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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-26
DRESS GOODS

During the past few days We have made
narked reductions In the price Of our entire
stock Of Dress Goods, that must and Will be
sold in order to make room for fall stock.
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Ghe Qntalfgeneer


omcs, Nos. 70 and n Pourteenth Street,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-26
For RENT.

DOR RENT-A NICE BRICK Dwell
l. LING HOUSE, No. 2l1l Eotf street. House has
ave rooms, pantry and bath room. Water and Gas
Throughout. Possession given Immediately. Apply
TO ". HUMBLE, No. 2a51 Market street. aIfs
pICNIC GROUNDS OFFER FOR
i RRNTmy Picnic GroundS, we'll known ~ Green's
Grove, I miles north Of the city, on the P. ". L Ky.
R.'R. l have erected on them 4 splendid dancing
platform, Ietreahment stands, banches, and all the
grounds. The grounds lie within 50 yards Of the z.
B. PerSonS desiring 70 rent them can call upon
JOSEPH GREEN,
apps No. ll47 Market Street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-26

The well at the new Eigth Ward Hose
House was filled with sand and water by
yesterdays rain, and the house threaten
ed with an overflow, but a drain through
IN adjoining alley prevented. Some &C.
ton will have to be taken by the Commit
tee on Streets, Alleys and Roads in the
matter.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
KEEP cool.

There is no reason in fact or nature
why people in the uplands of Texas
should entert lin any more dread of yell
low fever than citizens of Chicago.
We are as far above the sea level as
most Northern cities and much higher
than many that have never dreamed of
an incursion of the plague. The winds
that blow over these PLAINS are dry and
pure as any that toy among tresses of
beauty at Long Branch or Cape May.
There are no msrshlands near US, and
none along the valley of the Colorado.
which laughs and dances when the
stars are mirrored in its bosom and is
garnished with lustrous stones giving
by day added brilliancy to the sun
beams. There are purer winds no.
where than those that cross the arid
plains and mountains of Mexico or
those that come up from the Calf.
Austin is built on hills from 700 to
1000 feet above Galveston, and the air
is as pure at this elevation as above the
clouds. We have cases of typhoid fe-
yer generated by cesspools never drain
ed, and the disease fingers about homes
whose inhabitants have never studied
laws or necessities Of cleanliness. Bat
when Yellow Jack tackles Austin they
alone are safe who weLt on the Jean
ette to the Polar Sea.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

WILLIAM A. FIELDs, the excellent
secretary of the Senate. has resumed
his proper place as editor of the Blade
at Meridian. 1t will soon be receg-
nized power in the land. By the way,
Mr.. Fields should know that even
when newspaper 6lunders honestly
and fairly it suffers not all. The New
York Herald prospers, and yet it often
goes backwards, s'eating its own
words" 1t confesses the error of opin-
ion or of fact, and there is an end OF
it. The consistency, essential to news
paper success, is only an equivalent OF
honesty. Intelligent newspaper read
ers do not care to have paper that
never has an idea of its own, that
thinks IN a narrow groove carved out
for it by party or clique. The fact
that a majority of the youths, COZ
ducting the countless newspapers OF
Texas, favor the free school idea,
makes it neither right nor wise mol
popular. They do net represent the
taxpaying, farming masses of the
country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

THE Fort Worth Democrat and Deni-
son Herald at length approve the prop
osition of the STATESMAN. The pun
ishment proposed to be inflicted should
be the penalty for horse stealing as
we'll as rape. 1t is not Texas Of to-day
alone that we would protect, but of
the future. Peculiar moral as we'll as
intellectual faculties are transmitted
from sire to son, and we would both
punish and put an end to knavery in
Texas. Therefore the two excellent
papers above designated agree in say
ing that
The law should make emasculation
the penalty for rape, granting such de-
lay in execution as will afford ample
opportunity for proof of innocence.
Mob law is better than Communication
but better than mob law would be a
statute making such beasts powerless
for evil in the future. Such law,
not subject to executive sentimentality,
would mako confessions like that OF
AXE at Austin impossible, and would
carry more terror to brutal instincts
than imprisonment, death, or the mad
revenge of justly infuriated mob.
Let it be tried.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
NJ. KIEFFER, French engineer hav.

