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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-16
LATEST MARKETS.
NOON.

GALVESTON, October l5.-MoSKY-Gold at
lOl; silver-Amercan at par, Mexican at
DOC. New York exchange y discount; New
Orleans sight at par.
IiiDEs-Qulet and weak Dry selected Ice;
picked, II; stack salted, i2ci klps, lie, wet
| salted, IKE 10 SIC.
sALr.-Quieti coarse, 81 %, fine, 81 10 per
sack. -As
BAGGISG Firm Light FAX; per yard;
heavy 1871.
TiEs.-firm; per cwt., 81 30.
WooL-Easy; Eastern, line aud medium,
In fair demand; coarse not wanted.
CoTToS. Receipts 221T; exports-None;
sales, OBS; stock, 6s,25l; market dull;
Middllng, 9S; Low Middling, OK; Good
Ordinary, o.
LIVERPOOL, october 10 Cotton-Fair
business at previous prices, Middling Uplands
65-l0d; Middling Orleans, D-I6di sales, g.
OOOi speculation and export, 1906 receipts,
$3.50; American II 900.
Futures opened with sellers at last nights
prices, but since became drmer; uplands, low
mIddling clause for October delivery, o 5-32;
October and November, 5'ld5 2o-32, Novem-
Der and December, 5iii December and Janu-
airy, 53ii March and April, b; new crop
shipt November and December by sail, 5l..
Up. M Upland Low Middiing clause
for October delivery, 63-i6d; November and
December, 5 25-;2; April aud May, 5 1915;
new crop shipt November and December by
sail, 25-3e.
NEW YonK, October i5.-Gold opened at
lAi stocks unsettled; money at 5@6per cent;
gold IA; exchange, long ass, short is3;
state bonds quiet; government bonds weak
CorToS-Quleti sales $685. Middling Up
lands, 10 3-l6i Middling orleans 10 Sis.
Futures steady; October, l0-li, November,
lois; December, l2; January, lO-i0i Feb
ruary, 1923.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
prospects OF The South.

The Philadelphia North American
says:
There are many reasons for thinking
that the national census of 1880 will
reveal surprising recuperation over
the whole sixteen States constituting
the section known as the South. This
reaction may not be so decided in pop
ulstioD; but in actual wealth, manu-.
factures' ana agriculture it will be
found unexpectedly great. II is, Of
course, known and admitted that the
progress of Texas and Missouri has
been very remarkable In all material
respects In fact, these two States
will contest with Virginia the position
of the leading Southern Safes. Event
ually, il seems likely that Texas will
outstrip all other S Iuthern States, un-
less her territory shall be divided. But
Missouri q 90 near TO the great sources
OF Southern capital and labor, so con-
venient % st. Louis, Cincinnati aud
Chicago, md ppssesses suca enoTmous
resources, thst her progress must be
very rapid and astonishing.
Next 70 these States, Virginia will
probably make the best show, her peo-
pie having been almost entirely clear
Of lawlessness since the civil war, her
peace having been perfect and undis-
turbed, and her entire attention given
TO the recovery from the waste sDd
desolation Of war and the Development
OF her neglected internal resources.
This progress might have been made
much greater, but, In truth, the suf-
feriDgs Of Virginia during the war ex
ceeded those Of any three other South
ein States combined, and her losses Of
men included q large proportion Of
her best elements. Geoieia will mske
9 prosperous display IN material wealth
bus not in Increase IN population.
Manufactures hsve made much pro-
gress there during the past ten yesrs,
but the State has lost seriously BY the
emigrztioz OF her dissatisfied freed
men with their families. North Caro-
lima has been generally tranquil since
the war, and has made eonsiderAbie
aeadWsy. The trade Of this etste has
been chiefly transacted By Philadel-
phia, and il pays a. well 20 Prove that
the people there are quite industrious
and thrifty.
Kentucky and Tennessee have been
distracted By resistance TO the excise
taxes on tobacco and spirits. which
have been the real causes Of the out
rAges by midnight marAnders attribu-
ted 70 political organizations. These
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
THE ITCH LESS TERRIBLE
THAN PARALYSIS.


