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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
THE srArEsMAN's so-caIIed assault upor

THE STATEsMAN's so-called assault upon
Governor Hubbard was wholly just. How
ever unwilling to criticise the public con-
duct of those whom we esteem, the news
paper that fails in judicial fairness fails to
discharge its duty to the public. Governor
Hubbard's rulings as President of the Sen
ate, when the majority undertook to post
pone everything in promotion of Tom
Scott's interests, were unauthorized. Some
of the rulings of the Speaker of the House
have been alike indefensible, and we are
led to reflect that majorities invested with
unrestricted power are as despotic and ty-
rannical as individuals. Therefore it was
that wise men were accustomed to say that
the Constitution of Texas would have been
more wisely framed if there had been
an opposition, worthy of the name, to
the dominant force in that body.
Rules of deliberasive bodies have
been fagrantly violated, and solely
because the majority, even when no ques-
ton of party fealty IS involved, rely upon
the blind support of blind partisans. But
we only proposed to say that we owe Gov.
Hubbard and Gov. Coke nothing. We
have supported them when they deserved
approval, and, without hesitation, con-
demn when t,31eir conduct justifes criticism.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
TROUBLE AHEAD.

The deficiencies on revenue, for the next
two and half years, will be $4,000 or
$500, 900 a year. The appropriation bill
contemplates no such contingency, and if
the issue be not met squareiy, State war
rants twelve months hence will be worth
from seventyto seventy-tiVe cents. Comp
troller D4rden makes the open assertion,
and he Las published it in his official re-
ports, that the present revenues are insult
cient to meet the expenses of government,
and. according TO his theory, and
it is correct one, taxes must
either be raised or bonds sold TO prevent
evidences of State Indebtedness from be-
ing bawked at disgracefuI figures. The
matter Of selling bonds, or making an in
terest-bearing debt to pay non-interest-
bearing debt. is, to use a vulgarism, "too
thin" Within the last few years large
amount of debt has been paid in this way,
and the work still goes on. Nearly five
millions of dollars is now the measure of
the State's bonded indebtedness, and if
the Executive and lawmakers do not
meet the issue bravely, in five years
more it will be twice that amount. Then
bonds will deprec;ate, another, constitu-
uonaI convention will be demanded, those
who advocated taxes too low TO prevent
such results will be condemned, and the
bare probability exists that another fnan-
cial agent will go on to New York, to at
least Ike propositions" to Texas bond
holders. Increase in !. taxation seems
the only fair course to pursue, under
the circumstances, and Goveror Coke
and the Legislature should recognize the
necessity at once, II will be an empty
boast for the. present Executive to say that
taxes have not been increased during his
administration, while his successor, Gov
ernor Hubbard, VIII be left the sting of a
depreciatied paper which enemies and an
uninformed public will, beyond all doubt,
ascribe to the change .om
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

WHEN little men, incapable of compre-
hending the grandeur and majesty of a
mighty commonwealth, and sill less of
rising above local prejudice or one found
ed in mean, all-grasping selfishness, when
such men, because their self-love is wound
ed or grasping, local selfishness is thwart-
ed, would violate the unity of the State, we
recite almost unconsciously the stanza in
which daughter of Texas expressed the
nobIest passion, of her people:
but with treasures of mountain and valley and
forest,
She boasls Of others more precious by far r-
OF all God hath g,ven her the h0best the rarest,
The hearts " her people who love the Lone star"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
The WOodhuIis--. s--.SepaVatsou from Col.
Blood and Her General Detection.

