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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-22
MUSIC.

Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music. and
musical Merchandise and Inatru-
nents Of every description, whole
sale and retail.
II. a. IIollenbeFg keeps the Iarg-
aIt and best selected stock In this
nIly. aud y full assortment Of the
lhickerfng, MOilenberg and Hal.
Isfi a Cumston Pianos, the hstey
nonta fn full sets or single pieces.
Being n practical piano maker
and musician OF taste aud ability,
nnk known 60 the public as such
since 1893, patrons OF this munlc
house may feel confident that they
will ind all goods strictly ns repre-
nented and Warranted, and at mod
orato prices aud ON easy terms.
RareroOms. No. 25a Second street.
ns-t-
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OId Roman Bnbter

A writer in Harper's Magazine, de-
scribing ancient Rome, says: must
also say q few words about the babies
and young children. They are made
bond slaves at birth, for the first thing
the nurse does after the ablution is TO
wind around the infant-arms, body and
legs-swaddling- cloths, and these usually
indicate the rank Of the parents. Some
are wrapped in very costly stuffs tied
with golden band; others with purple
scarf, fastened by glittering buckle;
others with fine white shaw, such as
the wealthy ladies wear in cold weather
in their houses, fastened with scarlet
strings; while the poor wrap their babies
in broad fllets Of common cloth. The
old Lacedemonisns seem to have been
wiser, for they only wrapped a broad nj
let of linen around the body, and lett
the arms and legs full liberty. These
Romans put their babies into cradles OF
various forms. The most common are
those of boat and hollow shield. Jo-
sephus, the Jew have mentioned, tells
me that the infant life Of the great law
giver Of his people was saved by his
having been concealed among the osiers
of the Nile by his mother, in a boat
cradle. Sometimes, when the baby is a
wear old, the mother shaves its head and
puts jewels in its ears, IL it be girl;
and so soon as Il begins to walk, an or
nament, called bnlla, is hung about It's
neck. This is often only disk Of metal
with the name Of the child's family en-
graved upon il, so that the little one
NAV be identified if lost; but more often
Il is a hollow metal case, sometimes
highly ornamented, which contains
charms against evil spirits The chill
dren Of the poor have disks Of leather
80 marked that the babe may be identi-
fed.
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INSURANCE..
STATEMENT or TmE
Franklin Fire Ins. Co.,
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA,
On December 81, 1879.
Filed with the Comptroller. Nashville.
Tennessee.

The amount ofits capital is 100000
The amount of its capital
paid up is s4OO'OOO
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A correspondent accounts thusly for
the wearing OF the wedding ring on the
fourth finger of the hand. He says it is
put on that finger because, in the origi-
nal formula Of marriage, it was placed
first on the top of the thumb, with the
words, In the name of the Father"
then on the next finger with, And Of
the Son." then on the middle finger
with, And Of the Holy Ghost" and
finally on the fourth with the Amen.
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MEDICAL.
DIR. II. L. LASRI,
Surgeon
AND ACCOgCHER.

OFFICE, IS UNION ST. ; RESIDENCE. go
" Main street lGayoso Block. Once hours
cialties: children and female diseases. Trad
uafed at she University Of Berlin (6ermanyl !;
with mere than thirty years practical eNpe-
dencs. Naccination daily % bis once, be
tWesn 5 and 4 o'clock Pm. A-xVi-A
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-22

Full Compliance Made with State Law
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The amenities Of telegraph operating
are illustrated by the following incident,
said 10 have occurred in New York
Office. Early one morning the young gen
tleman operator after repeated calls for
q young lady operator in another once,
at last gets a response, and then click,
clck," be telegraphs back to her, We
hemently, 1 have been trying TO catch
YOU for the last half hourr In mo-
ment the reply comes tripping back to
him over the wires from the telegraphic
maiden: That's nothing There is 8
Young nan here who has been trying to
do the same thing for the last two years,
and be hasn't caught me YETI
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Capital 1000, 100000 Paid Up.

