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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04
Tcxas-FacIs and FancIes.

Corsicana has shipped II, s0G bales.
A Houston barkeeper took in $647. 25
Christmas day.
Mugginsville is a delicious suburb
of Jefferson.
The municipal election in Houston
occurred Monday.
The burnt district of Corsicaua will
be speedily rebuilt.
Fay Templeton is gobbling rusty
pewter in Corsicana.
A primitive Baptist has turned up as.
a preacher at Palestine.
Goodies" is no longer the motto Of
the Brenham Banner.
The court refused to bail Ashford,
who killed Vandegriff.
Col. Loughery has settled it, and
the word is Texan"
Lieutenant Governor Wells Thompson
was in Houston Friday.
The Selden-Irwin Troupe are playing
to good houses In Dallas.
The Register announces the return OF
Jack Wallace from Atlanta.
The press dispatches have it that q
foot of snow fell in Austin.
Capt. Voigt is successful vender Of
Wheeler & Wilson at Palestine.
The Waco, Fairfield and Palestine
road is to cost $4,000 per mile.
A negro shot white man dead in
Lewisvllle, Denton county-whisky.
Rev. James Young has again begun
to lecture on temperance in Bonham.
The good recorder at San Antonio
fines "brutes" for cruelty to animals.
The jury declared Jack Lsbstt not
guilty of the murder of ]. C. Afford.
People are bagging pigeons by the
wagon load at Magnolia at the roost
there.
"Prof." George engineered a mas.
querade ball with great eeldt in Sher-
man.
One Ashfud killed Vandegriff last
week near Gonzales. The murderer is
in Jail.
\ Nearly forty thousand bales of cot
ton have been received in Dallas since
September 1.
Hieronymus's paper turned up all
right and sober yesterday, but how was
that for Hi9
Erath county has 10, 900 inhabitants
and the number is doubled annually,
SO they say.
Romeo and Juliet to fifteen hearers
in Houston is doing we'll for the
then weather.
The Dallas people are delighted that
the first rail on the Wichita road was
laid during the week.
One or two people were very neatly
carved up in Houston by whisky dur
ing the past week.
The Fort Worth Dsmocrdt man kissed
a pretty girl on the way home from
church last Sunday night.
Houston pays interest on the first on
her bonded debt, and so should all
Texas towns and counties.
Elias W. Talbot, brother of ex-Gov-
ernor Talbot of Mississippi, is dying Of
consumption st Georgetown.
Pete Wootten, of the Texarkana
Democrat, is looking for q wife, the
JlmPlSeUte says, IN Jefferson.
The thermometer went down to
twenty degrees in Houston, and peo-
pie were amazed and frozen.
They don't kill sheep in this market
weighing each ass pounds, as in Louis
vile, Kentucky. Why ndG
Dallas Touring mills 0e supplying
the troops at Forts Clark and DuucsH
prS Ss-. AnsNsi With G~u-.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04

IT WAS a brilliant day, and the more
because projected against the back
ground of storm and cold and tempest
and snow of the day before. And the
splendors of New Years day portended
a brilliant hundred years to come for
Texas, and, we would fam hope, for our
whole country. There was blessedness
in the sunshine that came like angels
smiles from heaven of ethereal clear,
ness and beauty and made glad the
hearts of those who love nature and
the God of nature.
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not toiling for Texas or the South. but
for st. Louis and the East. They
would, however, rob and impoverish
Texas and steal our vast public domain
and the blessed Rutabagss were their
pitlable duPes and most cruelty does
st. Louis confess the purposes and
policy Of those who have wronged and
robbed US.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04

NONE who read to-day the story OF
the dying centennial will live to listen
to the funeral dirge of the next. We
will travel along the rugged causeway
of coming years, and one after another
lie down to rest, and before the space
is halfway brldged the end will come.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-04

