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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

A correspondent gives the following
sketch of foreign doctors in Paris:
Hitherto medical men from foreign
countries, who came TO settle IN Paris,
and who were graduates Of foreign
university, had merely to present their
diplomas in order TO receive the nee
essary permission TO practice. In this
respect they have been treated with
greater liberality than men educated in
France, who have to undergo an ex-
animation and give certain other pre-
scribed proofs that they possess the
Etness their Office demands. In future
both are to be placed on the same foot
ing, and to undergo the same exsmina-
tion, and il the foreigner is found to
come up To the required standard be
will be excused from attending lee
lures and hospitals, and shall receive
authorization to practice physic and
surgery in any part OF the territory Of
the republic. This certainly seems
fair enough, though il has been hinted
that jealousy has had something 10 do
with the matter. There are many able
doctors in Paris. both British and
American and while almost all foreign
ers apply to these, they are also max
ing considerable inToads upon the
practice of their French confreres,
though their charges are higher than
those of the French doctors. A
I foreign medical man Of good standing
receives twenty francs (say ~ for
visit to his patients house, while
French doctor OF equal merit Is salts
fed with half the amount. II takes
considerable time 10 get into good
practice, and the style Of living de-
manded is of so expensive q character,
and the tax levied so considerable, q
young man wishing 10 settle In PARIS
must possess certain income 10 fall
back upon TO tide HIM over q few
years, and then, if he possess real
ability, particularly in any department.
he will clear his two or three thousand
pounds sterling q year, rs know more
than one Scotch doctor OF respectable
talents has done"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

lHE new administration Of the affair.
OF the Central Railway, the promp,
cash payment once each month OF every
employees, and the discharge of super.
itineraries and unemployment of Col.
Baker, the most efficient and popular
of the railroad managers of Texas. and
the substitution of Swanson for corn
fed beef, y wIu delight the whole peo-
pie Of Texas. The sleeping coach from
Austin to Hampstead, like offices on
the road, will undergo the process of
purgation. Then, too, there are young
men and gray haired men of Texas and
OF the South, who met the fate of war
ike heroes and, suddenly impoyer-
lshed, never required to the fact, but
went to work like men to retrieve mis-
fortunes which politicians and sectional
ism IN Partisanship begat. There are
enough honest and competent men of
the South to hold offices in the South,
whether of railways or of the Federal
and We hope that Presi-
dent Hayes and Col. Baker and Mr..
Swanson and Commodore Morgan will
pot -be nhGvious- OF tho fa~h gaI>,
to very great extent, by the policy of
the government which sent strangers
here who cent out of the South all they
could steal or otherwise acquire in tbs
South. Southern railways, in the
hands of Northern men, have been
used as ruinously for the South as
Federal courts and custom houses and
postoffices, and the changes wrought
IN the administration OF the affairs of |
the Central Railway give infinite salts
faction to the people of Texas.
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WHEN President Hayes declared
that he serves his party best who
serves his country best" the old po-
litical leaders were offended and
alarmed. And yet this simple truth
full declaration was the keynote to
perfect restoration" and Washington
or Jefferson or jackson never uttered
an apothegm more pertinent to the
country's greatest needs. He meant to
say that he would be the president of
the country and NOT af-.lAr- -Rs li--a-a--
CoRTINA is ordered TO leave Tanau-
lipss forever. While he lives he will
traverse as q freebooter the Zona Libre.
When Diaz dies or is dethroned the
decree of Punishment is void and Mex
ican leaders, except Santa Anna, have
not been famed for longevity and their
terms OF office rarely extend through
a twelvemonth.
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TAX ON THE sMOKE-HOUsE AND
CORN.CRIB.