NJ. KIEFFER, a French engineer hav-
ing no connection with De Lesseps,
but representing French capitalists, is
in New York en- route to Panama. He
proposes to build road for ships on
the Eads or Sibillot plan. The RepuJ-
lican says:
1t is huge railway running into this
ocean and below it's level on either
side, and having large docks In which
the ship is TO be flosted and thus car
ried across the lsthmus. The docks
rest on wheels, and when they receive
the vessel, task which will be mate
rally facilitated by the tide, they are
to be drawn from the ocean by power
full machinery and set fairly on the
leYel track. The only difference be-
tween this plan and that suggested by
Capt. Eads Is that the latter would
place the vessel in cradles instead OF
docks. M. Sibillot's project proposes
either a ship railway entirely across the
lsthmus or a canal east of the noun
talns, and another west of the noun
tains, with connecting railway
through the mountains. He estimates
tue cost at 500, 900, 900, while the Les
seps canal would cost six times that
sum. A tariff of 81 so per ton on ves-
sells would suffice for the railway, while
Que twice as great would be required
for the canal. The object of NJ. Kief-
fer's visit to New York is to secure the
cooperation of American capitalists
and engineers in the enterprise winch
he represents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

The assignees of Duncan, Sherman
& Co. have declared dividend OF five
per cent. This makes fifteen per cent
IN all after three years spent in liqui-
datlon. What handsome settlement
of claims against a house whose found
ers left it worth 81, 1000, 900. Could
old Watts Sherman have risen from the
dead and witnessed ouch q result it
would indeed have filled him with in
dignation. Never has family OF
young men more wantonly thrown
away grand inheritance than in
the present instance. II the reader
cares to look at the rise and fall Of
grest house it may thus be briefly
given: Seventy years ago Watts Sher-
man was poor but enterpTising citizen
of Utica. He was gifted as an auc-
tloneer, and became extensively known
in this capacity. His son (of the same
nameI was bright youth, who got into
store and eventually was made cash
Ter of rural bank with a salary OF
$500. Not long afterward the City
Bank Of Albany was started, and ai
young Sherman bad attracted the no.
tice of its leading director (Erastus
Corning), he was invited to the cash.
iership with the tempting salary OF
$500. Watts Sherman soon proved
himself a master financier, and the re-
suit was that he not only became rich,
but the bank also fourished until its
stock was quoted at 100. Having thus
made himself a capitalist, he removed
to this city and organized banking
house with Butler, the Provi-
dence capitalist. This was in 1851.
There was good opening, which was
well improved, aad the business was
20 profitable that when the former died
he house was worth f3 600, coo. Un-
der sueh splendid auspices The third
Watts Sherman aud William Il. Dun
can assumed the business. They we're
readily lured into the bubbles OF the
lay and turned SPECTATORS inftead OF
business men. They neglected bank
ing for petroleum schemes and paper
railroads, and the result is now before
US. A capital of SO, 600, 000 has been
sunk and the extreme dividend to the
creditors is Is per cent This nsy bt
termed wrecking in earnest. II any
crew OF enemies had done tbis. we all
.hould have exclaimed, "Whtt malIg
nifty" Here, however, it Is done by
sheIr own hands.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

from childhood to believe that the
free school is a necessary incident of
the Republic; when, in fact, it is the
chosen tool of the despOt. While a
msjority,in number, of the newspapers
in Texas, conducted as we have stated,
would maintain and even widen the
sphere of evil done by the free schools,
it does not follow that the independ-
ent, free-thinkIng farmers of the coun-
try concur. Ga the contrary, if we
may deduce conclusions from the con-
duct Of the readers of the STATESMAN,
it is certainly true that the masses of
newspaper readers concur with us, and
differ from excellent young gen.
tlmen who shape the course of msny
publications of the State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07


