davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1877-09-16
WHITE WINE.

never think OF thee as gone;
I do not say, '.Tnou art not herer'
For, be the sunlight dim or clear,
Or Ger ,,y hearth, and Ger the lawn,
S,rtatI. so.,,her miduight's drearest pail,
hear thy gentle footsteps fail,
And see thee near, Ut all most dear.
Forever near, and not afar.
Though leagues OF earthly measure ue
Between US. As i distant star.
That heckons to US from the sky,
Seems le.ninS carthward. where ve are
Beneath the .lalnourof OF its cye-
So |, within The w1tching spells
nj Loves iytoxlcAlllg cup,
Find time AMI distance swallowed up,
And hear a chime Ut Eo'acn bells
Ring OFT uncarthly melody,
As soul with sual. together, we
Glide to their music through l1fe's dells!
No dark mistrust e'er doomed between
The clcaI. light Of thy love, true EearE1
Nor cruel wortis c'er rent apart
ihe holy realm where | am queen.
The kingdom where we reign is one,
Has neytr seen tue set Of sun,
Or cloud to hoat It's heaven athSsart. ..
4 lnvc that doubts is not complete
Could never satisfy mr soul.
No half-llle cuu-a brimming bowl "
crave. to turn ltfe's bitter sweet,
Ard pnre rs water, chastc as ice,
No tiint of lust 10 mar itB price
The white wine but for pure souls meetI
White wine of lore that God will bless,
An! anyel-cycs may smile to ece.
That teAvc* the soul frUm spot "a ffea
Al innocence IN virgin dress
When fron. Mortality we rise.
AM sing our fight to falrer skies
O'esarching Loves own Heaven -to.bel
And yet, though spotless as a pearl,
And holy, since 1 tlr1ught divine,
II warn1s my verT soul like wine,
Such AZ they quail whuse pinious furl
Around the Majesty on High:
/ list an Ancef-*ympnony
Thrilled down Heavens te!esrsphic line!
2EN1SGroS, Ind. ELEANOR CAMPBELL
, 1877-09-16
Il Cool Proceeding.

In one Of the windows in front of Whom d
Norucck's drugstore there is u glass jar filled
with alcohol aid containing the head Of rattle
suake t;rippcd tightly in the jaws Of the suake
is piece of cloth, The history OF the snake anu
the cloth is rs follows: 4 short time ago = ulan
who was hunting horses in the hills on Upper
Reese River was ATTACKED by a rattlesnake,
Whieh h sprang @ from the ground and fastened is
fangs in the sleeve of his coat. He took, out nus
knife and cut out the cloth from his sleeve
where the snake had fastened itself, anu then
, 1877-09-16

SOLUTIONS.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 30.
5a-at I'LL l5-'e l5-e ia iii iii aMn Biaer
. SOLUTION ro POSITION NO. 30.
's El5 l3-3 l33 90 E-iS waiie
wins-
GAME no. 103-LAIRD AND LADY.
Played in Chicago between Nessrs. HHtzlcr, OF
Cincinnati, aud j. ". uowIcy, uf Chicago:
, 1877-09-16

to
J: Q. F., Newark, n. J.-kequrst attended to.
F. 4. F., st. Louis, Mo.-Youz highly valued
contributions duly received r.
J. T. Cincinnati. 0.-Thanks for the favor
c. 4. t.. GAINESVILLE, Wis--Tour criticism ap-
pears below.
Il. B. L., C!ty-Try 81 at third move OF your
solution, aud yonr problem eau be drawn.
j. D., New iork-The illustrated fails to put in
an appearance at this Office.
, 1877-09-16

4 match for the ''championsh'p Of the Stale y
was recently played ut New Haven. Conn, be-
tween Messrs. Whelahan and Atkins, resulting in
favor OF the former by the score OF to 2 and
eight games drawn.
, 1877-09-16
GAME no. 105-SNITCFIER.
Played in IT. Louis, Mo-. in friendly match
between MeAsrs, Fitzpatrick and SCHNEIDER.


