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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18

Mr.. John 7. Gilbert is building store house
" ith the view of carrying stock of tifty or
seventy-five thousand dollars. (Drummers
are requested not TO notice this item.)
BrownwOod is one hundred and fifty miles
from Austin, and one hundred and seventy
i've miles from Dallas, but Dallas gets the
trade, notwithstanding the fact that Austin
is nearer and the road to it much better
than the road To Dallas. the merchants
say that they can do better by buying AT
Dallss because railroad competition at that
place has cheapened freighls, and Austin is
thus losing q heavy trade which properly
belongs to it. Austin must have another
route to the East.
CATTLE ON a THOUSAND HILLS.
Brown county is being stocked with cattle
again, near four thousand head having been
brought into it In the last three months. The
grass is luxuriant and the cattle fat. The
price of beeves ranges from $16 to $25.
Corn is selling at seventy-five cents per
bushel, and pork is worth from three to four
cents per pound.
CATALEPsY OF CAT.
But the cheapest meat to buy in Brown
wood is wild turkey. The woods around
here are alive with turkeys, and they are
frequently brought into town and sold al
twenty-five cents apiece. A short time ago
young man who went turkey hunting had
spicy adventure. He had squatted in
clump of bushes and was piping away very
cneerrufiy on his -turhzy C1fi- when ne TefT
something strike him on the back and COM
mence scratching and biting like saw mill.
The fact of the case was that ''bob-tail"
cat, which was concealed in tree close by,
mlstook our young hunter for fat old tur-
key gobbler and bounced upon him like "a
thousand o. bricks" He soon found, how
ever, that he was not dining on turkey meat,
and was leaving in great disgust, when a
load OF turkey shot ''settled his hash"
One night man ''set out a hook" near
here in the bayou. An eel came along and
swallowed the hook; then a ten pound cat
fish took in the eel; then fifty pound cat
fish gulped down the whole lot. They
were all safely landed and fried. If you
feel any delicacy about believing this story
you are referred to Squire Fisher, of George
town, who possesses, Ill an emi1ent degree,
that peculiar virtue cf young George Wash
ington.
Not many miles hence party of us stayed
for a night at the house of Major Ursa. The
Majors house consists of log cabin, the
walls of which he had decorated with those
two nice illustrated papers, the Days Doings
and the Waco Eraminer. which were pasted
on in alternate rows. We prevailed on him
to take the STATESMAN to be kept as a dis
lnfectant. The Major put US to bed at a
late hour, but very soon the whole party,
except one, deserted the bed and took the
floor. The Majors son, Minor Ursa, came
in next morning very early to make a fire,
and | heard him saying in an undervoice: /:
''All on the floor, by guml reckon the
aeas and bed bugs give 'em hell last night. {"
''The Brownwood DemOcrat' is the name
of paper soon to be published here-if
they can start 1t. PETER.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18

"The Courier Journal says, there can no
longer be ahy doubt of the fact that the
Democrats in the South can secure large
part of the negro vote by peaceable and
persuasive means. The result in Missis-
sippi shows that"
Persuasive means' consist of green
backs, whisky, flies and drums, premiums
proffered for weeks of idleness, little gun
powder close by, negro equality, lies, bogus
circulars signed by U. S. Grant-these are
are few of the incidents of universal suf-
frage in Mississippi that make Demo
cratic triumph cost, if defeat were not abso-
lutte damnation, more than victory is
worth. To rescue the State from the mas
terry of knaves, invested with Office by the
imbruted rabble, there was no degree of
violence or force or of folly that was not
justifiable and right.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18
WHEN whea, is selling 81 "a in Tsrre

