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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
THE New York Herald discusses

THE New York Herald discusses the
philosophy OF Rev. DR.. Tying, who be-
lieves that the soul is most easily oper-
ated upon when the stomach is emf
nently comfortable. 1t is to be pre-
sumed, from the admirable idea which
DR.. Tying has elaborated into working
order, that he has little faith in talk
ing temperance to men with empty
stomachs, or preaching to them ser
mons while the hunger pangs are sting
ing them. And hence it is, no doubt,
that he adopted the principle of max
ing those whom he would convert into
righteous ways feel satisfied a little
with the world around them before
asking them to be happy and content
ed. This was manifest recently when,
at five o'clock, about five hundred men
crowded into the basement hall of the
church to attend temperance meet
ing, all of them knowing that before
the hour fixed for DR.. Tyng's usual
evening sermon in the church they
would all have partaken of an excel
lent supper. This supper is the idea
upon which DR.. Tying has been work
ing to get five hundred young mos
every Sunday evening to attend a tenn
perance meeting and to listen to q SER
mon. Most of those present at the
recent meeting were young men be-
longing to the working classes, very
many of them having the appearance
of clerks out of employment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

TEE fact that much excitement pre-
walls in Washington in congressional
circles will amount to nothing in few
days. The willingness of the Demo
Gratis to admit the honesty of Supreme
Court judges, and the consequent
adoption of the electoral bill, was the
movement which encompassed the
Democratic party in ruin. While some
chafe under chagrin, others are quiet,
and . majority will remain so. Even
now an appeal to honor suggests that
the Republican party in the future
must succumb before the perfdious-
ness of its present course, and Demo
Gratis claim that two years hence the
nation win rise, en- nsasse, and rebuke it
at the ballot-box. There are not few
who assert that the Democratic
party is now in Q far better
condition to triumph in the fu-
ture than if Tilden should become
president. II iniquities could doom
party, and sink j. N influence and
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IMPOSE NOT UPON OTHERS.

The opponents of local option claim
that the city Will be ruined by its
adoption. Who maintain the people
of this or any other city Is 1t not the
country people, and would not Austin
or any other city or town be depopula-
ted in week if these country people
should not recognize them IN a bust
ness capacityl The country people are
the supporters of city people. TIE in
tercourse is mutual, it is true, but
those of the country can live without
the other. They have studied their
interests and know that local option
would be blessing to both country
and city, and hence the country people
are almost wholly in favor of prohlbi-
ton. They know their substance is
wasted by whisky; that the burden of
supporting paupers falls, in the end,
upon them, and they desire to see an
evil suppressed, which degrades and
impoverishes all. And these country
people are not alone. In Austin it will
be found that immortality arising from
whisky must be suppressed, and feel
ing this its people will go hand in hand
with those of the country, and then our
community can begin to bid adieu to
hard times. Let it remembered that
we of Austin must not indulge in in
toxicating drinks when In doing so we
simply drag down those upon whom
we depend.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

The Ns'rs and Courier says: the
testimony in the case OF the Continent
al Life Insurance Company at New
York shows that $3.50, 600 actually paid
out to different officers of the comp ny
was carried on the books as casa il
bank, and so sworn to in an annual
statement. 4 transaction viii the
New Jersey Mutual Company tas day
before the officers of the Continental
were enjoined against, disposing of the
latter's funds, is now exposed as giving
away more than 500, 600 Of securities
without any consideration" Referring
to these exposures, the New York Tri-
JIEe says: "Back of such transactions
there were doubtless others upon
which they were based, and until the
whole story is told the line cannot be
drawn between what was shocking
mismanagement and what may have
been crime"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

