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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-01-15

The year that closed Wednesday will be
memorable, in the series of years, for the
number Of great and conspicuous men and
women that it has gathered to the folds of
death. Our older readers will perhaps re-
call the year 1882, when so many eminent
men departed that the neurology of it read
like the muster roll Of the temple of fame.
Goethe, the greatest of the German poets :;
Cuvier, tho greatest of the men of science
of that day; Walter Scott, the greatest of
the novelists; Champollion, one of the
greatest of the DISCOVERIES III Archaeology,
and others scarcely less worthy of note left
MS IN that year for the realm ''wherc tho
immortals are"
There is a remarkable resemblance be-
tween that and the present year. not merely
in the number of the notabilities that have
been called away, but in the character Of
these and in their relations to the times.
No poet comparable in ability of breadth
Of influence to the German poet can be
cited this year; but the removal of much
inferior men. Napoleon Ill, eN-Emperor of
the French, has made quite as wide gap
in human affairs. Manzoni, the italian
novelist, is hardly the peer of Sir Walter
Scott, but il We add.to his name the names
Of Guerazzi, sLytton Bulwer and Miss Muhl-
hNiis tic litiullti may bt NOllIlitttN. AEdS-
siz certainly rivals his illustrious teacher,
Cpvier, but we are compelled to add to the
scientific list of our losses Liebig, Scdg-
wick, Torrey, Mack, De la Rive, Donati,
Fedtschenko and Coste. In the walks of
art the losses have been less numerous, but
scarcely less marked, as we see in the
names OF Landseer and Hiram Powers, with
whom may be joined Macready, the actor,
and Gustave Richard, the painter.
The bench and bar have been called upon
to mourn the departure Of Chief Justice
Chase, Judge Nelson, Judge Tracy, Judge
peckham, Chancellor Zabriskie, Lord West
bury Baron Wovelton, Chief Justice Boyill
William NJ. Meredith, Right Honorable
Stephen Washington, and others; and the
church Will miss Vicar General Storrs, Bish-
ops McIlwainc, Armitage and Wilbcrforce,
Dr. r. S. Storrs DIR. Gardiner Spring, Rev
John Todd, Rev. Baptist Noel, DIR. Me
GuiTey, DIR. Guthrie, and Others.
Better known than any of these even
were the names of john Stuart Mill, long
the loader Of an important school of British
philosophy; of Thierry and Won Raumer,
historians; of st. Marc Girardin, Phiarete
Chascs, writers; of Nelaton, surgeon; Of
Ratazzi, statesman; of Count Benstroif,
diplomatist; OF Sir Henry Holland, traveller
and physician; and, in narrower spheres,
we may mention Lewis, Tappan Ctarles
Knight, John p. Hale, Mrs. Give, Thorn
ton Hunt, Lewis Gaylord Clarke, Admired
Winslow, Charles Temple Dix Countess
Guiccioli and Laura keene.--Aeio York Post
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Repubnean spain.


There arc anomalies in politics as we'll as
in other important matters. One Of these
Is to be found in the persistent nOn-ackn0wl-
edgment of the Spanish republic by the
great European powers; whereas. when
AdOlphe Theirs was declared chief of the
executive power in February. 1871, the said
great powers lost no time in recognizing
the French republic and thereby acknOwl-
edging the fact that the second empire was
overthrow. So, too, when the National
Assembly of France taking Theirs at his
word, last May. voted him out and Marshal
MacMahOn into the presidency, the change
was automatically acknowledged by every
government in Europe On the other hand,
since AmadeO of Italy resigned the crown of
Spain, not quite year ago, none Of the
European governments with the exception
of the Portuguese, we believe, has acknowl-
edged the republic which arose, after ANA
DOCS departure, upon the wreck of the
monarchy. The most curious point of all
5 that France, herself arepublic, ;,as Joined
.nc other European States in thus utterly 10
noring the independence of Spain. The old
prOverb, hOmely but expressive declares that
''what is sauce for goose should be sauce
for gander" but this does not appear to be
the case in the relative condition and posi-
ton of the Spanish and French republics.
1t must be confessed, with equal candor and
regret, that this is partly due to the foolish
mismanagement of the Spanish politicians
at Madrid, who, after having consented to
and assisted in the appointment of Emilio
Castelar, 10 the Presidency of the Spanish re-
public, have done great deal ever since to
clog the action of his government, and that
at a time when the country is suffering from
civil war created by the Carlists Thus it
happens that CASTELAR,, albeit man of the
highest ability, lofhest eloquence, most I'M
doubted repubEcOnism, and purest, as well
as least selfish patriotism, appears toOccupy
his position as chief of the government on
mere sufferance only, opposed by those who
ought to sustain him; and THIS is the reason
assigned by England for delaying to recOg-
nize the Spanish, as it did and does recOg-
nize the French republic. This is true, and
much to be lamented. THE Press.
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Congregational social and Domestic Life
and Its DIFFICULTIES and Evils.

