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AND
st. Louis Railway.

TRAINS RUN-To AND FROM CHURCH
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Leave. Clsaffanooga Trains. Arrive.
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$3.50 pm. daily. Sunday ezeeptsd.l s:5os.n.
This route Is 70 miles Shorter to HEM
phis than ria Decatur.
The only route with through Sleep
ing cars to Memphis; more
than 100 miles shorter
10 St. Louis thsn
via Louisville.
Time 10 st. Louis, 19eS hours
Entrants for Kansas, Arkansas and AL psrts
Of the West will save money By purchasing
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Connections at Humboldt for Mobile. Nov
Orleans, Galveston and intermediate points,
and connects at Union City for St. Louis aud
ali points West and Northwest. The trains
connect at Chaftanooxa for Rome, Atlanta ana
all principal Southern cities.
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LOCAI. NOTICES,

Larsest stock plows. Hale& Vanhook
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We have on hand lot of old news
papers, which can be bought at one
dollar per hundred.
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GOING NORTH.

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Stages for Mammoth Cave; at Lebanon June.
Branches; at Cincinnati junction and Louis
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for the NORTH. and East.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

J. b. Arnold. Sheriff.
NJ. c. Holmes. County Court Clerk.
r. L. Raine-. Chaneery Court Clerk.
VIVA. Moore. Circuit Court Clerk.
ions. Williams. Coroner.
!. c. Long. Trustee.
c. J. Witt. Tax Collector.
Josiah Cooper. Coupty Surveyor.
A. :. Currcy. Superintendent Pablie Schools.
W. X. Cox, Register.
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A. speciality made Of supplying the country
trade, and take Ia etehange for goods all coen-
try products, allowing the highest price foe
every species Of cosntty batter.
Having bought entirely fot Cash, viii sell the
same wa5, and at the shortest profits admissible.
Soliciting . call from the public. he will be
pleased at any time 10 price goods.
mar5-3m
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CITY OFFICERS.

A. Jordsn, Mayor and Recorder.
J. L. Williamson. City Attorney,
Z. L. Mcdonald. City Marshal.
Ell Williams. J. D. Lask. Wilson Wiiiisn-
con, 8. y. Rank:a. r. ]. Robertson. }. u.
Diek.nsol Aldermen.
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<ew Orleans, 81. Louis sna Chicago
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14
school Fund.


There are sixty-fve million acres of land
appropriated to public schools in Texas.
Ten million acres are taken as a basis.
worth one dollar per acre, on twenty
years time at five per cent. We
for twenty years. SO, 900, 600; total, prin-
cipal and interest, $40. 900, 600; distributive
fund per annum, $500, 900. Under the
lease system we have ten million acres, $40,
900, 900; for each hundred acres we would
have farmer; allow him to have $500 worth
of property and two children within scho-
lastic age; interest on $40, 900, 600 for TWEEN
ty years at five per cent, $40, 600, 900; poll
tax of 800, 600 for twenty years, 81, 900,
coo; tax on $50, 900, 900 worth of property,
$3.50, 900; increase in value of land because
of progressive settlement, $50, 900, 900; to-
tai derived, $41, $50, 900; distributive fund
per annum from poll and other taxes, $3.50,
600.
Require the Legislature to pass laws com
pelling settlers to put in cultivation fifty
acres with other improvements; to submit
to classification and valuation every five
years; to pay all taxes, never to exceed five
per cent. per annum, improvements never
to exceed one-twentieth per annuIn, and
giving the right to settler to transfer his ii
lie through ell time.
Provided the above is complied with,
then you have, at the end of twenty years,
five million acres of lands worth six dollars
per acre, $50. 900, 600; you have five million
acres, SIS. 900. 900; total value twenty first
year, $40, 900. 600; cost of tuition of 200, 900
children for twenty years at one dol per
month, four months each year, $40, 600, 600 (;
interest distributed from lease and other
sources, $11, $50, 900; amount of interest
from the sale to be distributed, SO, 900, 900;
we have these ten million acres Of land,
worth $45, 900. 600; against SIC, O0O, 900
bonds, $40, 900. 600; difference IN favor of
lease. $S5. 600, 900. If You have land valu-
able for timber only, sell the timber and in
twenty years it viii be covered by a new
growth. Place your State institutions
upon a proper basis. with their Endorsements
leased out and you follow the example Of
the wisest nations and save more than 7O0,-
600 per annum, paid in tuitien and board to
other States by Texas for the education Of
our youths. The safety of he investment
Is apparent. Corrupt legislation nor revo-
luton viii deprive posterity 81 its rights
H w. WADE.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14
Speedy Justice.

