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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07

THE New York Herald still continues its
leaders against Cesansm. We now begin
to think the Herald seriously engaged to
force Grant to come out and decline third
term. But the " smoke compelling /" hero is
silent as the grave. His particular friends.
too, will not commit themselves against il,
though some of them are treating it
lightly, as triAing thing. We believe
there is no doubt that Grant means to be
again candidate, and is confident he can
be reelected as long as he wishes. But
there are divers ambitious men in the Re
publican party, longing to be Caesars them
selves, and they are unwilling to wait ON
Grants pleasure. Hence, we think, the
strong effort of the Herald to force the
great smoker TO open his mouth and deny
'sthe soft impeachment. But the effort
will he vain. He will smoke on and give no
sign. In the meantime, his Radical friends
will say, behold the hero who put down
the rebels and the only man who can keep
them down.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07

"B," the Washington correspondent of
the Galveston Nescs, is said to be J. Warren
Bell lie is a Radical, once engaged on
Flakes Bulletin, and was but lately supposed
to be of the faction, opposed to Governor
Davis, but his correspondence. shows the
contrary. He evidently thinks himself a
greater man than Davis, and has kindly
taken him in hand, during his northern
trip, and is endeavoring to put him through.
The quarrel between the two Radical fac
tions does not seem to be made up yet
Clark is represented by "B as getting the
worst Of the fight at Washington, the
Governor having superior numbers and
heavier metal, but now there is talk Of a
reserved force, coming to Clark's aid in the
nick Of time, to-wit, the Flanagans, father
and son. It will be found that the name
sake Of the "God-like Daniel Webster, .
once so-called, is some in fight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07

For the full information Of the people,
we republish, from the Austin journal, the
opinions Of the Attorney General on the
subject Of registration and the election Of
justices Of the peace. No man can vote At
the coming election unless he Is registered
under the new Law, and I've justices Of the
peace must be voted Tor BY the people Of
the whole county. These opinions are
correct, and should Be followed ns the law.
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and debased themselves for expediency. The
result viii be contempt and loss Of every
thing cOntended for. ny motto is stand by
just principles, confident they viii ulti-
mately prevail shall do all can to get
your paper disseminated down here. but our
crop prospects are 50 poor that economy is
now the watchWord
Truly yours,
THos. G.. MAsTKRsox.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07

The great fault 81 the present day i 9
disposition 70 undervalue the wisdom and
works Of the past and 70 be continually
Iookina,out for something new n tie way
Of change. The minds Of the masses seem
% Be unsettled and distracted, without The
anchor of . strong faith n anytline.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07
WILLIAM ALRxANDER.
Attorney General.
The opinion OF the Attorney General nll
the Registration Qnestion.


ATTORNEY GENERA1's OFrIcR,
AUSTIN, July z, 1873.
Clerk District Court Collin County
Sirs-In reply TO your telegram Of the
fifth inst, would state that BY the Regis.
tration Act, approved April 20, 1878. an
persons entitled to vote, must be entered
upon the registration list by the district
clerk; there being no recognition Of the
old registration in the present act, bat on
the contrary, repeal Of allother conflicting
laws. In the act Of April 90, 1873, these
entries can be made by the district clerk
only on the personal application Of each
voter, thereby rendering an entire regisira.
ton necessary. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
w. ALExANDEn
Aftornau General
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BnAzoRIA. July Z, So.

