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silver and Gold.

Silver has not fallen in value except in its
relation to gold a silver dollar to-day will
buy more silk or cotton or wool or -four than
IN 1879. 1t is gold that has risen, and not
only in relation to silver, but in relation TO
all kinds of merchandise And this was
precisely what the bondholders and gold
operators foresaw when they consummated
the coinage act of 1878 forbidding the coin
age of silver dollars. This law, as it stands.
adds some twenty per cent. to the debt by
diminishing to that extent the value of mer-
chandise and the paying power OF the peo-
pie and increasing the value OF gold. 1t
extorts so much from the working and busi-
ness classes of the country. 1t virtually in
creases the amount of every public and pri-
debt contract IN this country before Febru-
AIRY 10, 1873, some twenty per cent. This
simple fact exhibits the euormity of the out
rage perpetrated by that act, which was
smugged through the House without read
ing, and through the Senate by simple
reading at two different times. For this act
IS at the bottom of the business depression,
the financial uncertainty, the paralysis of
labor, the protracted embarrassment oeSs~
country, and until it is repealed <<-s'sfi.y
and resumption are imposs;sis. inc ueot
of the United States wee SonsraS'sI S a;I uuug,
a double stan9ff; - n s'v rha dnu s.is1'i uS y.
WA unad~-Tgd1 Ah COlu. Il ut act vi II GU
r,.~sy, 1878, which forbid the coinage Of
American silver dollars, makes 1t in.pos-
sIble to pay one cent Of the national debt
in silver. 1t has cut off one. half the coin
resources of the nation, and thereby raised
the value Of the other half from fifteen per
cent. to twenty y-five. Aud now, while Ger
Sweden are IN s.-rrald il can pur-
premium, and while the gold product OF the
world has fallen off from 1882, 800, 900 in
1852 to $97, 500, 600 in 1875, 1t is practical
ly impossible for Am, rica to resume on
gold basis. AS Mr. Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, said in a recent speech in the House,
it is ''insane TO talk or even think OF paying
the vast Indebtedness of this country, pub
lie and private, in gold, or upon currency
fioated upon q gold basis. 1t is simply
physical and financial impossibilIty. II that
is the fixed purpose of this national leRisla-
ture the destruction of the hundreds of
thousands of the debtor class will be CON-
plete. The circumlocution of resorting to
specie resumption might as well be avoided,
for the result could be more directly but
not more effectively reached by simple
statute transferring the lands and tene-
ments, goods and chattels of the debtor
class to the bondholder, the broker, the
banker, and the money-changer. / repeat
that if you would stay the hand OF financial
destruction and avert the cries of sorrow
and woe that would otherwise fall upon our
ears you must remonetize silver"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

IT is said that Boss Tweed is living in
Columbus, Mississippi. He has had his
hair cured with hot tongs and his face
dyed with walnut hulls, and, as candi-
date for the Legislature, will be certainly
elected. His newly-chosen race associates
have a majority of 300 in the county. The
only trouble about this story, now current
in the newspapers, is the fact that no Irish
man can become even a remote imitation Of
an Ethiopian. The whitest people in the
world are the girls of Killarney, and In
stincts of race dig deeper gulf between
Irishmen and Africans than between any
two races. Therefore the riots in New
Orleans and Memphis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

SENATOR FORD did not say exactly what
was reported of him. He said that editori-
ais had appeared in various portions of the
State indicating that members of the FIf-
teenth Legislature had sold out to Col.
Scott; that he did not know upon what
authority these allegations had been made,
nor would he attempt to controvert them,
but he would say for himself, and a part
of the minority in the Senate, that he knew
of no facts to justify the charge that any
protest of the minority in the Senate, in
which they distinctly disavowed any lnten-
tion to impugn the motives of the majority.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

THE luck of Texas In being outside OF the
maelstrom of politics and in little quiet
pool away down South is appreciated by
those who scan closely the pages of North
ern partisan journals. The foulest stories
are told of every candidate for every office.
Tilden catches it and in Radical eyes is a
common swindler, and here we have that
gray haired old man, who was an old Con-
gresham in cur boyhood and had served in
Congress twenty or thirty years before the
war-even this old man Phelps, who would
be Governor of Missouri, is accused of the
most heinOus of offenses against woman's
purity-and of acts that would disgrace an
alderman in Ujiji.
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WAGNERs triumph in the Festal Tempt,

