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IMPORTANT CAUTION.

None genuine unless the sign ture of j. HAyDoCK
Agent for the United States. each box of Pills.
and Ointment. handsome reward will be given to any
rendering such information as may lead to the detec
tion party parties countertng the mealcnes or
vending the same, knowing them TO be spurious
'.-Sold at :1e mandatory OF PI oiessor HOLLOWAY Il
Co.. York and by all respectable druggists and dealers
throughout the civilized world in boxes - cents 81 Ce Is
and 81 each.
,S There is considerable saving by taking the lager
sizes.
N B-Directlons for the guidance CT patients in every
disorder affixed to each box.
Office, 80 Liberty Street, New York.
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We arc able, through DR.. j. O. Harris, to pre-
sent our readers with the summary Of fire
statistics from the Insurance Chronicle, for the
month o! November, 1876 In the L. s. and Cana.
da, with comparison with the same month of
1873:
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For Stomachs Out Of Order.

No medicine viii so enrctualy improve the tone OF the
stomach these Pills they remove all scdty occssoned
either BY intemperance mplop diet They reach the
liver and rdduca II To healthy action they are wonder
fully efcacious In OF spasmn fact they never TALL In
curing all disorders of the liver and stomach.
HnLLDWAiS PILLS are the best known " the world
the following diseases: Ague Asthma Bilious Com
pltnts Blotches the SKIN, Bowels Consumption, Debit
ity, Dropsy Dysenery. Eryspeas. Female lire uartes
fammation Jaundlce Liver Complaints, Lumhago, piles,
rheumatism. Retention OF Urine, Scrouls or Kings Evil,
Sore Throas and Gravel TiCDouloureux, Tumors
Ulcers Worms of all kinds Weakness from cause
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SILKS,

OF WHICH OUR STOCK rs THE LARGEST IN THE
CITY ARE OFFERED AS FOLLOW; GOOD BLACK
SILK at 81 90 p, yard WITH BETTER GRADES AT
HIGHER PRICES. COLoRED SILKS, very GOOD. at
- 25 and up. DRESS PATTERN OF EITHER
WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE GIFT.
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CLOSING AND ARRIVAL OF MAILS:


Train No. IL will carry passengers between Joliet and
Bureau No % be ween Ottawa and Rock Island, No. 10 b.
ween Rock Island and Joliet, No from Bureau to Oa.
VA when passengers are provided with tickets. and not
otherwise A. NJ. salTH, Genl fass. Agt
n, RIDDLE Gen'l Sup't. ID. NJ. HALL,
Dec, O. 1876 Agent at Ottawa.
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Milton Fl. Swift. Lorenzo Leland.
W. Bushnell, Isaac Gage,
x. j Lyman. J.F Nash,
John Brundage.
Having organized vnder the National Banking Law,
suCceeued to the business 81 Wn H. W. CushTfan,
open for the transaction Of general banking business
Exchange on Chicago, New York. and oil the prin.
cipal cities Of the Ulited ststss, bought and sold.
Exchange on Eaga:. Ireland, Scotland and Con
tnental Europe drawn In sums &c suit purchasers
Collections made throughout the state " prompt
y RENTED for day of payment at current rate OF
change.
United States. Illinois, and La Sale count
Bonds, Gold Silver. &C. bought and sold.
Revenue stamp OF all denominations,-afun
supply constantly on hand.
Our facilities are such that otter Inducements TO
customers and shall endeavors to give entire
satisfaction TO those eRrustrg us with their business
Banking hours from 4. ". toi ". marlo.'Ts
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For The HOLIDAYS!
LORD & TAYLOR
ME w YORK.

WE INVITE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING DE
PARTMENls or OUR ESTABLISHMENTS. THE Low
PRICES At WHO OUR GOODS ARE MARKEf
HAVE SPECIAL, REFEREN.E TO THE HULIDAl
THROUGHUuT TIE HOUSE.
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huhDer oi fHes. ''''''''''........ s.! norep't
In the US, the greatest loss in one day, SAIL
100 on the 3Oth; smallest loss SOL 200, on the 23d
New York state lost most, $40 100; Illinois
next, 1861 roo; West Virginia the least, S2,7OO.
OF The buildings and businesses DESTROYED there
were; carriage factories, s; churches, o; drug
stores, ID; fancy notion stores o. Towering mills,
:; furniture factories, o. gin houses, 80; country
grocery stores, IS; hotels, 81; ice houses, Z;
liquor stores, IL; livery stables Il; railroad de.
pots, s. restaurants, II; saw mills, H. The
great majority OF fires arose faom carclessness,
as is always the case.
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HOLJOWAY'S PILLS
Invariably the following diseases:
Disorder of the Kidneys.

