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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
The TRUEST HEROEy.

The battlefield of the doctors is in
the valley of the Mississippi. Thither
go the bravest and truest professional
men that live. They not only sacri-
fee home and friends and fortune on
the altar of humanity, but proffer
their lives sacrifice on that of profess
sional duty. They have learned
how to alleviate human suffering
and protract human life. Their
lives and genius haYe been de-
voted to the task of lessening hu-
man griefs. Therefore, when We see
how poverty and disease are helpless,
and how infinite the opportunities for
the practice of arts acquired that mans
woes may be alleviated and life spared,
they are impelled to serve humanity
even at the cost of life by resistless
sense OF duty and irrepressible de-
sire to lessen human anguish.
They are the bravest and truest
men and truest philanthropists and
noblest of our race. But then how in
finite the virtues, heroism and god-like
charity of those obscure men and
women who, nameless and unknown,
their deeds unheralded by the press
and whose very names are lost save tc
tradition and gratitude in some hum
BILE home how god-like their virtues
They are impelled by the same motives
that make physicians greater heroe:
than the bravest soldiers, but unlike
physicians their sole reward, if they
survive, consists in the consciousness
of having served the helpless, the mis-
erable and the unfortunate. But WI
should never forget TO honor thos'
who serve the plague-stricken, wheth
er as unknown nurses at the bedside
of anguish and death, or as learn
ed healers, defying death t.
wrest multitudes from the clutches o
death. And while cherishing IN ou
hearts and memories the names anC
deeds of these heroic benefactors o
our race, it becomes the practical dut.
of Texans, from whom some inscruta
BILE law of providence directs tn
course of the plague, to maintain will
money those heroes who have gone ou
of Texas to serve the woe-stricken il
distant States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

THE patentees of the Grant move
ment and the bankers ring furnishing
the money to keep Grant sfloat on a
government steamer and defray the
enormous cost of splendid pageantry
that marks his iourneyings among the
nations and reveling with kings-sll
these bankers and bondholders who
are thus aggrandizing Grant are most
anxious for the triumph of Potter
and the expulsion of Hayes. They
would have Wash Jones defeat a con-
servative Democrat like Hancock.
They would make the wild Irishman
from California hero and the Com
mune dangerous. But farming
populations are always conservative.
They live in the open air, and inhale,
with its freshness, purity of purpose
and see more clearly than the mad en-
thusiast of rowded city that ma
ture's laws of order and peace are
wisest and best. Democracy is of the
country; Radicalism In Texas reigns
mainly in towns and villages. The
towns are impotent, save for self de.
struction, and the Grant movement, as
conducted by Davis and Tracy and
the Greenbackers of Texas, is sad
failure. The people no sooner
discovered the selfish purposes oi
selfish men leading the movement
than the few intelligent voters, who
had been duped by the specious prop
osition to dispense with specie, have
gone back to the flag they abandoned,
and no Greenbacker will be elected tC
office in Texas save in counties or dis
tricts having negro msjorities.
Grants adherents in the South, o
course, cooperate with those EhC
serve Grant most effectively. These
are the Greenbackers who become
the simple tools and agents o.
the potent, cunning ring tha
manages to render Grant always con-
spicuous in the eyes of an admirinG
world, aud yet avoids entangling ALI
ances with politicians at home and es-
capes, at the same time, the necessit!
of discussing questions that nigh
turn the tide against Grant in 1880
True Texans will surely escape from
the meshes of this thin Greenbackers
web, woven to catch innocent flies b.
Davis and the bondholders and banks
1t is strange but true that the create
the success of Davis and Wash Jones
the greater the delight of Grants ad
herents and the happier are the bond
holders and banks.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

The result of the election for city
attorney was spoken of Friday night as
not only triumph over Greenbackism
in Austin, but az a rebuke to certain
city officials who, not satisfied with
their own public positions, would fill
all others with political friends. Green
backism, as presented in the candidacy
of Mr.. Dowell, certainly met with 6
most inglorious defeat, and if the bal
ance of the assumption be true there is
some hope left yet that Austin is not
wholly turned over into the hands of
those who have 30 long ruled it. Mr..
Johns was warmly supported by oppo-
nents of the present city administra-
tion. Indeed he was regarded, with
out any partisan concert of action, as
the candidate of Democrats and con-
servatives, and it may be mentioned as
healthy sign that in this election q
goodly number of colored voters were
found swelling the conservative Gle
ment of the city. The defeat of Col.
Whitehead, an excellent gentleman
and able lawyer, was not the defeat ot
Whitehead, but that of zealods off
cials belonging to the city govern
ment,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS SUS-
PENDED.

