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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-23


7 THERE is little hope of the overthrow Of
the desperately savage government of South
Carolina by the white-people. The negro
majority is far greater than in Mississippi,
and South CArolina has hardly suffered as
terribly, except in perhaps half a dozen dis
tricts, as Mississippi. The people there
are not yet driven to absolute desperation.
In Mississippi money was poured out like
water, and the whites were determined
TO carry, the election at any cost Some
planters in Mississippi gave one-haIf of the
proceeds Of their cotton crop to the cleo
ton fund. There was no holding back.
Can we expect such oPen-handedI giving
bribery, if .you please-in South Carolina
The 8slcs and Courier asks.
'sIFiIl the South Caroiinians undertake
to carry the elections by force, knowing
beforehand that the whole election ma
chineIy will be in the hands of the Radi-
Gals, who have thirty thousand negro ma.
j0rity 81 their backf Il is well that We
lock before We leap; that sse reason to-
gether; that We bear in mind what has ae-
tuAlly been gained; that We count the cost
of defeat IS well as the fruits of victory.
We believe still that the running Of a
strzight-o1t Democratic ticket IN South Car
-elina would sstthe State back tan years, and
we know that such . ticket, and such .
fight, = Just Whist the Radical thieFes -
eRg ne on tc, IL they can.
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y PEEDwELL MATHEMATICAL AND
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Upper flores Street. San Antonio Texas
VIII open on the 1rt of February 1875, for the recep
uOn u young Renil, men,
The course Of Instruction win be thorough--theor
etical and puotical-and embrace all branches oi
mathematics, pure and mxed with lectures upon gen
eral sfelce. aed upon such subjecrs may tend tc
pIepato Tho student for entering upon the profession
of fsarteying aud engneeting, ciSi mechanical Topu
graphical, hydraulic or military.
udents Win be required VIII n the weather may
permit To onter tbs neld with compass transit level
etc, fof practca execise IN surveying and engineer
Ing.
They need bring with them for reference such math
ematca books as theyney have In Possession.
Tuition lee In a.lfanee, ,per Nmenrh, $40 coin. A
small additional expenditure foSsstaiionery, drawing
instruments, ETC., will be Indispensable.
lnuted number of Sud Stts can be accommodates
at the euiieey With bpArd and lodging ual Inoderatt
JAS. ? HECTOR,
Cyn Engineer; Professor o. Applied Mathematics apG
-aToioofts s.1i3st u. e. HALKER,
Pure and AnalytIeaa MafhtmAtics 'fIS
fet,ryn ~ nrogih stsScSer: Tsasns,.r.
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DUBLlo NOTICE.

OODLlO ROllOE.
hereby notify all persons not to buy trade f7r Tho
Following notes, which were stolen from the unoer
signed: .
One note dated Goliad June :. 1875; twelve mon be
after date $500 cOn twelve per cent. from date In
favor and payable to N. Krei le Credit the back
OF this note Of go.
One note, twentyfour months after date, dated Go
Had, june -, 1875; $500. bearing per cent,
and payable 10 Krelse Both the above notes are
signed by d. NJ silva, and being vendors lein
on property sold to her last June.
One note, dat Austin. November IS, 1875; $i75
coin; day after date, with Twelve per cent inter
est from date, payable 10 NJ kresle and signed by
her ~ .-.f.--
Antonio Cruz M
One note, dated Austin, October 96 1875; one Tay
after datoi 45l295. With Two per cent interest per
month, payable to N. Krelsle, by VIM. Kuge and
wife. 80 rs1isT q q. aaEk = ~ il.. -.t y
One note. dated austin, October es 1875; one day
after date; 300 with TWO per cent interest. payable
10 NJ. Kreisle, sigied bJ Morley Bros. nos wSt
NJ. KRBIsLe
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AHunehbael.,. !. ..evenae.