In all diseases affecting these whether they secree
too much too little water. whether they be afflicted
with stone gravel with aches and palms settled In the
oins the regions of the Kidney these Pulls should be
taken according TO the printed directions and the Ointment
should be well rubbed Into the small of the back Al bed
time. This treatment will give almost immediate relief
v hen all other means haze tailed.
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From Prairie Center.

Two turkeys sat on hickory limb,
They were lank, lean, hungry aud slim
determined were they that nary sinner
should Invite them to a New Year dinnr,
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And all eruptons OF the skin this Ointment Is most inval
able. Ii does not heal externally alone but penetrates Wit
the most searching effects TO the root CI heev
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

A WASHINGTON letter-writer says that
the President has shown himself an ad-
mirable and extremely skilful manager
of men, and expresses the belief that
President Hayes means to carry out his
policy ''if it takes all the offices to do
it," and that, in his belief, the Presi-
dent will judlciously divide the public
plumber among the radical Republicans
on condition that they will support
him IN liberal policy. The account
he gives of what has so far been done,
and how it has been done. Is certainly
curious; and we suspect that If the
President will be faithful to his policy
of peace and local self-government the
people will not inquire too closely how
he conciliates his opponents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

THE Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune and
Age exclaims, "What a magnificent
country that Is from Bristol to Chatta-
noogs!" We always heard it said,
''d-n q man who won't praise his own
country" The crookedest railway on
the continent connects the two towns
above named-one in Tennessee, on
the confines of Georgia; the other on
the borders OF Virginia, about 2jO
miles apart; but the railroad between
them is about 400 or 500 miles long.
1t was SO twisted to avoid precipices
and deep valleys, and it makes ones
lead swim to traverse the extraordi-
nary system of curves, especially above
Knoxville. Gea. Malone tried to
straighten the road in Virginia, but
gave it up as bad job, having bank
rupted the owners. Wheat and corn
grow on those hillsides, and the crops
are beautiful; but if farmers there
were suddenly transferred to the plains
about Austin they would believe them
selves in abodes of the blest. Our
crops ripen a month earlier than those
of East Tennessee; one-half the toll
produces q crop here doubly more va
liable than that which makes green
the stony hillsides Of East Tennessee
and yet the Switzer loves the deep
glens and precipitous heights in the
midst of which he was born, and thai
East Tennesseean who writes of his Ia
tive land absolutely behaves what hi
| saws.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

THE growing Importance of Texas
in the eyes of the Northwest is demon
strated in the conduct of the managers
of great rsllway lines. They are bend
ing all their efforts to the purpose of
controlling the great volume of travel
towards Austin and Galveston. After
the first of June there will be but one
change of cars between Galveston and
either Washington, Baltimore, Phila-
delphis, New York or Boston. This
change occurs at Chicago. This scheme
was perfected through the persistent
efforts of D. w. Hitchcock, general
passenger agent of the Chicago, Burl-
ington and Quincy Railway Company.
But travellers from Texas should re-
member the facts and take advantage
of comforts thus assured.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24
Foreign Notes.