All over Texas the cry goes up
agains. the tax on bread and meat,
which the farmer needs to make his
crop. The fault, if fault it be, lies in
the Constitution, which requires that
"all property" ETC., ''shall be taxed
IN proportion to its value" article 8,
section 1 and again in section 9, which
prohibits the Legislature from releasing
any of the people from payment OF
taxes, except in cases of public calam-
ity. The responsibility rests not on
the Legislature but with those who
made the Constitution. Below is Civ
en- the names and occupation of those
who voted for and against this tax ar
ticle in the Constitution:
Yeas-Messrs. Abernathy, merchant :;
Allison, farmer; Arnim, farmer; Bar
net, physician; Blassingame, farmer :;
Brown, printer; Bruce, farmer; Burle-
son, farmer; Chambers, farmer; Cooke,
lawyer; Darnell, farmer; Ferris. law
yer; Fleming, lawyer; Flournoy, law
yer; German, farmer; Graves, farmer :;
Holt, merchant; Johnson, farmer; Kill
Tough, farmer; Lacy, farmer; Lynch,
wool grower; Mccormick, lawyer :;
Martin of Navarro, farmer; Martin of
Hunt, farmer; Nugent, lawyer and
farmer; Ramey, lawyer and farmer !;
Ross, farmer; Russell of Wood, farm
er; SAMSON, farmer; Scott, farmer :;
Spikes, farmer; Wade, farmer; Whit
field, farmer.
Nays - Messrs. Ballinger, lawyer;
Blake, farmer; Brady, editor; Cooley,
lawyer; Crawford, lawyer; Davis of
Brazos, lawyer; Davis of Wharton,
farmer; DeMorse, editor; billiard, farm
er; Dohoney, lawyer; Erhard, drug
gist; Ford, editor; Gather, farmer !;
Kilgore, lawyer; Lockett, lawyer;
Mclean, lawyer; Mitchell, farmer; !;
Moore, lawyer; Morris, mechanic !;
Murphy, lawyer; Norvell, lawyer; !;
Mum, lawyer; PAUL., postmaster; Rea-
gan, lawyer; Robertson, farmer; Rus
sell Of Harrison, lawyer; Smith, law
yer; Stayton, lawyer; Stewart, lawyer {;
Stockdale, lawyer; Wselder, lawyer; !;
Whitehead, doctor; West, lawyer.
Thus it will be seen that among those
who voted tor this tax article there
were twenty-three farmers, two mer-
chants, five lawyers, one physician, one
printer and one wool-grower. Among
those who voted against it were twenty
lawyers, six farmers, one doctor, one
postmaster, one mechanic, three edit
ors, one druggist-[See proceedings of
Constitutional Convention, page SAL.
Thus it appears that the Granger
element in the Convention forced this
article on the very farming interests
they assumed to represent, against the
votes and protests of the great body Of
the lawyers and of the editors in that
body. Let the farmers direct their
censure where it properly belongs, and
not at the Legislature, sworn to carry
out the provisions of the Constitution.
But the principle is nearer right than
otherwise, and while the record fas-
tens the responsibility upon the farm :
ers, it is to their credit. The lawyers
and editors voted against it no doubt
in a spirit of generosity alone to the
''yeomanry" of the land. These law
yers and editors hoped to hold Office
again; the others knew they stood at
the door of the public crib their first
and last time.
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Csntaur
Iinimsnts.
tLetisr fran a ROstmdSter.
AETsOf-H IfI necrfnhef 4

Antioch, liz. December I, 1874.
Messrs. J. B. Rose a Co:
My wife has for long time been terrible
Sufferer from Rheumatism. she has tried many
physicians and many remedies. The only thing
which has given her relief is Centaur Liniment-
| arm reioiced to say this has cured her. am
doing what can to extend Its ssle.
This f. sample OF maoy Thousand testimoni.
nls rec lived Of wonderful cures effected by the
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IL an indiHputabie fact that the Centaur Lini-
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stiff Joints, E-uptiORH, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
ciAiicA, Caked Breasts, Lockjaw, etc, than any
other linlnents, embrOcatious extracts, salVes,
oiatments and plasters now In use.
For Toothaehe. Rarache, Weak Back, Itch and
Cutareous Eruptions, u is admirable. IL cures
burns and sealdz without scar extracts poison
from bites and slinga, and heals frost-bitss and
chllblains in a short time. No family can afford
to be without The Centaur Liniment, white wrap
per.
Ths Centaur Liniment, Yellow
Wrapper, IL adapted to the tough skln, mus
.cles and flesh Of ihe animal creation. Its effects
upon severe cases of Spawn, Sweeny, Wind
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marvellous.
of Elm and Front streets, Cincinnati Ohio, says: !:
'In our neighborhood a number OF Teamsters
are using the Ccntaur Lininent. They pronounce
Il superior TO anything they have ever used. We
sell as high as four TO five dozen bottles per
month to These teamstere." ..-
We have thousands OF similar Testimonials.
For Wounds, Calls, Scratches, hingbone, etc,
and for Screw Worm In sheep II has no rival
Farmers, LiVerymen and Stockraisers have In
this LinimeDt "A remedy which is worth hun
dred times its cost
Laboratory of J. B. ROSE & co,
46 Dey st. New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

