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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
THE COMING HIGHWAY.

With the assurance given by recent
transforms that crops will be unsur-
passed and bread and beef abundant,
the food-tlde of immigration will be
unprecedented, and money, as COM
pared with the condition of other
States, must abound in Texas. Brighter
days dawn upon US. Secretary Sher-
man still twists the thumbscrews of
contraction and aggravates the press
ure of ''hard times" in older States,
driving discontented populations into
Texas. 1t will be easy to live. Bread
will be cheap, and beef and bacon will
attract the hungry and industrious of
all lands. Trade will revive, and it is
only needful that Austin provide high
ways for its coming. These local i'm
provements now prosecuted by the
Board of Trade, which has induced
the cooperation OF the county court
the court duplicating the amount gath
cred by private subscriptions-these
local highways, when perfected, will
demonstrate the necessity for more
effective agencies for the concentration
of trade in the capital. Along these
LEGAL roads farms will advance in value.
The saving in the cost of the transfer
Of each crop to market is the interest
on the sum added to the value of each
acre OF each farm along the improved
highway. A good turnpike commonly
adds from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
to the value of farm. A narrow
gauge railway, reducing the cost
Of travel and transportation to
\ minimum, commonly duplicates
Dr. quadruples the salable value of
farm. The reason is that the turnpike
must be forever repaired, and to this
cost must be added that of horses,
mules, oxen, wagons AID drivers, to be
forever by the farmer. The
narrow gauge repairs and forever re-
produces itself, and saves the farmer |
lime, money and the maintenance of |
wagons and teams and teamsters. In
hese simple facts consist the reasons
or the preference given by all intelli-
gent towns to the railway, and IN these
acts we discover the reason why older
have abandoned turnpikes
md substituted the cheaper and less
costly and more profitable narrow
,auge railways. But now that the
Chamber of Commerce and county
;ourt have absolutely become public
and accomplished great
md good work, property values will
'e affected by popular confidence in
his public spirit. For the first time
he sluggish capital is aroused. Great
rops to be garnered will demand i'm
proved facilities for transportation, and
he people of the country, cooperating
With those of the city, will surely be
nabled at last to begin the construc-
ion of the cheap railway towards
We only need Cone
It Bremond or Hurley, and the work
will be speedily begun and the task
asily executed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
MEXICAN TROUBLES.

Whatever msy be the feeling of peo-
pie of other States, Texas would have
no war with Mexico, We would have
no more new States or additional vot-
ing populations of the sort that Mex
leo would furnish. Texas asks moth
ing but security for inhabitants and
property along the Rio Grande, and
access by railway to Monterey and Ma
zatlan. The trade between Texas and
Mexico, if peace were enforced by fet.
ters Of iron and invasion effected by
locomotives, would be enormous, and
the prosperity Of Texan cities unpre-
cedented. The interests of Mexico
snd of Texas are identical, and peace
indispensable to the prosperity Of
both repablics. When the action OF
Mr.. Hsyes's cabinet, instructing Gen.
Ord to Invade Mexico for reasons -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
FOLLY AND VANITY IN PUNER-
AIS.

The preachers of Savannah, Georgia,
concur in signing paper which ad-
verts to subject the STATESMAN has
discussed. They say that extravagant
customs prevail which entail upon
families in moderate circumstances
debts which harass them for years, and
lead in many cases to intolerable bur
dcns. The circumstances of funeral
occasions are such that the nearest
relatives are deprived of all power to
Judge with calmness or control expeR
ditures with prudence. Often they
satisfy themselves with giving the mat
ter into the hands of others with the
single request that such a burial be
given as custom demands. 1t needs,
therefore, that custom be wisely regu-
lated. After thoughtful considera-
tion of the reforms needed and practi-
cable, 1t is suggested that in procuring
coffins and carriages simplicity and
utility be chiefly regarded, and that
display on such occasions belongs to
paganism rather than to Christianity.
The reform proposed of most imme-
diate value is that the duty
of attendance on the part of the
public at funerals should be universal
ly considered as ended when the relig-
ious service is concluded at the church
or residence of deceased; that the pro.
gress to the cemetery and the inter-
ment should be private; that the fani-
- r-~..>-o AZ Uai IIaSes, except Ior pri-
vate use. Wealthy Christian men will
readily practice this self-denial when
assured that the keen and pressing
wants of widows and orphans all about
US plead for this alienation. 1t often
occurs that the fond desire of friends
to obtain the latest possible sight of
their dead prevents the permanent
fastening of the coffin lid until after the
close of the religious service, when
space is given for those who may wish
to approach the corpse for last look.
For two reasons is recommended the
abolition of this practice. First, medi-
cal science defines numberless dangers
attendant upon the presence of exposed
dead bodies in crowded rooms. Sec
ondly, our own hearts indicate to rs
that the preferable time for this last
look is before the assembling of the
people who wait upon the funeral ser
vice. That In all cases the coffia be
closed before the service, and that the
body be not detained for what often
becomes not only trying but danger
Gus tax upon the already overstrained
nerves of borrowing families.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