If you lounge down into = rocking
chair and tilt back across the toes of q
man in neat fitting boot, don't ask
him if he IS hurt, or ssy anything else
calculated TO make him speak; just let
him stand up and smile Tor few mo-
ments till he gets his voice under con-
troll Society is used to the CHASTITY
smile of man with tight boots, and
doesn't mind it, but the quavering
tones OF IN anguish-stricken voice are
always eslculs;ed ~ cast = Elocn,snveF
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THLEGRAPHIC News.
Especial 10 the Statesman

Arrest of = Noted Besperado.
HEARNE, Texas, January Calvin
Brown, murderer of Gabe Tucker, at
Mckinney, Texas, on the eighth of
December, 1912, was arrested and
turned over TO the sheriff of Robertson
county by John c. Sparks, captain Of
Company c, frontier battalion.
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WASHINGTON.

HEAVY snow Storm In the East.
WASHINGTON. January 2.-The Po-
tomzc is blockaded, the railroads de-
lsyed aud the wires are slow. The
e usa - 'hsFr Is over = foot Of snnT
g - D. - -
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAP II.

HaLN Eo1ON MAhAhlS.
GALVESTON, January 2.-Cotton-Rc-
ceipts, net CPL bales; gross 621 bales;
exports to Great Britain $50 bales; coast
wise 1910 bales; sales 2401 bales; stock
on hand 125, 09S bales market strong;
good middling l2llc; middling 115sc;
low middling ll15c; good ordinary
lie.
Later - Cotton - market strong; ordi-
nary 1890; good ordinary 1ll4c; low
middling l124c; middling 121sc; good
middling 1850; sales 1896 bales.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL. January .. - Noon -
Cotton active and firm; middling uplands
esd; middIing Orleans 6 15-1Gd; sales
900 bales; for speculation and export
5000 bales; receipts "a, 449 bales, of which
81 ,094 were American. Futures Lied
dearer; uplands and low middling clause,
January and February delivery, 694@
23-32d; February and March 13-16d !;
March and April 67sd; April and May
6 15-l6d; shipped December and Janua-
~, per sail, 13-l6d@G 27-32; Janu-
AIRY and February G5sd.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
New YORK, January 9. - Cotton -
holders are asking higher prices; sales
$50 bales; uplands 1889; Orleans
- 1866. Futures opened strong; jan
uary l22{@l2 13-lGc; February 1880
Is :}-l6c; March IL T-lGQn13 15-32c; April
Is l1-1GM13 23-32c.
NEW ORLEANS MARKETS.
New ORLEANS, January 2.--Cotton-
| demand active and prices advanced;
sales II, coo bales; good ordinary 114@
1I15c; low middling 1l28@12c; mid,
ding l214@l215c; good middling l25$@
122sc; middling fair l315@133s; fair
1884 @14c; receipts, net last three days,
%, 40 bales; gross "a, 924 bales; exports
TO Amsterdam 1861 bales, to New York
| 1884 bales.
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OVEN FOOT AT LAST.
quite impossible for the
{ to make the average con-

