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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-04-24

Elegant fresh Fish at PEARMAN'S.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-04-24

" Staunton, Va, April 49, 1879.
Merchants Nat Bank, BALTIC.
VS..
M. G. Hartman and ais.
To all parties interested in the above styled
cause, TAKE NOTICE, that in pursuance OF decree
entered therein on April I'd, 1879, 1 will proceed
at my office, in Stanton, on
FRIDAY, MAY 18th, 1879,
to consider the exceptions taken to former re-
ports. and make such additional report as the
evidence offered may require. At which time and
place you are required to attend.
G M. HARRISON,
apr law Commissioner.
VIRGINIA-IN VACATION.
In the Clerks Office Circuit Court for Au-
gusta county. April 18th. 1879
Susan Howard, by her prochein ami,
VIM. Carter, Plaintiff. \
VS.. In Chancerv
Henry Howard Defendant
The object of this suit is to obtain divorce
q vinculo matrimonit.
The defendant Henry Howard, not having en-
tered his appearance. audit appearing by afida-
w MED That ne is nonresident of this State,
1t is ordered that he do appear here within one
month after due publication of this notice and do
what Is necessary to protect his interest.
Teste,
Hud & Pat. p.q. JIM RYAN. Clerk
apr 17-4t
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-04-24

Delicious Kale at Pearman's.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
THE LEGISLATURES SHOULD GO
BACKWARD

The question asked is, as contem-
plated from a politicians standpoint,
whether the Legislature would win
more popularity by reducing the rate
of taxation twenty per cent. and max
ing the States credit perfect, or by
maintaining the three months wet
weather schools2 There is another
question: Would the politicians win
more praise or censure by reducing
taxes another five or ten per cent. by
abolishing the War Department of
Texasl II these things be not done,
Texas four per cents. will not have the
value of currency. II the ghastly
mockeries of schools must be MAIN
tanned aud if, in accordance with the
demands OF squatters and spectators,
the school and university land must be
sold aud the taxable value of all land
be thus reduced to fifty cents and ten
cents per acre, how can these bonds be
aoatedl The Legislature should pur-
sue policy which is an unit. It's
primal idea, when chosen and organ
lied, was the reduction of public bur-
dens. Ii pursues course which les
sens taxation in nothing and yet makes
this heavy taxation impotent for pur-
poses Of good. II some one capacious
intellect led in each house, the leader,
as in the English House of Commons,
having fixed policy agreed upon by
his sdherents, this incongruous legis-
lation would be impossible. Unfortu-
nately, the Legislature has no head, or
system, or fixed policy. Itwas chosen
to reduce burdens of taxpayers and to
make the States credit perfect. It
was especially insisted by every
speaker and newspaper that this con-
slant augmentation of the public debt,
which has gone on ruinously under
every administration, Democratic and
Radical, should have an end. Must
lawmakers conciliate the army OF lit
tie pedagogues, and the sqaatters and
II lawgivers would go home honOred
for courage and devotion to right and
duty they viii retrace their steps and
make every scheme Of legislation and
every specific enactment tend to one
grand result. This consists in the per
lection Of the States credit and this
results IN the rapid reduction Of the
States debt and this in the diminu-
ton Of The burdens OF taxpayers. In
stead, = bogus system Of schools.
spawned upon the State by Radical
kssed for tie peoples gold, is perpein-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

THE market will be glutted with
land by legislative acts selling the
property of posterity, designed to
be devoted to schools and the univer-
sity. Land forfeited for taxes to the
State must also be disposed of. The
railroad companies are crazy to sell
their broad domains. The land set
aside for the construction Of the Capt.
tol must be put upon the market and
the result will be cheaper land than
ever dreamed of in Texas. Now comes
the tug of war. The State needs an
income. It must be dug out of the
ground. There is no o;her ultimate
source. The price is put down to zero
by the very Legislature that can hardly
discover way of escape from dis
graceful reputation. There Is no
help for it. We must either suspend
for time the worse than profitless wet
weather schools and take the school
and university lands of the market or
fail to meet the States liabilities.
With laws enacted Governor Roberts's
administration viii most probably be
disgraced by acts Of bankruptcy in its
very first year. The people will not
submit TO higher rates OF TAXATION, and
with worthless schools and the main
tsnAncs Of costly frontier defense. the
climax cometh. Shoald not the Leg
islai1rs rstraos its steps and save the
Stats infinite discrsdiis
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

