps the Tyler man would do well to be warned by his example.
DALLAS HERALD, February 25, 1871, p. 1, c. 6
The
Tyler Index is very anxious to have us answer the conundrum, "why
Democratic editors do not blush?" We
cannot tell unless it is because they have no occasion to do so.—Galveston
News.
DALLAS HERALD, April 15, 1871, p. 3, c. 2
There
is much excitement over railroad matters in Marshall. It is proposed that the town of Marshall vote $500,000 and
the county of Harrison $1,000,000, to aid the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and
Texas road. That's the way to do
it.—[Tyler Reporter, March 18th.
A new
county is to be formed out of Harrison, Upshur and Rusk, of which Longview is to
be the county seat.—[Ibid.
A
gentleman of this place, just returned from Longview, informs us that he learned
while there that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company were about starting out
surveying parties westward. He
understood also that the extreme southern survey now contemplated will pass
about twelve miles north of Tyler. We
hope this is a mistake. If true, it
may be regarded as indicating that there will be no consolidation of the
Southern and Texas Pacific roads. Have
the people of Tyler slept too long?—[Ibid.
DALLAS HERALD, June 24, 1871, p. 2, c. 2
Democratic Executive Committee
6
Senatorial District
Jas P. Douglas, Tyler.
DALLAS HERALD, June 24, 1871, p. 2, c. 2
Grand
Masonic Officers elected for the Present Year and their Post Offices
Grand
Royal Arch Chapter
J. J.
McBride, G. K., Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 1, 1871, p. 1, c. 2
Central
and Senatorial Executive Committee chosen by Democratic State Convention.
6th
Senatorial district
J. P. Douglas, Tyler
DALLAS HERALD, July 4, 1871, p. 2, c. 2 [recheck date]
The
Democratic Congressional Convention for the 1st District met at
Tyler, on the 20th inst., and nominated W. S. Herndon, of Tyler,
Smith county, as the democratic candidate.
DALLAS HERALD, July 15, 1871, p. 2, c. 2
We
find the following letter in the Tyler Reporter of the 8th inst.
It is explanatory of the Registration and Election Law of the State, and
is applicable as well to all portions of the State as to Smith County:--
Committee Rooms of Executive
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Democratic Committee, Tyler,
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Texas, July 5th, 1871.
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Editors
Reporter:
Gentlemen—I
have been so often asked who is now entitled under the law to vote, that I have
thought it better to answer the question thro' the press.
Every citizen of this State who is twenty-one years of age, who has
resided in the State twelve months, and in the county six months, is entitled,
under the law, to register and vote at any election.
All those iron-clad oaths restricting the right to vote, have been done
away with, and now under the Constitution of the United States, as amended,
everybody is allowed to vote with the qualification above stated.
The following are the only questions which may be properly asked:
1st.
Is he 21 years old?
2nd.
Is he a citizen of the State, and resided here 12 months?
3d.
Has he resided in the county 6 months?
4th.
Has he registered?
It is
made the duty of Registers, when applied to, to issue to every qualified voter,
a certificate of his registration. The
laws of the State have fixed penalties on the Registrar for refusing to register
a voter, not more than $1,000 fine nor more than seven years in the
penitentiary; and the act of Congress, called the Ku Klux bill, provides that
upon the refusal to register a qualified voter, the Registrar may be sued, and
the injured party may recover $500, and he may be indicted in the U. S. Court,
and the punishment is both fine and punishment.
If the
judges or any officer of an election refuse to allow any person to vote who is
qualified to vote, by having registered, or if he has not registered, and will
make affidavit of such facts as show that he is a qualified voter, and has
applied for registration, is indictable in the United States Court, and will be
fined and imprisoned, and the injured person may recover, in a civil suit, $500
damages. It is made penal for any
officer of the election, or any other person, to change, alter, handle, or touch
any ballot, until the counting out begins, and the polls closed.
Then two citizens are to be present to witness the counting out.
When the polls are closed each evening, the judges of election are
required to seal up the ballot box and deliver it to the Registrar, and he must
deposit the same, so sealed up, in an iron safe, and the Sheriff must furnish a
guard to protect it; and the Registrar is required to re-deliver the box sealed
up, just as he received it, to the judges each morning, and so on through the
election days.
The
refusal to register a voter, and the refusal to let him vote, are both offences
against the act of Congress, and redress is provided for the citizen, by the
law, civil suit for damages, or by indictment.
Very respectfully,
John C. Robertson,
Ch'n. Dem. Ex. Com., Smith co.
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The same paper also publishes the following, being section 25 and 26 of
the Registration Law:
Sec.
25. Any judge of election, member
of board of appeals, registrar or clerk, convicted of any offense under the next
three preceding sections, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than seven years.
Sec.
26. If any person shall alter
change, mutilate, or in any way deface any book of registration, or shall take
and carry away the same from the office of the clerk of the District Court,
registrar, or judge of election, or other place where the same may be lawfully
deposited, or from the lawful possession of any person whomsoever, with intent
to destroy, alter, or conceal or in any wise mutilate or destroy the same, so as
to prevent the lawful use of such books or books of registration, such person
shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
as prescribed in section 25 of this act.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 1, 1871, p. 2, c. 3
Hon.
J. P. Douglas, of Tyler, in a letter to a gentleman of this city, says:
"People are warming up on political issues.
We will carry our district for HERNDON, in October.
He will canvass every county before election.
He has the brains, the energy and the money, three thing necessary to
succeed under the reign of Edmund." Capt.
Herndon is a man of brains and energy, and withal a gentleman of great moral
worth. We have known him long and
intimately, and shall rejoice to see so able and upright a man in Congress.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 19, 1871, p. 4, c. 1
The
Tyler Index complains about the drouth and extreme heat, and says the
crops are greatly injured in Smith County.
DALLAS HERALD, September 16, 1871, p. 1, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter of the 2d inst. reports showers of rain and more pleasant weather
in that vicinity. It comes to us
marked for an exchange. The HERALD
has been regularly mailed to the Reporter as it will continue to be.
We could not afford to lose so good a paper.
What Post Master is in fault? The
young men of Tyler are organizing a Young Mens' Democratic Club.
That is the way to do it.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 23, 1871, p. 4, c. 3
We
understand that the different denominations in Tyler have all resolved to allow
no meeting, except for religious purposes, to be held in their churches.
In the colored church the same resolution has been adopted.—Tyler
Reporter.
The
people of the Garden Valley and floral sections of this county are blessed with
good corn crops. In fact, the crops
are much better in the western than in the eastern half of the county.
DALLAS HERALD, September 30, 1871, p. 2, c. 5
From
the Tyler Reporter, we learn that Col. J. L. Camp was nominated at the Upshur
Democratic Convention for the State Senate, and S. R. Chadrick for the Lower
House.
DALLAS HERALD, October 21, 1871, p. 2, c. 6
The
Tyler Reporter says "there is good post oak and hickory mast throughout
this section." Corn is selling
in Tyler at 75 cents per bushel. Good
sugar cane has been raised there this season.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 31, 1871, p. 1, c. 3
A new
tri-weekly paper has been established at Tyler.
DALLAS HERALD, November 4, 1871, p. 2, c. 6
The
Tyler Reporter thinks the late Railroad convention at Shreveport will have a
good effect upon the railroad interests of the country. From the same, we learn that there was a general jail
delivery at Gilmer lately. The
jailer went in to feed the prisoners and was seized by them and gagged—then
they all bade him an affectionate farewell, so the story runs.
Eighteen escaped.
DALLAS HERALD, November 4, 1871, p. 2, c. 7
The U.
S. District Court.—We take the following from the Tyler Sun of the 29th
ult.:
The
following telegram, in relation to the holding of the Federal Court in Tyler
this Fall, has been handed to us by Capt. Duval, Clerk of the Court:
Austin, Texas, Oct. 24, 1871
"Judge
Wood directs me to omit Tyler, and hold court at Galveston.
This I shall do. (signed)
T.
H. Duval,
"U. S. District Judge."
Thus
it will be seen that Judge Duval will not hold the November Term of the Federal
Court at this place. Attorneys,
litigants, witnesses, jurors and others can govern themselves accordingly.
The next regular term of the U. S. Court will begin here on the 4th
Monday in April, 1872. All business
pending now will lie over until that time.
DALLAS HERALD, December 9, 1871, p. 4, c. 1
We are
informed that some of the most official [sic] members of the State Police force,
in Northern Texas have been compelled to resign to save their lives.—Jefferson
Radical.
Why
certainly, and many of them all over the country will yet be compelled to leave
the State to save their lives, if grand juries and courts do their duty.—Tyler
Reporter.
DALLAS HERALD, December 13, 1871, p. 4, c. 1
Special to the Houston Telegraph.
Tyler, Texas, Dec. 7.
Late
on yesterday evening a mob of negroes met on the streets and brutally murdered
Capt. R. E. House and F. A. Godley, both
lawyers of this place. Great
excitement prevails, but every thing is quiet and under full control of the
civil authorities.
All
the murderers are at large, but the sheriff and posse are making a vigorous
search for the fiends.
I will
write particulars.
Horace Chilton.
DALLAS HERALD, December 16, 1871, p. 4, c. 1
Herndon's Certificate
By last Thursday's mail from Austin Capt. Herndon's certificate of
election to Congress from this district, arrived here.
After waiting as long as he dared to, after counting and recounting the
vote, and after waiting for Whitmore to send lying testimony of intimidation and
fraud from various counties until all hope had vanished, and this, too, after
Herndon's friends had been notified that there would not be time for them to
collect and present evidence in his behalf, the Governor at last issues the
certificate to Herndon, with many regrets and apologies to Whitmore, and all the
encouragement possible to give him under the circumstances.
What a pity that Whitmore couldn't get more and better certificates, sued
as the Governor would have though sufficient.
The Governor has given the certificate to Herndon, but not until he had
attempted to give it a death blow by tacking on to it inseparably, an
endorsement, in matter and form as follows:
In
giving this certificate I wish to call attention to the attached certified
statement of the vote including the returns rejected as well as those counted.
Complaints have been made of fraud and violence affecting the freedmen of
the election in many of the counties, the returns of which have been counted,
and at least one instance of violence during the canvas [sic[ on the part of the
candidate who received this certificate is reported. In
my opinion this was not a fair election in that district, under the act of
Congress of May 31st 1870, section 22d, but must give the certificate
to the candidate having the largest number of votes returned here according to
the forms of law.
Having
followed Herndon as far as he could personally, and having given his opponent
every possible advantage of him, he now tacks onto his certificate this infamous
document, thereby compelling him to hand in with his certificate evidence which
it is hoped will swindle him out of his seat.
Did ever partisan measures stoop lower?
Did ever a governor act with such shabby littleness?
Out of his own opinion, and God knows it ought to go for very
little, all that he could trump up is contained in the following remark
concerning the rejection of the vote of Hardin and Rusk counties, which are also
hitched to the certificate:
Hardin
County—
"Rejected
because David Choate, a member of the Board of Appeals, was expelled by the
Registrar, and one of the Board of Appeals, a colored man, having no
voice in the matter. A man by the
name of Leonard was placed on the Board of Appeals in lieu of Choate, and in
consequence of this fact, and terrorism in Hardin county, no votes were polled
for the Republican candidate."
Rusk
County—
"Released
[rejected?] on account of fraud and intimidation practiced upon colored and
white voters. The election order
was entirely disregarded, and numbers of men hung around the polls, scrutinizing
voters, LOOKING AT and insulting those who chose to vote the Republican
ticket."
Isn't
that contemptible? Isn't it little,
isn't it pitiable? How much of
truth there is in it we leave for the counties involved to say, only expressing
our opinion that there isn't a bit. Is
it worth while for us to repeat that if, with the registrars all men of Davis'
own appointment, the Boards of Appeals all men of his own appointment, with
twenty armed policemen, all of his own appointment to guard the ballot box, and
his infamous election order staring Democrats in the face (for it was intended
for nobody else and executed against nobody else); we say it with all this, the
Radicals did not have a fair chance in the late election, it is not likely they
will ever have. But in spite of all
this, in Hardin county a colored member of the Board had not voice in the
expulsion of an other member by the registrar; In Rusk county they looked at
Republican voters! What an ass
will all this make Davis appear before the Congress of the United States; and
reflecting the shadow of his master, how will Whitmore's ears stick out
disgracefully.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 6, 1872, p. 1, c. 5
An
item for the curious.—At the last term of the United States District Court
held at Tyler, Webb Flanagan, the present Lieutenant Governor of Texas, was
indicted for heavy revenue frauds. It
is not to be wondered that his father, one of the United States Senators from
this state, should use all his influence to screen his son from punishment.
We therefore find his opposition to the appointment of Mr. Goddard as
Judge, quite natural. Dame Rumor says that the Judge to be appointed may so manage
as to change districts with Judge Duval, a most upright man and conscientious
judge. We wait developments.—Waco
Advance.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 8, 1872, p. 2, c. 4
One
hundred and sixty miles of the Southern Pacific road are to be put under
contract at once. The survey
commences at Longview, passes Tyler, thence to Dallas, and crosses the Clear
Fork of the Trinity forty miles west of Dallas, forming a junction at this point
with the Trans Continental.
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, April 6, 1872, p. 4, c. 2
President
Grow, and Col. Nobles, Chief engineer of the Houston & Great Northern
Railway Company paid our county and city a visit last week, looking as we
understood to the immediate extension of their road.
Quite
a number of our citizens met and had the pleasure of an interchange of notions
with these gentlemen, and so far as we have been able to learn were much
pleased.
One
result of the interview was the distinct understanding that unless the county
voted the loan of her bonds, their road would not come anywhere near the county.
[--Tyler Index.
A
freedman, Alex. Williams, was stabbed with a bayonet and killed by Archy Scott,
another freedman, on Tuesday evening last.
The difficulty originated in their preference for the same woman.
We have not learned which was most at fault.
[Tyler Index.
DALLAS HERALD, May 25, 1872, p. 2, c. 4
Cotton
Tax.—Efforts are being made by some of the ablest lawyers in the south, to
secure the refunding of the cotton tax, which was collected from the farmers
just after the war. It is believed
by many, that this tax was illegal, being an unjust discrimination against that
branch of agricultural industry, not sanctioned by the Constitution of the
United States. Col. Robertson Topp,
of Memphis, well known to fame, and Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, are among
the leading spirits engaged in this effort.
It is supposed that about $70,000,000 were illegally collected from the
Southern planters, under this law.—Tyler Reporter.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 19, 1872, p. 12, c. 2
Tyler
is about to secure a city hall.
DALLAS HERALD, June 20, 1872, p. 2, c. 1
Something
wrong.—Why should it take a week for the Tyler Reporter to reach here?
Why should letters from Marshall and Jefferson be ten days on the way?
There is great complaint about our Eastern mail.
There is something wrong. Have
we any mail agent for Texas now since the transfer of Terrell?
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 3, 1872, p. 6, c. 3
We
hold love-feasts where the preacher in charge deems it expedient.
Where this is done, I find our members are better prepared to enjoy the
sermon and sacrament of the Lord's Supper which follow; besides, the preacher,
going from a good love-feast to the pulpit, finds himself all the better
prepared to administer the Word of Life.
Allow
me to give your readers a specimen of one of our love-feasts held on the
Starrville Circuit a short time since: After
the introductory service, some of the older brethren spoke first—briefly and
to the point. One of our most
venerable and useful local preachers, Brother James B. Hall, referred to the
love-feast held more than twenty years ago on that circuit, where he had met
with many who had safely crossed the river, (naming some of them,) and upon the
other shore they were waiting the arrival of others who must soon follow; said
that he recognized but two present of the original number, Brothers Starr and
Barecroft. He had been called to
mourn the departure of eight lovely children; only one survived; but he looked
forward to no distant day when he too would unite with them in that blessed
clime. Brother Barecroft alluded,
in a touching manner, to the time he joined the church, forty-seven years ago;
also to the time he moved to Texas, thirty-two years since; said they had no
preaching in the part of the country where he first settled; said that he and
his wife kept up family prayers, alternating in the services; said that they had
almost despaired of ever seeing another Methodist preacher; that his wife said
she was unwilling to live in a country where they could not attend church; they
talked about moving away; when one day they saw a young man walking up to their
rude cabin, and asked if Daniel Barecroft lived there.
Being told that he did, the youth informed them that he was a Methodist
preacher, and had been sent by the Conference to preach to the people there.
Said Bro. Barecroft, "I thought he was the poorest looking chance
for a preacher I had ever seen a beardless boy, pale and weary-worn, a circuit
rider on foot. He was hungry
and tired. My wife fixed him some
dried venison and bread, the best we had on hand, and he partook, after which he
had prayers with us. I thought it
was the best prayer I ever heard—so devout—so full of faith.
The young preacher left an appointment to preach; I gave it circulation,
got him a congregation; and, brethren, I thought it was the best preaching I had
ever heard; I was hungry for preaching; the fact is, it seemed that Bishop
Pierce could not have beaten it. I
have lived to see that young man (Jeff Shook) grow gray in the ministry, and he
is still a member of the East Texas Conference.
I want to meet you in heaven, my brethren; if I miss it, all will be
lost. I feel this morning still
like pressing onward and upward." I
could give another interesting detail, but might weary your readers.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 10, 1872, p. 12, c. 3
Our
correspondent from Garden Valley, Smith county, gives the following account of
his county. We want to get into
just such a region as he describes:
The
prospect of abundant crops is cheering the hearts of the people.
The health of the people within my bounds is generally good.
Large bodies of good land are yet untouched by the woodman's ax—plenty
of room for emigrants. Our people
are industrious, prosperous, temperate, intelligent, and generally happy.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 17, 1872, p. 12, c. 2
At the
recent session of the State Council of the Friends of Temperance the following
officers for the coming year were elected:
Rev. W. Carey Crane, D. D., of Independence, President; Rev. Dr. F. M.
Law, of Bryan, Associate; Rev. O. M. Addison, of Owensville, Chaplain; Capt.
John H. LeTellier, of Sherman, Secretary; B. B. Hawkins, of Waxahachie,
Treasurer; Dr. J. W. Shuford, of Tyler, Conductor; D. J. Currie, of Tyler,
Sentinel; Rev. James Younge, of Sherman, State Lecturer; Rev. A. D. Gaskill, of
Waxahachie, Superintendent of Bands of Hope.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 24, 1872, p. 4, c. 1
Brother
Samuel Morris sends from East Texas good news indeed. His letter is short, but we can catch the shout of triumph
that rings along each line. Why may
not every circuit and station in Texas send up such intelligence as this?
We
have had some glorious revivals on this (Tyler) mission. Up to this date ninety-five have been converted, and
seventy-six added to our church. Glory
be to God! Pray for us.
DALLAS HERALD, August 3, 1872, p. 1, c. 5
"What I Saw in Texas." A paper by John W. Forney.
We suffered little or nothing from the Southern sun; and when, at the end
of our first day, we entered Tyler, we were hungry enough to enjoy the direst
fare, and tired enough to sleep on the hardest floor and to bid defiance to the
mosquitoes, which, however, visited us but rarely.
Tyler is the county seat of Smith, with a thriving population looking
forward to the completion of our railroad, which passes through its northern
townships. The whites are in the
majority. People have to wagon
their crops fifty to a hundred miles to the nearest depot, at Long View.
Fine farms can be bought here at three dollars an acre.
Timber can be purchased at the saw-mills for fifteen dollars per thousand
feet, but the cost of transporting it to the railroad is so great that it sells
at from fifty to sixty dollars a thousand.
when the railroads are finished lumber can be had as cheaply in Texas as
in almost any of the Northern States. It
is only necessary to remember the enormous cost of transporting the cotton,
corn, lumber, and other materials, to see the crying necessity for railroads.
After
a sound sleep Colonel Scott roused us at dawn, and, at the end of a pleasant
ride of twelve miles, we entered one of the sweetest of villages, named Mount
Sylvan, where a luxurious breakfast was spread in a little house, presided over
by Mrs, [sic] Dollahite. No catfish
and waffles at the falls of Schuyl Kill, near Philadelphia, could have been more
delightful—nay, not even the luscious repast of Taft, near Boston, nor yet the
far famed feasted at the High Bridge in New York, could have been more
toothsome. We were now on the
Memphis and El Paso stage line, under the charge of Major Wright, chief manager,
whose efforts to contribute to our comfort we shall alwas [sic] gratefully
remember.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 21, 1872, p. 12, c. 1
In the
fire at Tyler the Reporter office was burned.
