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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
Texas-Facts and FancIes.

BRENNAN Is sloppy with watermel-
Ions.
Sulphur mines in Montague county
promise fine returns.
Tom Green county is settling up
with great rapidity.
The San Antonio Herald brought but
$2025 under the hammer.
A vessel loaded with railroad iron
is on Its way to Corpus Christi.
In few years there will be no unin-
closed land IN Collin county.
The county site of Van Zandt county
has been removed from Canton to
Willis Point.
1t is estimated that the last cotton
crop of Collin county amounted to
$4,000 bales.
Mats new newspaper has head as
thick as Nat's-quite a foot. It is
ugly, too, like Mats.
The barber whose eyes are cross
legged always shaves the other side oil
his victims face first.
A wonderful reformation has beer
going on in Hill county since prohibi.
ton went into effect.
There is not a better weekly in
Texas than the last number of the
Williamson County San.
Washington county, it is stated by
the Banner, will probably make forty
bushels of corn per acre.
Six car loads of fresh Irish potatoes
have gone from Brennan to delight the
nlaitres dhOtes of st. Louis.
The construction of an immense
grain elevator is talked of at Waco.
The place has pluck in 1t.
A man has walked all the way from
Arizona to Mason. 1t has taken him
FIVE months to make the trip.
Cox. charged with murder in Falli
county, has been arrested by the
rangers and is imprisoned at Llano.
Much preparation is going on al
Waco for the Hood Brigade reception
on the twenty-seventh of this month.
Plano is to be made q money order
Office on the second of July. The
event will be celebrated on the fourth.
Capt. James Gillian, deceased, Of
Red River county, was most respected
citizen, an early settler and a veteran.
The Times says ''that Allen Hannah
has married Hannah Allen" and now
we know what's the matter with Han.
nah.
The appraisement of penitentiary
property is about completed. The
State will owe the lessees about $780,
600.
ThelDemocrut just announces it, when
all the press gang have known it for q
Year, that its Office is Illuminated with
gas.
Grasshoppers and rust have cut down
the wheat crop in Lampasas county to
an average of fifteen bushels to the
acre.
Sheriffs ]. ]. Bogsrth, of Llano and
J. J. Strickland, Of Burnei, are said
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The Russian Chief of star.

The correspondent OF the Daily Nrcs
at Kischeneff, writing of Gen. Nepo..
koitschitzky, John Smith, the Russian
chief Of staff, says:
Gen. Nepokoitschitzky's hair, whisk-
ers and moustache are snow white; but
there is flush Of hale color on his
cheek; his eye Is not dim, neither is
his natural force sbated. He wore q
simple undress uniform, with the
aiguilettes, which distinguish the staff
officer, aud his only decoration was the
Cross Of st. George.
The General has seen more service
than most of the Russian leaders, and
his experience Of staff duty in particu.
lar has been long and continuous. He
joined the army as an infantry officer,
ard first saw active service in the eau
casus, where his merit was SO conspicu-
Gus that he speedily received a staff APP
pointment. He held an important and
responsible Office on the general staff
in the army which Russia sent 10 CO.
operate with Austria in quelling the
Austrian instruction in 1S49.
In the Crimean war, or rather In the
" ~ "htNh We AnOW NOnNCnbiOanAAy
that name, he was chief OF staff 10 one
of the corps composing the army with
which Gortschakof occupied the Prin-
cipalities, and took part, under Paskie-
WITT, in the memorable siege OF Stills
tria. Since 1855 the General has seen
no active service, but has been contin-
ually in military employment OF one
sort or other.
Although chief OF the staff Of the
army Of the South, for which position
he was chosen because OF his acquaint-
ance with the region Of the Danubian
Valley, derived from his experience in
the campaign OF 1854, he is not the
head of the great general staff OF Rus
sis. Tha. high Office IL filed by Count
Heidan. Before his appointment TO
the Office he now holds, Gen. Nepokoit-
schitzky was at the head Of the CON-
mission for the reorganization Of the
army on the new system, which has
replaced the old Russian system, and
the operation Of which, although its in
stitution 10 80 recent that it's full value
a. yet not realized, has done 30 much
70 improve in all respects the Russian
army.
Although IN years and service,
the General Is unquestionably an old
soldier, his position: IS president Of
this commission sufficiently indicates
that he is q disciple Of the modern
school OF military organization and OF
strategy and tactics. Gen. Levitsky,
the sous-chIef OF the general staff, has
believe, been 4 professor in the mill.
tary academy Of St. Petersburg, and
has also commanded one Of the caraIrj
regiments Of the Guards. He has not
seen active service. believe that,
without exception, the generals com.
handing the army corps OF the army Of
operation saw service In the cTimssn
war.
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A SERMON IN THESE STONES.

