The Four Counties. (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 30, 1873 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 1.
Terms—1 Year, $9 50.
RICHMOND, TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30,1873.
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THE FOUR CO UNTIES.
HÜLlfiTlKl) EVEKY SATURDAY BY
W. E. HALLEN.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION s
(HPKCIB RATI'O
Oi ü copy. or.i! year, in ucivaneo... .$2 AO
-Hfs month , '■ .... I 00
ll ilirop m -inIm. " .... 1 UÚ
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Masonic IVotice.
T>ICOM!JND CHAPTER, No. 4i R
AAi A. Sta'od M<iiug held tl.e
in si iluudny in i'ucli month.
?: J- 0. WÍMJA1M, D. P.
II. L. MWtEfiVILLE, SEC.
.vrowro:* L(MáiTÑI-7a¿A. v. & a. v
flt'.lUd Mm ilngn held ca 3d unlay «f
each month. All transient brothers Ii.'-
" filed to nl'end.
II. L. ROwlEflVILLE, W. «•
S AM'L A. STONE. 8,c.
FORT BEND LODGE NO. CI.
i. o. o. jp\
IX/flir.TS every Wednesday Dit$ht at
jJL 8 o'ukk, P. If. at Odd Follows
il'ill. tojuttining brothers an iuvitcd to
attend.
P. H. VOGEL, N. G.
P. h. 1'EAIiESON. V. G.
F. VOSS, 8HcniTAUT,
Pififcssional Cards.
p.*. PEAHIBSON, y -j w. j. croom
pEARESON & CROOM,
ATTORNEYS A. LAND A«ENTM,
RICHMOND TEXAS.
Have corrcvpojlijoiiti in all parts ol the
Utii'c (vliil iy)
u. u EBsmL,
W. K. KKMIAI,
1 f UillCOIIRT
Gulumbus
K
J | Richmond, J
END ALLS & IIARCOURT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Texas.
Richmond,
(Vlnll .)
J.
C. MITCHELL,
ATTOBXEY AT LAW.
Richmond....... Texas.
(vlnlly)
>«T.
W. PAltKbli,
ATTORNEY AT ¿AW
Pittsville, Fort Bind C7o.', Texas
Spcclsl ^attention given to the col-
leitioa oi claims.
[vlngly]
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J. CROOM EsQR.,
NOTAIY ITPLK,
jjar Offiix with Fcaruon 4 Groom,
ltlOHMON'O. TEXAS. (vlnl)
T~ C
WILLIAMS,
da
ATTOTtXF.Y AT LAW,
Richmond,.. - ~v — Texas.
(vlnlly.)
J. CAL Will,
Attorney at I*w A lanl Ajrcitt,
Richmond, Texas.—(vlnll).
-ATlvlNS,
i
ATTORNEY AT I,AW,
ñilmor ?...— T<]X"«
L. DAVIDSON,
f
AIXOKM'.T AT LAW,
GOLIAD TEXAS.
Will practica In District CourtB cf Go-
liad Jackson .¡ml Fort B nd counties,and
in ill® fiupiowe uixl Fodoiül OuDiU
vil. V.
nn GEO. A. FERIS,
PHYSICIAN * StIBOEOS,
Richmond,..— Texas.
Office at (ha Drug Store, where or
4* rs tnoy be left- . .. ..
Residence on No;111 Carolina Hill.
(vlnlly.)
D
R. JOHN McCLOY,
PHYSICIAN ft R1IRUEON,
Jtichmond, Texas.
Office al Ibe Store of Hugh Oglesby on
R illrond street.
CP* Residence North ride ol Bayou."®^.
(vlnlly)
D
U. SAM'L A.. STONE,
PJIYSICIASr * SliBOEOS,
Richmond,—....... Texat
jtÉf* Oñhe at Ib Drug St ire,
Rteidence next door east of Judg K. J
Caldera. (vt""y>
D
R. B. W. BELL,
pnYS^CIAN * SURGE ox.
Richmond, Texas,
Office at Residence North SMe of Biy
cu—Ordore may be left at tbo Diug Store
(vlul'y)
COUNTRY CHILDREN.
Utile fren It violo ta,
Bom in th« wild wood.