Returning Congressman begin to arrive,
many of them having been snubbed /
their constituents for their votes before the
recess. Their great desire now Is To get
comfortable winter quarters fer themselves
and their wives without paying the extrav-
agant prices which those who let lodgings
demand. These prices have quadrupled
within the past half dozen years. and if one
demonstrates the reply is that Congress has
authorized the imposition of such heavy
taxes. to defray the expense Of the 7enais-
sgHcc, that rents and other expenses have
gone up, and their charges must be raised
in proportion. Alas for those who love to
take their ease in their inns, The old taT-
ems are badly replaced by the modern
''hotels, so gaudy, so dear and so uncom-
Portable. Who that remembers Browns.
or Gadsbys, or Coleman's. with its good
honest tables. bountifully spread with meats
and drinks. would change it for one OF our
present hotels" with fifty ill-cooked
dishes of the same odor and not n decent
boiled potato. o, that Brown, now fash
ionable resident at the West End. would
take possession of the tavern which his
father called ''The Indian Queen" and
keep an honest old-fashiOned, comfortable
abiding place for travellers and soiourners,
without plated dishes and sham bills of
fare! Then it would be we'll to re-
store the Congressional messes, COM
posed of enough Congressman to fill
all of the rooms in boarding house
which they would rent, and thus en-
joy the privacy, if not the comforts, of a
home. 1t is to be wondered at that some of
the Dryasdusts who are going back into the
history of the metropolis do not give a
Ok tch IF Of old
which Webster, Clay, Preston, Prentiss and
other magnates Of other days were the lead
ing spirits There was no Congressional
Temperance Society in those days, and
liquor was never seen in committee rooms at
the Capitol; but there was deal of glori-
GUS old sherry and Madeira on the dinner
tables, with whisky punch or apple toddy
for nightcaps about midnight. Perhaps
matters have mended; but one does not see
that there is less soggy drunkenness now
than there was then, and there is certainly
much more liquor of meaner quality
drunk by Congressman. A college of her
aldry is one of the wants of the metropolis.
and bill may soon be introduced granting
$4,000 per annum to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, that Professor Henry may engage
the services of some expert in ''the noble
science of blaZon.o Congressman can then
obtain crest shield and motto, to be placed
on their notepaper, without telling the en-
graver to select the handsomest from
among his specimens of work executed for
others. This has made people display ar
mortal bearings to which they could lay no
hereditary clam, and the proposed college
of heraldry would prevent some amusing
mistakes that might occur, as others have
occurred. - Washington Cor. " y Herud
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Something About Agassiz.

Professor Agassiz wrote much for the
press in former times. When the old Bos
ton C0}nicf tiourished before the war, which
closed its career Boston being too loyal
after that lawful firing on Sumter to tole-
rate its true Democratic thunder), AgassiZ,
with Choate, Cushing, Lunt and others,
whose names stood brightest among the
Democratic phalanX of New England, were
constant contributors to its columns. Poor
John Clarke, may he rest in peace, was its
last editorial proprietor, and he was a de-
voted friend and admirer of the professor,
knowing him rs he did intimately, and he
never tired of relating anecdotes concerning
his ecccntricities Among others he was
wont to tell the following, rs illustrative of
his method of lecturing and enforcing his
prccepts: The professor was announced to
deliver a lecture in one of the outside cities
of Massachusetts. The audience gathered,
and comprised the elite of the beauty,
fashion and intelligence of the place.
After waiting for some time with much
Impotence for the professor to appear, he
finally entered, and was greeted, rs al
ways, with warm applause by the audi
ence. Instead of ascending the stand,
however, he at once went among the ladies'
and putting his hands into his capacious
pockets, pulled forth couple of handsful
of grasshoppers! These he scattered around
in the laps of the fair Yankees regardless
of their slight screams, '0h my'sm and
other conventional feminine calculations of
! fright. Ascending the stand, then, the first
! thing he uttered was, Ladies', how many
legs has a grasshopper!" This was certainly
an astounding query, and took his fair au-
ditors completely by surprise, for, however
many of them had seen grasshoppers all
their lives, not one among the number had
ever thought of counting their legs. He re-
peated the question to show he was in ear
nest, and they began to ''guess" and answer
at random but all proved wrong. mo,
ladies, l will tell you how many legs has a
grasshopper. His legs are six. You must
always look with your eyes, ladies. The
more you look with your eyes the less you
will have to think with your heads" And
in this simple way the great man who has
left us impressed upon his audiences one OF
the greatest truths-teaching them'the uses
of objective observation as an aid to sub
] iective reasoning Richmond Enquirer.
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The thistle and tho Ropcwalk.