quite impossible for the
( to make the average con-
ramer have any adequate
comprehension of the effect of divert
ing the Texas and Pacific road from
be State, as proposed by Tom Scott,
ntil it was proposed in Congress to
ndow the surveyed line from Shreve-
ort or Jefferson to Memphis, making
his $50 miles part of the ''trunk line"
, the Pacific. Louisville, Memphis.
Nashville and Norfolk are delighted,
but St. Louis is exasperated. The
Times and the Republican oven propose
to defeat every proposed subventIon
for each branch road and ask for aid
Tor no part of the line east of the hun
dredth meridian. The Times speaks
Of the road from Shreveport to Men,
phis ~ the ''so-called branch" when
u is and must be the trunk line of the
-psoontinentsl highway through
Stes. This is not the road
Philad elphla were bar
when they wheedled the
I'd the Legislature into
$. They proposed to rob
mperial domain and use it
&c St. Louis, Philadelphia
usylvania Central, while
to Galveston and New
to constitute simple
the great through route
st the one hundredth or
sgsne hundred and fourth meridian.
Now that st. Louis Is pleased to con-
fess that Texas was only to be victim
lied and robbed, and the so-cailed
ssSouthernn Pacific is to serve only
a. q rival of the Union Pacific,
and since 1t is confessed that the South
cannot be suffered to have Pacific
road lest it interfere with Aliens Iron
Mountain and Texarksna monopoly
and for fear that Shreveport, Memphis,
Louisville, Norfolk, Charleston, New
Orleans and Galveston may become
great citiss-ance these purposes of
st. Louis and of Tom Scott are now
confessed we would fain hope that
those excellent and upright and ex-
ceedingIy shrewd newspapers that have
defended Throckmcrton and the Ruts-
5agas in this matter and denounced
she 6rArEsMAS as corrupt will confess
the error into which they have fallen
and DO rs simple justice. Do not for
get that St. Louis is unwilling to have
road built from Shreveport to Mem
phir. Il would make the Texas and
Psciae = genuine SoniAsra road. and
+~crlf ens e. T,en's r,ssi y. ~ he
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bhdb NiiC
seven ears itch" be-
Jrned - when under the
becomes lively and active
St interesting mole blowing up
akin and planting itching towns
Ld villages at short intervals. The
day is not distant when the doctors
= will resort to the microscope instead
tof the pulse in determining the char
= acter and violence of disease. They
will devise as many schemes for the
capture Of sporules in blood vessels as
denizens of the lowlands of Arkansas
Ito entrap beavers in the apath etc
drains of the fevered swamps:
Dengue is flying electric eel that
drifts in the lazy vapors of lagunes
~ about Charleston. 1t crawls into ones
lose who shores beneath moss-encom-
passed live oaks ond palmettos, and
when the invisible gymnoti have null
tiplied infinitely in the streams flowing
in aud out OF the human heart, electric
shocks almost knock off the top of
ones head. The doctors pour whisky
into the sufferers stomach, and the
- galvanic eels-sporules-lille their vic
tim, undergo the fatal paralysis of
7 death.
Seriously, the study of that animal
kingdom which cannot be Gagged by
Dan Rice or Barnum and transported
about the country, to give transports
to- |enegambia and the nursery, be-
comes of infinite interest especially to
the learned among physicians. There
fore we should have even here, as in
~ther progressive cities of Europe and
RIGA, microscopical as well as
ry association; and if it should
zen thata body of theorists in med
emerge from the society propos-
to cure all diseases by killing all
les we can only deplore the posi-
" another alteration between
ID court and the learned pro-
ut an insuperable code oil
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SS REWARD.

X2 cay ss e sl SSTf ne, Assa ny gaR'se Oar,
e s.----s -. s4sI
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TAXES FOR 1877.

The last Legislature passed law requiring all
lands to be assessed and the taxes to be pai1 la
.he county where located from the year 1870 to
date.
We have complete arrangements that will cna-
bic usto pay the
Taxes for 1872 and Other Years
on lands in any county OF the S a:e. and re-
liable agents who VIII
"REPORT sQUATTERS."
When employed for this purpose we will pro-
ceeu to remove them. ard in dong 30 will en-
ploy only experienced counsel well acquainted
with our compl Gated land system.
We have been paying taxes for nearly thirty
yeart Tor noG-refident- well M residents OF
The State and are well vcrsed In that character
OF business.
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The Cove nor OF New York Talks
Plainly.
The Ohio Railroad Accident.

