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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

THE Fort Worth Democrat congrstulates
its readers that the construction of the Red
River and Rio Grande road has bsen begun.
This has happened frequently. and it is al
ways happening when Noel is around Deni
son. Has the Democrat inspected the work
and have genuine contractors undertaken
the taskf A charter is to be saved, per.
haps, or ''big scare" administered to the
Texas Central. Roads above Denison are
at the mercy of the Central, and seek es
cape through Fort Worth and Austin; but
we greatly fear, when the Central sees that
Levi Joy and Others have seriously de
termined to build the proposed rival line,
that it will make terms with JOY, reduce its
rates and prevent the consummation SC
ardently sought by Forth Worth and a:
well by Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

THE Woodruff was suing tor a divorce
from her last affinity, when proceedings
were begun against Beecher, and she is
Bloodless now. Moulton has involved his
firm in revenue frauds, and the concern had
to pay $50, 900 fines and forfeitures, and
Moulton himself was compelled to with
draw from the partnership. Now Tilton
has been blunderlng about in an extraordi.
nary manner in sleeping coach, producing
great confusion among innocent passengers
aud the Plymouth pastor finds each of his
foremost assailsnts unhorsed and incapable
of waging contest before the high court
of public opinion. and it is hoped, what
ever the worlds final Judgment, that we
have heard the last of the CHASTITY scandal.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

The STATESMAN was Condemned for it's
patches from Colorado. We hardly believed
it possible that r, publicanism could carry
that State. COgnIzant of the character and
origin of populations of the remote dis
tricts and counties, and knowing that the
returns from these had not reached Denver,
we knew well enough that the reporters
from that capital were employed by Re-
publican party leaders to misrepresent the
facts that Ohio and Indiana might be driv-
en- into the embraces of X Rldicalism. The
purpose failed, but no doubt the lies pub
lished, emanatIng from Denver, had their
purposed influence. But Colorado is
almost Democratic, even as Ohio will
be in November, If not to-day. The
bloody shirt will be worn threadbare; it
will not hold water by November, and
troops sent into South Carolina and Missis-
sippi will fraternize naturally with the peo-
pie, as they have ever done, and the ex-
citation of local disturbances by Radical
knaves, sent for the purpose, will be al
most impossible. The people have seen
and learned enough, and no occasion will
be given for the assertion that we slaugh-
ter negroes for amusement and vote for
Tilden in order to reproduce the still-born
Confederacy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

IF there be treason to Giddings in this
city it was hatched among the ardent
friends of Judge Har cock. These are they,
at least two of them, who have said they
would support Jones. The STATESMAN
neither belongs to nor sympathizes with
this little tea-party, and the devotion of
these excellent gentlemen to Hancock
should not be excessive enough to beget
hostility to Giddings. In fact, if there be
not perfect unity, Davis and not Jones will
be the Congressman from this district, and
very certainly if Jones or Davis defeat Gid
dings, Hancock is forever undone. Gid
dings can only be defeated by Hancock's
friends, and Giddings's adherents would
never forgive or forget, and should not.
Let US have unity and concord
and sure triumph in November
1t may be proper to add that before Mr..
Giddings was nominated, we happened to
have the strongest assurances that he con-
CURED with the STATESMAN on this railway
question, and from his own lips, when he
spoke in the market house, we had the
statement that he was never addicted to
voting for railway or other subsidies, and
that he was not apt to change in his mature
years. And yet Mr.. Giddings said he saw
the necessity for a Southern trans-conti-
mental road, and of line to compete with
Jay Gouid's. HuutingtOn's. as we'll as the
Texas and Pacific. sccomplishes this result
There is no danger of Mr.. Giddings's
treason to right, as we now believe, on this
question, anu every Democra in the dis
trict should serve him ardently and vo!e for
him with infinite satisfaction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
A rREME ron A s.nmoN toby

