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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
FOREIGN STONE FOR AUSTIN.

1t seems that every stonecutte1
knows that when limestone is taken
from quarry it is full of moisture.
When it dries it grows white. The
moisture within gives it its original
blush color. When water freezes It's
expansive force is absolutely measure
less. When stone freshly taken from a
quarry is exposed to temperature be.
low thirty-two degrees the water
freezes and stone cracks. But the
stone, once bereft of moisture by the
sun and air, defies alike cold and
rain. 1t crumbles under the in
f1uence of intense heat, but no
degree of atmospheric cold - ab-
sence of heat - affects it. The
letter-writer for the press, who says
that the white limestone taken from
Austin quarries is valueless because
freezing moisture cracked blocks re-
Gently quarrled, should examine the
front of the Sampson & Henricks build
ing, reared twenty years ago. There
is not fissure in the structure.
1t will stand uncracked, unless fire as
sail it, till the crack of doom. There
is not on the continent better stone for
building purposes than this. 1t Is not
too hard to carve or so soft that it
will not endure any required super
imposed weight. 1t has been tested
through many years; but then there
are good men and loyal owning quar-
ries in Northern States. They would
be pleased to give freights to railways
from the great lakes. They would
compel us to use marble from Ver-
mont or East Tennessee, rather than
from Marble Falls. They would sell
US limestone precisely like this
which we have, and compel US
to use it at fourfold the cost
of this which constitutes a magnificent
county court house and many private
buildings. We imagine that this court
house will stand hundreds of years,
and long before it crumbles there will
be not a custom house in any civilized
country on the globe. Austin stone is
good enough for Texas and for Texans.
If Vermont would have few ship
loads we can supply the demand even
there; but we would no more have
Vermont or Missouri stone than cities
of those States would order from Aus
tin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THE sufferings of unemployed wo-
men and children in manufacturing
towns in New and Old England are
greatly aggravated By tearfully cold
weather. 1t is great pity that these
mills are not on the banks of the Col
ado, where summer eniures through
nine months each year, where the nec-
essaries of life are of spontaneous
growth, and cold weather lasts hardly
long enough to make US appreciate de-
lights of the land we lnhabit. Very
certainly no more mills will be built in
New England by any manufacturer
who has ever seen Texas. Here food,
fuel, when the northwestern narrow
gauge is built; hides, cotton and
wool are cheaper than elsewhere
in the world, and here it costs a
laborer the least possible to live;
and yet New Englanders persist In
endeavoring to grow rich on bleak,
barren, frozen, stony hillsides when
the exuberant plains and valleys of
Texas and climate as faultless as
that which God breathed upon Para
disc invite them to the South. Cotton
and woolen goods must be manufac-
tured, and just as surely as men and
women continue to wear clothes, SO |
surely will the material for them
be prepared IN this city. When
it will be done depends upon
ourselves. We need the cheapest beet,
the cheapest and hls fuel; we Iced
cheaper routes to the sea; we need a
wider area of country tributary to the
capital. For these resources we must
depend upon ourselves. Nature has
done almost everything and our tasks
are light and easy, only requiring a
degree of cooperative force and action
for which we have not been properly
educated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
FOR WHOM WILL THE SOUTH
VOTE In 1850.

