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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
ARE WE Or THEY RIGHT
ABOUT 1T!

As Americans, we cannot be wholly
insensible 10 honsrs properly awarded
by intelligent Europeans to the late
President of the United States. Eu-
rope never contemplated Gen. Grants
character through the distorted me
dunn interposed when the South looked
upon him. We saw him as enemies in
war, or as victims of his tyrannicsl and
ruinous policy in peace. The bayonet
and the bandit, the first clutcbed by
Grant, the second upheld by the negro,
invested with the right of suffrage, CO.
operate in the psuperizstion Of the
South. We do not love Grant, and
can hardly do justice to the wonderful
virtues that have given him world
wide fame. But there is one cause for
honest admiration as thoroughly sppre.
ciated here in the South as in Europe.
His conduct amazes Europe, exciting
absolute wonder and admiration there
as it must through all time. Not many
weeks ago Grant welded greater pow
er and was more nearly an absolute
despot in America than the Gar in
Russia. The ballot-box uttered its
silent behest, and Grant be-
came instantly private citi-
zen having no more influence in
shaping the country's destinIes than
nave Deen u UTsat of d'ervRe night
at the very moment when power is
most gratifying and wealth most de
sired, and when homage was habitu-
ally rendered by the great body of the
people, at that instant he stepped down
and out into the midst of the undistin-
guished herd, and becomes part and
parcel of the multitude. England and
Europe discover moral grandeur and
heroism and love of country and obedi-
ence to law in these simple acts of
Gen. Grant, and Europe honors the
man as few men have ever been vel
coined and honored. Should we not
boast, too, of the genius of American
institutions which begets such men
and such unexampled acts of splendid
virtue3 Perhaps Europe is wrong and
unwise and over-generous; but Europe
is learned and old and wise and full ut
experience, and it may be, after all,
that it is Europe that is right and we
wrong. Let US think of 1t.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
BOsTON AND AUSTIN.

The best informed railway managers
in the world and the best and most
wisely built and conducted railway
system Of Europe OF America is that of
Massachusetts. A learned commission,
constituted OF experts, supervise and
make annual reports affecting the rail
ways of the commonwealth, even reg
ulating rates of passenger and freight
charges, and such is the volume and
force of public opinion that these ad-
visory reports are equivalents of legis-
lation. Rarely do we hear Of acct
dents on Massachusetts railways or OF
rninous competition between conpet-
ing roads. With all its cold, granite
selfishness, the wisdom OF Massachu-
setts is unquestioned, and its railway
aud school systems and economic leg
islation and suffrage restriction are
models for younger communities. The
old Roman general who won most fame
and c:oIies ia peace and war learned
UIB COuHtTy - crCrrrr5.
those who IgDOrantly deem Massachu-
sets the enemy, because the antipode
OF the South in climate, in popular
habits and modes of thinking, it is
still true that we can learn most in arts
Of Legislation and in perfecting schools
and railways, the modern promoters of
civilization, from Massachusetts, Bos-
ton is building narrow gauge rail
way. Not satisfied with the countless
broad gauge lines diverging in all di-
rections from the capital OF the ancient
commonwealth, the good people that
20 to old South street and other
churches, and worship most Wendell
Phillips in Faneuil Hall, and Mammon
on State street, these godly wiseacres
OF Boston, who may go astray in the
world OF morals, but never in that of
trade, are absolutely constructing just
such a road out OF Boston as we have
begged the owners of the Avenue and
OF Pecan street to extend towards Lam
pasas or Bolton or Brentwood. The
iron used by Boston weighs only
twenty pounds per lineal yard, bolted
to substantial wooden stringers. A
broken rail is impossible, and large
saving is made in the cost of construc-
ton. The peculiar iron used is known
as the 'anglc rail, and we are told
by Boston newspapers that the last
broad gauge road has been built in the
old Bay State. If there be tho sc who
would gather additional facts affecting
this subject, of infinite importance to
Texas, where distances are infinite and
where our railway system has only
been inaugurated, they should address
the Boston, Winthrop aad Point
ShirlY Railway Company, Boston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
THE war in Europe has caused rapi