OATMEAL. = In Great Britain, chill
dren of all ranks are raised on oatmeal
diet alone, because it causes them to
grow strong and beautiful, and no bet
ter food can be found for them. L is
also quite as desirable fer the student
as for the laborer. and for the delicate
lady and her hard-working sister; in
deed, all classes would be greatly bene-
fted by its use, and dyspepsia, with
all its manifold annoyAnces, can be
Kept at q distance. Oatmeal is more
substantial food, it is said, than veal,
pork or lamb, giving as much, or more
mental vigor, while its great desidera-
tum consists in ones not becoming
weary of it, for it is as welcome for
breakfast or tea as is wheat or Graham
bread. It can be eaten with syrup or
butter as hasty pudding, or with
cream and sugar, like rice. 1t is es-
pecially good for young mothers. upon
whose nervous forces too great . de-
mand has been made, and they lose
the equilibrium of the System and be-
come depressed and dispirited. Oat-
meal requires 70 be cooked slowly, and
the water should be boiling hot when
il Is stirred in.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

IT is an awkward affair in which the
New York Sun is involved. 1t pub
lished a letter from r. B. Hayes to
Gen. Garfield in which the latter is
promised the speakersbip if he will not
stand for the Senate before the Ohio
legislature. Hayes sought the place,
it is alleged, for Stanley Matthews.
The supposed letter has been copied
everywhere and used to show that
rouse, syumnGE,eeeted unE,e Demaarattso to vos, OF; tbe
Garfield. Garfield is Republican ra-
ther than a Radical, and an honest, up
right gentleman, distinguished for the
singular clearness and simple elegance
of his oratory as printed. The ablest
Republican representative from the
West, it was not improbable that Mr..
Hayes would seek to place him in the
Speakers chair, and therefore the Gre
dence given to the letter signed by R.
B. Hayes and published in the New
York Sun. Mr.. Garfield has just seen
this printed letter. Happily for the
fair fame of Mr.. Hayes, Mr.. Garfield
pronounces 1t an unmixed forgery.
Hayes did write letter to Garfield.
This is the truth. The New York Sun
learned that letter had been written,
but failing to secure copy it guessed
at the contents and gave the product
of sunlit genius to wondering world.
The San may deem this proper journal
Ism, but Garfield and Hayes deem ii
lying, and the public concur in this
with the two men who haye been foul.
| ly slandered.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

THE Emperor of China is compelled
by the custom of the realm to plow s
piece of land once each year as an ex-
ample to the people. It is surely full
of significance in country in which
Mother Earth can hardly furnish susie
nance for her countlessly multiplied
children. It is now proposed that at
the next fsir at Austin Governor Hub
bard be induced to put his hands to
the plow handles and show his fellow
countrymen how to tickle the fields
and make them laugh with the fatness
OF the coming harvest. From sheer
sympathy with our chef magistrate
this result will supervene, and we can
not refrain from commenting to the
managers of our State Fair the illus
trious example of the Oriental Emperor
as worthy of imitation even here in
Texas. If the Emperor of China, as
Claimed, may make two blades of grass
where there was before only one, Gov
ernor Hubbard, Georgian, can pro
duce, under the same circumstances,
not only the grass that adorned the
Nlrglnian's julep-moistened grave, but
at least peck of goobers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