AsHTABULA, January 2.-Capt. c. H.
Tyler, of ST. Louis, whose face was
terribly bruised, testified that while
the train was at Buffalo he examined
the coaches and was satisfied that fully
two hundred persons were on board
the train, mich is seventy more than
the conductor stated. Tyler had been
captain of steamboats, on the Missis-
sippi river for twenty-four years, and
was competent to judge of the number
from experience.
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vertise, you know, and the buyer will
come uD.
Goodies of Christmas tricks is the
| headline and motto of the BRENNAN
Banner. Goodies" is a Congo term,
We are told by the latest Unabridged,
used in those Eleusiniap mysteries and
arts practiced by the priestesses of the
Voudou that are celebrated with great
pomp in the Seuegambian suburbs of
Brennan.
Uvalde Burns has appeared IN Sher-
man and taken the pos!ofifce. Uvalde
Canon" is famous place in Texas,
but this "repester" they now have in
Sherman is unhoDored, unknown and
uIsung; but he is not unnamed. Per
haps he took on the name "Uvalde''
with the purpose of having here 10,
| cal habitation."
Mean whisky and two colored men
in Mckinney had row and one stab.
bed the other fatally. \ Rutabaga of
Collin county took whisky and jim
jams and went INTO the swamp and
was frozen stiff when found. Whisky
freezes q fellow or burns him out as the
circumstances require. and II his stom-
ach is coppeI-bottomed it goes for his
brain and jim jams him.
Governor Hubbard says he is only
Lieutenant Governor on reception days
like the first of the year and very many
people who called thought 1t would be
good thing if he could De resigned"
and play second fiddle quite often.
There was degree of case and natu-
ralntss and absence Of ceremonial at the
Governors Mansion that developed
infinite good humor and made New
Years red-letter day inAustin's an
mails.
They took the mayor and aldermen
Ia railway train-the newspapers said
49, hsft~s.s csassus h.rsE . ra,s-ca.'s
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EILsWoRrH.

d. Khngensmith lost valuable OK last
week.
VIM. Kline has nearly completed his new
house.
our town has been visited by several
trsmps lately.
The attendance at the convention here on
Tuesday was small.
b. Elliott viii soon have the addition to
his store completed.
DR.. Hart will soon go to New York to attend
the Bellevue Medical College.
Amos R9senberger hiss been engaged AZ
principal Of our school for the coming year.
Last Friday eTeningat sunset a young man
drove into town with a splendid horse and
covered buggy, and going directly 70 Sheriff
rgelson told him that he was in pursuit OF
horse thief He said that the horse was an
exact match for the one he vas driving, and
that the carriage was also like the one he had
As he claimed that he had left home in haste
without arms or money, Sheriff Nelson lent
him four dollars and his revolver. lie gave
his name as John Gall and said he was from
Illinois. Driving Is the livery stable he had
MS horse cared for and then came back to
fhe Keith House UPON his cork leg and cruteh,
fo..l- eupuer aud retired About A. ". Of
feer Brisstte. of ST. Paul came also and stat
ID that his business was the same as Mr..
Calls. he aroused Mr. Keith, found Mr.. q.
ff.,k from him the revolver and three dollars
IN rnoncv which he returned TO Mr.. Nelson,
and then returned to st. Paul with his
prisoner. Sheriff Nelson had man under
pay dispatched to hunt the thief before the
reaT Thief retired.
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SENATORIAL.

The Eau Claire Free Press had been
under the impression that Eau Claire
County would present no candidate
for Senatorial honors this fall. but has
come to realize a strong probability
that it will, and mentions the names of
Hon. Henry Cousins, DR.. c. Alexander
and Captain III. NJ. Stocking as among
the possible candidates. The Free
Press thinks it is probable that Pierce
county will present a candidate ''un-
less Hans Warner should press his
claims for Secretary of State. As we
understand the matter Mr.. Warner is
not OF that school which recognizes
the claims or any man or set of
men in the bestOwal of political favors
but that he desires to see the fairly
expressed wishes of the party carried
out. and if the State Convention should
select him as 4 candidate for Secretary
OF State he will accept the nomination
and labor for the success of the ticket:
and if not nominated he will be true
TO his colors and continue to faithfully
serve the people of Pierce county in
the capacity of County Clerk for which
position he is admirably fitted. The
Free Press has heard mentioned only
the name of DR.. A. d. Andrews, of
this place, as candidate from this
county, though others will doubtless
make themselves known in due time.
Whoever may be our next State Senator
he will participate in the election OF
HOwe's successor in the United States
Senate.
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PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY.
No. six.
BY A. EARTHMAN.

