HEMPSTEAD HAPPENINGS.
"All Quiet Along the Potomac" — The Rangers on Duty.
Hempstead, Tex., May 27. — Captain McMurray with his rangers this evening relieved the Johnston Guards, who had performed military duty at the court-house for nearly one week past. The rangers are encamped within the court-house yard near the county jail. Everything is quiet and all excitement seems to have died out.
District Attorney Hannay reached here on last night's train and will assist County Attorney Lipscomb in prosecuting the case. Judge Burkhart will not be here at present, and now if the hot heads of both parties to this unhappy controversy will keep quiet and let the law take its course everybody will soon, like the soldiers in the late war, shake hands over the chasm, etc., and all drink a milk shake together.
"Hempstead Happenings", The Galveston Daily News., Monday, May 28, 1888, p. 1, col. 2.
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