The Galveston Nc'rS says the Gal
weston, Brazos and Colorado Narrow
Gauge Railway is a ithrce-foot gauge,
and it is proposed to build it via
Wharton, one branch northwest to
wards Austin, passing east of that
city, and another branch through Vic
toria to the Rio Grande, the precise
route of which has not been defined.
At this rate both the Santa Fe and the
Narrow Gauge will pass to the east of
Austin. The latter is a line which the
people of the capital city should secure,
and we presum, this can be done at
the appropriate time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

the robber. We approve these results
of the Presidents policy, and are,
therefore, said by some insane fell
low to be Radical" Every hon.
est and intelligent man in the South
il as Radical as the STATEs4AE.
The difference between ourselves and
those excessive Democrats who dread
Hayes's growing power with the intel
ligent people is that that they fear and
we desire the dissolution of sectional
parties. We would have the South
morally as we'll as politically liberated,
and this perfect emancipation of the
South cannot be achieved until section
al parties cease to exist. Every fiery,
furious Democrat tells US that so odi-
Gus to the Unionists of the North are
the secesslonists of the South, and so
earnestly do Northern people, outside
the great cities, dread the reproduc-
ton of ''rebel power" in Washington
that civil war would have ensued if
Tilden had been invested with Office.
In precipitatIng this conflict, the Rad
icals of 1876 would have been as un-
wise as those other Radicals of 1901.
But such are the facts, and to remedy
these evils and obviate the possibility
of their recurrence, we would coop
crate with the President in obliterating
every trace Of sectionalism and give the
country lasting and sure repose. If
all this may make the STATESMAN
every honest patriot in the
land will call down heavens choicest
blessings upon every purpose it con-
templates and every end it would
achieve
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

The Rov. Arthur Tooth, the Rit-
ualistic martyr, has returned to Lon
don, and religion has broken out
afresh at st. James's, Hatcham. He at
once announced that all services which
had been conducted there since his re-
moval were schismatical, and the va
nous appointments which had been
forced upon his parishioners were null
and void. On Sunday morning, May
10, he entered the church at 8 o'clock,
wearing an alb and white silk chasu-
BILE, and accompanied by another
clergyman and lay assistant, and be-
gan the celebration of the holy com i
munion- Abnnt 400 persons were
in the pcws. There were two lighted
tapers on the altar. There was no
choir, and consequently no singing, it
being what is termed by the Ritu6lists
a low celebration. The service pro-
ceeded quietly, according 10 the use
OF st. James's, until the prayer for the
Church Militant, when Mr.. Fry, the
Protestant cburchwarden, entered the
church hastily, accompanied by two
policemen. Having reached the chan
eel gates, Mr.. Fry was met by ons Of
the congregation, who detained bim
until Mr.. Webb, the wears warden,
came forward. Dir. Fry loudly called
upon the police to take Mr.. Tooth into
custody for breaking into the church,
but Mr.. Webb forbade them 10 act
without bis consent. Mr.. Fry threat
ened to prosecute his brother war
den for refusing TO act, adding that
be alone had the keys and custody
OF the church, and all those present
were trespassers, which the wears
warden warmly denied. After further
alteration between the two church
wardens, Mr. Fry and the policemen
left the church. After service q large
body of men formed two lines outside
the church, between whom Mr.. Tooth
was escorted TO the yicaTage. At the
II o'clock service a clergyman, who
announced that he was specially sent
by the bishop, oficiated. After ser
vice several members Of the Protestant
League attempted to demolish the
confessional box which stood in the
baptistry, but after doing some dam
age were compiled 10 desist upon the
appearance Of "a police and one Of the
wsrdens.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
THE PROGRRSsIVE REvoLU-
TION.

The several States are free, their
union perpetual and only perpetual be-
cause OF the freedom of the States. To
this extent the day of ''nstionalism"
has come and the day of sectionalism
is over. To the extent that President
Hayes has wrought these results he is
hated by psrty-leaders and to this ex-
tent he is lauded by the SrATRsMAN.
Still we denominate Mr.. Hayes 9
Radical" and idiots only learn to ap-
prove or hate the names Of parties.
We have seen proper to laud Mr.. Hayes
for what be has achieved and idiots or
those who prey upon idiots pronounce
the SrArEsNAN an organ Of Radicalism.
While the President sdheres to the line
of conduct which marks thus far the
course of his administration the
STATESMAN will remain his adherent-
Il signifies little who may be Presi-
dent il he administer the laws fairly.
II in addition to this he may make the
Mississippi an arm of the sea, st. Louis
accessible TO sea-going steamers, con-
Meeting Vera Cres, Havana and Rio
with New Orleans and Galveston We
will the more approve the deeds and
policy Of the President. While Dir.
Hayes accomplishss these results and
gives freedom TO States and
prosperity to The Union. We are con-
tent The reformation Of parties at
the same time progresses. Sectional
ism 10 evisceratsd, and 'tnationalism, -
in the sense suggested, substituted,
and the future unity and integrity of
the States are alike sssared. These are
plain facts, and confessed purposes en-
tertained BY the President, and ts
lsud and approve these constitutes. u
the eyes Of bsrbarous stupidity, th'
srATEsnAx's RAdicahsm. We like 1t
It Is good thing ios the country. j
promotes popular industry. It assure
popular eonssntmsnt. It gives Ii
poos snploynsnt and bread and pro
Rress, and abolishss the hangmaa an'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

