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Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.

MT. John T. Ganse, of the Harlan Hollingsworth Shipbuilding Company, of Wilmington, Del, was called before the House Naval Committee at the in- stance of ex-Secretary Robeson. His testimony was to the effect that the con. tract made with the company for the construction of the new iron-clad Am, phitrite, in part from the old material ot the condemned vessel of the same name, was to the advantage of the Government. By the terms of the contract the firm gave one pound of new iron for three pounds of scrap-a very advantageous arrangement for the Government, being far more than it would agree to now, and double what the material would have brought had the ship been sold at pub- 10 sale. Ex-Engineer Wood wSs also examined at considerable length.
 In the Senate Mir. Booth offered a bill to fix the price of public lands with. D railroad limits at sl,25 per gore,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

THE Waco San thinks the repentance
aud salvation of the veriest knave and
murderer possible. We do not gain
say it; but why have a priest numb
ling prayers for an objectionable rep
rebate before the great mob that wit
nesses the execution! The-rrSect is
bad and if the priest re % only
sought to save the knave from Gods
wrath he would pray in secret as God
advised and not make grand theatre
cal and disgusting business of 1t. Let
US not have the religion of Christ drag
ged through the filth and made a
white garment for Axes redemptionless
soul. Meanwhile if the godly SIN
aud many priests and preachers differ
from us and think AXE deserves Gods
mercy-and they must have faith, you
know-let them pray from this day
firth till Axes neck is broken and no.
body will object. We only turn away
in horror and disgust when preache or
with the hangmaR would stand before
a great, gaping, vulgar mob and pre-
tend to hope for mercy for the merci-
less and for salvation of one who is in.
capable, s0alless and beastly as he ls,
of recognizing the moral quality of an
action. God may do miracles and
convert and save AXE, but man will
never know or believe il; and the priest
should not make a solemn mockery of
his holy Office IN order to show him
self IN the grand discharge of ghostly
duty beneath the gallows.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07


WE have said that the public morals
of Massachusetts were the outgrowth
of an universal and long established
scheme of free schools. Several gen.
erations have been its products. No.
body questions this fact. and yet when
We have spoken of the universal cor
Tuptness of the social system of Mas
sachusetts, when we tell of the pecu-
liar crimes of that people and of the
absence of common morality, of the
thirty or more divorces granted at one
term Of single court, of the defalca-
,ions aud frauds and vices so common
that they cease to attract attention,
when the women Of the State have
been so taught that the native, origi-
nal race is almost extinet-wheu we
have adverted to these confessed wees
concurrent with tue perfected free
school system Of three generations,
Waco paper insists that the universal
free schools have no more to do with
these social results than the diphtheria
or yellow jlundice. Then why have
free schoolsl Are they not Designed,
since maintained by the public, to eff
feet public and great moral resultsa
has not the simple faith OF our fathers
been sunolsnted in Massachusetts Inv
all soits of transcendentahsmi Has
not woman lost her high social place,
and are not. the men degenerate, even
a. Webster and Choate are no mores
There is no depravitY, social or per
sonal, to which the universal free
school system does not minister.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

WHAT would become of the M. G. IS
annually shelved were it not that soft
places for them are provided by idiotic
taxpayers at each of the courts of all
the kings of all the kingdoms. The
whole body and buslress of foreign
presentation, to the extent that it
costs taxpayers n penny, should be
abolished. Ocean cables end newspa-
pers render the system of foreign rep
resentation utterly needless. But the
Democrats in Congress will not ap-
prove the proposition. They may soon
be supreme and an exceeding good
party servant is ''stsked out" for each
plenipotentiary's place. The Repu5li-
cans do not doubt Sherman's triumph
in 1880, and their favored leaders have
been so long III these enticing places
that they would surrender them only
ct the cost of life. With lO6 600 o.
fees and sinecures and soft places in
every corner of the globe, there are
not half enough holes for the pins.
Neither party, as organized, and as
the places are provided to be parceled
out, dares to move in this matter. II
taxpayers would have reform, congress.
men and presidents, when candidates,
must be required to pledge themselves
in behalf of the reduction of the cost
of government and of the number Of
its employees.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