Mrs. DoRsEY's will, attested in due
form of law, was put upon record a
few days ago in Harrison county, Mis-
sissippi. Mr.. Jefferson Davis, the
legatee, was present and great throng.
The will provides that if Mr.. DAVIS do
not survive the testatrix the whole of
her wealth becomes the property OF
Mr.. Davis's younger daughter Varina.
Varina was known as Winnie in
Memphis. Maggie, the older daugh-
ter, is the wife of Mr.. Hayes, a banker.
Mrs. Dorsey, in her will, might hsYe
spared the people Of the South her
quiet but scathing criticism. She in
Inmates that Mr.. Dtvis'a purity and
patriotism and sacrifices for the South
entitled him to Ter property and to the
country's love and gratitude which had
not been conceded. Mr.. Davis won
an immortal name. To this censumma-
tionhe devoted his life. Ia this he was
immensely rich. But did Mrs. Dorsey
never reflect that the whole South lost
more money propoltionately than Mr..
Days I IL is estimated that eleven
thousand millions were lost by the peo-
pie in four years. They had nothing to
give and had given all they had of blood
and life and gold to the glory of Da-
Wis and perfection of their griefs.
We confess that Mr.. Davis was sincere
and honest aud patriotic, and deserves
all that Mrs. Dorsey says of him and
has done for him. But the people owe
him nothing. They gave him honor
and obedience, and when they found
they had followed him unwisely and
we're ruined, they never complained
or condemned. he led the way to Sc
cession when he supplshted QuitmAn
a. q candidate for the Governors Office
against Foote, the Union candidate, in
ls5f-2, aud while he and Others say
to-day thatthey were simply the agents
and servants OF the people and doers
of the peoples will, and are not re-
sponsible for calamities that befel the
South IN its proslaYery KansEz crusade,
they should not complain If their per-
sonAl luck is like that Of the masses OF
the people who forced 60 and led @
Mr. Davis Yancey and the rest into
the secession baanes&
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To ACCOUNT FOR THE MILK IN
THR COCOANUT.

The Fort Worth Democrat advsrts to
the cowardice of newspapers which
have been driven, as it alleges, to a
change of base and from sheer timidity
to stultify themselves. They at fret
concurred with Governor Roberts or
wont further, even opposing the phil
osophy of the free school system. Now,
when they fancy that the majority of
the people, concurring with majority
of the newspapers, favor the mainten-
ance Of the schools, they stultify them
selves and pretend that they never
were hostile to an incident of govern
ment which saps public and private
morals, corrupting manhood in youth
and making people miserable mendi-
cants, and separating parent from child.
But We propose to speak of those
newspapers alone which are conducted
in point of fact or openly by peda-
goges or those who have been. They
are excellent gentlemen but know how
their bread was buttered. Others of
them are printers, shrewd and intalli-
gent and honest, but representing
older States where the free school
craze has possessed the mob for some
years past. In those States the free
school laws constitute simply scheme
Of legislation devised by the majority,
who have nothing, to rob those who
have property. There the scheme was
fora time deemed proper enough since
the rich were interested, it was sup
posed, in giving intelligence to those
who govern the State. Here in Texas
We haye no two classes. There are
none so wretchedlY poor that they can
not rise and none so rich that they have
''retired" to levy upon bond payers the
burdens of centuries. Neither public
policy nor private right impels farm
ing populations to become parasites
OF power or to accept boons
at the hands Of public charity. II is
shameful, 10 be tolerated only when
necessity, as IN the case OF orphans,
knows no law. It is degrading a.
shown in the confessed depravity Of
the masses OF youths that come out Of
free schools and academies. OF these
the Memphis Ledger, heretofore
an ardent advocate Of the free school
system, says that the best boy that en-
ters the free school from the most
moral families emergcs from these
s'splendid institutions" having all the
vices ard deprAyed habits discovered
among three thousand pupils In the
city schools. Mems morals as well a.
intelligencss need. careful training.
ThsrefoEe the most powerful religious
denominaiions and the most inlslliesnt
Of Protestant churchss Insist that the
family Ard not the Stats mnsl educate
he youths q ths country. But the
pse.s Of Tszks /. eonaaclsd nainly By
youaG nen No hsFs ben educated
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07


Mr.. SHERMAN, in his recent speeches,
has bossted that he has saved the coun-
try ten millions annually by convert
ing six per cent. bonds into four and
five per cents. But Mr.. Sherman has
done this, not for his own, but for the
country's good. How was the country
affected by the processs While saving
two per cent. on the public debt OF
81, 500, 600, 900 we nave lost fifty per
cent. on $50, 900, 600, ,O0O, the whole
wealth of the whole country. To save
pittance every debtor has been ruined
and every creditor enriched. The pro-
cess was terrific, but having accom-
plished its purpose and exhausted hu-
man grlefs, it only remains for the peo-
pie to demand the practice o: that con-
servatism in finance of which Sherman
knows nothing when he boasts of hav-
Ing saved ten dollars for the people by
subjectiDg them to loss of 800.
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WHAT SHOULD WE BRINK

