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tin his future hUlne. lesterday's tele-
graphic page of the STATESMAN an
nounced his death. He once edited
the Norfolk TiTginian, and of recent
years was a contributor to the Mem
phis press, using the signature "Quilp,
Jr." His poetical illusions, now and
then, were admirable. He was TWEEN
ty-five or thirty years of age, of pleas
ing manners and appearance and had
many friends.
The big scare and extraordinary per-
formances OF the doctors that run the
city government, and the establishment
of quarantine, not only beget the idea
that Austin is exposed, at distance of
thousand miles, to an lncursion of
yellow fever, but the world abroad has
been led to believe, by fantastic tricks
of quarantine, that where there
is such smoke there must be Epuch
fire, and therefore when Capt.
jackson Warner, of this city, reached
st. Louis he was interviewed by re-
porter for the Globe Democrat. When
he insisted that there was no yellow
fever in Austin, and none even in all
Texas, st. Louis was amazed and dis
credited his assertions. Therefore
Capt. w. stated through the Globe.
Democrat that "the altitude of this
place is such that yellow fever cannot
thrive there" Mr.. Warner does not
believe there is case of fever in Texas
unless it has been brought there from
other. States. Austin, he says, "would
be good place for those afraid of the
disease to remain in until frost comes,
The people there are hospitable, and
will not scare"
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'THE Life and Adventures of Sam
Bass" from the Dallas Commercial
printing establishment, Is before US.
The story of Sam Basis life, from his
birth in Indiana to his death and bu-
rial at Round Rock, is given with pains
taking care and fidelity to facts.
Sam Bass was resolute, uneducated
fellow of good natural instincts. But
he fell among gamblers, having been
first seduced from habits of industry
by devotion to horse flesh. He loved
q fleet courser, and was borne by the
animal with marvellous rspidity from
one to another offense against the
country's laws. His vices were the off
shoot of frontier civilization, of which
we have illustrations every day in the
fact that a word in Texas justifies blow.
Bass was not wholly bad. His assOcl-
ates in desperate deeds were devoted
to him and We can only regret that he
did not find in the army a proper
sphere for the perfect development OF
his peculiar intellectual and moral
faculties. But he was reared in poverty
and ignorance and his native excellen-
cies became infamous vices of conduct
and character.
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Texas Politics.

Of III delegates composing the Nc
Lehman county Greenback convention
rs were negroes.
Travis Shaw has been nominated for
the Legislature by the Democrats of
Lee and Fayette counties.
Commercial. ''The Waco Examiner
doubts Hancock's loyalty to the Aus
tin platform, and quotes IN. A. t. in
proof of it. Now let the matter be re-
ferred to Eli Perkins,"
Culberson was nominased at Pitts
burg in forty minutes. Dohoney, of
Paris, whom the Greenbackers have
claimed as belonging to them, was In
the convention as Democrat.
Judge Roberts made the opening
speech of the campaign at Jefferson on
Thursday. He accepted the Austin
Democratic platform, and devoted most
of his remarks to the financial ques-
tions of the day.
The Houston Age says if Lang,
Devine and Hubbard follow the ex-
ample of Throckmorton, and take the
stump for the Austin nominees, the
political atmosphere of Texas will ring
with Democratic thunder.
The name of Hon. F. B. Sexton, of
Marshall, has been mentioned for the
Supreme bench of the State. He is q
man of unblemished integrity, great
purity of character, of sound and equal
judgment, and Of unquestioned ability.
The Greenbackers Of the third DIS
trict have called another convention,
to meet at Dallas on the fourth of Sep
TENDER, to nominate q candidate for
Congress in place of J. X. Bumpass,
who wouldn't abandon the Democratic
party.
The Roekdale Messenger says 'the
nomination of John Hancock for Con-
gress gives universal Satisfaction.
The Messengers first choice was Seth
Shepard, but We are glad that we can
give Mr.. Hancock hearty and consci-
entious support"
Judge ]. T. Fry, Of Matagorda, is a
candidate for the Legislature from the
district composed OF the counties of
Matagorda, Brazoria and Galveston.
He would make q good representation,
and has selection would be Just con-
eession TO . section that deserves more
direct representation
Col Schleicher few days agoAd
dressed . large meeting Of the citizens
Of Goliad. Bic speech Was warmly
receIved and heartily spplauded, and
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THE CANDIDATES IN TENNES-
SEE.