As this part of the work is some
thing exceedingly practical, and yet
very little understood by people in
general, considerable time should be
spent upon it. 1t is well in this con-
nection, to require pupils to get from
their parents description of lands own
ed by them. This done, pupils Will
see the necessity of this work.
The township, its divisions and sub
divisions being disposed of, the num-
boring of the townships will be in or
der. Not being able to give diagrams
words alone may fail to indicate clearly
what ought to be done. The south
ern boundary line, being an arc of a
parallel, is taken as starting line
from which Observation-Disclosures
reckoned. A vertical clear through
the state from the mouth of the Mon
treal River. is the starting line from
which the ranges, east and WESTON
gitude-are reckoned. Drawing 9TH
er lines parallel TO these two, the
state will be cut up into little squares
each representing what is called a
mathematical, or governmental town
ship. Let these squares be numbered ;
next. let the county in which the
scLool-house is located. be marked off,
and then let the town lines be drawn.
Here, the pupil should be made to see
that. while township is mathemat-
ical division of the land surface. a
town is political division which may
comprise township, or more, or less
than a township.
While the greater portion of the
work outlined in this article. belongs
to Mathematical Geography, the
last portion will suggest, at once, the
introduction of the study OF govern
ment; for, in treating of She differ
ence between town and township, it
will be asked. Who makes the sown !
Who makes the townships Whence
the authority
Those who have followed me through
the entire series of articles, will. |
hope. be convinced that at every stage
of the work in Geography, opportunity
is offered TO branch out into other sub
jects and to me pursuing the work
as do from day TO day. the question.
What to teach has, long ago, changed
into, What not to teachl
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STRIKES, TTAMPS---THR CAUSE
AND REMEDY.

Mr. EDTroR.-As there has been much said
through the Press, Pulpit and other sources,
on the above subjects, and as it does
not appear to me that the true
cause or remedy has been tated, | Will give,
with your consent, my views on the subject
through the medium Of your paper.
The great and serious question with us Is
what is TO be our future as a natiOnf Many
are asking themselves at this time, "Are we
a. nation going to fail in carrying out the
great principles OF government on earth
IN conformity TO the Lords prayer, 'as 1t Is
in heaven, as our fathers undertook ~ 1t
has been the custom Of the men who have
led the nation astray for the last twenty re
years to ridicule the past, burlesque the old
and fatter the young, by telling them there
was nothing cold fogy" in them; they were
very intelligent and progressive, and the ma
ton was coming into their hands and would
make great progress without any look back
In the great conflict between the mouo-
cratic and democratic principles, between
the man who wants to govern every one but
himself and the man who wants to be SOW
ereign over himself the monocrat always
makes use of the carpet bag game. II there
il Ignorance that he can reach and excite and
turn loose he will do so and fssten this igno
rant element, by bayonets OF otherwise, on
! to the more intelligent who are capable o.
sell-government, thus putting the masses in
| intelligence below the standard for self gov
eminent. This conflict commenced at the
start Of our government, and the monocrat
1 1 md rrstftfpu
manufacturing portion oithe nation by tariffs,
ana the internal improvements by large
grants OF the peoples lands, and lastly By
corfupting a large portion OF the clergy, they
have been able 10 get control OF the nation
and put il in its present state OF misery and
danger Aswe have no guide for the future
but the past and present it stands usin hand
10 look carefully over the past and set how
and when We, under the lead Of these men,
have violated the great principles Of self
government and equal rights. In looking
over the history Of the world we find that II
most Instances unjust taxation and laws made
BY the monocrat under the excuse Of saving
mems souls. or some other act for his fellow
me-. whether they wish j. or not, Or under
presense of helping God, he makes laws to
rob his felloE men and enrich himsea
Let us look at three Instances II history
where this violation Of justice by The mono.
ocra.lc leaders Of tie nations under different
excuses have lead % the same results Sal'
ouson did il quite successfully under the ples
Of building house for God. Here was a IA
ton Of brothers Two brothers lived neal
Jerusalem, Jagszh and Benjamin. Solomon
united church and state, priestcraa and poll
tics. They played The same galrs New n
gland las. played On This nation. The r.
suits would have besn he same in bots case.