A
disastrous fire occurred the 9th instant, at Tyler, Smith county.
Several stores were burned out, or stocks badly damaged.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 28, 1872, p. 4, c. 2
Rev.
Samuel Morris sends us additional intelligence respecting the good work going on
in Tyler, East Texas Conference:
The
good work of God's Holy Spirit still goes on.
Last night eighteen penitents were at the altar.
The meeting is still progressing. Pray
for us. Oh, may it go on until all the people of these lands are
converted to God!
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 28, 1872, p. 12, c. 1
The
Tyler Index estimates the corn crop of Smith county at 2,800,000 bushels,
or 150 bushels for every person, old and young, in the county.
DALLAS HERALD, August 31, 1872, p. 1, c. 3
[Summary: Poems by Mollie E. Moore,
E. H. Cushing, Publisher, Houston, Texas. Reviewed.]
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 4, 1872, p. 5, c. 1
. . .
At Starville [sic], Starville circuit, under the pastoral care of that model
itinerant, Rev. J. S. Mathis, there were eighty converts; and good meetings,
resulting in a number of conversions, were reported at other points on the same
circuit.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 4, 1872, p. 6, c. 3
There
has been a glorious revival at Starrville, resulting in the conversion and
accession of eighty souls. At other
points on the circuit there indefatigable pastor, Brother J. S. Mathis, reports
other conversions and accessions to our church, swelling the number to more than
one hundred. At Bascom Chapel we
had a time of great rejoicing; several conversions, happy and bright, with as
many accessions. Here, with
scarcely an exception, all pray, sing and shout.
They have been trained by that good brother, (God ever bless him) Caleb
H. Smith, whose soul, table and cribs are of sufficient dimensions to suit any
emergency. We reluctantly left this
good people—happy, however, to leave the church and community with a revival
flame. . . . Daniel Morse.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 19, 1872, p. 1, c. 4
The
Tyler Index estimates the corn crop of Smith county at 2,800,000 bushels—150
bushels to every soul in the county.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 25, 1872, p. 4, c. 1
Rev.
Samuel Morris, of Tyler mission, East Texas Conference, writes August 20th,
of a gracious revival on his work:
We
observed Friday as a day of fasting and prayer, and had prayer-meeting at the
church. On Saturday morning the
Rev. L. R. Dennis, our Presiding Elder, though very feeble physically, preached,
at the close of which Christians were shouting happy.
He remained with us until Monday evening, doing valuable service.
Rev. E. B. Zachry, L.D., of our mission, remained until Wednesday
morning. If all the local preachers
would work like Brother Z., they would be a mighty power in the Church of God.
After these brethren left, the altar was still crowded, and souls were
converted at every coming together. We
continued until the next Sabbath night, and would not have closed even then had
it not been for previous engagements that could not be deferred. There were over thirty persons at the altar the last night,
and five conversions. More than
fifty souls professed faith in Christ. Thirty-seven
were received into full communion in our church according to our rules, and five
candidates yet to be received. Another
that I know will join our church. The revival fire is spreading all over our country.
I hardly know what to think of the signs of the time.
I never saw a more general move.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 28, 1872, p. 3, c. 2
Cotton-picking
race.—The other day two little sons of Mr. Scarbrough, near Garden Valley,
tried their hands at cotton-picking, and did some tall grabbing after the fleecy
staple, worthy of note. Orrin, aged
12 years, picked 309 pounds and Judge Yell, aged 15, picked 301—in all 610
pounds. Tell us that Southern boys
can't work. Fill the country full
of such boys, with parents to teach them to be some account, and we have a basic
of prosperity which reverses can hardly check.—Tyler Reporter.
DALLAS HERALD, September 28, 1872, p. 1, c. 3
The
Dallas Herald of the 24th ult., is the handsomest copy of that paper
that we have seen in a long time. The
Herald is one of the ablest papers in the state.
Glad to note your improvement, gentlemen, and hope to get better
ourselves soon. A little
competition stirs one up.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 1, 1872, p. 2, c. 3
[Summary: Col. R. B. Hubbard,
Democratic Elector in political discussion with Judge D. D. Evans in Henderson
on September 20, 1872.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 1, 1872, p. 4, c. 2
The
Tyler Index (Radical) is out for Waco. [as
new state capitol]
On
last Friday night United States Marshal Purnell arrested Thomas and James Flynne,
deputies in the office here, at the instance [sic] of Mr. Goff, United States
mail agent, charged with robbing the mails of this place.—Tyler Index.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 5, 1872, p. 1, c. 6
Letter from Eastern Texas
Tyler, Sept. 26, 1872
As you
know, the press of the East is for Waco and Houston for the future seat of
government of our State—the Index for Waco, and the Reporter for Houston; but
the taxpayers, when at all posted, are for Austin. . ..
Yours truly, H. N. B.
DALLAS HERALD, October 5, 1872, p. 1, c. 8
Speaking.—Col.
Hubbard, Judge Evans and Colonel Hays addressed a very large audience at the
Court House in this city. Colonel
Hubbard spoke for one hour and a half.
He is
on the Electoral Democrat Republican [? blurred]
ticket. His address was able in
argument; perfectly irresistible in wit. Round after round of applause greeted his able arguments and
withering sarcasm.
His
political friends were delighted with his whole speech.
After he closed Judge L. E. Evans [illegible] upon the stand and made a
speech of three quarters of an hour. His
speech failed to elicit applause. After
he left the stand Colonel Hays, in a short address, advocated the re-election of
Gen. Grant. Both of these gentlemen
are able and would, in a better cause, no doubt be considered fine
speakers.—Jefferson Democrat.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 9, 1872, p. 6, c. 3
. . .
I have recently received cheering accounts from Bros. D. M. Stovall, at New
London, and J. S. Mathis, of the Starrville circuit. Bro. Stovall writes that, at a protracted meeting at London,
thirty-two were converted and the church graciously revived.
Bro. Mathis reports thirty-nine on the Starrville circuit, in addition to
the one hundred which I previously reported.
He says in a letter just received: "Since
the first Sabbath in July last there have been 139 conversions, and still the
good work is moving on. I have
appointments for three more two days' meetings and protracted meetings; have
seen more people happy and have heard more shouts in the church of our God
within the last eight or nine weeks, than ever in life before—the old and the
young of both sexes; the rich and the poor, all meet together, and the Lord is
with them, and all happy together. I
take courage and bless God and press forward."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 10, 1872, p. 2, c. 4
The
Deputy Marshall of Tyler was killed on the 8th in attempting to
capture the Flinns, who were charged with having robbed the mail. They were subsequently arrested and lodged in jail.
It is not definitely known to what extent the mail has been robbed, but
it is supposed to amount to thousands of dollars.
DALLAS HERALD, October 12, 1872, p. 2, c. 4
Arrest of the
Flynnes.
Murder of the U. S. Deputy Marshal.
It having become known, or very confidently believed, that Thomas and
James Flynne, charged with the recent postoffice robberies at this place, were
in this vicinity, last Saturday evening Maj. Purnett [sic?], U. S. Marshal,
assisted by Deputy Marshal Frank Griffin, and U. S. Commissioner Deweese,
summoned a posse, and prepared to make search for them.
About 3 o'clock Sunday morning, the officers and posse left town and went
in the vicinity of the residence of the Flynnes, about two miles North of town.
At daylight the party surrounded the premises, and after searching out
houses, &c., went to the dwelling, which the Marshal and his deputy entered.
After having searched through one or two rooms, and made inquiry of the
inmates of the house, Deputy Marshal Griffin started to enter another room
(perhaps the only one that had not been searched, and in which the Flynnes were
concealed,) when, upon opening the door, he was fired upon and instantly killed,
receiving at least sixteen buckshot in his breast.
Maj. Parnell narrowly escaped a similar fate.
Some of the Marshal's posse returned the fire, but at random, as the
Flynnes were concealed in the room. No
other shots were fired from the house. Major
Parnell ordered a surrender, but this being persistently refused, the house was
set on fire. Two or three times the
fire was extinguished by those inside the house; but at length, the flames
getting beyond their control, both the boys came out and surrendered. They were taken into custody, brought to town, and are now in
jail, heavily ironed, having added murder to their former crime of robbery.
The death of Mr. Griffin has cast a gloom over the community, for he was
a good man and an excellent, brave and faithful officer.
He was buried this morning with the honors of Odd-Fellowship.
We
write in haste, but the above are the substantial facts in the matter.—Tyler
Reporter, 7th.
DALLAS HERALD, October 19, 1872, p. 2, c. 1
Hon.
R. B. Hubbard, Democratic Elector for the State at large, will address the
citizens of Dallas on Saturday next, the 26th inst.; Fort Worth on
Monday the 28th, and Waxahachie on Wednesday the 30th.
We are
under obligations to the Hon. W. S. Herndon for a copy of his excellent speech,
delivered at Tyler on the 7th of September last.
Mr. Herndon is a very promising young man, but we regret to hear that he
has been meddling with the Capital question, which he has nothing properly to do
with. We hope we may have been
misinformed.
DALLAS HERALD, October 26, 1872, p. 3, c. 2
The
following letter was received in this city last Saturday, and as it is of
importance to persons who are compelled to be at Tyler, we publish it entire:
Clerk's Office, U. S. Court
}
Western Dist. of Texas
}
Tyler, Texas, October 16, 1872.
R. D.
Coughanour, Esq., Dallas, Texas:
Dear
sir—I have just received information from the Judge of the U. S. Court that he
cannot be here before the 12th of November next.
As no
business can be done until he arrives, I suppose it will be unnecessary for you
to come down before that time.
You
will please give this information to such of your brother Attorneys and others
interested, in your place.
Very truly yours,
W. C. Robards, Clerk.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 30, 1872, p. 5, c. 4
Tyler
intends to establish a library. It
will be both useful and ornamental to the town.
DALLAS HERALD, November 2, 1872, p. 2, c. 1
Col.
R. B. Hubbard was not able to [illegible] his appointment at this place on
Saturday last on account of the cars of the freight train running off the track.
But he made simple amends on Tuesday night.
When it was ascertained that Col. Hubbard would not be here, Judge Good
took the stand on the public square. . . .
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 6, 1872, p. 5, c. 4
There
has been no rain in Smith county for four months, yet the cribs are full of
corn.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 7, 1872, p. 2, c. 1
Col.
Noble, the chief engineer of the Houston and Great Northern Railroad, has been
in town for several days, and from present indications Tyler is soon to be in
railroad connection with Houston and Galveston.
We learn that contracts for cleaning off the track from its junction with
the International road to Tyler, have been let. One hundred hands are now wanted by Mr. D. Kilpatrick to go
to work in four or five miles of town, and we see men with their axes, shovels
and spades, knapsacks, tents and other railroad implements every day, on their
way to the place of action, and the town is consistently crowded with
strangers.—Texas Advertiser.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 9, 1872, p. 2, c. 2
C. W.
Goff, claiming to be a special agent of the Post Office Department, has been
arrested in Tyler for opening letters and appropriating their contents.
Major Parnell is doing good service to the people in this matter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 14, 1872, p. 3, c. 3
Vote
on the capital by counties
Smith
Austin 975
Waco 1325
Houston 207
DALLAS HERALD, November 23, 1872, p. 2, c. 3
6th legislative district---R. K. Gaston, B. W. Brown, C. C. Galloway
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 27, 1872, p. 12, c. 2
We
learn from the Tyler Index that about one-third of the distance is graded
on the Houston and Great Northern, between Tyler and the junction with the
International railroad.
The Index
says: The construction train of the
International Railroad is now running to Atlanta or Tarbutton in Smith county,
while the track laying is being pushed onward toward Longview with vigor.
DALLAS HERALD, November 30, 1872, p. 2, c. 4
--Parties
who have passed over the line of our railroad from this to the junction at
Tarbutton, with the International, speak of the rapid rate at which the grading
is being done and predict that, if the same energy with the increased force that
is contemplated is kept up we will be certain of its completion to Tyler by the
first of January.—Tyler Index.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 5, 1872, p. 1, c. 5
The Legislature.
6th district.—R. K. Gaston, B. W. Brown, C. C.
Galloway
DALLAS HERALD, December 14, 1872, p. 2
The
gin house of Mr. J. J. Flinn, near Troupe, Smith county, was burned on the 29th
ult; together with 10 or 15 bales of cotton; fire accidental.
DALLAS HERALD, December 21, 1872, p. 3, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter says that the horse malady has made its appearance in Longview.
[earlier articles called it the epizootic]
The
Tyler Index is now printed on a new Cylinder Power Press. The Dallas Herald has been printed on a Power Press for a
month past.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 8, 1873, p. 12, c. 1
The
public square of Tyler has been lit by elegant gas lamps by the "city
fathers."
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, January 11, 1873, p. 4, c. 2
[water stain]
. . .
morning on the Houston and Great Northern Railroad for Tyler.
As the greater part of the grading is done between this point and Troupe,
the work will no doubt be pushed rapidly ahead.
With the railroad completed to Tyler and Red River up, that "good
time coming["] will certainly be here.—Tyler Reporter.
DALLAS HERALD, January 11, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
The
Public Square of Tyler is now lit by gas, so says the Democrat.
DALLAS HERALD, January 11, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
The
two Flynne boys who were charged with post office robbery and murder, were
consigned to the penitentiary at Huntsville for safe keeping.—Tyler Democrat.
--On
Friday night, the 13th inst., the house of Mrs. Alexander, a widow
lately residing some three miles from town, was burned, together with all the
household property.—Ibid.
--A
colored man by the name of George Williams was murdered on Mrs. Butler's
plantation, about eleven miles south of Tyler, on Saturday night last.—Tyler
Index.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 22, 1873, p. 12, c. 1
Smith
county voted $250,000 to the H. & G. N. R. R.; besides the town of Tyler,
the county seat, gave $50,000 more to have the depot located near them.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 2, 1873, p. 2, c. 2
Contractors
are at work on the Houston and Great Northern railroad, within the corporate
limits of the city of Tyler.
Smith
county gives the Great Northern railroad, $350,000 and the city of Tyler
$50,000, to have the depot located there.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 5, 1873, p. 5, c. 3
The
Methodists of Tyler are about to built their pastor a parsonage.
The
ice has been thick enough at Tyler for skating during the last cold weather.
The National
Index, published at Tyler, says: "A
large force of railroad hands are engaged this week on the deep cut in that
section of Federal Courthouse street immediately west of the Baptist church and
jail. The street crossing nearest
these two buildings will be on the same grade that the track will be."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 6, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
[Legislative
proceedings February 5, 1873]
Mr.
Gaston moved to take up out of its regular order S. B. incorporating the city of
Tyler. Carried.
On
motion the bill was read the second and third time and passed by a two-thirds
vote.
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, February 8, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
We
copy, from the Sulphur Springs Gazette, of the 1st instant,
the following items:
"A
surveying party of the M., K & T railroad passed through our town yesterday,
running a preliminary line from Tyler to Paris. . . . "
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, February 8, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Our
friend, and but lately our neighbor, Major W. b. Wright, who has moved his
domicile to Paris, was in our town this week, and gave us the benefit of his
traveling observation, on his legal circuit, comprising Tyler, Galveston, Austin
and Bonham, from which he had just come home.
He did
not think Tyler so much of a business centre as its zealous representatives of
the Press had induced us to suppose.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 12, 1873, p. 5, c. 2
The Index
says the contractors on the Houston and Great Northern Railroad have been, for
the past two or three weeks, at work within the corporate limits of the city of
Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 18, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
[Senate
proceedings February 17, 1873]
A bill
to incorporate the Tyler Real Estate and Building Association.
Passed.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 26, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
Iron
now laid for one and a quarter mile on the Troupe end of the Great Northern
Railroad, and we are informed that track-laying will commence at an early day.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 1, 1873, p. 1, c. 6
Senate
bill No. 62, to incorporate the Tyler Real Estate and Building Association.
Read first time and referred to the Committee on State Affairs.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 5, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
Mr.
Henry introduced a bill entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Tyler Tap Railroad Company," approved Dec. 1, 1871.
Read first time and referred to Committee on Internal Improvements.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 5, 1873, p. 13, c. 2
Thompson.—Mary
Jane Thompson, daughter of Joseph Denton, and consort of N. B. Thompson was born
in Mississippi February 28, 1837; professed religion and joined the M. E.
Church, South, 1855; departed this life August 16, 1872.
She maintained the true dignity and honor of the Christian character, and
to the last strong in the faith.
Sister
Thompson was true and fervent in all her domestic and social attachments,
generous and noble in her impulses. She
possessed the essential elements of a noble woman. She loved her friends, and was fervent in her friendship.
Principle and right were the law of her nature.
She was a pure and true woman, ever seeking the happiness of those within
the sphere of her influence. She is
gone. Let us trust that a happy home beyond the sky has welcomed
her pure spirit. But in the sadness
of those who linger, there is a profound and beautiful lesson, for sadness is
the ground of great and permanent thoughts of a nobler existence.
D. M. Stovall.
Starrville,
Feb. 14, 1873.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 13, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
Senate
Bill No. 23, an act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the
city of Tyler, and to provide for the administration of its municipal
affairs," approved April 26, 1871, approved February 7, 1873.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 14, 1873, p. 2, c. 1-2
Master
Hugh Short, son of Hon. D. M. Short, Representative from the 2d district, was
sometime since nominated to the cadetship at West Point, by Hon. W. S. Herndon,
member of Congress from the 1st district. . . .
Master
Joseph Davenport, of Tyler, having received the first honors, was [c.2]
nominated immediately by Mr. Herndon; but in less than one short month after his
honorable triumph over his classmates, and before his departure to attend the
renowned institution, his young and spotless life was suddenly terminated by the
unrelenting hand of death. Thereupon,
Mr. Herndon, upon the recommendation of the board and other distinguished men
living in the eastern part of the State, selected Master Short to fill his
place.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 26, 1873, p. 2, c. 1
The
Tyler Reporter, Trinity Advocate, and other country journals are expressing
dissatisfaction at the tardiness of legislation.
We
refer these censorious journalists to our article in the Statesman of the 22d
inst., which points out some of the difficulties in the way of rapid
legislation. It is necessary,
however, to be on the spot to realize them fully.
These
fault finders remind us of the street corner tacticians of the late war, who, at
a save distance from the scene of strife, and never having "set a squad in
the field," yet felt themselves preeminently qualified to pass judgment on
the conduct of the war.
A
little more charity, and a little less confidence in your own infallibility,
gentlemen.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 26, 1873, p. 12, c. 3
Tyler
has organized a cemetery association. Membership
costs five dollars each.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 29, 1873, p. 3, c. 3
[Summary: Amendment of charter of
Galveston City College and Hospital. Among the amendments, the addition of the name of W. J.
Goodman, of Tyler, Texas, to the list of incorporators.
Passed.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 8, 1873, p. 4, c. 1
Senator
Henry introduced a bill to be entitled "An act to grant lands to encourage
the construction of the Tyler Tap Railroad." Read first time and referred to the Committee on Internal
Improvements.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 9, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
Senator Henry, by leave, introduced a bill to authorize Zimri Tate to
construct a toll bridge over the Sabine river.
Read first time and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 1.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 9, 1873, p. 5, c. 4
The
first through train over the Houston and Great Northern road to Tyler went up
last week, whereat the Tyler people were greatly rejoiced. Regular trains to Tyler will commence running about March 31.
Verily, the good work goes bravely on.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 11, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
Mr.
Gaston introduced "A bill to grant lands to encourage the construction of
the Tyler Tap Railway." Referred
to the Committee on Internal Improvements.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 11, 1873, p. 1, c. 3
Committee Room
Austin, April 9, 1873.
Hon. E. b. Pickett, President of the Senate:
Sir—I
am instructed by your Committee on Judiciary No. 1, to whom was referred Senate
Bill No. 263, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Zavala in the
county of Smith," to report the same back to your honorable body and
recommend its passage with the accompanying amendments.
Respectfully,
Jno. L. Henry, Chairman.
Amend
section 2, lines 1 and 2, by striking out the names of "J. O. Collier, J.
H. Tarbutton and A. J. Dockery," and inserting the names of "A. A.
Coupland, F. D. Fitch and A. G. Tomme."
Same
section, line 3, amend by inserting after the word "act," the words,
"they or any two of them."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 11, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
Mr.
Gaston introduced "A bill to grant lands to encourage the construction of
the Tyler Tap Railway." Referred
to the Committee on Internal Improvements.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 12, 1873, p. 1, c. 3
Senate
Bill No. 267, to be entitled "An act to incorporate Tyler Chapter, No. 24,
Royal Arch Masons" . . . Report it back to the Senate and recommend its
passage."