WAGNER's triumph in the Festal Temple
at Bayreuth was complete. The artists of
the world were there to listen, and he is
crowned the Beethoven of the century.
Through twenty years he toiled to bring
his opera to absolute perfection, and his
aims are accomplished. Wagner stands to-
day before the world the first living master
of dramatic and musical art, and is pro-
nounced genius of incompatible learning :;
and taste and music and poetry bow before
the majesty of his splendid worth Every
pretty girl and accomplished woman in
Austin, famed for the musical skill of its
men and women, within the month, will be
heard IT citing portions of the marvellous
composition of Wagner, entitled 'The
Ring of the Nibelungen." Incidents of
the performance, as telegraphed to New
York papers, fill several columns.
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The New York Herald is grieyously mis-
taken if it thinks that the roaring Barnw ell
Rhett have any following in the South.
He represents nobody except the crazed
class of swellheaded people who deem
themselves the only true nobility of earth.
He is, we believe, almost the last of his
race. the ''chivalry" are all dead, except
the rhetorical Rhett, and it is foul shame
that even the New York Herald, with its
knowledge of Southern men, facts, society,
and of thorough changes that these have
undergone, should imagine that Mr.. Rhett
represents anybody except himself and his
family. He has no power even in South
Carolina. His paper is impotent and un-
noticed and uncnpied, and he is only a
ranter aud raphsodist to be laughed at. He
lives IN by gone age, and so far as the
country's good is involved, should have
lived before the Noachian instead of the Sc
cession deluge.
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but silver, until the bondholdeIs' adroit
dodge was consummated by an untainking
Congress three years ago, was alegal tender
for all sums. When banks were in failing
condition. they used, prior to 1860, as
everybody remembers, to pay bills and
checks in silver. 1t was 50 slow process
that creditors would grow weary of the
run, and the bank escape. But now raw
enous -cormorants who plucked the people
when war ragged, and bought bonds at forty
and hfty cents that were payable 70 ''coin,"
demand the face value and interest of these
bonds in gold. No sane man thinks of as
senting to such exactions The demand
for the silver dollar, and its restoration as
the standard unit of value, is made by every
just representative of the people, and if
Grants minions and Hayes's followers Oh
ject to the restoration of the silver standard
and unit of value, they only coin votes for
Tilden and Hendricks.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

THE Pope is very, very old. He has
lived and relgLed longer than any of his
predecessors. He is very feeble, and his
prime minister aged and bed-ridden. His
cardinals are i'll at ease. They are now in
Rome preparing for the death of his Holi-
ness. Russia hates Rome. Victor Eman-
uel is bitterly inlmical to Rome's temporal
power. Germany despises the Holy Church
and the priesthood. France is religionless,
or at least indifferent, and Spain faithful,
but impotent. Who can fill the place oI
the good and wise Pope Plus, and maintain
the unity and perpetuate the worldwide
power of the "Holy Church"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

THE Sherman Re1ister says that sd. c.
GiddIngs is g strong man, having served
one term in Congress as the successor Of the
carpet-bagger, w. T. Clark, and he will
have weight and influences at Washington
Giddings is 8 man of large brain and com
manding presence. and has q great deal Of
that excellent thing known ss common
sense. He is an old Texan, originally from
Pennsylvania, and has accumulated large
fortune His character is irreProachable.
and he is thoroughly devoted TO Texas" I"
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Dangers incident kesp'Dg Dogs
about n HOUSE.