There is subordinstion everywhere. None
are so uplifted by wealth or social or civil
position that they are not subjected to
others, and each member of society, FROM
the lowliest to the most arrogant, derives
support and happiness from contributions
10 the service of others. To render this
service fron love to our race was designed
to be the primary incentive to all human
action, AMI il this law operated universally,
As in many delightful homes, contentment
and peace would reign everywhere. But
men love their wages, and not their work,
and therefore the conditions of society
which all lamen', which all good meu
would reform, and for the Existence
of which all are alike cuipable. It is
in remedying these evils that the
preacher should intervene. Capitalists
and laborers alike should be imbued with
the idea, even from the pulpit, that the in
terests Of all classes are identical. The em-
ployer should serve those who serve HIM
and mutual good will subsist. When these
relations supervene the employer always
gains better service; it is given in better
spirit; and the laborer no longer tolls sim
ply to secure wages, but gains by giving
pleasure. To comprehend these plain facts
and act upon them seems impossible among
largs class recently relieved of conditions
of involuntary servitude. They have not
accepted new facts incident 70 changed
personal nights. They have not learned
that there is any connection between rs-
iigion, which Absorbs half their thoughts
and days and nights, and hard work.
Two-,hirds of the adult laboring popula-
lion Of the county rejoice in their rela-
tons to some church, and yet violate, in
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
BEYOND the Ohio it is a cnmnaign O

BEYOND the Ohio it is a campaign OF
calumny. Blaine inaugurated, Morton
vitalized, Ben Butler colored and Colfax
honors it. If beaten, Tilden will owe de-
feat to the fact that the consolidated South
supports him. We are victimized by lies,
and because we will not vote with those
who stigmstize us as murderers of blacks
and plotters of secession, the ignorant
by a matador, with the bloody shirt Fl suntea
in its face, is compacted voting force,
voting, not against Tilden, but against the
South. Has it come to this, that the South's
adhesion must be fatal to u candidate, and
must we support in order to defea: Hayes?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
Texas Politics.


"Of six congressional conventions five
failed, :" an exchange says "to indorse Coke,
on omission, as the Age remarked, which
amounts to positive condemnation, and the
sixth voted down such resolution with
storm of Kisses. And yet the Enterprise
yearns for proof of Coke's Incl pacity and
unpopularity Has the Enterprise forgotten
the political history of Texas so quickly9
Does it not remember the action of the
former congressional conventions, from
whom Coke, by tremendous log-rolling,
evoked heartless endorsements, and thus,
by demagogical strategy, stemmed for a
moment the torrent of popular feeling
which now overwhelms him9 Does not the
Enterprise know that the same game was
tried again, and that it ignominiously
failed The Herah has done with Mr..
Coke, for there is no good reason in press
ing him further to the wall, since the State
will soon be relieved of HIM as her execu-
tive. He can do us no more harm than he
has done in the few brief months that he
has to govern. He Will soon pass off the
stage of action and leave the State to re-
cover rs best she may from the financial
prostratiOn and misrule superinduced by
his administration.
The Dallas Herald is violent in its antag-
onism to his EXcelleDcy. We have to COM
plain of him that he accomplished the pres
ent triumph OF Tom Scott, and that having
alleged that the chief virtue of the new
Constitution of Texas was the facility with
which 1t might be amended, he did moth
iRq 10 effect reforms in it's mischief work
ing provisions. The Herald asks: docs
ruined credit, al i-empty treasury, inefficient
laws approved by thG>- Executive, and
reign of lawlessness unparalleled IN tie nis-
tory of the State, furnish evidence that
Coke has done more for Texas than any
other man IN the StateP To enumerate
what Coke has done for the State in the last
three years would fatigue the imagination.
The Herald does not strike a man when he
is down, and therefore has of late SIMPLY
left the Executive alone in his glory, hop
ing that his term Of Office would soon end,
and the gubernatoral chair be delivered
to his able SUCCESSOR"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

