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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-27


White corn contains, 1t is said, two
An inveterate Dallas co5-bler never 'shelis
out unless he gets red whisky. 1t ''corns"
him most easily, and then he Is instantly
ready for mill
The Sherman court house has nine light
ming rods. The county court patronized
every lightning rod fellow. 10 get their in
ilnSBce with the women. that came along.
WSle Dallas spends all its money on chain
lightning.
The information from the wheat-grnwing
sections of Texas is decidedly favorable for
large yield OF small grain this spring. \
much larger acreage has been sown than
usual, ami the appearance of the crop Is re-
msrkably fine.
The FroHtieFsmaH contains the STATES
lAN's ea1d-(many thanksD II isn't such
4. frightful danb on the face of a neat news
paper as that IF the He1os, which We see
chucked away in outside corners of some Of
our exchanges.
that's whats the matter with Dom Pedro.
lie is bunlmin6 around for his health, and
there's big scare about it down about at
Corpus Christi which don'C want to be
corpses hominUm.
The Dallas water works are about to be
inaugurated, but the people must he slowly
educated up to the use Of this unknow n
beverage, aud the C0mmerciat cOmmends its
use with religious fervnr every Sunday to
its Disguised readers. 1t is pious, good
paper is the COMMERCIAL.
ID. Devlin & Co. have constructed little
palace of ebony and glass for the exhibition
of their ready-made clothing at the Cen
tennial 4 little ebony-kept dGvil-in glass
is a good description Of an ebo- Skinned,
| giZzard footed juvenile son of Ham who
blacks boots at the .pOstoffice corner.
| Mckinney boasts OF $500 inhabitants,
with more improvements going on than in
any other VILLAGE in the State. Energy,
| life, business, growth, prosperity in every
department OF trade and industry live
village" is Mckinney, and old Rutabaga
dwells in those parts.
MessTs. Stork Brothers have purchased
the material Of the Fredericksburg Sentinel
they will issue an English weekly to be
known as the Fr0ntier Telegraph and one
in the German language with the title OF
| Foytschriu. We would like to know what
a ) ork will do with Fort Schritt.
The DlIlas Herald says, with grandilo-
| quent air, that1''Gen. George Merrweath
er's portIy figure is to be seen gracefully
perambulating the boulevardS," It's ''fg
| ure" IA square, that the Heraid men
| tions. But he isn't any squarer than Capt
George Mellersh, the furry poet Of Dallas
A wandering cuss who couldn't see am
| - 81
a rich theme at Dripping Spring, twenty
five miles northwest of the capital. 81
found real Kentucky family, twenty-five
years out, and yet not demoralized. Inevel
felt nearer Kentucky, never slept On &
CLEANER, nicer bed, eat better biscuit, drank
better coffee or buttermilk, or had better
cheer" Why does not the migrate give
the name of the housewife who deals thus
generously with her guests. The STATES.
MAN fellow sometimes gets out of. town
say twice each year.
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Texa.-FacIs aud FancIe..