The best fire brick in use are made,
we are told, of white clay of Wis O..
consin. 1t Is used in making fireplaces
and furnaces in towns and cities along
the Mississippi. The very same clay
of which the same perdurable bricks
are made is found and used here IN
Austin, and the pale white clay grows
harder with years. 1t is simply indie
structible, yielding neither to fire nor
moisture. The hardest white lime
stone constitutes the foundation Of
Mount Bonnell. A cheap railway to the
quarries would lessen greatly the cost
and promote investments in buildings
and thus give employment to greater
numbers of working people IN Austin.
But the effect abroad would be in
stantly recognized. Galveston now
sends to New England for bricks for
the Chamber o, Commerce building,
and for granite to be used in many
progressive structures. Better brick
and better stone are here at the very
doors of Galveston, and yet so insanely
selfish is the policy of corporations
that stone is taxed with two or three
miles of carriage before it reaches the
railway, while in New England rail-
way trains enter the quarries and the
cars are transferred to the ships and
unloaded on board. By unwise man
agement and this stupid selishness
Galveston is forced to buy stone and
bricks in the East when quarried stone
costs less in Austin than at the quar-
rics of New Hampshire, and bricks are
made, because of the greater abun-
dance of fuel and of food, more cheaply
here than in Wisconsin or New Eng
land. Cannot our wise and learned
city government inquire into these
facts and define remedy2 Is it none
Of the business of the city Legislators
to promote the growth in wealth and
numbers of municipalities whose for
tunes they direct9 If proper arrange
ments were effected between the city,
the quarry owners and the railways the
cost of stone for pavements for Gal
weston and Houston, and for building
purposes of bricks might be readily
reduced twenty five per cent. in Hous-
ton. Not only would employment in
the quarries be given to great num-
bers but freights to idle cars and To-
comotives ana the whole system of
freight rates would be lessened. 1t is
needless to say that all these people
employed in making "firebricks" and
in stone cutting would consume the
beef of butchers and the dry goods
and groceries of Pecan street and the
Avenue, and we cannot help thinking
that the announcement by telegraph
that the Galveston Chamber of Com
merce sends 10 New England for
building material will make US reflect
that there is sermon in these stones.
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IN Rockdale, and he is fond of II ~
properly mixed. He has a row now
ana then, and all for popular amuse-
ment, ana as relief to the dullness of
the tunes: He is the delight, there
lofe, oil Rockdale. They have public
meetings every few days. and then
DTeeulng and some other good nstured
fellows Just wade into one another
very beautifully, and Breeding knocks
them right and left, and they knock
Breeding right and left. and II is
deViiish funny to outsiders. We CON
template It, at this distance. with ex.
ceedlnSly great satisfaction. But the
weather grows hot, and Breedinc ia
tired of the fun, and his last Wrss,,.
ger is one of peace.
The Dallas Commercial and the Hons.
ton Ag5 both oppose the employment
of financial agent to represent Texas
in New York. The Age is opposed to
sending financial agents TO New
York with instructions to shin around
Wall street, manipulate Texas bonds
and to shove Texas credit. Ii is no
credit for US to ask for credit in that
Botany Bay of iniquity. All the troub-
les upon us now have been brought
about in this way. If Governor Hub
bard wants any money to help him
carry on the government and has any
bonds for sale let him ask our own
people for it. There is plenty to loan
IN Texas, which can be had at any
time If the proper security is offered"
TO which all good Texans can. say
amen.
The Dispatch gives further particu-
lars of the fight between the Harrell
and Higgins gangs in the town of
Lampasas on the fourteenth instant.
There were seven of the Harrells and
four of the Higginses. They met in
the street at 10 A. NJ, opened fire at
once and continued the fight until
l p. NJ, when it was stopped by the
intervention of citizens. Billy Wren,
one of the Higgins party, was wounded !;
Frank Mitchell, of the same gang, was
killed, as was also one of the Harrells.
Fink Higgins got out of town, and,
coming back a little after - o'clock
with relnforcements, the battle was re-
newed with great ferocity. About
this time, and before anybody else was
hurt, the citizens succeeded in getting
the hostile parties to draw off. War
rants of arrest were issued, and num-
Der of the combatants were placed IN
der arrest.
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WE have not heard whether Gc

