davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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r.xvotx. For, p.-Busincss light with commission
,an..,, fobbtnR trade snte, cotton gooda uuict and
...r, pIinp iobbtnR freely II verJ low prices but
s,Ir,e auIet IN artt hanla ircFs Fots less sctivc'
.,rue woo!ena In fair request By clothttrs' heavy
,no,ent Inactive.
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NAvIGAT1Oy NOTES.

CuteAao. here Ia The life .saving crewf Echo
aahwers. Whcrcf....Thc ,nmher. market was kept
quite clear yesterday from a Ihm by tho sales Of
carsocs....The FLYER II full OF wind bound craft.
No departures yesterday .... ..The storm vas The
1Er.e rSs al s1ons shs whsr;es a yestesday
Jcasic Linn. VIII 1ay un when thcy arrive hero
again: aeo. tho stcam- barge Baldwin, wlIose con:
she craft named hare 6ccn In the Iron .orc trade
hctwcen Chicago ami Escanaba ...The Captatn of
The fchr Conqlcht says he cntnc in DRY Tho other
day, and not with mora water than ratroAd ties,
fCnQftcI. - = - - -
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Tbs following were tho arrivals and ctcaranccs
for tho twenty -four hours ending at 10 O'Clock last
night:
Aksi!tIs-Trops Cain Campbell. f.udtneton. iun,.
1Sfi EF ot putnt9. n45alo. Hnndricts siary firoh.
Tsenmssh 1s! ort m nron sht Jatxis L9rd. llaaao.
d5.s.s ,.n, aGhrs lin.Earsn M9,ktsn. utInfs hao
nsw :, AZ; ,!e'csy l'iinEi0,; lsaaef: sat
!a%!: wcoa q !: !;oeasr Ssnisiss iamso.s i;
T1svff;s ,rs 4 e., faTS: nnnham. Ma.se:
S". E1*,mort, MSnon,tnrs !Snlisr: u oraat Ma.
srirn i!l.Eton, t!misr' "A: amp.ou, MaHIsise,
ingt"n. pc.ts, sffmtrr G,ssrian. sai, wntaT m
1n.ii. MaHiisfe !"mbssE S'sn M1niaee :uHecr r..
!clsn. Wn aLc. ia1er; Gsnten. l,aiinio, soat T.
s5.on sasi:f ialr.s *. % uiri. iio.n ILL.,
light D. A. Wca lInnran CitJ. IlcT: CccrllA sin4.
kett,9 lumber; l.. A. Law. El1ao, coal: II. 4. kent,
clx,sM.xcxssshr P. T.. l'ansos. Ba1eie, ~ no
.hsat; :e'r t;st!s r'ss5 !sy'' !sf ri rk sn
A1Ena Manltnwoe ~ tt: sar!t, al' .snarisss prop
md suntlrlcii TeElpSst+ White Lake. sundr!ca.
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COMMERCE. OF MILWAUKEE,
'ae Milwaukee papers report the arrtysis and
seataaeas Of ycssels lu tue Glsttlct OF Mi.waukss
'~ thu month Of October lS17, a. follows;
, 1877-11-10

hu wheat nt TIC; prnp Potomac. 7, f,01 hi whcnt
nt ic. ii: 00O b., harley al through rates; 10 Enck-
ctt'a llarbor, schr llouRhton, 10000 bu wheat It
, 1877-11-10

ct.YxtAxp, O., Nov. .. - fsrhotxTN - Marcel
1rst, stanIarl white, tl0 test. 8I.liH.
sn,rr.nrRo. Soy 0. p.-rE1notzuM-Stcadfef crude.
a. m,xaau II rarkers; refined. 124r. Philadelphia
1eiytt1.
, 1877-11-10

TCnrEET1NE.
wnrrsozpx, Nov. D.-8rihlrs TrRrESTisx-FIrm
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

household fixtures, then would our
chambers and parlors be more comfort
able and inviting to our children and
to our friends. Let another one-slxth
he invested in q wOolen mill, which
Will give employment 20 200 hands
within its walls, and quicken every
branch of trade in the place Suppose
you apply another one-tenth to the
building of houses for our laboring
men. The $50, 900 thus expended will
give twenty houses costing $500 each.
These houses will shelter twenty fami-
lies or one hundred persons. Then with
another one-teuth, We send our chill
dren to first-class school. With $50, =
900 we can have every child in the
city instructed in all the branches of
learning usually taught in first-class
colleges. With the remaining one
tenth we can have q city library with
buildings worth, say, $15, 900, books to
the amount of $4,000, with $4,000 to
pay expenses and purchase papers,
magazines, etc.
AS it is, the $500, 900 are consumed
in that which bestializes the man, de-
grades the community, impoverishes
the people, makes US miserable while
living and damns US when dead. Let
the traffic be destroyed!
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
TILTOS IN GALVESTON.