10 August last great alarm was created In
tie village of Incisa, near Florence, by the
mysterious disappearance of two children
"a boy, nine years old, ON the morning of
the twenty y-tirst, and another boy of eight. III
the following evening. 1t was supposed that
they might have fallen into the stream,
where they went to fish and bathe, but no
traces OF them or their clothes could bell
found. All kinds OF exaggerated ideas Rob,i1
hfioat in the village, more particularly az y,
these were not the first children who had I,
suddenly disappeared, and 1t was asserted
that there were. children killers in the adsyo
joining wood. One the twenty-nintb, lwhilo u
one OF the women of the village was RrranQ,c,f
ing her hair at the back window OF her
room, she heard fsightfUl shrieks, and rec
Ognized them as coming iron AmefiRoh
Turchi, a boy nine years old, and that they,so
proceeded from the workshop Of one, Cerlo eq
drandi, cart carpenter. She ran down
into the street and alarmed the neighbour,
who made for the shop, which they found
closed, the boy crying aloud for, help from 3
within. After vain attempts to get Grandi ,,t
to admit them, they burst open the door
and found him struggling TO force the boy
into hole. dc had cut the child feaffuIly
about the head, and from his mouth bioed -
was flowing, caused, MS the boy Afterwards 81
narrated, by wedge Grandi had tiled 10 !.
force into his mouth to gag bim. After the
man was secured, it was observed that some
of the bricks of.the floor were loose, and on 81
these things being removed, the fast thing q
seen was q child's hand. The place was,
quickly dug up, and the mutilated bodies
of the TWO boys who had disappeared tan g
days before wers discovered anu on the hole o'
into which Grandi was trying to furcesia
Amerigo Turchi being examined, a mum. -.
Der Of other children's bones were found at
the. bottom. No sooner was the thing
known than the village became q scene of n
the widest excitement, and the authorities
had to send off in hot haste for Whatever
military and police there were ia the yjciui-
ty, and a sufficient force arrived JUSTIN time
70 save the wretch from being torn to pieces
by the populace.
1t seems that the murderer, Grandi. was
deformed man Of diminutlve stature, high
rounded shoulders very large head, upoz
which ehere was not q scrap of hair, and fe.i
pulsiye features. As is too often the ease -
IN Italy, such unfortunate creatures become
the object OF open public ridicuie. The
boys OF lncisa had been in the iIabit OF teas
ing Grandi, and playing all kinds Of praeti-i J
cal Jokes on him, and IL was In revenge forf,a
this that he bad, as opportunity offered,
'enticed now one and then another OF the
ring leaders into his shop underthe pretext
OF having some fun with the other boys;
that 70 accomplish this he Was 10 hide in y
the hole Grandi uncos cred, but that imme- :
diately after he entered il Grsndi attempted
10 strangie him.-L10me C0yTespossdeDeeof of The
London IimSs. ta ~ nieg -
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a9 Rev. r. Z. Holland, who must know how
It is himself, said IN bis lecture a. st. louis
that ~ the literature of France has an effes
vescent sparkle Of spngbtiineap, and tlis
literature Of England mild, after dinner.
port wine rubicuBdity Of self-satisfaction.
80 the literature Of Scotland has the glow.
the wassaii, and the FAmpageodsness cf her
national drink. / can see the steam Of IL
enchanted decotions take shape while risina
from the bowl. II Is bonnie sweet sonsie,
iass- Her eyes are blue. Her cheeks wear
the imprinted kisses Of mAay mountain
breeze. The sunbeafns love 70 fan on her
head and crnkle down 70 her neck and lin 3
ger about her buxom shoulders N long
earess Of curis. She is fond Of children and
gathers them At her feet 70 hear the s,TAles
OF GrAndfnther." She Il the Ane8I of %.
triotism and lights at her lips tbs fiery crosB
that hes over the land 70 sgmInOn, ite class
70 deeds like Bannockburn. She teaches
young lovers how 20 make love with 8 fer
Eor that fuses two hearts into one, aud old
lovers the Edelity that scans gray halss ana
wrinkled bgows like John Andersen and his1
'mate. But 70 = SeoIchman's eye faireat "a
she and most welcome when her approach
Is beheld. through aglass cf hisnstive Wins
Ky, for ell the lads they srsiis At her when
comm thro' the re.
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TIM Marshall Hsrald viii hardly suPport
the new Constitution. Il il opposed 10 it
IS being in hostility 20 DemOcrstsc prinei-
pies. 81 ss7 ~ .s 'a''5.4.' ,'.ss.s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-23

About the time that Clinton suppressed
the Livingstons, burr was tried for tnesson,
Qe07-S). He hsd been for seventeen years
> successful lawyer befors hissiecsion 20 she
Vice Presidency After 1919 70 the day Of
his death in 1896 be attended the superior
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
Dogs for the Arctic Expedition.