All the papers down East haye aban-
doned the Democratic platform and
concur in saying that thesWest and
South have taken a new departure.
We would have taken ii ten or twelve
years ago, but the condition OF the
South would not admit of segregation
from the East. Pendleton, Henry Clay
Dean and the st. Louis Times were on
the platform of to-day in 1s67-s-e,
but then we had moro terri
bic enemy than the bondholders
to fight, and in making Demo-
cratic platforms the greenback
"heTssy" was pretermitted. Mean
while Buek Pomefoy, who deplored
the sdjGAtment Of sectional differences
and restoration Of peace in the South,
and many like hIm, made Pendleton's
theories q specially and, exaggerating
Pendleton's purposes, constructed this
'.iat" money partisan creed aud seized
the opportunity to become conspicu-
Gus. Everybody who failed to lead in
the Democratic organization, like Ham
man, 1t once discovered 8 pleasing
means Of becoming prominent in the
new parry, and thus We find the lead
era of the Greenbackers, even the
whilom Democrats among them, are
those who unfortunately failed to win
prominence within the old organiza-
ton We cannot help thinking that the
new party viii be Of great use. It brings
All the diseases Of the body polite %
the surface. Bnsk POusrOy, KeArusy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
GEN.ALBERrsTDNEY JOHNSTON.

That the life Of so pure patriot as
Albert Sidney Johnston should not be
faithfully written, and the story of his
exalted character and his manhood not
be handed down in glowing pages to
posterity, is one of the improbabilities
OF the age In which he lived and was
loved. The pleasure of this task, one
for which he is most eminently fitted,
has fallen upon Col. VIM. Presler
Johnston, of Lexington, Virginia, son
of tie renowned citizen and soldier
whose biographer he becomes. More
than sixteen years have elapsed since
Gen. Johnston fell upon the battlefield
of Shiloh, and yet thousands of hearts
throb with affection at the
very mention Of his name.
Nowhere was he loved more than in the
capital city of Texas, where he spent
many years of his life, and where, for
ten years, his body has slept beneath
the sod. But it was our purpose to
write of the admirable book, in which
the life and character of the great
soldier is portrayed. No better pen
could have written it. Col. Johnston
is a man of most finished education,
with tastes widely dissimilar to those of
his father. He was a soldier, it is true,
during the late war, but his life has
been devoted to literary pursuits, and
his crownlng work is the book
before us. 1t has been pre-
pared in great measure from
original data, and contains the first
published account of the Confederate
campaign OF 1912 in Tennessee and
Kentucky. AS the life of great and
pure man it is valuable, while its les
sons lead TO the enobling of man. 1t
is printed by D. Appleton & Co, and
is presented to the public by Col. W.
Il. Streshley of Waco, who is now in
Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05


THE railroads are SO much annoyed
by the intsusIons and action of multi
plying aud needless quarantine officers
of different towns that railway mana
gers are forced to stop. their trains.
Vlcksburg is thus reduced to the ut
most straits. If every town of Texas
60 mad like Austin and each have its
quarantine squad examining passengers
and their baggage, there must be a
speedy end of railway travel and COM
merce, and to this suspension of COM
munication with the North and South
our city's nervous rulers are driving US.
The greatest calamity that has befallen
Vicksburg consists in the results of
quarantine as enforced on the road
leading to Vicksburg. A dispatch
states:
By reason of the harsh embargo laid
upon trains at Jackson the people of
Vicksburg are shut off from large
amounts of contributions, supplies,
mail matter and medicines that would
otherwise reach them over the Meri-
dian road. The responsibility for this
condition of affairs seems to rest with
the authorities at Jackson, whose con-
duct in contrast with that of the blg-
souled citizens of Holly Springs can
not be too severely condemned. 1t is
proper to establish quarantine regula-
tions, in order to prevent the importa-
tion of disease where there is reasonable
ground of fear, but the emergency is
certainly not so great IN this case that
Vicksburg should be denied the priv
ilege of importing medicines to heal
her sick and subsistence to feed her
starving poor. The situation of the
city is infinitely worse to-day than
when it was beleagured by the Federal
armies during the war; and all good
citizens everywhere will protest against
it. Why don't Mayor Doll appeal tn
Governor Stone for relief2 Failing
there, let him lay the case before the
Postmaster General and the President.
Vicksburg and Jackson are on the
line of march of Yellow Death; Austin
is off this line. Plaques that destroy
our race, as Eugene Sue said of Chol-
era, "travel on fixed lines of march.
Rarely do they send out raiding par
ties to the right or left, and yet Aus.
tin, when no danger threatens, Is ex
cluding fugitives from the plague-ac
cursed valley of the Mississippi, and il
pursuing policy which, if initiated
would stop railway trains everywhere
and subject the people of the capita
and country about it 20 infinite evils
Raise the blockade, at least until vel
low fever districts OF Texas are in
vaded. Even then, Austin should b.
declared by aldermen and doctors tht
place of refuge for the afflicted. There
is no Bayou Gayoso or plague-spot oil
river Of death at Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