GEN. CHALMERS declares, as a leader
and honest representative of the Dem
ocratic party in Congress, that ''if
Bragg, the exponent of Northern De-
mocracy, be Democrat, he (Chalmers)
Is not" 1t is deplorable fact that
Bragg and Randall and TIlden afe the
worst enemies of the South, and simply
because they lead the Southern Demo-
cratic party by the nose. They must
use US to gain power; but in order to
control the North, they deny the South
everything. All Southern and Mexi-
can Pacific railway measures are de-
feated by these "true Democratic
frlends"(O of the South. These are the
men who refuse to open the Missis-
sippi, making it navigable that the
wealth of the West may reach Europe,
Mexico and Brazil through Galveston
and New Orleans. The adhesion of
the Southern Democracy to these
Northern leaders is simply suicidal.
This is a practical age. The South's
devotion to chivalry and party and 20
gush and sentimentalism has been its
ruin, and while R4dicalism is to be
abhorred, we must serve ourselves and
reproduce the wealth and business ac-
tivity, and thus the power, of the
South. We have blindly followed
Northern party leaders long enough,
and should set up for ourselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

PRINCE BISMARCK loves the pension.
ing state-sustained public school sys-
tenn because it makes the child part
and parcel of the empire and diverts
the affections and the allegiance Of the
son from the father to the deSpot. 1t
is pleasing to monsrchists, but destruc-
tive of the republic and of personal
and local independence. The son who
becomes the intellectual man under
the tutelage and charity of the State
never recognizes obligations to the
father such as should create a model
government within every Texas home
stead. The family, in every country,
is the basis Of the body polite, and
Bismarck knows how to disband the
family that despotism may rest
Ipon its ruins. Germans would be
free to-day If not manacled by youths
educated by the state who as men
prefer the imperial despotism and au-
tocracy of Bismarck and the emperor
to the only perfect political freedom
man has ever known. Il was this that
we enjoyed when there were no free
schools and, instead, excellent acad-
emies sustained by the free offerings Of
the people. Then the Constitution of
the United States and perfect popular
liberty were the supreme law Of the
land
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

ated and the States revenues decreased
by reducing the value of lsnds 10y
enormous sales of school and uniTersi-
ty realty. We would Il at four per
cent. and Yet we undertake to MAIN
tain worthless schools and the terrific
War Department. Each subordinate
measure Is so devised that it defeats
each great purpose of sta.esmsnship,
and when these lawgivers return to
their homes and look back calmly
over the confused sea of clashing puT-
poses, now creating counter curreHts
too shallow TO float good measure
and not deep enough to drown a bad
one, they will see clearly how they
needed great light house towards
which their course should have been
constantly guided. Nobody made
chart and no sailing master has kept
the ships reckoning, or its head
steadily directed to the only sure
haven of seed pity and repose.
And yet, In both branches of the
Legislature, there are many men of
marked ability. There are many equal
to any task of loftiest moral courage.
They would dare always, even in con-
fessed violation of popular prejudices,
to serve the State rather than bend be-
fore popular caprice. But the very
brevity of the session and the multi
pliclty of propositions, and diversity
of local interests which thoughtful
lawgIYers have not time to reconcile,
have wrought evils and complications
of which the press and people COM
plain. 1t were wiser to rub the sums
done from the black board" of legisla-
ton, aud beginning the work anew
enact uniform, consistent codes rather
than COL fl;ctIng laws each defeating
the great purpose of the other and of
the people, and of the Legislature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