Dlsorganization of the public free
school system must result in the TACT
that under the law of the Fifteenth
Legislature, and the consequent meet
ing of the board of education, only
$500, 900 may be used for educational
purposes until after December 81, 1878;
while 5000, 1000 is the estimated
sum due public free schools for the
present scholastic year. Schools have
been organized with the purpose Of
using the free school fund in Septem-
Der, October, November and Decem-
Der, and pupils have already been ad :
mitted to schools upon this condition.
The sum allowed before the end Of
the year, at 81 so per month to
each pupil, will hardly maintain
free schools for one month, and sus-
pension comes until the legislation
may be had to cure the matter. In
considering this intermission and its
consequent detriment to the system, it
seems that the better course in the in
terest cf education would be for teach
ers to extend the free school term al
together beyond December 81, thus al
lowing continued term instead of one
with ruinous lntermission. If fpupils be
taught one month now, and two months
again next spring, it may be well un-
derstood that the tuition is almost
valueless to the pupil: Before pupils
are fairly started in studies their work
is thus to be suspended, and the pur-
poses for which these free schools are
instituted are cerrespondingly defeat
ed. Below we give the declaration OF
the board upon this matter:
The Comptroller of Public Accounts
estimates the sum of available school
revenue that may be applied, when
authorized by law, to the support of
public free schools for the year ending
August 81, 1879 at $780, 900; but in
view of the fact that the general ap-
preparation act of the Fifteenth Legis-
lature provided for the support of all
departments of the State government
only to December 81, 1878, the Board
of Education cannot go beyond that
date; and hence only $500, 900 can now
be appropriated to the several counties
of the State for the current scholastic
year. You are referred to General
Laws Fifteenth Legislature, p. 250,
Item appropriation for schools"
The next apportionment will be
made as soon as the Legislature makes
the appropriation for this department.
r. B. HUBBARD, Governor,
STEPH. H. DARDEN, Comptroller,
1. G. SEARCY, Secretary State,
Attest: Board of Education.
| o. N. BoLLINGswoRTH,
SeC'y Board of Education.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
THE FEVER.

THE number OF quarantine towns
between Austin and Memphis is past all
finding out. Railway managers are
tortured out of their wits and now we
are quarantined at Texarkana against
st. Louis. 1t seems that somebody
conceived the idea tina. goods were
sent from New Orleans through St.
Louis to Texas and then Texarksna
went off on its left ear, and we have
no st. Louis papers for three days, and
goods, even iron.cotton presses, especial
ly liable to the disease, are not suf-
fered to enter Texas. Meanwhile
guarantees in the path of the plague
signify nothing. Memphis was hedg-
ed in on one hand with vigorous.
watchful quarantine officers, as was
Grenada and Brownsville and Canton
and many other towns and villages.
The destroying angel swept in, turn
ing neither to the right nor to the left.
It passed by 3 village or town in its fixed
route for time, but retraces its steps
and neither abandons nor diyerges
from its original lne of march. Chol-
era was governed by the same general
law of progress. 1t moved within nar-
row parallels Of longitude around the
globe even as this fearful fever, in
stead Of invading Texas and following
its coast as in former years. has per-
sIstently adhered to its line Of progress
from New Orleans to Cairo. QuAran.
.ine towns are smitten before those
that brave the plague confess the pres
ence of the destroyer, and jet at Tex
arkana, whence there is no open, dl,
rect route Of travel to Memphis, tht
people have erected barrier fatal &c
trade. Even the newspaper mails n.
arrested and s.. Lonis must trade wltt
Tsxa. through Denison.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
The QuaranIins SIaadIe.