WE will admit for the sake of argu
ment that Texas can get away with
any country in the meanness and mad.
dening effects of its murderous whisky
II Texas can't Hampstead can, or il
Hampstead throw mp the sponge, Dial
lass castor may be considered in the
ring. But when prize is offered fol
unadulterated lying, Texas stands
aloof and Iowa cheerfully pronouuces
herself the boss prevaricator of modern
time. Dubuque, Iowa, it was, that
sent us the dispatch few days age
describing she progress of native born
cholera, 0ne hundred innocents al
Centre Point were already flatteneG out
and. SIX had died that morning, and
the terrible Asiatic epidemic was
alarming, Bnt now the mayor of the
Iowa town telegraphs that some chill.
dren had been sick there. teething
in, their first and second summer.
Texas rnay still claim, next after Ohio,
proud -sminence for the capacity
of its whisky to explode the contents
of the pocket on the hip-in fact
Hampstead would not surrender its
proud pre-emiuence-bus for cool, IN
adulterated lying, let Iowa wear the
palm.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

In dragging US down t, poverty. have
dragged us from that high position
once maintained socially IN all lsnds
by educated, tasteful and modest trav-
elers from these hapless States. They
and their citizens have lost caste in
the worlds eyes. and :hst the evil may
not be aggravated 1t is the earnest wish
Of all good Southern people that those
of them going abroad, or even to New
York or Boston or the watering places
OF those cities. may conduct themselves
with that mpiesty and simplicity OF
manners becoming people who have
surely learned that they are neither
wiser nor better nor Drawer than the
rest of mankind.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

TIE French government undertakes
great and dangerous task when 1t at
tempts to destroy religious schools or
schools maintained by churches. Most
of these are Catholic and in France the
Catholics are imperialists or monar-
chists. But despite this fact the peo-
pie confess the superiority of these
schools supported by neighborhoods
aud not by the State and there ia vigOr
Gus and dangerous hostility to this action
Of the French government. The Boston
Herald says that at the bottom the
French education question is the old
issue between secularIsm and Christ
ianity, and the State, for the moment
able to carry measure by an over
whelming majority, may yet be COM
PEELED to take the backward track.
There Is right on both sides. We can
not separate the religious element from
education without feeling the loss; st
1uC SobC bAuiSJ tiC oSCultl tChGuluS III
religious schools is apt to be dwarfcd
by the reigning religious opinion. 10
this country We have happily put the
schools In the hands of the people, and
kept the religious element IN allegiance,
and yet the school question in the
United States may yet take on the
phase which it has now assumed in
France. 1t is by no means settled, and
the experience of the French In COM
pellng the dominant faction in religion
to submit to secular schools may be in
structive to US in meeting essentially
the same issue at home. The temporary
triumph of secularism in France is
not what any thoughtful student OF
French life can regard with sstisfac-
ton. The fact that education is there,
even as it may be here, spolitical issue,
makes the situation grave in the ex-
| tfeme
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

Hon. JOHN HANCOCK when in Dallas
a few days ago Is reported to have ex-
pressed the opinion that Tilden will
be renominated for the Presidency.
He thinks Grants prospects are not SO
bright now as few months ago. Til
denis hard money views. the Sulphur
Springs G"2ette says, suit Judge Han
cock and no doubt he would be well
pleased with his nomination.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

The iron horse does not last much
longer than the horse of flesh aud
bones. The ordinary life of locome-
tive Is thirty years. Some Of the
smaller prs require renewal every six
months; the boiler tubes last I've years
and the crank axies six years; tires,
boilers aud fire boxes from six to seven
years; the side frames, axles sud other
parts thirty years. An important ad.
vantage Is that broken part eau TIC re-
paired and does not condr mn the whole
locomotive 10 the junk-shop, while,
whea a-horse breaks a les, TIE wiIuls
animal is only worth the h.sh, fat aud
bones, which amount 10 very small
sum in this country, where hoise-f flesh
'es not find its way TO the butch r's
sh tmbles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