The Country IS curious to know
whether Senator Maxey, in recent Sc
cret sessions of the Senate, has cooper
ated as formerly with Conkling, or
with the President. Senator Coke
has uniformly voted IN accordance
with the assumption that the
President, and not the Senate Cor
Conkling), wields the appointing
power. Senator Maxey has stood by
Conkling and sought to defeat the
Presidents purposes, even where there
were no personal objections to the
Presidents nominees. The constitu-
ton gives the President the appointing
power, and he IS responsible for the
conduct and character of his ap-
pointees. The consent of the Senate
is required, and simply because it was
assumed that representatives of States
would know if there were fatal per-
sonal objections to the Presidents
nominees. When Andrew johnson
was President, the constitutional
rights and powers of the Pres
ident were shamefully Violated
by lawless, revolutionary, desperate
Radical Senate. Conkling has sought
to apply to President Hayes's action
restrictions employed in old Ben.
Wade's and Thsd Stevens's time, when
Andrew Johnson was .bereft of every
possible constitutional prerogative.
What Democrats have now cooper
ated with Conkling? He went to each
Senator and made personal appeals for
their votes. Senator Coke, 1t is
stated, repulsed this selfish and i'm
perious New Yorker with infinite
sang .Jiroid, and the more curious is the
country to know how Senator Maxey
bore himself on this momentous occa-
sion. Did he Cooperate with the New
Yorker who sought evea to browbeat
the buriy Burnside with his terrific
head of Thersites and ducal whiskers,
or did the courtly Texas Senator ap-
prove the conduct of modest Mr..
Hayes2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

THE San Antonio Express, edited by
an able member of the late cOnstitu-
tional convention, thinks that the prop
osition that "there should be no taxa
tion without representation" and its
converse, that ''there should be no
representation without taxation" are
both true and just. In other words,
the Express would make every voter
first pay his poll tax and then vote.
The richest resource of the S ate will
then be discovered. The bsllot-box
becomes the big bonanzI even as it
now impoverlshes and degrades the
State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
THE ELEVENTH. JUDICIAL BIS
GISlCE.

TIE bill pending to make Travi:
county q separate judicial district We,
specially recommended IN 6 late mes-
sage by the Governor. Judge Turner
held court in this district the entire
year last year, aud the act detsching
Williamson county does rot give full
relief. All mandaGus suits involving
land controversies with the General
Land Office must b. prosecuted in
Austin, as well as ell suits on default
ing sherfTs' bonds, and suits in which
the State is interested under twenty
other general laws. All forgery cases
under the law of 1876 are prosecuted
here, and the lstter class of cases alone
required five weeks work of the Travis
county court the last term. The peo-
pie do not complain that our county
taxes must pay the expense of jurors
for trying cases for the whole State,
but it is no more than what ought to
be that their own cases should be
disposed of. A law making Travis
county separate district, with three
terms of court a year, for both crimi-
nal and civil business, would give a
judge US much work as belongs to the
civil and criminal courts of Harris
county, and more than is performed by
three-fourths of the judges of the
State. IT Washington county remain
IN this district it will amount to de-
nal of justice to our, people unless the
jndge permit forgery and defaulting
sheriff bond cases to lie over, ard this
he would do, OF necessity, if'the relief
now asked is refused.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
Committee on the - psrt . % q tSs ssn.
Charges Against che sIinistry.

VERSAILLES, March s.-fn the Chambers
to-day Mr.. Brissoh's report was submitted
and read. Among the grievances against
De Broglie's cabinet wss Tho complaint
that 1t violated the constitution BY raising =
new question of government, which had
previously been settled by the constitution.
al law. II also violated the law of ire
sponsibility Of the president, Of one whoAo
speeches betrayed the thoughts Of personai
power, aud authors Of events on the six.
teenth Of May violated the constitution by
delaying the election beyond the legally pre-
scribed three months, by evading the eloc.
toral law relative 70 counsels general and
councilsiof ACCOMPLISHMENTS, by forbiddipg the
colportage and closing wine shops, by col-
lusion, extortion and undue pressure on the
magistracy and the creation Of fictitious
rises on the Bourse. Aiter the election
gave the Republicans q majority, the cabi.
net continued 70 fight whole months, and
under the Rochbeant ministry, which fol.
lowed, all preparations were made 70
strike blow by force. Dispatches were
sent 10 commanders Of the army corps 70
prepare for military measures, and con-
spiracy evidently existed The report con.
cludes as follows As the De Bfogiio and
Rechbeant ministry incurred equal respon-
sibility, we propose that both be impeacbed
before the Senate.
On motion Of Mr.. LeroyeF, minister Of
justice, the vote was postponed until Thurs
daY.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
Adjourned Meeting OF City Councn,
AusrrN. February 90. 1879