A gentleman in England committed
suicide the other day, and left paper
stating that he did so because his wife
was a great deal too good for him.
That's why the jury returned a verdict
recording their opinion that deceased
was of IAN unsound state of mind"
An English woman, who was born
without arms, has just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
does all the house work with her feet
with dexterity that is surprising.
How she will manage to nurse her twin
babies is q problem yet to be solved.
The debts of the Homburg gambling
bank were sold at auction recently.
There were bonds given by unfortunate
players-dukes, counts, barons, Ouch
esses, countesses, officers, artists, mer-
chants, lawyers and diplomatists-in
all amounting to $500, 900, and they
were sold at $1,000.
The pilgrims expected shortly in
Rome are approximately 5000 French,
including cardinals, archbishops and
bishops; 1000 SpanIards; 5000 Italians
lUUU DSlRlduS, u0ucT SdTuludl DG-
champs; 800 Germans; 1000 Austrians,
among them Cardinal Schwarzenberg
500 from the United States; 100 Cana
dians; $50 Brazillans; 200 Portuguese
under the Cardinal Patriarch; 300
English and Irish in all II, 80. The
Ultramontanes represent the number as
much greater than these.
Abdul Kerim Pasha, the Turkish
commander-in-chief is genuine Turk
of the old school, such as are nowadays
seldom to be found, owing his advance
ment as much to his thorough honesty
and straightforwsrdness as to his mill
tary talents. He resided for many
years at Vienna as a military student
under the care of Feldzeugmeister Won
Hauslab, and he possesses many of the
solid qualities of the German nation
he also writes aud reads the German
language with facility. His suburni
face, with white hair and beard, is calm
and steady, and faithfully reflects his
well-balanced mind, which is rather
that Of FSbius than q Ronanarte
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24
The appointment fortnight ago of

The appointment fortnight ago of
George III. Butler, disreputable
nephew of Gen. Ben Butler, as special
agent of the postoffice department in
the Black Hills country, and his sud-
den removal few days later, are csus-
ing q good deal OF comment in the
Northern papers. The circumstances
of his removal have leaked out, and are
as follows: A few days since Mr.. J.
w. Marshall, formerly first assistant
postmaster genera, but at present one
of the superintendent of the railway
mail service, received a letter from q
bishop of the Methodist Church, whose
name he declines to disclose, stating
sleeping car at New York for the West,
and there met q man named But
Ter, who said he was a special
agent of the Postofice Department,
with q good salary and six dollars per
day travelling expenses. Butler seemed
very talkative, and finally pulling out
4 bottle of whisky asked the Mortified
bishop to take drink. This the bish-
Cd declined to do, when Butler passed
it to several passengers, and thereafter
crooked his elbow" so frequently
that he became hilarious and INDUCED
in profanity and obscene stories, fire.
quently Boosting Of his connection
with the Postoffice Department. The
bishop subsequently, wrote to Mr. Mar
shall detailing the circumstances and
asking whether any such man was en-
ployed by the department Mr.. Mar
shall. having been away with the pos
tsl commission for several weeks, knew
nothing of Buffers appointment. and
laid the bishops letter before Judge
Key. who At once ordered Butler's dis
charge.
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was the first aud last of Proctor. His
speech sent him back 10 Congress, but
lie sent no more Duluth speeches back
TO his constituents, and Knott has been
pronounced an extinct volcano of ire
pressible fun. But now comes p. Donan
Of whom we were telling. He pro-
nounces Knott an uumitlgsted fraud.
lie says that Knott stole oHe whole
speech from him and that the Duluth
speech was written for Knott. The
worst of it is that Knott not only
failed to pay the journalist for the job,
but denied his authorship. The
question OF veracity is easily adjusted.
We propose that Knott and Donan have
ar intellectual combat There is no
use for pistols aud coffee. The sense
OF modern civilization has gone be-
yond that sort of senseless barbarism and
we propose that Donan and Knott each
prepare another speech, the theme to
| be the reign and achievements of Bal
lock, Warmoth, Kellogg, ct I'd Omne &C.
mas, in the South. There is a ludicrous
aspect of this chapter in the history of
the South, and the man who wrote
Duluth off its foundation stones, and
bankrupted the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, and smote Jay Cooke fatally and
finally, can discern and immortalize it.
Was it Donan or Proctor Knott who
filled the world with echoes OF Con-
gressional wit and eloquencel Let US
settle TnIs question wuIlU DUuau aud
Knott still live. II we fail now, like
the author OF Beautiful Snow" or
"All's Quiet on the Potomac Tonight, y
the real orator who produced Duluth
Damned" may never be known. Re,
ferring to Knott's robbery of himself,
Donau says:
Orthodoxy teaches US that perditlon
is bottomlefs; but thought, and after
six years calm reflection still think,
that, when he rose in his place in the
, |
tives, and spoke, iteratim ct UerJdtim
, ct punctuGtinn, ct every other atm, &
poor devil of country editors effusion
} as his own Grafton, Mr.. Proctor Knott
of Kentucky, demonstrated the falsity
of the doctrine-and struck bottom
Allow me, in conclusion, to sIl
that consider the course of our howl
ing Democratic irreconcilables, o.
whom this fellow Knott is fair speci
men, as a commingllng of lunacy anC
> crime. The man who, to-day, would
throw one straw in the way of tn
T chariot wheels of pacification and fra
termination is public enemy to tn
i South. Mr.. Hayes has, thus far
= shown himself a patriot instead of
partisan, the President of the Who'll
Il Republic and not of party. He has
:. In ten weeks, done more for the South
q more for the restoration of the Uniol
indeed, and more for the peace an,
prosperity of the entire country, thai
o had been accomplished in the Who'll
J. twelve years of Grant and Andy John
% son He has given home-ruls to tn
II South and rest to her people. So Ion
= as he holds to his present heroic an
u" patriotic policy, he deserves and shout
l. have the support of every true man l
n the land, but especially In our re
% deemed fair sunny Southern land.
ia Very respectfully,
~ p DOMAIN
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PRor1.E would now know