Ton SCOTT runs north to Phlladel-
phia from the Panhandle, and Hunt
ington north to San Francisco from
Arizona, and thus at each end Of the
road, as now to be built, five hundred
miles are added to its length, and the
whole country, and especially Texas
and the South, is sacrificed to two
cities, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
The personal aims and ambition and
selfshness of two men are pandered to
by Congress; the one controlling roads
and brdges that cost ninety millions,
and the other, roads and bridges that
cost two hundred millions. Congress
men cannot see States and cities, when
men and corporations like these rise up
in Washington to demand the robbery
Of the people aud diversion of railways
from routes defined by legislatures that
have been swindled and Rutabagi con-
ventions that were duped or bought
and sold. Will Hancock and Schleicher
suffer such additions of length to be
made to the supposed shortest possible
transcontinentalh highwayl Must Hunt
ington stretch the road in the West
and Scott in the East that Texas may
be robbed. We proposed to connect Gal
weston with Guaymas through FL Paso,
but Congress surrenders to the lobby,
and we are to have no short road from
sea to sea, and only great highway
from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
WEST TEXAS AND RAILROADS.

The completion of the Pierce road
to San Antonio, the ancient seat of
trade for all the Southwest, IS matter
of no light Importance. West Texas
embraces many of the finest lands in
the State, suited to both agriculture
and stockraising. Col. Ashbel Smith
says that hidden away in the chapar-
rails of the-west are the finest wheat
producing soils In the United States.
and that it only requires the
arm of man and scientific culture
to develop this fact beyond disputa-
ton. Before the railroad was COM
pleted to San Antonio immigration
could not extend its course to the far
West, but now cheap and fertile lands
will lure many each year to seek homes
beyond the waters of the Colorado.
Yet Western Texas is not sup
piled with such means of commu-
nication as will soon fill its wide
prairies with life and industry.
The Pierce road starts from Galveston
and Houston, neither of which places
sac much of immigration. With the ex-
ception of few people who come by
ship from foreign countries, immigra-
ton pours through entirely different
channels. Rapid transit on the rail-
roads penetrating Texas from the North
and East, with land approaches for
wagon transportation in all other direc-
tions, leave, as said, but very small
percentage of immigrants 20 take pas
sage, except by circuitous and expensive
routes, over the Pierce road, and until
direct connection is made with the In
ternational and the NJ X. and T. the vast
West must remain to a very great de-
gree unnoticed. 1t Is said that Nor
gan's road is to be extended beyond
C1ero, and, as the Victoria Adcocate
properly says, "this road should
seek connection at Austin, the
natural railroad centre of Tex
as" with the roads concentrating
there. If this be done, the hopes of
West Texas may at once be realized;
the vast tide of immigration that CONES
along direct routes from St. Louis and
all the Middle and Southern States Will
press itself beyond the Colorado in
countless thousands, and the hope that
has been deferred, the obstacles In the
way of development will be
realized and overcome; and Texas,
cemented with stronger ties, will
maintain its indivisibility, and both
its grandeur ard its power will be
widely recognized. Whether Mr.. Nor
gan looks upon this picture as we do
is not known, but it is understood that
he even now is contemplating the ex-
tension of his road to points beyond
Cuero. Whether he will direct his line
of road to Austin, and thus tap the
paying tide of human beings coming
over the International, the Texas Cen
trail and the NJ, K. 81 T., which
will some day be completed even
to this city, 1t is impossible to say,
but the interests of West Texas de-
mand this course aud should secure it.
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THE BLACK HILLS COUNTRY.

The HundredM Meridian, published
at Cozad, Nebraska, gives interestin 3
facts in regard to the country called
the Black Hills. 1t covers an area of
about zoe, 900 square miles, lying direct
ly north and west of Nebraska, and
embraces portions of Dakota, Wyom-
ing and Colorado. 1t consists of sue
cesslon of mountain ranges, broken by
small but beautiful valleys, the soil of
which is rich and fertile, and covered
with good growth of grass. Numer-
Gus clear running streams lntersect this
section, and an abundance of timber is
found on the mountain slopes. Here
are the Wind River and Big Horn
Mountains, the Black Hills of the Lar
annie and the Black Hills of the
Cheyenne. 1t is the latter locality
which is now attracting SO much atten-
tion. Notwithstanding the hostile at
titude Of the Indians in whose territory
the gold fields are situated, cor
tinuous column of gold seekers have
during the past winter and spring
pressed steadily forward into the new
Eldorado, and thousands of people al
ready occupy the valleys and mountain
declivities of the Black Hills country.
Towns have sprung into existence,
mining camps are numerous, and the
hum of life, activity and industry
prevails. This country will henceforth
be known as among the permanent
gold districts of the world. Large
quantities have been taken out, and
the fact that it exists in the hills in
rich abundance is fully established.
Exaggerated stories of large amounts
being washed out by individuals should
be taken with due allowance, but the
fact that the gold is there and can be
secured in quantities to pay is beyond
controversy. Rich as the Black Hills
country is in precious metals and other
mineral deposits, and in grazing facil-
tiles, it is not, and never can be, even
with the aid of irrigation, an agricul-
tural country. The supply of food
must be obtained from other regions.
Nebraska is the nearest agricultural
country, and from her soil must be
produced, to large extent, the food
to sustain this great mining population.
Another most important and desirable
result which must follow from the
present excitement, Is the extinction
OF the Indian title to the Black Hills
country, and the removal OF the In
dians themselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