AUSTIN, February 90, 1879.
Mayor ID .Gcess presiding Roll call
ed; quorum present. The following
business was transacted:
Protests of butchers against the ex-
tension of the market limits. Read
and received.
An ordinance amending section of
article 305, section of article 800,
section II of article 3lS, section 80 of
article 33l, and section 2 of article
33S OF the revised ordinances of the
city of Austin. Read second time and
on motion laid on the table,
Veto message Of the Mayor on San
ordinance regulating the storage of
hay, straw, fodder, etc., within the
fire limits Of the city of AUSTIN" as
follows:
MAYORS OFFICE,
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. Z, 1879.
To the Hon. Board OF Aldermen:
Gentiemen-I have the honor to re-
turn herewith, with my obje ctions,
"An ordinance regulating the 8, orage
of hay, fodder, straw, shucks and
other long forage"
This ordinance authorizes any per-
son or firm to keep on hand any amount
of such hay, straw, 70 ider, shucks or
other long forage, whether the same is
baled or not baled, in a building
provided for that purpose aud so con
structed or made as to reasonably pro-
tee. the same from accidental fire.
In my opinion, that portion OF the
ordinance which directs t1at hay, etc.,
shall be kept In building provided
for that pu pose, ETC., is too vague,
and should this ordinance, as It now
stands, become a law, it will con-
tinue to work a hardship on the
people engaged il this trade, or storing
those articles for their own use.
The ordinance should state in posi-
tive terms how such buildings should
be constructed, so as to leave no doubt
in the mind of any person desiring to
keep on hand hay, ETC., within the lin
its OF the city in what kind of build
ing it may be stored.
Especial care shoul be had as to e e
protection, so as not TO make insurance
burdensome on persons who may own
property near places where such hay,
straw, etc, may be stored.
Very respectfully,
j. G. DEGREss, Mayor.
Veto sustained, two-t0irds volDg in
the affirmative.
Account Of Frank Il own for fees
for recording deeds in sales OF city
properly for city taxes. 4 count al
lowed.
Oi motion, The City e ~ cal ad-
journed. L. M. BRADY.
City Clerk.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
THE PROSPECTS.

All descriptions OF iron industries
are becoming prosperous. Locomo-
motive works and car wheel and iron
rail factories are everywhere resuming
active operations and, in most in
stances, running on full time. Cotton
mill owners are increasing the hours
of labor, and 1t Is said that every Incl
dent of human life and industry, ex-
cept taxation and cost Of governments,
recognizes the necessity for honest
practices and rigid economy. If the
governments credit be not destroyed
by demagogues buying soldiers votes
with pensions and those of other people
with public land, the day may be re-
mote when il fl alton again wrecks pub
lie morals and gives people false ideas
of life. Superabundant money and
the ease with which it was created
begat false ideas in business and filled
the country with speculators and idlers
and, worse still, with miserable PEN
sioners upon reckless public bounty.
There are more officeholders and cffice-
seekers than honest, industrious work
ing men. People are even taught to
look up, as parasites and beggars, to a
government giving each family home,
even for the education of their chill
dren. The children are robbed and
wronged and trained as boggars and
sycophants and the State is plundered,
and yet pedagogues lift up their hands
in holy horror, as if Gods temple were
desecrated, when the existing system
of education (O in Texas is pronounced
4 blunder. These legislative enormi-
ties, springing from the brutalizing
plethora of money, constitute the OBJ
structions to the restoration of that
social and civic b!essedness of
which tLey still dream who
entertain hsllowed recollections of
original Southern systems of life.
But while we may congratulate our
selves that the condition of business
affairs is more satisfactory than for
years past there is little reason to
boast of the state of public morals.
Everywhere red-handed crime shocks
the sensibilities of decency. Men de-
light half drunken mobs by fighting
IN towns and villages, and murder
reels in and out of abOdes of madness.
Preachers disgrace the cause of Christ,
and the church fails to achieve its
splendid mission of goodness and mercy.
Lawgivers are affected by the vices of
the VICIOUS age and government, in
stead of guarding the purses and hber-
ties of the people, devotes itself by |
pension and free school bills to the
corruption and degradation of the
multitude. Land pirates and squatters
are bought as sdherents of politicians
by flooding the market with land, and |
taxation is made enormous by making
taxable land vslueless. The reduction |
of the rate of interest on the States |
debt is made impossible by the de-
struction Of taxable values and helter-
skelter legislation is hardly calculated
to reproduce IN Texas that social bles-
sedness and energized industry and
prosperity designed to spring from
the resdoption of honest money in hon.
est business life. The Legislature
owes much to the State, and must
discharge this debt before it closes its
labors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
New -Four Fer csnss.