Swoetly illustrating
luuocont childhood;
Shy an the antolopa—
Browu as a berry—
Free as the mouotaiii air,
Roaipiug anil merry.
. Blue eyes and haiol eyes
Peep from tho hedge?,
Shaded by sua-bonncts,
Frayed at the edges;
Up in the apple' trees,
"HeedletiR of danger,:
Manhood io embryo,
Stares at' the stranger.
Qut in the hilly patoh,
Seeking the berries,
Under the orchard trcos,
Feasting on bherrics;
Trampling the blossoms
Down 'mong tho gratec*,
No voieo to hinder thorn,
Dear lads and lasses.
No grim propriety,
No interdiction;
Free as the birdlings
From city restriction,
Coining tho purest blood,
Streth'uing each muscle,
Donning health armor
'Gainst life's coming bustle.
Dear little innocents I
Born in the wild wood;
Oh, that the little ones
Had such a chiKlhoodl
God's blue spread over them,
God's garden beneath them,
No sweeter heritage
Could we bequeath thorn.
**4
A Negro Judge in Ar-
kansas*
A few days a¿<f om of the IlUieo-
nian iustircs of CtLtiniuu r-"
Arkansas, was arrested for whippiog
his niece, and nt lust accounts was
in jail at Marion. This Arkansas
justice is oamod Edin Hrown, and
is a true type of the old plantation
negro. He is one of tho many igno
rant petsoni to whose hands the
Radical prejudice of the State has
given tho administration of the law
Many interesting and ludicrous
Bto: íes ore related of this legal ce-
lebrity, who knows not one letter of
the alphabet. His court house is
hiH own log cabin, au humble
shanty, eig'it by ten, with door so
low Hint every person entering is
compelled to bow with cautious dig-
nity lest hi head suffer tho conse-
quencos. Around this log cabin
may bescuu hundreds of freO' col"
oreit American citizens. A glimpse
of the interior would cause any per-
son to laugh. Tho ceiling is orna-
mented with meat smpemlod with
buekskin strings. Owing to his
intellectual ignorance, the squire
usually asks some white porson to
fill the offim of clerk, whose dutios
are somewhat like unto thoso of tho
king's privy counsellor.
Some timo since a white lnborer
wanted to suo out a writ of attach-
ment on a lot of eord wood belong*
ing to a debtor, and was Grst re-
quired to hand over $15 to the
squire. Tho trial commoneed, but
was interrupted by tho plaintiff.
"Hold on dar, Mr. Clerk, goon wid
do court; I knows de law," thun-
dered the squire.
Another witness commenced, but
ho, too, was interrupted by the
plaintiff, who said : "D—d your
court to tho bottom of the Missis-
sippi." This was too much for the
black squire; he aroso, and with
insuitod diguity remarked, "What
you talking about? Now, I'se got
jurisdiction all aver dis district,
Marion, Hopefiold, Little Rook and
hell-"
Plaintiff. Hold on now, Mr.
Judge, yon yourself is cursing.
Fine him, Mr. Clerk*
J. P. Didn't cusa, nohow, Mr.
Clerk.
P. Let tho case go to bell tboa.
J. P. Pay upj pay up your eoats,
den, for 'tempts.
P. What do I owe?
J. P. Throe dollars.
P. For what?
J. P. 'Caso jou euued thre*
times.
P. You erased nnee. I eall on
the clerk to fine you ono dollar.
J. P. Look a* here, white man,
when did l cusí?
P. When you «sid LitUo Book
iind bell
J. P. Don't enrc, I didn't gU it
all out, for I was chawin' tobaceor.
[ went to ¡«ay Ilel-enah.
P. But ^ou said bell.
J. P. All right. Mr. Clerk,
take a dollar off dare for a set off,
and now yon pay two dollars to dis
opurt.for 'tompt.
About' tWo tnontbs ago a negro
mhn manngtd tó' get a «'ityved neig^
bor drunk, Un^v^wlng his ¡tbseuee
man's wife. Upon recovering his
senses the bereaved husband, armed
with a shot gun, found hiv wife and
was returning with her. whon the
abductor sprung from behind a
trae and beat the unfortunate „inM
severely, k-noeking out sever4i«f
his teeth and slitting his uppor lip!.
For this the negro, Jack Smith, was
arrested and the trial commenced, a
clever youug white man- aotiog'as
clerk.