The doctors at Dallas gave Or. Yandell a
big blowout s....
Elder Kendrick has been stirring up sim
ners and the like down at San Marcos. ''
Wheat in Comal, Guadalupe, Blanco and
Hays counties is more or less affected by
rust. .T .+af 4a
HIcronymus spells Judge Han(d)cock's
name with I'd" which makes 1t handy
to-spell.
The people of wide district of Caldwell
county petition the Legislature to repeal
the fence law. sa
]. I. Dixon engineers the Sherman Reg
lister while the excellent Capt. Martin makes
the country's laws.
They planted her under the daisies, and
called her Daisie Dean. in Dallas. She was
Zone more unfortunate"
The Nevs calls Maine the ''Granite" State.
The buuder occurred because Blaine lives
there, who is hard case e
The main occupation of the average edi-
tor consists in devising plans to secure dead
head tickets to the Centennial. f.
On the twenty sixth instant condemned
government property of various descriptions
will be sold in front Of the Alamo at aue-
ton.
Mulberries arc ripe, and along the Drinks
of the bitches and streams 10 the vicinity
of our river luscious dewberries can be
found.
Dallas proposes to organize nice little
tea party OF eighty, hire two sleeping
coaches, 90 to the Centennial and have a
good time. #s''' '@'
The Frontiersr'aM is greatly shocked to
hear, Tuesday, of the death of Capt. Geo.
w. Wools, the well-known merchant at
Center Point.
Since It Is announced that whisky is at
seyenty-dve cents per drink in the Black
Hills, everybody going thuher from Dallas
has turned back. os 'ae
The Pfoatisrsman doesn't want any State
militia, and tue mania for murder has run
its course, and everything is serene and
Lovely in those parts.
The charges preferred against Rev. W.
q. Veal did not seal, and the people of
implicit faith in the good man, and he
saved his bacon.
The growing crop of wheat in Ellis and
adjoining counties bids fair now not only
to be the best ever grown there. but to equal
the very best ever grown in the country.
ThiIty-fve military companies viii at
tend the Houston fair, and the Trsvis
county boys won't wear their fine toggeFy
any more till they exhibit il down there. g
itis stated that the flesh OF Newfoundland
degs cooked and eaten IS beefsteaks infal-
hhly cures consumption. We hope they
viii ind some use for hobtAil curs aud aeAs
that sffiict Austin.
A X. MeColluna, the exsellens editor Of
the Waco Repeater. celebrated Sxn Jaeia,o
day a. fireman in H,,nstous Il,s taken
all the Fourth Of Juls cut Of him and he
goes home limp and collapsed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-27

DALLAS attracts one class OF people and q
large number of energetic, enterprising,
honest men; Austin gathers within its con
fines all those who love the beautiful in
Nature and those who would have good
society, unsurpassed schools and churches,
and have contact with the wisdom and
learning Of Texas. Railways viii soon di-
verge in all directions from the capital.
Coal and marble fields sixty and seventy
miles distant must be invaded by locomo-
tives. The rich silver and gold bearing re-
gions fifty and one hundred miles north
west Of the city are rapidly filed, even
now, with miners and spectators in mining
stocks from California and Nevada. CHI.
zens of Austin have invested freely in min
ing districts once occupied by Axtecs and
subsequently by Mexican and Spanish gold
diggers. Then the unavoidable necessity
for the cheap transfer of minerals to Aus
tin and the sea wiil compel the construction
Of narrow gauge to the auriferous dis.
tricts. The water power of the Colorado
is matehless, and railways and cotton mills
and irrigated farms and rich mines and
rich grain fields win make Austin the fore
most city Of Texas.
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as catch-penny dodge, the better 1t will
be Tor whatever remains that has germ of
truth in it. Honest men will hardly resort
to the impudent announcements which
draw bowling crowds to halls where these
bungling necromancers exhibited their in
competency. Charlatanry is known, or will
presently, by the advertisements it Whites.
And there is such yawning chasm between
the promises Of the mGterializing people
and their performances, that the public
will sooner or later learn TO treat them as
they deserve. When that time arrives,
all attempts to inyestigats the hereafter by
means of ropes and barjos will he voted
futile by the most ardent and accomplished
mediums.
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THE knaves that had chung to office for
years, and were elected by Major Fitzhugh,
have never ceased to make war on him. II
a body Of men remain in power through
any long period, they deem the places they
hold their own property, and conceive it
an outrage and gross wrong if they be
elected. Habit inculcates the idea, and
therefore it is that Grant, tomorrow, could
muster 60, 900 placemen to overthrow the
government If the ballot-box pronounce
against him. As patriots fight for homes
and 6resides, so barnacles would die for
offices. These are the remorseless knaves
who have never ceased to assail Major Fitz
hugh. They have absolutely stated that he
Is an ex-penitentiary convict, that he is a
swindler and roWS. These stories signify
nothing here or in Virginia, where Majo;
Fitzhugh is known, and we only refer to
them to show how desperate the coming
conflict must be when the mighty army of
stipendiaries, for fifteen years ensconsced
in rich Offices constructed for the robbery
Of the country's industry, is arrayed under
Grants defensive leadership against the
plundered people. These assaults upon
Fitzhugh are preliminary skirmishes to the
most terrible conflict ever waged on this
continent.
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uuyieldinely by The principles of government we
believe 70. be correct ana maintaining inviolate
the faith that is in US let us put our foot upon
every narrow AMI sectional feeling and embrace
in our efforts and aspirations the glory and ad-
vancenent Of the whole country We own an
equal aud undivided interest ia every foot of its
soil in every page of its history, in every raw of
its glory. The wisdom of our fathers helped to
create to shape, and direct it, their blood helped
70 sanctify II their vsior TO establish it, let us
as rightful heirs enjoy it, and with true hearts
and willing hands, aid in building up, improv-
ing. and perpetuatiug ii.
Fellow-citizens, again invested bv the generous
confidence Of a noble and gallant people with the
duties and responsibilities OF the Office of Chief
Executive of the STATE assume them under the
inspiration OF but one ambition, and that is. bv
the blessings of heaven which are humbly in
voked, 10 stand 10y and maintsin tho Ccnsstu-
ton and laws, and through them TO advance the
honor and interests of the State. and tie pros
perity ana happiness OF the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-27