PEOPLE would now know somewhat
Of Russian literature, therefore the Rus
sian novelist, Tourguenef, viii receive
considerable attention in Seri6ner for
June and July. In the former number
there viii be q biographical and critical
sketch Of hum by Mr.. Boyesen, while
THE Old Cabinet besides reprinting
an interview with the novelist, win dis
euss the quality Of his imagination. In
the July number twenty-five pages viii
be devoted to one Of his short stories,
Of which horse is the hero. Another
new artist appears in this connection,
Mr.. George lnness. Jr., who has made
two draWings for the story.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

WE do not pretend to defend those
Who murdered Chisholm at DeKalb, in
Mississippi. Yendettas, like that in
which he and Gully participated, are
criminal and brutal. But Chisholm
hardly deserved to live. He had used
the negroes for a series of years to gov
ern and rob and tax TO poverty the un-
fortunate county. His neighbors hated
the selfish, violent, coarse and bombas-
tic thief. He was dreaded for his law
less feroeity of temper and because he
was ever surrounded by dangerous
white men as depraved as himself, who
used the negroes as voting machines to
keep themselves in Office. Gully may
have been no better man than CHS
holm; but the county in which CHS
holm lived is to be congratulated that
Chisholm is dead, and we can only de-
plore the manner Of his taking off. He
would have been auseful citizen in diff
ferent state of society and government,
but negro innocence tempts bad men to
seek Office. Even here in Austin we
see how the very worst representatives
of the worst class of people are evoked
and invested with power by race pref
udices to which vulgar Doors appeal by
all the arts of ignorant cunning. CHS
holm is a representative of that class
of newly made officeseekers and hold
ers born of universal, savage suffrage.
Not very long ago Chisholm was be,
lore tne migratory Congressional com
mittee employed to investigate the le
gality of elections in Mississippi. CHS
holm, reciting events IN bis history,
said 81 met billiard (who wai
drunk in the street, and he began tc
abuse me, holding pistol in his hand
1 stayed there and took it," remarked
the meek and lowly Chisholm, ''unti
l got chance to go across the street
and then fixed myself and came back
and we met on halfway ground and
shot him." 1t is no wonder that sucl
a man was suspected of knowledge
of the recent murder of John Gully
with whom his testimony shows he hat
quarrel of several years standing
and it is not altogether strange tina
such despersdoes as he and his com
rades should have met with the fat
which they finally suffered at the hand
of an outraged community. While W
stand fast for the due processes of tn
law in all cases, we can understand
how the wild justice of revenge some
times breaks over all ordinary forms
and the lynching at DeKalb, Mississir
pi, however deplorable, is the not ur
natural sequence of series OF crime
against individuals and society tina
had assumed the shape of a politics
vendetta.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24

Curiosilies of lawsuits for breach of
matrimonial promises: In Boston
girl was engaged to a man who Tilted
her. This was ten years ago. She
married somebody else. Recently she
became q widow, and now she sues the
original sutton because he will not keep
the old promise. In Minneapolis man
is the complainant He declares that
his pocket and his feelings have suf-
fered an injury equal to ten thousand
dollars by the refusal of wealthy
widow TO marry him. She promised to
do so, and he gave up his business Of
liquor selling to please her, thus caus-
ing his bankruptcy. In Montreal a
woman of forty failed to secure YER
dict against boy of eighteen. He
proved that he never meant nor prom
ised to marry her, but had regarded
her rather in the light of motherly
adviser.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24
THE PRESIDENT AND THE FIJI.
IBUSTERS.
p. DOMAIN.

