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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-07-29
GOING NORTH.

Leave Bayard II, I,6U m bU' p m, ArrlVe at New
Philadelphia 1,55 p m and 72O p m. Leave New
Philadelphia $50 m and 1855 m. Arrive at
Bayard 1890 m and $40 m.
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1.-THE following lines by DR., oliver Wendell
Holmes appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for FEB
ruary, 1851. They were written, II is said, for a
festive gathering of his old classmates The
Boys" of Harvard College,
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erences i; salary moderate. Address q, Tribune
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18
AUSTIN AND PUBLIC AND PRI-
VATE BATHS,


Texans begin to appreciate the value of
cold water. Lecturers on temperance nat
uralIy lapse into disquisitions involving the
virtues of baths, and in hot days of sultry
summer time the advantages and comfort of
frequent ablutions are more and more keen
ly appreciated. The discussion of plans of
irrigation in the Legislature, as conceived
by Major Johns and others, begat, it is be-
lieved, prejudice in that body against
whisky, and cold water in vast quantities,
in the eyes of Texan lawgivers, doubtless
has greater value to-day than ever before.
Every civilized person who now builds a
residence provides for baths, not as lux
ury, but as a necessity. Health, comfort
and decencY concur in pUpularizing old
Roman habits of personal cleanliness, in
dispensable to decency in these low lati-
tudes. Recently this subject has been
widely discussed, and one DR.. Lyon Play
fair, a great European scholar, made a
speech on the subject in Edinburgh, and
asserted that bathing was religious duty.
This being true, we earnestly hope that
preachers of Austin will not fail to imbue
the minds of their hearers with proper con-
ceptIons of the value of that virtue, per
feet personal cleanliness, which the Bible
often commends. DR.. Flayfair declares, as
we cannot admit, that the practice of bath
ing came into existence with the Reforma-
ton. 1t is proVerbially SAID that cleanli-
ness is next to godliness, and we suspect
that this rather fippant proverb is the only
basis of DR.. Playfair's assertion. Beng q
Protestant, he of course regards the Refor-
nation as a revival of godliness, and hence
announces that revival of cleanliness must
have accompanied it. But it is we'll known
that the ancient Greeks and Romans were
addicted, to an incorporate extent, to bath
ing, and, indeed, consumed large part of
their time at the public baths. 1t is posi-
BILE that after the capture of Constantinople
bathing became one of the lost arts in Eu-
the term ''dark agcs'-but
the evidence that such was the case is want
ing. DR.. Playfair's remark would hardly
need comment were it not that it gave
offense to jealous Catholics, who understood
him to mean that cleanliness is an exclu-
sively Protestant virtue. 1t is not quite
certain that he did not have some such idea,
since there is widespread conviction in
the British mind that to Englishmen alone
have been revealed the pleasures and bene-
fits of the bath tub.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18
THE POOR TAXPAYERS OF THE
EMPIRES.

Aside from the cost of armies and in
terest account, the revenues required by
Grants and the Cars empires are nearly
the same. But the income of Russia, last
year, was in excess of expenditures by
over $1J, 000, 900, and the total amount ex-
pended was 1915, O3O, 255, while the cor
responding expenditures of our government
for the fiscal year of 1874 footed up to
$2S5, 738, 800, less than the total of Russia
about $50, 900, 900. But in order to make
fairer comparison, after deducting the in
terest on the public debt, which is less than
we have to pay, and the cost of the army,
which is more than ours, the remaining ex-
penditures are $l31, ,312, 7O1 in Russia and
$136, 305, ,05S in the United States; or, after
deducting the interest and army expenses
from the budgets of both countries, the
United States spends annually So, 600, 900
more in administering the government than
does the great empire of Russia with its
so, 900, 600 of people, its expensive imperial
household, its distant outposts, and the
"nOiS pdEdpueIudila Vi pIOIeCIlYe equip
ment and national splendor which character
ize the reign of the Car. Peter the
Great had happy faculty of dispos-
ing of dishonest stewards, and govern
ment officials since his time have stood
somewhat in awe of the discipline which he
bequeathed. The point that Russian
minister of finance first aims at is in the
reduction of expenses or the production of
greater efficiency with the same outlay, and
he would not find it healthy to experiment
upon the amount Of burden that could be
imposed without breaking the backs of his
Majcsty's subjects. On the contrary, only
a few days ago, when Congress discovered
a deficit of some $40, OOO, 900, instead of
lessening government expenditures, new
taxes were levied and no restriction was
dared to be placed upon the extravaganza Of
countless placemen. It costs more to col
lect than expend taxes, and while the peo-
pie only hear of about $500, 600, 900 annu-
ally accounted for, it costs one dollar to get
another into the Treasury.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18
AUSTIN WIVES AND DAUGHTERS,
AND RvILS OF SERVANT-GALISm.