In addition to the sledges drawn by the
men, the expedition will be furnished with
five or six sledges to be drawn by dogs, of
which sixty are to be taken on board the
ships at the Danish settlement of Upper
navik, on the coast of Greenland, to be used
when sledging operations commence. Sir
Leopold McClintock states, as the resultof
his experience, that two dogs can drag as
much as one man. Several tons of the
choicest dog biscuit have been provided
for their use, although some doubts are en-
tertained whether they will be duly appre-
ciated, experience having proved that the
Greenland dogs prefer devouring each
other to any food which can be offered
them. Nothing" says Admiral Osborn,
"can be more exhilarating than dog
sledging in the Arctic regions on fine
day. The rattling pace Of the dogs, their
intelligence in choosing the road through
the broken ice the strict obedience paid
by the team to one powerful dog whom
they elect as leader; the arbitrary exercise
of authority by the master dog; the con-
slant use of the whip, and the running
conversation kept up by the driver with
the different dogs, who well know their
names, afford constant enjoyment" How
ever useful they may be, these Arctic
dogs seem to be deficient in that affection
ate disposition which endears their species
so much to man. Capt. Vesey Hamilton
stated, at recent meeting of the Royal
Geographical Society, that he believed the
Esquimaux dogs to be the most migrate
full creatures in creation. He had travelled
for several hundred miles by sledge, and
for six weeks it was his duty regularly to
feed the dogs; but after only weeks ab-
sence, on the conclusion of the journey,
they would not recognize him in the
slightest degree. Sir Leopold McClin-
tock, who is said to have originated this
| mode of Arctic travelling, states that it
would be mistake to attempt to house the
dogs, as they can live near the ships dur
| ing a whole winter, and if treated differ
emily would sicken and die,--BlacksoooGs
Magazine,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
A Short Chat With the Boys.

Boys, don't you know it's the most nat
ural thing in the world to be wondering
what sort of a man you are going to be,
after awhiies Don't you often find your
self wondering if you will be as rlch as
Thompson, or as famous for great deeds
as men you read of? You feel very sure
at any rate that you are not going to Ge as
mean as many you know; that you won't
stagger along the street like Tom Jones
with a red nose and bloated face, owning
nothing but the worn-out and dirty cloth
ing he wears. Oh, no, you are sure you
won't be as low down as that Yet all the
criminals looking out OF those gloomy
cells and the drunkards and gamblers you
see have been bright merry boys once
with great plans for their future. am
not going to make a sermon here about 1t,
but in friendly way | do want to ask
YOU to remember when the boys who are
older than you propose that, just Tor the
fun of it, you take a friendly drink, that
whisky is the key that has opened the Jalls,
poor-houses and the penitentarics to more
tlldn InGtt-lOullllS vi all tliS u iiiliiiS'i'
within those walls. Remember, boys, 1t
blights homes, bringing trouble and sor-
row and poverty. Don't forget the first
drink leads to the second, third and on
down to common drunkenness with the
certainty that day follows night. If men
who ask you to drink are prominent and
influential men, don't try to get out OF 1t
by making excuses, but be manly boy,
look them square in the face and say dis
tinctlv: "Sir, | do not drink" Don't be
afraid the man will think less of you. In
his heart he will commend you and your
manly refusal will give you a higher
place in his regard Have the courage,
boys, to look men square in the face when
you refuse to take the first step toward
drunkenness-hd Farmer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
Something Like.