The american RecieV says that there are
many dangers arising from the presence OF
dogs, in their aggregate result much greater
than that Of hydrophobia. There sre
numerous parasitical worms, fungi and
mites with which all dogs are infested, and
which, either by direct communication with
men, or through other animals, are contin-
ually causing most depiorsble consequen-
cka. and as there is much less general infor-
nation on this subject than respecting
rabies. even the Herald concciyes the Au-
ttorities worth quoting.
The dog is frequently attacked BY the
mange-mite, which in form resembles the
cheese-mite. This parasite produces the
mango in dogs and similar skin diseases in
men. Another pestiferous mite, technically
called the aoarus follicul0rssn, often appears
in dogs, oceasioning an obstinate skin dis
e.se With pustaIes. A fesid smell general
IN accompanies this disease, which Is ex-
csssively disagreeable to delicate nostrils.
The number Of these mites TO be found
upon dogs are simply incalcuiAble and thes
are frequently transmitted 20 men and chii
! dren, occasionIng most obstinate skin dis
ease. The seald mushroom is common q
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approve Grsnts ordesff t5p tsp pSRPRaf eop!d not
mans assent to Grants purposes, and there
fore failed to get the nomination as the
Republican candidate for the Governors
place in New York. Il will be remembered
that Mr.. Evarts confesses the existence OF
the Federal Constitution, which defines
clearly and restricts Enthusiastically the pow
ers of the President as this IF cts the in
vasion of the States. Grant and Sherman,
to serve Hayes or to serve Grant, would, 1t
seems, begst blo0dshed and revolution.
Not only would these men assure violence
by using soldiers in the South, but the
Senate may reject, summarily, the votes of
States. and Morton has paved the way fol
the exclusion of the vote of Mississippi.
The House is invested with the same right,
and may be thus forced to reject the vote
of Radical State, and then the war be
gins, and Grant and Sherman have showT
by these orders and letters that they ar
ready to do any violence to retain power
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31

TEXAS is IN y very peaceful condition.
In fact, as the Governor sees it, it is abso-
lutely delectable In Lockhart last week
two men were killed; two banks at the
same time were robbed in two towns
of the State, and Major Monroe was beaten
to death near Bremond by a negro, and
SambO took hand at his specially in
crime and two white women were violated
and then put to death, and now comes the
details of barbarities practiced at Harwood
betweed Luling and Columbus. A dare
devil and desperate from Indiana, named
Parker, armed eap-a-pie and mounted, Just
to satisfy the country of the delectable
state of society, began firing into a crowd.
He killed one man and wounded two NOR
tally, sending bullet through the legs of
fourth. Parker was captured and will
probably be hanged by the mob Saturday
at Dallas three negroes attacked the sheriff
woundlng him mortally while taking
fourth negro to Jail, and furious mob seek
ing to kill the black was resisted to the
death by Moon, the high sheriff. And yet
the Governor seems to think that the press
exaggerates the facvs, and even while we
are telling of these terrible events ever re-
curing IN that wonderful town of Dallas,
there is horse of such wondrous fleetness
that none have been found to capture him,
bearing about over sunlit plains northeast
of US reeking corpse of some unknown
victim of murderous violence. This steed
and its ghostly rider, even here in Texas.
tell aH infinitely more horrible story than
that of Mazeppa. OF Texas Byron might
nave written:
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that in their cline
Whe'e the of the vuture and love of the turtle
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime
Tis the cline of the West; tits the land of the sun
Can he smile such deeds his children have done,
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The Dallas Herald, referring to r. b.
Rhett's statement that he had nothing 70
regret as duelist, (he killed Cooley at
New orIeans) says that ''the same grounds
which sustain defensive wars on the part oil
Christian nations may Justify the duel, but
We very much question the force or TINS
assertion, and seriously doubt If 1t be at
all tenAble. No sophistry, however well
put, can justify the brutal and bloody
custom Of coOIIy taking the life Of = human
being"
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NIaIarious Fevers.

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Hon. George w. Jnlian, Of Illinois, has
placed himself In Democratic ranks, and
proposes 20 fight for Tilden and HeadEteks
A short while since and Alf. Julian Haz
Republican leader.
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NO. 3

Special COr'espondenee-slaso County
Its Ntt'a tions and Resources-New
Mineral Discoveries, and taw and
a., der H stored.
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Consultation.


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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

Bob Ingersoll recently delivered pow
erful speech in Cooper Institute, New
York, which was just as full of Republican
meat as ever a speech could be. He has
the finest use of language we ever heard.
Here are some expressions to be found in
his speech: "When the Republican par
ty was born, the bay of the bloodhound
was the music of the nation" "The
dome of the Capitol at Washington cast
it's shadow upon slave pens, in which
crouched and shuddered mothers from
whose breasts babes had been torn by
wretches who are now shouting for Tilden
and REFORM 'sThe Republican
party saidto tie South, you try and break
up this Union, and We'll break your necks,
and they did it." Speaking of the eff
effort of the Democracy to have the PEG
pie forget the past and not call up its rot
ten. corrupt and reasonable record, bu
to take its promises of reform for the flu
ture he says: "Allow me to say that char
acter-true character, rests upon record
and not upon a prospectus" Speaking o
the war debt he says: Gas a matter o
fact we ought to make the Democrats pay
that bill of costs for they lost the case.
The speech will appear in full in the HER
AID next week.
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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
Cost of Tuition and Contingent