DALLAS HERALD, April 12, 1873, p. 1, c. 8
--Hon.
Jefferson Davis, our ex-President, will be in Tyler on the 11th inst.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 13, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
Committee Room
Austin, April 12, 1873.
Hon. E. B. Pickett, President of the Senate:
Sir—I
hereby report that I did, on yesterday at 10 o'clock a.m., present to His
Excellency the Governor, for his approval and signature, Senate Bill No. 62,
"An act to incorporate the Tyler Real Estate and Building
Association," and Senate Bill No. 72, "An act for the relief of Berth
Staffel."
Respectfully,
H. R. Latimer, Chairman.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 16, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
The
Tyler Reporter says the construction trains of the Great Northern
Railroad are now passing through that place regularly with iron, ties, etc., and
that from one-half to three-quarters of a mile of track is being laid daily.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 23, 1873, p. 5, c. 1
Tyler Correspondence.
Our little city not only shows signs of life, but prosperity. The iron-horse made his debut in Tyler more
than a week ago. We are now in a
few hours' run of your Island City, and so soon as the mail regulations are
perfected, we shall get the ADVOCATE by the time it is fully dry. I now see no good reason why every Methodist—heads of
families especially—in Smith and Cherokee counties should not read the
ADVOCATE, our own conference organ, every week.
Let the preachers in this district bestir themselves and increase its
circulation.
There
has been quite a sensation in and around Tyler the last week, by the presence of
hydrophobia. There have been quite
a number of mad dogs in and about the town, and great has been the destruction
of canine life. No one here has
been bitten, though I hear of two deaths in the lower part of the county from
mad dog bites. It is a rumor; think
it doubtful.
The
new parsonage is finished, and the pastor and his family are comfortably
domiciled and feel much at home.
R. S. Finley.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 26, 1873, p. 4, c. 1
Senate
Bill No. 62, "An act to incorporate the Tyler Real Estate and Building
Association," approved April 11, 1873.
House
Bill 269, "An act to authorize Howard Reys and his associates to construct
a toll bridge across the Sabine River at Crockett's Bluff," passed March
24, 1873.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 3, 1873, p. 1, c. 3
House
Bill No. 391, to be entitled "An act to prevent the gift or sale of
intoxicating liquor within two miles of Garden Valley Seminary, in Smith
county" . . . report it back and recommend its passage.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 3, 1873, p. 1, c. 2
Senate
Bill No. 202, "An act to incorporate the Sherman, Tyler, and Henderson
Railway Company, and to grant lands to aid in the construction thereof."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 6, 1873, p. 1, c. 2
[Summary: Amendments to Senate Bill
No. 258, which to amend sections 7,
10, 20 of "An act to incorporate the Tyler Tap Railroad Company"
approved December 1, 1871, and to grant bonds to said company to aid in
construction of the same."]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 6, 1873, p. 1, c. 3
[Summary: Senate Bill No. 258
passed 24 to 1.]
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 7, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
The
Best Thing Yet.—Major Foote, engineer on the Houston and Great Northern
Railroad, has just shown us a specimen of the genuine cannel coal, found in the
cuts on the bed of this road, twelve or fifteen miles from this place.
This, as every one knows, is the best class of coal, and for many
purposes invaluable. Should this,
as Mr. Foote supposed, exist in large quantities, it will be a source of
invaluable wealth to Smith county. We did not learn the exact location of this bed of coal, but
it is somewhere near Mr. Zimm Tate's plantation.
Anyone wishing to see samples, can do so by calling at our office.—National
(Tyler) Index.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 7, 1873, p. 13, c. 3
Sanford.—Died,
at his father's residence, near Jamestown, Smith county, Texas, on the 2d day of
February, 1873, John L. Sanford, aged 28 years and 7 months; disease,
cerebrospinal meningitis.
The
subject of this notice was born in Putnam county, Georgia, July 4, 1844.
His father immigrated to Smith county in the winter of 1851, consequently
the greater portion of his life was spent in Texas.
Johnny
(as he was familiarly called) was a young man who was beloved by all who knew
him, and I doubt not that should even a mere acquaintance see this notice, he
will regret to hear of his death; but those who knew him best, loved him most.
Possessed
of an untiring energy, he knew no such word as fail to anything he undertook to
accomplish. Difficulties only
stimulated him to greater action. Strictly
honest and truthful from childhood, even until the day of his death, his
veracity was never called in question.
Since
the war he had devoted his whole energy and labor to the support of an aged
father and mother, anticipating their wants, and supplying them with an
affectionate regard. The writer of
this has often urged upon him the claims of Christianity, and he would always
say it was his intention to make suitable preparation for eternity at some
future day. But, alas!
like so many others have done, and are still doing, death came before the
time arrived which he had set apart to commence serving God.
I have seen him deeply affected by the warnings of the Spirit, but fear
there was no new birth. We can only
trust our Savior's mercy and long suffering.
As he was delirious all the time of his illness, we had no opportunity of
talking to him about his future state. But
he is gone, and we can only trust that, ere his spirit gook its flight, God, for
Christ's sake, pardoned his sins. He
died as he had lived—the embodiment of a true and upright manhood in all save
a good, earnest Christian. May God
have mercy on us all.
One Who Loved Him.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 8, 1873, p. 2, c. 2-6
[Summary: Reply of W. S. Herndon to
the attacks of the Press for his vote on the late act increasing salaries.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 8, 1873, p. 3, c. 5
[Summary: Amendments to Senate Bill
258, incorporating Tyler Tap Railroad]
DALLAS HERALD, May 10, 1873, p. 2, c. 5
--Major
Foots, engineer on the Houston and Great Northern railroad, has just shown us a
specimen of anthracite coal, found in the cuts on the beds of this road, twelve
or fifteen miles from this place. This,
as everyone knows, is the best class of coal, and for many purposes is
invaluable.—[Tyler Index.
--The
Tyler Index says the weather in that section still continues cool and very dry,
accompanied by a very disagreeable wind, causing vegetation of every kind to
look yellow and lifeless. In an
acquaintance of twenty-six years in Texas, it claims to have never known a more
unfavorable spring and one in which there was so little of promise to the
farmers. There is comparatively
little or none of the cotton crop up, and where it has made its appearance above
ground it has more of the evidence of dying out than living or growing, and
[the] ground has become very hard. It
is almost impossible to do good plowing, and the prospect generally is
discouraging.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 20, 1873, p. 2, c. 1
Mr.
William Bonner, a promising young son of Judge W. H. Bonner, of Tyler (formerly
of Rusk), died in the former place on the sixteenth instant.
Hon.
Oran M. Roberts, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of this State, is President
of the Literary and Scientific Association at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 20, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
Progress
of railroads in Texas to April 1
Tyler
Branch
40
(miles)
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 21, 1873, p. 6, c. 1
A Preacher Fallen!
Rev. Levi R. Dennis, Presiding Elder of the Palestine District, East
Texas Conference, died in peace on the 26th day of April, at 11:30
o'clock P.M., after an illness of two weeks.
His
wife and daughter, Maggie, had been dangerously sick, and he had been heavily
taxed—nursing, waiting, and watching in the family chamber for weeks; and, as
they convalesced, he fell sick.
He was
born in Overton county, Tennessee, January 9, 1820; converted to God when about
eighteen years old, and was licensed to preach October 3, 1841, at Ebenezer
campground, Rev. F. E. Pitts being presiding elder. He entered the traveling connection in the Tennessee
Conference in 1842; was ordained deacon by Bishop Janes November 1, 1844, and an
elder by Bishop Soule, at Nashville, November 9, 1846.
After traveling six years as a single man, he was married to Martha L.
Hughes, of Bedford county, Tennessee, November 14, 1848.
After twelve years of active itinerant life in the Tennessee Conference,
he responded to the Macedonian call from Texas, and transferred to the East
Texas Conference. He landed at
Dallas on the 25th day of December, 1854, after the conference had
adjourned, to learn that he was 170, or more miles from Marshall, to which place
he had been assigned. It was
midwinter; deep mud, streams high, and but few bridges, the family sighing for a
little repose and relief from the wintry winds, falling snows and drenching
rains; but that indomitable energy and unyielding purpose, which was a prominent
trait in our fallen brother's character, through an itinerant career of
thirty-one years, was commensurate with the emergency.
No time was lost, difficulties were overcome, and in the shortest
possible time he was at his new post in Texas.
The beginning was a true augury of his Texas life.
He had an iron will, and although he was hardly medium in size, his
physical stamina was superior. He
was capable of great endurance. It
was his custom on reaching home to change his apparel and hasten to labor; the
plow, the hoe, the ax, the spade, any implement of industry, was wielded with an
astonishing energy and skill. This
habit had been formed, and was continued to the very close of a useful and
eventful life, as a means of splicing a short, inadequate salary, and
thereby to keep himself in the itinerant ministry.
It was not that Brother Dennis loved manual labor above others; it was
not that he undervalued studious habits and books; no indeed; with many it
amounted to an objection that, when on the circuit or district away from home,
his words were too few, and his devotion to books made him appear unsocial. When at home, night was the season for books and study, and
neither family nor visiting brothers could divert him from his repose, long at a
time, for merely social enjoyment. He
might have lived to the age of seventy years, and have done efficient service to
the last, had the church he so faithfully served relieved him from excessive
toil by a liberal support.
I
watched his symptoms from the beginning to the close of his sickness, and
endorse the statement of his enlightened physician:
he died of the exhaustion of the nerve power. That power had been shocked and taxed to tension too often;
the last assault was fatal. He died
as sweetly as an infant goes to sleep. He
leaves a sadly-bereft family—wife and three daughters—though comfortably
provided for.
Brother
Dennis was a true man, a faithful friend, a good preacher, an efficient
presiding elder, always at the post of duty and ready for every good word and
work. The news of his untimely
demise will sadden many hearts. It
will be felt most keenly in his own conference and by his companions in the
ministry.
. . .
R.
S. Finley.
Tyler,
Texas, May 2, 1873.
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, May 24, 1873, p. 1, c. 1-6
[Summary: Reply of Hon. W. S.
Herndon to the attacks of the press for his vote on the late act increasing
salaries.]
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, May 24, 1873, p. 2, c. 2-4
[Summary: Response to Herndon's
reply]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 25, 1873, p. 2, c. 2
A case
of small-pox was reported in Tyler last week.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 17, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter of June fourteenth speaks of large ripe peaches, but they are
scarce in that vicinity. The apple
crop is said to be heavy, and the plums plentiful.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 19, 1872, p. 12, c. 2
Tyler
is about to secure a city hall.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 24, 1873, p. 2, c. 1
The
Hon. W. S. Herndon, in the Tyler Reporter, recommends highly Gen. John H.
Reagan, as the democratic candidate for Governor.
He admits that his disabilities have not been removed, but thinks it
certain the next Congress will remove them.
The
Tyler Reporter hoists the name of Col. Richard B. Hubbard, of that city, as its
candidate for Governor. Col.
Hubbard was one of the late democratic electors in this State, and is a very
eloquent and forcible speaker.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 25, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
A new
paper has been started in Troupe, Smith county, called the Dispatch.
The first number is before us. J.
E. Dunbaugh, editor and publisher. The
Dispatch says that the International and Great Northern Railroad will be open to
Mineola in about two weeks, forming a junction with the Texas Pacific.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 25, 1873, p. 13, c. 2-3
Bonner—William
Hubbard Bonner, eldest son of Judge M. H. and Mrs. E. P. Bonner, of this city,
was born in Rusk, Texas, Aug. 4, 1850, and died in Tyler, Texas, May 16, 1873.
He was baptized when an infant, and reared in the church; professed
conversion in August, 1865.
It may
be said of dear William as it was of Timothy—he knew the Holy Scriptures from
a child. He was a student at the
University of Virginia three years, and graduated in several schools there,
among them that of moral philosophy, history and literature, and took the degree
of B. L. June 29, 1871. He was duly
licensed to practice law in the district and supreme courts of Texas, and in the
United States courts, and was, at the time of his death, junior member of the
law firm of Bonner & Bonner.
He was
married by the writer to Miss Kate Dickinson, at Rusk, February 26, 1873.
Never did I marry a more lovely couple, more equally yoked, and with a
brighter prospect for usefulness, happiness, and distinction.
They had loved each other from childhood, and had sacredly kept an
engagement made in tender years.
William
was sacredly impressed with a call to the ministry. The writer had interviewed him repeatedly on that subject,
and had his pledge of fidelity to the sacred calling. His heart was not in the law, but in the gospel.
Death never struck a brighter mark, nor made a deeper wound.
It was so sudden! The dear
pair were in their places at church at 11 o'clock, and at night, the Sabbath
before his death. So happy, so
pious, so admired!
He was
more than a son—he was the companion of his father, and the idol of his
mother; and what was he to that angelic bride, whose every hope in life, and
whose hearty affection clustered around and concentered in her newly allianced
lord? O Death, how cruel thou art!
Monday
he was in his office, and pledged increased fidelity to his pastor.
Tuesday morning he was sick, and Friday, at 6 o'clock A.M., he slept in
Jesus. When he was dying his mother
sang:
"O
sing to me of Heaven when I am called to die!"
and he died in the midst of the hymn. The
mother stopped to offer the prayer, "Lord Jesus, receive the soul of my
dear boy;" and Col. Thomas R. Bonner, uncle to William, finished the
hymn—two verses remaining:
"Then
close my sightless eyes,
And lay me down to rest,
And
clasp my cold and icy hands
Upon my lifeless breast.
"Then round my senseless clay
Assemble those I love,
And
sing of Heaven, delightful Heaven,
My glorious home above."
The family are deeply stricken, the religion of Jesus is magnified, and
the church and society have lost one of their brightest ornaments.
R. S. Finley.
Tyler,
Texas, June 18, 1873.
DALLAS WEEKLY HERALD, June 28, 1873, p. 1, c. 6
[Summary: New Post Offices.
Lyndale
Smith Co.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 1, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter compliments the Hon. O. N. Hollingsworth as a candidate for the
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 3, 1872, p. 6, c. 3
We
hold love-feasts where the preacher in charge deems it expedient.
Where this is done, I find our members are better prepared to enjoy the
sermon and sacrament of the Lord's Supper which follow; besides, the preacher,
going from a good love-feast to the pulpit, finds himself all the better
prepared to administer the Word of Life.
Allow
me to give your readers a specimen of one of our love-feasts held on the
Starrville Circuit a short time since: After
the introductory service, some of the older brethren spoke first—briefly and
to the point. One of our most
venerable and useful local preachers, Brother James B. Hall, referred to the
love-feast held more than twenty years ago on that circuit, where he had met
with many who had safely crossed the river, (naming some of them,) and upon the
other shore they were waiting the arrival of others who must soon follow; said
that he recognized but two present of the original number, Brothers Starr and
Barecroft. He had been called to
mourn the departure of eight lovely children; only one survived; but he looked
forward to no distant day when he too would unite with them in that blessed
clime. Brother Barecroft alluded,
in a touching manner, to the time he joined the church, forty-seven years ago;
also to the time he moved to Texas, thirty-two years since; said they had no
preaching in the part of the country where he first settled; said that he and
his wife kept up family prayers, alternating in the services; said that they had
almost despaired of ever seeing another Methodist preacher; that his wife said
she was unwilling to live in a country where they could not attend church; they
talked about moving away; when one day they saw a young man walking up to their
rude cabin, and asked if Daniel Barecroft lived there.
Being told that he did, the youth informed them that he was a Methodist
preacher, and had been sent by the Conference to preach to the people there.
Said Bro. Barecroft, "I thought he was the poorest looking chance
for a preacher I had ever seen a beardless boy, pale and weary-worn, a circuit
rider on foot. He was hungry
and tired. My wife fixed him some
dried venison and bread, the best we had on hand, and he partook, after
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 9, 1873, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Reporter represents the corn crop of that immediate region as not good.
Not more than half a crop is expected.
The cotton is looking well.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 9, 1873, p. 5, c. 4
The
Troupe Dispatch says: The
Texas Pacific Railroad will have a change of time on the 6th of July. The International and Great Northern Railroad will change
about the same time. Regular trains
will soon run between Houston and Mineola, making time to Dallas and all points
on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad very much shorter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 16, 1873, p. 2, c. 1
At
Tyler, they are putting up apples in barrels to ship to Galveston, where, it is
said, they sell for ten to twelve dollars a barrel.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 16, 1873, p. 13, c. 2-3
Dennis.—Departed
this life in Tyler, on the 26th of April, 1873, in the full triumph
of Christian faith, Rev. Levi Richardson Dennis, presiding elder of Palestine
district, East Texas Conference.
A good
and noble man has gone. In all the
relations of life, beyond reproach; he was an itinerant of peculiarly
consistent devotion to his work. Levi
Dennis was called to the ministry, and in it lived and died at his post
with armor on, his shield unharmed, his sword unbroken, and in hand.
Taken with a chill while reading his Bible, (as was his habit when in the
house,) he laid down, with the book beside him, upon the bed from which he never
arose. A slow, nervous fever setting in, he lingered on, his family
unconscious of the deep-seated danger, till Saturday night, just ere the Sabbath
was beginning on earth, the spirit departed to the Sabbath of God.
As he lived Bible in hand—that death might not separate them—they
laid them away, preacher and Bible, together in the grave.
Levi
R. Dennis was born in Overton county, Tennessee, January 9th, 1820.
Converted at eighteen, he was licensed to preach at Ebenezer camp-ground
October 3d, 1841, by Rev. F. E. Pitts. Entering
the traveling connection in 1842, he was ordained deacon at Columbia, Tennessee,
November 3d, 1844, by Bishop Hanes; and elder by bishop Soule at Nashville,
November 8th, 1846. He
died in the fifty-fourth year of his age, and in the thirty-second of his
ministry. Married to Martha L. Hughes November 14th, 1844,
he removed to Texas, reaching Dallas the 25th of December, 1854.
The wife and three promising daughters survive, all following the pious
footsteps of the departed.
The
first two years of his ministry in Texas were spent with the church in
Jefferson, where, by genial disposition and singleness of devotion to the work,
he won to himself many true and lasting friends.
Thence North, South and East, afterwards, lay the fields of his labor,
till he had well night traveled the greater part of the East Texas Conference.
Duty to him was the omnipotent call—to whatever field assigned.
Business, weather, distance—nothing, save sickness, was excuse for
failure to meet appointments. Who
that knew him as we did ever failed to see that the one obligation to him above
and beyond all others was the work of the itineracy? To it he clung with pride and unfaltering devotion.
All else was made to subserve the Master's call.
His preaching was lain, fervid and evangelical; and under it many a
wavering heart has been strengthened and hundreds brought to a saving knowledge
of the truth. Undemonstrative in manner, he was true and biding in his
attachments and friendships; with a tender and kindly heart ever running out in
sympathy toward the poor and the suffering.
Of this, not a few in East Texas who read this notice will bear witness.
Many are they in Tyler who, with tears in their eyes, will recall how,
last winter, when that terrible scourge, meningitis, prevailed, blighting the
happiness of so many households, he went night and day, through sleet and snow,
to minister Christian comfort to the bereaved and the dying.
But his work is done. We who
remain thank God for the pious, exemplary life of Levi Dennis.
What a harvest he shall some day gather in the glory land while his works
do follow him! These seeds of
purity, so often sown by him in tears, shall mature and are now ripening all
along the itinerant path of his life to be garnered after awhile over in the
celestial Canaan.
As a
family, as a community, as a church, we are bereaved; but shall endure on,
hoping that we, too, after a few more years, may be permitted to join the
company of the redeemed beside the stream and under the tree of Life.
W. H. Scales.
Dallas,
Texas, June 5, 1873.
CLARKESVILLE STANDARD, July 19, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Road from Tyler to
Clarksville.
--------
Senator Latimer furnishes us the charter of the Tyler Tap Railroad
Company, which is authorized to construct a road to Red River.
The main clause interesting us, we copy. The point of deficiency is that there is no specified time
for its construction, and we have no assurance that it will ever be built, as it
only forfeits its rights for such portion as it fails to construct.
Sec.