FilIbusterism against Mexico will be
approved neither on this nor the other
side of the Rio Grande. If adventu-
rers invade the country they deserve to
be captured and executed. Lopez's
fate was terrible, but deserved, even as
xr.- NM, w. pirotaa o,,
land xI1 No Iuorc to bv hunored or 70
spected than on the high seas. While
we think the government of Oiaz law
less and that it does not deserve, there
fore, to exist, and solely for the reason
that it is not legitimate, and while
this Mexican government is incapable
of protecting our frontier against incur
sions of Indians and Mexican banditti,
we have no right, in order to destroy
robbers, to become robbers, and none
to invade country as free as this, or
to disturb a peoples homes and viii
lagos and churches, who have right
to be poor and miserable and conten-
tious and revolutionary if they choose.
When the woes of Mexico become in
tolerable to us, our government, and
not highwaymen and lawless adventu
rers, should interpose. Our interven-
ton should be restricted to the simple
purpose Of restoring peace and pros
peritY to the hapless country. This can
only be accomplished by reproducing
lawful government, aud this can only
be maintained by the substitution of
popular industry for military pursuits.
The people must be taught the absurd
ity of pronuncidmientOs, and learn to
punish rather than follow in the DESC
lating footsteps of leaders of plumber
ing highwaymen. To invade the coun-
try would be easy, but the border
States, like Tamaulipas, have been
swept over for years again and again,
by Cortina and other thieves. Contri-
buttons have been exscted by one and
another leader in revolts until the in
vasion of Mexico from Texas, with
out q railway to set as quar-
termaster and commisssry, would
be even hazardous and costly beyond
computation: As prerequisite to
successful war, the International road
must be extended from the capital Of
Texas even to Laredo or Eagle Pass.
To pacify the border, the railway
company recently organized in this
city must be induced TO construct its
line to Ell Paso. Or Lamar's Texas
Pacific bill must be so amended that
the borders of Texas and Mexico from
81 Psso to Austin may be populated
and civilized by steam. A progressive
railway is infinitely to be preferred to
g standing army. The one civilizes,
eniightens and enrlches, the other de-
grades and impoverishes and destroys
States and peoples. The one makes a
desert aud calls it peace; the other
crowns the achievements of Christian
civilization with its divinest temporal
glory. Shelly, Frank Armstrong, For.
rest, Escobedo and Lerdo may be emf,
peutly useful as soldiers of the United
States in acquiring temporary control
Of Mexico until the railway may enter
the country to reign peacefully and
permanently; but we would have nc
lAwless invasion attempted. Consoli-
dated Mexican resistance is assured
and the invaders will be repelled oil
parlsh.
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DOMAIN AND DULUTH.

Mr.. p. DOMAIN, who used to edit the
Caucasian, most popular and original
paper when he shaped its policy, aud
radically Democratic and Southern,
has been journalist in North Carolina
for three years or more. He was main
ly instrumental in effecting the revolu-
ton by which Zeb Vance was made
governor and Ransom senator. In fact,
the transformation Of the government
Of the Old North State and its subjec-
ton to Democratic rule are ascribed,
with equal justice, to the eloquence OF
Vance and the earnest enthusiasm and
vigor and originality Of Donan as a
writer. Donan is q plain talker. He
Is apt to say what he thinks and always
with force, IL not with rhetorical
elegance. It viii be remembered tina,
q gentleman from Kentucky named
Proctor Knott became suddenly
famous. He was hardly known beyond
the confines Of the counties that zen,
him to Congress when he pronounced
. speech in the House Of infinite
humor. Il set the whole country in al
uproar. Men with the longest visage'
and sentimental old maids whose blood
is psrched' BY fever that love nevel
sOothed and they who deem it theil
duty TO lead lives of penance-sl
these laughed Is never before wher
the ethereal fun that destroyed Duluth
and bankrupted the Northern Pacific
Railway went bubbling up from thai
abode Of stupid melancholy, tn,
lower House. Knott was the hero o.
fun. the Incompatible WIT and punstsr
she humorist Of the Union. But that