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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

SENATOR MAXEY, as has been said,
is the working man of the Senate, and
Coke, in point of tlreless industry,
never had superior. Men of intellect
cannot be idle. The sharp sword cuts
the scabbard and flashes in the sun
light. Both these Senators avoid So
ciety and devote days and nights to
assiduous toll. But the people of the
capital should cooperate with Senator
Maxey and induce Gen. Ord to co-ope-
rate with them. II the narrow gauge
road be begun, giving the army speedy
access to Northwestern Texas, Senator
Maxey cannot fail in passing this bill
which he presented to the Senate:
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives. Of the United States of
America an Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War is hereby authorized
to repair and put in seryieeable order
Fthe United States military barracks and
arsenal at Austin, Texas, and to add
such improvements as he may deem
necessary thereto; and the sum OF
$50, 900, or so much thereof as may be
nece ssary, is hereby appropriated out
of any moneys not otherwise spprepri-
ated, to carry out the provisions of thlf
act.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

GAIL HAMILTON, Blaine's sister, ven.
lures to say no man ever conferred dis
tinction upon his country, who owed
his power to the free school,. No man
ever illustrated the annals of this coun-
try who would not have been equally
as illustrious had the high school never
existed. And Gail Hamilton sprang
from the free school. Hsr notions Of
the .snatlon" were absorbed from the
free school; her morals came from the
same source. johnson, George Wash
ington, Abe Lincoln, Ben franklin,
were sill innocent of the blessings con-
ferred by free schools. II every pa
rent would teach his son trade and
the alphabet, and genius discovered .
resting place in the boys skull there is
no obstruction which free school
removes that he will not surmount
without its adventi,lous aids. Fulton
never was within free school enclos-
ure, and If be had entered its precincts
would never have been taught the
wonders OF steam; Goodyear tapped .
gutta perchs tree when drawing the
milk of human wisdom from free
schooll marm, and Mccormick and
Morse derived no inventive inspiration
from the horn books of peripatt tic
psdagogues. But the demagogues and
pedagogues ascribe an conceivable
blessings TO the free schools. They
have made the couRtry great and ur-
tnoas and happy. Look and see; is
our condition that Of our fAthersl Are
women as true and virtuousf Are
the youths from the free schools as
good citaz ens and honest and true ~
they who were taught At home or in
the subscription academys The
churches and christian neighborhoods
and not the State nor its politicians
should shaps the intelligsace and NOR
ale Of Of the yoatAs Of the commsn-
wealth. GaaI HAmiltoa tells the truth
OF The fres schools. They have made
no mah great and only corrupted the
people and public and pEiysls morals.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10
THE free school commissioners of

THE free school commissioners OF
Massachusetts say very modestly and
very gingerly that they have possibly
attempted too much and expected too
much and sought to teach too much IN
the schools of the old Bay State. Mean
while Governor Robinson of New York
does not hesitate to declare that free
schools in New York have wrought in
finite evil and need thorough reforma-
ton or excision from the body polite.
Ia the face of these facts and the
prevalence, in the free school States,
of unheard-of depravity in public and
private life, among men and women,
we are asked, here in Texas, where
public and private morals have grown
worse as the free school system has
been expanded = even here we are
asked to insugurate the universally OF
free school system. Can men re-
member what society was before the
pedagogues, plucking treasures, and
corrupting parents and children, came
into these hapless States. And what
is our social condition since these
agents of plundering booksellers camei
There was decency and honesty and
virtue where we now have coarseness,
knavery and vice. L US at least
watch events and opinions in the East
and in the South, before we have fast
ened on the country the inefficient
free school system of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

THE New York Tribune thinks, il
Mr. ]. Davis spoke truth when he said
that the women of the South we're un.
reconstructed and the editors of Mis-
sissippi applauded vehemently, that
the facts pertain to all the people oI
the South, and to those OF Texas al
well as of Mississippi. Then the Iri-
bune concludes that no greater danger
to the Union could arise than from the
concession of power to these admirers OF
JEFF Davis. The war, of course, was
fought in vain, and then follows the
usual Jeremiad about the negro and al
that. 1t is pi;iful. But j. d. sometimes
blunders.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

MEsQUTT forests which overshadow,
as civilization advances, the plains and
prairies of Texas, are said to produce
most useful wo1d for many mechsni-
cal uses. A writer for the RoekpoEt
Transcript says that the hubs, spokes
and feIloes of wagon, made of mes
quit win endure a century. The wood
neither shrinks nor cracks nor twists
and is solid as marble. Sswdust pro-
duced from the wood makes an excel
lent dye stuff as we'll as the strongest
tannic acid, while the exudation from
the bark Is superior for all hygienic and
mechanical purposes, to gum Arabic.
The streets of Brownsville are paved
with met quit blocks 4x3 inches. Peo-
pie say they are tougher than boulders
aud as enduring as CO.. b'estoues.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10
VOL. VIII.
MAY GOD SPARE US.