THE recently consolidated Presbyte-
rian bodies report SO syneds, 172 pres
byteries, 4744 ministers, 324 licen-
tiates, 7O5 candidates, 5O77 churches,
added by experience 4S, 244, total
membership 535, ,210, adults baptized
Is, 753, infants baptized IS, 9S7, Sunday
school members 553, 947. Their report
of practical benefcence is: Fer
Home Mission 1914, 693, for Foreign
Mission $500, ,767, for education $S1, :
1872, for publication $36, 045, for sup
port of pastor and maintenance of
churches Sc, 633. 577-total 50, $40, 233.
What phase of modern skepticism
yields such tangible results?
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Is 1870, according to the last census
report, there were in the United States
116, 102 persons in the various pauper
institutions. We know that the num-
Der reported is not enough. Multiply
that number by three and you approx
mate the number of psupers in the
land. Very many paupers never see
the inside of poor-house. There are
at least $50, 900 paupers supported by
the hard-working people, upon whom
they have no claim except that they
are human beings in want. 1t is q
fact with which we are all painfully
fsmiliar-that Is the wasting of their
hard-earned wages for drink, by our
laborers, mechanics, artisans and Others,
which places or keeps them in such
condition that if by accident depres-
sion of business, or sickness, or any
other cause, they are unable to per-
form their usual labor, they either suf-
fer greatly or burden the charity Of
the community. A man need not be-
come a drunkard to do this. Three
drinks day is sufficient to keep him
from gathering around him the cou-
forts of home, or to steal them away
from him if he has them. The nan
who thus drinks only three glasses q
day spends $40 a year. Ask your
wife how much more corforta-
BILE home would be with that
$l1o spent for articles the want
Of which has made her feel somewhat
ashamed of her home. Then this mod
crate use of stimuiants undermines the
constitution OF the drinker, and be-
fore he ought 70 be really in his prime
he is worn out old man, dependent
and his family burden on the sober,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

WHETHER the st. Patnck's process
sion shall be held as heretofore, or
given up, is discussed at New York.
Each side has its advocates, and each
has what may be supposed to be very
good reasons for its position, but the
great majority is unquestionably in ia
vor of the turnout. Among the dissent
ers is the Freemdn'S J0urncl, which, in
a recent issue, objects to it, first, beS
cause it takes place in Lent, and sec
ond, "because many, through enthu-
siasm for mistaken notion of the good
it will do, will spend money on the
parade that wives and children sadly
need at home" The other Catholic
journal, the Tablet, it should be added,
is outspoken in favor of the demonstra-
tion.
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the Maine law, June, 1879, says:
MANY, IN the humble classes Of socl-
ETY. particularly, have correct views.
aud form good resolutions, which they
carry out successfully when not solic-
tied to drink by the open bar. Many
wives have assured me of the Improve
condition of their families through the
greater restraints put upon their hus-
bands. Families, whose homes are in
drinking neighhorhoods or in streets
where formerly We're many drunken
brawls, have gratefully acknowledged
the happy change wrought by the due
administration of the law suppressIng
tipplins shops"
The Hon. G.. c. Stacy, Secretary OF
State; Hon. B. b. Murray, Adjutaut
General; Hon. ]. J. Eveleth, mayor of
Augusta, and Joshua Nye, ESQ, late
State constable, unite, 1872, In the fol-
lowing: 'It we were to say that the
quantity of liquors sold here Augusta
is not one-tenth so large as formerly,
we think it would be within the truth;
and the favorable effects Of the change
upon all the interests of the State are
plainly seen everywhere"
The Edinburgh Reeie,s for January,
1873, says: 1--WE have seen list OF
eighty-nine estates in England and
Scotland where the drink-traffic has
been altogether suppressed, with the
very hapPiast social rasnlts The laia
Lord Palmerston suppressed the beer
shops in Ramsey as the leases fell in.
We know an estate which stretches for
miles along the romantic shore Of Loeb
Fyne where no whisky is allowed to be
sold. The peasants and fishermen are
flourishipg. They all have their money
In the bank, and they obtain higher
wages than their neighbors when they
go to sea-" If any citizens require
other testimony In regard to the bene-
fcent effects of prohibition they have
it in the fact that the ''organ" is bit
terly opposed to the law. This fact
alone speaks volumes for ''local OPP
tiop." HARD BRICK,
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Hon. r. Q. MILLS had the G.