The STATESMAN published, day or two
ago, an admirably well written letter from
a most sensible and tasteful housewife, COM
intending Chinese servants to the good peo-
pie Of Austin. She asserts, most truth
fully, that negroes cannot be relied on, and
that we are rapidly lapsing into state of
utter helplessness. II We cannot secure
Chinese house servants, the only recourse
must be found in the energy and force and
intelligence Of our wives and Daughters.
There is no other means of becoming inde-
pendent of the servant-gal guild A
woman Of taste and culture says:
. Mothers and daughters must make
It 4 respectable thing to perform their por-
tion Of daily duties, securing skill and
knowledge meanwhile that will render
tyrants Of the kitchen. Daughters must
learn to be helpful, comforts in home,
and demonstrate, as have seen done, that
a girl may be cultivated and refined, tender
and thoughtful, dote on Horace and Bee
thoYen, and yet infuse the most inspiring
tea, the most nectareal coffee, prepare the
luiCicrts uust 1Nfoi3 "a 1teaArs mAAc utc1d
Of snowy Whitcness and anti-dyspeptic
lightness, and this scOurge Of the kitchen
win dwindle into comparative unimpor-
tancc.
But il IS not agreeable to perform house
hold duties, VIC suppose, but the sense OF
Independents which q woman possesses
when she can manage her house from draw
ing-roOm to kitchen must be some compen
salion for the pain Of acquiring domes-
tic aeeomplshments. and Just in prcPor-
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tion as she is made independent OF her
cook, or housemaid, will she find these
tyrannical and high-minded persons in
clined to come to their senses, and do their
duty in that ''state of life unto which it has
pleased God to call them.n. And may we
not modestly add, that if the good women
of Austin and other Texan towns and cities
would evince the proud, independent spirit
involved in the adoption of habits and
policesbere defined, husbands and brothers
and sohg would derive infinite advantage
from the worthy example illustrated for them
within their own homes. He who could
see his wife or daughter or mother toll tire
lessly, and yet dawdle listlessly through
each weary daT on the shady side of the
village green or of the eity's thoroughfare
would become an object of lOathing to
himself and of adherence to intelligent,
honest people. He who would not drive
dray or cleanse an Augean stable, If there
were money in it, rather than become
lousy loafer, deserves a toiling mothers
curse and an honest wife's contempt.
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sTuPEND0Us RORRERY.

1t is the richest practical joke and
grandest achievement of bold knavery of
our time by which Jay Gould, Fisk's "pal "
in magnificent villainy, has used the inno-
cent Congress and pressOt the country to
destroy the value of Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company stock. His ends are
achieved, the country was humbugged,
the stock destroyed in market value, and
Gould, having bought it, controls the line
from San Francisco to Canton, and now,
controlling the railroad from Omaha to San
Francisco, proposes to girdle the globe.
His power is such that Vanderbilt, of the
New York Central, or Tom Scott, of the
Pennsylvania Central or Canadian railway
lines, must be subordinated to his purposes.
He can make his own terms. Isn't it pity
that the International is not finished to San
Bias? Then Gould would find all his pretty
schemes thwarted even by the genius of
Governor Coke and Mr.. Grow. A rival
route and shorter route, never interrupted
by snow storms, would offer such facilities
for the worlds commerce between the Orient
and New York, and that Gould's knavery
would be more effectively punished than if
he had his deserts and felon's cell beside
Tweed, the modest robber who only levied
exactions, through the intervention of the
base rabble, upon a.single q city, while
Gould robs an empire.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18
EXPURGATION OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.

The following note, from an intelligent
North CarOlinian, puts different phase on
the queer incident in the North Carolina
Legislature. Thorne, 1t seems, is a wretched
adventurer, the dirtiest sort Of Pharisee,
detested even by the negroes. The Demo
crats wished to get rid Of the knavc, and,
appealing to negro sectarian preiudices, had
the work done as recited by our correspond
ent, who says:
The recent expulsion Of a member of
the North Carolina Legislature, on account
Of his belief in those doctrines peculiar 20
that class Of Christians called Quakers, has
been commented upon By the press Of the
country, IN q manner derogatory TO the in
telilgence Of thai body, and Is attributed
% their religious, rather than political fanat
icism.
y. W: Theme, the expelled member, Was
expelled, IN fact, because be Wasan ''Odiois
Radical and not because he Was q Quaker.
and any other solution Of the matter, 70 an
Intelligent North Carolinian, would beab-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18