WHEN Congressman Mills makes war
upon the President he proceeds first to
describe a man who is not the Presi-
dent and party that is net the Presi-
dents party, and then Mr.. Mills squares
himself and delivers blow at Mr..
Hayes. But the President will hardly
feel the shock, and in our minds eye
we can only see Mills fall. 1t was q
terrible blow he dealt an imaginary en-
emy. In the prize ring of partisanship
Mr.. Mills deserves fame; but since
Hayes became president, Mills evident
ly doesn't "know the ropes" He
wants to hit Hayes, but is pummeling
somebody else most devilishly.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

MEssRs. HAwLEY, Harlan and John
G. Brown, of the Louisiana commits
sion, are known to the whole country
as able, discreet men. Judge Law
renee is at present on the Supreme
bench of Illinois, to which he was
chosen a year or two ago as an Inde-
pendent by the best elements of both
political parties. He was suggested
for the seat in the Senate that Dayid
Davis now holds, and but for his re-
fusal to permit the use of his name,
he, instead of Davis, would be Logan's
successor. Wayne McVeigh is Penn
sylvanian of high standing, and of un-
doubted abilities. Although SON
in-law of Simon Cameron, he is thor
oughly identified with the liberal wing
of the Republican party in that State,
and was by that element pressed for
seat in the cabinet. The New York
Herald confounds John c. Brown eith-
er with his brother, the able and
learned lawyer and Old Whig Gov
ernor of Tennessee, Neill s. Brown,
or with the "Mt. Pisgah" of ancient
Democracy, Governor Aaron V. Brown,
Postmaster General under Polk OIL
Pierce. John c. IS not related tC
AaIuu v, uuG is Jne younger Orother
of Neill S. Brown. John G. is about
forty-slx years of age, was Governor
of Tennessee in 1870, and filed the
Office with distinguished ability. Johr
G. Brown, like Neill S., was a Wing
and Unionist in 1901. Each of thes,
gentlemen was spoken of for cabinet
position; and it is fact that all the
members of the commission are thor
Cughly in accord with the Southern
policy announced by the President il
his inaugural address.
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IT is enough to make old liue whig-
gerry turn over in Its grave and rub its
shins and have its rusty bones oiled.
Hayes was Whig, Evarts was Wing,
sherman was 9 Wing, Devens was g
Whig, Thompson was Whig, Nc
Crary was q Wing, schurz would, no
doubt have been q Wing if he had
been in this country before the Whig
party went out of business Its enough
to make the hair Of existing partisans
curl the wrong way to contemplate
this resurrection. And there Hsye,
stands, another Gabriel, trumpet il
hand, s'blowing up" the dead, and IS
they come one by one tie Republican
party win sink into oblivion
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

MUNICIPAL elections occurred on the
third instant, in St. Louis, Gin.
cinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Atchison,
Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, Law
renee Kansas Each >>s .L----,-.
from Radicals, mayors. Columbus,
Ohio, elected Democrat. Sedslis,
Missouri, is Democratic. Little Rock
is doubtful. Overstolz, elected mayor
of st. Louis, is Carl Schurz Republi
can and was supported by the cons
vative Democrats. He was nominated
by the Democratic Central Committee,
and the Times, in a high dudgeon be-
cause of OVerstolz's triumph, says:
"Ksiser Overstolz can defy the Demo
cratic party and its would-be leaders,
who for mess of pottage have placed
it in his hands bound and nuzzled. F"
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FxrRRNRs do alNaIa meet