Total Assets OF the COmpanyS5 s9;'SSSSSS SSS 90 81
Total Liabilities ...........''. i'oii'V1Y 80
LUCIUs J. HENDEE, President
JoT3AM G00DNOW. Secretary.
Sr.rr or CosNEorfouT. HARTFORD Co., S.,
hoi TIaRTF,9RD. January 9. 1873. } Z
Personally appeared before me- MT E4rhANiiE;L onni;
sHIPMAN. Justice of 'he Peace auig TyYDsr 9TSr-
fed to administer oaths, LuoivS D. caorstorv'
and % made solemn oath. that the foregoing g Ing
statement of the assets and condition a. Ine
ErNA INSURANCE COMPANY is true; fSa;d Anu
certify that have examined the assets ol s'S
Company. and that it is in possession o. svGchs a5
and bonds to the amount OF one hunuree
thousand dollars, and more, at PaIp,anM PEI WHY
NATHANIEL SHlfMhN,
Justice Of the Peace
U.A. LITTLE'r0N. Agent,
19n-155 % Madison street.
FulI Compliance Made with State Law
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
COMING HOME.

1t is now the middle of September, and
the time is approaching when all who have
been absent during the summer months for
health or pleasure, viii be returning to their
homes. In the pleasant days before the
civil war, thousands of Southern people,
whole families together, were accustomed
to annually visit the Northern cities and
fashionable places of resort, and remain
there during the hot season, spending large
sums of money for the benefit of that sec
ton. Since the abolition of slavery and
the general arrangement of affairs, public
and private, in the South, consequent on
the war, the number of these visitors
has, of course, greatly decreased, but, there
are still many, having the time and means,
who still leave their cherished homes, in
the land of the sun and the breeze and 90
Northward to spend few weeks for recrea-
tion and health. During the past summer
between twenty and thirty of our Austin
people have been absent, the most of them
at Woodstock, pleasant town in Canada,
on the railroad, running from Detroit to the
Suspension Bridge near the falls of Niagara,
where, we believe, they have generally en-
ioyed themselves and been profted in mind
and body. The time has now arrived for
their return, and, indeed, some of them are
already at home, and, no doubt, glad
to be so. After all, there is no place
like home. It is well for us to go
abroad, occasionally, that we may have a
more realizing sense of this fact, but it is
not good to go away too often or to stay
too long. Some of our friends, perhaps,
have felt this, while absent the past sum-
mer, and have had longings for the breezy
and sunny heights Of Austin, where their
comfortable homes are situated, and around
which cluster the warmest and best feelings
of their hearts If amidst their wander
ings, or fixed abodes temporarily, their
thoughts have thus often turned back to
the scenes, the friends and the enjoyments
behind them, so we, too, who have re-
manned at our posts of duty and business,
have kept them all in remembrance, wish
ing them much pleasure and renewed health
and strength, and looking forward with
hope and desire to the time when all would
be safely back to their old haunts, their old
friends, and their old enjoyments. The
hour is now near at hand, when all will be
home once more, and the golden circle of
friendship and social intercourse, for
awhile sundered, will be again united.
They are all coming home.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
A sUFFIoIENT REnIRDY.