South Carolina newspapers discuss
the inquiry whether the South, in the
next presidential election, should CO.
operate with the Eastern or Western
Democracy. Very certainly the East
and West, as Democratic facts, have
parted. The East adheres to Sher-
man, the West would approve Voorhees,
or Pendleton. But neither the East
nor the West will give the country its
peculiar candidate for the presidenci'
The money question, in the Democr -',0
platform, may be wholly preterT .''eu'
1t fact, Hendricks, who has bee. S,'ei''
will probably be nominated. ~ =
not, some unknown, unhear ~
Pierce will be amazed W. N the ligh'-
ming strikes him with tae assertion oi
his candidature fg' the hlgnes'
Office in the word. The soutn'
lust now, suborsinates all ques-
tions to the. single idea that Conkling
and B,alne hate th0
their aspirations IS the leading South
ern idea It is enly necessary to effect
a oompromise between the East and
West and discover a candidate well
esteemed by both api feared by neither
Tho sS..h viii vote the Democratic
ticket and now that gold and paper
and silver are at par, no measure, by any
possibility, can be forced through Con-
gress designed to disturb the coun-
trv,s finances. The President, ii
Congress in this behalf became
revolutionary, would interpose his
veto. Therefore the financial status ~
owo cannot be disturbed tIll after
March, 1880. Then the greeneack
mania will have exhausted its force,
and Cooper's and Pomeroy's followers
will probably lapse into organization
with which they were originally sfilli'
| ated. The chances are therefore tha
there will be only two candidates 10
the Presidency, and these two VIII o.
Gen. Grant and Gen. Hancock or ex
Senator Hendricks.
Meanwhile, 1t Is we'll to rememoe
that during the session of the eomlnI
Congress many new questions viii b
discussed. Their effect upon par'ie
cannot be foreseen. There are million
involved in the improvement of III
navigability of the Mississippi. in il
diversion into lateral streams, and |
Pacific railways, hyperbOrean an
southern. These schemes may con
bine their strength in Congress and
the West and South to make ? pres
dent. In fact, the valley OF the Nh
sissippi and the two trans-eontinent'
RAILWAYS. il Scott and Huntingto
could cooperate, would wield strengs
enough 10 make the next presiden
Then, il proposition be made 70 col
Ivert the tariff into one for leysnu
I. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Tom CoRwIN's son is an applicant
fer the consul generalshlp of Mexico.
If the son be of the colcr of the father
the appointment is eminently fit to be
made, and when he enters Vera Cruz
he will be on tie right side of the
color line. Then, too, he is an Ohioan,
and therefore entitled to the place
His eloquent father was once Min
ister to Mexico. wasn't it Tom
Corwin who said of the propo-
sition to wage war in 1845 against
Mexico that ''the Greasers should well
come us with bloody hands to hospita-
BILE graves" The Mexicans should
love the son of him who gave utterance
to such sentiment, and therefore the
singular propriety IN this proposed ap-
pointment. But then if it conciliate
Mexicans will it not exasperate Ameri-
cansl and will not the President lose
at home more potency than he can gath
ahroad2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

roes of 177G when those of 1886 rise
up before us demanding q monopoly
of admiration and gratitude. Oar
patriotism, because of these facts, and
because of our homestead laws, is pc
culIarly local, and even so should
it be. And yet the ambition of party
leaders impels them to seek Federal
rather than State honors. Men use the
Governors office simply as trading
capital with which to buy seat in the
United States Senate. 1t is all wrong.
The Union should be ever main
tanned and iniestructible, and
will last till transformed into the
empire. Then we will begin to
discover how indispensable to local
and personal liberty is the cultivation
of this sentiment which the Herald ig-
nores when 1t writes poetry about the
battle of New Orleans. 1t should
rather chant requiem at the
gateway of the Alamo, a dirge
at Goliad and sing pGlns of
victory on the field of San Jacinto.
None object to historical recitations of
facts, but that to which the Herald
deyotes its space, for the noise that
was made about it, was the least i'm
portant, having the least consequences,
of any like event in American history.
1t made Andrew Jackson famous and
made him President. He gave pater-
nifty to the idea. ''to the victors belong
the spoils." His practice of It became
an approved habit of his party. He
thus made the country's offices rewards
for partisan zeal and thus were cor
rupted the very foundations of society
and government. We do not see,
therefore, that the victory at New Or
leans, save to the extent that we would
honor the names of a few men made
famous by it, should be recognized as
a holiday anywhere and least of all in
Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Judge White OF the Appellate c0urt
sustained the ruling Of the court af
Seguin finding Conductor Dayidson Of
the Sunset road for not stopping trains
five minutes, as prescribed BY law, The
other day Judge White was on the
same train, and the law was put In cf-
feet to the letter. The Judge became
exasperated at the delays and finally
asked what they were up 10 such non
sense for. The reply was Judge, We
are illustrating the five minute laws9
you.n The judge took in the situa-
tion at once and tolds Major Converse.
that a. far ss he, White, was concefi, ,
ed, the delay would not discommode
him, bat 1t would work great hard
ship upon large number OF panscu-
gers wishing to make connections for
the North. Tell your conductor, said
he, ''to 90 ahead and get In on tine,
and will draw up . petition 70 The
Governor TO have the law repealed,
and will have my brother judges 70
join me in II. see that IL is Z useless
law" sand I'll join you In the pefI-
ton, said Attorney General George
Mccormick, who was also psssepetl.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
Judge Black, of Peunsylvania, tells

Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, tells q
comical story of a trial in which a
German doctor appeared for the de-
Tense in case for damages against a
client of his by the object of his as
sault. The eminent jurist soen recog-
nized in his witness, who was produced
as q medical expert, q laboring man,
who 80 ne years before, and in another
part of the country, had been engaged
by him as builder of post and rail
fences. With this cue he opened the
examination: "You say DOCTOR" he
began with great Difference and suav-
Ity, "shst you operated upon Mis-
head after 1t was cut by Mr.. -"
"ob, yaw," replied the ex-fence
builder, "me do dat; yaw, yaw."
"Was the wound very severe one,
doctor r.
Enough to kill him If / not save
his life."
"Well, doctor, what did you do for
him 2''
Everything"
Did you perform the Cesarian OPP
eration?"
On, yaw, yaWi II me do not dat he
:" Did you decapitate him2n
Yaw, ysw; me do dat"
"Did you hold post mortem exsmi-
uationT"
''oh, to be sure, Shudge, me always
do dat"
swell, now, DOCTOR" and here the
Judge bent over IN friendly, familiar
way, ''tell US whether you submitted
your patient 10 the process known
among medical men as post and rail
fenciOrum?r
The meek doctor drew himself up
Indignantly. ''Scherry Plack," says
he, 81 always know'd you vas shay.
hawk lawyer. and now / know you for
q mean man."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

MaE miiliners have been regarded in
Paris the proper persons to arrange
how women should be dressed for more
than a dozen years. Grenvllle Muir
ray, in his latest "Round About
France" paper, observes that while
there may be female modlstes quite as
tasteful as the man milliners, the man
mllliners do not think so; it IS they
who originate the fashions which mo-
distes do no more than copy, and
theirs is the undoubted faculty sol
charging double what they would ven-
ture to do were they women" He re.
lates that there is great artist in mil
lnery, who shall be nameless, but
whose reputation is worldwide, who
twill not condescend to work for any
body who comes beseechingly to his
warehouse" He affirms that his artis-
tic self-esteeR will not allow him to
dress a lady who would not be likely
to do full justice to his brilliant con-
ceptions. A lady once admitted into
the happy circle Of this mans pa
irons, he ''scans her with an eye OF
inspiration" and decides eff-haad
what he wishes her to wear. Her
own choice in the matter is not con-
suited. When lady has given many
and cogent proofs Of knowing what
styles and colors are best suited to
her face and figure, then, and not till
then, does he deign to receive her or
ders. Ladies who rule their own
household with q firm hand 'are as
mild as cherubs In the presence of'the
Olympian milliner." He is cold and
peremptory, but to do him justice, he is
not oVerbearing. Strolling about his
saloons with q notebook and gold Pen-
ell in his hands, che stops to bow
courteously to customers who enter,
and either passes them on with wave
of the hand toward the trying-on
roonas, or OlsO hS roturna with thona TO
small mirrored chambers, where the
mysteries Of the new toilets are dis
cussed."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