Texas is especially odious t. North
ern Radicals IN and its powerful news
papers, primarily because Texas is
solidly Democratic, and then because
we don't kill negroes and because the
fort to excite here that negro discon-
tent which pervades Mississippi, made
by the adherents Of the party and BY
b shop Haven and others, hiss slgnally
and wholly failed. The kindliness of
inter-race relations where Rsdicalism is
an unknown, unrecognIzed force in
polltIcs, exasperates the -IHter- Oceaa.
Therefore these Northern papers quote
one Hoar. OF Michigan, who says of US:
Your business enterprises should be
conducted more with piety and less
" tn pistols. What Mississippi needs
to-day is more corn and cotton ana less
cussedness-more mills, more manli-
ness; less murders, less mOonshiners.
South Carolina should raise horses and
hogs more and hell less.
1t Is especially exasperating that
bloody deeds done in Texas have no
reference to politics OF the races. We
have daring devils, while the North. is
overrun with small thieves. Our
knaves capture horses without regard
to property rights and rob stage coach
es, but women are not strangled in bed
and dead bodies are not shipped about
by express, and women do y, t mystic
riously disappear here as IN New York
and Boston. We have no armed mill
tia firing into mobs ss in Chicago, and
no such cases of poisoning as we hear
of in the swine and bominy and whIs-
KY breeding city of Cincinnati. Faith
ere do not cut children's ;hroats, shoot
ing out the brains of three innocents at
one time, as in Massachusetts. We
have no infanncides or burgIaries or
sneak thieving. Texas is new and
those States are old. Their public
school system Is perfect and ours
mOSJ lntmCicnbi onu SnO hOA0 oo
the fewer the moral and practical
evils generated. Infinitely is the
state of society here to be preferred to
tlat of Chicago, and Chicago is con-
scious of it. We have only t, cure the
popular habit of sudden violence in
sudden quarrels. The habit springs
from ill-enforced laws, from the very
newness of our social organ z4tion and
each Texan must ever pray that the
vices of Texas may never be supplant-
ed by those engendered in b shop
Haven's free schools and churches end
that neither may pervade the land we
love.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

THE Caddo (Choctlw) Free Press
says eighty-nine murders have been
commit ed there during the year, and
double this number have escaped at
tention, and yet we call "the Nation'
civilized. 10 murderousness it outsies
Texas. Can't the Legislature provide
for speedy trslin criminal cases, and
give MS q whipping post that petty
knaves may cost the people less, and
lsaye the country, as they will, as soon
as the lash threatens. Then too we
will lessen by half the number Of PEN
itentiary convicts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

TIE BRENNAN Banner confesses that
the damage done the free schools by
the Legislature is not irreparable. The
Banner should be happy in the refec-
ton that this is one instance in which
IL is quite impossible to make bad
worse. The Banner believes, because
the generous and intelligent people Of
Brenham have added largely to the
free school fund and selected honest
and capable teachers, that these schools
are equally benefcent everywhere. On
the contrary, the wisest farmers say
that the system is an unmlxed calamity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

THE New York board of fire under
writers has adopted brief and simpli
fed form of policy, which is com
mended to fire insurance people every.
where. Very certainly these teemen-
dous sheets of paper full of conditions
and forms and provisions printed in
the smallest type and of the longest,
tedious lines which are supposed to be
provided that IN case of litigation ev-
cry advantage will be with the COM
pany, needed revision, contraction and
simplification. The revised forms will
be used in this city.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