WE have not heard whether Cover.
nor Hubbard will make requisitior
for Beers & Co., vendors of ''The
Opium Eaters Hope" or not. But if
the case be clearly made out, as al
legged, that a citizen of Texas was put
to death by Beers &c Co.'s preparation,
we don't see why Beers may hot be
imported. 1t would probably have @
fine moral effect upon old Mrs. Wins.
low who slaughters the innocents with
Soothing Syrup by the score, if Beers
were properly hanged.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

WHEN it is proposed to send Tilden
to the United States Senate, the Louis,
Vile (Ky.,) Neaos Democratic) says
that since TIlden was elected President
and did not choose to assert his claims
to the office he might we'll be permitted
to remain in private life. He has hon
ors and wealth enough won in wreck.
ing parties and railways. In fact, Mr..
Tildeu and his friends, if they expect
to make him President by sending him
to the Senate, have lost their reckon.
ing. Hendricks, or some Western
man, will be Hayes's successor. New
York gave us Mcclellan, Seymour,
Greeley and Til%en, and all were
beaten. Indiana, we are sure, would
have better luck.
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R. W. THOMPSON, for years of the

r. w. THOMPSON, for years of the
editorial staff of the Memphis AUa-
la''che, supplants the excellent old gen.
tleman, Josiah Deloach, appointed
postmaster at Memphis because he
saved Grants life. Mr.. Thompson
was born, reared and educated in
Poughkeepsie, New York. He came
to Memphis 6ello .fagrGnte and became
an editor of the Bulletin. He was
especially addicted to finance and
matters of commerce, giving a wide
berth to partisanship. In other words,
he is of capital g God sense and knows
how to put it on paper. He deals
mainly in statistics, and for years past
has been the oracle of the cotton
market in the South. He will serve
the government, as he has the press,
with rare ability, industry and fidelity,
and the appointment is one that was
eminently fit to be made. The Post
master General, in this instance, has
surely blundered in nothing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE St. Louis Globe Democrat, of
June 10, in its Washington correspond
ence gives an extract from letter p'lr-
porting to have been written by
Marshal Purnell, in which he reviews
the doings of Ham White and other
stage coach robbers in Texas. The
facts as related are good enough, but
the differences drawn from them are
most unjust and ungenerous, and the
probability suggests itself that Major
Purnell has been imposed upon. We
call his attention to the following ex-
tract from the letter referred to, hop
ing he may be prepared to deny its
authorship: 1.-THE worst of it is that
these bold highwaymen are very much
admired here. The sympathies of the
people are to very great extent with
them. No sheriff ever makes an effort
10 arrest them"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

ARKANSAS got rid of SIC, 900, 600 of
its debt last Saturday by decision of
its Supreme Court declaring it uncoA-
stitutional. The debt was represented
by bonds issued to certain railroads
under an act passed by the Clayton
government in 1869. The court holds
that the act was unconstitutional and
therefore void. Tie decision is most
pleasing to the taxpayers of Arkansas,
but terrible to innocent Amsterdam
Dutchmen who built the road from
Helena to Pine Bluff, and to other
moneylenders who were induced by
Dorsey, Clayton, Hadley, and men of
this class, who seized the State gov
eminent through negro suffrage in 1865
and plundered it mercilessly till Gar
land went into office two yoars ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