THE New York World says that modern
spiritaalism has come TO be regular sun
day night show. The platform jugglers
have taken possession Of the many unoccu-
pied balls in Texas and everywhere with
the purpose OF furnishing what. for wait
of any better name, must, NC suppose, be
called solemn variety entertainment,
though where the variety IS We fail to un-
derstand, for all Of the feats have been done
oSer and over again from the day that the
magicians Of Phasaoh's court initiated
Moses, down 70 the generation OF wizards
aud witch-hazel. Emma mines. vinegar bit-
ters and psize-paekages. The sooner the
whole thing Is We nov have il i recognized
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LOOK Upon THIS PIOTURE AND
THEN UPON THAT.
The Gazette Of Wednesday said

nc Nd~ctte vi w tuHeSudy sdlu
The assaults Of the STATESMAN on Hon.
John Hancock are on par with its persist
ent abuse of Governor Coke, Hon. John
Ireland and the Changers of our State.
That mercenary sheet is incapable OF tell
ing the truth, and its favor is more to be
dreaded than tho coils of the serpent of
LAGOON, while Its denunciations are the
best proofs of merit known to the popular
mind. 1t is n stencil in the nostrils of all
honorable men.
This was the assertion of the Gazette
Wednesday. On Thursday the House of
Representatives of the State of Texas, with
one single dissenting voice, passed the fol-
lowing. Read it
RSsOleed, That each member of this House
be furnished with ten copies of the daily
DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, proeided that said
newspaper publish full daily report of the
official journal OF both Houses of the Leg
islature; pr0rided further, that said paper
be supplied for sum not exceeding four
(4) cents per copy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-27

PRESIDENT GRANT denies bitterly the as
seruon of ex-Attorney General Williams
that he used the secret service fund to con-
troll partisan or political events in New
York, and the cabinet is consulting, at his
country more than party, and therefore
hope that President of the United States
will never be proven guilty of that unutter-
able baseness, involved in tie use of pub
lie money for his own personal aims. HHi
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s. The Leader, OF the eighteenth Of April.
in serviie defense Of Tom Scott fercely
attacks che STxTEgNkK upon It's antagonist
70 John Hane1oks MhIlr serving its Penn
sylyaniA master 'sel the servant Is unfit for
the associations to which he aspires in Texas.
There are Hancock men in whose nostrils
the Leader righleously stInks.
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Our Self
running most
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to wear on n; at week and no
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-12
IN MEMORY OF CUSTER.
The Armv and Navy Club Proposing TO Raise
Relief Fund.

