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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07
ANOTHER APPEAL TO PROPER.
.a- TY.HOLDERS.


Tax assessors in Austin are becom-
ing content to give Avenue lots one
half the value placed upon them three
years ago. If the narrow gauge from
Georgetown go to Manor, as the agents
and friends of the Central and enc
mics of Austin propose, the assess
ments next year will show o falling off
of another half in values, and dirt will
be cheap in this locality. Yesterday a
real estate broker was Offering an Ave
nue. house and lot at 5000, held at
$4,000 twelve months ago. And yet
when we have urged the cooperation
of property holders, even that the
small sum of $50, 900 might be gath
cred as basis of operations, one tells
US that he is bent on a wooden mill,
another becomes suddenly crazed for
cotton mill, third must invest ten
thousand dollars in a Touring estab-
lishment, fourth is already bank.
rupted by the decline in property val
ues, fifth cannot pay his taxes, and
says, honestly, that the more property
one owns the poorer he is, aud
in the midst of these there are agents
of The broad gauge roads at work sug-
costing all sorts of pretexts to prevent
the construction of the narrow gauge,
which will reduce freight aud passen-
ger rates on goods and people coming
hither on the broad gauge roads from
Iampasas, Bolton and Georgetown
more than one:half. The old roads
can charge no more than the new, and
thus the whole county and city alike
would be rapidly enriched, and the
broad gauge roads themselves will
finally lose nothing. Population would
speedily become dense and production
greatly augmented in country afford
ing such facilities for successful pro-
duction. We should have no more
evasion of plain duty to ourselves and |
to one another, and whatever the de-
gree of our poverty it is only aggra-
waited and made irremedisble by each |
refusal to. aid in the construction of |
the highway to Georgetown. Thence
forward it will move by sheer force of |
its own inertia. Col. Norton, we are |
told, and two or three other gentlemen
will call upon our citizens to and lnthis
work during the week.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07
HOW COTTON PRODUCERS ARE
ROBBED.

We do not very we'll see how Russia
and England can fight. Nominal but
no real war can be prosecuted. We
are even persuaded that these two pow
ers are thoroughly satisfied that practi-
cal, harmful war is impossible, and
therefore they stand up before man
kind shaking their ugly fists In one
another's faces, while an anxious world
looks on in profound amszement and
terror. Meanwhile Gortschakoff and
Beaconsfield enjoy keenly this Euro
pean terror and anxious suspense. Bea-
constield absolutely makes money by
it. Cotton goes down needlessly, to
the great profit of England and loss
of the United States, and there has
never been the slightest possibility of
any harmful war. The facts are sim
ply such that those two powers, If
Germany and Austria stand aloof, caa
rot get at one another. Unlike
those of other armies that fight
their several pairs of ears are not long
enough to be grasped by the contest
ants. Russia has no feet and England
no army Russia can marshal in the
field 700, 900 men perfectly equipped
and Injured to priyation and perfectly
disciplined. Behind these stand 790,-
900 disciplined reserves. Eogland's
little army of 90, 900 and 100, 900 re-
serves and 10000 East Indians
can never rea, h the remotest ou.-
lying province of Russia. IL is
palpable therefore that conflict on
land is impossible. The Russians will
never get to sea. England's navy VIII
close the Baltic, and two or three iron
clads will seal Theoretically the Oar
danelles. Russis, then, can Only pro-
coed overland to India while the Fog
lish fleets will re,ard this movement
by bombarding Russian cities and
strongholds along the shores of the
Black, Caspian and Baltic seas. Neither
power eau do the other any materisl
mischief and this proposed copfiiet will
be rather nominal than real. Perhsps
British cotton buyers have inaugursted
it. In any event it is very strange if
conflict that can be no conflict, and
which will never stop a mill IN Eng
land or Arerica, is suffered TO be used
for the p Native purpose of DESTROY
ing the VA E of the staple produc. Of
these Southern States. Is not the
threat Of war commercial fraud, de-
vised that manufacturing Europe may
ancnrn cnlfnr, On, lie nsrr, aor.,,n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07


We had written yesterday that the
threat Of war IN the East was held
over the worlds commerce and Indus
try, paralyzing it where there could
and would be no war. The type had
hardly told this story when dispatches
came announcing The restoration OF
peace. Cotton Will perhaps advance,
and share OF business activity be re-
produced. Peace and proper amend
ments of the silver bill viii beget
slowly degree OF activity and enter
prise. and an advance in property val
ues. which we have not known for Eve
years past. There is no danger in in
vesting credit sad name in the mar
row gauge. Even il the worlds peace
aud legislation for the people, Instead
Of for the bondholdeEs. do not make
Austin grow and prosper, The very fact
that the narrow gauge is begun viii
make property convertible into money.
There Is good time coming. Tho
dsts Of its arrival drpsnis upon our.
selves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07
WHAT WE EAT AND DRINK.