A day or two ago when a servant
opened the side door of house on
Sibley street, in response to tramp's
knock, her face looked so kind and
benevolent that the hungry man had
no doubt that good dinner awaitfnn
him. He had, however, laid o.
certain programme, and he therefor.
began:
sMy dear woman, I haven't had any.
thing to- eat for two days, and want.
ed to ask il you would spare me on(
those icicles which has fallen from thI'
eavesr
swell, dunno, ',she slowly replied,
as she looked out, 81 suppose we
might spare you one, il you are really
suffering, but of course you won't take
the largest and best2"
lie stepped down and selected an
icicle about two feet long, and, in hes
itating manner, inquired:
"If you would only sprinkle a little
pepper on this / would be forever crate.
Its rather bold in you TO ask 1t, but
| suppose ] can sprinkle on a littIe-a
very little" she replied, and she got
the pepper and busted his luncheon
very sparingly.
He started to move away, but, seem
ing to recollect something, he turned
and said:
"Yol seem 80 benevolent I'll ask yoE
to sprinkle on q little salt as well. i
like my icicles seasoned up pretty
high"
'tYou are q boll man, cir, and it's
plain that you have the appetite Of q
glutton, but I'll give you bit Of salt
and then you must be gone" she re-
piled.
When the icicle had been duly salt
ed, the man expressed his thanks, but
didn't move away. His game wasn't
working to suit him. Some folks
wouldn't have stood there and seen
him bite of the end OF big iciclc,
but this girl did. And, further, when
ne hesitated to go, she indignantly
called out:
81 know what you want. You now
want me to warm the icicle IN the oven
for you and then put on some mustard,
but I'll never, meyer do itln
The man moved slowly out Of the
gate, ana, as ne threw hts Irfrfr II X
passing dog, he gave utterance to bis
disgust IN language punctuated entirc-
ly with slung shots.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

rather than protC ction, and If trade IN
ships he free and navigation acts, CIV
ing monopoly of coasting commerce
to American ships aud steamers, be alb
rogated, there will be such an utter
disruption of parties, as organized to-
day, that no prophet may foretell
results of any fu'ure elections.
Very certainly tile aspects OF
partisan fortunes, and those of
individuals As candidates, are so un-
certain that it Is quite impossible to
define future events even as probable.
Blame comprehends these difficulties
and uncertainties, for which he would
discover a solution In the continued
use of the bloody shirt. His commit
tee. to use the language of an
old English pundIt, are tisctOres
animarum, dyers of souls (sol-
diers), not OF the Cross, but of the
bloody shirt. They go forth now to
select battlefield on which we are not
foolish enough to fight. Therefore we
cooperate with them. Let US punish
every outrage done a white man or q
negro on election days, and especially
should public opinion punish those
who led the innocent blacks into. this
crusade with Southern extremists to
defeat Unionist, Hancock, in this con-
gressional district and elect Wash
Jones.
But the ken of prophets of old
would be required to unveil the future
of parties, or of issues which Blaine
would perpetuate. The readiness with
which nearly million voters were re-
Gently abraded from the river shores of
Radicalism and Democracy, that Peter
Cooper and Brick Pomeroy might
Navigate windy sea of Greenbsckism,
hows how slight is the tenure and
HtTeak the cohesive force and impotent
tfe the whippers-in of the parties.
l5pular opinion is liberalized and the
any exempt from the domination of
ttir old masters to an extent never
Rwn before and it can only be as
81 I'D of the West and Southwest that
teN Neaos and Courier is mis-
tam: The valley of the Missis-
siI lnd Texas may cooperate
with be Northwest but never, in a
pre- Iential election, with New Eng
Ian When we have cheap mustang
rail rs to our coalfields, New Eng |
Ian fills will be welcomed to Texas
cot'ei fields, but Texas voters will |
harl9 fill, in our time, New England |
ballot boxes, or elect New England
chosei candidate for the presidency.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Richards, the Nebraska herdsman,
who confesses tae murder Of nine per-
sons, tells with perfect GOODNESS and
apparent pride how he killed at one
time woman and her three children.
They were 70 start in the night on q long
journey, and he calculated that j,
would be safe 10 murder then, because
the neighbors would not readily suspect
anything. he went out and dug their
graves before committing the crime.
81 was not" he said 70 Q reporter,
''Any more excited than / an now.
had studied the matter OYER for . long
time. had calculated the risk ran,
and ! knew thoroughly what ] WAS do
isg. / went at 1t exactly - IL I had
been butcheriDg 70 many hogs."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