The following, from the Houston
Telegram, explains to some extent the
ez J,arte Press statements from Calves
ton:
DIR. Rutherford yesterday received
from DIR. Haden, president Of the health
board Of Galveston, telegraphic re-
quest to visit Galveston and talk over
f'auarnntine" with the board of health
of Galveston. The Doctor, thinking
the duties OF his ofiice required lis
presence. in Houston, did not go to
the Island City. 0a Monday after
noon be was visited by Mr. A. R,bira,
A member Of the Galveston board Of
health, who interviewed him on the
subject of New York steamers enteI-
ing Galveston. II appears that our
island neiehbors have never got in q
good humor with poor old Commodore
Morgan for digging bis ship channel.
They now make ''pJint" 10y threaten
ing to stop the steamship New York.
Of the Morgan line, At quarantine. This
action is taken for some cause known
more particularly to themselves. Il 10
GlbluC4 t4bt NnCy VIII AOs D~OP etty
ships of the Mallory line, bat will allow
them to ente- o. X. DR.. Rutherford
claims If one line Of steamers from New
York is dangerous the other must be
equally 50. That IL the Board Of
Health Of Galveston declare noTgan's
steamers subject 70 quarantine. the
Mallory steamers, coming from the
same port, stould also be subj ct 20
the same re1 uiatioos. He says iurshsr
that IL Galveston refuses 70 allow the
landing OF one lire Of steamers and
permits the IsBding Of another, be viil
Be compelled for safety ION their own
verdict) 70 quarantine against Calves
ton. This notification with the aboye
reasons were given 70 Mr.. Robirs TO be
given 70 the board at Galveston. This
e supposed 70 be the cause Of the re-
quest on Dr.. Rutherford 10 vitit Gal
weston.
The Doctor has made . stand and
the people Of Houston will certainly
sustain him, II he thinks safety de-
mAnds II.
In this connection It may be stated
that the Mallory steamer now lying st
the Galveston wharf touched at Key
West on Is last yisit 70 New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
TRADE OF AUSTIN.

Many people come to Austin from
places two hundred miles or more dis
tant simply because this is reputed to
be the pest wagon market in the South.
The fact shows how stupid are they
who would not have the number of
tradesmen IN any line of business mul
tiplied. The more merchants, where
a supporting country is boundless,
the more people visit and trade
in the place. In truth if we had doz-
en- wholesale dealers In every great
branch of trade, merchants of all
neighboring interior towns, as they are
beginning to do, would buy everything
in Austin. Country tradesmen no
longer buy away down East. They
replenish stock, as their own sales re-
quire, at home and have no old stock
at the close of each year left over,
and it follows that the
limit to the amount of trade to be
done in Austin depends mainly upon
the attractions presented by competi-
ton and 'blg stocks" in Austin. This
interior trade with the capital would
be almost indefinitely extended if g
cheap railway gave Austin exclusive
access to the rich and growing coun.
ties and towns northwest of US.
If the city need sewers most
to maintain the health of the
people and value of their property and
houses, they do next most need the
narrow gauge towards Ell Paso to give
Austin monopoly of the commercia
wealth of Northwestern Texas. Until
this road may be built it is still true.
as shown by the wagon trade of the
capital, that the better the market and
the greater the number of dealers II
any line of business, the greater 'tht
distance of towns and counties from
which they invite purchasers, and th'
more tradesmen, within given limits
the more trade.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
THE Grant movement was lifele-s tin

THE Grant movement was lifele-s till
Potter breathed upon it. Falsely
enough, Radical newspapers and
speakers declared it to be the purpose
of Potter and his cosdjutors to eject
Hayes from office. Not few honest,
good people were alarmed. Above all
things, American good sense and pa
triotism would have stable systems of
government, and above all things
do we abhor French fickleEess and
Mexican vengefulness and yendettas.
Apprehending dangers of this char
acter, the great body of Northern in
telligence began to provide for per
sonal. property and State security by
providing for the restoration of Grant
to power. The tide of opinion
was so strongly turned in that direc-
tios that even now Grant stands first
among candidates for the presidency,
aud the man who wins must defeat
Grant. Southern Radicals confess
these facts and without exception they
prefer Grant, the chosen candidate of
the bondholders and contrsctionIsts.
The prime purpose of these Southern
Radical party-lesders is to destroy
Democratic supremacy that Grant and
currency contraction and boHdholders
may be supreme, and yet we have here
in Texas men claiming to be Demo
Gratis who approve Potter's folly in
making Grant strong and the worse
than folly of the few Texan Democrats
who have allied themselves with Davis,
Tracy and Wash Jones in order to defeat
Governor Roberts and the Democratic
candidates in Texas. Negroes may
we'll be misled, but we hardly supposed
it possible that any sane white man,
whatever his partisan predictions,
could be duped and used for such pur-
poses by these selfish. designing men.
While the personal qualities of Jones
may be admired, we cannot cooper
ate with Davis and those other
adroit people, who, leading the
negro by the nose, propose to
use him in such a manner that he
may aid Jones in destroying the unity
and strength of the only political force
in the country which can defeat Sher-
man and Grant, aid which will not
submit to Potter and Tildeu.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