2. That section ten of the said act
to incorporate the Tyler Tap Railroad Company, shall be so amended as whereafter
read as follows: The said company
is hereby invested with the right of locating, constructing, owning operating
and maintaining a continuous line of railway, with a single or double track, as
well as a telegraph line, from the said town of Tyler, in Smith county, by way
of the towns of Gilmer and Pittsburg, in Upshur county, Mt. Pleasant, in Titus
county, to Clarksville, in Red River county, with the privilege of extending
said road northward from Clarksville to the Red River, to connect with any
railroad entering Texas from the north; provided, that the said extension
beyond Clarksville shall not be more than thirty miles; provided further,
that freight and passage depots shall be established with one-half mile of the
Court Houses in the towns of Tyler, Gilmer, Mt. Pleasant and Clarksville, and
within one-half mile of the centre of the town of Pittsburg, of the town of
Longview, then said road shall pass through said town and establish freight and
passanger [sic] depots within
one-half [mile] of the business portion of the same, upon condition that said
town shall donate to said company the right of way (sixty feet wide,) along the
line of its survey through said town, and necessary depot grounds.
That the said company shall be invested with the right of constructing
such sidings, turn outs, depots, station houses, machine chips, wells, water
tanks, and other buildings and works as are incident to the construction and
operation of its road.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 24, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
A
young man named Robins, while seining a creek, near Tyler, was bitten twice by a
snake and came near dying.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 30, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat notes the adjournment of the Sabbath School Convention
lately held in that place. It was
largely attended by gentlemen and ladies from all parts of the State and it is
though much good was done.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 30, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
Mr.
Murray, an enterprising and valuable citizen, living eight or ten miles from
Tyler, Smith county, is raising apples for export.
The firm of B. K. Smith, of Tyler, are having them barreled for shipment
to Galveston. Mr. Murray sells his
apples at the orchard for $1.50 a bushel.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 6, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
H. V.
Hamilton, for many years connected with the Tyler Reporter in the August
2d number takes his leave of that paper in a well written and feeling
valedictory. He will hereafter be
connected with the Tyler Democrat. The
Reporter will now be conducted by Mr. P. H. Callahan as sole editor.
Its politics will remain the same.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 7, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
Drs.
Goodman and Park are erecting an infirmary at Tyler. A. W. Ferguson is putting up a three story hotel at the same
place. Mr. S. Tucker, who has a
grist mill and iron works there, was considerably injured by a blowing up last
week. Damage, $800.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 13, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
They
are endeavoring to raise money in Tyler to build a Presbyterian Church.
Randall Hill, a notorious negro preacher in that town, was lately
sentenced to the penitentiary for stealing.
Henry Grant was also sent to the same place for being like his namesake
too fond of smoking and taking a box of cigars without leave.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 19, 1873, p. 1, c. 6
Practical Men
Practical men are what we want in office now.
Not only for Governor, not only in the Legislature, but in every office,
from the highest to the lowest, we need practical, thinking men.
Professional politicians ought to be ignored; gamblers, jobbers
and sharp traders in political stock must be set aside, and we must appeal to
the people—the home-spun people, the yeomanry of the country, to supply
their quota of the material we need. It
does not matter from what profession, trade or avocation in life such men may
come, whether from town or country, whether out of the business office or from
between the plow-handles, practical men we must have.
The great issues of the day are practical; the development of this State,
the filling of it with population, the husbanding of its great resources, the
shaping of its railroad policy, the education of the thousands now here and the
thousands yet to come, the providing of the great future that awaits us—these
are all practical duties, and we must have practical men to meet and discharge
them. Hot-house politicians, vapory
demagogues, spinners of fine theories, are not the men of the hour.
Away with the thought that men fit for offices of honor and trust are to
be found only in the cities and towns. They
are to-day in the cotton fields, in the work shops, scattered everywhere, both
in town and country, and we need them and must have them.—Tyler Democrat.
About
the third inst., a dangerous negro insurrection was brewing in Liberty and
Chambers counties, but was frustrated by developments made by a colored man, and
by the capture of the ring leaders. The
object, as stated, was to kill all the whites and take possession of their
property. The principal actor in
the scheme was a negro captain, who claimed to have been sent by Governor Davis.
Is this the beginning of an attempt upon the part of Radicalism to
produce a war of races in Texas, that martial law may follow, and the holding of
an election this fall be defeated. We
shall see.—Tyler Democrat.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 19, 1873, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Democrat of the sixteenth inst., gives an account of three murders,
which have taken place in that neighborhood in the space of one week. The first was that of a young man, named Lee, who was killed
by a negro man for money he had upon his person.
The second was a case between two negroes. The third was that of a negro man by a white man.
Crime often becomes epidemic, and this look very much like there was an
epidemic of crime prevailing in the neighborhood of Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 19, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Making
a New Apportionment of the Representative and Senatorial Districts of the State
of Texas.
6th.
The counties of Smith and Upshur shall constitute the Sixth District, and
shall elect one Senator and three Representatives, and the presiding justice of
Smith county shall be the returning officer.
DALLAS HERALD, August 20, 1873, p. 3, c. 4
Douglass' Texas Battery.
Tyler, Texas, August 27, 1873.
At a
meeting of the surviving members of Douglass' Texas Battery (originally Good's),
held this day, the meeting was called to order by Captain J. P. Douglass being
called to the chair, and Alfred Davis, secretary.
The
following named members were present: J.
P. Douglass, C. C. Winberly, D. C. Williams, J. B. Douglass, W. G. Williams, of
Tyler; C. C. Walker, of Grayson county; W. J. Saunders, of Gainesville, and G.
A. Knight, of Dallas.
The
following resolutions were offered by Dr. C. C. Walker, of Whitesboro, Grayson
county, and adopted:
Resolved,
That we request all surviving members of Douglass' Battery to meet at the city
of Dallas, on Thursday, October 2d, 1873 (at which time the Fair of the North
Texas Agricultural, Mechanical and Blood Stock Association will be in progress),
for the purpose of forming an Association.
Resolved,
That a committee be appointed, consisting of Captain John J. Good, Nat. M.
Burford and Thomas Walker, all of the city of Dallas, Captain James P. Douglass,
Alfred Davis and James Howard, of the city of Tyler, whose duty shall be to
correspond with and notify the surviving members of the above resolution.
Resolved,
That a copy of the above resolutions be furnished the Dallas city and the Tyler
city papers, with a request that they publish the same.
No
other business appearing, the meeting adjourned to meet in the city of Dallas,
on the 2d day of October, 1873.
J. P. Douglass, Chairman
Alfred
Davis, Secretary.
DALLAS HERALD, August 20, 1873, p. 3, c. 3
Douglass' Texas Battery.
It will be seen by the proceedings of a meeting of this old company, held
at Tyler on Tuesday last, that there will be a reunion of its surviving members
in this city on Thursday, October 2, 1873.
Every surviving member is requested to be present.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 21, 1873, p. 4, c. 1
Democratic
State Executive Committee.
6th
District.—John C. Robertson, Smith.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 4, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat notes a considerable amount of sickness in that section,
mostly bilious, yielding readily to treatment.
In the Hopewell neighborhood diphtheria is prevailing among the children,
and is quite fatal.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 5, 1873, p. 4, c. 2
Delegates
to the Democratic Convention
Smith
county—O. M. Roberts, R. K. Gaston, E. F. Jarvis, J. D. Anderson, Geo.
Yarbrough, W. H. Marsh, E. F. Swaim [sic], G. W. Smith, Horace Chilton, H. G.
Robertson, R. B. Hubbard, J. P. Douglass.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 10, 1873, p. 5, c. 2-3
From Starrville Circuit.
Mr. Editor—Antioch Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Starrville
circuit, has just been blessed with the very best of revival meetings of six
days, closing this evening with thirty-one accessions to the church. Rev. D. M. Stovall, preacher in charge, assisted by Revs.
Caleb Smith and John White, conducted the same, each of whom preached the Word
in its purity, and, being aided by dear old Brother Mathis, and also Brothers
Little and Tunnell, exhorters, we had three services each day, viz:
prayer-meeting and two sermons, with no night service, love-feast and
Lord's Supper being also attended to. During
intermissions a bountiful supply of excellent refreshments was furnished.
During the whole time there was a large, attentive and well-behaved
congregation in attendance, and to the last apparently fresh and vigorous, by
reason of rest from the labors of the day during the whole night.
This
part of God's vineyard has been truly blessed above many other portions.
For four preceding years it has had the valuable labors of Brother
Mathis, (now doing good work on the Henderson circuit), than whom there is not,
perhaps, a more faithful, successful or worthy minister in the State; and this
year it is blessed with the faithful services heart-searching and stirring
appeals of Rev. D. M. Stovall. No
people living could more highly appreciate such blessings than the recipients
thereof.
Before
the meeting closed Brother Stovall succeeded not only in enlisting such as
appeared to show respect for the worship of God, but his sermons for the last
three days seemed to have routed the entire force of the enemy of souls, and
several, for whom no hopes had been for a long time entertained, were seen
prostrated in the altar, crying for mercy.
The
meeting closed this evening, (August 21st), leaving over twenty
mourners, nearly all of whom having publickly [sic] pledged themselves to
persevere till they shall have found peace in believing, being promised the aid
of all the Christians present.
Antioch
is alive to her whole duty. She has
regular class and prayer-meetings, a Council of the Friends of Temperance, and a
Band of Hope, besides a flourishing, and Sabbath-school in full blast.
She supports her meetings elegantly and bountifully, and, therefore,
deserves, and is receiving, the very best talent that conference can produce.
In addition to this, she now has located one of the most worthy,
faithful, successful and pious physicians, in the person of Dr. R. K. Fontain,
late of Galveston. This estimable
gentleman, introduced into the community by our beloved brother, Stovall, has
proven quite a valuable accession to the vicinity, church, Council, and Band of
Hope, occupying a prominent position in each.
'Tis true circumstances frequently make men, but in the above named
circumstances the man appears to precede, causing and in a great deal
controlling. So long as a community
will sustain such men, they are sure to be thus blessed.
The
writer has but a limited acquaintance with Smith county, but if he is to judge
of the whole by this portion, he is certain that it is good enough for him, at
least socially and religiously.
August
21, 1873.
A. Member.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 17, 1873, p. 5, c. 1-2
Starrville Circuit.
Mr. Editor—Center is a beautiful chapel, situated eight miles eastward
of Tyler, in one of the best neighborhoods in Smith county.
The membership is respectable, including some of the best citizens of the
county, giving a healthful influence in the entire community.
Our
meeting commenced on Saturday before the second Sabbath in August, and closed,
prematurely, on the following Monday evening.
There was quite a number of penitents at the altar, and the church was in
a good working condition. I have
not seen a better prospect for a glorious revival this season.
A
noble young man by the name of See was murdered in the neighborhood by a negro
for his money. On Monday the
principal supporters of the meeting were summoned to attend court in the murder
case.
Went
from there to Antioch. This is
nearly a central point on the circuit, and is one of the neatest churches on the
work. The people are Methodists
here. This was the home of Brother
Jno. S. Mathis the last two years he rode this circuit, and the present home of
our mutual friend, Dr. Fountain. The
meeting was good from the beginning to the end. It lasted seven days. Over
a score of souls were converted. Thirty-one
accessions to our church. There
were but few left to advocate the cause of the wicked one.
I never saw a better meeting.
I went
from there on the next day, and commenced a meeting at Canton, (not in Van
Zandt, but in Smith county.) This
place had the name of being a hard place, but I do not know why it should be
called so. I am truly in love with
that people, and, by-the-way, Mr. Editor, it is one of our prettiest little
villages. Through injured some by
the railroad, I do not think it will die, but in twelve months from now it will
be better than it is to-day. The
meeting lasted nine days and nights. There
were over thirty conversions. On
Monday night of the meeting we had fifteen conversions.
Brother John, it would have done your soul good to have been with us.
I have not often witnessed such Divine power.
There was not an occasion for a public rebuke during the whole meeting.
I thought often during the meeting, why is it that this is called a hard
people? They were all kind, and
were deeply interested during the meeting, and no one had to go of necessity to
the country to get something good to eat, for it was in abundance, and I never
saw it freer. There were also
brethren and friends from the country, who bore a noble part in supporting the
meeting. Thanks to our brethren of
the Presbyterian and Baptist denominations for their interest in the meeting's
support, and, also, for their hearty co-operation with us in the altar.
And permit me, Mr. Editor, to mention the names of our beloved brethren
in the local ranks, who rendered us valuable services, both in the pulpit and
altar, and from time to time during our meeting:
Brothers Caleb Smith, J. B. Hall, John White, and T. H. Hall.
God bless our working local preachers, for they constitute one of the
best classes of men in the world! They
work without the hope of fee or reward, so far as this world is concerned; but
they will go, ere long, to reap their reward laid up for them in the regions of
bliss.
I
expect to be at Starrville, White House and Overton, the next three weeks.
I believe the Lord will continue with us.
You may hear from us again.
D. M. Stovall.
Overton,
Sept. 3, 1873.
CLARKSVILLE STANDARD, September 20, 1873, p. 1, c. 3
Negro
hung.—On Wednesday night of last week, Jack Johnson, one of the negroes
supposed to be implicated in the recent murder of M. H. See, in the Wimberly
neighborhood, was taken from his house, by unknown parties, and hung.
The Coroner's inquest, we understand, failed to elicit anything further
than above stated. The negro was
taken some quarter of a mile from the public road and hung, where he remained
two or three days before he was discovered.—Tyler Democrat.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 21, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
There
has been another jail delivery at Tyler. These
will continue as long as we have any Radical sheriffs and jailors.
It is believed by many that the jailbirds are let loose purposely.
The bakery establishment of Batey and Shultz was destroyed by fire on the
seventh instant.
DALLAS HERALD, September 27, 1873, p. 1, c. 2
Education in Texas.
We have met with the greatest ignorance in this favored State, and have
wondered that a people enjoying so many advantages should mar them by a lack of
self-culture. Eastern Texas,
perhaps, is worse off than in any other portion of the State, and in connection
with, it might be well to mention Van Zandt, Wood and Smith counties.
Here it might almost be said that they have not enough sense to pound
sand. In many cases we found large
families of whom not one was able to read or write.
Neither are the farms in this locality in so good and flourishing
condition as they are in neighborhoods where the blessings of an education are
appreciated. The reason of this is,
that uneducated people live a kind of animal life, with nothing calculated to
elevate their minds, and dead to all the nobler instinct of human nature.
In other words they become hardened and indolent.
DALLAS HERALD, September 27, 1873, p. 2, c. 7
The
following paragraphs are from the Tyler Democrat:
When
we turn our pair of Dicks loose right over Texas, Radicalism will find
that there are cards in the deck to which Radical aces (properly spelled asses)
are no where.
The
Index thinks the Democratic Platform a string of generalities.
We think so too—just general enough to be endorsed by
nineteen-twentieths of the white men of Texas.
Radicals
are seeking to make capital by saying that Democrats admit the honest of Gov.
Davis. The devil is honest after
the same fashion—as honest a devil as ever compassed the ruin of mankind.
Will
you risk four years more of Radical rule in Texas, or will you try a Democratic
government? The people must answer
this question, and to do so they must first register and then vote.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 4, 1873, p. 1, c. 6
The
Radical convention of Smith county broke up the other day in a row.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 8, 1873, p. 1, c. 4
Our
farmers are very busy securing their crops.
The corn crop, we are told, is not as good as was anticipated.
Several
of our merchants inform us that trade is considerably revived, and that new
cotton is being brought in and offered for sale.—Tyler Index.
DALLAS HERALD, October 11, 1873, p. 1, c. 3-4
[Summary: Account of meeting of the
"Society for Reunion of the First Texas Artillery" to meet annually,
alternately at Dallas and Tyler.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 12, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
Judge
Coke's Appointments.—Judge Coke will address the people of Texas upon the
political issues of the day at the following times and places:
Tyler,
Wednesday, November 5.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 16, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Good
ordinary cotton is selling at Tyler at 12 1-2 cents per pound; low middling at
12 cents coin. The editor of the Democrat
has been shown a twig of oak, not a foot long, containing seventy-five full
grown acorns. The hogs there will
have a happy time this fall.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 22, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat records the death of Mr. Henry McDougal, by having his
hand caught in the saws of a cotton gin. His
entire arm was drawn in, and before medical help could be called he bled to
death.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 23, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
A
protracted meeting of the Methodists is going on at Tyler.
Many conversions have taken place.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 25, 1873, p. 1, c. 6
Col. R. B. Hubbard.
The Austin Democratic Convention, perhaps embodying more talent,
integrity and wisdom than ever convened in a similiar [sic] assembly in the
State of Texas, selected the gentleman whose name heads this article for the
second position on our State ticket. In
him Judge Coke finds an able and efficient coadjutor in the present campaign
that is being conducted so vigorously; in him the people of Texas recognize a
standard bearer worthy of their cause, and in him the State Senate will find a
presiding officer of dignity and efficiency.
Col.
Hubbard is the true type of the Southern Democracy. He is fully up to the party standard. He has been since the close of the war in most perfect accord
and sympathy with the Democratic party, and he has never been found among the sore-head
impracticables on the one hand, who would literally do nothing for
themselves, their people or their country, because the result of the war placed
beyond their reach the gratification of every political desire, nor has
he ever been found chaffering with the opposition, or manifesting captiousness,
uneasiness or disaffection, when his party had proclaimed its line of action.
Col.
Hubbard is now in his thirty-eighth year. He
graduated in the Georgia University, and subsequently in the law department of
Cambridge. He is a man of massive
proportions, powerful physique, and as well up in literature as he is in law.
His knowledge of the latter he reduces to successful practice.
On the
hustings and before the people he is one of the most powerful orators in the
State. He states issues with
precision and enforces his own convictions with a power that is magnetic.
His
record is short and unimpeachable. Having
completed his law studies, he removed to Smith county, Texas, where he now
resides. He engaged at once in the
practice of the law. Believing that
good citizenship required that men should not ignore political matters, but
should lend their best abilities to the attainment of the best results in
State-craft, and that they should at least leave a record of protest where the
popular current tended towards pernicious consequences, he became at once
actually engaged in politics. His
recognized acquirements as a lawyer, and his high reputation as an orator,
causing him to be appointed United States District Attorney for the Western
District of Texas. He was a member
of the Convention that passed the secession ordinance, and when the war broke
out he gave himself as a brave and good man should, and won for himself the rank
of Colonel. When the war closed he
acknowledged the teaching of the logic of events, and engaged very successfully
in agriculture.
During
the last Presidential campaign he warmly espoused the cause of Mr. Greeley, and
was one of the electors on his ticket. To
that ticket he gave a firm and unqualified support. He is now doing active work during the campaign.
He will deal merciless and heavy blows to hydra-headed Radicalism.
Upon their ticket, the Radicals have no foreman worthy of his steel.
His
announcements tell us that he will be among our people during the latter part of
next month, when he will be greeted with such an ovation as will convince him
that, so far as Bexar is concerned, "there's life in the old land
yet."—S. A. Herald.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 5, 1873, p. 1, c. 5
Coke and Hubbard.
These distinguished standard bearers of the Democratic party have
thoroughly aroused the people of Northern Texas, and a perfect storm of
enthusiasm is sweeping over the country wherever they have been.
Glowing accounts reach us from many points at which they have spoken, of
the interest which they have awakened among the people upon the vital issues of
the campaign. Thousands of people
turned out to hear them at every point, and the Second Congressional District is
in a fervid blaze of excitement. Some
claim it for the Democracy by a majority of 25,000.
These accounts fill our hearts with joy.
The old Democratic army is in motion, and its firm and heavy tread in its
onward march to that grand victory which it is to win on the second day of
December next already fills the minions of tyranny and oppression with awful
fear and terrible dismay. Democrats, be of good cheer; but be diligent, be faithful, be
true. To make our victory thorough,
complete and overwhelming, we must have every man in the line.
Then register, and then vote; and when the sun shall set on
the second day of December, let his last lingering rays play over a field that
has been thoroughly trampled by the entire
Democratic hosts of Texas, in their brave, determined and fearless march
to triumph and to victory.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 5, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
They
have a hunting club in Tyler. Lately
its members killed forty deer in one hunt.
It is not said how many were engaged in it, or how long they were
hunting.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 5, 1873, p. 3, c. 2
Have
we not borne them long enough?—For four long and dreadful years the people of
Texas have borne the dreadful reign of Davis and the Radical party.
During that time, he has commissioned and sent out upon missions of
murder, among the people, many of the most infamous characters that were ever in
the States, and who had but little more regard and respect of human life than
they had for the life of the brute. The
numerous murders which they perpetrated in the State, and the facility with
which they escaped, all show that the people have borne their trials with
remarkable patience, and they surely have borne them long enough, and it is time
to try new but honest men.—Tyler Reporter.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 5, 1873, p. 5, c. 3
Tyler Revival.