Most Of the villainous stuff called
butter, sent In tin cans over Texas
from the Northwest, is lard and tallow.
The preparation is called oleomar-
garlne. In the meantime the home
made article Is commosly colorless and
corsumptiye-looking, having the siD-
gular good quality that it will not
make a grease spot. 1t is sometimes
given a proper consistency, like plas-
Ter for walls, by distributing hairs
throughout it. Cincinnati butter deal
ers held a meeting the other day to
discuss the question whether the
word "oleomsrgarine should not
be branded on the tin cans aud
tubs containing the yellow grease.
1t was objected by an exceeding
good man that there was no more
reason for this ''thau for the designa-
ton of the compound of wagon grease
and lard, called creamery butter
by its true descriptive name" The
only result of the dealers meeting was
that We were publicly told that when
we use butter from the Northwest in
tin csps or tubs, whatever the brand,
We are using no product of milk. The
oleomargarine makers won the day and
it was concluded on all hands that this
grease was purer and healthier food than
the genuine butter put up for sale and
sent down South. The point of the joke
recognized In the dealers meeting was
that this horrible substance, prepared
for the fabrication of the machinery OF
human existence, is worth from five to
eight cents per pound and is retailed
in Texas at forty and even at
forty-five cents. A gentleman,
In the present state of morals and
decency prevalent in butter manufac-
turing, should have his own cows or
learn to drink coal OIL. The depraved
condition of the butter trade is hardly
worse than that in sugar and syrup.
The ''best brown sugar. leaves a de
post of kaolin (clayl in the bottom of
the cup, and the golden syrup of mod
ern times is full of acidulous poison.
Sane people will only use white or
crushed sugar and sugar house molas-
ses. The honey we buy in cans was
never in a beehive, and half the
whisky drunk is manufactured with
deadly poisons of distilled essences in
the back rooms of bar rooms that dis
pense it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07
wRo Is GOING no EUAOPE, AND
WHY,


Bismarck first nudges Austria and
then Russia under the fifth rib with the
soothing suggestion, "just keep quiet
if you please" and each in turn mod
estly SINNERS down. Meanwhile sill
yer has been demonetized in Germany
and money is scarce and hard to get,
and this, with the withdrawal of
half million men from fields of indus
try, that a mighty German force may
overawe Europe and maintain a pace
which is as terrible as war, has reduced
even the farming populations of Ger
many to most terrible straits. There
was meyer such universal beggary in
all the States of Europe. France
alone prospers and knows neither
famine Dor nskedness. The world
knows no more cunning artisans
or skillful vine dressers or successful
farmers or tasteful, iAgeHlous shop
keepers than the Frenchman and his
wife. If 100, 900 Americans visit Paris
this summer only to learn how to live
well, fifty millions will be well-spent.
France has not been guilty of the folly
of demonetizing silver. The rich alone
do not make laws for France. These
bankers and bondholders, who would
reduce property values to nihility and
make money scarce and its purchasing
power limitless, are not the supreme
masters of the MacMahon administra-
ton or of the corps legislstif. While
Europe is in rags and haggsrd
poverty reigns in Berlin and in the
German States the Bank of France
holds greater sums in gold and silver
than any institution in the world.
Silver is the currencyiof the busy, toll
ing populations of the cities and
country, and unexampled prosperity
blesses the volitile, ingenious people of
France. Seeing these facts, the many
American visitors of Europe this year
Will return imbued with new ideas of
social, domestic and political economy,
and it - from sources of information
given by personal habits and social sys-
TENS that most valuable lessons will be
derived by great throngs who will
visit the Old World. IL is to be re-
GREETED that the means of access
given the South to Europe will
restrict greatly the number from
these States who would gladly
study old and perfected systems of
every day life and popular habits in
Europe. 1t costs more. to reach
point of steamship departure than t.
cross the Atlantic. Not only are we
thus bereit of advantages to be de-
rived from the study of European hab-
its and art and industry, but the com
mission organized to write and publish
in books and in newspapers and maya
zines the results of observations in
Paris and in Europe Is constituted al
most exclusively of Northern scholars
and dterati. 1t is to be hoped that
Bismarck will continue to thrust his
muscular elbows into the sensitive,
physical and nervous centers of his
bellicose neighbors, and that Europe,
during the current year, will illustrate
at Paris all that centuries have taught
in art and taste and industry. Unfor-
tunately the South will not be there to
listen or see or learn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07