Hon. r. @. MILLS had the courage
to take bold ground upon the floor of
Congress against what he at once
recognized as an infamy-the creation
of partisan board to decide who
should be president. In his memora-
BILE speech upon the consideration of
the bill creating the commission, he
spoke as follows: ..-
For myself, will stand by the Con-
stitutlon and sovereignty of the peo-
pie, and leave them to determine
whether or not they will abandon their
government to bold, insolent and
palpable fraud. Concessions to fraud
never added to the right, and only de-
fers the evil we would avoid, and,
while deferring, increases its strength.
If we are right. then let US stand by
the right, for the sake of the right.
If the Constitution is assailed by q
powerful combination for its over
throw, we can best do our duty by
rising to the highest courage in its de-
tense. In the language of great
AneIiCaA staIesAan1 leI US CInB W
the Constitution as the mariner clings
to the last plank In the shipwreck
when night and tempests gather around
him." Let US initiate the high courage
of that other great American name,
and adopting his motto, "Ask nothing
but what is right, and submit to moth
ing that is wrong" These, sir, are the
lights that fall along my pathway, and
these are the lamps by which my feet
are guided, and will follow them with
the faith and devotion that the philos-
ophers followed the star that lead them
to the author of truth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

THE Lampasas Dispatch says that
Hon. John Hancock's portrayal of the
Louisiana returning board is perfectly
unanswerable; and if Congress and the
grand commission" were disposed to
look at things as they really exist, we
do not see how Judge Hancock's state
ment failed to convince them Of the
rottenness of all the political acts of
Louisiana for the last five or six years.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