'Such mite as can do no good, " is the
general impression of our boys and girls
when urged to do what they can for the
good work. But smaller and humber in
struments than you God has made use of to
do great works in this world.
\ great army many years ago invaded
Scotland. They crept on stealthily over the
border, and prepared to make a night at
tack on the Scottish forces. There lay the
camp all silently sleeping in the starlight,
never dreaming that danger was so near.
The Danes, to make their advance more
nOiseleSs, came forward barefooted. But as
they neared the sleeping Scots one unlucky
Dane brought his broad foot down squarely
on 4 bristling thistle. A roar of pain was
the consequence, which rang like trumpet
blast through the sleeping camp. In mo-
mont each soldier had grasped his weapon,
and the Danes were thoroughly routed.
The thistle was from that time adopted as
the national emblem of Scotland.
By the harbor of New London there was
once long old Topewalk, with row OF
square window-holes fronting the water
In time of war British admiral was cruis-
ing off that coast, and had very good
chance 10 enter and destroy the town. lie
was once asked afterwards why he did no,
do it. lie replied he should have done s.
III it bad not been for that formidable long
fort, whose guns entirely commanded tn.
harboI." He had been scared of by On,
old ropewalk,
God has his uses for even the simples
and humblest OF us. Our great business
should be to find out what the Lord would
have US 10 do, and then do it with all on
might, mind and strength.
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THE publication lately made of the assets
of Jay Cooke & Co. has not strengthened
public confidence in the ability of the firm
to liquidate its Indebtedness. 1t was known
that the firm was very heavily "loaded up
with Northern Pacific, but no one imagined
that they had on hand such mass of other
wild cat" securities. The most sanguine
creditors are now not expecting to realize
more than ten cents in the dollar. The
Cookies themselves, however, still continue
to insist that they will pay up IN full.
The Baltimore american says that the in
dividual members of the firm are all ruined
financially by the failure. Jay Cooke loses
an estate belonging to him individually that
was once thought worth nearly "a, 600, 600.
Mr. Moorehead had 50, 900, 600 of property,
it is said, before he entered the firm, and
is now, of course, penniless. The other
members also lsse large private fortunes.
None of them can possibly save dollar
from the wreck, judging from present indi-
cations. -AJerdRdriG Gdzette.
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Old songs.

A pretty song is never lost; somebody is
chcered by it. The old time-worn songs
do not stir and enliven us like the new, but
they are so resting when we need rest, so
healing when we need balm. Nearer,
my God to Theen-how strengthening it is!
What power there is in it to lift fainting
Christian on his feet, Just after an awkward
pause in. a prayer meeting.
do they miss me at homer is a cast-Off
old song, yet many of MS hum it on the sly
ut eventide. know Boston editor whose
gay little wife has q lonely father and
mother away among the highlands of New
York. An abundance of new songs grace
her piano, yet on a lowery, lonesome day,
if you live next door, you will be attracted
by familiar old song which dies out in
saying, Il wish lyOu were here, wish you
were here And such thrill of feeling
she puts into it, too.
'sThe star-spangled banner will lift a
fainting invalid into sitting posture, and
he will tell you that he is refreshed, when
the same eXertiOn would have wearied him
without the song.
Almost any of US can sing, or lightly
hum, the old, old songs for our own amuse-
ment, and where's the harm! They are an
eScape-yalve for a surplus of pent-up feel
inc, of one sort or another.
Let those sing for us who can sing, so as
to thrill us, melt us, make Us laugh and
dance, and flutter. Let them sing the new
song, and we will thank them in our Tery
souls. And when they are gone, and we
are left alone, will sing, when shall We
two meet again, meet never to severn
Then we will sob and sigh, and in our own
homely way sing out, Ira Ia Ia la
May be never, and sob and sigh again. A
poet would laugh. But alone, under the
stars, We arc free from criticism. The great
poet turns oIr very diScords into harmony,
Tor he knows well the pages of unwritteE
music and poetry that lie hidden in Oul
simple souls. Il is a great achievement tC
compose a great song, for It echoes so aftel
We are gone. Or, Ike light from a star, il
shines on and on, long after the orb In.
dropped from lis place in the heavens.
Mrs.. b C. R1de.
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epochs and Of all chimes. fCheers. Suffice
it for our Pride and our honor that we in our
day have added to il such names rs those
Of Grace Darling and Florence Nightingale
Cheers. Woman is all that she should
be-gentle, patient, long-suffering, trustfcl,
unselfish, full Of generous impulses. It is
her blessed mission TO comfort the suffering
plead for the erring, encourage the faint of
purpose, succOr the distressed, uplift the
fallen, befriend the friendless-in a word.
afford the healing Of her sympathies, and a
home IN her heart for all the bruised and
prosecuted children Of misfortune that knock
at It's hOspitable door. Cheers. And when
l say God bless her there is none among US
who has known the nObling affection of
a wife or the steadfas; devotion of mother
but in his heart VIII say Amen. Loud and
prolonged cheering. London Cosmopolitan
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CenIenarIans---The List Of Those who
Died Last Year