WHAT can be more hazardous, more
brutaliEing. more destructive of all re-
fined human sensibilities than Texas
methods of dealing with and shooting
and chsining as wild beasts men, black
snd white, and exposing them with
heads half shorn and striped clothes,
and toiling beneath the lash in the
forests and on farms and along rail.
ways. The whole tindency Of the
whole system is bruializing even as Il
is disgusting. No wonder Col Lang
resigned the superintendency. We're
spect him infinitely that he did.
But in the face Of these frightful, hide
Gus facts. sickly sentimentAlism pre-
vents the substitution Of the Whippihe
post, erected in the jail yArd, for the
States prison. The Legislature Ihould
erect the whipping past in eyery coun-
ty capital In two years the nnnbes
Of knsSes in the psaiisatiAry win b
ieasened two-thirds and populAr intel
hgence and the security OF hfs and
property and progress srsstlS pro
nots1. - Fssf saal
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WE have read of MarIus in solitude,

WE have read of Marlus in solitude,
half clad and starved, contemplating
the ruins of Carthage; of Napoleon'i
broken heart at s.. Helena; of Alex.
ander's tears, because there were no
more worlds to conquer; but the griei
of the fellows who stood above the
bier of the free school system Of Texas
when it was inferred can never be sur
passed in its sublimity or compre-
hended by the commonplace intslii-
gence of the country. The Iachrymose
Austin correspondent of the Telegram
says: -
In sadness the minority see the god
dess of Texas liberty deprived Of her
queenIy beauty, the Lone Star robbed
OF its brllliancy. Frost slghs from the
inmost chamber of his soul; Finlay
puts away his spectacles, and Stewart
of Harris, standing at the bar, sheds Q
salt and silent tear ever the grave OF
civiliz ition. Such was the scene that
closed over the dvlng struggles of pub
lie education in Texas.
Stewart at the '.bar;" Finlsy drying
his spectacles; Frost heayIng an earth
quake's Sigh. The picture Is perfect.
This grief outrivals Niobe's. Aud all
because the dirty, costly, incapable
free schools are knocked on the head.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