If THE scoundrels who threw the
train off the track west of st. Louis be
not hanged there will be few people
who will dare traverse Missouri in a
railway. But isn't it nice to read in
Missouri papers homilies upon stage .
coach robbcries down in Texas, where
knights of the road are gallant thieves,
and then to con over the shocking
crimes in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
We can almost contemplate with a
share of patience the foul cnormities
done i'll Kcmpcr county, Mississippi.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

WAYNE MCNEIGH in his collision
with Ben Butler succeeded in enabling
Butler to demonstrate for the one
hundredth time that he is the sharpest
scoundrel and most ingenious, con-
summate liar the world ever produced.
When Butler was convicted of four
lies he invented eight more, and poor
McVeigh, seeing that he was at last to
be overwhelmed with lies, having an as
pect, as colored.by Butler, of verisimil-
itude, poor McVelgh gives up in de-
spair. He cannot answer Ben, and
neither could devil nor an angel.
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Pitchers
CaStOria.

Mothers may have rest and their babies may
have health II they will use Castoria for Wind
Collie, Worms FeVeYishnesr, Sore Mouth, Group
or Stom ach Complaints. IL Is entirely a Yegeta-
Bile preparation, and contains neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol. IL IL as pleasant TO take
as honey aud neither gags nor gripes
DIR Dimoch, OF Dupont Ohio, says:
''I am using Castoria In my practice with the
most signal benefits and happy results"
This II what everyone says. Most nurses In
by Me- srs j. B ROsx q Co, 46 Dey Street, New
York, successor 10 Samuel Pitcher, N. d.
d&w 1y2taw tiljc22
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AK exceeding good man in Florids,

An exceedfng goOu mAn IN Z tuiIuas
. priest Of the Episcopal church named
Harrison, who dwelleth at Monticello,
in the aforesaid land Of flowers, re-
fuses TO read the prayer ''For thy
servant the President Of the United
stAtea." Between the want Of this
pnyer and Tilden's freezing contempt
when the President visited New York,
ne are grievously distressed about the
salvation Of Hayes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

GEN. FELIX ROBERTSON, at Waco,
Texas, wants the address of each liv-
ing member of Sibley's Texas Brigade,
and all these are invited to Waco on
the twenty-seventh instant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

THE Financial Chronicle On. "
says that the amount of money arnp-
mat16Hn 16Hn u stsIf Iffnat feff!sr ana hhao Fer cent
ON the best eollaterals Continues to
be a subject of unfavorable comment
in Wall street." and forebodes that it
will continue for another five months.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

Col. Tom WHITE, of DeSoto county,
Mississippi, is commonly talked about
by the newspapers as the next Govern
or of that State. 1t Is nomination
eminently fit to be made. He is an
educated, modest, upright gentleman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

The President of the New York Co.
ton Exchange reports that the year had
not been prosperous one to those en-
gagged IN the cotton trade either as
merchants or manufacturers, owing in
part to the dread of general European
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
NOTICE OF ACCOUNT.