THE war in Europe has caused rapid
advances In the prce of beef and
wheat, and therefore the eagerness
with which the cattle and wheat of
Texas are sought by st. Louis and
other specu lators. The people of Tex
as, in their eagerness for money, will
hardly retain wheat enough for seed or
cattle enough to reproduce wasted
herds. Money will soon abound again
in Texas, and we need only adopt
measures to keep it here by establish
ing cotton and other mills.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

day passes but what some stranger
visits Dallas attracted from abroad by
her fame and reputation. When they
come they expect to see clean, we'll
ordered and healthy city. That they
are in every instance disappointed,
every one knows, and If they leave and
locate in other cities or towns instead
Of Dallas, no one can be blamed save
the members of our city government.
They have so managed matters that
the city of Dallas is to-day one of the
dirtlest cities of its size in the United
States, and the people blame no one
but the city officials" In the face OF
this assertion let the people of Austin
and all other cities condemn those
desperate officeseekers having no com
mon interest with them, and who seek
office alone for its pay and particularly
its perquisites.
John J. Loop, the determined gentle
man who on the Crest Northern Raj
road train relieved three officers from
n most perilous position in the power
of ten prisoners on the way 10 the peni-
Tertiary, also writes admirable letters,
which lind their way into print, TO his
old friends in Ohio. The Daily DIS
patch, of Columbus, Ohio, publishes
one of his letters which takes most
practical view of things as they exist
in Texas. From 1t We extract the fol-
lowing: Money is hard to get, but |
believe it is not more scarce than in any
other State. Labor Commands fair
wages, but there are not enough Of
laboring men here, compared with the
spectators. We want more farmers.
MillioEs of acres are yet lying idle in
Texas that would well repay culuva.-
ing. Agriculture ana horticulture are
never failing Investments. Texas has
more territory than New York, Penpsyl-
| wanna, OuIU au,I III tha Nh England
States combined, with gulf coast Of
five hundred miles. Along the gulf
counties tropical fruits flourish, bana-
mas, oranges, lemons, etc. Bufsloes
roam over the vast unsettled land one
hundred and fifty miles west of Austin.
The people of Texas, so far rs have
observed, are gOod-natured, clever
people. They are not half SO nearly
mOnSmaniac on the subject of politics
as the people of the North. They seem
to take things easy, and the world as it
rolls, without complaint. III fact they
have but little to chafe and fret about.
as their crops they consider sure when
once planted, and their stock harvest
their own winters food as they need it.
Farmers, good part of their time, sit
In the shade and enjoy seeing their
crops and their animals grow and fat
| ten.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

The grand jury sitting At Salt Lake
has adjourned until the sixteenth OF
July, after having reached points in
the investigation proving completely
of many leading members Of the Nor.
mon hierarchy 10 crimes and frauds.
The appropriation to pay the Wit
nessss has given out and the
Attorney General will be appealed to
for solution of the difficulty. At the
next meeting OF Congress the Mormon
influence is to be used to prevent the
passage of any bin making appropria-
ton for tins purpose.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

of War, and a hster OF Christians, il
really dictator, aud more powerful
than ever. Disasters are almost GER
tain TO come, and when the news
reaches Constantinople, it may be the
signal for bloody scenes. The Dan
ube may then be crossed, but too late
for innocent blood to be protected.
Any atrocity may be anticipated, for the
Turkish government, though In
danger now, consoles itself that
before a great while its armies will
be increased, and its treasury filled.
A religious war is the plan proposed by
which all the Mohammedan countries
are to be made defenders of the faith,
and it is believed that Islam's sacrifice
will be great. Mecca, the burial place
Of the Prophet, has received the relig-
ious war news with enthusiasm, and
men are freely offered in defense Of the
true faith. Its Scherif has placed o.
the Sultan's disposal all the treasure!
OF the Holy Shrines and the accumu
lated money gifts received from thu
Mohammedan pilgrims, amounting II
the aggregate to the sum OF 200, 600,
900 of piastres, or about IS, 800, 600
No doubt the Sultan had this treasur'
in view when he decided on unfurlinl
the standard of the Prophet and de
claring the holy war, but 1t succeeds
and the course At Mecca will arous
oil AraDia, rero'---l.LA Mnhammedan
the combatants will be increased unit
Christianity and Mohammedanism ma
again be involved in a war costing th
world an amount of life and treasur
not yet dreamed Of. Any day in Cor
stantinople the religious cry may b
raised, and the civilized world 70
awhile will then stand sloof in con
temptation OF its first result.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
OF ACCOUNT.