The gingham mania is stirring Paf'1
TO its profoundest depths. OF II Pa.
risisn letter writer says: 81 wonder 4
the gingham mama has extended as faI
as your city. From the Queen Of epsIn
(ugly, fat old thing to Cora Pearl (uR'
ly, thin old thing everybody in aiI'
classes Of society is wearing the ginf-
ham dress-or at least Q dress Of tht@
character. 1t may be percale, il ma
be linen, it may be gingham, i me]
even be French calico; but it is alWaf'
made with q yoke blouse waist, tht'
short, deeply-kIlted skirt and the scarf
overskirt knotted behind. After the
death of poor little Mercedes, whose
photograph placed behind powerful
monacles (magnifyIng glasses) evef5
body is staring at In Boulevard shops
old Queen Isabella whipped herself a
to the country, and don't know VII
she is wearing now. Bat the last ti1||
/ saw her, at one Of the races, she usoI6
one OF those sweet simplicity, maid
with-the-milking-pail sort Of costumes.
and succeeded in looking like would.
be juvenile washerwoman. Yesterday.
while was looking Of the crown jew
els at the exposition, who should come
trundling up, dragged in q rolling
chair at two and half francs an houf'
but Cora Pearl, decked out in one q
these same costumes, q brown line1
with white polka dots; hat Of lcghoI1
with wide brim, trimmed with nothing
but q scarf OF foulard silk, Of sImil6I
shade and pattern TO thoss ot See.
Hroao -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

Sr. LOUIS will initiate Paris, even
as Paris in this behalf initiated Mem
phis, and have 8 captive balloon as
cending one thousand feet with de-
lighted travellers to be pulled down by
a windlass, as by weight of SIN, from
serial flights. Why not have one as
cending and descending like the
angels, at least to this extent, when
Col. Sampson inaugurates the State
fair at Austin
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

KEARNEY's people hate the Chinese
and their malevoleuce takes curious
direction. They enact laws designed
to prevent the entrance of Chinaman
into California and even more terrible
penal statutes to prevent the exit of
dead Chinese from the State. Ii costs
a poor Chinamsn $50, under recent
Kearney statutes, to transfer dead
Chinaman to the wharf for shipment.
In fact, however much Kearneyites
desire to expel the living, they are
equally anxious to retain the dead
Chinese and the poor celestials can't
comprehend il.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