The BRITIsH government has declared
that it does not intend to adopt any
measures of coercion towards Turkey,
and that 1t will not draw the sword in
its defense. At the Treaty of Paris, the
nations of Europe interfered between
Russia and Turkey in behalf OF the
weaker, and Turkey accepted the
compact on the ground that she would
establish such reforms as were de-
manded by the consulting powers
This treaty had for its cornerstone the
principle of the guardianship of Eu-
rope over Turkey, now recognized for
twenty years, but Turkey repudiates
this relation, while the English gov
ernment holds there is still some val
idity in the Treaty of Paris.
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ST. LOUIS doctors have been expert
mentlng with blue window panes and
determining their effect upon health
and nerves. The learned gentlemen
state that positive and marked i'm
provement in the health and strength
of persons suffering from various dis
eases and complaints have been effect
ed. The cases reported are those of
neuralgia, nervous debility, marasmus,
bronchitis, liver complaint, erysipelas
rheumatism. Although it Is true that
the cerulean theory is not practically
applicable to all ailments, the cases al
ready known to have been successfully
reached by it are sufficient to give it
such standing in the court of medi-
cal science as to entitle it to an early
and attentive hearing. The first favor
able effects of the blue light were OBJ
served in its action upon vegetation,
but later experiments have made it
even more marvellously applicable to
animal life. A st. Louis physician,
engaged in experimenting with it, al
though at present disinclined to COM
municate results, is free to admit that
Gen. Pleasanton has done q most be-
nevolent deed in giving his discovery
to the world, for he could not expect
to profit by it except from the sale of
his book. To show that he works for
the public good chiefly, he extends the
request to all those who make use of
his discovery that they shall commu-
nicate to him the results Of their exper-
imenting, so that he may come into
possession of an accumulation of
facts in regard to the blue ray
theory which will tend to set
tie whether human maladies can be al
leviated and cured, what are the con-
ditions most favorable for the applica-
ton of the blue, light. The testimony
that comes from st. Louis is certainly
encouraging. The experiments of Gen.
Pleasanton with the grapevine in his
conservatory are exceedingly interest
ing. And so is what he tells Us in his
book about the remarkable stmosphe-
ric effect produced by even q few blue
panes of glass in room in mid-winter.
Now he asks, and We wait for, such
facts as general experimenting will
yield either for the corroboratlon of his
theory or for its overthrow. The
bass on which he rests it is his obser-
vation, or, We should say, his refec-
ton, that "the blue color of the sky,
so permanent and all-pervsding, and
yet SO varying in the intensity of color,
according to season and latitude, must
have some abiding relation and inti-
mate connection with the living organ
isms on this planet" Striking as the
idea may be, it may yet be of more ap-
parent than real value for founding g
IneSiy uPon. a sSieHanS Sen1ienAn
in st. Louis, who is experimenting
with the blue ray, repudiates the asser-
ton that Gen. Pleasanton originated
the idea of its very peculiar properties.
He says that the blue ray is the SYM
pathetic color with electricity, and that
IN passing through the blue glass it
assumes its chemical properties while
the heating portion of the sunbeam is
arrested by the glass-a fact that seems
to have been clearly established. The
same gentleman adds that I'VE are
pigmies in the use Of electricity there
is no telling what win De accomplished
in time with this wonderful power"
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power, it seems to US that the Repub-
lican party should long since have
been condemned and brought to judg-
ment. It has grown arrogant along
with its corruption, and the power
that would turn South Carolina and
Louisiana over to returning boards
may, in four years more, extend itself
until every State in the Union may be-
come subject to it. But is not the
commission at Washington, even now,
virtually a national returning board as
foul as that of Louisiana.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

OUR facts and figures may be as
founding, but they are denied only by
the ignorant or the designing. To the
former we say examine for yourselves,
and you will say with the Queen of
Sheba "the half had not been told
me-" to the other class we say, your
dollar is dearer to you than your own
or the community's good, and so we
have with you no controversy. We
cannot join with you in your efforts to
further impoverish this whisky-Iidden
country,
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llothers.

CnstorIa is the rcsnIt OF 20 years expert
ments by DR.. Samuel Pitcher OF Massachusetts,.
IL is We elRbe preparation us effective a. castor
oil, but perfectly pleasant to the taste IL can
be taken by tho youngest infant, and neither
gags nor gripcs. DIR. A. j. Green, OF Royston,
Indians says OF It:
Sms--I have tried the Castoria and can speak
highly OF its merits. II will, ! think, do away
entirely with castor oil; 1t is pleasant and harm
less, and Is Nonderfully efcacious as an apeIient
ard laxative. II Is the very thing.
The CaztOria destroys worms, regulates the
Stomach, cures Wind Collie, and permits OF ma
tural, healthy sleep. II IL very elilcacious In
Croup, and for Teething Children Honey Is not
pleasanter to the taste, and Castor OIL Is not so
certain in its effects. IL costs but IS cents, in
I rye bottles.
J. b. ROSE & Co. &c Dey St New York.
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WHAT is mostly the matter with the
Democrats in Congress is that they
need leader, some bold and fearless
man who could become 3 match for
Morton. Lacking this, defeat attends
the Democratic cause.
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THE fifty thousand Russian Men
nonites who were anticipating settle
ment in the United States, owing
to the Radical revolution now going
on at Washington, have deter
mined to negotiate with Dem Pedro
for removal to Brazil.