The State Of Texas, to all persons interested
in the administration OF the estAie OF ID. J. An
dsrSon, deceased. ]. g Mtntsr administrators
OF the estate OF d. j. Anderson deceased, has
nled his iual account and application TO be dis
changed IN the county court Of Travis co0nty,
which Will be acted ON at the next term Of said
court. commene ng the third Monday in July
lSii, At the court honse thereof, in the city OF
austin at which tlue all persons interested In
sald estate may Sppear aud make objection
thereto.
s Witness. Frank RIown. Clerk OF said
H. $ court and the seal hereof attached, June
4, iSss. F.- FRANK BROWN.
lu1w3. C. C C. T. Z.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
THOR Pretty Feet.

The care which is taken of women's
and the boot, which, in France, is con-
structed with no preference to either
health or the foot, is made in England
expressly for both. In France the
question is, low small boot Can l
wear! In England the foot is laid on
paper, the outline taken, the instep,
the ankle and the leg accurately meas
ured and the result is that the French
beauty is raised two inches above her
natural height, her feet are thrown for
ward against the pinching upper, and
she dances badly and cannot walk at
all, while the English woman goes out
upon the grass in broad solcs and low
heels, and is quite unconscious that she
has boots on, and absorbs beauty
making juices into her blood. The
interior construction of the foot-the
numbers of separate little bones joined
only by their yielding cushions of
cartilage-injures elasticity which so
delighted the Frenchman, and which
cannot be taken away except by
ughtness in the material used for
encasing the foot. In the cities of
Spain, where the narrow, high heel
has been copied from Paris, there is
very little beautiful dancing. In the
villages, where the girls go bare-footed
half the year, the luxurious grace Of
the waltz has been noted, and it is at
tributed to that happy poverty which
has neither t1attcned the foot in the
middle by giving burdens to be car
ried in girlhoOd Che cause Of fiat feet
among the women in Germany, Hol-
land, Swe len, Russia and the bour-
geolse Of Franco, nor deformed the
great toe and paralyZed the astralagus
by the fashionable device Of satin sir
pers. Bertha Won IIillern's feet are as
perfect in proportion as those of the
Greek statues, and, as she is not small,
her foot would neither illustrate EGG
lIsh poetry nor satisfy the valgar pop
ular fashion; but they complete the
perfect symmetry OF her 1.-THE and sup
pie frame; they perform just the
junction for which feet were made
they carry their load easily, graceful
ly and without fatigue. She would
as soon think of cramping them in
tight boots as Budd Doble to running
Goldsmith Maid with shoes which
transform her gait into stagger.
Women who get shoes to fit them are
good walkers; women who are good
walkers are healthier than those who
prefer to rent their pedal phalanges to
the expensive bootmaker as advertise
ments of their folly and his art; and
women who are good walkers and
healthy have beauty which is more
than any that can be acquired
by cosmetics. A thick soled, low
heeled, perfectly comfortable pair OF
boots is a better investment than sew
eral walls of the most poisonous rouge
and dozen boxes of powdered
arsenic. In the beautiful natural foot,
a line drawn from the center of the
great toe to the middle Of the heel is
perfectly straight. When it is not the
boot, instead of protecting health and
prolonging the tints of beauty in the
complexion, is the author of corns and
bunions, and of that refinement of ex-
cruciatiOu-in- growing nail.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