The members Of the Army and Navy
Club met In their rooms in West Thirtieth
street, last evening, TO express sorrow for the
uassacre Of Gen. Custer and bis troops Gen.
Lloyd Aspnwall presided. Gems. George h.
sharpe, Henry Il. Davie', Martin +. Mcmahon
Kllbourn Knox, Co.'S. ITechel and Mitchell, ind
Capt. Wharton were appointed to draft resolu-
tions Of confidence.
Gen. Custer was not member OF the club. but
was related Of him that he was last in the club
Ware Price Lord Mandeville, anu Col. Treichel.
He then expected to have command OF the Y e-
lowstone expedition. and he invited his three
guests To accompany him to the Indian ooun-
try. lie promised them some rare sport.
While he was at the breakfast n Deputy Ser
eeant -at-Arms OF the House OF Representatives
called on him and informed him that he was
wanted in Washington as witness IN the lJsl-
knap case. He feared that the case would break
up the expedition, but he urged hts friends to
accompany him to the plains all the same.
Sir Ware Price desired to go, aud wrote TO
Gen sheridan after Gen. Custer had reached
Washington. Gen Sheridan wrote back III
you are looking for pleasure, stay where you
like hard riding, pack mules, and Indian skir
mishes, then come on" The ENGLISH nooleman
did not Ro
Capt. W. NJ. Keogh was the only one OF the
massaCred ON ters that belonged to the cluD,
but the most OF them were known to its mem
hers. The resolutions Of sorrow aud coincidence
were reported At a late hour nut the officers de-
cided not to furnish hem Tor public .tion unit
to-day. IL was said that nve of the young OH
GERS killed with Custer left their wives at Fort
club should raise relief fund Tor them Action
was deferred.
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THE BUSY EMPEROR.
Tho Last Day In New ork-Preparatious
for the Voyage TO Europe.

The Emperor Of Brazil will sail at
O'Clock this III orninR, In the Cunard steamship
Russia, for Liverpool. Dom Pedro was up and
dressed at o o'clock yesterday morning. Soon
afterward he descended to the rooms OF the
Buckingham barber. and was shorn OF those
locks that had not been cut since his departure
from Brazil. HIS personal Appearance was great
ly improved by the operation. The Imperial
party then entered the waiting CARRIAGES, ana
rode to IInany's workshops and thence To Del
monico's. After a simple repast, the Emperor
was driven down town. He visited the ofices
Of the Times, the Tribune. Moro MundO, and the
Stddt Zttung. The Battery and The ruins Of
Castle Garden next occupied his attention. and
lie returned to the Buckingham to lunch. The
afternoon was passed IN quiet, on account OF
the rain but at 8 o'clock the Emperor paid a
htinR visit TO the excavation beneath Hell Gate,
or, az he calls IT, Porto d. Inferno" The party,
clAd IN rubber suite, ad yanced only about sixty
feet from the bottom Of the shaft, and then,
their curiosity satisfied they retraoed their steps
Inc imperial party passed their last evening In
America in the enjoyment Of a concert given in
the parlor VI the hotel by some OF the best per
formers IN the city, among whom were Mme.
CeTvsntss, q. Werner, ana 5. T.. Mills.
During her husbands busy dAy tho Empress
passed her tine In improving her kno wledge Of
American domestic life by most thorough In %
speotion OF every department OF the Bucking-
ham Hotel. She spent the most time and was
as she view ed the marble nOors OF the various
kitchens and bake rooms and saw the marvel
lOus neatness aud despatch OF every opera lon,
her admiration found vent In upiiled hands and
the exclamation, =" ON how CleanI
Alter having settled mis- little bill OF nearly
g., ,5OO Tor weeks board for self and party, the
Emperor and suite yill start, al O'Clock TINS
m0rning Tor Jersey Cty. TO embark for England.
Yesterday large force in the Nietberoi, the
Brazilian frigate at anchor on the battery, was
busiiY employed under the superintendehce OF
the Brazilian Minister, In packing and stOMinR
away the unnumDered souyenlers thAt Dom
Pedro has collected In the United States.
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CEN. CROOKS COMMAND.
Reinfercemcnts Attacked bv Sioux-No Con-
nrmatiou Of Crooks Defeat.