CLOSE upon the shore of Lake Winnie
piseogee is town; and in that town
dwells man whom we will call Amber
Mr.. Amber keeps Il store; and, as he IS u
genial, accommodating man, he keeps for
sale everything which the good people Of
the country can reasonably expect him to
keep. Particularly has it been the prac-
tice of Mr.. Amber TO keep a barrel Of
whisky on tap in his cellar. One in the
fall and one in the spring will generally
carry him through. He is very careful to
whom he sells, and, so far as is known,
the authorities have never given him any
trouble.
One day Mr. Eliphalct Spooncr entered
the store with a slight protubcranccv visible
upon his left breast. Mr.. Spooner was
deacon and a most proper man. He called
the merchant aside and asked him if he
had any good whisky. Amber nodded in
the affirm native.
"Will you let me have pint"' and
the deacon pulled from his breast pocket
pint bottle.
Certainly" said the trader; and forth
with he departed for the cellar. When he
returned he brought the full bottle, care
fully wiped and corked.
What is to pay"
Fifty cents'
Mr. Spooner handed him over fifty
cent scrip, and then, in a hesitating way,
drew the cork. He placed the bottle to
his lips, and tasted, just a drop, to test the
quality of the liquor. He did this twice,
and the expression ON his face was one of
hesitation and doubt.
"Mr. Amber" he said, I'm getting
this for my wife. Is this the very best you
have?"
ooh! you want it for incidence"
Yes, certainly"
If that is the case" the sentence was
| finished with smile and reaching forth
for the bottle.
! Down into the cellar went the store
keeper again. There was no need that he
should empty the bottle and refill it, for
he had but one solitary barrel from which
| to draw; so he took turn around and
soon came back, wiping the bottle atresh.
a shall have to charge you eighty seven
cents for this, Mr.. Spooner."
Having paid the extra charge with the
utmost cheerfulness, Mr.. Spooner placed
the bottle again to his lips and tasted crit
ically.
"Aha!" he uttered, with bright smile
and grateful nod, this is something
| liken
And he went away entirely satisfied
And Mr.. Amber, also, Notwithstanding the
fraud he had perpetrated, appeared to be
satisfied, if one might judge by the quiet
smile that Illuminated his rubicund WIS.,
| age-Cleyeldnd Herald
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
The Flood i'm France.

THE full extent of the terrible disaster
which has overwhelmed several of the
southern departments of France is only
now beginning to be fully realized. The
whole wide basin of the Garonne is sub
merged, and the smiling valley turned into
vast sheet of water. Towns and villages
have been swept away, while the destruc-
ton of human life has been something ap-
palling So suddenly and unexpectedly
did this deluge burst upon the doomed
districts that hundreds met their death at
their own firesides by the sudden inroad
of the destroying torrents. Some 10000
people have been made homeless by these
floods, which in their extent and the
amount of damage done are without cx-
ample in the history of France. Whole
villages have been swept away, or lie
buried beneath the water, the farm-houses
have disappeared, and the crops been
swept from the face of the country. Where
a few weeks ago all was smiling promise
of plenty is now sad waste of wide-ex-
tending waters. Nor do the floods prom
ise soon to subside. On the contrary the
waters appear to be rising, and snow and
rain fall in the desolated districts as if to
complete the scenes of horror that have
been there enacted Not even the terrible
devastations caused by the floods in 1885
can be compared in the suffering aud loss
they occasioncd with the plague of waters
that SO Unexpectedly has fallen upon
Frar &C in this present year. The materi'
al losses are immense. With praise
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22

worthy promptness the French Assembly
voted 100000 francs for the immediate re-
lief of the sufferers, and the appeal made
to the charity of the French peo-
pie was answered with characters
tic generosity. Still these outside aids can
but soften the force of the crushing disas-
ter that has fallen on the people of the In
undated districts. They are completely
ruined, and when the waters have sub
sided must proceed to build up their for
tunes as best they can. One quarter of
the town of Toulouse was almost COM
pletely destroyed. Over 600 houses of the
Faubourg st. Cyprien were swept away,
as were the manufactures established on
the rivers bank. Five of the bridges
were carried off and the railway lines COM
pletely intercepted. The most narrowing
scenes were presented in the quarter in
habited by the workingmen. More than
800 corpses had been discovered in the in
undated quarters and hundreds were
wounded by the crumbling buildings. In
many cases the soldiers met their death
while endcavoring to succor the people.
But, great as the loss Of life is known to
have been, those supposed to be buried
beneath the ruins of the fallen houses will,
it is feared, vastly outnumber the corpses
already discovered Until the water sub
sides 1t will be impossible fully to esti-
mate the loss of life that has occurred.
There is good reason to believe that it has
been terrible. Three villages are known
to have been destroyed, with their inhab-
itants They were swept absolutely away,
and nothing remains to mark that they
had ever existed. Under these distressing
condition the authorities, civil and mill
tary, display most praiseworthy energy
and devotion, but the suffering isto wide.
spread to admit Of more than partial relief
-C0y, n, Y. Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
The Company Plan.