Squire. Read dut to de prisoner,
Mr. Clerk, handing him tho war-
rant of arrest.
Clerk. Read what.
S. Dar is de law, seriptum aad
uiiscriptum, in de book-
C. Havcnlt yon a digest of ths
laws? -H j ,
— 'tí 1: ITO fttfl quisling
dis justice for de drinks.
C. Tho laws of Arkansas.
S. Dey is all 'mended by do con-
stitution in de Fourth of July,
C. What is the man arrested
for?
S. Bat nigaer. He's 'rested for
murder in do fust degree of man-
hood. •
C. Ho hasn't killed anybody, for
there.s the man sitting on the bed.
S. For robbery from de person,
don.
C. What did h^.stoal?
S. Steal. Dat black nigger's
wife obor dar.
C. What aro you lo do with him?
S. Jail him, uv course. Dar is
do book, road dat.
C. I've got nothing to do with tho
book; where's the warrant? I want
it so as to make out the mittimus.
S. Hero, Jim, you black com-ta'
.bio, bring dat writ 1 Dat uiggaV
bound to go to jail. I «zed him
him yesterday to help my wugin out
of the mudhole, and ho passed on.
Tho writ was brought iu by the
constablo, and it was- actually i
"vote of thanks" tendered two gen
tlomen for surveying swamp lands
by the Legislature of Arkansas.
The Judge, however said to the
prisoner, "See here, I make* dis
Smartness.
What do niujtyehe* beeomo in«
«vitnbtj? l'hyp must ashes be
come.
y i
If fortuno favw3rt.be brave, sno-
wu often crpwns awards.
Au «change tflls a good story of
ths aats of a horsi at a high figure,
aftot the auet!dBt&r had stated that
he had "made i mile inside of three
minutes." iictifre taking away his
purchase, tho ' buyer asked when
and Hksre the kors$ performed the
foal. • --i
Sbést thrcj weeks since,"on the
Bsrtasd railroad dow: grudo." '¡e-
pliad the Iniglit jtfthe hamjieiv as
he HÉrlfd hiá re^pág and left the
field of ft is trifrji h.
Popular HU among the Mormons
—Spuro rib.
A powerful jackscrew—Cupti'in
Jack's crew. !
Strange bed o'wtbei-Threo sheets
in (ho wind.
The ((gliltSiiviStten in full dress
hired a boy to steal tliO iÍHokiéab^/; ^_To bar« arms. ^
mrtn'a ttrifa TTnnn pAnnwotñnis fit® ...
The Iodjaogestión—
got any^uui?
Kerjf your room ..fresh.' Ball
rliáAtf II tMt health j.
The greatijt'"Siujt. that <wcr wW
made—Tho alaphabet. -
How to make both wnds meet—
éfoiUi ÉttitLei' nod,is bone.
:• I i /*. '■
• Dad, if I was to ate a duck
the wing andaos to shoyt it woul
job lick me?" •
"Ob no my .son. It thofi thl
yon arc a good marksman, and
would feel proiyl of you.
"Wall, than, dad, I plumpod our
old drake ai he was flyin' oyer the
fonce to-rday, and it would have
dose you goo^o.see him drap
W^ta^
girl, about thM& years old, famous
forsBMt sayings. As usual, she
waa allowu off before our esteomed
friend.
"What is papa," said the parent,
in ortlar to draw out tho preoooious
reply.
"Papa's a humbug," said the ju-
venile.
"I declaro," said old Rodger, "1
never in my li'c saw so young a
child with so maturo a judgment."
A burglar is Williamsport, Pa.,
aft^r wotkisgrfive hours to break
into s booae, secured a bootjack
and a box of yapor collars for his
trouble. TM boot jack ho threw
at a eat that was setting on the book
yard fence oa
the payer col
Mow fluggUu Did It.
Bid you evfer tiy to kill a iiios-
quito on a friend's back ? If you
have, don't do it agaiu. Mjuggiqs
don't. TbiB is how Muggins did it,
the Ijtst timo be triod. IIo was
walking down Cabal street, with a
mind a( peace, full of that real se-
renity that highly poluhod extenu-
ations will cause, whod right in
front of him he sees Bnlffen. , Now
S. is one of ;lhe boys that wears a
plug hat and rushes • fearlessly in
debt to his laundi'OHs. Muggins
took a survey of Sniffeu's back, in-
cluding the buttons on his ooat tail,
which called to his fertile brain
the eitraviganoo of mankind, and
the fact that, the rovt of ail the but-
tons iu that position would pay tho
uutionul debt in time. Ii is eyes
presently take a higher rauge, aud
between those massivo shoulders be
sees a gal in ipper, , doing business
standing on bis head.