1t is admitted by all intelligent, candid
people, that the general condition of this
country, at the present time, is deplorable.
With an enormous debt and heavy taxes, an
iniquitous tariff and deprecated currency,
We have boundless extravaganza in the ad-
ministration of all public affairs, with cor
ruption of all sorts among officials from
the highest to the lowest. Offices are
bought and sold, legislation, public and
private, is effected by bribery, and the peo-
pie oppressed and plundered without the
means of redress All branches of gov
ernment, State and National, are more or
less infected, and the deadly poison
seems to be working through all the
veins of the mighty Republic, threat
ening its early and ignominious dissolution.
What has produced this woeful condition Of
political affairs9 The answer is plain to
every thinking man. It is the genuine re-
suit of the rise and ascendency of Radical
ism. The Radical party commenced with a
warfare against all constitutional obligations
and the restraints Of law. 1t professed to
be governed only by the Sinner light" Of
each mans conscience, holding that to be
paramount to the laws of man or the re-
vealed will of God. No wonder that this
party, originating and progressing with such
false conception as this at its very foun-
dation, should, when it gained full power
and possession of the government, throw off
all restraints Of Bible and Constitution, and
act only for selfish ends, regardless Of
the public veal. The doctrines Of Radica-
ism could produce no other results than
those which now appall us. All that we
now suffer is due alone to the reign and
rule Of the Radical party. Can any sober
minded man doubt thisl When the Demo
cratic party had the control Of the country,
these evils did not exist, and al was we'll.
The whole land prosperod. We were res
pected at home and abroad. The Union
was loved, the constitution aad laws rever-
enced and obeyed. Official corruption,
then, was the exception. and not, as now,
the general rule. At the close Of the adj
ministration Of Buchanan, the last Of the
Democratic Presidents, we had COM
lparitively no public debt, light taxes,
a sound currency, an equitable tariff.
a reliable judiciary, and general
prosperity. Radicallsm has destroyed all
this and brought on corruption, disorder
and ruin. What is the obvious rcmedyl
The expulsion Of the Radicals from power,
the utter overthrow Of the Radical party,
and the restoration Of the Democracy tc
the government Of the whole country.
Judging from the past, nothing more i.
needed. While the Democratic party ruled,
We prospered, and all We now suffer has
been brought upon Us by Radical legislation
and misrule. We must put down the party,
which has produced 50 much evil, and re
store the party which did so much good {.
the whole country. Nothing more is neces
sary. The principles Of the old Democratic
party, fsithlully adhered to and carried out
insure every needed reform and the TeturE
Of public virtue. prosperity and pcac'
throughout the land -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
lcoNNUNlcATgD1
rs OUR STATE CONSTITUTION AT
FAULT


The Constitution Of the State Of Texas
provides two modes for the removal Of dis
trict Judges, one upon the address Of two
thirds of the members Of both houses Of the
Legislature, and tho other by impeachment.
For nearly every other State officer there is
provision to iill vacancy, caused by the
absence or inability Of the officer to per-
form his official duties. And yet Judge
may fail or refuse to hold his courts for
years, and thereis no alternative. Should the
Legislature fail or refuse to take cognizance
of the fact, he may continue his dercliction
al iaJfaitum.
In the Twcnty-fourth Judicial District
the Judge has not held but seven terms Of
court in his entire district, during the last
eighteen months; and when we take into
consideration the fact that the Twenty
fourth District is composed Of scDa differ
ent counties, we have slight conception Of
the irregularity Of the proceedings IN the
courts Of that district We are in
formed that there are parties con-
fined in dungeons in nearly every
county in the district, some OF whom
have been confined in the dungeons for near
two years awaiting trial, and in many in
stances these poor wrctches arc held fol
very trivial oiTcnscs. Too poor TO give bail
they must lie in their cells, away from their
families and friends, 10 await the pleasure
Of q Judge who has been pronounced by
some Of the most eminent physicians Of our
State to be wholly incapable Of performing
the duties Of his Office What is to be donel
Complaint upon complaint has been sent
to the Executive, from nearly every county
IN the district, and yet lie is powcrless to
offer relief The Thirtecrth Legislature
passed over the matter without action. Are
VIC TO await the assembling Of the next
Legislature, and take the chances Of their
following IN the footsteps Of the Thirtecnfhi
There seems TO be no alternative, and the
poor wrctchcs inearccrafed in the dungeons
IN this district, as well az all parties lili-
giant, and the community at large, must
suffer- Then is not our State Constitution
at fault
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18

As we went 10 press yesterday morning. o
large force was still busy az work 20 exfri-
cate August Norbeigh from the we'll inwhich
he was buried by the falling Of the walIa on
the day previous Il was then supposed The
unfortunate man would be rescued long be-
fore the break II day, but hc was TOO deep.
" covered 70 be reached By that time. The
large crowd that bad gathered IN the carly
part Of the evening Increased ia numbers
and excitement. and none were willing -
leave until the sufferer was rescued. AZ
seven o'clock yesterday morning it found
that Il would take several houfs yet 20 re-
move enough Of the rock and dirt to allow
Norbcigi an escape.
A communication was effected with tho
suffering man, through which water and
catabics were passed, which ina considers
bic degree helped him 70 endure his alnosi
killing pain. The good work ~ removing
the crushed IL walls continued fiIl 30 o'clock,
when the cry Of saved Ct last fen from
every mouth as pr. NUbcinh was raised
from tho crushing rock and dirt % g moro
comfortable md safe posltion On tle soiia
earth.
There were hundreds present who were
Wild with excitement. and just o. glad te
see the victim 0f this Ed aceideri restored
20 tis tcrr0r-slricizcn fd'4IIF ~ II be were
son or brother SIR Acrbcieh was covered
~ tho falling naIIs at foaF o'clock Iaes'iag
afternoon. and rescued e Ten "Wednesday
morning. hayiDq been beneafh the crushing
weight 81 twenty-five feet 81 clay ard rock
eighteen hours Il seems beyond the limits
81 the possible that orc Should bc ie 1nch
condition and still I've. and H was
scarcely Thought. ere ihis man was rescued,
that enough oi life would 1e left q stand
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
VOL III.