The Corpus Christi Gdzt1e, speaking
of Throckmorton's candidacy, says
Evidently this is an instance where
the Office will seek the man and not
the man the Office, and the gentleman,
by hts course as 8 public man, has
shown that he is in every way worthy
the esteem in which he is held
Thoroughly. conservative, he has en-
joyed an unblezbished reputation as q
man Of honor. Acquainted with the
necessities ofsthe people Of Texas and
the peculiarilies Of those needs. Mr..
Throckmorton would undoubtedly re-
fleet credit upon his constitueDcy- The
fear that he would step TO the Senate
without serving out his term IS Cover
nor, according 70 the same special,
has been quitt ID By examinarion Of the
law. II elected, ThrockmoEton's GU
bernafionaI term viii expire IN Janu-
airy, 1881, inst ~ the Legislature
which elects the Senator goes into
cffce.'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07

IT has been said that the capital of q
State was constitutional begqar; that
it was commonly worthless and incapa-
BILE; that its people always became
miserable, selfish mendicanta; that
they learned to ask aims and depend
upon the state: that they became final.
ly too mean and beggarly to help
themselves. But this is q mistake. Aus
tin viii build the narrow gauge Mon
day and Tuesday when Col. Norton
enters the field.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07

WHEN the STATESMAN said, after
reading HayesS inaugural, that the
army would be Withdrawn from South
Carolina and Louisiana and the South
finally liberated, other violently parti
san newspapers asserted the absurd '
of such assumptions; and when some
weeks elapsed and the event came at a
later day than we anticipated, the
STATESMAN was reproached and severe
~ criticized. But when the end came
and Louisiana and South Carolina were
rein rested with every incident of State
hood, we were told that Grant would
have done as we'll and that Grant had
planned and Hayes executed, and
queer newspapers said Hayes only did
what he could not prevent. We had
hoped for T,lden's election aud mainly
because we hoped for the re-establish-
ment of Southern home rule. Hayes
gave it, which Tilden could not have
given till 1879. and now we
are told that Hayes only reco- nized
facts which were accomplished in spite
OF his indifference or hostility. Hayes.
if he had obeyed the dictates Of party
leaders, never would have withdrawn
the United states troops from South
Carolina and Louisiana, but having
done this in opposition to the wishes
Of the great leaders of his party, we
are tolc that ''he only did his duty
We differ widely from the President
in reference to many questions. HIS
early training, ovcs-wrough. sympa-
thies with mythical woes of the colored
citizen, and his protective tariff and
financial policy are not ours, but it be-
comes plain duty Of hones {, fearless
newspapers to tell the unvarnished
truth Of a President to whom We are
indebted for a degree Of personal and
local freedom Dever known since 1865.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07

IT is now stated, justly we suppose.
that there were no Senators drunk, as
alleged by newspaper letter writers, on
the night of the recent protracted ses-
sion. Not even "one" Senator was
intoxicated. That one has not been
named, but he was said to have been
fearfully beside himself.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07

ST LOUIS is already reaping a rich
harvest of trade because of the partial
opening of the mouth of the Mississlp-
pi, and Chicago is as rapidly losing it.
Meanwhile, the grain exports of New
Orleans are more than doubled as ccm-
pared with those of last wear.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-07
NEwAovEar,sEmESrs.
GoTTON--15 CENTS.

III
Fifteen cents per pound is offered Col, NJ
T.. Slaughter, 81 Jefferson, Texas. for all the
:. Pearce Cotton" he can raise in 1878. Within
the last i've years the Pearce cotton has been
thoroughly Tested in Virginia, Georgia and Tex
as, and although long staple cotton resem-
bling II no- eq1aling, the staple 81 the cele-
brated Sea Island varie y, is found to possess
the following very greet advantages over the
sho staple varieties, 60 long grown in the cot
ton States: . - -.
/. 1t natures from fou- to six weeks earlier
1s harder. and with the same treatment at least
50 per cent more p;olifc. tafl1
z; Il adheres to The boil, does not drop out
ard yet l. easily picked; has logger bOll-, which.
open wide. and fewer d Zig ter seed and turns
of more lint than short staple cotton
3 1t has more and longer limbs, With shorter
joints and larger bolls; they b gin at the ground
and the stalk is OF cooicsl shape, which supports
itself and fruit.
4. 1t commands 3slf per cent. more than ffiort
staple cotton, as shown by Mr. Pear, e's sale in
Philadelphia In 1873 and by &c Is made in Geor-
gia and Texas Ia 1871
These important char .cts ristics, accorded only
10 the Pear.e coston, and which are &C fi-d to
by those who have tried IT, Certainly warrant
the prediction that at no distant day it will
planted exclusively throughout the entire cot
ton-STowing region Thu PeaIcs cotton Il no
faaey Improvement upon the Short staple" ~
are the theaiham, Herlong, Dixon, etc, but
separate ana distinct species OF flong slap Q.
aud better suited to the ST tes than ths short
staple and douby edtsble. Every cot on
grower ould seize the opp rtupiiy and gel In
seed Of this co ton no,c as the cost OF the reed
IL trih'ng compared with the Increased quantity
and price, to s5y nothing Of The value OF the
seed rsised for sale and TO plant am keeping
record Of every mans address who pian's this
cotton, and will buy by sample his cotton for
tho manufactures no pays the best plieo. there
BY securing to him the real value Of his hne LINT,
and TO the manufacturer the entire crop Of 1875
raised By my patrons. Manufacturers and farm
Srs viii be furnished samples and circulars on
applica ion The lint OF this cotton Is very fine
and measures fnOm one anu half 10 Two inches
In length
P. los FOR seed sacked and on beard Of cars are
as follows
Per pound, and less than 4 bu-hcl. :..ss sss
00ne-qn,:.r.er b1shei .,--.-. --------.---.- 80
From one 10 i've bushels, per bushel. - %
For i've bushels and upward, per b1shes. ) 90
One pus5ef. when rolled and dropped, viii
plant from i've 10 ezht acres, according 20 soil
pay Tor largest yield on % acres Ia 1915 so 90
/ pay for largest yi.ld on 10 acres IN 1873 10 %
I paT fer largest yie d on 5acres IN l678- %.
Agents viii be paid liberal commission
Send money by registered letter, postoa1ce or
der o. express 10 undersigned a. AUSTIN
TEXAS. None but cazh ord r. d led Oflcs
with Hooper 4 Co, Fuccessors 70 Hast- Dfnkius
& Co.. p en- street. SfId ORDER without de-
iay- Rep. ctluBy, A. l. = HURST. Agent.
mrs vet
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THR power of the press and GOO,