ta} In game 10, g6 between Mes3f5. bryce ant
HutZer, 15-5Y x38 played here. and uNtzler won-
think t4-E3 leads TO = draw. Let some one show yin
II theY r1n. Z. a. 7.
, 1877-09-16

CHECKER ITEMS.
Mr. Trua1, champion Of Minnesota, promises to
make the Chicago players another visit next win
Mr.. y, B. Fonville, Of Kank.kcc, was visitor
at the Athen.cum last week.
Considering tlat Mr. Bennett is totally blind, he
makes against 50 able an opponent as M1. NcCul-
loch in tue undcrnoted game. The mode OF play
adopted by Mr; Bennett differs from that ordinarily
known as 4'blindfu!d," in which the player de-
pe1ids on his unaidcd memory to picture the board
with Its ever.yaryin. positions. The d1au.ht-
board used BY Mr. 4. is Of the ordinary size, but
1nancuvered) nre followed out to the depth
OF about quarter Of an inch, while The
men arc DISTINGUISHED BY. their shape: not
square instead or black and whitc,-and are made
TO lit exactir into ths various squares In making
.; move, the ''man" to be played is taken from
the square in which it stands and inserted i'll that
to which the player desires to move it. When his
opponent has moved. the blind player finger. all
over the board for the purpose Of understanding
the position, and then makes his reply. taking no
i keeps the shn$ f,R WRhiIe he
. pEs5s y h the . oG1fd r. s and thu h s,a
lie did not learn the game nm TIL many years after
he had lost his s,sht and thus has practically
enter,ainin: game Of drauyh1s. The board he uscs
Was devised by Mr. Bennett himself and most ad-
mirahly suits the purpose. Oar blind friend ia
genial and agreeable opponent and spesks en-
thuslastcally OF the game and the plcasusable en-
tertanmcnt it ha. afforded him- --Ga4sgotc Herald.
CnlcAoo, Sept .t15.--To kt< Drauoai- PLAYERS Of
Chicago Field of June 8. with reference to the
Northwestern championship. VIC wrote that ''Our
editorial duties and other business engagements
are OF such laborious character that we have not
the time, even If We hAd the inclination, TO keep
ourselves in readiness to play checker-natehcs 20
defend the championship.'' These were our senti-
business cares have multiplied; we have found but
little time to devote to study or practiec- and have
, 1877-09-16

" EE{tNt
White to move and draw.

POSITION no. 81
By Phil j. ALrscnuI. Chicago.
Black men on l., 2, 6, II. -. Kings on 5, q.
White men on II, % 2:', 20. Kings, II, la, 10.
Black to move and win
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THEY are evoking candidates in Mis-
sissippi for the office of governor, their
merits based simply upon their war
records. Substantial, heroic block
heads may be thus set up. They were
heroes, and fought terribly, no doubt,
but the poor women endured greater
hardships and suffered more heroically
than the bravest of them. The great
dogs of war are not necessarily fitted
for civic honors, and in the present
condition of disturbed social and In
dustrial systems, when wise and learned
rulers are more needed than red-handed
or broken-headed warriors, the people
should practice discretion. Sane men
don't employ bull terriers to ego snip
ing" or Phil Sheridans to fill civil po-
si:ions, or constables to SIT on the
bench, and yet, when we fill governors
chairs or seats in Congress, We often
gather in wooden headed fighters. 1t
is not impossible that warriors may be
statesmen. Napoleon was the wisest
of rulers as the greatest of soldiers,
but it is not improper to suggest to our
neighbors, very modestly and blush
ingly of course, that every hero is not
statesman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE necessity for railway from
Austin along the general course of the
Rio Grande, giving the shortest route
between San Francisco and Galveston
and at the same time populatlng the
country now given over to horse
thieves, Comanches and Mexican ban
dts, is so apparent that Atkins and
Lamar's Texas and Pacific railway bills
will surely be so amended that the
branch road may obviatc finally thu
necessity for war with Mexico and at
the same time put period to disorders
on the frontier. II Blaine and Morton
and the United States district attorney
and marshal at Austin complain of law
lessness IN the West and these Senators
would remedy the evil. the cheapest
and surest cure will be found in the
branch of Huntington's and Scott's
railway, which may come down from
the vicinity of Ell Paso to the capital
of Texas. Will not the Texas and Pa
ciic railway bill be amended! Was
not this presumed when spectators in
railway property came to Austin and
secured a char,cr not long ago, for a
road over the route OF which we speak {?
To restore order in Mexico, build the
International to the capital of the coun-
try; to establish proper social systems
along the confines of the two coun-
tries, let the branch of the Texas Pa
cific along the valley of the Rio Grande
be provided for, constituting part of
the air line from the Bay of San Fran
cisco to that of Galveston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