ONE 7. c. BArden is the Texas yArn-spin-
ner aud bloody shirt and scalp-lifter for
the New York Times. Bsrden writes that
two negroes were skinned alive not long
ago in Texas; but whether roasted or eaten
raw he does not choose to tell. He does
not state whether the flesh Is injured, as 8
savory steak, By contact with the wool,
and Barden doesn't seem to know whether
these lamb fines have any peculiar odor.
In fact, if Barden do not 60 more into de-
tail somebody, even in the Tisaes ,.fice,
may suspect that he deviates somewhat
from the truth; but II, in questioning his
assertions, We do him wrong Ne crave Bar
esn's pardon.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19


THE Dallas compress company gives short
weights, it is alleged, and there is much dis
satisfaction at Granbury. By the way, this
compression u cotton, as We have ever in
sisted, is a great evil. A bale solidified by
hydraulic pressure through six months will
not expand when the hoops are cut. The
fiber is dead, and having lost much of its
elasticity is readily broken by machinery
when converted into thread. Its lusle
100, has vanished. Therefore the necessity
for cotton ILLS In the South. II bales be
not compressed the cost OF transportation
is enormous; if compressed, the value of
the staple is lessened, and therefore Senator
Alcorn is providing for the conversion oil
his cotton gathered on his estates into
thread for shipment to Eastern and Euro
pean mills. The cloth made of such thread
will nut-wear as two TO one that made from
compressed cotton, and for the reason that
The oil that gives glossinrss to the fiber
goes into II n cloth aud no fiber is broken
't'!s OF Southern mills outlast products
ni Ltwrence or Lowell, and because South
ern mills buy from the fields unginned and
uncompressed cotton. In view of these
facts We have thought it passing strange
that the imitless water-power of the Colo
rado remains unused. Here we have cotton,
infinite water-power, faultless building
stone, endless summer and perfect health
fulness, while bread and beef are cheaper
than elsewhere in the world. Why may
not these simple, palpable facts be made
known to Eastern mill-owners, and why do
not proPerty-holders and trades-people, in
teresIed in these matters, send the STATES
NAN to Impoverished Eastern manufactured
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

IT will be observed that the rural districts
smash Democracy in Ohio, even as the
bloody shirt is impotent for mischief in
cities. The towns have recovered from the
big scare organized and exploded by B aine
and Morton; but the country gets at the
truth and discovers q stupendous fraud
more slowly. Ia month Democratic news
papers and speakers may achieve the same
results in the rural districts that they have
effected in Cincinnati aud Oth"r cities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

and is fast gathering in white masses on
Round and round and round the Cossacks
wheel, approaching nearer every moment-
vet not a hand is stirred in that human
citadel; not musket is fired, although
every shot might tell. At length the leader
of the Cossacks shouts, forward to the
charge" and with rush they ding them
selves upon the-dead. AT the first shot
the foremost rank of Frenchmen falls.
row of stiffened curpses on the plain. They
had been frozen to death, there where they
stood; and there, perhaps, they would have
stood until the next summers heat had
given relaXtion to their rigid muscles but
for the wild attack of the fierce desert war-
riors
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

For the .th time it is again stated
that contractors have begun to oconstruct the
Red River and Rio Grande road. 1t will
finally, if begun as stated, connect with
the International and Central and Morgan's
have choice of three routes to the sea, and
access, by means of the Inter lational, to
Mexico, and of the coming narrow gauge
to Lampasas and Belton in one direction
and to Houston in the other. This Lam
pasas road will not down: Its 1.-the, thin,
ghostly shape presents itself on all occa
siona
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

The fat woman IN one of the side shows
near the Exposition grounds, at Philadel-
phia, thus describes her adventures in the
late fire which came so near destroying soma
Of the Exposition buildings:
my weight is only 500, and, as the front
stairs were on fire, had TO go down the
back way. Now, the front stairs were built
especially for me, Of wood six inches thick.
while the back stairs were only fit for COM
mon light people like yourself. The first
step took crash went the wood, and
came near going myself. The hog was
squealing awfully, and both the sea cows
we're roaring like mad bulls, but wasn't
frightened bit. } got long, smooth
board that was in the room, and placed IL
on the airwsy. / tucked up my dress and
slid down gracefully. / smashed every
thing at the bottom, and got my foot
wedged. Just as got free noble fireman
rushed into the building. Rescue me, res
cue me" | cried. He came toward me,
and threw myself into his arms. He fell
with shriek. Ny weight had broken both
his legs"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