Among those who, in a great city, crave
for notoriety, and who will have IL at any
cost, none has ever equaled In daring the
woman known TO the world as Victoria @.
Woodruff, a name that has long been OF
the blacklist of reputable metropolitan
newspapers, and one that is coupled with
shame when mentioned in polite circles.
The readers of the Enquirer need not be
told who she is. She has stamped herself
on the memories of all mankind, and to-day
is feeble woman verging on insanity. She
is, to use her own language, "sick In mind,
sick in body and sick in heart" Through
her misdirected and almost unparalleled en-
ergy she has nearly worn out her life, and
her sister, Tennessee, is likewise almost ex-
hausted through her labors. The Clafin
family is, as nearly everybody knows, re-
markable for its activity and its utter dis
regard for fair and honorable dealings with
men and women. Woodruff and Caflin
we're the town talk when they came to
New York about six years ago. They
smilingly and courageously brushed into
Wall street, and had they SIMPLY attempted
70 earn living through dabbling In stocks
might to-day be in possession OF q hand
some fortune. They were favored by the
brokers, and they bad glorious oppor-
tunity to enlarge bank account Victoria
was ambitious for notoTietv, and she rushed
pel-mell into all kinds Of ventures, and In
the long run won and lost several fortunes.
With all the facts OF her misbehayi0r star
ing her in the face, she has uunRmbercd
times appealed to the American people 70
recognize her as model woman, avittuous
| mother, and the friend Of humanity. Those
who know her intimately, those Who are
f&ssi,iaT with her home aud her business rs-
lations, and those who have been saddened
by association with her, all say that for
complete deception she has no peer. Liv.
ing with one James II. Blood, who was re-.
cognized as her husband. she gained an OPP
portunity to be heralded as q literary
woman. 1t is notorious fact among her
immediate acquaintances that she is scarce
| ly able to write grammatical sentence, and
that she never attempted so 70 do. The
writings that have gone forth over her sig
nature were all written either by Blood or
Stephen Pearl Andrews. The maternal
CIafiin was aud is the bitter foe Of both Of
these writers, and for years she has been
trying to ''kick Blood out Of the family. I"
at length she has succeeded, and Blood 10,
as il were, an outcast. XictoTia's mind was
so worked upon by her mother that recent
ly she bade the ''Coloner' depart forever
from her house. He fingered on the door
stoop, and she hurled vituperative language
at him. She has frequently denied that she
is addicted to profanity, but on this oc-
casion she "swore like our army In Fland-
ers." She accused him Of Fobbing her, and
she 10 now about 70 obtain divorce with
out publicity"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

A letter TO the srATEMAx from Hard
shell. Texas, Of the thirtieth uit., written
by w. ii. Jennings, sr.. says: Last Fri
day evening, three weeks ago, Dick Allen
shot and killed Bud Sullivan and made his
escape; went West, was caught near Dog
town by some cow-hunters, brought back
TO Las Buros, got away from his captors
and made for the San Marcos; met two
men, cow-bunters; they took him prisoner,
got Of Of their horses 10 tie Dick, one
man laying his pistol down; Dick jumped
1t the pistol, got il, shot one man, the
other broke TO run; Dick turned, shot and
killed the other man. Now, both captofs
are dead. Dick came on 70 the San Mar
cos on Friday night last, and on Saturday
evening last was captured In the Blanco
bottoms by Sheriff Rhue. Of Hays county.
and tive other men and lodged in the Lock
hart Jail last night The Killing OF the
two men out West IL ID ek's own tale"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

The message of his Eycellency the Gov
ernor, of yesterday, on motion of Senator
Stephens, was takeu up and read.
EXECUTIVE OFFfcR, STATE OF TEXAS,
p AUSTIN. August 2. 1876.
Hon. r. B. Hubbard Presidezst Of the Senate:
SIRI have the honor tDreturn Senate
bill No. 1SS 1-2 being IAN act to pro-
vide for supplying lost records In certain
cases." without my approval. and respect
fully ask its reconsideration.
This bill authorizes the county commis-
sioners' court, when the records of q c0un-
~ have been burned, lost or destroyed, and
a private abstract can be purchased, TO buy
the same and issue twenty-year bonds,
bearing ten per cent. interest, in payment
and makes the contents of this abstract,
when verified by the oath of the
person who made il, prinG fdcie
profo, or in other words, places trsns-
cripts duly certified from this abstract
on the same footing with transcripts from
the ordinary records of the county. So far
as the bill affects the rules established
and well understood with reference % sec
ondary evidence of lost records, it is be-
lieved 10 introduce a most dangerous inno-
vstion, in that it deprives party against
whom 8 pTiDaG fdeie case is thus made out
OF the valuable ngnt tt crOss-exAminAtlon-
1t can be well seen that much trouble and
unsettlement of titles TO valuable property
might arise under the operation Of this bill
should it become law. There would be q
wide door opened under it for the promo
tion of private and individual interests by
the perpetrAsion of frauds. besides much
injury thai might result from imperfect alb
strscts made fer private use, with no sense
of official responsibility on the maker.
The provision 20 pay for such abstracts
with bonds bearing ten per cent. interest
contrayeBes policy which has been Tigidiy
adhered 10 in all my Official actiou, the res-
sons Fer which have been gwen 30 often
that they viii not be repeated here. bui
which hSve been uniformly sustained IN
this and the FcufLseath LegisIature, and
are believed to be fully indorsed BY The
people Of Texas
Apart from all this. however. there is an
insuperable constitutional objection 70 Dt
found 70 this bill IN sectiun Z. article II. ol
the Constitution, which provides: Bat No
debt for any psrpose shall ever Be incurred N
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