''Where are you going with the pup
pies, my little maHi" asked . gentle.
man OF q small boy yesterday whom he
met with three pups in basket.
"GoIn' to drown 'em,n was the re-
ply;
play with; what do you cay to letting
me take one Of themf"
i.I'll sell you ope," spoke up the
boy with true American enterprises.
"rll sell you this yall,rone for half
a dollar, the black one for seventy five
cents and the spotted one is worth .
dollar"
"I think my boy would Ike the
spotted one best, but you ask tob much
for 1t. You had intended drowning
all OF them, but I'll give you twenty.
FIVE cents and save you the trouble Of
drowning the spotted one"
"Twenty. five cents for that spotted
pupp exclaimed the boy; Il can't
stand 1t; taxes is high; rent is high I,
groceries is high; oil 10 down, and GO
ing lower - oh, NO; can't take iess
than a dollar"
'.But you intend to drown-p
"Take the black one at seventy-Gve
cents"
"My little boy wouldn't like the
black one"
''Take the yaller ono at halt . dollar,
and he's dog cheap"
81 don't like his color.n
"Well, then you had better tell your
little boy to play with his toes" and
he continued on bis way 70 the river,
remarking that mo party can dead
beat bis way on me these hard times. .
oil CTR Derrick.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

troubles sre wide spread. and seri, usly
interfere with the prosperity OF the
States. The excuse for them is that
the unavoidable operations OF such
taxes is 10 favor the creation Of vast
monopolies, and to crush out all small
concerns. 1t is conceded that tina re-
suit is necessity for the proper collec-
tion of the revenues. and is 50 in al
countries where such taxes are en-
forced. Many parts of the South are
still disturbed by these troubles. Since
the whisky excise was perfectly sue
cessiul in the Northern States, the
great dlstilling business has been chief
ly monopolized by the West, so that
the struggle now is between the West
and the South.
There has been considerable material
progress In Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia and Florida; sufficient, in
fact, to compensate for the lcsses Of
South Carolina, Alabama, Missisnppi
and Louisiana. In Florida the largest
increase will be found IN the agricultu.
raj districts of the northern counties,
into which there has been a large and
steady emigration frnm AlabamA. Ms
sissippi and Georgia Toe u a X into
West Virginia has h.en ch, hy irum
the old sources = P nnsylvsnIA end
Ohio-but the weskness Of he 5,ate
government is q sad drawback on the
prosperity of the young Common
wealth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
THE WESTERN UNION TELE.
GRAPH AND THE BANKS AND
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM,

For many years, Mr.. James Coleman,
a cousin of John C. Breckenridge and
famous manager of telegraph lines,
was intimately associated in the same
office with the miraculous inventor
Edison. These two were constantly
experimenting, and had satisfied them
selves, before Coleman's death, that
messages could be transmitted by cleo
tricity between distant points without
the use of wire. Edison went North,
and Coleman died, and nothing more
was heard sbelt-it Meanwhile, in the
same Office, a little machine was used,
having keys like piano, each key rep
resenting a letter or number. Any
person who could 1ead and write, by
its means, was made an Operator"
The general use of such an instrument
would expel half the operators from
their berths, and it was suppressed.
Now comes the story that the
greatest monopoly that exists and
the greatest oppressor of the
country's intelligence ever known,
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, has not only bought all of Edi-
sons inventions but bought the man
and all he may hereafter invent. OF
cheap telegraphy we are to have none.
All discoveries which would lessen
burdens upon the press and upon popu-
lar Intelligence are kindly set aside to
remain unused, while the people are
remorselessly plucked by a more terri
BILE monopoly than the national bank
ing or any other system of cooperation
among capitalists. Eastern newspapers
say it is true that E iison has thus sold
himself and his genius and his present
and future inventions to the terrible
Western Union Telegraph Company.
How would another plank tit in the
Democratic platform? After down
with the banks" let it be written,
"down with the telegraph monopoly"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