On the return Of Judge Coke to his home
in Waco, as we learn from the EramfaeS, he
was welcomed by his friends and neighbors
with an ovation Of which any man might be
proud. On Monday night the city was il
Illuminated with bonfres and torches, and a
fine .band discoursed sweet music on the
public square. Notice having been given,
to some extent, in the country, numbers of
both sexes and Of all ages came trooping in
to Join in the large procession, which was
formed aud proceeded to the residence of
DR.. Wallace where the Judge makes his
headquarters; and where he was presented
70 the crowd by Col Gerald who made a
very neat speech appropriate to the occasion.
The address of Judge Coke, as reported
in brief by the Examiner, is worthy Of the
man whom tho Democracy of Texas have
selected to be their standard bearer in the
next election. Abiding, with much feel
ing, to his native State, Virginia, and to
ms early days, when he came to Waco, then
mere village, and cast hislot among them,
and to the Joys and sorrows which had
there befallen him, he proceeded to speak
Of the high Office to which he had been
nominated by the partiality Of his Demo
cratic friends, and pledged himself, if
elected, never to bring the least taint of
dishonor or blot Of disgrace upon it. He
intended to do his whole duty and canvass
the whole State. The Democratic party
had been the guardian on the watch tower
OF constitutional liberty from the days of
Jefferson, and he rejoiced that here in
Texas, it was now again coming into power
with the time honored maxim, that officers
were the servants not the masters Of the
people. He gave most scathing review
Of the abuses of power and the corruption
of the Radical cffice-holders in Texas-ex-
tending through every department, even to
the judiciary-and rejoiced that their day
was fast drawing to close. He urged for
cibly the Importance of registration and a
full vote of the people. If elected, he
would be ''every inch a Governor, :"
and not go to Washington to lay
DSAOIC lliC 0lliCA LASCullNG
there, as Governor Davis had done.
A Democratic Governor would never suffer
the people of Texas to witness such hui
initiating spectacle He would not be the
tool Of any ctque-no ring master should
ever crack his whip over him. He would
watch faithfully over the peace and honor
of the State, and as far as was N ms power
deal out even handed justice to ALL With
thanks to his friends and neighbors, who
had honored him on this occasion, Judge
Coke concluded amidst perfect storm of
applause.
BY this brief abstract of the address, as
given in the Examiner, it will be seen that
our candidate for Governor is made of the
right stuff, and that all have great reason
to rejoice at his nomination. All honor to
the Waco Chief, and let us put him in the
big wigwam at the capital by majority
larger than any Governor ever got before
/ him,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
LoYAL LEAeuEs srILL RxlsrrNc.

We are informed by the Texas Obsrrs'
that meetings of the Loyal League are stiI
being held in Rusk county. The Radical
newspapers Of Texas have frequently asser.
ted that they had been entirely abandoned,
but they viii say anything for a purpose.
Everybody knows they were established in
the South to control tho negroes politically,
and their meetings were usually secret and
in the dark, and the amount of iniquity,
planned in them by low, designing, unprin-
cipled carpet-baggers, and executed by
their poor tools, the negroes, win never be
fully known, but it has been seriously felt
all through the South So odious at last
had they become, that the Radicals began
to disclaim them, and they have pretended
for some time, that they no longer existed.
But it appears that it is not so-they are
still using them whenever they can make
them effective. Our people must be on
their guard. In these midnight meetings
we are told, the negroes were sworn to vote
as instructed, and to denounce and persecute
any of their brethren who dared to act
otherwise. AT previous elections, negroes,
attempting to vote the Democratic ticket,
have been assailed and sometimes seriously
injured for doing so. This must not be
hereafter. The law of Congress in regard
to elections applies to all, white and black.
The negro has the right to vote as hepleases,
unawed by the Loyal Leagues, and in the
next election all, who desire to vote the
Democratic ticket, should be protected and
allowed to carry out their wishes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
AFFECTING.