THE Courier Journal says that Capt. r.
n. Fitzhugh, of Mount Sterling, will go to
Texas in October to work up the Austin and
Pacific Short line. The captain is an old
army engineer and one of the best railroad
men in the State. Coming from Virginia
to Kentucky at the close of the war, he al
once identified himself with the railroad
interest of the State and almost single
handed pushed through the Mount Sterling
ooal road, as well as the now nearly CON-
pleted Harrodsburg extension of South
western road p"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

THE Dallas Herald says that Texas
"should have press association that may
contract on some living terms for telegrs-
phic news. AS it Is, all papers are at the
mercy of an appalling monopoly. The
Herald is now taking the dispatches ria
New Orleans, but they do not begin to com.
pare with the Western dispatches in any
sense of the word" If the Herald will
define plan by which we may secure dis
patches from St. Louis, and if cooperation
among the daily papers of Texas will assure
the preparation of proper news for Texas,
such as the people would have and our
newspapers care to print, there is no OBJ
stacle to the organization of local associa-
tion and the STATESMAN will go with that
newspaper that goes turthest and does most
TO accomplish the end proposed to be at.
tanned
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

GEN. ORD does things wisely aud well,
and he and President Lerdo doubtless un-
derstand one another. The revolutionists
at Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass,
last Saturday, conscripted John Castro, an
American citiz.n, who appealed to the
commercial agent for protection. The
revolutionists refusing to release him, Gen.
Ord ordered the commander at Fort Dun
can to cross the Rio Grsnde, if necessary.
and take Castro by force, but Castro was
finally released and peace blesses the from
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

BRowNwooD will send a delegation to
Austin to learn what are the chances for the
narrow gauge. If they can't connect 10y a
branch road) with Austin, they propose to
get out into the exterior world through
Waco. Why not have big meeting OF
citizens and have this matter settled; and
WHY won't some OF our multitudinous ora
tors speak on this question:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

THERE will be a grand narrow gauge
railway meeting during the fair in Austin
People will be here from Burnet Lampasss
Williamson, Bell, Bosque, Hami ton, Brown
and Comanche counties, and representa-
tives should come from the Houston Narrow
Gauge and from along the Morgan road.
Let there be grand rally on the third day
of the fair, November 16, and the ball will
at once go to moving, and the Lampasa'
Narrow Gauge will become q reality.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

A San Francisco papsr furnishes an inter-
esting account of Edwin Booths first ex-
perience of acting. IL was when he was
twelve years of age. He then organized
small Company Of boys. and established q
miniature theatre in a Baltimore residence.
The admission fee was two cents. One of
the members Of the coupany, who after
wards became as famous H. Booth, was John
Sleeper, who, when he adopted the stage
as q profession, added the name Of Clarke,
and became famous as j. s. Clarke.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

CoLQUETT's majority in Georgia is the
greatest ever given q candidate In that
State. 1t isnot less that 75. 900, and it was
the regulations that control elections in
Georgia and invest men with the Prieil<2.
Of suffrage that We sought to engraft upon
the organic code Of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

GOVERNOR CoKE is going TO give Cover
nor Hubbard two elephants, special pets Of
his; one, the penitentiary, a sweet-scented
bantling, which he proposes to seize and
deliver to Richard No. 2; and the tax ques-
ton and sale of bonds to pay current and
floating Indebtedness. Governor Hubbard
win begin business with queer msnageris.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

The Erie Railway furnishes section mast
ers with thanks TO I'LL out 10 case Of acci-
dent, So that the utmost accuracy may be
had in following up the case. A COW was
recently killed and the section master in
filling up the blank came 20 the words,
What disposition" After chewing his
pencil a while he wrote, mild and gentle. =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