John Caldwell. Esa.:
BAR Sir You viii please send nc 3 copy
Of the laws 81 the last Legislature, # any
copies arc ready; and also wish you 20
send me 3 copy of the Thirty-ffth Vol
ume Supreme Court Reports 81 Texas IS
soon IS ready for delivery. Send bin and ]
win remit on delivery Of books.
Whcnerer q number of your paper fails
to reach me. miss i very mucll-bccause
your independant certain course iuss suits
nv vicHa Yonr rcondcmnntion of the new
departure n IouisiaDa meets ny warmesi
approval. They hare deserted TlrIne,, Sc
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An old Texan, who has been living 81
Northern Missouri, near the Iowa line, since
the war, but is about returning, sends -
the following for publication:
NORTH OF MASON AND DTxoN's LINZ.
July %, 1873.
To me there is no country like Texa4 ana
no people like Texans; though both conn
try and people are misunderstood and unap.
preciated here. The people north ol lnc
line" have been fed on lies till they ha4euo
relish for truth, il they ever had any. All
the Texas news comes from carpet -baNQeIs.
through Boston, the .sZion, y whence Q0s
''forth the law = hence the people are tie
subjects Of a delusion so dark, that they
cannot see that they are blind, stone blind
Now that the voice Of all her sons can b.
heard at the ballot box, let Texas depend
upon herself, in defending her political
rights. Let her open her Abraham's bosom
wider and wider, TO the down.troddon 81
other States and countries, and thereby ac.
cure defenders Of her defenders of horriehts
in the great struggle now inauRuralInf
Under the plea Of colonizingpoor sambo f|e
Radicals are aiming 10 plumber the Son| 81
her best domain, around the mouth oi the
Mississippi, where, rs owners ol tae soil
they can control the whole valley 81 thar
great river in the interests 81 RadicnI'en.
As for poor Sambo, &c may come into
session Of the long promised mule end
forty acres, but his white brother H|I
g0bble up all In no time, and the lnckIe
darlsic win be left to toll IN the Eogplitn
brickyard, with no Moses 70 deliver him
therefrom. foregermore
Let Texas, like honest Abran, M
the foot down firm, and not permit orr
acre Of her bloOd-bonglit domain az
used for such colonizafion(D , purposes asa
use all lawful means 10 prevent such col
ony(D even,on her border. Some may think
all this as idle dreaming II dfcanIna
al, il is with both eyes wide open
When the late lamented fell tie fcn
cation scheme fell with him, as conAsel'1s
could only be carried out through TIE
ident, and Mr.. johnson was aVefH1 Io M
measure. Since the election % Grant t
first time. the gold Of lhc national excl
qucr has been thrown into the money
ket, from time 10 time, by which mea1
great financial crisis has been barely afoIs
hence the Radical party las dropped
idea Of .forcible condscntion. knouirg
their finances cannot bear additiQnaI
ure; aud that q crash would overthrow
party, 70 rise no more forever bence a1
policy .'Peaceably. II We can. fc
We mus not.
Eternal vigilance is the pfice Of 'II
sometimes Il Il the price of existence
II history re-cnacts itsely. whel ma
not fear, ia addition %, and 81 eonn
with the above described ecieneI
barbafians 0f Northern Asia. and 4cI't
Europe, from time - time, oFerI1
aud Southern Asia, and Ccnlr| ela 1t
a.lrf
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-08-07

DOCTORs GRANT q WARD, SURGEON DENT
~ ISTS having permanently located In the city OF
Austin would respectfully inform the pube that they
are prepared 10 perform every variety Of operations ON
the natural teeth and insert artificial sets on gold, y
caBe and ceuloid bases in the most improved style
Having procured q Morrison Burning Engine they
would call htention TO the fact that operations on sens
five teeth can be performed with less pain and In mnch
less time than with the Oldfashioned instruments.
Teeth exraced without pain by the use Of Nitrous Ok
ide Cae with entire safety Olce the Ayenne half
square above Pecan street, over the store OF J. W.
Whyman & Co. dec5Wu
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THE oOURsE OF THE sTATEsm AN

While we are suffering the abuse of the
Radical papers, and some Democratic ones
are thoughtless and 'unkind enough to en-
deavor to lessen, if not destroy, the circula-
ton and influence of the STATESMAN by un-
founded charges or low insinuations, it is
highly gratifying for US to know that our
course is receiving the appreciation of all
sound, patriotic Democrats throughout the
State. OF this we have the proof, in
numerous letters of commendation, received
by almost every mail. We dislike the pub
lication of quasi private letters, but we can
not forbear giving one or two, as specimens
of what we are receiving, and as evidence
of the estimation in which the STATESMAN
is held by disinterested Democrats. The
Hon. w. H. Swift was the Senator from the
Second Senatorial District, in the last Leg
islature:
NAcosDocHEs, July "a, 1873.
Sessrs. Cardwen Walker
GeRtlemen-When l was in Austin, /
called to pay you for the Weekly STATES
MAN for one year, but neither of you were in
at the time, ana came away WltnOut SUD
scribing for it.. hope You will continue to
send it to me at Melrose, Nacogdoches
county, and viii forward you the amount
by the first opportunity, as l would not do
without the STATESMAN for three times what
it costs, as / think it one Of the fullest
blooded Democratic papers published in the
State, and ought to be read by all who love
free and independent government, and
kept in the families of all Democrats, that
their children might know what the rights
of the States are under the Constitution of
the United States and its guarantees. Every
thing calm in politics here-all waiting for
the movingof the waters at the Democratic
State Convention. You may be assured the
Second District viii send up q full Demo
cratic representation to the next Legisla-
ture. The engineers are near here, survey
ing the route Of the St. Louis and Gulf
Branch Railroad, and they viii be through
with the whole in about three weeks. Then
the work win be commenced in good earnest
and viii be pushed through as soon as pos
sible, as the company appears to be alive to
the interest Of the rOad.
Yours truly, W. H. SWIFT.
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DR. q. r. BOARDMAN. DENTIST, OPERATES
y with the latest imprOg -ments. Pure Nitrous OK
ide Gas administered Tor TIE painless extraction OF
Teeth Artificial Teeth inserted from to full set
natural In expression seryiceabe and durable, etc,
etc. Once over Rust q Moore's three story brick
store, Congress avenue. side entrance. 1alOWly
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ln pER cENr BELOW oosT.