Mr. Editor—The glorious work of God is still progressing, with no
visible abatement of interest. This
is the eighteenth day of its continuance, and still our large church is filled
with attentive hearers every evening, and the altar with anxious penitents. No one unacquainted with Tyler and the history of Methodism
in it can appreciate the blessed achievements of this gracious revival
visitation. It is eminently the
work of God. The fever panic cut
off all chances of help from abroad, and the pastor has preached twice per day
most of the time. He gratefully
acknowledges a brief visit from Brother J. S. Mathis and two excellent sermons;
also same from Brother Samuel Morris, presiding elder.
That
form of "Christianity in earnest," known as Methodism, is no longer an
experiment in this lovely little city. We
are now hopeful and happy. On last
night we had a re-union of the church in the form of a love-feast, strictly
under the rule, (excluding the multitude), members, young converts, and
penitents, only admitted. We heard
from the lips of men whose names are a power as statesmen, jurists, bankers,
merchants—to the rejoicing of mother and wife, who had received her dead
raised to life again—the wonderful works of God.
Unlike
most revivals, the dear children as yet have not been its subjects—nearly all
are adults. Many members that were
weak are now strong, active and efficient.
I believe that there are now one hundred sinners under the convicting
power of the Spirit, and still they come! I
am now failing, not from over-work, but from a deep seated cold and sore throat.
O for a live preacher!
R. S. Finley.
October
28, 1873.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 12, 1873, p. 2, c. 2
We are
told by the Tyler Reporter that large droves of horses and mules are
passing almost daily through that town, going—the editor does not know where.
There was some good stock among them.
Judge Coke was greeted with artillery on his arrival at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 13, 1873, p. 3
A
correspondent of the Tyler Reporter furnishes that paper the following
strange case of the simultaneous death of a man and wife in Smith county:
Died,
on the twenty-third instant, at their residence, on the Leagues, Mr. and Mrs. N.
F. Williams.
The
writer hereof is not in the habit of writing obituary notices, but there is
something so remarkable about the event announced above, that he deems it not
amiss to publish the simple facts. Mr.
Williams had been sick but a few days. Mrs.
Williams had taken her bed more from exhaustion, resulting from her ceaseless
watching than from actual sickness. When
she was informed that her husband could not possibly live, she became perfectly
frantic, and refused to be comforted. Being
a delicate woman, nature yielded, and man and wife died almost simultaneously.
He was
in his thirtieth year, and she had scarcely reached the fullness of womanhood.
They left a couple of little children, one an infant of two months.
Late
in the evening of the twenty-fourth their remains, enclosed in the same coffin,
were buried in a great cut in solid rock, upon the summit of one of the
ruggedest hills in Smith county.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 16, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Judge
O. M. Roberts writes from Tyler, under date of November 10, to a leading citizen
of this place. We have been
permitted to peruse the letter, from which we take the following extract.
It is an expression of the universal opinion in regard to our noble
leader, Judge Coke, and the other nominees of the Austin Convention:
"Our
candidate Judge Coke was here last week; and made a powerful speech of over
three hours, and was patiently and eagerly listened to by a very large crowd of
men and women. It was the very
thing needed; an able, exhaustive exposition of the leading principles of the
Democratic party, and of the principles and acts of the Republican party, both
in the United States and in Texas. It
was terribly severe on Davis and his adherents, and what made it more galling
than usual, he proved fully and plainly all his charges of tyranny, fraud and
misrule, as he progressed. It was
fully approved by all of our leading Democrats, and the common people say it was
the greatest political speech that they ever heard. He is making a grand rally every where he goes.
Our local candidates are busily canvassing the counties, and arousing the
people to register and go to the polls and vote, which I believe now they will
generally do. I write this to let
you know, that our nominations in the Austin Convention are regarded in the east
as a great success, as I knew they would be, when they were made."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 20, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
It has
been determined by the city authorities of Tyler to erect a market house on the
east side of the public square. A
protracted Baptist meeting is going on in Tyler.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 26, 1873, p. 6, c. 3
Mr.
Editor—Behold how good and how pleasant it is to be warmed, mellowed and
refreshed by genial revival showers! Such
showers are now falling upon Tyler. I am just in from the sanctuary, from the ten o'clock A.M.
services, where an altar was full of weeping penitents and happy converts.
Saw a young wife and mother happily pass into the spiritual life.
Happy state! blessed
testimony! There have been eleven
conversions, all adults. Church
crowded, work spreading and no ministerial help.
The meeting commenced on last Friday.
We are looking and praying for glorious results.
How we need an extensive revival! God
help us.
R. S. Finley.
Tyler,
Oct. 17, 1873.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 26, 1873, p. 9, c. 3
Marshall
District, Starrville circuit—David M. Stovall.
Palestine
District, Tyler station—R. S. Finley.
Palestine
District, Tyler circuit—Wm. N. Bonner.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 27, 1873, p. 2, c. 4
A Card.
"The statement by the Austin State Journal, and copied in the
Tyler Index (a Radical sheet), charging me now, just on the eve of the
election, with personal corruption, and uttering and acknowledging that I made
false statements in writing, in the year 1865, is a base and malicious
falsehood. There was a personal
encounter between the party alluded to and myself, in 1865, but the matter was
then amicably and honorably adjusted, by mutual friends and Masonic
brethren, we both being members of the fraternity and since friendly.
The records of the Masonic Tyler Lodge attest the truth of this
statement.
"Richard B. Hubbard."
Yesterday
we went to the clerk's office in this city, and failed to find recorded there
anything with regard to Col. Hubbard of the nature stated by the State
Journal. We had a conversation
yesterday, also, with Sheriff Robinson, from whom the Index quotes, and
while he speaks of notes which passed, he does not say that a lie bill was ever
signed or recorded, so far as he knows. The
district clerk says that no such document is on record in his office, to his
knowledge.—Eds. Democrat.
"We,
the undersigned members of St. John's Lodge, Tyler, Texas, state from personal
knowledge, and from an examination of the records of the lodge, that Col. R. B.
Hubbard signed nothing in the shape of a lie bill, in the settlement of the
difficulty by the lodge, between Hubbard and Sharp, alluded to above.
The whole matter was amicably settled.
"W. H. Park, W.M.,
G.M. Johnson, S.W.,
"L. A. Denson, J.W.,
J. W. Davenport,
"L. A. Denson, J.W.,
M. L. Fleishl,
"J. M. Jessup,
John F. Haden,
"J. J. Moore,
"Tyler,
November 21, 1873."
DALLAS HERALD, November 29, 1873, p. 1, c. 7
A Card.
[From the Tyler Democrat]
The statement by the Austin State Journal, and copied in the Tyler Index
(a radical sheet), charging me, [illegible], just on the eve of the election,
with personal corruption, and [illegible] and acknowledging that I made false
statements in writing in the year [illegible], is a base and malicious
falsehood. There was a personal
[illegible] between the party alluded to and myself, in 1865, but the matter was
[illegible] amiably and honorably adjusted, by mutual friends and Masonic
brethren, we both being members of the fraternity, and since friendly.
The records of the Masonic Tyler Lodge attest the truth of this
statement.
Richard B. Hubbard.
Yesterday
we went to the Clerk's office in this city, and failed to find recorded there
anything with regard to Colonel Hubbard of the nature stated in the State
Journal. We had a conversation
yesterday, also with Sheriff Robinson, whom the Index [illegible], and
[illegible] he speaks of [illegible] which passed, he does not say that a lie
bill was ever signed on record, so far as he knows. The District Clerk says that no such document on record in
his office to his knowledge.—[Editors Democrat.
We the
undersigned members of the St. John's Lodge, Tyler, Texas, state from personal
knowledge, and from an examination of the records of the Lodge, that Colonel R.
B. Hubbard signed nothing in the shape of a lie bill, in the settlement of the
difficulty by the Lodge, between Hubbard and Sharp, alluded to above.
The whole matter was amicably settled.
W. H.
Park, W. M.
G. M. Johnson, S. W.
L. A.
Deason, J. W.
J. W. Davenport
George
Adams
M. L. Fleishl
J. M.
Jessup
John F. Haden.
J. J. Moore.
Tyler, November 21, 1873
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 5, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
protracted meeting of the Baptists at Tyler, still continues and many
conversions reported. Business is
represented as very lively in Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 6, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
Majorities
for Coke and Davis.
Smith
Coke's majorities
250
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 24, 1873, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat says the cotton is selling at that place at the rate of a
thousand bales a week.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 24, 1873, p. 5, c. 2
The Tyler Revival.
Mr. Editor—I now redeem my promise to you at conference—to specify
the results of the great work of grace so recently displayed in the form of a
revival in this place. I am not
able even now to give a full account of the fruits of this glorious work, as
persons are still making application for admission into the church.
I received ten on last Sabbath, five of whom had applied for admission on
the night before I left for conference. I
have received forty-one since the meeting began, and now have applications which
will swell the number to about fifty, and eighty-five since I took charge a year
ago. There were not more than that
number who professed conversions. Our Baptist brethren held a meeting of some three weeks'
duration after ours closed. Of the
number of additions to that church I am not officially advised, though some
persons professed and joined.
It is
impossible to estimate the real value of this work, except from a Tyler
standpoint—the town and people must be known—the extent to which the views
of Universalism had infected the people, the previous indifference of many
clever people to the claims of Christianity, the preaching of the gospel, and
the services of the sanctuary. All
the converts were adults except two, and about thirty are married persons.
All the professions were represented, and most of the business
departments. The work was eminently
the work of the Spirit. The
convictions of sin were deep, and the throes of repentance proportionately
intense; no storm at any time, but much agony of spirit.
The conversions were clear, and the testimony was in distinct utterances,
not dubious. As a result, we thank
God and take courage.
How
can any church drag itself through the continuous monotonous forms of religion,
a whole year without a revival? How
can any pastor live, and breathe, and labor a whole year in the stagnant
atmosphere of a lifeless church? Methodism
is not only "Christianity in earnest," but Christianity on
fire—flaming in zeal and love for the reclamation and salvation of a lost
world. A gospel without power is a
defective gospel, and a Methodist Church without zeal is a misnomer.
The world is to be converted, if at all, not by fine preaching, but by
revival powers—the power that invests the gospel with the elements of success.
That power may be obtained within "the secret place of
thunder," and nowhere else.
And
now, that the new conference year has opened upon us, and new responsibilities
are gathering thickly around us, let me suggest to every Methodist pastor in
Texas that even a doubt of success is a moth and a mildew. It is inadmissible; we cannot afford to doubt; there is too
much at stake to doubt, both to ourselves and our people. Success must be our motto; failure is not in the true
minister's vocabulary. If the
gospel is true, and we are true, how can we fail?
To doubt it, is to weaken our fortification, and invite aggression at
that point. It is to distrust God
or any calling. It is sin.
If the preacher is cursed with unbelief, what may be expected of his
people and his ministry?
There
is no place in the itinerant ministry of Texas for a sleepy, time-serving
preacher; he can only occupy space to the damage of the interests involved.
Let him retire and seek a place in business, where the interests involved
and the zeal and energy displayed in their pursuit harmonize.
An earnest, live ministry is the demand of this time and country.
Let the conferences see to it that none other are received, or if
received, continued longer than the unpleasant discovery is made that they are
not adapted or will not do the work.
The
opening year will tell for weal, or woe on the future of Methodism in Texas!
May every preacher prove himself an evangelical revivalist, and bring up
such a report a year hence as will lay deeply the foundations of future success.
R. S. Finley.
Tyler,
Dec. 3, 1873.
DALLAS WEEKLY HERALD, January 3, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
Besides
the above there are schools of high grade in most of the important towns of the
States, as Fort Worth, Weatherford, Sherman, Denton, Bonham, Paris, Tyler,
Henderson, Houston, etc.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 7, 1874, p. 1, c. 3
The
Trade of Henderson and Van Zandt Counties.—The city of Tyler does a large
wholesale and retail business with the people of these two counties.
Much of their cotton and other produce finds its way to this place, and
then finds a ready sale. The people of these two counties, like the balance of
mankind, are seeking their own interest, and they are aware that Tyler is the
cheapest dry-goods and grocery market in Eastern Texas.
The liberality of our merchants has built her up a trade that has
enriched them, built up the city, and at the same time been a blessing to the
whole surrounding country. These
good people will continue to bring their cotton to us and purchase their
supplies from us, as long as we show them this same open-handed, fair way of
dealing. Our stocks of merchandise
are full, and prices low. Bring on
your cotton, corn, fodder, oats, rye, butter, eggs, chickens, turkeys—anything
and everything—and buy your next year's supplies.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 11, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
Mr. P.
H. Callahan, late of the Tyler Reporter, also called upon us.
He was editor of the Reporter during the late canvass, and made it
one of the most effective papers during the campaign.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 21, 1874, p. 1, c. 4
Smith
county presents many inducements to immigrants desiring to settle in Eastern
Texas. We have plenty of room and
fertile lands, where men can better themselves. To the laboring man, there is plenty of work, with
remunerative compensation. We need
energetic, working men—farmers, artisans, mechanics, and skilled labor, and
every branch of business will find plenty to do with profit.—Exchange.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 21, 1874, p. 7, c. 1
Departed
this life, in Smith county, Texas, Nov. 11, 1873, in the 32d year of her age, in
full triumphs of faith, Mrs. Lethia S. Burgamy, consort of Rev. J. C. Burgamy,
late of the East Texas Conference.
Sister
B. was a native of Spaulding county, Georgia, and daughter of Philip J. and
Frances Bishop. She embraced
religion in the year 1858; was married to her now bereaved husband in 1864.
For the last five years her afflictions were great, which she bore
without a murmur, calmly resigned to the will of God.
She was a deeply pious and consistent member of our church; a helpmeet
indeed to her husband, always encouraging him in the work of the ministry.
In his absence she would hold family devotions, and was greatly blessed
in the discharge of this duty. She
was fond of reading religious literature, and was well versed in the sacred
truths of the Bible. A short time
before she died, she repeated the 23d Psalm:
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."
She
called her children (two lovely daughters and a niece,) and exhorted them to
meet her in heaven; said to weeping friends:
"Weep not for me; soon I will be in heaven!"
She requested them to sing the hymn commencing:
"O sing to me of heaven," etc.
After this, she requested her husband to sing one of her favorite hymns:
"Jesus, lover of my soul," etc.,
which he did.
Just
before her spirit took its flight to the realm of bliss, she was heard to
whisper:
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there."
Thus
has passed away, in the meridian of life, an affectionate wife, a doting mother,
amiable in disposition, and beloved by all who knew her.
May the God of all grace console the hearts of the bereaved husband and
orphan children with the fond hope of meeting her in the blessed mansions in our
Father's house above.
Daniel Morse.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 22, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
By
leave, Mr. Henderson of Smith presented a petition of citizens of White House,
Smith county, asking the passage of a law prohibiting the sale of liquor within
two miles of White House; also a bill to prohibit the sale of any spirituous,
vinous or other intoxicating liquors within certain prescribed bounds.
Read first time and referred to the Committee on Education.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 22, 1874, [page and
column?]
The
Tyler Reporter wants a public library established in that flourishing
place, also a fire company. The
business of Tyler is improving and trade is lively.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 28, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
A
subscription is being raised in Tyler to build an Episcopal Church.
Improvements are going on. The
Reporter claims that the society of Tyler is equal to any town in Texas.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 5, 1874, p. 1, c. 6-7
Hon.
Guy M. Bryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives:
The
special committee to which was referred House bill No. 146, "An act to
branch the Supreme Court of the State of Texas," report the bill back for
the consideration of the House, and recommend its passage.
Respectfully,
Raney, Chairman.
Mr.
Cochran submitted the following minority report:
Mr.
Guy M. Bryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives:
A
minority of your special committee on branching the Supreme Court, to whom was
referred House bill No. 146, requiring them to consider and report as to the
most proper and suitable places of holding the other two branches of the Supreme
Court of this State, other than the city of Austin, beg leave to make a minority
report dissenting from the report of the majority of your special committee, for
and upon the following reasons:
First,
It appeared that the city of Houston, a prominent candidate for the location of
one of the branches of said Supreme Court had no representative upon that
committee.
Second,
That while we do not propose to detract from the city of Tyler any merits
that she can justly claim, disclaiming at the same time, any selfish motives of
pecuniary interest in the location of any branch of said Supreme Court at any
place, and actuated only by a desire to secure the greatest good to the greatest
number, and believing that this can only be accomplished by a due consideration
and respect for geographical position, population, location, natural and
acquired advantages of the laces to be selected for the holding of said Supreme
Court, would respectfully state that the city of Dallas has the advantage over
Tyler in all these respects. By
referring to the map of the State of Texas, we find that the city of Dallas is
the most central point north of the city of Austin.
We find that the distance from Red River to the city of Dallas is equal
to the distance from Dallas to the parallel which equally divides the
distance from Dallas to Austin. We
also find that Dallas is about two hundred miles west of the eastern boundary
line of the State. It is clearly
perceivable that the city of Dallas is the geographical centre of the present
inhabited portion of the State in which one branch of the Supreme Court is to be
located, and that Tyler is too far east of the above mentioned section of the
State, being only about one hundred miles due west from the east boundary line
of the State and about four hundred miles east of the extreme settlements on the
west. Besides, the city of Dallas
has a population of ten thousand inhabitants, while Tyler has only about four
thousand five hundred. Besides, the
city of Dallas is located in a healthy section of country, surrounded by a rich
and fertile soil, with a thrifty, industrious, energetic and rapidly
increasing population, accessible by railroads from the east, north and South,
and destined soon to become the railroad centre of the State.
We
further claim that some consideration should be given to the wants of the
rapidly growing West, and would respectfully represent that the city of Tyler is
entirely too far east for their convenience, and that, in our opinion, all those
living between the two branches of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, as far east
as Texarkana along the line to Sherman, and as far east as Jefferson along the
line to Dallas, and especially those living west of the Texas Central would
prefer coming to Austin even, rather than go to Tyler, as those living west of
the Texas Central would either have to travel the dirt road to Tyler, or else
leave their horses in the livery stables of the railroad stations at enormous
costs in order to reach Tyler by rail. Taking
into consideration the geographical advantages of Dallas over Tyler, together
with the facts, that Dallas as a commercial city, is second to but two others in
the State, and her rapid increase in population, rising in the short space of
twelve months, from four thousand to ten thousand inhabitants, together with a
brilliant prospect of doubling her population in the near future, and destined
soon [c.7] to be railroad center of the great State of Texas, and that she has a
court house built of hard rock almost equal to the capitol building in Austin,
being one hundred and twenty feet long, and sixty-six feet wide, two stories
high, with two upper rooms of sixty-six by sixty feet, each, with ample jury
rooms—of which she proposes to furnish one sufficient and commodious room for
the holding of the Supreme Court in, with sufficient jury and library rooms; all
free of charge to the State—we should respectfully ask that the claims of the
city of Dallas be duly weighed and considered.
Hoping, that the greatest good may accrue to the greatest number, we most
respectfully ask that this minority report be properly received and favorably
considered.
Very respectfully,
John H. Cochran.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 5, 1874, p. 4, c. 1
[Summary: Galveston elected, on
fourth ballot: Dallas 39, Tyler 33,
Dallas and Galveston declared]
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 11, 1874, p. 1, c. 2-3
Our City is growing and increasing in commercial importance—not very rapidly,
it is true, but steadily and surely. It
offers to the people north, west and south of us the very best facilities for
purchasing goods and groceries, and disposing of their produce at the very best
prices. The health of the place will compare favorably with that of
any other place in the eastern portion of the State. Society is very good indeed.
Schools, both male and female, of high order and well conducted, offering
very superior educational advantages. The
pulpits of the various city churches are regularly and ably filled by zealous
ministers. And, taking the city of
Tyler as a whole, it is the most pleasant little city to live in anywhere in the
State. Then those who are seeking
homes can do no better than to come here.—Tyler Ex.
DALLAS HERALD, February 14, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Official Vote of the State of Texas
For Governor, December 2, 1873, between Richard Coke,
Democrat, and Edmund J. Davis, Radical
Coke
Davis
Anderson
1135
916
Angelina
462
116
Cherokee
1486
527
Gregg
358
154
Harrison
999
2239
Henderson
763
249
Nacogdoches
987
395
Panola
1117
263
Rusk
1796
1302
Smith
1585
1342
Titus
1702
250
Upshur
1166
605
Van Zandt
651
244
Wood
681
169
Total (state)
103291
53290
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 19, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
J. B.
Hall, to be notary public, Smith county.