A little pamphlet published by the
water company of this city contains
many suggestions in reference toclean-
illness and the proper use of Water,
which should he practiced by every
body. The pamphlet costs nothing,
and if its injunctions he obeyed, result
ing healthfulnesswIll make the capital
always an attractive resort of valetudi-
nsrisns and those who would live
always. 1t is insisted, until the
city is supplied with underground
drainage, and with cisterns and wells
thus protected against sinks and cess
pools, that the water from the Colorado
is infinitely the best that can be used.
God made the river and springs and
men the cisterns and wells. Every I'M
purity that is drawn into the river is
soon dissolved by the restless, moving
water or sinks to the bottom TO be alb
sorbed by the moistened sand and clay.
Light substances rising To the surface
are exposed to the action of the suns
rays and of oxygen in the air. They
are resolved into their original elt-
ments aud converted into gases, leav-
ing mans original snd, best beverage
pure and clear. Even when floods
sweep down earthly substances, this
beverage IS not baneful. When the
Colorado is thus discolored, and by
streams that sweep over the surface of
plOwed fields into lis channel, it does
not hold in suspension such qusntities
of alluvium as the water of the Missis-
sippi, below ST. Louis, always con-
tains; and yet navIgators of the great
rlver forever insist that they alone
''llve and prosper" who drink only
from the "Father of Floods" The
finest horses of the best bones and
muscles, of greatest fleetness and en-
durance are produced in the limestone
regions of Kentucky. There, too, are
born the finest specimens of muscular
manhood. 1t was not the whisky
of Kentucky that gave grandeur
to Lexington and Longfellow, and
tremendous power to their de-
scendants, and 1t is only whisky
that prevents as wonderful superiority
among the men as among the horses of
kentucky. Providence thus equalizes
in their distribution the woes and
blessings of our race. Even with its
artificial river that flows from Bourbon
county, native Kentuckians are COM
monty gigantic, and properly do they
ascribe their majestic bones and those
of their horses to chemical and sani-
tary influences of limestone springs,
precisely such as swell the volume and
give transparency to the water of the
Colorado. OF truth was the Euphra-
tes the river of life. The word means
in its literal Specification the river of
delight. 1t flows, like the Colorado,
among shining sands and lushes along
its rocky bed like the stream that
laves the bae of the hills on which
Austin stands, and it Is only unfortu-
nate that by some blunder of unpar-
ionable ignorance horrible misnomer
was applied to a stream which is not
"COl0rado," but as colorless as the
bright empyrean at rOonday and beau
tiful as the stars, reflected AZ night in
its laughing waters, that they may
dance in ecstacy to the music of its
rippling waves.
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THERE is one SIMPLE fact that stare