One OF our exchanges attributes this
great misfortune" as it terms Col.
DeGress's election, to the STATEsMAs's
"Radicalism." The fool that wrote
this is incapable of comprehending the
simplest truth. Either this or he is
incapable of speaking truthfully. The
most depraved Radicals in the State
are those Democrats who have not
the nerve TO 60 TO the root
OF this evil that gives Us such masters
as they deem Col. DeGress. There is
not villain in the penitentiary so de-
based and depraved, il he have money
to buy whisky and votes, who cannot
WELD the balance of power in any
municipal election in any city in Texas.
Whose fault is it2 Ask the Holy Ali
ance, those sweet-scented Democrats
who traded with the Radicals holding
seats and the balance of power in the
late Constitutional Convention. These
are the men who swore that to vote
was a God given right" that Ethio
plans and Mexicans and all boy babies
were born with it branded on them.
These are they who made Col. De-
Gress mayor and gave Austin, when
Wheeler came into power, a Radical
city attorney and Radical chief of
police. And yet vapid disclaimers in
weigh against the STATESMAN in order
to divert attention from their own
cowardlce and demagogism and from
the crime against civilization which
they perpetrated. OF course the
Statesman is unframed bythese wicked
aud most untruthful publications,
where it is known and read and every
honest reader of this simple state
ment confesses its unquestioned truth
fulness, and yet these miserable as
sailants Of the STATESMAN will not
have the manliness to make proper
reparatien and corrections. 1t is q
great shame and foul wrong, and there
Is no adequate remedy. What is very
strange is the fact that these people
who deliberately consigned the mas
terry of corporations to this horrible
and Radical mob, pronounce them
selves the hyper-compound, sublimated
quintessence of unadulterated "De-
mocracy." They enact laws to give
US Radical task masters and subject
US to African domination, and then
claim to be Democrats. And there are
unthinking idiots in Texas to thank
God and to applaud this cowardice
and crime.
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PRocToR KNOTT is making vehement

PROCTOR KNOTT is making vehement
speeches IN Kentucky devoted to the
denunciation of the great returning
board that made Hayes president. 1t
is very proper theme for jeremiads
or denunciations no doubt, but Proc
tor might as well deal out invectives
against the fellow who took the Savior
on the mountain and pointed out his
possessions so trlumphantly. The pos
sessions, it will be observed, have all
passed into the hands of the new pro-
prletor, and when fellow grows rich
the multitude does obeisance, never in
quiring how power was acquired.
Whatever the motive or compulsory
force, Hayes making good president,
the people are content, and if Proctor
continue to blow away till .he next
presidential election, and Hayes adhere
to his policy, Proctor will be set to
whistling jigs to whirlwinds.
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REMEDIES are advertised for the in.
fernal thirst that whisky generates, and
cures of drunkenness, 1t is alleged, are
constantly effected. There is no cure
except imprisonment and abstinence,
and the latter Is impossible without
the impossible prison bars. The dis.
ease is In the brain and in the nerves,
and it is no thirst, as people imagine,
but depression or exhaustion of brain
and nervous force which nothing re-
produces except alcohol. Narcotics
avail nothing, and nothing but whisky
can take the place of whisky.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

ARE there treaty stipulatiOns modi.
flying the laws OF nations as defined by
Vattel, and as these may affect Mexico
and the United states2 Why not pub
fish the treaty If there be no treaty
the authorities of either country may
pursue and arrest robbers in the terri
tory of either power and return with
the bandits and plumber unmolested.
Vattel thus declares the law of border.
ing States and nations, and we do Lot
know why it is not operative in the
coma lDre. Mexico has no right to be
offended.
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HOW LERDO HAS LOST AN
OPPORTUNITY AND DIAZ
WINS HONOR.