u H. FoRDTRAN,
GENERRAL LAND AGENT,
la GRANGE. ............. TEXAS.
WIN give prompt and personal attention 10 the sale
and purchase OF land ON commission. VIII examine
land titles. make surveys, and do any and all land
business entrusted % his care
Refers to the citizens of La Grange, win give
special references II desired. apr2iw emo.
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oscEoLA AneIlEn


oaCEOLA ARCHER. Z. 7. MOORE
A ROIIER a MOORE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW
n Anstiil Texas,-Vii practice in the supreme and
Federal Courts Ansfin and in the District Courts Of
Travis and adjoining counties VIII pay strict atten
fion 10 nfieated land cases. buy knd sell land eerih
Gates prepare an kinds OF legal documents negotiate
loans 0f money collect all kinds Of claims, and attend
promptly 10 business IN any State departments once
ols a. Arc street. IN Browns building nearly oPpo
sitepoafofice janzwfy
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BEST OF BEER ALWAYS ON HAND,

And VIII be delivered to private families in any
quantity on the shortest notice. also shipped to all
points
All orders entrusted to me win be promptly
executed. F.. w sUToR.
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nIrY RREWERY-

GITY BREWERY,
One Block below the Courthouse, on the
Banks Of the Colorado.
F. w. sUToR. ............ PRoPRIEroR
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". n. sontEi, :. ewnys. ISAAC MIME,
oi Galveston. Of Baltimore
w D. soRELEY & co.
ulankeru and General Commission Elor-
chants,
ila IT'S and 10 strand Galveston.
Agents ior ihc sale of Steam kngines. Saw Mills,
Cotton Presses Gne, etc, q which fun stock Is al
uaye ca hand n0y2-itWiy
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~ DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AUSTIN,
VI Texas, solicfs collecting and Real Estate Dusl-
les fro the profession and iitigants and will prac
tce ln all the Courts Of Travis and adjoining counties
ONCE "a Smiths Buildng, Congress avenue Address
Roy a4f feDlOWly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoea1N COUNTY.

ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
For the year ending May LIST, 1873, S1,006 1884
were deposited in the Auburn Savings lnstitu-
ton. A gain of $169,602 over the preceding
year.
Isaac A. Smith of Auburn was thrown from
his Wagon on Monday last and badly injured
in the back.
J.P. Longley of Lewiston was kicked by his
horse last Sunday and had his ribs fractured.
The Lewiston drive of logs has reached Rum
ford Mills. Thirty-sx men have charge of A.
100000 feet of lumber.
The Journal says that Mr. s. D. Thomas is
now using on TIE work upon the tower of St.
Peters church patent brick and mortar eleva-
tor. which is very convenient article. There
is an endless ladder, made of iron with links
and rounds one foot apart This ladder is re-
volved upon a cylinder with cranks attached
moved by two workmen. The upper part of
the ladder also revolveson a cylinder. A dozen
or two hods of brick and mortar can be con-
stantly kept on the ascent, while at the same
time empty hods are returning downward on
the opposite side of the ladder The hods are
hooked into the iron rounds of the ladder, and
the empty hods drop off the ladder as soon as
they reach the floor
OXFORD COUNTY
South Paris will plant 200 acres of sweet corn
this spring.
Buckfield is to have a new brick school
house.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Hail in large quantities fell near Bangor last
Monday.
The new Shoe Manufacturing Company at
Upper Saltwater offer $4,000 for the Sacramento
House in that town. They want it for shoe
factory.
At the raising of the new frame building to
be used as trunk factory by Parker s. Webb
Of Bangor on Monday last, young man named
U. M. Anderson fell from the frame to the
floor, a distance of twenty feet striking on his
head and shoulders He was picked up terri
bly, crushed and died that same evening.
Last Sunday afternoon in Bangor young
man broke into I. w. Aliens store on Central
door, cutting his hand badly. He then pushed
back the bolt, and went for the money draw
Some one entering at the rear door frightened
him and he escaped.
SAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The annual meeting of the State Homoo-
pathic Society, occurred at Bath last Tuesday.
YORK COUNTY.
1t is expected that the city valuation of Saco
will exceed last year by 100000. So says the
Times.
The ship-carpenters at Kennebunkport are on
strike.
Press Correspondence.
Probably the largest and latest OK raised or
known in York county was slaughtered on Sat-
urday last by Freeman e. Trafton, proprietor
of meat market at Alfred. The girth of this
OK was eight feet and two inches, and the neat
weight, after being dressed, was 1882 pounds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21

Judge Shepley's decision in regard 70 ~.
New Magdalen'' is regarded as a inst and
able judicial decree
AN Apache chief, convinced of the impropr-
ety OF polygamy, has set Brigham Young an
example by killing five of his six squaws.
"A washington special announces that Will
lam M, Evarts, while not seeking, would gladly
accept the Chief Justiceship.
A Pittsburg merchant declares that he knows
of thirteen first society ladies who steal his
goods whenever they can get chance.
The Minneapolis Tribune thinks the only OBJ
lection to Nebraska is that there are fully six
weeks in midsummer when the sleighing is
poor.
Such numbers of italian soldiers attend the
Protestant prayer meetings in Rome, the Cath
olic organ calls upon the military authorities to
interfere,
The Republicans have all the offices of the
Ohio Constitutional Convention, in the election
of whose members such Conservative" tri-
umph was claimed.
A servant girl fred her employers house
in Philadelphia eleven times on Thursday, and
endeavored to throw suspicion on the son of the
family, aged three years.
President Eliot, Of Harvard College, afirms
that there is a fundamental pervading differ
ecce between all men and all women, which ex-
tends to their minds as much as to their bod
les" Professor Agassiz adds that they need
different diet.
General John B. Gordon made a little speech
at reception given him in Savannah, Ga, a
few days since, closing with the. sentiment
1.-THE heroic dead of both armies, who fought
for principle, and backed their convictions
with their lives Let both be duly honored."
The Chicago Advance says of the back pay
grabbers:
aside from doing the right thing, they
may be sure that whatever course they take in
this matter, will be remembered Whoever
takes thaD $4,000 will find it hanging to his
feet like ball and chain in his next race for
Office
Advices received from the grain-growing
districts of the Middle and Western States, re-
port that the area of land planted in wheat is
larger than ever before, and that the crop is
promising; the only thing to be feared being
wet weather before harvest time, which will
beat down the grain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21

A MEDDLING correspondent Of a Boston re-
ligious paper has written to its publisher to
inquire why it scandalized country Baptists
by advertising .Barnum's circus which is at
present the peculiar and great joy of our
Modern Athens. In reply the proprietor re-
plies that he is not aware that he has adver-
tised "circus''-not any; but "Barnum's
Fair and Menagerie' which people could visit
without communicating their morals by wit
Messing. The "fair and menag erie" the
journal in question pronounces very good and
gives the opinion that it can be visited by
Christian people with profit as calculated to
increase their knowledge of natural history.
Lest there shonld be any mistake about what
Is and is not strictly within the limits of nat
ural history-it sagely remarks to the reader
tnat the good and the bad Gle in such close
JuA'aposiuon, it is not always duty to avoid
tne good because in intimate proximity to
evip'-which is to say, you should pay your
money 70 see the sea lions, the reformed can
nibais' the tat woman, the giraffe, the polar
bear and the talking machine; but forego the
clown, the depraved mules that kick and the
mischievous monkeys and such. Is this
cant?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21

tion in the cabinet and halls of legislation
were most serviceable at or beyond the age OF
Judge Kent. To-day Gen. Dix is the first
49,, sxecutive that New York has had in
MANY years; he shows no lack of vigor, no
faebleness of Judgment, no evidences of sec
ond childhood. In France, we see Theirs,
seven or eight yeas older than Judge Kent,
evidently the only single man that seems
equal to the great emergency of that uneasy.
unstable nation. Not only has he so skillful-
ly directed his policy as u secure MAORI.
ty of the assembly. but his policy has revived
the industry of the nation and taken care Of
the great loans.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21