FoRT SILL, Sept. -santanta and Big
Tree have arrived, and been placed in the
guard house. Several of their relatives vis-
tied them, and the scene was quite affect
Telegraphie Dispatch.
Did they talk over the burning of the
wagoners, tied to the wheels of their
wagons? That, also, was quite an affecting
scene. There have been great many af-
fecting scenes in Texas during the last three
or four years. A poor woman, lying by her
hearthstone, outraged and scalped, is rather
affecting, and calculated to start tear or
two, if one has not become too much in love
with the heroism of the gentle savage. Lit
tie children and babies, with their brains
dashed out on a log or rock, are an affect
ing spectacle, especially to their fathers and
mothers The affecting scene at Fort Sill
is not solitary one. Governor Davis, we
fear, will be answerable for a great sdHaay
more affecting scenes before his term ex-
-pires. $50, the poor Indian, etc.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
mEmPnIs ANp 81. louis.

The Memphis APpedt comes down vigor-
ously upon the merchants of that city for
their supineness, as compared with their
brethren Of St. Louis, in relation to the
Texas trade, and calls their conduct '.foul
shame" 1t says the St. Louis merchants
advertise in their papers and then send them
to the people Of Texas, while the Memphis
merchants send round little cards and are
doing business altogether ina small pinehed
up way. We have not observed any par
ticular Rberality on the part of St. Louis
merchants, or their newspapers either. II
their merchants advertise much, it
must be at home, and as for sending their
newspapers, the ST. Louis press cut US oil
from their list Of exchanges the moment
the new postal law went into effect, so that,
now, we do not receive single paper from
that city, though the STATESMAN is pub
Iished at the capital Of Texas, has the pub
lie printing, and is an accredited organ Of
the Democratic party. So much for the
liberality Of st. Louis-it is less than moon
shine. Not two years ago the writer Of
this article, then connected with the Dallas
HsrulL tried for two days to set some sub
scribers and advertisements for that paper
in st. Louis, and succeeded in getting one
small card for insertion. 4 fig for St.
Louis lihenlitv.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18

Beforethe late Democratic State Conven-
ton, We noticed in different parts Of the
State some movements, looking to the cs-
tablishment Of Oranges and the getting up
Of farmers party. We trust now that no
further encouragement may be given to
these movements, foTnothing Of the kind is
needed in Texas and it is our belief that
the Oranges are dong no good anywhere.
Commencing IN the Northwest, they have
been turned into apolitical party there, and
in Iowa they have succccdedin breaking up
entirely the Democratic party Of that state.
The idea Of starting great national party,
composed of farmers only. IS an al
surlisy, and II other Glasses arc all
miited into il, it viii hc no longer
. farmers party, but jus. Ike other
parties. made up ol all sorts. We
know the men who a5o engaged in
this State ia getting up Grange deny
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-18
LII LIZ cOMPANY.


The object Of this company, whose ad-
vertisement win be found in our present IS
sue, is to accept and execute all manner Of
trusts, and In the establishment Of the
4" Real Estate Trust Fund, " they propose
to furnish Texas land owners with an avail
able credit based upon real estate held in
trust for that purpose exclusively, and at
the same time to secure to the owners Of
lands the full benefit Of the increase in the
value Of such lands. A movement Of this
kind has long been needed in Texas, and i
this enterprise is successful it viii afford
means FOR the development Of our country.
The Trust Company viii accept in trust
real estate OK money to be invested in real
estate, and give in exchange certificates Of
shares in said fund, available to the holder
as sound personal credit. The company
have adopted adequate means 70 establish
and sustain the value Of these certificates in
the open market. We have no reason 70
doubt the success Of this great enterprise,
and VIC do earnestly hope Tor is early con.
summation.