As matter of public interest, we give
below the text of the proposed legal reform
presented by Mr.. Wade, of the Convention,
and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
We trust that this, or some similar measure.
which shall confer upon the people the
inestimable boon of cheap and speedy jus
tice, will be adopted. A decided majority
of the Convention, as we are informed, are
in favor OF the passage of these sections:
Sec. 1. Every civil suit that may be
commenced IN any court of record having
original jurisdiction shall he submitted and
decided, or shall Oe ordered to he arbitrated,
at the option of the parties, within one
year from and after the end of the appear
ance term of such suit and rot thereafter
or shall be dismissed at the cost of the party
faiIing TO submit or to consent to an award
of arbitration.
Sec. 2. Every such suit, when appealed
or taken up by writ of error, shall be sub
mitted and decided within one wear from
and after the same shalt have been docketed
in the court to which appeal is taken, or
shall ut he option of The parties, within
one year from and after its appearance term
in the appellate court and not thereafter. be
ordered to be arbitrated, or. on the expira-
ton of the year, shall be dismissed ut the
cost of the party falling to submit or to
consent to an award of arbitration.
Sec. 3. Judge of courts who neglect or
fail to decide such suits when submitted
within the year, or to order an arbitration
when the parties consent thereto, shall for
felt fourth of their salaries and may be
otherwise punished as may be prescribed by
law; and attorneys who neglect or fail to
submit such suits, or to consent to an order
of arbitration within the time prescribed,
shall forfeit to their clients ali fees they
may have been paid touching such suits,
and shall be forever barred from directly
or indirectly collecting any fees for work
done in or concerning such suits.
Sec. 4. In cases of arbitration as herein
prescribed the arbitrator or arbitrators shall
render an award within one year from and
after the end of the term at which the order
of arbitration was made and not thereafter.
Sec. 5. The Legislature shall enforce the
foregoing tour sections as from time to time
may be found necessary By appropriate leg
islation, and shall not have the power to
extend the time limited or to relieve any
judge or attorney for neglecting or failing
TO comply with the requirements thereof,
save by means of public law, and when
prevented from compliance by the act of
God or the public enemy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

sane Convention would impose no restric-
tons. Houston is dying before our eyes,
throttled by the ravenous, purchasable,
drifting multitude that follows in the track
of progressive railways and progressive
greatness and prosperity. The press and
people of Houston, seeing the source of
evil, have asked for that security given by a
pell-tax as a condition precedent to the ex-
ercise of the right of suffrage. A wide, rich
district of the State, and its population
most law-abiding and intelligent, having
fewer representatives of their class in the
penitentiary than any other equal number
of people in any State, and committing fewer
ATTRACTIONS OF law-these are they who
have hoped and prayed through long, weary
years for the restoration of Democratic su-
premacy and of a white mans Democratic
constitution in Texas.
Must their prayers be unanswered, their
hopes unreaIized, their aspirations crushed,
their homes made uninhabitable, their prop
erty valueless, and life and property inse-
cure, and local taxation intolerable2 These
are results Of untaxed unrestricted suffrage
in Alcorn's dominions and everywhere in
South Carolina and Louisiana, and wherever
Africa dominates in America. Africa, from
the worlds birth, even to this good hour,
has swung like body of dead sand to Asia
Europe, and here in America it is the
'body Of death" fastened by folly that is
criminal to the car of progress and of free
dom. With Africa Grangerism has made a
bond that should be broken, or Grangerism
should be stricken by contempt and with
cred by Gods providence. lHa
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

THE Examiner is mistaken. The STATES
MAN doesn't know how to get angry with a
good newspaper. The Telegraph and En-
dminer are of the chief sources of inspira-
ton OF the sTATEsMAN. 1t is delightful to
have two fresh, vigorous newspapers hard
by with which, at moments notice, we
can get up first class row and stir up all
Texas. These two papers are always fresh
and discuss living questions not of the hour
and day, but of the moment, and they are
improving daily and not afraid now to say
what they think. To this extent, except the
STATESMAN and few Others we might
name, they are the best newspapers, by all
odds, that do honor to Texan taste and In
telligence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

EVERY word of the following paragraph
from the Houston Telegraph will be approved
by every honest, Intelligent Texan patriot,
ard from this day forth we would fain hope
that the wiser and more temperate members
of the body of lawgivers viii gather strength
and augmented influence. The Telegraph
says: ra
'sThe work to be done by the Convention
from this time forth must show more skill
and more liberality than has been exhibited
in that already performed to insure its APP
proval and reception, and we can conceive
of no greater calamity to the State and to
the Democracy than a rejection of Consti-
tuition framed by convention so over
whelmingly Democratic. 1t is not pleasant
to know that there is so much dissatisfac-
tioL already expressed at the indications
which the Convention has given of the
probable character of the Constitution in
process of formation, but we hope that
when the different parts of the organic law
come to be fitted together, put in shape and
submitted to the people, it will be found,
if not perfect, so infinitely superior to the
present one that it may prove acceptable.
1t should be purged of all narrow policies
and contracted views, which are so often
rnietal5on for, ild;niar,s Soanon,y, and which
instead of advancing the State, but retards
her progress, else other States would out
strip her in the race and reach the goal of
greatness and prosperity while Texas lags
behind and brings up the rear, shackled
and weighed down by an illiberal Constitu-
tion.''
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14
GOV. CoKE AND THE CONSTR TUITION
AL CONVENTION.