Gen. Marks, nominated by the Demo
Gratis for the Governors office In Ten
in private life is an elegant
excellent scholar and
SSAY eloquent anu successful
lawyer. He won his baton and brigade
by hard fighting. He went up from
the ranks and was still young man
when peace came. He is handsome,
has brilliant eyes, regular features and
most pleasing address. His ability, as
often illustrated at the bar, is unques-
toned, and if elected Tennessee will
never have reason to blush for the
morals or folly, but to boast that wis
dom and honor have again guided the
fortunes of the ancient swine and
hominy State. Emerson Ether
idge, Marks's competitor, is prob
ably the best informed gentle
man and wittiest and most bnl-
liant colloquist of modern times. He
is a great thinker and student, devot-
ing more time and energy and capacity
to the accumulation of wisdom than
any man we know. He is tireless
student, and, then, SIS profuse in the
Distribution as laborious IN the acqm-
sition of learning. His life, when he
is not within doors. is an everlasting
lecture or stump speech, and Wendell
Phillips does not grace the rostrum
more perfectly, or indulge In finer
strains of tasteful rhetoric than Emer-
son Etheridge. From the hour that
Etheridge saunters out upon the street
till he secludes himself with his books
and to converse with his accomplished
daughter, his life is an endless stump
speech. Crowds gather about him to
listen. He confines himself to no sin
gle subject. Like George Francis Train,
he lectures on any theme that happens
to be suggested. Nobody else speaks,
and Etheridge, wholly unconscious of
self, talks eyerlsstingly of cosmogony,
Herbert Spencer, of Darwinian mys-
teries, of theories and forms and facts
of government or of the church. He
is a monotheist. We believe; or, he may
be a sun worshiper, and his brilliancy
ofsthought, fancy and expression may
be the gift of his god He is an adj
mirable declaimer and rhetoriclan, as
well as an acute logical thinker, and
however attractive the face and bear
ing and faultless the fame and earnest
the eloquence of Gen. Marks, he has,
as competitor in this contest, the
most brilliant, If not the ablest, think
or and speaker of TENNESSEE.
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THE Americrn Laraelite saws :

''The city council of Nashville, Ten
nessee, has refused the petition of the
board of health to establish guaran-
tine. This is the only city in the vi
cinity of the infected districts in which
the feeling of humanity has been
stronger than that of cowardly fright.
Let it be remembered"
Nashville, on an elevated plateau
probably 100 feet above the water line
of the Cumberland river, has become
the city of refuge for towns, villages
and cities of the valley of the Missis-
sippi. Austin's altitude is about that
of Nashville, but we have the advan-
tsge of winds crossing arid plains and
lofty mountains and bereft of moisture
when blowing normally from the south
and southwest, and even sea breezes
from the southeast crossing dry prairies
for $50 or 200 miles bear NO poison on
their wings. The people of Nashville
incur greater hazards, by proffering
homes to fugitives from the plague,
than would the people of Austin, and
we approve the wise and generous as
sertions of the Lsraelite.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29

DANIEL WEBSTER, confessedly
prophet among statesmen, who never
Numbered when he pEophesied, once
said:
The man of all others who has the
deepest interest in a sound currency,
and who suffers most by mischievous
legislation, is the man who earns his
daily bread by his daily toll. A depre-
cIsted currency, sudden changes in
prices, paper money falling between
morning and noon, and falling still
lower between noon and night-these
things constitute the very harvest time
of spectators. A government that
produces or countenances uncertainty,
fluctuations, violent risings and fall :
ings in prices, and, finally, paper mon
ey, Is a government exactly after their
own heart. Hence these men are al
ways for a change. Let it not be known
to-day what will be the value of prop
erty tomorrow let no man be able to
say whether the money in his pockets
to night will be money or worthless
rags In the morning, and you give
them the contamination of their earth
" bliss.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29

HOLLY SPRINGS Is adry, sandy town.
There are no marshlands in its imme-
date vicinity. The elevation of the
place is probably not fifty feet greater
than that Of Memphis. TEither the
poor Of Mississippi and Tennessee have
ied. The pretty little city has become
camping ground for fugitves and
hospital for the SICK. Many have died
there, bat none from neglect % want
of food or medicine. Blessed be Hol-
" Springs and the men and women Of
Holly Springs. Famous for intelligence,
as once for wealth, their names and
deeds viii be honored Of men, while
selfish, coWArdly populations Of neigh
boring towns, who closed their dOOr
in the face Of poverty and anguish.
wall be accursed forever. Thus fsr no
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29

JuDeR Csc. F. MOORE handed in his
resignation on the twentyseventh in
slant a. an Associate Justice Of the
supreme Court. The resignation
sakes effect on the first Of October.
His name, At the request of candidates
for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench,
Eoes before TIE Democratic Executive
committes for nomination for the
Chief JussiceshIp.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29

Mr.. SCHLEICHER is insane when he
thinks that opposition to him springs
from the spirit of Know Nothingism.
On the contrary, many Democrats vote
for Schleicher because he is German,
Though differing from them wholly on
financial questions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29