They who talk about building a mRcad-
amized rather than narrow gauge road,
in modern times may be wise, but only to
the extent that wretched poverty renders the
cheaper description of highway preferable
to none at all. The cost in detail of the
Houston and Western narrow gauge is thus
given: ..... ....- -..
Grading. lies and tracklaving. at $2S50
per mile, $57, 900; iron rails, 1000 tons at
an average of $62 per ton, $62, 900; fish
plates, bolts and spikes, $4961; water
tanks, bridges, trestles, ETC., $1,000; eigh-
teen fat-cars, at 1856, $9S50; three box,
cars, at $400, $1,000; two locomotives, $13,-
I 1850; one passenger-car, $l5, 900; one hand
and push-csr and miscellaneous tools
$1,000; engineering and general office ex-
penses, $4,000; depots, depot grounds
and round-houses, $40, 900; miscellaneous
| expenses, $1,000; total cost of twenty miles,
$174, ,261, or fraction over $S700 per mile.
The cost of constructing the next thirty
miles will be considerably more, as 1t en-
braces an iron bridge across the Brazos,
which will cost about $75, 600. .
In view of these patent facts, is it i'm
possible for Austin and Travis county, hav-
ing more than twelve millions of wealth
and many citizens worth each more than
one hundred thousand dollars, and this
wealth consisting in property to be doubled
in value by the roads it impossible to
build twenty miles of tile Lampasas and
Belton Marrow Gauge, to be. part and parcel
of this road from Houston to El .Paso
Its branches would grasp each town and
village along and near its route and wide
mining and grazing districts, and make
Austin the distributing point for their
wealth. Each tradesman at each town and
village will keep. up his stock from
! Austin, as do towns around Louisville,
Cincinnati and Nashville from those cities.
The country merchant, buying each week
buys only what he can sell and no more
"carries no dead stock '-and , his Iprofits
are great because his losses are little. But
the great end accomplished is the concen,
tration here of the trade of the mining
and stock regions and the reduction, by it's
competition with broad gauge lines, of rates
of freight going towards Austin to mini
mum. Thus the area of country made tribu
tary to the trade of the capital must be in
definitely widened. If Messrs. Bruegger-
hoff, Everett, Castleman, West, Pease,
Breckenridge, Bremond, Hancock, Tips,
Zimpelmsn and many like them would ex-
ert share of active influence in behalf oi
the scheme proposed, the prospective for
tunes of Austin would be infinitely more
brilliant than to-day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
TrHE STATE OF TEXAS,
To the sAer.I ., Travis eeauty, greeting:

You are hereby commanded to summon by publica-
tlon Of this citation for eight successive eks prior
the return day thereof in newspaper published in
Travis county, the heirs OF Henry kinehart, whose
fore the District CouIt to be holden in aud Tor the
county OF Travis AZ the huuse thereof in the
city OF Austin the fifteenth Monday after the first
Monday In July next then and there to answer the ps
tition of Rdward L. Compton, filed in said court
against the sad heirs anu alleging in substance
follows, to;wit: IhAs the plainllH resides in the
and places II residence OF the defendants un-
known 10 the plaintiff; thst Henry Hinehart, who is
dead, on The fifteenth day lof june, A. ID. 1S40
the owner Of headlight land certificate No % in
the name OF William johnson, issued by the boaru
land commissioners OF Jack on county, for one-thrd
league Of land; that afterwards, ON the twentyourh
day Of May, 1881 plaintiff became the and pos
OF said certf cate and the runments Of title
TO the same through intermediate es transfers and
deliveries ~ the said certificate and munments Of
title from said knehart down to himself and has ever
since had continuous, open, quiet and adverse pos
session Of said certificate by reason OF which facts
and the statute Of limitations of two years, which he
eaiy pleads, he the legal aud equitable owner of
said certificate; aud having had the same lawfully
located and surveyed In surveys he Is apply-
ing for patsnts on the 81 70, but the defend
obtaining said patents claiming that no
transfer has been rrAde for aid certificate
from said knehsrt and that the tle the is in
the ss@ q two thousand dOlSrs Witch X Z the value
OF said eertincate, and plaintiff prays Judgment
against the defendants tina ne has full and complete
from setting up title to the same Tor costs and gen
eral relief. ~ T.oses ~ AaEs 'tsEle
Herein fail not but have you then and there before
o .a said court this writ with your return
HF - thereon showing you have executed
Seal. the came, Given under my hand
"a - and the seal OF said court in the
~ 6..a ctSy OF Austin. this lhe eighth day
OF June, A. ID 1876. i .r'-s.
.an,,ws, alsig = /. hALLMANS,
Jesu'"ee aa paa ~ o % Sterr ID. Z, i. Z.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

THE ErGnainer has gone and done it. 1t
walked up on the third inst, and rubbing
its eyes was moved by terrible facts to ex-
claim, toh, how every true Texans face
burns when he sees Tom Scott and his gilt
tering gold sglamouring our Solons of the
Fifteenth Leglslature! Isn't it enough to
bring the lobby, at least Lthe railroad
phalanx of it, into much and deserved dis
reputen rr4-H LSs1bAh iii. 't".
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

NEWSPAPER correspondents say that too
much credit cannot be accorded NJ. G.
Howe, chief engineer Houston and Texas
Central Railroad, and H. NJ Hoxie, gen.
eralr manager of the Galveston, Henderson
and Harrisburg Railroad, who respectively
planned ard superintendent the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished in Texas,
that of contracting the gauge of the great
Texas railway, the Central, within twenty
four hours. u.ll-- !. y =. J.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
A WAsH1NGroN CRY letter to the S,

A WAsHINGToN CITY letter to the San
Antonio Herald says, and very strangely,
too o,. ... -iz .......fl., ....-.....r -.f. .
see that Congress has at last come to the
relief of your frontier, Now get that same
''small potato" Congress to send force to
repress internal violence and robbing in
Texas, as your good Democratic. Governor
has declared his inability to de any better
than he has done. ,ai Hf
This letter-writer hasn't seen his Excel
lency's late message.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

SINCE the Washington Monument was
begun whisky rings have been building
countless chimneys to distilIeries exactly
like it, and tine Congress, sdmiring these
architectural piles, devotes $4Oo, 900 to the
completion of the pillar to be 500 feet high.
1t will .perpetuate the memory Of Gi-z;;'s
and Babcock's reign and deeds most signi-
ficautly. '1sifHu 1i r-sr 'h ID Hn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

GRANT accepted Belknap's resignation,
and therefore, since he was not, when put
on, trial, a. member of the Cabinet, the
United States Senate has discharged him.
No Senator dared assert Belknap's limo
cence. He stands acquitted solely on tech
nical grounds. l faii..si
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

GovERNoR COKE should know that the
newspaper press of Texas is not disposed to
exsegerate the number or enormity of
crimes perpArated, and very certainly law
less1-ss mas grown III volume and force
with the years of his administration; and
while he may be in no wise responsible for
the fact, his veto Of the sheriff's bill goes
bowshot too far in asserting the need
lessness of thorough reform in the criminal
code itself, and especially in its modes Of
execution. Instead of printing message
designed TO give proper shape and terms 70
the statute Condemned, the Governor would
prevent needfui and even indispensable legis-
lation, and if he proposes to change the couu-
try's opinion of the condition of Texas by his
rhetorical message he must fail signally.
However beautiful the story he tells and
however earnest his assertions, the public
must infer from the temper and tone of his
statements that his Excellency is defending
himself when asserting the blessedness of
social facts and conditions in Texas. More
number read elaborate S ate papers and the
press, meanwhile, is ubiquitous and every
where telling the same story, and therefore
he has written in vain. Reform in the ad-
ministration of the laws that we have is in
dispensable. and this reform must begin
among sherIffs and then the code under
which these sheriffs act should have
redoubled terrors. 1t is proper to cay
that the Governors message is hardly ap-
proved by public opinion. and that the Leg
islature itself has failed to win, even yet,
that degree of popular confidence and es-
teen which we hoped would have crowned
its honest, earnest labors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