WHEN wheat is selling $1.15 in Terrell
and at fifty cents about Comanche we don't
exactly see why representatives of Co
manehe should not be always advocating
railway construction. And if public schools
and railways be slaughtered and the towns
of the whole State beggared by rabble suf-
frage, and Invested of local independence
because the rabble is dreaded, why should
any citizen Of any town vote for the
Constitutionl The Convention dread
ing and fearing to tax. the heads of
blacks and of the nomadic rabble still
fears to invest them with power to
tax towns and counties and the illustrions
lawmakers, bringing and dodging, declare
that no debt shall be created unless voted
for by the taxpayers. The knavery of the
mob is confessed in this. 1t caa vote early
and often and make elections disgraceful
aud corrupt. It may pollute the ballot-box,
render the business OF voting detestable in
the eyes Of decency, revolving to patriotism,
aud abhorred by every honest gentleman
where the rabble reig ms. This night to do
all this mustlbe conceded, and thus knaves
and thieves may sti.. be invested with
office until honest men esehew offices as
aisgraceful that were once honorable. Hay-
ing done all this, the Convention records a
confession Of the fact by declaring that
this same foul mob shall not vote when a
question involvsng : expenditure OF
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If the starry correspondent of the Gal
weston Ckristian AdeocIts who generally
succeeds, even when speaking, in writing
himself down an ass, 10 and out of the pull
pit. again refers to the STATESMAN in his
published letters, We may take occasion to
tell what we and others think of him. 1t
is the peculiar province of the pulpit to
wage war upon vice, and he may say what
be pleases about drunkenness and we wiz
concur with him; but We do nc. propose 70
became preachers OF the gospel, or to in
wade the province of the pulpit, or to have
a fsnatical idiot Shape our eousre or con-
demn it uDiustly with impunitg.
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soart.hip IN ssoruin.

He sat on one side of the room in a bio
whiteosk rocking chair. She ON the other
side in u little whiteoak rocking chair. A
long-eared deer hound, snaI ing at flies, was
by hls side; a basket of sewing by hers.
Both rock incessantly-that is the young
people, not the dog and basket. He sighs
heavily and looks out the west window at
Grape myrtle treei she sighs lightly and
gazes out the east window at the turnip
patch. At last he remarks:
''This is mighty good weather to pick
cotton"
'''Tis that, if we only had any to pick. -
The rocking continues.
What is your dogs nameG"
"Coony.n
Another SIGH broken stiffness
''What is he good fort"
''Whetis who good fort" said he, abstract
edly.
'Your dog, Coony."
Fun hUtShriu ,poSsunIs,"
Silence of half an hour.
''He looks like deer dog"
''Who looks like deer dogG"
"Coony."
''He is-but he's kinder bellowsed an
gettin' old and slow now. An he amt no
count on cold trail"
In the quiet ten minutes that ensued she
took two stitches in her quilt; it was a gor-
geous affair, that quilt was made by the
pattern called ''Rose of Sharon" She is
particular about the nomenclature of her
quilts. and frequently with ''real pretty
name"
Your ma raisin' many chickings9"
Forty odd"
Then more rocking, and, somehow, after
a while, the big rocking chair and the little
rocking chair were jamed side by side.
.'How man5 has your ma got9'
'sHow many what2"
"Chickens."
Nigh on to a hundred"
By this time the chairs arc so close to-
gether that rocking is impossible.
''The miDks has eat all ouIs."
Then long silence reigns. Atlength he
observes.
MAXIM qu:Its2"
YES" she replies, 'jrighteningup. 'Tve
just finished q 'Roarin' Eagul of Brazeel,' a
sitting Sun, aid 'Nasions PRIDE Have
you ever saw the yellow Rose of the Para
rye"
No"
''Do you love goubers?"
Il do that"
Presently his hand is accidentally placed
on hers. She does not know it-at least
she does not seem to be aware of it. Then,
after an hour is spent in siehs, coughing
and clearing of throats, he suddenly says
''Pse great mind to bite YOU"
"What are you agreat amind to bite me
for9"
''Kase you won't have me-"
''Kase you amt axed me-"
''Well, now, 1 ak YOU"
''Then, now, has YOU"
Then Coony dreams he hears the sound
of kisses.
The nexe day the young man goes tC
''Gusta" after the marriage license Wed
nesday the following week. No cards.
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that if the volume of currency be expanded
they wao have nothing to sell will have no
more greenbacks than now, and the accu-
mutation OF money in the hands of the rich
rich will only be greater, and the
less in the purses of the poor. In an-
swer to It's it Is alleged that
if bankers, oontibolders and l. ney-mon-
gers knew that infltion was inevitable they
would at once mN.st in mills ana factories
and railways, and the whole country would
prosper as never before. With railway
and mill building. every branch of indus
try would prosper, and degree of COM
mercial activity, nsver known before, super
vene. But the issue, however presented, is
at last sectional, not national. New York
and New England are the creditor States.
They grew rich while all Others were i'm
poverished. They have steadily used the
Federal government in behalf of their own
aggrandizement, even as now they exact
contraction as Shylock demanded the pound
of flesh. The paper they hold and hoard
becomes of the value of gold, and the bonds
they bought at forty and fifty cents must
be paid in full with usury. We lost
half of s.nr &zaa.l.h, ,-->-.si si-thA- -be.AS-
holders, growing rich by shoddy
speculated in the country's miseries and
buying its paper at half its face value, now
exacts the whole and Its payment even in
silver and gold. Western States bore the
brunt of battle, dug bitches, starved and
filed Confederate prisons, and eastern spec
ulators grew rich by their tolls, and now
the West must be sacrificed that insatiate
greed may be gratitied and the Union coz
verted into a mighty plutocracy. Two
thousand men controlling at will two thou
sand banks and two thousand millions of
bonds, may control by purchase two thou
sand newspapers and thus the political des-
TIMES of forty millions of people, and there
is no help fori'. If Billallenism be made thc
issue in the Presidential contest plutocracy
asserting its absolute omnipotence, will not
only give us President, but arrsying
Grant in purple and tine linen, declare him
emperor. The country is sold to the bond
holders on the one hand and to the rabble
on the other and the former buys and sells
the latter and shapes at will the fortunes of
America.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18