The milk of human kindnoss
filled Musgius' heart to overflow-
ing, W,by is it tluit mankind, at
the vtry,sigbr¿£* poftf¡tito, should
develop pHsj^dMsing ^lUCdáticoap
we can't say. But-, thiar #é ess'
proniise, that if Muggins had de-
voted tho superfluous energy with
which ho launohed himself at that
mosquito in another channel he.
would l av« stood in the front rank
of bridge holders. A roar, a eoa-
vfilsive shudder; and. those shoul-
ders turned round/ disclosing a
stranger'a warlike smiío. Aa Mug-
|p« b,owed to apologise, his litft eye
.^jgainat the unknown's debtor
diglfc juggins had hoard of see.;
Single Copies, Ten. Cents.
Ame
Qaken Bucket," too, ttier*wasn't S
buckct on tho whole farm, water bo*
ing drawn with a tin pad'áud a eis.
tfcru pole-
"If I hud but a thOMaWd s ysar'*
staled privately to Ml"trteods tht<
he would be perfUétiy' (ñutoslcd
with half that sum as Irtr^taa d^iog
chores just tar his board add titee
months • schooling iu the* winter
' • Tiio author of "Champagéo Char-
lo5" noTer drank «nythitig but ten
cent whisky.
Tbo wan who witrtO"Mary had*
little lamb" know it was
nothing but a little
v'"
"Shells (iY Oeeau"'*
urnlug.
Tho plaintive poet who aepteseuts
himself as wandering, oaesdmmer'.i
eve, with sea heat (bought, on u
pensive shore, w&s raised let ibe in
terior of Pennsylvania, and, never
was tctu wiles from homo in (lis Ufe,
Gathered shells, did be?' AH tbo
shells he ever, gathered' woro
some egg shells baek of hi* mother's
kitohoo.
"Hark, I hear the angelé ting-
ing," spout all his evoningt in a
'Ooncert beer srfoon. Angeh. indeed.
Of*'
ttté sliirt hadh't á lfllrl't#"lí!í back,
wearing s wampum for the most
part.
"OH io the Stilly Night" uued to
get on a spree and make the stilly
night howl until daybreak;
The author of-' "We (net by
Chanee," knew very well'that it was
arrsngnd beforehand. He hod beon
weeks in contriving it, f od the ad-
mired his contrivance.
The author of "I know a bask"
li.Ug him names, and
ar were three sizes too
small for faty. Ho fays thoie is
but little euoouragement in this
world for genius anyway.
A man in jLanoaster, Pa., while
carrying forty dozen eggs iu two
baskets, onoon each arui, Btepped
upon some water that had frozen
with theslippiug side up, and aut
down with painful empltasis. ttis
egg* wero crushed to eartb so rnuoli
that tboy didn't riso again worth a
cent, lie seouped up enough to
make several omelets, and passed
on with a smile ou his face that was
bontonc'o for~ my" judgment-Tfindí | neither childlike nor bland worth
you ten thousand dollars bail, or: speukiug ol.
five thousand dollars, or you goes; A DosMoines woman gave her
to do ponitentiary and works at t husband morphine to oure him ot
bard toil." i chewing tobáceo. She now sleeps
Tho clerk was unablu to make out .one in a bet.
tho mittimus because he had so
warrant. Tho prisoner waa closely
guarded for two days by half a
doz en negroes, and tent to the jail
at Marion. The jailor would not
receive the prisoner because there
wat oo mittimus, and the guards,
knowing they would recetvc their
pay, left him. Of course ho is still
at liberty. W Y. Paper.
The North Carolina Educational
Convention, resolved in favor ol
compulsory education.
| \ youug sasn's friends object v
bis boing loose, but somehow, iuuy
have an equal objection to his bein¿
ing start aft the bottom of a well note
i 'WjTÍ*•? #•"
• :*% -*•
didn't know wbero he oould get hie
tight.