WHY does not the international Rail-
way Company go before Congress and
show how peace may be perpetusted
with Mexico, how the country may be
populated and this population imbued
with American ideas, and how the
commerce and agriculture and mines
and Industries of Mexico may be made
the richest resource of the United
States. If this were shown, and that
the International road, extended from
Austin to Mazatlea or San Bias, would
constitute part OF the shortest possible
line from New York to the Pacific, and
to that point on the Pacific to which
vessels from China are forced by trade
winds-if these facts were properly
presented to Congress, measures would
be adopted affecting this railway com
pelIing the final pacification and
Americanization of Mexico cheaper
than war and wiser and better for both
countries.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
NO. 3S

The Fourteenth Legislature passed q
law requiring unpatented lands to be
tsxed. II has been the policy of some
of the largest land owners of the State
to get their claims ready in the Land
Office for pstenting and leave them in
that condition. This was done on ac-
count of unpstented lands heretofore
not being taxed. The Texas Central
Rllrosd adopted this policy. partly on
account of not having 10 pay taxes and
partly on account of q clause IN their
charter which required them to alien
a.e a portion OF their lands in certain
number of years, rs, understand, they
claim that that clause in the charter
does not commence running against
them until the land is patented by the
State. This corporation has several
Thousand sections unpatented, some Of
which have been in the Land Office
fifteen or twenty years untaNed.
The taxes on this character of claims
alone for one year, il assessed at falr
valuation, will be sufficient to pay the
entire cost OF making and printing this
abstract. To Keep 1t up each year will
require the rvices of two clerks con
stantly employed.
In railroad work we find that the
abstract would not be complete with
out giving the number of the survey
and section, in addition to what the
law requires us to give. With the num-
Der Of the certificate and number OF the
section the assessors will have no diff
Guilty in identifying aud properly asses
sing the lands. Some lew assessors
have procured written copies of their
counties, and Others who desire can do
So by applying to the Commissioner of
the Genclal Land Office and paying for
them at the rate OF ten 10 twenty dol
lars per county, according to the mum
ber of surveys in the county. Two ad-
ditional clerks have been put on this
work, and think it will be complete
and ready for the printer in ten or
twelve months.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
LERDO BEATEN FINALLY.

II dispatches from the West to the
Galveston AessS are to be credited Ler-
do blundered fatally, Diaz has carried
the point at which he aimed, and will
be recognized as the Legitimate master
of Mexico. He proposes to assent 10
the invasion of the republic by Amer
ican troops in pursuit of cattle thieves
and robbers. Lrrdo objected in q
stately paper. He sought to gather
strength 10 Mexico. DIaz assented,
while he proposed to win strength in
the United States. Diaz gains recogni-
ton, we imagine, and thus will have
peace with this country, and perma-
nent government for a few wears IN
Mexico, and il the person Of Diaz We
will have friend of Los Gringos. If
The President OF the UniteCs..S' a.es
would make the most of these events
he will induce Diaz not only to coop
crate in the suppression of violence
along the border, but in fastening the
regeneration of Mexico by promoting
the construction Of the International
road from Austin to the Pacific. II
Hayes and Diuz distinguish their ad-
ministration by the restoration of
peace and then 10y the execution of
treaty bet Ween the two republics writ
ten across Texas and Mexico in letters
of iron they will live immor-
tai in the history as in the gratitude OF
these countries. II the Congress of
the United States assent to the necessI-
ty for another railway from the At
lantic to the Pacific, as it probably will
at the coming session, that facilities
for inter-oceanIc travel and traffic may
be multiplied, how infinitely valuable
this International road, which gives
New York city an airline route, and
the shortest possible to the Pacific
Not only this, but gives permanent
peace and unity to two countries and
order and law and regeneration to
Mexico. The United States arc deeply
interested in these as in other results
of transcontinental railway construc-
tion, and Mexico can never have peace
or order or prosperity until locomo-
tives, as schoolmasters, are abroad in
the land.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
Abstract of Land Titles.