IT Is constantly urged that the home
stead act should be aunulled, in order
tha. the people msS be enabled TO
borrow money. We don't know so
we'll about it. Borrowers are COM
monty poor. Interest always outstrips
prodts, and that public policy is wlsest
which discourages borrowing. Shak.
speare, the greatest of statesmen and
philosophers, said, ''neither a Dor
rover nor lender be - :
Borrowing dulls the edge of hus,
bandry.n The fxedness and security Of
the homestead, and the impossibili-
ty Of using 1t 50 pledge often reduces
people to desperate straits. but while
one household suffers from this fsct
thousands are blsst in the security Of
the domicil. It's oeauties are constant
h cherished and women and children
instincEivsly lore and adorn the spot
from which no accident In life or beg
gary can expel them. This law makes
the best and truest patriots and If
ever, in future years. test Is sP-
piled to the devotion OF Texans
to Texas the indestrucnbiIity Of
popular attachment to the State, in
other words Of local patriotism, vail
be traced TO The homestead act Of the
commonwealth. Ls,it be perpetuated.
Credit and financial necessities win
speedily adapt themselves 70 social N
sntutions and habits generated blythe
Law that makes the wite's shelter indie
strucsibls and her footprint = home
,nalienabla
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

Reiniger, of Stuttgart, proposes 9
substitute for illuminated tower clocks
the use OF 8 magic lantern. A small
lantern could be 90 arranged as 70
throw the picture Of common watch
or chronometer upon Q suitable white
screen IN places much frequented at
night. The movements Of the hands
would be quite IS distinct - those Of
real clock with transparent face
and strong light behind It; while il
would have the advantage over many
of those that the axis TO which the
hands are attached would not throw q
shadow often mistaken for one Of the
hands themselves. The project rec
ommends itself to smaller cities unable
70 bear the expense Of costly tower
clock with Illuminated face.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
THE BIG FINANCIAL SWELL.

Mr.. Britton a. Hill, the great head
light and philosopher and thinker of
the Greenbackers, proposes, when
President, to issue at once 50, 600, ,O0O,-
900 of absolute or "fiat" money, based
on nothing and going it blind. All
other money, gold and silver included,
is to be suppressed, and everything
must ''go a-kiting." 1t is needless, we
would modestly state, to say that
gold and silver will he suppressed.
Very certainly it will disappear. Bank
ers and the rich will gather it in and
hoard it, while the ''fiat" paper Will be
thrust for labor or its swest-bathed
products into the hands and pockets
of the poor. ''Fiat money" is not
money proper. 1t is substitute for
money to be invested with
purchasing power by governmental
decree. Gold and silver have a real
inherent value; fiat money has none.
Bank notes and greenbacks have value
only to the extent that they are gold
and silver transformed for the nonce
into paper. Paper depends for
value upon this interconvertibil-
ity with gold and silver. Mr.. Hill
says that ''absolute money" is that
which the sovereign creates, impresses
with the seal of its sovereignty, guar
antees Its value by the wealth and
power of the nation and the people,
and forbids all individuals and corpora
tions to exercise or simulate the same
power. Nothing can be bought, moth
ing can be sold, no debt paid, no judg-
ment satisfied legally by payment, ex-
cept by means of that money.
Hill and his followers say it makes no
difference in what the money consists
provided it is of some substance that
has no intrinsic value. Paper is worth
less enough and thus approved. In
fact, Mr.. Hill says it is only token of
money to be taken for money. 1t is to be
the only legal tender for all debts, and
is to be forced into circulation as the
exclusive currency of the country. If
the people think this sort of money will
subseive their purposes we can get
along with it, but would often pray
for the return of the honest, good old
days when money was property and
had an absolute value as we'll as this
supposed, but impossible, absolutism
of government impelling us to accept
-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05
SECRETARY SHERMAN made a speech
last Monday at Milburn's wagon factory