AUSTIN, July Q. 49,

AUSTIN, July 2, 1879.
Senator Terrell reported favorably on
House bill No. II, an act amending
article S96, chspter l. title 2, of the
Code Of Criminal Procedure; favorably
on Senate bill No. 70, an act to pre-
scribe the remedy and regulate the pro-
ceedings by quo wsrrsnfo, and confer
the jurisdiction in ceIt an cases upon
the district court of Tfsvis county.
Senator McCulloch reported fagora-
bly, on Senate bill No. 7S, an act 70
regulate the practice Of medicine.
Senator L .dbetter reported unfavor-
ably on Senate bill No. "a, an act to
prescribe the obligation and security
which shall be given by students who
may be admit ed and taught in the
uormal schools in this State.
Senator Tilson reported favorably on
Senate bill No. TO attach the un-
organized county of LsSalle TO the
county Of McMullin for surveying pur-
poses.
S;nator Swain reported favorably on
Senate bill No. 70, IAN act suppl, :
mel tai of 'An act 70 provide for the
organization Of the State penitentia-
ries.'"
6eoator Storey made favorable re-
port on Senate ball No. -, supple
menting IAN act making an appfopsi-
alton for the support OF the State gov
eminent for the years ending March
1, 1879, and February %, 1881"
Senator Storey rep sted uniay0rsoly
on the claim OF Mrs udrby and others
for claims as school teacn.rs.
The beuAte went mo COMMITTEE e Of
the whole and adopted tue report. A.
Ter this Mrs. DIR. Hubby asked Apd Oh
tanned cOnsent. TO withdrBw from the
dies of ihe Senate all papers in the
matter.
Sena or II Juston reported favorsbly
On Senate joint rs ,luEion authorizing
and requiring the Comptroller, Teas
urer and Commissioner OF the Land
Office 20 employ one-haif Of their G eri-
cal force from among femaies. TINS
resolution Wa considered and passed.
senators Terrell, Houston and More
all made strong speeches ia favor Of
the measure.
Senator Davenport offered q res0lu-
tion, retaining the present SECRETARY Of
tie Sensts, Col. Whitehead, in Office
for sixty days after adjournment, 70
attend u the journals OF the Senate,
and all unfinished business Of the body.
A3opted unanim0usly.
eepsts hill No. -, amendatory Of
an 'sAct 10 diminish the civil and Grim
inaI jurisdiction Of the county courts
OF certsin counties," Wss called up by
Senator DEvenpoft and passed.
Senate bill No. =, amending "An
&C. 90 anend tina Arst section Of an
act aatborizing ths payment Of taxes
OF non resideBts 70 be made q the
Comproller's ofiiee," 80 Passed.
BennsnT Storey made - unfsvorsble
rspost On esnats hill % levy IN occupa-
tlon tsx On nerchants-
6saasors Gay ana Swain submitted q
minority report
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We like the Telephones earnest way
of stating its just opinions. The epi-
gram is as good as its philosophy. Il
says:
There shall come a sentiment that
will sweep away, ike cobwebs, the
distractions in the Path of progress.
1t will be consistency pitted against
duplicity; to-day against the past /;
steam and electricity against the ox-
cart and rawhide; educstion against
ignorance civilization against retro
gressiOn.
The Telephone t'u9 prophesies OF
the glorious future, when schools and
academies will be maintained every
where by the people and no longer
destroyed by competing pedagogues
hired by the State to prevent the edu-
cation in books and morals of the
children of the commonwealth. The
Telephone is eloquent, and wise, and
right at last. We set it right.
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The Denison Herald says "the Aus
tin STATESMAN has never known aught
of the workings OF an efficient system
OF free Schools" That is even true.
Sach q system cannot be efficient for
good and only for evil. II the Herald
doubts let it read Gov. Robinson's
message Of New York. The evil done
in Texas stands confessed IN the fact
that al efficient" schools have been
destroyed by those miserable moeker-
les OF schools set up by the Stats.
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L1ng ago the STATESMAN said it
would be as wise to supply the city
with heat through pipes as with water
end gas. II one corporation furnish
laws; another, water; another, street
car transportation; another, gas; why
not have fifth corporation supplying
het and q sixth drsinsge2 New York
City has entered into q contract with
Gen. Spinola s. Co., col t.mplating q
supply Of heat for all purposes, to be
furnished through non-conducting
pipes in every house in the great
mt tropolis. In New York fuel is very
cheap; here it is very cost'y and rapid
ly becoming more SO. We have two
remedies; the one, in making the coal
measures of Northwest Texas sccessi-
ble by means of the narrow gauge rail
way; the second, by adopting the
Splnola plan of making one fire place
or furnace supply heat for the whole
NoPAboi. hS I'LL Va 4NS" AOAAp AOA
the privilege given Gen. Spinola and
after conceding ten per cent profits to
Spinols, shares and regulates prices and
profits. Why may not the gas COM
pany, which now supplies coal from
the Indian Nation, augment it's useful
ness and lessen the cost of cleanliness
and multiply comforts of living by
heating as well as illuminating our
homes! What housekeeper would not
ejJice when there are no more fires to
be kindled in fireplsces and cooking
stoves, and when cedar bark and
scorpions and ashes no longer defile
the sitting-roOm and kitchen and when
there will be no more disputes about
who must kindle the fires, and only
string must be pulled to turn on the
heat. Then the millennium will certain
ly dawn.
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VIZ can't see exactly how the Presi-
dent viii employ his bead and hands,
now thst CongFess no longer sends in
bills TO be vetoed. Since it ID believed
that he will kick every paper dovI
stalrs with the fellow that bringa il,
Ars. Hsyss,s shopping bills remain I'M
psia, and Rutherford had q good M
the frst-pay dsy-of The month.
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cIKorAfRA's nesdie is only nine feet
longsr than the extraordlnary marble
shaft that win rise above the isnb Of
Gen. Wool. a e9a Ia
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

These spectseles are manufactured from
MINUTE CRYSTAL PEBBLES" melted To-
geLher, and are called DIAMOND on account Of
their hardness and briIliancy.
Having been tested with the polariscope, the
diamond lenses have been found to admit hfi cen
per cent. less heated rays than any other pebble.
They are ground with great scientific accu-
rAcy, are free from chromatic alterations, and
produce brightness and distinctness OF vision
not before attained In spectacles.
MANUFACTURED BY THE SPENCER OP-
TICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, NEW
YORK. For sale by responsible agents in every
city In the Union. A. BAHN, JeWeler and opti-
clan, sole agent for Austin, Texas, from whom
they can only be obtained. No peddlers en-
pl0yOd-
DO not buy q PAIR unless you see the trade
mark - delseodAw1V
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EVENING SESSION.