Mr.. f. W. Girand, abstract clerk of
the Land Office, writes:
The law authorizing and requiring
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office to make an abstract of all genu-
inc land surveys, patented and unpat
ented, returned to the General Land
Office, gave him three men to do the
work, one craftsman and two clerks.
County lands have been so changed
and new counties created that land
owners having lands patented in
one county will find, when this alb
stract is published, that their lands are
in quite different county. The files
come from the craftsman to the two
clerks, one of whom takes them to the
index of "Record of Patents" called
in the Land Office delivery books, I"
and there indorses on the back of the
file the number certificate, date and
number Of patent, and volume recorded
in. The files then come to the other
clerk, who enters on manuscript the
name of original grantee, number of
certificate, name Of patentee, quantity
OF survey, class, date and number Of
patent and volume recorded in, with
old abstract number, which has TO be
taken from old abstract books. So
you will see that making this abstract
IS, of necessity, long and very tedi-
Gus job. but one, when completed, OF
incalcu!able value to the State, and q
great convenience 10 landowners and
ASSESSORS.
In making this abstract, we have
found many old surveys not represent
ed on the old abstract. II the owners
of these claims have rendered them
for taxes each year, the State has lost
nothing, but If they have not been
rendered, there is nothing IN the
Comptroller's Office that would enable
him to keep delinquent account
against them, and Of course the State
has lost the taxes on them. / will
mention one in this condition, as il is
3 large one. Six leagues Of land
granted 70 Stephen Z. Austin II
seems there was some controversy
about these leagues, and the Supreme
Court Of Texas confirmed the title 70
Anstin, bot there Is no evidence in the
General Land Office OF title, except
that they are represented on maps Of
the Office. So
Il seems to me that it would have
been better for the owners Of these
leagues to have got patents from the
State for them, not that L Eoeid
make their titles any better, BAT tAzt
the records Of the Land 0fiiee Yonia
show it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE Houston Age, referring to the
editorial of the Globe Democrat, based
upon Marshal Purnell's letter, says
that sit ls the truth that hurts most"
1t makes no further comment and for
gets to say, as did Marshal Purnell,
whom we esteem personally, that
Texas is the only State in the Union
that lnaintains in the field strong
force to capture horse thieves and rob-
bers. 1t is the only State which, hav-
ing Mexican border of two thousand
miles, furnishes knaves of the conti-
nent, of high and low degree, perfect
facilities for attack and escape. 1t is
the only State in which desperadoes
can live without contact with civiliza-
tion. Cattle on the plains and tropi-
cal fruits and a benignant climate make
the cost of living the least possible,
and hunger and want impossible.
There was never such field given by
the disorders of Mexico and sparseness
of population on both sides of the Rio
Grande for lswless adventures. 1t Is
only wonderful that Ham Whites are
not more numerous, that mail coaches
are not more frequently robbed, and
that these villains do not make more
extended incursions into the interior
of Texas, levying contributions even
upon San Antonio and Austin. Every
portion of the Union has here its rep
resentative scoundrels. As Southern
States have gradually recovered from
the shock of battle, as society has been
reorgsnized and the rottenness that
stuffed off from both armies has been
expelled, the coma libre presented
matchless attractions for this mass of
vice, and while there has been law
lessness and crime, as asserted, there
"a less and there are fewer highwaymen
Winnlns imitators by their daring
and strange generosity. in which Ham
White echpsed the storied knights of
the green-sward, than the reading
world would suppose. 1t is only un-
fortunate that IN the very midst of
this state of facts, while Texas most
needed a vigorous administration of
justice and an executive armed with
extraordinary powers snd legislatures
authorized to enact codes and create
courts adapted to the changes of the
vigorous, rapidly growing common
wealth-at this very juncture there
came down upon US the self-sufficient,
all-wise Rutsbaga- Heit was who des-
olated corporations because he knew
that to vote was the native born right
Of man, black and white and red, sud
not . privilege to be conceded as wis
dom dictated. He knew that she
knew it all," and he handcutfed the
Governor and the Legislature, and
IN escaping costs OF government
doubled them again and again. he 20
manscled the States chief magistrate
that to discharge the simplest task Of
necessity he must convene the Lsgisla-
tnre. The printing. and even the cod
iRestiou Of the laws, must be stopped
because the Governor, II he continued
il would be consigned 10 the Piliory
under the Ratabsga universal code and
ssds naeun called in derisiOn the con-
stisukion Of Texas. Rutabaga genius
for governmert, even with such state
Of society Is We have. gave Us elective
courts. and II . lswless community
must choose 3 lawless judge, % mean
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