We don't see how Tliton's coming TO
Galveston viii harm, 10 any alarming
extent, the morals of that eminently
pious place, but the CitljcH seems
alarmed about it. Whether Tilton con-
spired with confessed lnfidel woman
to overthrow the Church of Christ in
America by destroying Bcecher and his
church, or whether Beecher be the in
comprehensive perjurer, as the CtVilidH
assumes, when before the court and at
Gods altar, are questions which time
may solve. While these questions are
unsolved, we are curious to sec both
Beecher and Tilton. One or the other,
or both, are moral monstrosities. Did
Tilton, at the instigation of passion for
another, sacrifice his wife, that the ter
rible Woodhull's hatred of Beecher and
of the church and of society as organ
lied, might be appeasedl or is Bcecher
the foremost liar and perjurer, and at
sixty-fve the model rou6 of modern
timer Is his whole life q living lie2
or Tilton, who suffers him to live, n
pillar of cloud by day and of fire by
night, to guide youth and age along
paths never so desolate or rugged as
those marked by Tilton's bloody foot
prints2 II Beecher be the stupendous
villain supposed, the religion of Christ
is moral device by which matchless
knaves are perfected and cloaked; and
if Tilton cold and sacrificed the once
faultless and matchless wife that the
hates and madness of terrible weman
of marvellous force and intellect-the
Woodhull-might avenge themselves
on society and Christianity, by which
she deemed herself outraged
if these be the facts, and
Beecher's downfall the result of a
hell-born conspiracy, in which TIlton
suffered himself to be used and his
wife damned, we are of those who
would still see and hear Tiltor. Two
states of facts are before the country.
Of which is Tilton, this splendid fell
low, of peerless taste in letters and
original thinker, the impersonation2
When Tilton is gone, Beecher will
come. Let US hear both, and determine
fairly. There are greater issues in
volved than the personal fate either of
Tilton or of Beecher. The question
is whether there be no limit to human
depravlty, and can man of God for
fifty years be whited sepulchre, and
a woman, as fair as an angel to look
upon, Hecate; and another, the
Woodruff, worse, in the world OF
morals, than Machiavel or Morton in
politics7 Give Tllton a fair hearing,
and Beecher too. They do not come
to discuss questions to which we ad-
vert, but they come before the jury
that tries them. They propose to
gather money because these facts are
discussed, and tine discussion gives
them audiences. When we look upon
their faces and into the depths of their
eyes, and scan their movements, we
may determine with greater wisdom
the result of an inquiry about which
honest people still differ as widely as
the poles are asunder.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
THE HIGH (O COMMISsION.

The partisan returning board at
Washington has disappointed greatly
the honest patriotism of the whole
country. Whatever its final decree,
the great masses of the people never
dreamed that in transferring to such a
body the ultimate decision of such q
question, they were surrendering a
question of infinite right or wrong to
base-born partisanship. There was a
share of respect for the Federal Su-
preme Court even as reconstructed by
Grants advisers; but this has been
grossly violated and outraged, and not
the least of the crimes of partisanship
is this final overthrow, in the eyes of
the people, of the splendid temple
reared by learning and genius and in
tegrity, in which final justice
and right were supposed to
be conceded with infallible rec
titude of purpose. Even this fair
structure, upreared by Marshall and
Jay and TaneJ, is overthrown, and
there is nothing of federalism left that
is not contemned by decent honesty.
II Hayes be as bad president as the
agencies of his elevation to power, and
if Mortonism that creates be the spirit
that must animate his administration,
within the month Packard, upheld by
black jannissaries, will be Grand Turk
in Louisiana; the government of Mis-
sissippi will be overturned; and all the
hell-born passions of ten years ago
will be reproduced. Everything de-
pends upon the wisdom and modera-
tion and patriotism of Hayes,
and yet we can have little faith
in the virtues or worth of a president
invested with office without the shadow
of right and by means that degrade
and make infamous in the eyes of
honest people the only adjunct of cen
trail authority for which the country
entertains the slightest reverence.
Whether the Democratic judges and
Congressman will withdraw from a
body unworthy of the presence of
honest men remains to be seen. The
Senate and Grant might as well be suf-
fered to give the country its chief mag
istrate. The Supreme Court, or those
of its members who esteem themselves
honest and patriotic, will hardly be
sharers in the discharge OF task so
revo lting to honesty and wisdom and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