SECRETARY SHERMAN made speech
last Monday at Milburn's wagon factory
in Ohio.
He said he favored the greatest
amount Of paper currency that could
be maintained at par with the estab-
lished coin of the country. He said
that if silver were coined at less than
its market value it would displace
gold. He favored an adjustment of
these metals in coinage that would
make them circulate ar par with each
other, such as limitation of the coin
age of silver or the establishment OF 8
proper ratio between the two. He
favored carrying out the pres
ent resumption scheme, the prac-
ticsbility of which he under
took to demonstrate. He attributed
the evils of the present financial de
preston to the initiation of the curren.
cy. The speaker spent some time in
replying to points made by Senator
Thurman In his recent Indianapolis
speech, defended the national banks,
and then entered into a defense Of
President Hayes's title and administrs-
ton. He declared the electoral votes
of Louisiana and Florida rigbtfully be-
logged to Hayes, and that the title of
the Chief Executive was unassailable.
Mr.. Sherman said that the trade
dollar was not legal tender, but it is
worth ninety cents as bullion. The
standard dollar il q legal tender, and
therefore worth par. That is the diff.
ference, He said that the government
did not receive dollar for dollar for
the trade dollar, but received l 1-2
cents for coinIng each dollar for pri-
vate bullion owners. That was all.
II was the miller that ground the grist
for a small percentage, aud. he added,
the bullion owner did receive the trade
dollar for expectation to China, de-
vice made 10 give him 8 market for
his bullion, and upon the fall Of silver
1t was perverted By HIM as g means OF
cheating our own people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-05

An Interesting paper by d.. j. II.
Toner, Of Washington, ID. C., on the
distribution and natural history of the
disease as It occurred at different times
in the United States, has just been
published by Hurd & Houghton. Ac-
companying this paper Is a map on
which there have occurred cases Of
yellow fever between 1868 aud 1874.
DIR. Toner gives much weight TO the
theory that diseases have geographical
areas and limits, modified somewhat
by latitude and typographical features
and conditions which are located at
every point, which may determine the
types OF disease as do climate and ele-
vation, the. fauna and fora OF localI-
ties.
AT Jalapa in Mexico, on the same
parallel with Vera Cruz, but 4300 feet
higher, yellow fever is uDknown.
Whatever be the force of the theory of
elevation, yellow fever has never
reached in this country, iu an epidem-
ic form, an elevation OF $50 feet. The
conceded home of yellow fever is the
West Indies and the Bahamas with q
portion of the adjacent continents Of
North and South America. "a square
formed by the forty fifth and one hun
dredth degrees of longitude, and thir-
ty-fifth north and fifth south latitude,
will include the favorite region of tho
disease" II is added by DR.. Toner:
" Although originating within the
square named, history shows that It
may prevail on the sea coast In any To-
cality within the tropics, north and
south Of the equator, when malarial fe-
vers prevail, and the daily average Of
The thermometer is over seventy-five or
eighty degrees, with high dew point
for weeks and months together" The
disease is controlled in its severity and
checked in is spread, or entirely ar
rested, by storms, heavy rains, and
most effectually by frost. 1t is q DIS
ease of cities rather than of rural dib-
tricts, and of villages rather than Of
scattered country dwellings. It's ape
pearance is generally coincident with
the season of bilious intermittents, and
the 6rst cases are said nearly always to
occur near the water, in the lowest and
most insalubrious places.
1t will be seen that all points where
yellow fever has prevailed 10 this coun-
try are located along the coasts. or on
rivers entering the ocean, and all at q
slight elevation above the sea.
A statement represents tie disease
spreading at night as II from house to
house; that it attacks premises wholly
free from exposure to contact. and that
of the thousands Of persez- who left
the city in the afternoons and returned
IN the day time during business hours
only, no one was attacked. Il is sup
posed TO extend in some form Of mala-
ria near the surface Of the earth, inss-
much as the public jail, being ehr-
rounded by high wall. escaped infec-
tion.- Memphis Ledgsr.