THE Bangor Whig learns that "Prof.
Haynes and his associates, on Monday,
feeced some verdant passengers out of $50
between this city and Freeport at which sta
tiou they took the back train. 1t is hopeless
to expect that anything will be done to stop
these shameless practices. Within a few
months the county attorney of Sagadahoc
County was notified by well known lawyer
of Portland that he witnessed this manner of
pocket-picking on the Maine Central within
that county and would furnish him the proof
to convict the black-legs. That official made
no reply. If the Maine Central really cared
to break up this method of theft, of which,
by allowing it to be carried on with IMMUNITY
for more than two years on their trains, the
company justly bear the odium, they could
easily find witnesses to convict them. The
PRESS will undertake to furnish the Maine
Central officers with a sufficient number Of
names prior to any sitting of the grand jury
in this county,
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OLD AGE is the only objection that the op-
ponents of Judge Kent make against his
nomination for Governor. They all admit his
sterling worth and high character and that
in the course of a long public life, he has never
been suspected of walking in "ways that are
dark or resorting to "tricks that are vain"
hney TAIL to point out any evidence that he is
nv as vigorous now as when he was appoint
81 ouuee. They only fear that he will break
1t ; 'ne care and perplexity of the
duties incumbent upon him as Governor
They forget that the duties of the Ch;of Moo.
istrate of Maine are not SO arduous 90 +hos.
of Justice of our Supreme Court. Tbev
are entirely forgetful of the fact that the men
who haye done the greatest service for the ma.
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News and Other Items.

Speaker Blaine is in San Francisco,
Gloucester, Mass, has accepted a city charter
by vote of 6S2 yeas to 1853 nays.
A man was arrested in st. Louis last week
for murder committed thirteen years ago.
The Presbyterans have decided to take part
in the Centennial Celebration.
Flank McDuffee of East Alton, N. H., hung
himself on Monday with an OK chain.
There are three-fourths of a million more 1e'
males in Germany than males.
''Thirty solid miles of logs is reporteu III
Au Ores river, Michigan.
The Illinois Legislature has appropriated one
million dollars for school purposes.
OF the women of the United States, go are
doctors, "a dentists, 5 lawyers, and 5S preach
ers. -a. --F-
A Detroit paper states that Senators Chan
dler and Ferry of Michigan have returned their
back pay to the Treasury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-05-21

KENT's HnL.-The present school year will
close with commencement exercises the first
week in june. Tuesday'evening will be given
to prize declarations and readings. Wednes-
day President Allen of the State Agricultural
College will deliver an Grafton and Rev. Mark
Traitor of Boston poem, before the Calliopean
and Adelphian societies, and in the evening a
grand vocal and instrumental concert will be
given by the Musical Department assisted by
Miss Ada Cary of Portland Thursday the usu-
al graduating exercises occur. From the sever
al courses twenty seven graduate. Dr. Torsey is
still unable to attend to school duties. The
present term numbers over two hundred and
fifty. Whole number in attendance during the
year, about seven hundred.
Usual base ball contest, Olympics, ~; Crich-
tons 81
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In several papers we have noticed insinua-
tions that the calling of the Republican State
Convention at Bangor this year was done
with the design of aiding this or that capdi-
date or section. Nothing is farther from the
truth. Before last year, conventions for sew
eral years had been held at Portland, Augusta
and Bangor in turn. In 1872 the member of
the Committee from Androscoggin asked to
have it held in that city that year when it
would in turn have been held in Bangor.
The request was granted; and as matter of
course if the rule established by custom was
to be observed, Bangor was the place for
holding the meeting the present year. In
short the place of holding the Convention is
fixed rather by usage than by the State Com
mltfep.