The Telegraph, as does every patriotic
citizen of Texas, deplores follies which may
compel the rejection of the Constitution
now forming by the peoples supposed rep
resentatives. If the force now dominant in
that body reign to the end, Gov. Coke
should retrace his steps and begin to pro-
vide for the possible defeat of the new
scheme of government. The free schools
have been practically killed; there is not an
intelligent white man in negro governed
county who will vote for the execrable abor-
ton the suffrage code seemingly must be to
him; the whole German vote, because of the
destruction of the schools, will reject the hor-
rible sham as it affects this matter; the six
ty or seventy thousand Republicans of the
State will vote solidly against it, and to
make other people concur with them In this
they now cooperate in whole or in part
with the Holy Alliance. Either the Con-
vention must go backward and retrieve its
errors, and thus prevent the defeat of the
Constitution, or Gov. Coke must take meas
ures to prevent an interregnum.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

Convention who have talked about the bar
gain, already carried out, between the RAIDS
and the other wing of the Holy Alliance
This awful haste to spring side issue and a
false issue will lead the public to believe that
the trade was made as alleged, and that one
Mr.. johnson signed the contract and the
other ''sanctifed" it, and the nice little tea
party all went over blissfully to Africa
and, for all that we can learn or see to the
contrary, they are likely to remain there
One-third of Texas is certainly consigned by
them to the lasting terrors of endless Afri-
can domination, and Reagan and Stockdale
and Whitfield, and deceney and intelli-
gence everywhere are bathed in tears or hu-
INFLATED and chagrined.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

THE Nesos correspondent resorts to the
dodge that everybody supposed would be
adopted by the ''organ." Itwould pretend
that the STATESMAN has been making war
on the poor, innocent, helpless Changers,
and our conduct, therefore, has been very
naughty. The Oranges are omnipotent in
Texas and are surely conscious of their
power, and very certainly the STATESMAN
recognizes the potency of the association
and very certainly it would never think of
ascribing to the Oranges the blunders or
crimes of men in the Convention who hap
pen to be Changers. The STATESMAN COM
mits errors but is not idiotic The Austin
correspondent of the Neacs would have it
appear that the alleged gravamen of the
offense done in the Convention is some
wrong done by the Changers as such. The
STATESMAN has said no such thing. If a
wrong were done and by Changers, the So
ciety did not approve it and the act
had no origin in any fact or incident of
the association. There is, however, evil
dence of guilt if those charged with
wrong doing resort to this hollow avoid
ance of the issue, in order to escape from
the allegations made by members of the
Convention. When any scheme is proposed
in the Convention, it is enough, in order
to slaughter it, to cry out railroad ~ ''rail-
road!" and thirty or forty gentleman flutter
and fly to the negative, as do barnyard
fowls when the shadow of a bird of prey
sweeps over the green sward. These may
be Changers, but they don't get scared be-
cause they are Changers. So, if the Holy
Alliance were a fact, and its plans consum
mated, and each white man asserting to
these plans were q Granger, it does not fol
low, that we ever believed or ever said
that the Holy Alliance came of Grangerism.
Heaven Forbid And yet the good CORES
pendent of the Galveston Nescs would give
the facts this pitiful aspect. Resorting to
sucn false issue demonstrates the fact that
the main and real issue is to be avoided.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

Owing to wind and water, and the con-
sequent disorganizatio1 Of freights, our
regular size of paper for the Weekly has
given out, and we are compelled to issue
this edition upon paper used in publishing
the Daily. We have made an effort to
crowd as much reading matter as possible
into this space, and hope our readers will
look with lenience upon us this time. An
unavoidable necessity has driven US to this
irregularity. 1870. -a.s p ~.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

The reporter for the Galveston Ne'cs pre-
sents a very one-sided view of the Holy
Alliance. He says that Messrs. Reagan,
Wade, Nugent, Whitfield and Others de
MED the statements of the STATESMAN. On
the contrary, the STATESMAN, in reference
to the matter in issue, simply published
what was said by these gentlemen. The
Meas should ct least publish the declarations
made officially by members of the Conven-
ton, and the gentlemen above named are
certainly misunderstood by the reporter for
the Nr,es
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14
EVENING SESSION.