SALT LAKE CITY. July II. "A private
despatch received from Fort Fetterman this
evening by Major Bryant, commanding Camp
Douglas, says that the four companies Of inian-
try under the command OF Major Burke which
left here ten days ago TO Join Crooks command,
were attacked by the Sioux ABOUT 75 miles out
OF Fetterman, while escorting a train Of supplies
two miles long. They were taken by surprise In
verv rough and uneven country. A sharp en-
gagement ensued. Five men were KILLED and
seven wounded. The names are not given. 1t
Ia impossible to learn further particulars at
present.
OMAHA. Eeb., July ll.-Up to noon today no
confirmation Of the painful rumor that since the
fall OF Gen. Custer the indians had turned upon
Gen. Crook and destroyed his command, includ-
Ing himself. has been received. The officers at
these headquarters say that such calamity Is
possible though not probable, - Gen. Crooks
wei known abilities and the extent of his
force would enable him to prevent 1t. II he was
beaten at all II was by overwhelming numbers
His late ngnt on the Rosebud IL, In the light OF
recent events. considered to be victory.
Fort FErTERkAN. Wv, july 1.-The latest
word from Crooks camp Is dated June %.
courier can reach here from him In seventy two
hours, II not waylait. Seven companies of in
fantry escorted the supply train. We have no
news oil IL since leaving. but are expecting a
courier from Crook daily.
WAsHISGrON, July 1.-THE War Departme mt
has no recent Information concerning Gen.
CROOK, and hence there is nothing cOnhrmator
Of the report Of his feat aud death.
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THE WAR IN THE EAST.
The servians Victorious near Widdin-A
Turkish victory Mt Abnt-Kadi.

LONDON, July Official dispatches re-
ceived at Belgrade announce that the Turks
have Withdrawn from the right bank OF the
river Drins. The Servian army OF the Timok
has occupied several villages and reoonn oitred
the country to widdin, to which place the
Turks have retreated.
The population Of the district OF widdin have
risen and Joined the Northern division Of tn Q
Servian army. The Servlsns, under en-. BENT
fan, fought . superior force OF Turks seven
hours on tho 7th inst. at Krusobevaz. The Turk-
isb loss was considerable. The Servians lost
lightly. captured some flags, a quantity Of arms
and occupied several villages.
Several Of tho Paris Journals publish iotelli-
eence that the Turks have captured Zaitschar,
and that the Servian General Tohernarre6 Ia
hemmed In between two Turkish armies march,
Ing from Widdin and Sophea.
Intelligence received at Semlin states that the
position OF the Servial General Antich near
Novi-Bszlr Ia threatened.
1t 10 rumored AZ Vienna that the Montene negrin
forces have attacked aud taken tho town of
Gatschako.
CoNsrANTISoPLH, July 1.-THE Porte has sent
the following despatch to It's representatives.
abroad:
An ensssement took place At AbstKsdl, District Of
yiilsss ,n Their isrriiory; The Village was burned
maniion. The Adjutsnt Major. ismaii Ayha stiscEed
the Insurgents at sobini In Bosnis and after nRht OF
tory. The enemy left maoy dead on the neid, and
Others fell In the mountains.
A Berlin despatch says a semi oficial assur.
ance is published there thst the late Imperial
an agreement to maintain poIloy Of non Inter
ventiOn.