WE have so often shown, or sought to
show, that the only possible recourse for
statesmen, if they would perpetuate the
unity of Texas, consists in making local
freedom almost absolute, that this integral
idea of pure and true Democracy has not of
late been discussed by the STATESMAN.
Gov. Coke, in his admirable message,
sought to avoid the evils of universal suf-
frage by proposing to take from counties
and towns local sovereignty and invest it
in the Legislature; the Convention confesses
the necessity for the restriction of suffrage
by restricting it in special cases, and the
fundamental idea of Texan and of republi-
can freed ON is violated by the cowardice of
the Convention, which so breads to restrict
suffrage in local elections that it absolutely
destroys the freedom of municipalities. 1t
confesses the incapacity of the black and
yellow mob and of the white nomadic rab-
ble for all tasks of government, and there
fore .eviscerates the soul of local govern.
ment. 1t dares not purify the ballot box
and leave towns and counties to do with
their own as they please. Mankind expect
ed the loftiest possible developments of
moral courage in the conduct of the
Texan Constitutional Convention; but man
kind finds the demagogue and politician
the same everywhere, and even now, when
we have an opportunity to perpetuate the
existence of Texas as an unit, by reconcil-
ing antagonists of remote districts by leav-
ing each county and town free to pursue its
own aims of progress in its own way, moral
cowardlce compels the Convention to strip
local governments of local freedom, and
Texas is staggered and then dissolved by
the blow. 1t is the crime of the age, and
the folly of the century. No central gov
ernment, as this of Texas under this new
Constitution must, can enact local laws af-
fecting all local, minute interests and live.
The strain of nerves and muscles in every
part of the system soon becomes intolera-
BILE and statehood dies of suffocation, and
unity of outraged and violated natural
| diversities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18
THE RESULT OF THE CONFLICT
ABOUT MONEY.