The STATE OF Texas, to ali persons interested
an the administrafion OF the estate Of ID. J. An
aersou, deceased. J. c. M.ntsr. administrators
eled his anal account and snpliceltoa to ee dis-
rhs1scd m ths county court of rsaxis ooanty,
,Which will be acted % a she nex, term g 80
tS-7 Al fhc coart honeo Thereof. .sin the city Of
Austin e. whieh tlDe nj petloae interested N
aid estate. maY appear An4 make eo1eotlons
rhorol0s go naa.H -
Wines. frank Brown. Clerk q said
In al court snd TIE zeal tbcreof Attached, Snne
4 fs7s. FRANK BROWN
,n4wSf C. c. c. T. c.
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BAD BREATH.

xotAh,p is so unpleasant, nothing so common
as had 6seath, and In nearly every case 1t Comes
from the stomach, and can be so easily corrected
N yeu will take & immons's Liver RegLiAtor DO
not negieSt 20 sure reTuedy for this rcpulsive
disorder It will also improve your appetite,
compile xion and general health.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

The tone Of the Italian press is, with
but small exception, one OF condem
nation for Turkey, goodwill toward
Russia, and OF surprise At England's
slowness to percei that the cause OF
the southern SlAvs Is morally and ma !
terially her own.
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PILES.

HSu many suffer torture day after day, max;
kng life burden and robbng existence OF all
Pitea Yet relief is ready to the hand OF almost
any ona who will use systematically the remedy
that has perm anently cured thousands. No
drastic. violent purge, but gentle assistant OF
nature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

othsf flhIments, embrocatlOus extracts, salves,
ointments and plasters now In use.
por ToOthAche, Rarache, Weak Back, Itch and
Cntaneous EruptiOns. II Is admirable 1t cures
burns and scalde without a scar, extracts poison
from bites and stings, and heals frost-bites AZ
chIlblalns in short time. No family can afford
10 be without the Centaur Liniment. white wrap
Fer.
The Centaur Liniment, Yellow
Wrapper, il adapted 70 the tough skin, mus
cles and hesh Of the animal creation. Its effects
upon severe cases OF Spawn, Sweeny, Wind
Gall, Big Hesd and Poll Evil, are little less than
marvellous.
Nessrs. J. Mcclure 4 Co., Druggists, corner
OF Elm and Front streets Cincinnati, Ohio, says:
SIN our neghborhood number Of Teamsters
are using the Centaur Liniment. They pronounce
II superior to anything they have ever used. We
sell AZ high as four to hve dozen bottles per
month TO these teamsters."
We have thousands OF similar testimonials.
For Wounds, Calls, Scratches, RingbOne, ETC.,
and for Screw Worm IN sheep IL has no rival.
Farmers, Liverymen and Stockraisers have Ia
thus Liniment n remedy which is worth hun
dred times It's cost.
Laboratory OF J. b. ROSE & co.
4G Dcy St New York
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CONSTIPATION

Should not be regarded as trihins
ailment-in fact nature demands the
utmost regularity of the bowels, and
my deviation from this demand paVes
the way often 20 serious danger. II
is quite as necessary to remove i'm
pure accHmulations from the bowels
as It Is to eat o. sleep, and no heal
can be expected where costive
habit nf hnhy nraynils
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1T HAS NO EQUAL.
Caution.

AZ thc1e arc . number OF limitations offered
20 the public We Nould caution the commun-
ity 10 buy no Powders or prepared SlMMONS'S
LIVER REGULATOR unless in oar engravtd
wrappers with Trade Mark, stamp and signature
unbrokcn, None other lie genuine
J. Ii ZEILIN 4 CO.,
nosdeodAwlyr Macon. Ga. and phIladelphia
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SICK HEADACHE.

Thtz distressing ahiictiou occurs most fire.
oueniIy. The disturbance Of the stomach aris-
ing from tho -imperfectly diuested contents,
with a disagreeable nausea, and this CO atitutes
what IL popularly known as Sick Headache.
j. H. ZEILIN 6 CO.,
sole proprietors Simmons's Liver Regulator,
Philadelphia.
AZ Remedy in
,MALARIoUS FEyERS, BOWEL COM
PLANTS, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL DEPRRS-
SION, RESTLESSNESS, JAuNDlCk. MAU-
SEA. SICK HKADACBE, CoLIC, CoNSTIPA-
TON AND BlLlouSNRSS
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T oST.
unconditiousI certiaesie No. IS fr go
neres issned BY the board ef land ecnmiessen-
srs Of Titus county TO Robert Cochran on the
tenth OF January. iSsS not found In the time
prcsc.ibed by lay, viii apply 20 The Conmis-
7leIHEIE - - q ii. v. MCCALL.
June 1. ISL. Agent for Owners.