Now that the great railway is to be built,
the people of Austin will naturally address
themselves to the rapid improvement of the
city in all its incidents of beauty and at.
tractiveness. There is no such site in
America as tins for schools and colleges,
and there is no country so rich in re.
sources for their maintenance. .On these
lofty heights about Austin where States
intellect and genius are often gath
cred, there should be the choicest in
stitutiOns of learning and taste and
art. Therefore the profound interest
evinced by cultured people of the city in
the fortunes of the Library Association and
therefore the assurances given the accom-
plished instructor of females, Col. w. w.
Fontaine, that he could secure the means
here of erecting a magnificent structure, as
ornamental as useful to Austin, to be devo-
ted to the training OF the daughters of the
city and State. Nothing would do more to
make the State capital attractive, to
add value to property, to make our
homes delightful by gathering here
the beauty and taste and intelligence of
Texas, and nothing would be more pro-
motive of this result than the achievement
of purposes contemplated by Col. Fon-
taine. he holds'the strongest possible tes-
timonials of personal worth, of fitness for
talks he would assume, and we can only
commend him to the good people of the
canital
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18

IT Will be observed that under the opera
ton of the civil rights law, as judicially in
tcrpreted down at Columbus, a negro has
no night to get shaved. The civil rights
bill, as shaped by Congress, does not apply
to barber shops, and as whacked between
the eyes by Judge Ireland, has no applica-
bility to Texas hotels. The surest way now
known for a colored gentleman to have the
thickness of his skull and thinness of shins
tested is to poke his woolly crown into a
barber shop. One tried it, as stated, in the
nice little town of Columbus. He was
thrust out and kicked and beaten by his
fellow -countrymen from Africa, and then
fined twelve dollars and costs by pious
magistrate of the peaceful Allage. Social
rights, as sought to be attained by law, are
impossible of acquisition. Each applica-
ton of compulsory force to induce the
blending of races only repels them the more
violently from one another. Prejudices are
constantly aroused, that might sleep pro-
foundly if let alone And if the object be
to lead the way to miscegaention by leading
blacks and whites into the same abodes,
God enters His protest when the products
of unnatural alliances never survive beyond
three generations.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-18

HOWEVER stagnant society and govern
ment and industry may be elsewhere, it is
probable that a greater number of miles of
railway will be built next year in Texas
than in all American States. The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway, ESQ miles long,
stops nowhere and has no Southern coanec-
tions. BY means of Governor Coke's ad-
ministrative ability, difficulties have been
obviated, conflicting interests reconciled,
and this great highway comes down iron
Chicago and Kansas City to Austin and
Laredo en- route to the Pacific; the Red
River and Rio Grande road makes its way
to Eagle Pass; the Mexican Congress IN
vites these peaceful agencies Of thorough
revolution from abroad; and two mighty
empires, that within the memory Of living
men were warning against one another in q
terrible and deadly struggle, viii soon stand
side by side, both free, both rich and pros
porous, and each shaping for itself, in con-
formity with instincts Of diverse races, the
highest possible degree Of civilization.
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surd. To have expelled hIm for this reason,
and 10 have allowed the real facts of the
case TO 60 before the country, would have
created capital for the Republican party, es-
pecially IN the North, and the political sa-
gacity Of that body, if it may be dignified
Dy that term, substituted the other mode,
and accomplished their purposes through
the instrumentality Of fanatical colored Re
pubhcans, and by this it was stripped Of It's
political significance.
Next to Pennsylvania, the Quaker influ-
ence In North Carolina is greater than any
State OF the Union, and the expulsion of
Thorne is attributable to nothing but the
social and political odium his past conduct
had attached to him.
'Ihorne represented very populous, and
before the war a very wealthy, county. He
was one of the most conspicuous, If not the
most conspicuous, Republicans in the House,
and rpet-bagger from Pennsylvania and
a believer IN a religion as popular as any in
North Carolina
''Fhe House was over two-thirds Demo-
cratic, but the most prominent movers in
this action were notably colored Republi-
cans.
1T isa rule throughout the South that the
most prominent negro politicians are preach
ers, consequently the Democrats of that
body knew of the excellent material they
had for such purpose, and used Z 80
although a Democrat, in the usI cep-
tatlon of that term, ldesire to see the blame
for such monstrous action as the above
placed where it properly belongs"
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References.

COFFEE & HENDERSON, Attorneys-at-law; GAF-
FEY & MORROW, AttOrneys-at law; MAkEMSON
q POSEf, Attorneys-at.law. Georgetown, Texas.
NORTON MOSES, Burnet, Burnet county, Texas.
II. A. BLANDFORD, Austin Encampment, /. o.
o. F.; GEORGE b. ZIS.PELMAN Austin Encamp-
ment, !. o., OF.
/ am personally acquainted with f. NJ. Bolin and
the parties who recommend him. all citizens OF VIII
Hanson county, and believe him and them to be
Trustworthy aud honorable
LEVI PENNINGTON, Clerk D. c. Williamson Co.
am personally acquainted with F. NJ. Bolin and
knew him TO be jealous Odd Fellow and a high
toned. honorable gentleman and as such take pleas
ure in recommending him.
w. X. MAKENsoN, n. c. Georgetown Lodge,
No 179, !. .. o. +.
concur In the above
A. 5. REED, V. G. Georgetown Lodge.
Direct all letters to F. NJ BoLIN, Manager, Box %,
Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas.
Agents. Wanted. jas9 dit VAN
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nEPoRTs oF colMIrTEEs.