THERE is one simple fact that stares
the country in the face and demands
the instantaneous attention of law
makers, or popular ruin is finally inev-
liable. For two years the United
States haYe sent abroad enormous
crops, and that of the current year
promises we'll, while the demand In
Europe must be great. This condition
of trade, crops and foreign markets
caunot last, and whenever failure of
either occurs the sufferings of people
will be unprecedented. While we
find prices OF farmers products re-
duced to the gold standard, the volume
of taxation is the same or greater than
when we paid taxes ia inflated paper.
Sherman's reduction of the annual IN
terest account ten millions signifies
nothing when it is harder for the coun-
try to get ten millions no W than twenty
millions four years ago. But Mr..
Sherman forgets, while he Is paying
less TO keep even, that the people
should pay less into his vaults. And
yet the miserable twenty per cent. tax
on quinine is the only relief Congress
gave the toiling millions. The same
vast sums in gold flow forever from
the people towards the officeholders at
Washington that swept onward, a
mighty volume of paper, to the same
fathomless abyss FIVE years ago. This
gold costs the people twice as much
labor as this paper, and yet there is no
diminution OF the demand. Mr.. Hayes
must still have his $50, 900, and so with
the rest, and Congress still squanders
thousands upon every fellow that dies
aud officeholders are as countless as
sands on the sea shore. Texas prac-
tices the same outrage upon her citizens.
We pay five per cent. per annum in
taxes to the cumulative governments
and yet money is worth twice the sum
of its value five years ago. This con-
dition of affairs is not to be tolerated.
and when the politicians seek to di-
vert popular attention from this ques-
ton of finances and taxation the peo-
pie will hardly be stupid enough to
listen. Governments and plsceholders
and Congressman are costing US in
Texas sums as great in gold as when
we paid for this machinery and those
who direct it with deprecated paper,
and it follows that We are rapidly re-
duced to penury even when the Secre-
tary of the Treasury boasts most loud
ly of his practices Of startling economy.
Governor Roberts discovered the ne
cessity for revolution among the place
holders corresponding with that which
affects the financial fortunes of the
people. but the Legislature could not
be made to comprehend the reason for
it or the grave necessity, and Texas
to-day is paying really two dollars in
taxes for each one dollar extorted from
the people Eve years ago. Each dollar
paid to-day costs the farmer as much
a. two dollars in 1870.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
THE NRWSPiPERS AND THR
WOMEN OF TEXAS.

The liberality of opinion that charac
tenzes the press of Texas IL illustrat ID
in the fact that our exchanges have
! given place TO generous notice of the
persOnsl viriues and intellectual grsces
of Mrs. E;izab=th Cady Stanton. She
differs in nothing from the hest of her
sex and only advocates strenucusly the
concession to women Of the elective
| franchise. She thinks the sex would
be elevated and learn to m itself
worthy of higher aims sni-of q greater
degree Of personal independence than
that enjoyed by the average woman
and housewife. The great mass of our
country women are the veriest serfs
and slaves and bOndswomen. They
do the drudgery of the household.
They wash the babies and their horizon
of thought is not broader than the en-
closure that hedges in the cabin In
which they toll and sew and wash and
sweep and spank babies. Theirs is a
contracted world. It's inhabitants never
see the blue sky, bright ttsrs or grand
mountains. They discover no force in
society or government which compels
them to think. They have no interest
in society or government. They never
measured or comprehended their own
rights or the purposes of their creation
and existence. In fact, in tie eyes of
all creatures except their own, many
rustic and city danes are simply
machines and, though called wives,
are helpless, hopeless slaves. There
fore Mrs. Stanton insists that if wo-
man were cloth6 d with even the mean
privileges accorded now to eX-slaves,
she would be forced to think and read.
The.very necessities of her new rela-
tious to society would give her self-re-
spect. Very certainly 1t would induce
reading and cultured intelligence and
share Of that independence which is
wholly absent in the faces of half the
overtaxed housewives we encounter
every day and everywhere.
There-is no reason to suppose that
women would be corrupted by the dis
cussion of public questions. This
could hardly be worse in It's moral ten
denotes than vulgar nelghbOrhocd and
little personal gossip to which they
are now addicted, and for these and
many stronger reasons Mrs. Stanton
insists that the privilege of suffrage
should be conceded to the best as we'll
as the worst forces of society. We
choose to present this one-sided aspect
of the proposition simply because there
seems to be no probability that in our
time the women of Texas will demand,
or men concede, the privilege of vot-
ing. But women of the highest order
of intelligence and the best and truest
of the sex and those devoted to the
amelioration of the woes of women are
accustomed to declare that the greatest
possible good for the politics of the
country, for the ballot-box and for
the sex itself will be consnmmated
when the aims of Mrs. Stanton are
achieved.
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The strength of Grant in the North
consists in the prevalent popular ap-
prehension that the stalwart Democrats
may attempt to insert some one into
the presidency who has not been elect
ed. II there be no future indications
of such purpose Sherman will be
nominated. The Republican party
would be put upon the defensive by
Grants nomination. 1t would be
forced to tell every hour why it would
give any man more than two terms of
the highest office in the world. 81
what" they would be asked, 81
Grant better or greater { ian Washing
toni" Democracy would forget S a'e
rights 70 fight outright Ce arism-
Real issues would be lost sight of and
the contest, like Grants administra-
ton, would be purely personal. Grant
will hardly be nominated, and Sher-
man ia the coming man.