THE Bonhsm Ne1os says that In view
of the unjust and uncalled-for attack
made upon Alexander II. Stephens for
his opposition to the Potter committee
and his endorsement of President
Hayes's Southern policy, we are great
ly rejoiced at the action of the Georgia
Democracy in renominating him for
Congress from the eighth district. The
Ne,es adds, referring to another sub
ject, that the programme of the Tilden-
ties is to impeach President Hayes, and
already prominent member of the
Potter committee has publicly said
that articles of impeachment will be
prepared and presented at the next ses-
sion of Congress. The conspirators
will find the ''solid South" very FORM
liable obstacle in the way of any
such proceedings.
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TaE Democratic platform Of Tennes-
ss - that Of Pendleton and Voorhees,,
IS devised ten years ago. IL accepts
me theories Of the Northwestern De-
.nocracy. but cannot exactly swallow
ihe ..lAln money business.
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citizen of Holly Springs has become
victim of the plague. Is there no les
son in these facts for the people of
AustInl Let the quarantine be aban-
doned. 1t is worse than needless and
only significant of criminal selfishuess.
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T UNIVERSITY

session begins on
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DRUGGISTS SUhDhk8, -
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at prices tosuit the tines. OFcers noiieilca.
BAKER, GRAHAM & co 'C0lDUNE
and Hair Dressing
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Lows genuine old Brown " ilfdeoF noap L1h-
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fumes OF the best American nakers aiuays Oh
hand.
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By experienced hands.
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err,
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vfnfiOn and cuFe u dlsease IN chckene ma }r1v
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-04-04
THE ELECTIONS.


New London, April The contest for
Mayor was the tierCest ever known. OnT
old and tried Democrat, DR.. A, d. Skel-
lenger, was reelected. Il, W. M.
Carrolton, April 2-The Democrats
are Joyous in Carrolton. They have
elected Justice, one Trustee, Assessor,
Constable, Mayor, Clerk, one Council.
man and the Street Commissioner,
J.. v. L.
Norwak, April LIS. P. Hildreth, Ma
tional candidate for Mayor, was elected
by 20S msjority over the Republican can
diiate and l2 majority over all other
competitors. Wakeman elects the Ma
tional ticket by 81 majority.
Kenton, O., April 1.-The Democrats
have eleCted the entire city ticket with
the exception of one Councilman by an
increased majority. The election was
very quiet.
Hartford, Conn.,, April 1.-The city
election to day was carried by the Dem
ocrats for executive officers. George G..
Sumner, Democrat, was chosen Mayor
by 800 majority.
Bucyrus, April l-Haman, Independ-
ent candidate for Marshal for the third
term, and Lewis, for Street Commission
er, were elected over the regular Demo
cratic nominees. John Myers, Demo-
cratic candidate for Corporation Treasu
rer, was elected by majority of ten over
Gormly, who received the supnort of a
large number of Democrats. The rest Of
the Democratic ticket in the town and
township was elected by the usual ma
iority.
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SENATOR VOORHEES,

Speech at Terre Haute, Indiana, on Friday Night
-He Speaks for Plenty Of Money and Advises
the Nationals
Terre Haute March 29.--Dowling Hall was too
small to hold who came this evening to hear the
speech Of Senator Voorhees,. He was introduced
by the Hon. c, F. McNutt, and spoke for an hour,
stating that he had nOtexpected to make speech
when he left Washington, and that he was Just
recovering from a severe cold.
He proposed to discuss briefly the responsible
ties Of the parties and proceeded to show that for
seventeen years the Democratic party had not
been In position either to enact or defeat law.
In considering the present attitude Of the parties
he stood tonight as he had stood for years, a
Democrat He believed all parties in the main
to have patriotic principles but we do not see all
things alike. He wished to say to his Democrat.
ic friends In Terre Haute that in not one particle
are we responsible for the dark cloud that now
lowers upon the prospects and welfare of the
country.
The speaker proceeded at length to recount the
legislation OF the past seventeen years, showing
that the Republicans were responsible for the
financial mistakes of 1862 and 1873. He said he
had been all the time In harmony with the pres
ent attitude Of the Democratic party. He had
canvassed this district twelve years ago on the
pEluClDlbb ub uOW bubLhAu6u ne uSClATeQ
he had made his record from those days to the
present without flaw or break, inside the Demo
cratic party. He thought what he had built up as
a Democrat he could stand by as Democrat.
The speaker proceeded to show that the Demo-
cratic party was not only harmonious and unit
ed, and that 1t was unit in principle in the
great Mississippi Valley and the south, and that
the doctrines of those sections were upheld by
seven.tenthS of New York and half Of New Eng.
land, but that the party was not sectional, and
that on the 4th Of next March 1t would take pos
session of the Senate as well as have the House.
He reviewed the several clauses of the Indiana
platform saying it was such q platform that
score of States would rally around 1t. The Dem
Ocratio House had done and was dOiag all In its
pOwerto oppose contraction and resumption. He
didn't believe we shall have or ever had too
much money, and there had been no need of
contraction except in the interests of the bond
holders he denounced the policy Of sending
bonds abroad, and did not want to injure the
credit Of the Government, but would ike TO see
the bonds driven home.
He said few words to the Nationals, telling
them that the Democrats had better right to in
vite them than had the Nationals TO ask the Dem
ocrats TO come with them. He thought no party
except the Democratic party had a shadow Of
prospect for years of entering into power.