THE New York Herq8 insists that
Memphis be burned as the plague spot
of the continent. 1t has grown filthier
and fouler from year to year, even as
UNFRAMED cesspools have finally made
it uninhabitsble. Instead of destroy
ing the city, let Wolf river he made to
cross it from north to south. 1t
now empties into the Mississippi at the
northern confines of the city. This
river wouIl thus be made to cleanse
forever the feld bayou. Elrthen
| pipes should drain into this stream
the sinks and eesspools tlat were never
emptied and only covered with earth
when full OF foulness. Disease snd
death luTk in the soil, which has
grown steadily more and more noisome
each year until the plague has fixed Its
breeding place upon the choicest, lofti-
est site for a city within thousand
miles OF the sea. The State and its
| pchitenuaTy conVlcts must redeem
Memphis with the spade and pick,
and each property-holder transfe 7
TO the State One-third of his reslty.
The whole real property of the city in
1858 was assessed at $50, 900, 600, and
to this value it would be restored, and
even to greater, If Elds's jettles have
opened permanently the waterway for
the West to the sea. Five RAILWAYS
converging at Memphis would bring
enormous riches to the river at that
point which, before the rivers mouth
was opened, was removed to remote
cities of the East. No, no; Memphis
is not dead or dying. It only needs
perfect expurgation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

SHERIFF EvERHART arrested J. W.
Burson for issuing Sunday paper in
Denison. Won't he be after playing
Joshua and stopping sunrIsel And
Everhart abolished the innocent boot
blacks and cotked up the COWS and
would not even let the ice company in
dulge in little game of freeze out
Everhsrt is better and greater msn
than the Legislature that made the alb
surd law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

One Coyle has won much fame in
New York City as prophet. He pre-.
dicted the Turko- Russian war q year be-
fore il actually took place. he pre-
dicted that England would get mixed
up in the war, that Russia would be
prevented from fighting through iroub-
les in her empire. He predicted the
split in the English cabinet, the Zulu
war, and the killing Of foreign prince.
Then he predicted terrible pestilence,
which will vlsI. the whole earth, and
be specially severe in 1880. This sum
mer will be fine, and next winter will
be remarkably warm one. The sun
mer of 1850 Is To be extremely hot, and
the terrible pestilence will come. Coyle
now claims that he alone in this coun-
try possesses the true secret for curing
yellow fever and pneumonia. Accord
ing 70 the prophecies of Saint Cullum-
kill, both pneumonia and yellow feyel
will defy al science, yet the remedy ID
simple. Mr. CoYle, however, says he
is ready It any moment to cure, within
ten minutes, the worst case Of either
disease.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

SENATOR HoAR says that Ben But
Ter stands not the ghost of a chance
for his election to the Governors Office
in Massachusetts,. What is singular is
the fact that each Southern Green
hacker manifests the keeaest anxiety
for Buffers election. The fiercest reb-
els and secessionists, who have gone
into the Greehback fat money move
mens are most ardent admirers and
sdherents OF Ben Butler, the original,
ilAtheaded. cock-eyed Ben of New Or
leans and OF Dutch Gap and reconstruc-
ton committee fame. White there
sre few sane people who synpathIzs in
this with the great Hamman and his
rampant followers, yet the fact is most
significant of the utter obhyion to
which sectional passions and preju-
iices are consigned by the masses Of
the people. Nobody seems to care,
except the magnificent party-leaders,
whether candidate for Office sprung
from the womb of secessionism or Of
Northern fanaiicism. Ben Butler is As
strongly supported here in Texss a in
elusetis. - Is neither
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