Drovers returning from Kansas,
report pvfeei low and tales diflloult.
Allen k Pool of GalvMton, own
about 320,00^ head of oattló.
The I'resident's sorvaets drew in
livery, gray and white with geld
button*.
In Juni tliero wcr . 112 deaths io
Atlaota Georgia.
at noonday, bal seeing them in tuoh
quantities, darwg tbo ordinary
husifa^jLtbi tfdkkf 'genial day,
was c5* Tho t
ly, but Muggins, ®
presence of mind, nimbly stopped
with bis nose. By this time all;
thoso stars wore changed into
comets. Muggint had nover teen
so many comets before. While he
was wondoiing conoerning the
strange string of oiroumstaucee that
had transpired, something—Mug*
gins is ready to swear, as soon aa
the doctor^will allow the beefsteak
tobe removed enough to let b|m
speak, that it wu a male's hoof,
bumped him behind tho ear.
Muggins immediately caromed
against a hydraunt and closed upon
it liko a supernatural jaok knife
with a busted spring. Wben be
came too he found himself playing
at boing ballast for a horso car
track. That mosquito escaped.
Deceit of Song Writers.
The man who wrote "Home. Sweet
Heme /'never had a home —Ex
change. No, of course not. All his
folks say he didn't. Nobody who
writes about anything ever has it.
If a liiuu is out of unytbing ho im-
mediately goes and writes ibout it.
No one writes so many ,.headings"
as the man who is out of his head.
Certainly ho didn'i everbave any
home. The man who wrote "Old
Arm Chair" nover bad an arm chair
in his lilo . Tbo best he had was an
old split bcttoin ohair -without any
buck to it. The author of "Take
Me Buck to Switzirland "' never Wus
in Switzerland. The nearest he ev
nr oamo to it was sitting in the
Wm. Tell saloon eating Switzea-
kuse lease why, that was thd
best he could do.
"Mother, I've Come Home to Die
hasn't spoken to the old woman for.
years, and wouldu't go near the
house. Besides he is one of that
class of gpiritua.lftls who don't be-
lieve they will over die. His
health wat never better. His
mothei is nothing but a mother-in-
law, dead anyhow.
There is the author
l'aro hi
cb4ek in
>unted. The only cheok he
,was a white check is s
Ho never had s red
life.
y 1
ng Branch witnouc Daring
hit'
"tWrtyl ftfe for mother now?"
Who, indeed. Yos top£ oM
woman to the poor Bows jq£ be-
fore writing the song, sM tfcftig it
no one but the matter to for
bor 00W v'it •
"Hear me, Norma,', wat deaf and
dumb.He couldn't make hit pa boar,
nor nia.
"My Mother, Dear," used lo
thrash the old woman within an
inch of bor life. .
"Let me Kiss him for bis uiothor"
got mad because hit mother Would
not have him, and whipped her lit-
tle boy witbm an inoh of bit Ht'e.
'I dreamt I dwelt is marblohsNa'
usod to cheat at marblet when a
boy, and his dream wat a horrible
night mare, brought on by remorse
at the rcoolieotion of fraudulent
marble hauls.
"I'm saddest when I ting"' wat
tickled almost to death If invited tó
A joke is told by the hoys of em
of our regiments in regard . to the
mustoring in of a darkey attaohed ft
the regiment, who wat fearful be
would be deprived of hit pay nuluts
ho was joined to the tervioo. A huge
mustard piaster wit applied to hit
back, about a foot below whore Iho
buttons on his coat areplaoefl; aud.
under the belief that al| toldlert
wero soryed in the aauo manner, be
wore it unti) tho pain bicnme unen-
durable, at which time ho wot de-
nla red musterd in, according to the
law in such cases made and provi-
ded If that darkey don't get hk
wages, it will not be beoaute^a has
not Buffered for hit 6ountry. E v.
' i á*
Jamos Fisk,
"Prince of
c
t of tbs l«le
ig a tour
igod in the
*•
Erie,'
of Wisconsin cit
sals of a pateutj
It is boltevod Ite Seorelary of
War, is plotting to involve tbia
country in a war with Mexico.
Tho cholera csintc io- Rcntuoky
of "Old laud TcnticLKco.
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