Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — A Severe Punishment. [ARTICLE]

A Severe Punishment.

Gilhooly—lt must have been dreadful in old times when a criminal was branded with a red-hot iron whenever he committed a crime. Col. Yerger—Yes, if that punishment Was carried out now some of our public men would look like the envelope of a letter that had gone around the world. —Texas Siftings.