Telluric ores have been discovered a. q
depth Of 200 feet. ns@-' Charlotte, North
Carolina. Teiiarum belongs 20 the sulphur
and selenium gn'up of metalioIds. and iis
presence is considered by experts to be an
undoubted evidence OF large deposit OF
rich ore
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

An opinion Is quoted Of Emerson to the
eject that many great truths ''haye passed
out Of SwedenbOrgianism into general cir
culation, and are now met with every day,
qualifying the views and ereeds Of al
churches and Of men Of no church.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

TEXAS flour takes the highest premium
1t the ST. Louis fair, and Texas wheat from
this day forth mus. command the hights.
prices in the worlds markets.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
PEOPLE SHOULD THINK ABOUT 1T.

Only 90S7 life policies were issued in
Illinois during 1878, against 10, 7O7 in 1874,
which indicates very marked falling off.
The average number issued annually for
seven years was Is 094. In 1875 the COM
panies received for premiums from Illinois
policy holders %. 557, 799, and paid out for
losses during the same time $l, $50, OS2.
For seven years the premiums paid by the
people of the State have averaged q 249, :
lSl, and the average amount returned to
them was 81, sSS, AIS, or 29.Os per cent.
These official statistics prove the truth Of
the assertion often made by the STATESMAN
that life insurance costs ut least three dol
lars for one. For years the people of Texas
have paid more than that. 1t has cost them
800 to secure $2o 0S, and they are rapidly
learning that they are paying too dearly for
their whistle. The business may serve in
dividuals now and then, like a game of old
sledge, very good purpose; but the sys-
tenn as awhole costs the country, like light
ming rods, four times its value, or four-fold
more goes out of Texas than comes back
to the State on account of life assurance.
The Legislature should intervene and stop
the drain. For five years it cost the South
from thirty TO fifty millions per annum and
built up corporations of monstrous wealth
in the East. Their rapid growth in riches
measured accurately our retrogresslen and
decay. To bet on faro is prohibited, and
yet the law blosses this species of robbery
and gambling when ones life is the stake.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

PARTIEs are wrecked utterly and going
to pieces in Tennesse. Il il the tar ques-
ton and old party prejudices Of 1850 that
ars doing it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19

A gTasshopper Sas recently caught 81
Omaha with paper on its neck dated It
Custer City thlrty-fise days before. The
distance Il had hopped was 500 miles, or
over fourteen miles . day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-01
stealing a House.

One of tie strangest stories that ever
beguiled winters night was that of the
disappearance of stone house in London
while its owners were journeying in the
Holy Land. This could scarcely happen
in these days of telegraph and steam.
Neighbors who saw the great gate taken
away, the furniture removed, and every
brick and stone carried off in daylight,
never imagined the workmen were rob
bers, and SO did not interfere. But that
strange things happen in New York as
we'll as London, was demonstrated be-
yond a doubt this spring. On the part
of Fifth avenue which faces Central
Park, an expensive brown stone front
house in nearly unoccupied block, was
rented by a snowy man calling himself
Capt. -. 1t was furnished thoroughly
and elegantly by some down town up
holsterers, pictures, bronzes, etc., were
added, great hampers of wines and pro
visions were brought, an ice man, q
butcher, baker, and grocer were engaged
and the whole establishment ready fol
its occupants. An old gentleman, 6
neighbor, with nothing else to do, amused
himself by looking at the contents of thu
house, and one day penetrated th'
kitchen, where he found plumbers taking
out the range, who said the Captain
didn't like it, and ordered diferen
patent" The family failed to come for
fortnight, the ice man, the butcher
baker, and grocer came for orders, bu
found no customers. Finally the neigh
borly old gentleman told policeman h
thought there was. something wroni
about that house, and so there was-for
on opening it, it was found entirel.
empty. Not only the furniture was gone
but the mantles, CRATES, range, furnace
everything portable, was missing. An
where is the gallant Capt. -? Con
to keep stylish boarding house at tn
Centennial.