Aged Americans were not so numerous
IN the bills OF mortality last year as they
have been in preceding years; but the fol-
lowing. from the Boston YJmeHer viii be
found interesting:
Masculine ccntenarians, begin with An
drew Mcdonald, New Orleans, 104 and
then comes Robert Mcintosh, Brookhaycn.
y. H., died on the day he completed his
lO2d year; Obadiah Baldwin, Crown Point,
n. Y, 101: Laurence Merserau, Union. n.
y, in his Tooth year; Peter Benton, Vol
untown, Conn. (colorcd), 100; John Col
Inns CharlestOwn, Mass. 11S years and u
months: Baziel Crowd, Preston, y. s., 1903
years; Thomas Gill, Undcrhill Centre, VI.
1Ol William Hullctt, Mount Tabor, Vt,
100 years and 10 months; Peter Shenfcssel,
Estell county, KY, 100 years and months /:
Stephen Philbrick, Tamworth, y. H., 1O2
years, month and 20 days: Frederick
Bates, Richmond, Maine, 10J years and 4
months; Purling Plane, Bclvidcre. Illinois.
100 years; -, Walkup, Kentucky, 100
years; J. j. Snider, Statewide. n. c., 1OG
years who served in the British army during
our Revolutionary war, though he must
have been very young then, and Mt Water
loo, and yet died in an American almshouse {:
Joseph Goslaw, Milblry, Mass, 103 years,
months and % days; David Gowan, near
Nashville, Tenn, III years; John McCril-
les, Goshen, n. H., 100 years, months and
II days; Ephraim Talbot, Plainfield, Conn,
in his Tooth year-long leading citizen Of
Providence, II. l.. William Miner, North
ampton, Mass, 102 years; David Styles,
Dubuque, Iowa, 104 years and months;
Elihu Emerson, Leicester, Mass, 1O4 years
and months; John Ripley, Bath, Maine,
in his Tooth year; George Washington
Hall, GilmantOn, n. H., supposed 20 be in
his Tooth year-frozen to death in the house
where he lived alone; John Duff, New Bed
ford, 100 years; Sampson Gross, Athol,
Mass, cOlored, in his Tooth year; Abraham
Wheeler, Derby, in his Tooth year--was
iifer mt Lundy's Lane, and Robert SiXbury
lie Roy, N. Y, 10 years and months
Feminine centcnarians commence with
Mrs. Honora Mcclure, Boston, 100; Lucy
Studley, Hanover, Mass, in her tooth year
Dolly IIoyt, Fremont, n. H., in her tooth
year; Mrs. Rebecca Tenncy, Chester, n. H..
in her Tooth year; Mrs. Mary McGrath,
New York city, 100 years and one month;
Mrs Bertha Tozier Athens, Ne, 107 years
and eight months; Mrs. Peggy Mitchell, East
Machias, Me-, 100 years; Mrs. Jane Gordon,
Sharon, Mass, l04 years-a native of Scot
land; Mrs. Susan Gould, Isle La Motto, VT,
in her Tooth year; Mrs. Betsey Hamilton,
Goldsborough, Me-, 1914 years; Mrs. Beulah
Hunt, Randolph, Mass, died on the day
she completed her 104th year. Nancy Har
vcy, Baltimore, Md, III years; Mrs. Nancy
Cady, Oxford, Mass, 105 years-for the
last ten years of her life an inmate of the
alms-house; Mrs. Nancy Harris, Swift Creek
township, N. c., 10 years; Mrs. Arena
Treplett (colored), Washington, d. c., in
her Tooth year consequently, not a nurse Of
General Washington, but she was one of his
slaves, so that it may be said that he was
her nurse, as he was the nurse Of his conn