NOTES AND FRAGMENTS

Mr. Jesse Sumpter died at Eagle Pass on November 20, 1910. He was born February 21, 1827, in Owen county, Indiana, but for more than sixty years was a resident of Eagle Pass, where he was inspector of customs.

Philip Lindsley, an attorney and distinguished citizen of Dallas, died at his home December 4, 1911. Judge Lindsley removed from Nashville to Dallas in 1875. After practicing law for twelve years he became an investment banker and real estate broker. He was a writer of rare wit and the choicest diction, and contributed many articles to periodical literature. His The Humor of the Court Room appeared in booklet form (Dallas, 1899).

Littleton W. Moore, Judge of the Twenty-second Judicial District, died at his home in La Grange, October 30, 1911. Judge Moore was born March 25, 1835, in Alabama, was reared and educated in Mississippi, and came to Texas in 1857. He served in the Confederate army through the war, was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1875, and was three times elected to Congress—1886-1892.

Portraits of the late Judges Hans Teichmueller and Littleton W. Moore have been placed in the courthouse at La Grange.

A Confederate monument was unveiled at Kaufman, November 23, by the Judah P. Benjamin Camp, U. D. C.

Designs were approved on December 7, 1911, for the monuments to be erected by the State over the graves of Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett and Governor George T. Wood. The monument over the grave of Mrs. Crockett is to be in Italian marble and to represent the pioneer woman. The monument over the grave of former Governor Wood is to be a marble slab and is to show on one side a map of Texas in relief.