convention met at E:3O =. NJ.
The pending business was resumed. be-
ing the question as to levyiug poll-tax.
Mr.. Martin of Hunt was opposed to levy
ing any such tax, claiming it was contrary
to the genius of free government, and that
if one dollar could be levied five hundred
could, and so on ad infnitum.
Mr.. Nugent was in favor of the levy
that every man who voted should pay for
it. 1t is not an inherent, but conven-
tional right, and should be regulated by
law.
Mr.. Barnett said the adoption of the ma
jority report would be ''new DEPARTURE
from the old landmarks of Democracy. If
half had been said fifteen years ago that
had been said to-day against universal
suffrage, we would, before this time, have
been marched out Of this house as an lille
gal assembly. Pass this measure, and it
would be a ktepping-stone to an aristocracy
and imperialism. 1t would array a combi-
nation of classes against us, that would de-
feat the very Constitution we make. The
best soldiers he ever knew, and who gave
their lives in defence of their country, were
men who never paid a poll tax in their
lives.
Dir. Cards said the question is, have all
the citizens of Texas right to vote, or only
portion of themf Which is the class to be
deprived of this sacred right? 1t seems
from this article it is the poorer class. The
majority of his constituents were poor, but
honest. Would he consent to deprive them
of the right OF suffrsgel On the contrary,
he would propose, if it was possible to get
a majority, that any citizen Of the State too
poor TO pay his taxes be allowed to vote
twice
Mr.. Stockdale said "taxatlon without
representation is tyranny" and representa-
ton without taxation is equal to tyranny.
There were always class Of men, who had
nothing themselves, but would vote any
measure or tax on the people. Was it right
that these irresponsible, and often tran
silent men should vote what they pleased on
othesl The duty of paying u poll tax
abridged no one, but was equal 10 all.
Mr.. Kilgore OF Greg said all the oppo-
nenfs of this measure were bowling about
.'abridgement." and trying to scare them.
They were like the quack doctor, who
would throw his patients into fits and
then cure the fits. There was no abridee-
meut 10 this matter. but only perquisite.
Mr.. John Henry Brown said he was pfeg-
nant with speech, and desired to be de-
hyered- He SAID there wee three things
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

the United States in accordance with the
Federal naturalization laws, and who shall
have resided in this State one year next
preceding such election aud the last six
months in the district or county in which
he offers to vote, shall be deemed quail
fed elector. Should any qualified elector
happen to be in any other county than that
of his residence, situated in the district in
which he resides at the time of an election,
he shalt be permitted TO vote for district
officers; Proeided, that the qualified electors
shall be permitted 20 vote anywhere in the
State for State officers" Adopted by vote
of 81 to 20.
Adjourned.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

In that job as put up in the Galveston
Sssrs the issue is lodged. The whole OF
the Holy Alliance and those who spat upon
II are made to repudiate the supposed allie
CATION that the Changers of Texas are re-
sponsible for the creation of the Holy AZ
nance. Nobody ever thought or dreamed
that the Texan. Changers would have any
connection with any such business: but
this fierce denial Of what was never alleged
diverts pubic attention from the facts re-
ally involved and exates the prejudice OF
ignorance against those members Of the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

WE could endure the terrors incident tC
the publication of the horrible card signed
by about twenty Soloas of the Constitutional
Convention, If the name Of Martin, of Ma
varo, and johnson, of Collin, and of that
piOus, gOdly johnson were omitted. These
are too many for us. The weight of these
three names will be the death Of the
STATESMAN. Can't the Convention, that
murder may not be done. order these three
terrible names to be stricken from the aw-
full catalogue of signeis to this ruinous pro-
nuneiamiento. But why don't they pub
lish il.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

IT is very well to-day to sell the school
and university lands and deprive posterity
of the necessarily progressive increment OF
values. Moreover, there was never school
fund organized in Southern State and re-
duced to the shape of paper that knaves
called misfortune" for convenience and
decency's sake, have not, sooner or later,
toted it off Mr.. Wade's philosophy i
sound. He is the direst enemy of Texas
who robs posterity forever by Transforming
lands to be kept, for paper to be kept, fol
the public schools and university of Texas.
Twenty years hence whole people of q
mighty empire densely populated VIII rise
up, and with one voice curse the folly OF
these who have stripped genius and youth
and progress and intellectual renown Of the
richest resource with which patriotism and
wisdom ever endowed an empire.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-10-14

SOME days ago the Telegraph, in its usual
felicitous way, drew the distinction between
parsimony and economy, and modestly
called the attention of the Convention to
tine plain difference. 1t would render the
devotion of time by poor men Of intellec-
tual ability and learning to the public ser
vice impossible. What must the Telegraph
say when it sees how the public school sys-
TEN of the State has been slaughtered2 II
is pitiful