John
Dean, to be notary public, Smith county.
E.
Lindsey, to be notary public, Smith county.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 19, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
[Summary: Discussion in Senate on
changing Supreme Court to Dallas from Tyler]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 20, 1874, p. 2, c. 1
The
discussion in the Senate on the location of the Supreme Court was not resumed on
Thursday, as anticipated. It is
believed that the Senate will decide in favor of Austin, Galveston and Tyler,
while the House has already decided in favor of Austin, Galveston and Dallas,
from which decision it is very generally believed it will not recede.
DALLAS HERALD, February 21, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
(Proposed
new Congressional districts)
1st
district
Smith Co.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 24, 1874, p. 2, c. 1
The
Tyler Democrat, speaking of the resolution of thanks of Gen. Grant for
the course he pursued in relation to Texas affairs, very justly says:
"The
passage of this resolution may be all right under the circumstances; it may suit
the times in which we live; it may suit President Grant; but we verily believe
it would been [sic] a direct rebuke and insult to Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, and several other Presidents we could mention.
To thank a public officer for performing an act of simple duty is the
next thing to declaring that so much was not expected of him."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 24, 1874, p. 3, c. 2
The
Tyler Democrat favors a constitutional convention, and concludes as
follow:
We are
willing to admit the superior wisdom of the Legislature; we are willing to
believe that in their combined judgment they may see reasons to guide them which
we may not discover; we certainly do not doubt the honesty and patriotism of our
legislature; but they were not sent to Austin to frame a Constitution, and we
seriously think it doubtful if the people will be satisfied with any job they
attempt to put up.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 28, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
On
Friday the House had under consideration the bill for locating the Supreme
Court. A hard fight was made
between the friends of Tyler and Dallas, which finally resulted in the selection
of the former. So the Supreme Court
will now be held as in former days, at Austin, Galveston and Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 28, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Smith
County.—A. M. Armstrong, of the firm of Cohn & Armstrong, left Tyler,
expecting to be back next day. There
was nothing heard of him for ten days, and the citizens becoming alarmed went in
search of him. A hat was found near
Troupe station which was identified as his.
Strong suspicions are entertained that he has been foully dealt with.
DALLAS HERALD, February 28, 1874, p. 2, c. 3-4
[Summary: Discussion of whether to
locate branch of Supreme Court in Dallas or Tyler]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 3, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
Smith
County.—Marshal Spain, of Tyler, has tendered his resignation as city marshal.
Ira Portis is his successor.....John F. Haden has associated with Dr. W.
H. park in the drub business, in Tyler.....C. O. Bowen has recently opened a
drug establishment in Tyler....."We had another jail delivery last
Wednesday night—all gone—five or six murderers, thieves, etc., including Ran
Hill, etc," says the Tyler Democrat of the twenty-eighth ult.
"A pretty thing we've got of it, but what's the use to
complain?".....Frank Randall, whose arm was amputated on the eleventh
instant, in Tyler, is rapidly recovering. The
arm was amputated at the shoulder joint by articulating the bones and removing
the entire arm.....At a meeting of the Tyler Democratic Club on the
twenty-seventh ult., J. M. Hockersmith was re-nominated for Mayor.
The old aldermen were re-nominated, except J. J. Hamilton, who declined,
and Col. Geo. Yarbrough was nominated in his place.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 7, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
A
gentleman just from Tyler informs us that the citizens of that place have gone
actively to work to put the Supreme Court building in fine order.
It is to be generally renovated and a mansard roof placed upon it.
This is good for Tyler. The
library belonging to the court is said to be well kept and in perfect condition.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 10, 1874, p. 3, c. 4
Lieut. Gov.
Hubbard.
--------
It is with pride and pleasure that we refer now to the able and eloquent
gentleman whose name stands at the head of this article.
He is one of whom the Texas Democracy may and does justly feel proud.
No man ever won richer or brighter laurels than were achieved by him in
the long and heated canvass of 1873. Foeman
after foeman essayed to meet him in the field of political discussion, and were
swept down by the grand and resistless torrent of his powerful logic and his
inimitable and matchless eloquence. We
feel proud of him, for he is the great and unflinching friend of the people. He is one of their firmest and fastest friends.
He keeps faith with them. Elected
to his present position by a majority larger than that obtained by any other
candidate on the Democratic ticket, he adheres faithfully to his promises and
his pledges made in the late canvass.
His
casting vote—there being a tie in the Senate, 13 to 13, at one stage of the
measure for calling a constitutional convention—was given in favor of the
convention. This shows the fidelity
with which he deals with that grand party that elevated him to his present high
and honorable position in the councils of the commonwealth.
Faithful, true and trusted friend of the people of Texas, you have
already won for yourself the well deserved title of "the eagle orator"
of the State, and for your unflinching, firm and steadfast adherence to the
pledges of the past, we greet you now with the salutation of "well done,
good and faithful servant;" and we hope the time is not far distant when
higher honors will be awarded you by the people of this great State, whose
faithful friend you are, and have always been, in every emergency, trial,
difficulty and danger.—Tyler Reporter, 7th inst.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 10, 1874, p. 3, c. 6
Smith
County.—The ladies of the Baptist Church have in course of preparation a fine
tragedy which will be presented next Tuesday night, says the Tyler Reporter
of the seventh instant. . . Two mules were stolen from Mr. Morris's, near Tyler,
and a horse and other property from Dr. Holland's, recently.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 25, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
Smith
County.—Granges have been organized in Jamestown, Canton, and Sylvan Springs.
. . The Baptist Church in Tyler adopted a resolution inviting the Southern
Baptist Convention, which meets at Jefferson in May next, to come there on a
visit.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 25, 1874, p. 13, c. 2
Lake—Jacobs.—Union
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with the Methodist Church,
Protestant—On March 12, 1874, at the residence of the bride's father, in Smith
county, Texas, by Rev. Wm. A. Smith, the Rev. Daniel T. Lake, of the Trinity
Conference, Garden Valley circuit, to Miss Emma Jacobs, member of the Methodist
Church, Protestant.
May
their sea be ever calm,
And
zephyrs gentle waft them tow'rd the brighter shore.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 31, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Mr.
Sid S. Johnson has retired from the editorial chair of the Tyler Reporter,
and sold his interest to Mr. D. C. Williams.
He says the Reporter is on a safe footing.
Mr. J. W. Shuford has also sold his interest to Williams, so that he is
now alone.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 3, 1875, p. 5, c. 3
Henderson—Brinley.—On
the evening of the 21st of March, 1875, at Church, in Troupe, by the
Rev. H. M. Booth, Mr. F. P. Henderson to Miss E. G. Brinley.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 10, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Population
of the Counties Embraced in the Proposed Eastern District—Introduced by
Senator J. W. Flanagan, in the Interest of Galveston and Jefferson.
Smith
16,532
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 15, 1874, p. 1, c. 1-2
Smith County—Tyler—Business—Cotton.
It is a pleasure to us to note the progress of our county and city, in
real and material interests and development.
There is no better county of uplands in the State, and the bottom lands
are as fertile as could be wished, producing all manner of crops which grow in
this latitude, in profuse abundance. Health
is good, consequent upon pure air, good water and the moral, temperate lives of
the people. Society is strictly
organized, and good behavior in both old and young a matter of course.
Churches all over the entire county are very numerous, pointing with
their spires the weary sons and daughters of the earth to a better land.
Our schools are numerous, well conducted and many of them of a high
order, giving to the young facilities for acqui8ring a good education not
surpassed in the State. Our people
are thrifty, industrious and energetic, and therefore never behind, but always
pushing their affairs and building themselves up in all things that tend to make
them a happy and contented community.
The
city of Tyler partakes of this general advancement, and is growing
rapidly—spreading out with almost magic speed.
We feel glad to announce to strangers and the outside world generally,
that this is one of the most quiet and orderly cities in this or any other
State. Her people are moral and
religious almost without exception. The
business of the place is increasing rapidly, and considering the great
liberality of her tradesmen, will continue to increase.
On one day this season there were received in this city eight hundred
bales cotton, besides other produce, for sale or shipment.
This of itself speaks volumes for the county and city to those of the
older States who may wish to make Texas their future home.
Our stocks of merchandise are always full, and Tyler can boast of more
good, solvent dry goods and grocery houses than any other town in the State.
The city of Tyler, from "early morn till dewy eve," is a scene
of business activity truly gratifying to those interested.
Wagons, horses, men, cotton bales, and tradesmen, literally blocking up
the streets. And this is no
mushroom growth, the effect of sudden, spasmodic effort or excitement, but is
the result of steady thrift and persistent energy on the part of the people of
the whole county, and the liberal dealing of our merchants.
With all these facts—blessings in themselves—which we have not
overrated, Smith county stands in the front rank of counties, and Tyler is
destined to be a queen city, sitting upon her imperial throne and crowned with
her coronet of cotton bales and greenbacks.
Our
men are live, intelligent, working men; our children are bright, healthy, rosy,
beautiful and polite; and our ladies—here language fails—are good,
beautiful, and—and—well, anyhow, hurrah for Smith county!—Reporter.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 17, 1875, p. 4, c. 6
The
Tyler tap road is progressing steadily. It
will intersect the Texas Pacific about twenty miles northeast of Tyler.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 6, 1874, p. 6, c. 1-2
Eds.
Advocate—My second quarterly meeting embraced the fifth Sabbath in March.
Our presiding elder, unavoidably, was absent.
A larger attendance, especially on Saturday, than is usual.
The programme of the Sabbath was interrupted by a heavy rain, which
lasted till near the preaching hour. As
you solicit facts, briefly stated, from the preachers for the ADVOCATE, I will
send you a few, which you may publish if you think proper.
The
report of the preacher in charge for the quarter was, in substance, as follows:
Traveled over 400 miles; visited 80 families; filled every appointment,
and received into the church 22—mostly by letter; congregations, especially at
the Sabbath appointments, increasing in numbers and interest.
The
financial report of the stewards was rather meager, but this is owing to the
great scarcity of money in these parts. Yet,
notwithstanding the very close stringency in money matters, the good Lord is
providing, through the brethren, for the preachers on this work.
We have food, raiment, friends, and shelter, for which we are thankful,
and therewith we are content. We
are willing to endure privation if the cause of religion can prosper in our
hands.
. . .
D. T. Lake.
Garden Valley, April, 1874.
DALLAS HERALD, May 16, 1874, p. 3, c. 1
And Again not the
Man.
Dispatch from Deputy Sheriff Floyd.
The following telegram, received by Sheriff Barkley last night, will be
read with profound regret by all who sincerely hoped that the man at first
supposed to be "Buckskin Bill," would be identified as the right one,
beyond question, through the care taken by that splendid officer, Sheriff
Barkley:
Tyler, May 8, 1874
J. F.
Barkley, Sheriff:
This
is not the man.
Thomas S. Floyd,
Deputy Sheriff.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 17, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
Mr. Henderson of Tyler, member of the Legislature from Smith county, and
his brother, also delegates to the late Baptist Convention, and with the
excursionists, called on us yesterday. All
are very much pleased with the munificent ovation which has been given them
while passing through the State.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 26, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter of the 23d inst. publishes an editorial of the Statesman
entitled "Battles of the Ballot" without credit. We expected better things of the Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 5, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
Hydrophobia.—The
Tyler Democrat has the following: Our
readers will remember that several weeks ago we gave an account of a mad dog in
the McClung and Shamburger neighborhood, near Mount Carmel, in this county, and
of its biting several hogs, horses, etc. The dog, a small one, was finally killed by a negro in the
neighborhood the same night of its depredations. The hogs bitten by it became rabid and died some time ago.
Mr. Shamburger's mare died Friday, of last week, and a mule belonging to
Mr. Jo. McClung, died last Tuesday evening.
All these animals unquestionably died of hydrophobia.
The mule, it is said, had bitten and torn itself terribly, and had
convulsions. How much other stock was bitten in the neighborhood is not
known. If any have doubted the
existence of hydrophobia in the country, these evidences ought not only to
settle the question, but ought to be sufficient to make everybody exceedingly
cautious and watchful.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 19, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Cartwright heirs have rendered for taxes in this county this year, 39,347 acres
of land; J. H. Starr nearly 40,000 and various other parties smaller amounts,
aggregating in the whole about 100,000 acres subject to taxation.
This, we trust, will to some extent relieve our country of its heavy
burden.—Quitman News.
If the
owners of all such bodies of land, not only in Wood county, but in all the
counties in Eastern Texas, would put them upon the market at reasonable figures
and in tracts to suit immigrants, it would still further relieve burdens, by
inducing thousands of new comers into this country, who would bring with them
energy, bone and muscle, and at once become producers and enrichers of the
land.—Tyler Democrat.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 14, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
We
learn from the Tyler Democrat that Mr. John W. Stallcup was arrested
recently in Tyler by a party of six or seven men, lead by a man claiming to be a
deputy United States marshal. The
party making the arrest had in their possession papers purporting to be a
requisition from the Governor of Arkansas, and Governor Coke's warrant of arrest
issued upon that requisition, and charging Stallcup with murder in Arkansas,
nearly two years ago. They proposed
to take the prisoner by private conveyance, which the friends of the prisoner
would not consent to; and proposed to go with him by rail. In the meantime, it was discovered that the warrant of arrest
from Governor Coke lacked the "great seal of the State of Texas."
Messrs. Robertson and Herndon were notified of the fact, and they
procured from District Judge Bonner a writ of habeas corpus, whereby the
prisoner was brought into court. The
court held that the warrant was void for the want of the seal, but held the
prisoner till an affidavit could be made. As
there was no evidence to support the affidavit, Stallcup was discharged.
Whereupon
the Democrat rejoices that we have the writ of habeas corpus, and
that the day for false arrest and false imprisonment in Texas has passed away,
and that we have constitutional liberty.
Truly,
they are inestimable blessings!
DALLAS HERALD, July 18, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
[Summary: Editor of the Tyler
Reporter asked W. S. Herndon on views of state finances—prefers state warrants
to bonds]
DALLAS HERALD, July 18, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
Last
Monday morning a posse of five men, heavily armed, made their appearance on our
streets, and arrested Mr. John W. Stallcup, on a charge of having committed
murder in Arkansas some two years ago. The
party consisted of four brothers to the man killed and one other.
The friends of Mr. Stallcup sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and upon
examinations before Judge Bonner, it was found that the warrant under which the
prisoner was held had no state seal attached to it, and the prisoner was
discharged. He was held, however, until an affidavit could be filed, but,
as it could not be sustained by proof, the prisoner was discharged.—[Tyler
Reporter.
DALLAS HERALD, July 18, 1874, p. 1, c. 8
C. W.
Matthews, of Tyler, has been appointed immigration agent for the southern
states, and will leave on his mission immediately.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 19, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Tyler, Texas, July 8, 1874.
Editor
Reporter—Through the trustees of the Medical College, at Louisville, Kentucky,
a beneficiary scholarship is awarded to one poor and deserving young man from
each Congressional district in the United States, to be selected and presented
by the representative then in office.
This
is therefore to give notice to all such young men, in the first Congressional
district of Texas, that I am ready to hear and consider their applications for
the benefaction proposed.
W. S. Herndon.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 23, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
case of Whitmore v. Allen, involving about $100,000 damages for imprisoning
Whitmore during the war, is before the court at Henderson. Judge Ector gives general satisfaction.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 24, 187
DALLAS HERALD, August 1, 1874, p. 1, c. 3
The
hearts of the farmers in Smith county are made glad by the prospects for crops. Old
reliable farmers tell us that they are now better than they [have] been for
several years. We look to the harvest with great pleasure, and expect lively
times when the cotton, corn and other products begin to come in.
Such news as we get from the country is very gratifying.—[Tyler
Reporter.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 4, 1874, p. 1, c. 2-3
[Summary: Speech by Hubbard at Hot
Springs, Arkansas]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 4, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
From
the Tyler Democrat we learn that an effort is being made to establish a
male university there. The Democrat
has such an apple item we give it entire to show the doubters that apples will
grow in Texas: "First, we had
handed to us by our friend, J. P. Beaird, a bunch of eight large, fine apples,
growing on about two inches length of limb.
They grew in the orchard of our friend, Dan Jones, of this city.
Then Mr. B. B. Ray brought us a limb about eight inches long, containing
twenty-four well matured apples, grown by himself in this county.
Then Professor Kayser exhibited to us four apples, so grown together that
they formed a perfect pyramid turn them which way you would.
Is this an apple country?"
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 4, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Reporter has a good article in relation to the "back pay
vote." He defends Mr. Herndon
from the strictures of the Rusk Observer, and shows by the record that
the same thing had been done before the war.
A severe storm of wind and rain occurred on the twenty-eighth ult.,
twelve miles southeast of Tyler, blowing down fences, corn, cotton, etc.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 5, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
The
Austin Statesman is sick of the Quaker policy with the savages, and says:
"The
government should place them all within a common territory and divide it out to
the different tribes. Command them
at the peril of their liberty to remain at home.
Assist and direct them in agriculture, and teach them labor is honorable.
Let the policy be firm but humane; and compel them to obey instructions.
In no other way will peace and security exist and be permanently
maintained."
Yes,
that all looks well on paper, but how are you going to get all Indians
into a common territory and keep them there?—Tyler Democrat.
DALLAS HERALD, August 8, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
Tyler,
July 31.—Fine rain during the week, which makes the prospect for heavy crops
very flattering. No appearance of
the cotton worm yet. Tyler still
continues to ship from two to three hundred boxes of fruit daily.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 13, 1874. p. 2, c. 2
The
Democratic Convention at Tyler county [sic?] met at Tyler on the eighth instant,
and adopted resolutions endorsing the administration of Governor Coke; demanding
that a constitutional convention shall be called by the Legislature when they
meet in January, without delay; and endorsing the public services of Hon. W. S.
Herndon, their present Representative in Congress; and requesting their
delegates, at the Nacogdoches Convention to vote for him as the nominee for
re-election in the First District. Hon.
W. S. Herndon, being present, was called out and made an able speech of two
hours' length.
DALLAS HERALD, August 22, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
Farmers
in Smith county are much discouraged on account of the drouth.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 25, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter is very jubilant over the nomination of Hon. John Hancock.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 25, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Democrat states that just seven thousand five hundred pounds of
fruit were shipped from Tyler by express last Tuesday.
Who can beat it? Rain has
fallen in different parts of the county, but very little in Tyler.
A negro man named Henderson Howard was shot and dangerously wounded on
the nineteenth instant. A bridge
will be built across the Neches at the mouth of Big Lake, which will cost $800
or $1000.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 25, 1874, p. 2, c. 1
Brenham
Convention.
--------
The county convention of delegates met today to select representatives to
the Brenham Convention. After
appointing twenty-six delegates the convention considered the following
resolution:
Resolved,
That we recognize in our fellow citizen, John Hancock; in the Congress of the
United States; that his unremitting exertions in behalf of the frontier defense,
improvement of our interests and welfare of the State at large, are deserving of
the highest commendation; that our confidence in him remains unshaken, and that
we warmly recommend him to the people of this Congressional district for
renomination and re-election to the position he now fills with so much credit to
himself and the State of Texas, and to the whole South.
The
resolution was adopted, only one delegate voting no.
It
seems that the Democracy of Travis county, under the very eave of the Capitol,
where the late State convention was held, have repudiated the resolutions of
that body in regard to the salary question, and have fully endorsed Hon. John
Hancock for renomination, "back pay" and all.
The resolutions of the State Convention were merely in answer to the wild
clamor of aspirants, who suddenly became virtuous over the glimpse of office.
The sober, sound judgment of the people is reversing the timid response
to abuse and slander. Had our State
Convention acted with courage and judgment, all the sound and fury gotten up by
demagogues would have suddenly passed away as any other ignis fattuus.
The people, however, are not willing to lose the services of such a man
as Hancock for a mere false clamor. Nor
will they willingly lose such a man as Herndon.
These men are invaluable to our State, and we hope the good sense of the
delegates will influence their renomination.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 1, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat says that "after waiting a long time for it, we were
blessed with a good rain last Sunday evening.
It came too late to do cotton much good, but it has helped peas,
potatoes, etc., and furnished a capital opportunity for sowing turnips."