THE very great number Of German
readers of the STATESMAN induces US
to collect news paragraphs affecting
the condition OF Europe under the
heading Foreign Notes" From these,
as heretofore given, it is apparent that
uneasiness is confessed IN Paris be-
cause of the tone OF the German Off
cial press and the military activity Of
the German government. A Strasburg
correspondent writes TO Paris journal
that ammunition, provisions and war
material of all sorts are being hurried
into that town and into Metz with q
haste that is positively feverish. The
trains arrive and are loaded in the
night. The correspondent believes
himself to be speaking within bounds
in saying there is enough food stored
in Metz and S.rasburg to-day to subsist
the garrisons and people for two years.
There may be some truth in the rumor
that Bismarck intends to seek foreign
war to strengthen the national feeling
in Germany.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

A WASHINGTON telegram to the New
York Tribune says: "An influential
Democrat, chairman of one of Tho
leading investigating committees Of
the House, remarked tonight that if
the final decision of the electoral
count should be adverse to Governor
Tilden, he will not accept the result
without further testing his rights in
the courts. The last section of the
compromise bill provides that either
of the parties in interest, notwith-
standing the award of the commission,
shall not be deprived of any rights
now possessed under the Constitution
or the laws to try the right of the
presidency by an order in quo s0arrdnto
or otherwise. This chairman says
that MIR. Tilden will certainly begin
the biggest lawsuit OF the century to
obtain the office if he is declared to
have been defeated"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

THE Galveston Ne,os presents a plain
fact and necessity very curtly when it
says that Republicans, like Democrats,
make no pretense Of desire TO repeal
the Fifteenth Amendment, but confess
willingness to prescribe additional
qualifications for voters such as being
able to read and write, the payment Of
taxes, being householders, etc. OF
course color would form no part of
such tests except as one race might
happen to possess more or less Of the
additional qualifications required. The
trouble, the peril and the additional
scandal resulting from the struggle Of
parties for the votes Of seething masses
Of ignorance in Louisiana and South
Carolina have furnished lesson
which will not be forgotten, and the
reform proposed must be consum-
mated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

fore constable or deputy sheriff com
pels him to abandon his plow in the
furrow to sit upon a jury. Ordinary
jury duty is not very agreeable or con
venient, but this interminable jury SET
vice is a hardship for which the pres
ent jury system is wholly responsible.
Its cyst in dollars is incaiculable, not
only in fees and PR diem and tavern
bills and whisky and idleness; hut the
taxation it engenders is iutolerab,e.
II the money-the o2e per cent
wrenchcd from taxpayers by the city
were applied to the construction of
sewers there would be fewer deadly
stinks swept into our bed-chambers at
night, and no deadly malarial fevers
sinking down health and energy and
hope through spring and summer
months. Can't the mayor and his
court dispense with these costly Incl
dents and paraphernalia of justicel
Why pay jurors six dollars and bailiffS
fees to try bawd for keeping disor-
derly house2 Deadbeats live by rob-
bing taxpayers through the aid of these
dirty little courts that use them as
patented jurymen, swearing and un-
swearing themselves every hour in
each twenty-four if each oath give them
one dollar for jury service. The crime
becomes calamity and next after
whisky is costing Texas more than any
other intolerable public evil.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

THE bill of Mr.. Banning provides
for the convening of Congress on the
fourth of March, instead of on the first
Monday in December. Its object,
outside of assisting Mr.. Tilden, should
he be inaugurated, is to make cure OF
the organization of the next House.
The Democratic majority therein, at
best, Is only five or six, and death or
other accident might intervene before
next December to SO change this ma
jority as to lose the next House to the
party. 1t is hardly probable, how
ever, that the Senate should concur in
such bill; but whatever its fate it is
almost certain that the new president,
whoever he may be, will call al extra
session of Congress Immediately after
his Inauguration, owing to the exigen-
cies of public affairs, and possibly the
failure of the present Congress 10 com
plete the several appropriation bills.
About this latter matter there is much
conjecture, the majority saying it will
be impossible in the ensuing three
weeks, the last remaining of the ses-
sion, TO close up the legislation on the
appropriation bills. There are Others,
however, who believe that, with the
presidential question settled, q week
of steady and hard work, day and
night, would wind up the whole bzsi-
ness.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