AT the next session of the Kentucky
Legislature United States Senator Is
to be chosen. The question, however,
does not enter into the present legisla-
tive contest. The election will not
take place until next winter, but the
most prominent candidates now talked
of are Lindsey, Williams, Caldwell
and Knott.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
Commodore vanderbilt's widow, i,

il said, is already mstrimonially
spoken for. Before her marriage, it
seems, she had u passing sentiment for
one Of her first cousins, Virginia doc
tor, and it was generally believed by
their mutual friends that they would
marry. The Commodore's millions in
teryened, hoWever-she became Mira.
Vanderbilt and the young Virginan
married u beautiful woman of his
native county. The doctors young
wife died giving birth TO her frat child,
and the child soon followed her. Left
free again. the Virginia doctor aud
Mrs. Vanderbilt have renewed their in
terrupted intimacy and correspondence,
and il is reported by those who ought
to know that when = decent interval
has elapsed the cousins will be united
in marriage.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

WHEN railway trains are thrown
from the track and hundreds of lives
endangered or destroyed that highway
men may plumber trains, it would be
well for those at whose homes such
events occur to inquire whether Texas
or the scenes of such outrages should
be blackened with infamy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
r rs greatly to be feared that KEEL.

rIs greatly to be feared that Kel.
iogg viii be preferred by the Senate
to Spofford and admitted to seat from
Louisiana. The Presidents Southern
policy is in no wise involved, but .
worthless old trader in politics and car
pet-bag adventurer, Kellogg. may sup
plant Spoford, an accomplished gen
tleman, a. Senator from Louisiana. In
effecting this resalt Blaine and Nortoa
vail cooperate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

The village of Saratoga Springs Is
bankrupt, and its president says that
the streets cannot be lighted or
cleaned this summer unless citizens do
1t voluntarily. Those who read this
may wonder why money is SO scarce in
q place where SO much of it is cx-
pended every year by visitors. The
truth seems TO be that most of the
summer business is done by Bon resi-
dents who take away the profits they
make, and the public treasury is rather
emptied than filed by the fact that the
village is fashionable resort.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

The Memphis Ag0Lanche prints an in.
tervIew with Governor Stone, Of Mis-
sIssippi, in relation to the Kemper
county massacre, in which the Cover
nor states that he has done all IN his
power to bring the guilty ones TO trial
by requesting Judge Hanom, circuit
judge, to call an extra session OF his
court for that purpose, and that under
the laws of the State the Executive
has no power to do anything in the
matter. He had gone to DeKalb as
soon as he heard of the riot, but when
he arrived the rioters had dispersed,
and nothing was left for him TO do
except to 20 and see Judge Hanom
and ask the judicial officers TO take
steps to bring them to trial. The Gov
ernor thought it exceedingly doubtful
if a jury in Kemper county would CON
Vict the rioters, ali of whom were we'll
known and reside there.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

THE French mining engineer, Sineo-
lis, says that the silver mines of Colo
RADIO and of Northwestern Texas give
undoubted evidence of great wealth.
The ores are true silver ores, and the
mines are identical with those of Mex
leo. of which they are a continuation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
THE EASTERN WAR AND nRLI.
GlON.

News from the Eastern war would
indicate that Russia's real points of at
tack are in Asia. Upon the Danube
there is mastery inactivity, while in
Asia everything is activity. Count
Schonvaloif recently announced to Bis.
marck that Russia would eventually
only claim, as decentralization fer
war expenditures, Upper Arme-
ana As far as Kars, aud that ii
uld not interfere with English
s-ss's lear the Euphrates, il
manned neutral. In the
be late sofia demonstra-
onsssnunople leave but
Z OF security with the
ernment. 1t will act with
vigor aai severity in sup
order at home, and the
pas 70 draft all the softas into
snr a place them where they
sstso ed disaffection. Many
sga aen, amoag them several
have been exiIed, aud the
.ses sr IS in 50 nervous = state
fls an residents are in the
4. Redif PAshs, Minister
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