ExTRExEs do always meet, and are
never to be trusted or followed in pol
itics or business life. The war came
of the cooperation of the extreme
North and the extreme South. Boston
aud Charleston were the focal cities
representing focal ideas of hot war and
hot-heAded violence. They ever CO.
operated and concurred, and Southern
secessiouism and Northern rsdicalism
were ever one and the same IN purpose
aud result. Even so at this hour.
Wendell Phillips and the ..chivalry"
are bedfeliows, and wake up each
morning TO vent their curses, couched
in the same terms and based on the
same reasonA upon the devoted head
Of conservatism and moderation.
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WksnEI.L PRnnIrs abuses Devens

WKNDEIL PRILhIPs abuses Devens,
Attorney General in Hayes's Cabinet,
because he helped once, when district
attorney Of the United States, to ne
turn . fugitive slave from Boston.
Hayes thus placed a slayecatcher in
his oabiret, and MArtin aud Wendell
Phillips are dsyiIish mad about !.
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THOSE who denounce Hayes when
he adheres TO his letter of acceptance
aud inaugural, and then denounce those
who in this approve Hayes's conduct,
are the same who went about bray
ing over the country soaring idiots
aud drinking blood in 1850 81, and in
1s62-3-4 skulked into bomb-proofs or
traded IN cotton, or sueaked out under
the tWenty-negro law. The Bombaste.
Fuiioso style of blowhardism and de-
nunelation is Of the dead past. and
only tools practice or are affected by it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

CHICAGO owns a railway from that
city to Hannibal, Missouri, and the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas extends
from that point to Denison. 1t is said
that Chicago has bought the Missouri,
KREs3s and Tavas and a. T~'-i-- =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

IT is now stated that Brigham
Young caused eighty teamsters, dis
charged from the United States SER
vice by Col. Albert Sidney johnson
in 1857, to be massacred. The proof
becomes strong and old Brigham
may yet stand on nothing and pull
hemD.
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PLow your fields two inches deem

PLow your fields two inches deep /;
suffer the hired people to look after
your stock and to ride your horses and
mules Saturdays and Sundays. See
that they are never 'curried or salted !"
buy corn and bacon in st. Louis and
hour in Chicago; invest nothing in
narrow gauge railways; take your cock
tails regularly before breakfast; spend
your money before you make it; de-
vote Saturday, anyhow, to swinging .
Colts repeater around the corner gro
Gerry and ''cuss the id niggers be-
cause they won't work.n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

GOVERNOR BRowN and the other
members of the Louisiana commission
will first reduce the two Louisiana Leg
lslatures to one, and this one will burst
up one or the other governor. Mich.
oils has senate and three to spare, but
lacks nine of having house.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

THE papers, Republican and Demo-
cratic, are already talking about Wade
Hampton for the presidency, and he,
too, like Hayes, is platform -smasher,
thinks and acts for himself, defying
party rules, kicking over their creeds
and platforms as put up jobs to capture
innocent voters.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

STANLEY MATTHEWS aud Congress nan
Charles Foster must feel very bad.
Packsrd's Legislature has denou lced
them both. But President Hayes is in
an infinitely worse condition. The
same illustrious body of patriots as
serts unwavering confidence in the
Presidents honesty and patriotism.
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NO. Sc

The Supreme Court now in session
in Austin, has on its trial docket about
SIX hundred cases. Three hundred
cases are filed at this term, from one
hundred and twenty-five to two hun
dred will be tried, and thus the num-
Der added constantly outgrows the
number disposed OF, and the business
steadily and rapidly accumulates.
Lawyers need never make oral argu.
ments and only briefs, since the speech
now made may not be applied by the
court till months or even years have
elapsed. How the difficulties of which
we speak are to be obvIated, it is i'm.
possible to tell. The courts tolls are
incessant, and never was there a more
painstaking body of judges; but their
tasks, 1t seems, are too onerous and ex-
acting to be discharged by any de.
gree OF industry and effort.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

WHAT a whale ex-Secretary Fish
must bel He spermed the proifered
mission to England; but he was always
nice and fnnycal, and In his early
years was a great spouter.
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Pitchers
CastOria.