SCOTT innocently tells the innocent
people of Texas, in replying 10 the
STATESMAN, that it is hardly to be sup
posed that he would spend ten or
twelve millions on roads in Texas
which he did not design to make profit
able. OF course, Col. Scott intends
to make this work profitable. But if
Scott own ten millions stock in the
Pennsylvania Central and ten more in
its connecting roads and in the st.
Louis bridge, and seven millions in the
St. Louis and Vinita road, he will make
these stocks profitable by making the
Texas and Pacific and its branches
tributary to railways in which he and
his corporation have invested so heav-
lily. Scott has involved the Pennsyl-
vania Central in enormous indebted
ness by leasing or buying 'Jeeders,"
even as he proposes to make this Texas
and Pacific "feeder" to the rapacious
Pennsylvania Central. He bought his
'feeders" when roads and stocks were
costly, and the sum he owes as presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Central is
simply incalculable. He can only es-
cape inevitable and measureless ruin by
making the Texas and Pacific railway
and its branches wholly tributary to
the Pennsylvania Central. He has
duped, and would rob, Texas, and we
are only amazed that men like Throck-
morton are so misled by narrow, local
interests that they become victims of
Tom Scott's selfish Vaccinations. But
if few men like Throckmorton or q
few towns like Dallas were alone in
voIved, we would be silent. What can
justify silence when such a common
wealth as Texas and all these Southern
States and commonwealth arc bereft
of every hope of every benefaction
ever dreamed of by statesmen who
have written or spoken of the con-
struction of Southern transcontinental
road2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
A FEARFUL EVIL.

If Governor Hubbard wanted a pre-
text be could surely find one for the
convocation of the Legislature in the
necessity for the reform of city and
county and district courts. The ses-
sions of these are simply interminable.
The AtsseHger says of them in its coun-
ty, where they have not a mayors
court with its bailiffs and turkeys
and costs, constantly in operation day
after day, that ''the circuit court is in
session eighty-four days; the county
criminal court-seventy-two days; the
county civil court thIrty-six days, and
the ak justices courts seEenty-two
days EACH" Making in all six hundred
and twenty-four court days IN eseh
three hundred and sixty-fve. The
hardship falls upon farmers taken from
the fields as jurymen or witnesses and
business men from their desks. The
farmer can hardly do q days work be-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

THE charter granted to the Austin
and Pacific Short Line Railway Com
pany EXPIRES in fifteen days, unless
work is commenced upon the road in
this time. No company can then OBJ
tain the privilege to build a railway
along the route this charter covers ex-
cept under the present Constitution,
which is death on railroad enterprises.
The franchise now in existence is a
valuable one in many respects, and
should be preserved for the benefit of
the people of this section of the State,
and hence the necessity for giving i'm
mediate aid to place the enterprise
upon foot. A new style of iron,
adapted for narrow gauge railways,
makes it possible, together with the
generally low prices of everything, to
construct such road as the one pro-
posed from here to Lampasas, at a cost
of not over $1,000 per mile, and this
moderate expense makes it emil
nently proper, outside of the
question of charter, that little
time should be consumed in plac-
ing these railroad matters in motion.
A few gentlemen have gone actively to
work in the last day or two, and the
pluck they display gives confidence
that something will be done. Let US
have the narrow gauge.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
NO. Is

THE very pitifulest incident of this
Credit NobIlier scheme of Tom Scott
is discovered in his unblushing dicker-
ing with Senator Coke. Coke's weak
ness for Waco is the standard joke Of
Texas politicians. 1t is known to be
mama of the Senator. Though
Governor Coke was born and reared in
the lowlands of Virginia and of most
honorable lineage, he was never heard
TO say he was from the Old Dcminis n
or that he VAS one of the "first fan,i-
lies" He never looked behind him
or dreamed that there was an oatcr
world bigger than Waco beyond the
narrow horizon that shuts in that dc
lectable flat deposit of men and houses
on the banks of the tawny Brazos.
Scott has studied Coke and Throck-
morton is Scott's mentor. When Scott
curved the route of his road from the
Panhandle to Galveston, so that il
might avoid the home OF the STATES
MAN, and touch that of Coke, Scott
confessed a thorough knowledge of
the Senator's extraordinary foibles and
of the value of a vote in the Senate.
The Senator has seen enough, how
ever, even here in Texas, to compel
caution, and however fascinating the
proposition to offer Il bill never TO be
enacted, giving to Waco the longest
possible branch road, from Galveston
to the Texas and Pacific, he will never
be induced to support measure pal
psbly absurd on the map of Texas, and
palpable bribe proffcred for an un-
purchaseable senatorial vote.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