Two months ago when protesting against
the introduction of the money question,
with which the President can have nothing
TO do, as an Issue in the presidential con-
test of next year, it was asserted that with
out it there was no possibility Of Demo
cratic defeat Recent events have shown
how properly the SrATEsNAx's protest was
entered and bow strong are hereditary DEM
ccratic prejndices against paper money,
even when this sudden return 70 specie pay
ment destroys debtors. making the poor
poorer and the rich richer. We must come
70 specie At last. and the sooner, now that
We have begun the process Of contraslion
and economy. perhaps the better. We are
told. toa, and With = deal Of vsunmiIitnae,
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Az Austin correspondent OF the Gaysecn'
Aeaos imagines that the defeat of Major
Jackson was the defeat of the STATESMAN.
On the contrary, the election of Britton was
the disgraceful defeat of Democracy, and at
the same tine it was the election of Mr..
Wheeler: One of the truest, staunchest,
ablest Democrats of the capital was the pre-
ferred candidate of the STATESMAN He
was supported by two-thirds Of the intelli-
gent Democrats of Austin, and his defeat
was due to the sale of the rabble made by
Ex-Governor Davis to Wheeler's supporters
on Sunday night, the night that preceded.
tho day of the election. These facts were
seen and known and confessed, and nc one
denies them. They occurred even here in
the very presence of the State Convention,
which, with shamefacedness, is forced to
confess it's folly when it so shapes the States
organic law that the very Offices of the
State capital are sold out and delivered over
according to contract, even as coolly and
unblushiugly as were cattle yesterday at the
Far Grounds.
What better illustration of theories persist
emily illustrated by the STATESMAN could
have been presented to the Rutsbagas
whose follies may make the new code of
organic law unworthy of the State and of
the men making this Constitution. Law
givers tremble in the presence of the frown-
ing rabble and a newspaper published in
the States commercial metropolis, unwor
thy of its mission and of the honorable po-
sition it occupies in the world of letters,
dIffuses the idea that the STATESMAN was
defeated in the late Austin city elections,
and in this the Nelos is true to itself and
false to its readers. Why does it not tell
the whole truth and-nothing but the truth9
Why not say that the STATESMAN sought
to avert partisan calamity, involved in
Britton's triumph, but that the venal
In OBJ intervened and set up masters over
the true people even of Austin. Calves
ton, by the same agencies, may be garroted,
and then we, too, may mock her calamity
and deride her misfortunes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18

THE simple imposition of poll tax avails
nothing save to the extent that it augments
the burdens of those who already bear all
the burdens of government. He never
pays poll-tax who has nothing else to pay,
and therefore the imposition of this tax,
without forcing its payment by all who
vote, is unequal and unjust legislation, and
no poll-tax should be collected. ALI heads
should pay alike or not at all.
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If Mississppians would do honor to
themselves and make the distinction be-
tween barbarism and civilization and de-
cency ever conspicuous, Lamar should sue
ceed Ames and the several blacks and
Pease, who have degraded statehood even
by the sheer force of intellectual littleness
in the Senate of the Cnl ed States.
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uninhabitable. Moreover, they are born
branded with the right to vote in this
peculiarly blessed land, and if we do con-
fess on the face Of the CONSTITUTE, "A that
in money matters they are rogues. in mat
tiers of morals and decency and religion
and progress and intelligence, they must
stih control the ballot box. What will
people think Of such constitution, fulf'bf
such crude absnrdities7 and yet the consti:
tuition Of the Rutabagss is TO be preferred
TO that OF the Mamelukes as RECONSTRUCTED,
and written by a priest with the martyfe1 4
CaDby's sword. ~
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striped stockings I'm Georgia.