A writer in the GrapAic, who attend-
cd the recent sessions Of the Potter
committee, says: During the sit'inqs
the two central figures have been thos6
of Gen. d. Z. Butler aud John Z. Leetc.
The former every visitor has an over
whelming and impertinent curiosity to
see. He comes late and refuses to BE
interviewed, but apparently does moi
object to being stared at to an indef-
mite extent. While no one would ever
be misled into calling him handsome.
he is the finest looking member Of the
committee, and his personal appear
snee has improved IN recent years.
His face has its lines when il is quiet.
although he has an unpleasant wax.
of distorting it until one Is left il
doubt as to whether he i
laughing or not, and the lingerine
doubt almost makes the observe
laugh at himself from the absurdity
the situation. His scalp preserves
highly polished and oily badness,
oval top being surrounded by frin
of hair of grAyish white, and his e
seem to look out with something md
of directness than was their woI
His habitual boUtonnier6 and gol
headed cane are apt to leave the in,-'
preston that be is conscious of tho ims
provement in his personal appearance.
Few men are observant of that. His
eyes are sort of closed opera glass.
whose focus is seemingly the end Of
his nose, for when he reads - and
he generally has letter or dis
patch or one of ''those lying new
papers" within the range of his
vision-the article is held in pBin.
full proximity to his face, and he never
deigns to use glasses. He speaks with
the greatest indistinctness, especially
for q man who is used to the stump
and to the interminable and deafenina
confusion of the floor of the House Of
Representatives, ande the witness On
the opposite side of the table does not
always hear him. An economist In the
matter of cigars, he adds to the indis-
tinctness of his speech by mumbiine
"butt" between his teeth. he now
and then lights it with patent fuse
and Immediately allows 1t TO expire
again, aud this very effectually pre-
vents the reporters from hearing any
thing he says. In fact, the lazier re-
porters always lay down their pencils
when he asks a question, and the
more industrious ones guess what be
has asked as nearly as they can from the
answer the witness gives. The whvIo
committee, indeed, has taken itself -
much out of the reportorial hearing Is
possible by mounting raised platform
fenced In by q very aristocratIc
mahogany rail, supposed to be
one of Mullett's inventions. or
Gen. Butler an observant gentleman
said the other day: "He puffs his
cheeks so when he talks that cant
tell whether he laughs or not, aud
when he looked in that envelope awhile
ago / thought he was fishing in the cor.
ners with his eyes for stray postage
stamp"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
NO. 40

Both Houston and Johnston were
freely denounced by their retreating
soldiers and disheartened people, and
not until victory, grand and complete,
had perched upon the Confederate ban
ner at Shiloh and upon the "Lene
S:arn at San JAcinto, did the people
know that they had been wrong and
their leaders right.
Houston and Johnston Texans both
Immortal both! Forever cherished be
their fame and memories and accursed
be the pen that would pluck the we'll
earned lsurels from the fame Of either
SHILOH.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
The Danger OF Boxing ,hs Ear.

Scarcely q day passes, We beiieVe.
without some schoolmaster (or school
fellow, in natural imitation of his mas.
ter) giving the lad smart "box" upon
the ear. Few persons would be bold
enough to choose the eye as part up'
on which 1t was expedient IN ipfiict 3
violent blow by way OF moral educa-
ton; but there is, apparently, M end
to the numbers who select an ofEen
upon which violence Is liable TO be al.
tended with much more dangerous re
suits. For not only Is deafness caused
by ''boxes" which rupture (as the,
continually do) the drum Of the ear
but the inf lammatlon of the interna
cavity, which SO frequently results, ma.
be followed years afterwards, peri
by disease Of the bone, giyiaaE
abscess of the brain, q,
| termination. MedicN
- fully aware ho loisim n souI5
OF suffering and danger Is represent
by the box upon the ear. We are
formed, for example, Of two cases
der observation at the present momez
In which schoolboys have been the gi
TINS of such an assault. Surely, school
masters should have learned, long eI'
this, the dangers Of mode Of persons
chastlsement that has. apparently
usurped the place of others, which,
more disgusting, were not attends
with an equal amount of peril. Ion
DIN Lancet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

WHKx the national banks say that II
the government issue the gold and the
banks the paper money, and that thus
the banks and the government can the
'.better protect each other, " against"
whom are the banks and government
thus combinedi Surely not against
the taxpaying people, and Jet this Il
what the spokesman Of the banks says
conhdentially to the managers Of
the banks. Baell further tells the
banks to take care especially Of
the religious weekliss. Evidently
Buell. thinks they are exceedingly sof,
and easily ssduced. and that they can
best victimize innocent country peo-
PIE. Bat the secret ia now an open
one and the banka are done for.
Buell. fnishsd them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12

Col. CULBERsON spoke Saturday be-
fore a large audience at Texarkana.
His speech, the Marshall Herald says,
twas mainly devoted to the financial
question, and was regarded as exhaust
i've and conclusive. The Greenback
ers were completely silenced. oul
distinguished Congressman is winning
golden opinions wherever be goes, and
increasing the number of his frien d:
and admirers. Everything shows tha
his majority in this election will fal
exceed that of the last, and that it vii
completely unite and sohdify the De
mucrscy,"