THE learned Methodist Bishop, George
Pierce Of Georgia, arrived in this city on the
fourth instant, and left at once in company
with the family of Hon. John Ireland, to
attend a Methodist camp-meeting near San
Marcos. While in this city he was the
guest ef cur respected fellow-townsman,
Mr.. Tom Murrah. The Bishops father,
Rev. Lovic Pierce, ninety-two years old.
has been minister of the Gospel for more
than sixty years. We regret very much
that the Bishops engagements are such
that it will be impossible for him to preach
in this city on his return. The Bishop is
an admirable gentleman in social life even
as he is = matchless pulpit orator.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

The Comanche Chief says of the Legis-
lature that -.,-.. ...
At the rate. they have progressed since
they convened in April last, ,uIt would take
them to the middle of January next to COM
plete the duties imposed upon them by the
Constitution, and we insist that for SER
vices thus performed the State cannot af-
ford to pay them even two dollars per day.
Let the Fifteenth Legislature adjourn, and
leave the work they have neglected to be
finished by another and better body.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

WHEN Governor Coke was tirst candi-
date for gubernatorial honors. he declared
with singular vehemence at Waco that no
railroad ring should crack IT'S whIp over his
brawny shoulders, and yet 1t occurs to
Us that there was small slice Of
Tom Scott's whip-crAcker wound around
that nice little message which his Excel
lency sent into the House, and which was
mistaken for 'Dutehn BY = learned mem
Der Of the House and ordered 10 be printed
without the reading. In any event. Tom
Scott WAS here by prDxy, and his ring and
lobby. and his whip was cracked. and the
Governor aopped-perhaPs-just little.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

THERE have been no such verses as these,
recently written, none so musical or just
in expression or evolving such rhythmical
melody as the following, by charming
womAn of Western Texas:
TEXAS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

Tom ScorT's. agents say they will now
begin the task of creating several States out
of the wreck of Texas. Tom Scott's land
itself will make eleven States as big as
Rhode Island, aud can thus add adozen to
the number of Radical Senators in Wash
in0ton
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

THE Sherman Register is especially de-
nunciatory Of the so-called Huntington
lobby, led, it alleges, ~ Judge Bell To
hear the news from Austin one must 90
abroad Tom scott's lobby was ubiquitous
and, it seems. resistIess.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

IT Is but just TO say that few of the
majority on the question Of resembling the
adjournment resolution were not II favor
Of extension 70 the Texas and Pacific.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

GovKRxoR PAIAEER aud ex xSsnator
TrumbalL the ablest men by far now living
in Illinois. aud both Republicans, take the
stump for Tlden.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

THE Legislature has g me to work, and
if elimination and recrimination be at an
end, something may yet be done OF ad-
vantage 20 the State. -.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

LErrHE two houses go 20 work in ear
nest and serve the State as faithfully IS
they have sought 10 serve Tom Scott and
all viii be well.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

TIE Fort Worth Dsmoorat says that Gov
ernor ThrOckmOrton will support TIiden
for the presidency. Tom Scott wll not
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

II Is reported 10 Paris;fbat Lord Dutlan,
an English peer. is about 70 marry the ex-
Empress Eugenie, and proposes 20 SiEe her
wedding present Of $1,000, 900 m hard
caah
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

MAxTox MARBLE. Honrio Seymour de-
clinnng the ofice. should be the next Gov
ernof of New YORK
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

According 20 the iatest New York CITY
directory (DiBeteth) that city contains
/, ,205, sSl inhabitants.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10
mo LAND AGENTS

II yon win send ne = memorandum Of the lecality
and pFca u rear lands with short descrip Ion o.
each traet VII aaserllse thcra ~ al consistent
haTo7s Ee1nkR \. JoHNS.
General Agcncy md liend necold 0nee.
ina e1iw-Ntf AlisTiN. TkxAS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-10

LAxAR is going 70 make s speech on the
issue Of .bs campaign.