oil OF turpentlne, two drachms, and sui
phuric acid, by measure, two drachms.
Il sometimes happens that nail en-
tiers the commissures by the side OF the
frog in such direction as TO lead TO
the supposition that it has penetrated
the hexor tendon aud entered the ma
vicular Joint. II such be the case, 1t
becomes a formidable affair indeed,
and demands the utmost caution in the
treatment,
GRAZING SToCK ToGRTHER.--A cor
respondent asks the Prairie Farmer
what kinds of stock may be protitably
pastured together; and, adds, that he
has been troubled in having his young
horses chase calves and sheep about
the pasture. Any two varieties of an
finals, one which grazes close to the
ground and the other not closely, may
be economically pasured together If
their habits otherwise are alike. Young
horses, whose natural instinct leads
them to take violent exercise. should
never he put with other animals that
require to be kept quiet, orswith those
which they might injure. Cattle and
sheep pasture kindly together, aud the
sheep will eat short pasture which cat
tie cannot easily crop. So, also,
breeding mares aud their foals, and
also steady horses may be pastured
with cattle. Either sheep, or horses,
will Craze the grass about the drop
pings OF cattle, and rice oerSd, when
they will not touch those portions of
the meadow fertilized by their own
droppings. Young horses should be
kept in pasture by themselves, but
may be changed into pastures for other
animals, their own pasture meanwhile
being given up to different stock. AT
ter the middle of June, or when the
weather becomes permanently warm,
there is less difficulty from injury 20
other stock by the racing OF young
horses. After this time they become
comparatively quiet, since the heat Is
not conducive to violent exercise.
Hogs should be kept by themselves,
and on red clover. They do not, rs q
rule, eat the real grasses Of our pas
lures TO any considerable extent.
Calves, sheep, and horses feed on close
pastures, and cattle on longer ones.
Hogs do not bite close. The animals
that Craze close to the ground are
horses, mules, and sheep. Cattle do
not feed readily on pasture SO short
that they cannot gather it with their
tongues.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

WE don't propose to be hypercritical,
but when the Galveston Ne0S, in a
studied leader, tells of hlm who was
drought to an impetuous grave" we
think the figure of speech rather
strong. Graves are not often very
''impetuous." This quality, in fact,
would be incompatible with their con-
fesscd gra0ity and we must insist that
our solemn neighbor has committed q
grave blunder. If fellow were ere
mated in whisky or event up" by in
cineration and thus found his grave in
gas the Nc,cS might have remarked,
even with tears IN its eyes, that his
was an "impctuous grave" We advise
the NetcS to mollify its terms and not
to use such strong language.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE New York World, like the
STATESMAN, eschews war and asks for
peace with Mexico. Il would have no
annexation of territory. We have
enough, and would not widen the zOAa
li5rs or augment the terrible voting
forces of the republic. If President
Hayes give us peace with Mexico, ~
press violence along the frontier and
give Us that annexation" achieved by
the extension Of the International road
from Austin 70 the AIexican capital.
Texas viii reGr for him nonumeEt
that viii be reEersneed for the story il
tells, even while the Alamo and San
Jacinto are remembered. N@