THE power of the press and good
ness'of = woman's heart and force Of
her intellecesre shown IN the fact that
ssRnberts. y Of Don PiAtt's Capital. has
caused soup house 70 be established
in Washington which FURNISHES for 4
penny substantial meal for each IN
fortunate. poverty -stricken wretch that
applies for il. ID costs only SO per
diem 10 feed 5000 people.
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Two of the Greenbacker's clubs In
two different wards (frst and eightb)
OF this city have designated Hon.
I'ham G.. Harris, Senator from Ten
nessee, as their preferred candidate for
the presidency.
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DIR. j. BALL & co.
30. 2O5, wEsT asd sTREET,

NO. 20, " Is I I'D D HtbT5
(P. o. Boa 9J7.l New YORK CITY, n. Z.
DO not miss the opportunity Of being fret IN
the field. Do not delay. Write by fret mail.
Great inducements and large PROFITS Offered 10
any person whe wants frat class. paying bnsi-
nese.
eH-THE LARGETT CONFUSION Al LOWED TO
sGEsTs BY ANY HOUSE n TgE UEITE0 STATES
jn3f " cow "
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WE are taking Mexican dollars at par
for subscriptions to the STATESMAN.
Where clubs of five remit from one
postofice so will foot the bill for five
copies of the weekly STATESMAN. A
single subscriber must pay $3.50.
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history ominous of infinite good TO the
country and of order and peace and
vigorous prosperity.
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4 PaEsigl Fine Insurance Can'I

doing business IN ~ United states MISSES 20
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AGENTS WANTED

10 sell the Pdtent Eye CUPS TO the hundreds OF
people with diseased eyes and impairel sight In
your county.
Amy person can act as our Agent.
To Genlcme or Ladies S. 10 $40 day guar
anteed. Full particulars bent free. Write i'm
mediately 20
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IT is proposed to-raise only S155, :
600, 900 per aunum by the new tariff
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JenkinS'S Annihllat0r
The Great Southern Remedy for
Rheumatism, GUlt and NGuTalgia

Those terrible enemies Of human happinos :,
Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia. heretofore
seemingly unconquerAble, have indeed found
their master in Jenkins's Annlhilator. We have
the testimony OF men Of the highest standing
in Louisiana and o. her States. that after suffer-
ing Understandable pains for years, from which
they sought relief IN vain BY visiting the Hot
and Warm springs OF Arkansas and Virginia.
and by using dozens OF remedies more or less
highly prai ed, when, in fact, hope had almost
died out they have found rel ef from ran by the
use Of the Annihilstor. and by continuing It fui
a short time have been perfectly cured. ThS
Annihilator is a preparation purely vegetable
agreeable to the taste, ard may be taken with
out fear OF any injurious results By the delicate
as well Us the robust in constitution.
e& Price 81 per bottle, For sale by all drug
ieis,s. Ask your Druggist for circular contain
ing cerlihcstes Or send TO
N. JENKINS 4 CO., Propretors,
New Orleans, La,
FISLAY 4 THOMSON, Wholesale Druggists,
New Orleans, La, Gen. Agents for Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and
Florida. mr6 deod&wly
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