Mothers may have rest and their babies may
have health II they will use CastOTia for W.nd
Collie Worms Feverishness, Sore Mouth, Group
or Stomach Complaints. II is entirely VeRetA-
BILE preparation, and contains neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol 1t IL as pleasant 70 take
Us honey, ~ neither gags nor gripes
DIR Il DmOch. OF DIpont, Ohio, says:
~ am using Castorla in nv practice with the
most signal benefits and happy results ="
Thu Is what everyone says Most nurses In
by Me,srs. j. Is Ro.E 4 Co, 46 Dey Street, New
Yor successor 20 samuel Pitcher, NJ. d.
d&w iy2taw tilje22
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Those newspapers and party-leaderI
who do not dare to tell the truth oi
the President or even TO do him jus
tice, are moral towards daring not &C
speak the truth. OF course, they de-
serve neither the respect nor eophdence
Of the people, and can have neither.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

SENATOR ,AAxEY has published
very sensible, practical, conservative
letter. 1t is wise and just, but dis
cusses dead questions. The grand
electoral commission has made its de-
crees. They are final The whole
country wants peace and Hayes will
give it. How be became presiden,
signifies nothing, practically. BE &C
cepted the Office as rendered by the
people and the Congress and the com.
mission, and that is enough.
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The Constitution Of Massachusetts,
disfranchises persons dependent on
public charity, but the law has been
Tor long time almost dead letter.
Il is now proposed to revive II. The
psupe- vote is used in country towns
BY overseers Of the poor 70 perpetuste
themselves and their friends in Office.
II is alleged that there are not less
than 20, 600 voters receiving public aid
In Massachusetts,.
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THE illusions to Governor Chamber
lain's movements and those Of his wife
suggest the Philosophical remark that
Chamberlain came South with carpet
bag and goes back with SaratOgas.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS

MENTION q. JAMES and ANNIE LANE.
Rlnofe.
r. N. Lane, guardian OF the above named mi
uors has dled bic application In the County
Court OF Travis coanty for the sale Of certain
rial property belong .ng TO eaid mino, = Tor Tho
payment of deuts. which will be heard at tho
next term OF said couIl 70 be hid ct the oouri
honse thereof, In austin, on the THIRD MON.
DAY IN NAY. tSs1 when and where all psr
suns int, re,tcd m y appeal and chow cause wny
such saie shou q n, be made.
MiIpess my han and seal Of said court
usl FRANK BROWN.
ans Az - ~. Clerk @ q, OF i. @.
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CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
PHILADELPHIA. 1876.

CENTENNIAL NHIBIT1ON,
... Philadelphia. 1876.
The United States Centennial Com
mission has examined the report of
judges and accepted the following
reasons and decreed an award in con-
formlty Herewith: .rs- .a-
PHILADELPHIA, February IA, 1877.
REPORT ON AWARDS.
Name and address of exhibitor: State
Of Ieras. .
The undersigned, having examined
the product herein described. respect
fully recommend the same to the
United States Centennial Commission
for award for the following reasons,
VIZ:
For an excellent exhibit Of Upland
cotton (5 bales) collected by the Gal
weston Board of Trade for the State OF
Texas, showing the highest grade OF
this great staple of the world.
G. JUHLIN DANNFELT.
signature of the Judge.
Approval of Group Judges
j. A. JOHNSON, E. OLDENDoRFF,
T. E. SIcKELs, T.W. TALLMADGE.
A true copy of the record.
..a FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Chief of Bureau of Awards
Given by authority of the United
States Centennial Commission.
LIS A. T. GosHoRN,
Director General.
]. L. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
j. r. HAwLEY, President.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, /
AUSTIN, TEXAS, April 4, 1877. {
A true copy of the original.
THOMAS P. MARTIN,
.-.... Private Secretary.
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"MrLITARY governments are sup
planted at last by constitutional
Methods" and yet unreasoning South
ern partisans are enraged,it seems, that
the President does right.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS has been making
an ultra, Southern, Democratic speech.
and they who encore Mills call poor old
Wendell "meddlesome fanatic"
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HAYES doesn't use the word "nation"
in all his letters and State papers with
the singular glibness Of his predeces-
anr
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PLATFORMS are wonderfully nice till
the fellows on them arc lifted by them
into Office and we never hear more Of
the nlatfnrm.