A SENTIMENT, universal as it were,
comes from the West, as expressed
through representative men now as
sembling in this city, in favor of the
retention of General Steele in the po-
sition he Wills. The West claims
and asks nothing but protection,
and it is asserted that it has re-
ceived this under the administra-
ton of General Steele. He Is q
soldier of lifetime experience, under
standing fully the needs of the frontier,
and being a Western man his sympa-
thies lead him to extend the people of
that section all the aid in his pow
er. 1t is not asserted that Gov
ernor Roberts intends making q
change in the administration of the
Adjutant Generals department, tut in
view of the Inauguration of new
State administration these representa-
tives of the West wish to be heard. II
is matter in which they alone are in
terested, and they certainly consult
their interests when they urge the re-
tention of General Steele.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
THE RIGHTH Al. 49, m
NEW ORl.o lo1 TLE OF

Everybody else 81 al, I'm, the
solemn San Antonicss ar
eighth instant devotSr. so,nn,n :,
eu''o',a' c. = s~ ,anchay a. battle of
Ne" e. ista5, after q
treaty o' Pe"1e Mr.. ngned at
Ghent between the L b -
Great Britain. The ere -.
signi6ed nothing. lie of .ou
pared with suoseqMr.tles of
lS0l-S, . mere skiimltLni : Her
ald wasted breath. spn, -.
the eighth Of JanuaryA ktso,;-
day. There banks ant k.s...
are closed and the pecoor, 49,,
Old Hickory, Goyerno, c.n
Coffee, Sam Houston q IT,
nessee heroes of the v ,oIs
but Texas is a new vo,
tory and wsrs and autons -.
We haYe enough to do J,,,..,.
anniversaries Of grand event ..,.n
our own local WARS and re 80.
We can hardly chant the PM
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

The absolute slavery Of the padrone
system is shown by the statement Of
the young girl recently brought to New
York from Italy by one Siceo. On be-
ing questioned the other day she said
that Sicco bought her OF her father,
paying 200 francs, OF which 100 was
IN gold, and that her father told her
she no longer belonged to him, but TO
S Geo, and that she must 20 with the
latter wherever he went and do what
ever he said forever. The Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children
has informed the padrone that he can
lot obtain possession Of her until he
can prove to the satisfaetion Of the au-
thorities that he has no immoral OBJ
ject In view In claiming her.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

TAXATION in Memphis has been enor-
nous, intolerable and unpayable. II
Memphis cease to exist its creditors
will administer on Its estate, and those
who owe taxes will owe the dead city's
creditors, and these poor devils will be
made to dance an instantaneous horn
pipe in which ''double shuffling" is
inadmissible and nothing tolerated but
an old Virginia "reel" or "break-
doun
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

STEAMSHIPS plying between New
York and Boston and Liverpool and
Bremen are more numerous than profit
able. One of these lost SO, 900 on a
recent voyage to and fro. 1t follows
that if we.are to have Mexican, Brazil
ian and Parsguayan steamship lines
there must be governmental subYen-
tlons. Without these the country
will still produce more corn, wheat,
bacon, flour and cotton goods than it
can sell, and there will be idleness and
tramps and suffering even among those
willing to toll.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

PRESIDENT HAYES insists that pc.
riod OF rare prosperity and business
activity is dawDing upon the country.
The Presidents reasons for this faith
are not wholly unsubstantial. It oc.
ours to US that much depends on q
Southern Pacific road and steamship
lines to Mexico and Brazil and other
countries. We produce more than we
consume and sell.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THE national banks, according to
their last reports, owe one thousand
million dollars to depositors. They
owe this debt, now that resumption is
effected, in gold. But the same peo-
pie who, three months ago, were hoard
ing gold and silver are now sending it
to the banks and taking paper instead.
1t is queer world we inhabit. Men
only demand that which they can't
get, and when they can they don't
want II
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

JUST as soon as the United States
sad to the world, "bring in my pa
per; we are ready DOW to redeem ii
in gold" the holders said, "since it
is good as gold we prefer it to gold, T"
and there the matter rests. We heard
Greenbackers say last summer that
when resumption day came, there would
be standing army of 10000 srmsd
men in front OF the Treasury building
for weeks, demanding gold and silver
for paper. Greenbackers prophesied in
vain. There are ten gold dollars paid
into the Federal treasury for each one
withdrawn.