BY an arrangement with the Principal of
the Commercial Department., penmanship
will be taught to students of the other
departments of the college at one half the
above rates. Music, Painting, and draw
ing, at the usual rates.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

Man is queer animal, especially
about politics. 1t is strange to see
men of means, men who have made
fortunes by strict attention to bust,
ness, (be their calling what it may),
being led around by the nose on ma,
tional financial matters, by men who
never had personal financial opin-
ION that was worth ducat and who
couldn't borrow an X from one OF
their dupes under any consideration.
A man who is personal financial fail
ure is a poor man to run the finances
of State or nation. We do not
mean by this that poor man is not
suitable to legislate on finances, but
who has been q failure when he should
have been a success. Invoice the
greenback leaders, and see how they
pan out.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21
GARFIELD'S SPEECH.

Elsewhere will be found the mag
nifcent speech delivered by Hon.
JAS. A. GARFIELD, of Ohio, in the
House of Representatives, in reply to
a speech made by the rebel Lamar, OF
Mississippi. 1t is a splendid docu-
ment, and should be read by every
man, woman and child in the land.
Give it your careful perusal and 1t
will pay you well. The points he
makes are not the subterfuges of a
demagogue, but the solid argumenta-
tive ones of a statesman, and the fair
mind cannot but be impressed there
by. "Can the Democratic party be
safely entrusted with the administers
ton Of the Government" is fairly
and fully answered, and the verdict
of those who read it must be an en-
phatic ono"
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

We suggest that some of the
greenback stumpers answer the
query: "When are you coming down
to Ottumwa 10 see us girls again."
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21
IOWA AND INDIANA.

Many times upon the field Of bat
tie, the gallant soldiers ofthe Hawk
eye State side by side with equally
gallant Hoosiers have stemmed the
onward march of the rebel host, and
together they have upheld the flag
Of their common country. Years
have passed since then, but no boy
who wore the blue will ever forget
those days, and to-day the same fight
is being renewed and re-enacted with
different weapons. Indiana is the
battle ground, and side by side, Iowa's
gallant sons-such as Senator ALI
son, Judge Wright, Gov. Kirkwood,
Gov. Stone, Judge Loughridge, ]. +.
Wilson, John A. Kasson, Gen. Tuttle
and others are fighting with such
HOLSTERS as Morton, Harrison and
others, against the same old enemy,
and will sweep onward 10 a grand
overwhelming victory as of yore.
The nation is in just as great peril as
then.
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County Ticket.

For Representative, John Dodds.
Clerk, d. r. Moore.
Recorder, VIM. r. Cowan.
Member of Board, Samuel Gilmore.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

Hon. NJ. E. Cults is making a roy
al good canvass this fall-not gener-
al, but wherever he shows his face the
Democracy quail. He has rousing
meetings wherever he speaks. At
Ottumwa some indiscreet Democrat
made an ass of himself by asking
questions,-among others, "have you
heard from Arkansas" Before he
got through he thought Cuts had
heard from that State, and no doubt
cursed his own idiocy for asking the
question.
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beautiful days, and made thugs all
right. The officers are all good and
business men. To J. Bradley, the
chief Marshalssfrom Cedar Falls, we
are under obligations for many IA
vors. He has filled the position of
marshal and assistant for thirteen
years, and makes a good one.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Miss Belle Davis,

Formerly of Washington, is now prepared 10
rive lessons either vocal or instrumental, on
5iano or organ. Special attention given to
technics and phrasing. Further particulars
can be had from reliable parties. Residence at
Mrs s. A Riccs old home. 81
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COST OF BOARD.

During the past session good meals have
Deen furnished on the club system at from
$3.50 to $1.75 per week. UNFINISHED
rooms can be had from 50 to 81 per
month. Good board, with everything
furnished, can be had in private families
at from So to 81 per week.
For catalogues or further particulars,
address, NJ. P. OVENS, Sec. oc Faculty.
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