Senator Wood, from joint conference
committee, reported in favor Of the Senate
concu-ring in House amendment to Senate
bill No. 4j2, providing for a convention
to frame q Constitution for the State of
Texas, " said amendment proposing to strike
out the words, ''shall be a genenal elec-
ton" Report adopted.
The Governor sent in list Of bills that
had been approved by him since March 4,
1875.
Senator Moore introduced bill entitled
'tAn act to disqualify certain persons from
exercising the functions of Offices from
which they have been removed The bill
passed.
Senator Shepard moved that House bill
No. S11, Providing for tho erection Of a
monument to the memory of Sam Hous-
ton" which was in the hands Of Finance
Committee, and on which no report had
been made, be called up and considered.
Lost.
House joint resolution ''granting leave Of
absence 70 Hon. John G. Easton, judge Of
the Eighth Judicial Distinct, . was passed.
House bill 'sfor relief Of Capt. Peter
Tomlinson.n Passed.
The Senate went into a committee Of the
whole on this bill
Senator Ball in the chair.t
On motion OF Senator Dwyer, the whole
souled, generous, distinguished and talla-
tics Hon. Mcbride Pndgen was invited to
the stand, to give the Senators q speech on
the pending bill.
He pictured in glowing terms the suffer
ings, hardships and privatiOns Of those he
Foes and statesman who had Wrested Texas
from the savages, and made her once barren
wastes to bloom and blossom as the rose. y
He held the Senate speIlb bound for near
half an hour, and hound after round Of ap-
plause greeted him. Indeed the speaker
became 50 much affected at the recital Of the
deeds Of heroes that when he quit the
stand great tears rolled dOEn his cheeks
Senate bill ''to repeal IN act 70 incoTpo-
rate the city Of Corpus Christi. Passed.
Senate bill ''to provide Tor the collection
Of back taxes due by railroads, and 70 pro
vide penalties for non-paymeEt Of the
same. Passed.
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VERY certainly no incident in Federal
legislation or fact in the country's progress
i've history has occurred to give renewed
force or vitality to Radicalism. The cleo
ton in New Hampshire has turned upon
local, Temperance and other isms and II the
Democratic party have gained nothing it
has lost nothing. But We can form no cor
rect conception Of the facts for some days.
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how 10 PURIFY GOyEBNMENE IN
AUSTIN AND OTHER TOWNS AND
CITIES.
1he STATESMAN has persistently sought
70 torce upon popular attention the neces-
sisy Tor radieal reform in municipal govern
meais. Texan newspapers copy now and
then what y written, but in many instances
expressions Of opinion are otherwise evaded.
At length the press q states. in which
the civil rights hill has no practical sppli-
eability, having NON courage psrhap.. BE-
gins 70 discuss the question. Aud even n
Northern cities the philosophy and declared
policy o. the srATEs,EAs IS approved. TIE
New York Naiiga. the ablesl expossnt 81
Ameriean political philosophy, as.erls shss
the proffahle existenoe of many American
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Senator Wood introduced bill to create
the office of assistant attorney general
heaa first time and ordered to lie on the
senate adjourned to $50 4 NJ. o.mor.
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Directors.
Directors.
FRANCIS NJ. BOLIN, Manager.
JOHN w. CHRISTIAN,
ALEXANDER HARRIS.

The Concert VIII be under the Imme-
diate supervision OF mr. g. Il. SISSON,
which Will be a sufficient guarantee
that the price paid for the ticket Will
Insure the worth OF the money.
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List Of Real E.tate Awards.

DePOsItOry-C. IL. JOHNS q CO., Bank-
ers, Austin, Travis county, Texas.
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Cash Awards.

Price of Tickets Only One Dollar.
CLUB RATEs-ELEyEN TICKETS FOR TEN
DOLLARS.
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-FOUR vAEUABfE STORE HorSEe AID I|5Is
Applyfo ~ ,. SWkRNkf.
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Williamson County, Texas.

rURposE-To ERECT AN ODD FELLOWS HALL.
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now no PURHFY GOvERNMRNT IN
AUSTIN AND OTHER TOWNS and
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-23
Another.

We learn with regret that another
child, this time daughter) of Mr..
Nathan Vanmetre, died on Satur-
day, This makes the third child
which Mr. Vanmetre has lost by
death within the past few weeks.
Two sons and a daughter, and all
OF them bright and promising, called
by death from the family board
within q short month, is indeed a
sad affection.