Mr. John D. Scott went before Justice Thomas Smith on the twenty-seventh
ultimo and, waiving an examination in the shooting affair of Henderson Herndon,
colored, gave bail in the sum of $750. J.
B. Cheek, while seining in the Sabine river, was bitten twice on the foot by an
alligator, and has been confined ever since to his bed.
Mr. William Yarbrough had one of his toes nearly taken off by a turtle
while seining. That river has a
voracious set. Col. G. W. Chilton
arrived home on the twenty-fourth ultimo, after an absence of seven years.
DALLAS HERALD, September 5, 1874, p. 1, c. 8
On
last Tuesday morning the people of Tyler were pleasantly surprised to see again
in their midst the Hon. George Chilton, after an absence of seven years.
At
four o'clock in the evening in response to a request signed by many citizens he
met an enthusiastic assembly at the court house, shook the hands of his many
friends who extended to him a hearty welcome back to his old home.
He delivered an elegant and touching little address of about ten minutes
length. We, with many others,
extend to Colonel Chilton a hearty welcome, and hope that the remainder of his
days may be spent at home in uninterrupted peace and happiness.—Tyler
Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 15, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat states that the contest between Capt. R. B. Long and Col.
Bryan Marsh for the office of sheriff of Smith county, was decided by the
district court in favor of col. Marshall—the suit of Capt. Long being
dismissed.....Plenty of rain.
DALLAS HERALD, September 19, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The Tyler Tap Road.
The directory of the Tyler tap railroad held a meeting in the federal
court room on Tuesday evening last. The
first object of the meeting was to learn from the president, Mr. James P.
Douglas, what propositions for constructing the road had been made and to
determine, if possible, the financial stature of the company. The secretary was ordered to open up the books and solicit
subscriptions to the stock of the company.
Lieut. Gov. Hubbard and S. D. Wood were appointed to a committee to
correspond with the bankers and board of trade of Shreveport and ascertain what
amount of stock would be taken by the people of Shreveport.
At a
late hour the meeting adjourned to meet at the same place next Tuesday for the
purpose of further considering these questions. We feel pretty confident that the work on the road will be
commenced in a very short time, and will be prosecuted with energy until
completed.—[Tyler Index.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 24, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
Appointments.—Hon.
John Reagan, the Democratic nominee
for Congress for the first Congressional District of Texas, will address his
fellow-citizens at the time and places stated below.
Tyler,
Monday, September 21.
Troupe,
Tuesday, September 22.
DALLAS HERALD, September 26, 1874, p. 1, c. 7
The
livery stable men of Tyler are getting corn delivered to them at 60 cents per
bushel.
Tyler
merchants pay specie for cotton. On
the 19th it was commanding 12½ @ 13 3/8 c.
The
Tyler Reporter has joined the grand army of patent outsiders.
DALLAS HERALD, October 10, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
Lieutenant
Governor Hubbard returned from Shreveport to Tyler on Tuesday night last.
He had been to Shreveport for the purpose of getting the capitalists of
that city to subscribe twenty thousand dollars to aid in the construction of the
Tyler tap railroad. The Board of Trade requested him to defer his final
solicitation for stock until after the election in November, assuring him that
in case they were successful in electing an honest set of state officials, the
city of Shreveport would readily subscribe not only the twenty thousand asked
for, but would increase it to thirty or more thousand in cash.
The
grangers of Smith county held a convention at Tyler on Friday last, all the
grangers in the county being represented. Among
the different matters acted upon was the selection of a purchasing agent for all
the granges in Smith county. Mr.
George Humphrey, an extensive planter, was appointed in that capacity.
DALLAS HERALD, October 10, 1874, p. 4, c. 4
The
supreme court met at Tyler on yesterday.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 14, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Reporter states that a meeting of the members of the bar of the
Supreme Court, held in the Supreme Court room in this city, on the sixth instant
resolutions were passed relative to the life and death of Hon. Peter W. Gray,
which we regret we cannot publish for want of space. . . . . The camp-meeting
held five miles west of our city, and which closed last Monday, resulted in
about fifty conversions.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 14, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Democrat states that "Lieut. Gov. Hubbard will deliver the
opening address at the Waco Fair on the twenty-ninth instant."
. . . "Those who attend
either the Baptist or Methodist Church, in this city tomorrow morning, will have
an opportunity of feasting their eyes on a 'thing of beauty,' in the shape of a
magnificent silver pitcher, presented to the church by that prince of whole-souled
gentlemen, A. M. Murphey. The two
pitchers are precisely alike, and very valuable. We almost envy our friend the thousand kind thanks and wishes
that will flow back to him for the generous gifts.
DALLAS HERALD, October 24, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
We are
gratified to learn that contracts have been made for brick and lumber for the
building of the east Texas university. The
committee, whose duty it is, are now looking out a suitable location, and will
make a selection in a few days. Over ten thousand dollars worth of stock has been subscribed,
and the enterprise is on a sure footing.—[Tyler Democrat.
Last
Thursday morning, our junior, Mr. L. H. Beaird, and the beautiful and
accomplished Miss Ella Thompson, were united in the sacred bonds of matrimony,
at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Dr. Stribling.—[Tyler
Democrat.
There
is a greater need of federal troops in Texas now than ever before—in fact it
is awful—and each soldier should be sent with two guns, two bayonets on each
gun, a hamper-basket full of pistols, and a barrell of bowie knives.
Without this there will not be a radical congressman elected in the
state. Radical "men and
brethren," can't you stir up the excitement?—[Tyler Democrat.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 27, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
The National
Index announces the death of Mr. Augustin Niblack, aged sixty years three
months and twenty days. He was a
native of Jackson county, Georgia.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 29, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Jefferson Jimplecute states that "the Tyler Reporter favors a
usury law clause in our new Constitution. This
is about the fifth paper that has spoken. Let us hear from the balance.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 29, 1874, p. 4, c. 1
The
new Constitution of Arkansas fixes the legal rate of interest at six per cent
where no rate is specified. By
special contract, ten per cent can be exacted.
All contracts for a higher rate are void as to both principal and
interest. We incline to believe
such a provision in our own Constitution
would be a benefit to the people of Texas.—Tyler Reporter.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 3, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
The
Tyler Democrat states that "Major Waltham began, yesterday, the
survey of the Tyler Tap Railroad. The
route has already been carefully looked over, and it is believed that but little
difficulty will be met in getting a good line."
The
Tyler Reporter states that "the camp meeting ten or twelve miles
from our city, on the Starrville road, that has been in progress about two
weeks, closed last Monday. The
results of the efforts of the Christian people on that occasion were between
sixty and seventy-five conversions and forty or fifty accessions to the church.
DALLAS HERALD, November 7, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
The
Tyler Reporter is publishing a series of interesting and able editorial on the
matters that will come before the constitutional convention.
In its issue of the 31st instant it shows clearly the
propriety, if not necessity, of vacating all state and county officers, and
letting the people fill them again.
This
seems to be the idea with all the papers that have so far expressed themselves.
A new deal all around is what the people will demand.
DALLAS HERALD, November 7, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
Buckskin
Bill, the notorious counterfeiter, and rascal generally, was recaptured a few
days since in the Indian nation, by Sheriff Ellis and James Maupin, and has been
returned to the penitentiary, from whence he escaped a short time since.
He was sentenced by the federal court at Tyler, to the penitentiary, but
soon escaped.
The
Democrat denies that there is any unusual sicknes [sic] at Tyler.
The
route for the Tyler tap road is being surveyed by Major Waltham.
DALLAS HERALD, November 14, 1874, p. 1, c. 5
Tyler
was very happy over her immigration pow-wow.
AUSTIN DEMOCRAT STATESMAN, November 18, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
Mr. S.
M. Cabin, it is reported, came to his death recently on the cars between Mineola
and Hawkins in an intoxicated state. So
the Tyler Reporter has been informed.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 19, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
The
Tyler Reporter states that on the fifth instant a difficulty occurred at
the convict camps near Rusk, between Adolphus Holloway and John F. Clark, in
which the former was shot and instantly killed.
They were both engaged in guarding the convicts at work upon the Rusk
Tramway.
DALLAS HERALD, November 21, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Reporter protests against animosities being aroused between farmers and
merchants.
DALLAS HERALD, November 21, 1874, p. 3, c. 2
[Summary: Frank Quarles case
acquitted in Tyler.]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 24, 1874, p. 2, c. 4
The
Tyler Reporter of the twenty-first instant states that "immigrants
are passing through our city in perfect caravans.
We have noticed more this week than at any other time this season."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 24, 1874, p. 2, c. 2
The
Henderson Times announces. . . Married, on the seventeenth instant, Mr.
M. Reid, of Smith county, to Miss Eugenia Mathis, of Rusk county.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 1, 1874, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter announces the death of the wife of Col. George W.
Whitmore.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 15, 1874, p. 1, c. 6
It is
proposed in Tyler to assert the invaluability of the subscription of that county
to the Central road.
The
Tyler Reporter properly urges the election of the wisest men in Texas,
wherever they may reside, to seats in the constitutional convention.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 22, 1874, p. 1, c. 7
Smith
county has had a larger number of immigrants added to her population this season
than any since the war.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 5, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Reporter says: "A
Mr. Lott was killed near Athens, on the twenty-fourth ultimo, by a man named
Driver. Whiskey was the cause.
Driver was drunk; his little boy was drunk; Lott's boys made fun of him
for being drunk; Driver became enraged at Lott; shot and killed him."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 14, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Col.
Marsh, sheriff at Tyler, paid over last week $12,000 to the county court.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 17, 1875, p. 1, c. 6-7
[Summary: Address of Lt. Gov.
Hubbard]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 20, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
[Summary: Bill amending charter of
Tyler Tap Railroad passed]
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 26, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
negro that murdered the organ-grinder for fifty cents at Tyler has been
condemned to death.
The
Tyler Democrat says, and, very sensibly, that the legislature should sit
till it has finished well and wisely all proper business before it.
If it act differently, it only leads to protracted future sessions.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 26, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Democrat says: "The
Henderson Times expresses our view of the International bond question in the
following brief paragraph: 'However
objectionable the legislation that created the obligation, it exists on the
statute book in due form of law, and cannot now be ignored without
dishonor.'"
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, January 30, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Rusk
county is very happy over its railroad prospects.
The narrow gauge will get sixteen sections per mile and connect Etna,
Rusk, Alto, Aomer, Woodville and Beaumont, with Sabine Pass.
With this aid on the part of the State, the company have ordered an
engine. If the road be completed
from Etna to Sabine Pass, it will undoubtedly be one of the best paying in the
state.
DALLAS HERALD, January 30, 1875, p. 1, c. 8
James
P. Douglas has been elected president of the Tyler Tap road.
P. W.
Caspary, late of Louisiana, died in Tyler on the 18th instant.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 10, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
In
Troupe, Smith county, Mr. Lindsey killed Mr. Howard.
Whiskey, as usual.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, February 19, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Two or
three negroes were shot last week in a colored row in a saloon in Tyler.
DALLAS HERALD, February 20, 1875, p. 1, c. 5
Tyler
has followed the example of Dallas and organized an insurance company—a fire
one, however.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 9, 1875, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tyler Reporter evidently thinks it struck Governor Coke in a weak spot
when it said:
"We
all remember with what emphasis Richard Coke said to the people of Texas, during
his canvass, "If I am elected Governor, by the Eternal, no clique or ring
shall crack their whips over me.'"
People
may yet learn that the surest way to get the Governor to a desired point is to
attempt to drive him in the opposite direction.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 16, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Jack
Moore has been elected lieutenant mayor of Tyler.
If
Tyler is really "tapped" by that railroad, won't the town all ooze
out? Is it dropsical, that the
effect of a little railway running into it will have such an effect that it must
have such a name? What's the
difference between Tyler Tap and Tyler grip?
Won't the coming doctors' convocation of the seventh proximo enlighten
us?
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 17, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Waco
has more dogs to make nights lively than any Texan town, except Tyler, and then
Austin, the Mexican part of the city, has a few hundred night howlers and
flea breeders.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 24, 1875, p. 2, c. 2
W. D.
Mims, an old Texas veteran, succeeds D. C. Williams as editor of the Tyler Reporter.
He says:
"I
hope to be able to show that notwithstanding the Democratic party has control of
the State, it is, to a ruinous extent, still in the 'bonds of iniquity' with
Radicalism—that its present Constitution is based on the centralization of
Grantism; and that unless Texas is put under the true, genuine and economical
principles of Democracy, her ultimate fate will be—bankruptcy."
DALLAS HERALD, March 27, 1875, p. 1, c. 4
The
Tyler Democrat proposes to touch Grant on a tender spot, and give a ranche [sic]
on the frontier, and stock it with say five or six hundred thousand head of
cattle.
The
supreme court, and the amended constitution, is now held at Austin, Tyler, and
Galveston.
DALLAS HERALD, March 27, 1865, p. 1, c. 5
Mr. D.
C. Williams retires from the Tyler Reporter, and is succeeded by Mr. W. D. Mims.
We extract the following paragraph from the editor's salutatory:
"In politics I was a whig up to the nomination of old "fuss and
feathers," alias, General Scott, when I left that party in disgust, and
have ever since worked with the Democratic party, and of which I claim to be an
earnest, conscientious member."
DALLAS HERALD, March 27, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
The
United States revenue collector's office has been removed from Tyler, Texas.
Parties having business with Mr. Malloy, the collector, should address
him at Jefferson.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 30, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Many
new houses are building in Tyler.
Workmen
are employed on the East Texas University buildings at Tyler.
Tyler
has a lively spelling class. The
proceeds go to the Sunday school library.
The Democrat
greets Gov. Hubbard as ray of sunshine to illuminate the dullest days of Tyler.
The
Tyler Democrat says the very men who are utterly unfit for the position
are seeking seats in the coming State constitutional convention.
The candidature of jackasses and of second class people will cause decent
white men to vote against the convention itself.
Too much dead weight of genius.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, March 31, 1875, p. 2, c. 1
The
Federal Revenue office—Col. Pat Malloy's—will be transferred to-day from
Tyler to Jefferson. Tyler is not in
tears nor Jefferson supremely blest. In
fact Tyler has not much of a "grip" on Malloy and Jefferson may not
embrace him very ardently. He is a
good man, perhaps, for all that. He
is always in office in any event and when he drops out of one he always slides
into another without the least effort. Therefore
our concession of his eminent worth. The officeholders are the aristocracy of the country.
Pay Malloy, not many months ago, was postmaster at Fort Worth.
It didn't pay and Pat dived down out of sight into private life and came
up to the surface a revenue collector at Tyler, and seeks a wider field for the
development of his genius at Jefferson. Not
many weary months ago he was a nice figurehead for a little Freedman's Bureau
under the management, we believe, of one Buell, of happy memory—especially
beloved in Marion county where he used a stockade for the entertainment of his
white guests. Moreover Pat Malloy
was at one time, if we are not mistaken, one of Gov. Davis's patented, sealed
and approved mayors of Jefferson and was much beloved of the people because he
was not of their choosing. But he
served, nevertheless, like other mayors we read about, whether the people liked
it or not. In fine we are somewhat
inclined to believe that Pat is the fabulous "bully boy with a glass
eye"—always in clover.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 7, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Governor
Hubbard is for and the Tyler Reporter against the constitutional
convention.
Hon.
W. S. Herndon, having abandoned schemes of ambition and follies of Washington
life, is in the spelling match business at Tyler.
DALLAS HERALD, April 10, 1875, p. 1, c. 6
--The
Tyler Reporter says: "Dallas
county has put forward the name of John Henry Brown as a candidate for the
constitutional convention. John
Henry was all right when he stirred up radicalism in the legislature a few years
ago, and he may now be relied on as one of the most industrious, sound and
patriotic men to be found in that body when assembled."
DALLAS HERALD, April 10, 1875, p. 1, c. 3
--Tyler
Reporter: "Colonel Marsh
received on Tuesday night last, a telegraphic dispatch from Palestine to the
effect that Green Williams (colored), who was sentenced here to be hung, with
all the prisoners in the Palestine jail, made their escape on that night."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 14, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Reporter, referring to the relative powers of the members of the
Legislature and the convention, says the latter "can upset any or all of
the former." The Tyler men had
forgotten that its fellow citizen, Hon. Dick Hubbard, was of the Legislature.
We would like to see any convention upsetting him.
It wouldn't have the constitutional power.
Archimedes had not seen him when he spoke of that world-moving lever.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, April 15, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Crops
are backward, though all the girls are not, up at Tyler.
DALLAS HERALD, April 17, 1875, p. 2, c. 5
The
United States court convenes at Tyler on the 26th.
DALLAS HERALD, May 8, 1875, p. 2, c. 4
--The
Tyler Reporter has been merged into the Grange Reporter, and now "fights
mit the horny-handed grangerers."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 9, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter is now the Grange Reporter, and the Examiner
is in a brown study about it. It
must let go Ireland or the Granges.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 19, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Tap must be gently tapped semi-occasionally to reproduce its vitality.
But Humphrey & Allen have it in its charge, and will speedily built
it, and when Tyler is tapped the dropsical word will be no more.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 21, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Orthographophobia
is raging at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 23, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
Work
on the Tyler Tap railway is going on with a vim.
The
Tyler Blade, a tri-weekly paper, has made its appearance in Tyler.
The
fruit shipments from Tyler this season will be large. The crops are doing remarkably well.
The
clergymen at Tyler are generally indisposed.
The Blade says that chicken cholera is the cause of this
indisposition.
DALLAS HERALD, June 19, 1875, p. 2, c. 4
Conventions
ought to be unvarying policy of the Texas democracy until the necessity for
them, as a party measure, has passed away, let that be soon or late.—[Tyler
Democrat.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 22, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Several
ships and Federal squadrons should go to Tyler. The Reporter says such a mast crop was never known.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, June 26, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
calaboose at Tyler was destroyed Wednesday by fire. The Reporter wasn't harmed. It was out at the time, I reckon.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 26, 1875, p. 6, c. 3
Starrville Circuit.
The following are appointments of meetings on the Starrville Circuit,
East Texas Conference (Marshall District):
Chappell
Hill, July 3, 4; Overton, (District Conference), July 8; Pleasant Grove, July
10, 11; Ebel, (Third Quarterly Meeting), July 24, 25; Red Springs, Aug. 7, 8;
Antioch, Aug. 14, 15; White House, Aug. 21, 22; Bascom Chapel, Aug. 28, 29;
Jamestown, Sept. 4, 5; Starrville, (Camp-meeting), Sept. 10; Canton, Sept. 25,
26.
All
ministers are earnestly invited to attend the Starrville Camp Meeting who can do
so. It will be on the
self-sustaining plan; but ample accommodations will be provided for all
ministers and their horses, and also all visiting brethren from a distance.
We invite and request all the aid possible in all our meetings from
brethren in the ministry. Come one;
come all! and come in the spirit.
S. W. Turner, P. C.
DALLAS HERALD, July 3, 1875, p. 2, c. 4
--The
Tyler calaboose was destroyed by fire a few days since.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 7, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Col.
C. W. Matthews, late Texas immigration agent at Chattanooga, is now a
fruitgrower at Tyler.
Over
in Tyler a hopeful boy, not strong enough to spade up a small onion bed for his
[fold in paper] mother will dig over a ten acre lot any Sunday morning for fish
bait.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 10, 1875, p. 8, c. 6
Gill.—The
Rev. James M. Gill, after a protracted illness died at his residence in Tyler,
on the 24th inst. He was
about 67 years old, and had been a Methodist preacher for many years.
He was an old Texan—converted and licensed to preach in Texas.
He was universally esteemed as an honest, good man.
His memory was remarkable, and the manner of his preaching unlike that of
any one else—it was eminently his own. One
circumstance connected with his conversion is worthy of note, especially as it
may afford encouragement to pious wives whose husbands are irreligious.
On their arrival in Texas they stopped in Harrison county, the young wife
having been converted in Mississippi. Mr.
Gill offered no opposition to his wife's religion, and at her solicitations
often strolled with her on Sunday evenings in the wild forests, on which
occasions she would kneel at His feet and pray.
This seemed to be a little embarrassing to the husband; but he would seek
to throw it off by whistling some merry tune.
How unseemly! But the good
wife never flinched from duty nor yielded to discouragements.
The test of her faith was even sharper than that of the prophet on Mount
Carmel—no cloud of hope arose in the form of a word or act indicating the
slightest interest on his part in reference to his soul.
There were no revivals, and but little preaching in the new country.