Jack county produced last year
10, 900 bushels Of wheat, "a. 600 Of
oats. 20, 600 Of barley and $1,000 Of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07

CONGRESSMAN ELLIS, of Louisiana,
regards Milton SsylOr, of Ohio, the
strongest man for the next speakership
of the House.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
DARTIEs WISHING TO SHIP

Produce, Horns, Hides. etc.. 90 View
York ray heaF Of The test way 70 lnanaee ahIu
business-on aD7 capital from fs6us.gsrs-b1
applying % JULIUS horn. PostoAes boz
Al iiszs q eonnission busIne.s preuptl,
exsoaiea 3a7Bft
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07


ness, they will increase them and move
farther west. With the prospect OF a
large European demand for dead
meats" it would be exceedingly short
sighted to contract operations.
The Sherman Register says that 'the
Savoy newspaper man, who, we learn,
got drunk and rode his horse into the
stores of the quiet little village recent
ly, making perfect demon of himself,
consigns the Fifteenth Legislature to
eternal infamy for the 'damnable law
Furnishing drunkenness.
The directors of the Dallas and
Wichita Railroad, after putting no
money into the enterprise, refuse to
mortgsgethe road to iron mongers who
have supplied iron. Unless their con-
duct 10 changed the Kansas Rolling
Mills will take possession of its iron
now lying ready for 3 further extension
Of the road.
John d. Hounihan, OF Buffalo, New
York, sends a circular letter In which
he proposes to furnish 1877 recipes for
making all kinds Of liquors, brandy,
=
wine and whiskies- Whisky that sells
at fifty cents per pint is made at q cost
of ten cents per gallon - and there are
ten suicides in each quart. Write to
Hounahan, at Buffalo, New York.
The Baptist State Sabbath school
and colportage convention meets at
Anderson, Grimes county, on Friday,
the sixth of July next Sabbath
schools and churches are earnestly re-
quested to send delegates to the con-
vention. Those travelling by rail will
be turnlsbed transportation from Nav
asota by the Anderson Church.
DIR. Ezra Read, q prominent citizen
Of Terre Hante, Indiana. who died a
few days ago, was chief surgeon in the
army Of the Republic Of Texas under
Gen. Sam Houston, and the attending
surgeon between Gen. johnston and
GEN sam Houston in 1887. He had
lived IN Tsrrs Haufe since 1e43, and
was sixry-thres years OF sge when he
died.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
NITED STATES MAIL.

Ie7Mst County Judge TrayIs {
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-10
Hs1MoN THE GREAT SENATOR. T."
An Injured Widow in the Case.

Senator Simon Cameron was sitting In
the senate Thursday, with his hair in sew
eral directions and his legs in two, when
page brought card in to him. "Let him
come in here" said the senator and a
sharp-faced young fellow walked up to the
senator's mahogany desk and handed pa
per to him. The senator looked surprised;
opened the paper-looked more surprised
read the paper-looked surprised all over.
Senator Cragin looked over Cameron's
shoulder, and lay back in his own chair
and shouted. The paper was summons
in breach of promise suit, brought by
Mary s. Oliver, to the amount of $50, 900.
The news spread rapidly. All the old boys
came over to congratulate Simon. Jones,
OF Nevads, laid hands on his head in
kindly way, and said, "Bless you, my boy,
1t isn't every man has $50, 900 worth of af-
lection at seventy-eight." Senator Chris
fancy stood at easy distance--condemnin
distance-and said, "Senator Cameron,
you had great deal better have followed
my example, if am younger man"
Several of the democratic senators crossed
to congratulate the senator from Pennsyl-
vania, but he objected, and they remained
to condole. To his friends the senator pro-
nounced it matchmaking job. His sutton
is good-looking, young Pennsylvania wi
dow, whom the senator befriended by pro-
curing her a situation in the treasury de-
partment. The complaint is definite and
somewhat specific statement of the widows
wooing,