HERE'S something, my dears, that the
editor of st. Nicholas said long ago TO a
crowd of Youngsters. AS | never heard of
it doing them any special harm, it occurs
to me that it will not hurt my little folks
to hear it:
Did you ever notice what an amiable,
pleasant feeling steals over you when you
are visiting and on your good behavior" ?"
how willing you are to overlook any
thing that interferes with your comfort?-
how anxious to please, and how ready to
take an interest in all that is going on?
At these times your face lights up, your
voice grows sweet and cheerful, your
very movements become graceful. "What
pleasant persons these friends arer' you
say to yourself; and they very naturally
consider you quite winning and delight
full. So far, so good. 1t is just as it
should be.
OF course, when you 60 home you take
all your pleasant ways with you. If these
friends, who have known you but little
while, and who care for you merely as
friends, have power to brighten and
sweeten you, certainly when you return to
your own relatives, who love you so much
more, you'll be brighter and sweeter than
ever.
Is it so? Perhaps it is. But if by any
chance it should not be-if, for instance,
you chose to let yourself be sour or IN
different at home, thinking any tone oi
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VOLUME TX.

GEO. N. JACKSON, the cashier of Col
lector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of
the Louisville (Ky.) District, recently
poisoned himself Since his death he has
been discovered to be in default in his
cash to the extent of about $4,000.
No TIDINGs from Messrs. Donaldson
and Grimwood, the aeronauts, had been
received in Chicago up to the morning of
the 18th. A vessel Captain reported hav.
ing seen something floating in the water
which had the appearance of being life
preserver and basket, and another Cap
| tain thinks he saw the body of man in
the lake off Grand Haven. The report
that Donaldson's balloon was rotten and
poor affair is Indignantly denied by the
persons to whom it belonged.
A LONDON dispatch of the 10Th says the
American rifle team had decided not to
shoot as a team at Wimbledon
THE Commissioners to herzegovina,
sent by the Porte to tranquilize affairs,
have reported that the whole country be-
tween Mostar and the Austrian frontier, as
far as Ragusa, is in state of revolt, and
that the insurgents had threatened to kill
all who refused to unite with them
VIM. II. butcher, at North Adams,
Mass, recently completed walk of 500
miles in five days, twenty-three hours and
twenty-five minutes.
Mr.. THURLOw WEED recently stated
that three times during the first year of the
late civil war in this country Queen Vic
toria personally interested herself to pre-
vent war by England and France against
the United States.
On his late return from the Indian Terri
tory Prof. Marsh, Of Yale College, wrote
to the President that the supplies
furnished to the various Indian tribes
were inferior and improperly distributed.
He also charged Secretary Delano and
Indian Commissioner Smith with being
cognizant of these frauds, and that Indian
Agent Saville, of the Red Cloud Agency
was wholly untitled for his position and
guilty of the grossest frauds upon the
Indians in his charge. This letter was
accompanied with samples of the
goods furnished The President called
the attention of the department to
the letter. and the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs straightway came
out with positive denial of the
charge of fraud and corruption, so far as
his own department was concerned, and
said the commission appointed to inquire
into the condition of affairs at the Red
Cloud Agency had completely exonerated
the Agent. A New Haven dispatch of
the 18th says that Notwithstanding the
above denial and explanation Prof Marsh
had reiterated his former statements and
charges. A special commission ap-
pointed to investigate these charges
met in New York on the evening Of
the 10Th, consisting of Messrs. Faulk-
ner, NJ. c., of West Virginia. Harris, M.
c., of Massachusetts, and Fletcher, NJ. c.,
of Missouri. The meeting, which was
strictly private, was organized by electing
Gov. Fletcher Chairman. Prof. Marsh
and Indian Commissioner Smith appeared
before the body. Mr.. Marsh presented
his charges in pamphlet form, which had
already been printed. The investigation
will take place at the Red Cloud Agency.