Macedon and countries further North
furnished plunderers for rich and popu-
lous and civilized Greece as did Gaul
for Italy and the Scottish highlands for
the rich and cultivated fields of the
lowlands. Twenty years ago Texas
was the robber country and Mexico
more civilized, having the better
government along the Rio Grande, was
the prey of adventures, outlaws and
cattle thieves from all the States. But
times are changed and it is Mexico
that is poor and sparsely populated and
Texas that is rich and growing in
wealth and numbers along the border.
The thieves and highwaymen are there
fore mainly from Mexico. Even
American thieves may be domiciled in
Mexico and for the reason that their
persons are safer there than in Texas.
Mexico's unfortunate revolutionary
condition makes the country attractive
lOI hudhC5, dDh uLCAlOOt IL 5llC W
protect herself when Texan knaves,
twenty years ago, were aggressive,
must not complain if we act differently.
No insult to Mexican government,
wealth or poverty or people is proposed
to be proffered. We pursue robbers on
Mexican soil simply because the govern
ment of Mexico cannot pursue or cap
ture powerful and dangerous banditti.
Diaz has enough to do to take care of
himself and while the law of nations,
as propounded by Vattel, expressly
authorizes invasions of the character
and for the purposes defined, it is
hoped that the Mexican government
will approve as wise and proper the
conduct of the United States. What
ever Eastern Texas may desire or what
ever the designs of the President and
Department of State, very certainly
the American people, at almost
any cost, would avoid war, Its
vices and resulting satraples.
We want no territory to lessen the
value of that we have, and God knows
we want no vulgar voting force added
to that which now desolates towns and
cities and counties everywhere. But
Mexican publiclsts and President Lerdo
should not forget the plain fact, too
palpable for denial, that within TWEEN
ty-five years the two countries, one on
each side of the Rio Grande, have
been wholly changed In their relations
to one another. Texas grows rich and
densely populated, while Tamaulipas is
wretchedly poor and at the mercy of
highway robbers. 1t is a refuge for
Hardin and outlaws of all grades and
of villains from this country, and it is
against these and not against the dis
ordered republic that the United States
would send bodies of cavalry. 1t is
believed If Dlaz assent to this conduct
of the United States and pacific rela-
tions between the two countries be thus
finally assured, that the government
of Diaz will be recognized. 1t thus
happens that Lerdo's recent letter, OBJ
jecting to the declared policy of the
United States, may be fatal to his as
plrations and perpetuate the power of
the present rulers of Mexico.
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vice, says ''1f the State could not pay
these men their claims for extra COM
pensation,' much less could it pay a
debt created by the Governor, without
warrant of law, for their maintenance
for q longer period than provided by
law, and after the appropriation for
that purpose has been exhausted. II
these things be true, the Legislature is
bound by the spirit and the letter of
the Constitution, and however much
they might desire to repay debt of
honor so created, could not do so. The
question is, therefore, not what we
would like to do, but what may we
lawfully dol"
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FIFTY miles Of the Galveston, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe Railroad are fin
ished. December next the cars will
reach Bslleville, in Austin county.
Thence the road is directed to Bren-
ham and Bolton. II Austin begin q
road of the same gauge towards Brown
wood, this Galveston and Brenham
road would terminate even here and
lessen by half the cost Of transferring
goods from Galveston to Austin. Is
there no possibility of the construction
of narrow gauge road from Austin
twenty-five miles towards Lampasas or
Brownwood
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VReINIASs in Texas may not know
it, but Mozis Addums has twins.
Moses, in a little pamphlet which is
sold for . quarter, tells all about it,
beginning, as did Sterne when Tristan
Shandy recited the events OF his life,
with the very beginning, and tracing
the wonderful incidents down to the
dea0Uemsat. The little book is entitled
"Meekins's Twinses. A Production OF
Mozis Addums. Copyright secured,
1877, by G. w. Bagby, Richmond.
Virginia." lncloss q quarter to him
and laugh week.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

IMMIGRATION laws in some States
differ from those operative in Texas.
A new Rhode Island law, providing
work or Imprisonment for able-bodied
tramps, makes provision that this act
shall be posted on the highways lead
ing from sister States.
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GEORGE BARER, a glorious good
fellow and long an associate Of Prem
tiee on the old JaurRal and long. long
ago of GAllatin and Nashville, pre-
sided with distinguished dignity over
the grave deliberations and big drinks
of the Kentucky Press Association.
BAber is DOW the thinking faculties Of
the Louisville EssAiag Ms4ss.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE Eastern press commends in
strong terms the proclamation of Gov
ernor Hubbard offering $500 for the
apprehension of each member of a mob
that has liberated or hanged prisoners
in custody.
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PRocToR KNOTT says that p. Donan
" lies;" that he (Knott) never stole a
word or idea from Donan; that Donan
never had an idea, and all that. In
fact, Proctor K. has donated to Donan
knotty head. But let US now hear
from P. D. Knott's letter appears IN
the dcGL1nche.