BE was sitting IN the wagon in front of
Whitehall street dry goods store, holding
the horses, while she made her purchases.
She had just come out to consult him, and
she was standing on the curbstone.
"What's thatg'' he exclaimed.
'.W'y, / say them striped stockin's Is q
dollar par, in thar, she explained.
Striped snakes and green lizzardsl
What in thunder dye want with striped
stockin'sf'
II wants 'em for Mary, an the clirk sez
they're the tashin' now tetotallyl"
Wants 'em fur Mary, do ye7 Like
blazesl kno' ye, ole womanl Ye'd tell
Mary she shouldn't ware 'em on Sunday,
and ye'd be up two hours fore day and
have 'em on yer own shanks every Sunday
the Lord sent ez long as they lasted, and
never take 'em off till the moon was four
hours highl"
John, ef git up thar in that waggin,
ye'll hesh, warrant yel" she said, and she
looked stormy.
.'Oh, yes, but yell have yer striped socks
on fust, won't YET fer'd look purity,
woodn't ye, with them post hammers OF
yourn all striped up like zebry's in cir
kusl'
John. eff that pTeceman warn't over yam
der ia git up thar an take the peelin' OF
D that bile beef nose quicker"
..Of kearse ye would an do il just tc
show all these Atlanty folks what sort Of .
cotton seed m4rshers them is that ye want
fer ng up in stripes tell they'd look lik.
barber shop poles made inter wooden legs
yer W1uldlr
''Oh, ye jist wait
'si'me bound TO wsit; kase Pme aDgshul
TO see yer hounce round hyar with them
striped socks on, aholdin' yer old black
gown up two feet high TO step over whal
some man hez spit, jist to show of yer dol.
lar pair striped legginsl l mind ms Of
that dollar Dolly Vardin that yer bought
two or three years ago, and l hain't seen
nary show since-I'me 'obustin' ter see yer
kavortin' round sgin like young Kat 81 q
bumble-bee' mas meetingi Heres yer
dollar 60 git yer stiPesr
She didn't take the money, but gathered
M her bundIes and slung them under the
seat. climbed in after them, and - the Wag-
on went out Mitchell street she was work
ing her mouth in an agony Of rages and
feeling etlound IN the straw 20 find where be
h.d hsdden the whip. For flrther pafticu-
lars see small biIIs-funeral notieesl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-18

The Leader tells that Miss Nettie Power
Houston. who has been spending several
days with friends a. tue city Hotel. Auatins
will read the annual poesic4l address Dc
fore the Press Association af Texas and, -
the representative Of the soashNest, Pc
triofie ode Al The PhiladelPhla Sentenniai
In 1875,
J.K. Street has severed his conneetion
w;th that ssaunch, vide aeake daily, the
Wseo Re.ortsr. by selling the salDc 20
NeTsrs. k,bt. and Wm. Ross The paper i
81 - edited by a. r. AcCollum, Ezq., wto
wn~ - fortnar associate editor. IAe pollt'
ieaI status and Fiews of The paper win re-
main $ hereiofore- i viii continue % be
an inds pendent psnpess,ic journal
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NO. Is

month. His wealth is second only to that
OF Mackey. Col Fair is the only man of
book education in the firm. He has long
been mining superintendent and is some
what noted for tricks that are vain. When
ne was poor, few years ago, he was known
by some as Lying Jim Fair, and by others
as ShPpery Jim, but everybody calls him
Col. Far now. He is worth ten millions.
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Rich men are not always the countrys
enemies. Mr. Floeck puts up ten thousand
dollars for the Houston Marrow Gauge,
and Mr.. House goes iu several thousand
better, and thus it happens that men of
wealth now and then become the greatest
beuefactors Of the country.
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A tanned coon found It's way ,ast Sunday
night into the Baptist Church pulpit at
Paris and stroked the preacher while he ad-
vocatcd the doctrines of his church. That
coon knew his business and knew his man
coons. too. are web footed.
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Ps. Dealers and Physicians ordering frcm
others than Fleming Bros. will do well 10 write
tlScir orders distinctly, and take none ba Or.
@. 1rLias's Liver Piis, preporod By Flen,iHg
Bros.s Pifsbsygh, Pa, the Rarkef befnJ fell u
bias fB'iatioas. To those wishing TO give them
trial, will forward per mail, post paid, 20 any
part OF tho United States one box OF Pills for
Twelve three-ccnt postage stamps, or one vial Of
Nefmifugs for fourteen IN ree-cent Stamps. All
ordnrs from Canada must 10 accompanied by
twcnty cents extra