WasHxGTos, March e.-Four per cent.
refunding certificates, 70 Be issued under the
act just passed By Congress. entitled aAn
act 70 aid In refundfng the national debt.
viii date from the frst Of April nsxt. Ger
tihcates viii be Of the denomination Of so
and be convertible IN four per cent bonds
in sums OF $50 and mnltiples thereof. Un.
less 20 oconyerted, they viii draw no interest
On the first Of April next any one can o.
tain certificates IN exchanges for lapfnI
money, al The treasury here sr a. any sub
treasury, a. par.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

THE new code declares that where
the pronoun She" or the "masculine
form" of expression, is used it shall in-
clude the feminine. 1t thus happens
that women are now enfraDchised in
Texas, and the blessed creatures can
surely vote. There is no doubt about
it, and Susan Anthony and E. Cady
Stanton will be supremelY happy. We
are much inclined to believe, if the
courts sustain our construction of the
code, that soberer and better men will
hereafter be indicted into offices.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
Cattle shipments under Nesv nseu-
Iatfonss

LosDox, March e.-The Tines says the
FIRST consignment OF cattle subjecE 20 the
new regulations arrived yesterday IN the
Warren line steamer Brazilian, which has
been peculiarly successful 10 her transport
Of live stock. This IL her second voyage
from Boston during the winter, when the
Atlantic is rough, without losing single
head Of cattle. Yesterday the Brazilian
landed 30l head at the special lairegc b.
censed by the priyy council st BeFkenhead.
Every animal was apparently sound anG
healthy, and Il is anticipated they win 6nd
a ready market Ia London and Liverpool -
dead meat within the ten days allowed Tor
slaughter. II this expectation Il realized,
it Is probable that American shippers, who
are awaiting the Brazilian's eIpeFimenfs.
win send large number Of beasts undef
the same conditions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

The Age seems to think, in view OF
the demolition of the 1000 Democratic
majority IN Galveston, that there is
much party ''crookedness" ty the sea
shore. The Age should reflect that
party questions were not involved and
that when mere men undertake to
manacle people simply to gain offices,
the sanest of the multitude kick
against the pricks and think and act
as freemen. 1t is too sad but true,
and the people of Texas are freer to-
day than ever before.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
The spesker.h,p.

ST. LOUIS, May s.-YilHam z Morrison
member Of Congress from the seventeenth
Illinois district, arrived here to-day, and
has expressed himself very freely about
the contest for the speskership Of the
House. lie declares most positively that
under 40 consideration viii be be candi.
date himself, and that he Is opposed 70
Randall, and In favor Of Southern man
for that position, in order 70 test the qnes-
ton whether the Southern men can be put
10 prominent places with safety 70 the IN
terests OF the nation. He regards Black
burn, Of Kentucky. as brilliant and able
man, who would maze an excellent
Speaker.
Ex-Governor ThrocknlOrton and Mr. Gid
dings, members from Texas, are also here,
eH route home, and express The opinion
that most The Texas members and South
ern delegation win vote for Blackburn, and
that Randall's defeat Il certain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13

IT is rumored that Hon. John Tenn
pleton will leave the Secretary OF State
ship for a more exalted position upon
the district bench. The duties of the
office of Secretary of State are purely
clerical, and const quently not suited,
as We suppose, to the tastes of law
yer of prominence, which position Mr..
Templeton certainly occupies.