FLOUR is ouly beautiful to look at.
The greater volume OF the nutritive
properties of wheat is destroyed by the
process OF grinding and heating and
in the extraction of "shorts" and
'brsn." Infinitely to be preferred ia
the bread made of wheat which has
been simply triturAted in the mills OF
the Health Food Company, Of Frank
Fuller, OF New York City. In these
the wheat is beaten with countless
hammers, and grinding stones are un-
used. In England the Health Food
Company's process has been extensively
adopted, and no one who has used the
hammered -four ever resorts 70 that
which is ground. The newly-devised
mills cost three-fourths less than
those to which our fathers went with
the wheat in one end Of the bag and q
stone in the other to keep the sack
steady on the mules back. When we
witness the listless of Austin and
its terrific old fogyisrn, We must re.
member that this good town is still go
ing to the old mill in the old way.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

THE death Of the Telegraph, the old
est of Texas newspapers, in Houston,
the centre of the railway and tele-
graphic system of Texas, is the most
eloquent lecture upon hard times ever
delivered and most significant of the
moribund condition of commercial
communities. If Houston were vigor-
GUS and full of life and business activ-
ity, the venerable Telegraph would
never have succumbed to debt and hard
times. but Houston itself has been
bankrupted by people who imposed
and yet paid no taxes. Terrible local
burdens have made trade and news
paper property proftless, and railways
and half-inished ship canals failed to
magnetic either the city or its vener
able mouthpiece. Houston should rear
a monument IN honor of the Telegraph.
Its name and deeds and memories are
of the cIty's history and it was worthy
OF a greater and more generous city
and OF fate less sad than that which,
in its old age, smote it with paralysis
aud finally thrust it out Of sight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
THE WOMEN AND WHISKY.

Every dollar and dime squandered
in fashionable saloons or in foul rum
holes is taken from the wives and
children, from the mothers of reckless
sons and from the sisters of those who
finally drive the penniless and unfortu-
nate to lives of shame. No husband
goes home habltually half drunk who
is not met at the doorway by hag-
gard, anxious wife and wretched,
hopeless children. The women are
whisky's chiefest victims, and suffer
most at it's foul hands. These women
must ever wear masks in society. They
smile when their hearts are breaking,
and dress in tawdy finery because the
dramshop exacts dollars, while they
must be content with dimes doled out
the more stingily because the thirsty
brute must give dollars to whisky.
Hunger, hypocrisy, shame, and then
recklessness and vice and pitiable deg
radiation, are suffered to be sold at re-
tail, the law licensing it, and it Is
thrust in everybody's face even in
Austin, the boasted, beautiful capital
of the commonwealth. 1t is foul
shame that place SO charming as it
came from the hands of God and nature
Il L.
with so many portals to hell. 1t be-
comes the fair and Yirtuous women of
the capital to serve the cause of truth
and soberness. There was never time
when woman's gentle, persuasive smile
and sweet, seductive influence could
be heard and felt more properly or ef-
fectively or more benefcently than at
this very moment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

The Guadalupe river below Seguin
would furnish the power 70 ProPeI
machinery Ike that at Lawrence or
Lowell, and since cotton grows luxu-
riently everywhere along the river this
Southern Lowell viii outvie that Of
New England in proatabIeness- When
the country is made sober BY Hon.
John Ireland and local option, the
money DOW inyested IN gin nilis will
go into cotton mills add earich a. il
now impoverishes and degraae4 the
country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22

There were, according to the ninth
United States census reports, in 1870,
14S, lis licensed hquor dealers, each
of whom sold $16.66 80 per day, ag-
gregating $715. SIS. .OOc for the year.
In that same year, 1870, and from the
same report, we see that all our manu-
factories paid their hands $775, 5s4, sss.
We had then population of 50, 55s,-
al. There were manufactured IN that
year: Textiles, $3.50, s1s, SIS; Eve
give the value of the articles instead Of
their quantity; articles of wear, $S9s, :
2e4. u.s. boots and shoes, $1s1, GA, $50 )
cotton goods. sizes, 457, s5s; woOlen
goods. $Is7, ,a9S. 1so. Now, to these
values add twenty-five per cent. the