Mr.. Smith of Harms reported from
the Committee on Health and Vital
Statististics bill to aut iorize cities
and counties to CO operate in health and
sanitary matters.
DR.. Flewellen explained that the bill,
though general in Its nature, ID Intend
ed to apply to Houston and Harris
county, where the county desired to
assist the CITY of Houston in making
improvements of such nature. The
rules were suspended on motion of Mr..
Smith of HarIis and the bill pssed.
Bill requiring parties TO make early
settlements at the Land Office for the
issuance of patents was taken up. 1t
requires that with the return of the
field notes, the patent fees must be de-
posted in the Land Office, and
that at the end of three
months if the patents be not issued ap-
plicaHti may demand their money to be
paid again when patents are, issued.
The bill passed in this shape to its
third reading. .,. =. ~.
Special order, bill t. amend section
2 of an act to provide for printing,
binding and distribution of the Revised
Civil Statutes, Penal Code and Code OF
Criminal Procedure. f
Mr.. Foster-Amendment, that the
contract made for TINS work be not i'm
paired and that $50 be the outside sum
allowed for the additional printing OF
laws Of the extra sessiOn.
Mr.. Taylor of Marion-Amendment,
that the compiler shall in no case re-
ceive over $500.
With these amendments the bill
passed to third reading. Rules sus-
pended and bill passed. a
A message from the Governor pre-
sented the propriety of settling county
boundaries, especially the boundary be
tween Wise and Montague. Also as
TO o bill facilitating the capture of
fugitives forwarded with the message.
A message was received from the
Senate notifying the House Of the pas
sage of several bills, and that the Sen-
a.e refuses to concur with House
amendments to Senate bill No. @, and
asking for . joint committee, which
was appointed. ~
The rules were suspended and bill,
providing that law regarding the rec
ords OF contracts relating to laws show
ing Whist is community property,
PASSED at the last regular session Of
the Sixteenth Legislature, be repealed.
On motion OF Mr.. Loe the ruless were
suspended and the bill read third time.
Il was then passed with the requisite
majority 10 effect the immediate repeal
Of the obnoxious law.
A conference committee was appoint
ed on House bill No. 45.
House adjourned 10 ga. N. Thurs-
day. -
AUSTIN, July 8, 1875.
A message from the Senate sn-
nounced the passage Of Senate substI-
tute for Senate bill No. IS. Senate bin
No. 6o and House bill No. Sc.
Mr.. Estes introduced . bin to
anend title %, chapter 3, and
Arrcle 4570-1-2 OF the Revised Stat
utes. Referred.
Committee on Judiciary No. 9 rec
omended the passage Of an Anenda-
tory aet to adopt and estAhlish The Re-
vlsed Civil statutes.
Commits on State Azairs reported
aeAinst senAts bill No. IS. Il being 10
Rardsd - injurious 70 tns farming in
tsrssrA.
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-coILseR STATION rosroFFIcE

TIE Fourth Annual Session OF this instltu
uun VIII begfn on the arst OF October next and
cnutinae for nlne months. ending The last We'd
need4y In June. 1S>o. rhe ehs-e for The ..
fae., hnrroof ~ toe, and two putte Of unborn
~ ne 1ee. material. will ee $50. of which 81
ma.t y paid - enrance. aud the remainder
diesrioeleu into thfpc easy fneeallucnse-
1ee coarss - stalls i hroad and the faculty
Tat - coNtfe - ~ eoesh oasrs more or ~
Thoa. : 6AFHRlGHr.
l3Sloct President I
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PROVIDENCE, r. l., August 49, 1878
WIN. Il. l. sRK,-Dedr Sb. Having witness
ed the wonderful effects OF HONI'S REMEDY
in my ewn case, and great number OF others,
recommend ii 80 all sffiicted with kidney dis
eases dr'psy. Those afflicted by disease
nLOnld secure the medicine which will cure in
the shortest possible time. HUNTS REMEDY
Will do this, K. r. DAwLEY, IS Dyer st.
From Rev X. q. Taylor d. D., Pastor FIRST BAp
list Church.
Providence, r. ]. January 8, 1879.
] can testify 10 the virtue of HUNFS REM
kDY IN Kidney Diseases from &C uaI trial and
Lave been greatly benefited by its nse.
L. q. TAYLOR.
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Hsadrght eer..ecsie No. y. hsaea ~ u.
Jsnrs n. catison, June ~, lell
AZ nol hsard l1on N - a-xe. Rpnc4ncn wfll
- made 70 the prypSr aereosaty tnr dpp'icais
ApsaLlsss. ~
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AUSTIN, July 3, is7c.

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