They went out to hear the circuit preacher—the Rev. Mr. Crawford, a
local preacher now of Palestine—and, to the amazement of the delighted wife,
Mr. Gill arose, advanced to the preacher, and joined the church.
A gracious revival was kindled that day which swept the new settlement.
Sister Gill survives, and though aged and infirm, moans as the dove which
has lost its mate. They never had any children—they lived in harmony forty-six
years. Death has dissolved the
bands of life, but the separation will be of short duration.
We mourn the loss of our venerable brother.—R. S. Finley.
DALLAS HERALD, July 17, 1865, p. 2, c. 5
--The
fruit growers of Smith county propose to hold a convention for the advancement
of their interests.
--Chief
Justice O. M. Roberts has furnished the Tyler Democrat with the following
synopsis of the business of the Supreme Court, from first Monday in October, 17
74 to 30th of June 1875, being two hundred and thirty-four working
days:
Cases
Dec'd
Op'ns
Und'c'd
Galveston
484
212
150
272
Tyler
277
247
150
30
Austin
667
285
143
282
Total
1,428
744
443
684
In the above is not included at least one hundred and fifty motions examined and
decided.
DALLAS HERALD, July 24, 1875, p. 1, c. 9
--Crops
in Smith county are burning up for want of rain.
--John
H. Barton's saw mill, nine miles east of Tyler, was destroyed by fire on the 4th.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 24, 1875, p. 1, c. 4
On the
night of the 16th a fire broke out in Tyler, Texas, and before it
could be extinguished two frame warehouses, a cotton shed and merchandise; the
Odd Fellows two story building; the Democrat office; a large quantity of lumber
and eight or ten bales of cotton were burned.
Loss $13,000.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, July 30, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Democrat will soon reappear, fresh and bright and rejuvenated, from
the ashes of the conflagration that swept it out of existence.
DALLAS HERALD, July 31, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
--Colonel
C. W. Matthews, late Texas immigrant agent at Chattanooga, is now a fruit-grower
at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 4, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Copious
showers of last week rescued the corn crop about Tyler from absolute
annihilation, and the people will make enough for home consumption.
Joe
Lilly, near Tyler, coming home with his gun, about dusk last week, fired at his
sister's hand lifted among the twigs of a bush by the roadside.
He though a squirrel was shaking the bush.
The sister lived less than half an hour.
W. J.
D. writing from Jamestown, says that the whole country has undergone the process
of cremation. The drouth had been
often weeks' duration, and W. J. D. is much depressed, and so with his
combustible neighbors. They are
naturally anxious.
The
Tyler Reporter tells of a doctor fascinated by the splendid beauty of an
adder's eyes, and was approaching it unconsciously when he was felled by a
terrible blow. A friend came up and
struck the snake, and the doctor fell. There
is an absolute glory in the matchless brilliancy of a snake's eyes; but this
story is almost incredible.
A
lawyer named Penn is running a protracted meeting on his own hood in Tyler.
He would succeed more gloriously if his name were stricken from the roll
of legum magistri. People can't well see how the devil can properly reprove sin,
and however pious a limb of the law, the tree itself is wrongly
bent. It is a reversal of the case
we were talking about when we said the constitution should prohibit
office-holding by preachers.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 14, 1875, p. 8, c. 1
Basket Meeting.
We will have a basket meeting, two and a half miles south of Lindale,
commencing on Thursday, August 26, 1875. All
ministers are earnestly and respectfully solicited to attend.
Come, brethren, and come in the spirit and preach as Peter preached.
We anticipate holding some days. We
will look for A. B. Johnson, of Terrell; Dr. Finley, of Tyler; Dr. Hamill, of
Marshall, and others. Come without
fail.
J. M. Langston.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 18, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
grading of the first ten miles of the Tyler Tap will be rapidly extended.
Governor Richard Hubbard is still pumping thunder into it, and if that
don't straighten it out and boost it and shove it along, there's nothing in
nitro-glycerine eloquence.
The
Tyler Index says that "the Baptist meetings which have been going on
through a succession of twenty-four days is yet progressing with great interest.
There have been thirty-three accessions to the church.
The meeting is likely to continue two or three days.
Mr. W. E. Penn has labored faithfully for the welfare of our
people."
The
Austin STATESMAN does think a lawyer can be a Christian, the Grange Reporter
to the contrary, notwithstanding, and it is this Reporter that is
"striking out wildly" and it should now strike out its absurd
assertion. The Reporter says
in another place that "Mr. Josephus Taylor, one of our most successful
farmers, gave us a remedy for kidney worms in hogs."
We haven't any kind of doubt that the Reporter will be immediately
relieved, and then it will think better of the STATESMAN.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 20, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
List of Delegates
The Dallas Herald prints an alphabetically arranged list of the
members elect of the constitutional convention.
Having corrected and amended the same we publish as follows.
Henry,
John L., lawyer, Tyler, Smith county.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 21, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Major
W. E. Penn, the preaching lawyer of Jefferson, has accomplished a great and good
work at Tyler, and is again at home in Jefferson.
DALLAS HERALD, August 21, 1875 [page and column?]
Delegates to the Convention
Henry, John L., lawyer, Tyler, Smith county.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 21, 1875, p. 3, c. 2
The
Starrville Circuit is holding its own under the pastoral labors of Rev. S. W.
Turner. This is saying much,
considering the elevated point it had reached under the successful ministry of
their two former pastors, Bro. Mathis and D. M. Stovall.
This charge has a membership of over seven hundred.
The preacher who is assigned to Starrville circuit may regard himself as
highly favored.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 21, 1875, p. 5, c. 1
Patents
issued by Patent Office to the Citizens of Texas, for week ending August 12th,
1875.
166,149.
Farm-Fences. Alonzo Rush and Fisher Yarbrough, Tylor [sic], (Filed March
3, 1875.)—The rails, which overlap between uprights resting on the ground, are
sustained above ground by encircling wire binders, which also serve as
division-rests.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 21, 1875, p. 6, c. 1
Starrville Circuit.
As I have not sent you any items from the Starrville circuit, I will
write you briefly. The drouth has
greatly injured the corn crop in the bounds of my circuit; but I think there
will be enough made to bread the country, if economy is used.
The prospect for cotton tolerably good.
The condition of the church is reasonably good.
Some pruning of the vine has been necessary; but it is believed will
promote its healthy growth. I commenced my two days' meeting the first Saturday and
Sunday in July at Chappell Hill, had a very good meeting, good state of feeling
in the church, but did not extend to the world.
The
district conference for Marshall District was held in the bounds of my circuit
at Overton, beginning on the 9th of July. We had a very pleasant and profitable session.
But as Bros. Booth and Box have written of it, and I suppose Bro. Morse
will finish such items as should be published, I will forebear.
I
continued the meeting three days after adjournment of the conference, had
several conversions and one accession to the church.
The third Saturday we commenced a meeting at Pleasant Grove, which was
continued until the next Thursday, resulting in six happy conversions, the same
number of accessions to the church, and a general and gracious revival among the
membership. I am indebted to Bros.
J. C. Woolam and D. M. Stovall for valuable assistance at Overton, and my local
brethren at Pleasant Grove. The
fourth Sunday was occupied with our third quarterly meeting at Ebel.
Our good Brother Morse was as usual at his post, and did valuable
preaching—especially on Sabbath on "the relation of baptized children to
the church." The Rev. Isaac
Alexander gave us a rich sermon on Saturday night on "the providence of
God."
The
first Sunday in August I preached to a very large audience at Starrville the
funeral of our departed Bro. Dan. Barcroft, who for 50 years had been a faithful
member of our church and for many years an official member. He died in the triumphs of Christian faith, on the 18th
of May, and entered upon his reward.
On
last Saturday I commenced a meeting at Red Spring.
The first invitation, thirteen penitents came forward for prayer.
The meeting gradually increased in interest up to Monday afternoon, when
there were about twenty seekers at the altar and the church in harness.
One of my local brethren, Rev. A. M. Marler, who is a valuable and
faithful man, was called away on Monday morning to return home and find his
house and all its contents in ashes. The
Lord bless him and put it in the hearts of his brethren to assist him in his
hour of misfortune. There were two
accessions to the church on Monday. On
Tuesday I was forced to leave, being nearly blind with sore eyes, and give the
meeting into the hands of our good local brother, Albert Little.
May the God of heaven be with him and the church in mighty power; amen.
Please
publish the following changes, viz: The
appointments for two days' meetings at Jamestown to embrace first Sunday in
September, and Canton to embrace the fourth Sunday in September, recalled:
The
Union Spring Camp-meeting (hitherto published as Starrville Camp-meeting)
changed from second Sunday in September to Friday before the second Sunday in
October. Brethren in the ministry
please bear in mind and come to our aid. The
friends of the Rev. A. C. McDougal of the North Texas Conference desires
especially that he shall be in attendance. Truly and fraternally yours,
S. W. Turner.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 22, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
Mr.
Lessums, of Bellview, Rusk county, has 3000 Concord vines on six acres that
produce 20,000 pounds this, the third year.
He sells them at twenty cents per pound.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 22, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
At the
railroad meeting at Pittsburg last Thursday, $7500 stock was subscribed on the
spot to the Tyler Tap Railroad. We
have not yet heard the result from Mount Pleasant and other points, but if they
raised as much stock in proportion, the amount required by Mr. Douglas,
president of the road, will be made up.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, August 22, 1875, p. 2, c. 4
Governor
Hubbard made a magnificent speech at Pittsburg a few days ago, as did that solid
gentleman, Col. Douglass, who accompanied him. They want Pittsburg to have access to the exterior world and
a cheap railway has the same relation to temporal, as that "straight and
narrow way" we read about to eternal blessedness, and that's the reason the
STATESMAN is always telling about a narrow gauge to Lampassas and Luling and the
prismoidial to the stone quarries.
DALLAS HERALD, August 28, 1875, p. 2, c. 6
The
Tyler Reporter prescribes a teaspoonful of calomel, mixed in corn meal dough,
for hog cholera.
If W.
H. Stafford, late of the Tyler Blade, will address D. C. Williams care Evening
News, Austin, Texas, he will hear something to his advantage.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 7, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
A
meteor exploded with wonderful noise and violence, last week, at Tyler.
Pieces of stone scattered over the country have been gathered up, and the
Archaeological Society of Austin wants specimens.
Who will send them?
Mr. W.
D. Burness has been kept tied hard and fast for a long time at Tyler.
In any event the Reporter says it "regrets to loose
him." It is said he is going
to Minneola [sic], and Minneola will be scared to death, and all because the Reporter's
compositor doesn't know how to spell l-o-s-e.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 16, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
In
Tyler, they call concealed weapons "Swamp Angels."
The
country about Tyler "had a regular ground soaking and trash-moving rain,
which was good for potatoes, turnips, peas, etc."
We spoke for that rain first.
The
Tyler Democrat says that "to make handkerchief flirtations
successful, two fools are necessary to make the motions."
Experience, we have heard, is a great teacher.
The
Shreveport stockholders in the Tyler Tap Railroad has a junketing at Tyler on
last Thursday, and a ride over the ten miles of grading.
They were well satisfied, and show a determination to carry the work
through instanter.
The Grange
Reporter reports thusly: "Smith
has the largest number of Grangers of any county in the State.
Twenty-one million dollars have been saved to the members since the order
of Patrons was organized." No
losses, because of railroad legislation are reported in this statement.
DALLAS HERALD, September 18, 1875, p. 4, c. 4
--We
are pleased to see among our exchanges once more the Tyler Democrat, which has
risen Phoenix like from the flames, and is once more a candidate for popular
favor and patronage. THE HERALD
sends kind wishes for success.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 18, 1875, p. 3, c. 3
Starrville
Circuit.—I have just closed a meeting at Bascom Chapel, on the Starrville
circuit, resulting in the happy conversion of six young men and the addition of
eight souls to the church, for which the Lord be praised.
The church is greatly blessed. I
am indebted to my local brethren A. M. Marler, A. Little, P. O. Tunnell; and
Revs. R. S. Finley and C. H. Smith for valuable ministerial labors.
I shall commence a meeting at Centre on next Saturday.
May the Lord graciously meet with and revive us there.
My charges in protracted and camp-meetings have been published in the
ADVOCATE only in form of correspondence and the old notice still appearing in
the paper will, I am fearful, mislead some in reference to them.
Union Springs camp-meeting, near Starrville, on the Starrville circuit,
East Texas Conference, will be held to embrace the second Sunday in October
instead of the second in September as heretofore announced.
We earnestly request as many of our ministerial brethren to be present as
can possibly attend. The friends of
Rev. A. C. McDougal, of North Texas Conference, (whose address is unknown to the
writer), will anxiously expect him.—S. W. Turner, P. C.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 18, 1875, p. 5, c. 2
Camp-meeting,
at Pleasant Retreat, Tyler cir., fourth Sabbath in September (26th).
Tyler
sta., Oct. 30, 31.
Tyler
cir., Nov. 20, 24.
Starrville
cir., at Union Springs C. G., Oct. 10.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 24, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
sweet potato crop promises a large yield in Smith county.
The Grange
Reporter man—well, he can't help it.
This is his last: "The
way for a man to do when dogs barks at him—is just to walk on."
Barks will do. For a
knowledge of grammar and keen "sarkasm" this man can beat the
"Flying Dutchman."
The
Tyler National Index says: Mr.
Floyd Wood, a young law student of this place, was arrested and taken before his
Honor Judge Bonner on Tuesday last, charged with forgery.
Defendant waived examination, and required to give bond in the sum of
$1000 for his appearance before the Federal court in November next.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 25, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
A man
named Wood, of Tyler, Smith county, a late appointee for the postmastership at
Longview, is said to be in trouble. The
story goes that the bond presented bore the signature of the chief justice of
Smith county, and the latter denying the fact of having signed the same bond,
Wood has been arrested and lodged in jail.
Who recommended this gentleman?
DALLAS HERALD, September 25, 1875, p. 4, c. 5
--Floyd
Wood, of Tyler, lately appointed postmaster at Longview has been arrested on the
charge of forging the name of Geo. W. Smith, presiding justice of Smith county.
Floyd was held in the sum of $1000 for his appearance at the next term of
the United States Court. Up to last
accounts he had failed to raise the necessary amount of currency, and still
languishes in jail.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, September 29, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
Cotton
nine and a half to eleven cents in Tyler.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 2, 1875, p. 3, c. 4
Harwell.—Joseph
Harwell died in Lindale, Texas, July 10th, 1875.
Bro. Harwell was born in Iredell county, N. C. in 1803, and when a young
man married to C. Westmoreland. Early
in life they joined the M. E. Church; in '45 they became members of the M. E.
Church, South, and remained in said church until they joined the spirit of just
men made perfect. During his
pilgrimage he removed from North Carolina to Alabama, from thence to Texas.
He leaves behind four children and his wife; and seven have gone before.
Bro. H. was, for a number of years, classleader and steward; and ever a
pious, devoted and zealous Christian, adorning the doctrine he professed; a good
father, always cheerful and happy.—J. M. Langston.
Swain.—Joseph
Witcher Swain, son of J. H. and E. J. Swain, died in the vicinity of Garden
Valley, Texas, July 20th, 1875.
Joseph was born Aug. 28th, 1864.
Christ took him in his mercy,
A lamb untasked, untried;
He fought for him and gained the victory,
And Joseph is glorified.
J. M. Langston.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 7, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
Grangers should know that the Tyler Tap is making property advance in value in
Pittsburgh.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 13, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
Overton and Henderson road is nearly finished.
We
heard it stated that the iron on the so-called "Tyler Tap" weighed
fifty-six pounds per yard, and it naturally followed that the broad gauge plan
of construction was supposed to be adopted.
Will the Southern Patron give the facts?
What is the weight of the iron and width of the gauge?
What does the road cost per mile?
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 15, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
Capt.
Bogardus, the famous champion "shootist," has accepted the challenge
of A. M. Murphy, of Tyler Texas, to shoot deer in the field anywhere west of the
Trinity in Texas, the stakes to be from one thousand to five thousand dollars,
optional with the challenged party. The
sportsmen about Tyler are putting on "airs" and are willing to bet
heavy on the favorite Texan.
DALLAS HERALD, October 16, 1875, p. 2, c. 7
--At
the Tyler term of the Supreme Court, two weeks, commencing November the 15th,
are assigned for hearing cases from the 9th and 11th
district.
--Floyd
Wood, of Tyler, Texas, who forged a signature in making up a bond for the
Longview post office, was bailed out of jail by his brother, in the sum of one
thousand dollars and at once left for parts unknown.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, October 27, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
Tyler Index calls the attention of its readers to the [out of focus]
advertisement in its columns.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 6, 1875, p. 4, c. 3
Brother
S. W. Turner writes from Tyler: "I
closed my protracted meeting season last night. Results on Starrville circuit, 93 additions during the year.
To God be all the praise.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 9, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
great Baptist Sunday school convention is in session at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 10, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
Judge
James M. Charlton of Tyler is no more.
Col.
John L. Henry has been telling the people about Tyler that the new Constitution
will be a good thing and that it will be adopted.
The possibilities lie in that direction yet.
A
Jacksonville correspondent of the Rusk Observer says:
Col. J. P. Douglas has been home on a short leave from the Convention.
He is in good health, but does not seem to be enthused over the progress
of the Convention in framing a Constitution.
He has great hope that the labors of the Convention will meet the desires
of the people. The truth is a great
many voters seem to have already made up their minds to reject the new
Constitution without waiting to see it."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 11, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
The
Federal Court is making Tyler lively.
The
local of the Tyler Democrat is so tickled with the new Presbyterian
church bell over there that he is taking a hand in every "ring" in the
town. He says its very tones are
"rich."
The
Tyler Democrat wants it understood that they who say that it is
controlled by railroad influence when it condemns the doings of the
Constitutional Convention "speak what is infamously false, and to this we
add no argument."
DALLAS HERALD, November 13, 1875, p. 2, c. 3
--The
Federal Court is now in session at Tyler.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 21, 1875, p. 2, c. 4
The
Tyler papers speak in most eulogistic terms of the eloquence and earnestness of
Rev. Jas. Stribling of that city.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 21, 1875, p. 2, c. 5
The
Tyler Democrat says that Hon. T. J. Word is in that city, as full of life
as a young man of twenty-one. He
belongs to a line of honest patriots. He
was a member of Congress in 1838, from Mississippi, when Gov. Wm. Allen, T. H.
Benton, Hugh L. White, Henry Clay, John C.
Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Forsyth, Silas Wright, John M. Berrien and men of
that class shaped the legislation of the country.
There were no Ben Butlers or Zach Chandlers in Congress in those days.
Such characters would hardly have been suffered to enter the Capitol in
the earlier days of the Republic.
The Index
thinks the STATESMAN will be gratified to know "that Judge Ireland is over
there on the bench, hard at work." He
is said to be a capital "carpenter," and we think the excellent Judge
infinitely better fitted for a seat on the woolsack than for the chairmanship of
the executive committee of a party. He
is too self-willed and bull-headed, and in this we conclude everything to his
intellect and only derogate from his claims to absolute perfection, and he can't
be very angry about it.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 24, 1875, p. 4, c. 1
Dr. W.
J. Goodman, of Tyler, while returning from Shreveport, on Wednesday evening, on
the International road, was attacked and wounded by a drunken man on the train.
A dispatch was sent to Col. Hoxie, who ordered a special train to bring
him on to Tyler. Though seriously
wounded, it is hoped the wound is not very dangerous.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, November 26, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Tap will be finished by April 1. So
saith the Southern Patron at Mount Pleasant.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 2, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The
Tyler Index is now publishing a very interesting serial entitled
"The Heir of the Mills, or, The Attorney's Fee."
It occurs to us and we "say it boldly."
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 3, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Judge
Duval, at Tyler declared the civil rights not constitutional, and yet white
people would obliterate the color line in politics, even as Radicalism would
have us do in social life. The one
consummation will follow the other as the night the day, and blackness in morals
and intelligence will be universal as the suffrage.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 9, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
The Index,
of Tyler, declares that the school system provided by the Constitutional will,
if adopted, prove a curse, "for it will neither educate the youth of the
land nor allow it to be done by private teachers."
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 11, 1875, p. 8, c. 3
On the
6th instant, at Overton, Texas, a negro named Calvin Whipp cut the
throat of a twelve year old boy, with a razor; the murderer was captured.
AUSTIN DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, December 25, 1875, p. 1, c. 7
Smith
and Navarro counties have held Democratic meetings and instructed their
delegates to Galveston to support Coke and Hubbard.