A FEW Northern newspapers like the
Inter- Deem and Globe Democrat howl
and roar because the sum conceded to
the schools was lessened. They were
very quiescent till provision was made
for the payment OF interest on tie
State debt, aud now they pretend, af-
ter getting their money, that the peo-
pie should be more heavily taxed that
the pedagogues they ship US may pros
nnr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

The richest gold discoveries made in
modern times are asserted IN have been
developed in Santo Domingo. Eagl-
neers sent thither declare that $40. Geo, :
900 per mile will be t-ksn from the
sands of two rivers, to be diverted
from their channels, and already bGught
for 200 miles by New York spectators.
Grant was wisest of advisers when he
urged the colore1 people to take pos
session of San Domingo. But they
prefer to freeze and staTve in Kansas
aud in Illinois, where they must com
pete with white men in a rigorous eli
mate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

Or GOO families In McLennan county
125 have no copy of the Bible. The
Denison Ne'ss insists that Bibles ore
not read because so numerous and
cheap. A preacher declared, when
Bibles were sold chesply at auction,
that they should rather be burned.
People never prize that which costs
nothing, and the Neics should have
added that incapable teachers and VI
cious governments spring from the very
foundation stones of the cheap free
school system.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

To SEE man shoveling his food
down his throat with a knife or pick
ing his rusty teeth at a table are sad
sights IN free republic. But pain
fully do decent people confess that
these shameful incidents are often no.
ticeable. Seasickness caused by such
sights may cause dyspepsia to be sc
common. Can't the doctors tell
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

BY postal card, other means being
too expensive, Subscribers to the
eTArEsMAN will be rendered accounts,
showing amounts due, or soon to be-
come due, on subscription. 1t is q
time Of the year when all may settle
sccouats, and subscribers are request.
ed, in receipt of statements, to remit
At once. By the first of January it is
proposed to have all outstanding mat.
ters closed, and prompt reply viii
save further trouble in collecting bills
Our friends, regarding this as bust
ness, will not fail to respond.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

IT appears of record on the books OF
a library association in Wellington,
Connecticut, that Deacon Thomas Tay-
lor, 100 years ago, was fined four cents
for dropping tallow on copy OF sd
wards's sermons. +" And we people
sometimes complain that the gsslight
is not brilliantly white. Who can re-
member that he ever saw tallow dip?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

ACCORDING to Secretary Sherman it
was the ever blessed Republican party
that succeeded in giving Europe bad,
and America good, crops, and thus in
turning the balance OF trade in our fe-
vor. Our gold was thus kept at home
and step backwards was wrought in
the steady deses3ssus 1oerni down
which we have travelled for years
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

REGULARLY organized pirates and
buccaneers prey upon commerce even in
the very harbor of New. York City.
and yet the saints of the Lord down
East are heart-broken quite when they
read of q stage coach robbery on the
frontier or of bloody reuconter in q
TeXas VILLAGE.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

IT was estimated that 5000 white
people remained in Memphis. There
are only 1000, and $4,000 negroes.
More than 1000 of the whites have had
the fever, aud negroes rarely suffer
fromit. The mortality cannot be ter
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

WAYNE MACVEIGH is an accomplish
ed gentleman, scholar, writer and
speaker. He is, too, a magnificent
gentleman in social life, and would fill
more creditsbly to America the Of
flee vacated by our Minister in London
than any Republican we wot of.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

4 MONTAGUE woman runs an excel
lent newspaper, another is postmaster
and third is Sunday school superin-
tendent. They ought not suffer the
men to vote IN Montague. Why rot
turn the tables on the rascals this once
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

HENDRICKS may plant and Tilden
may water, but Gen. Hancock may be
the harvester who will gather the crop
of the seeds, part of which are watered
from the bar'l.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

MILES OWEN is the most prominent
and widely known of the citizens Of
Memphis now sick with the fever.
He was of Natchez, and there bank
er thirty years ago. and then for TWEEN
ty years famous Memphis merchant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

PETROLEUM in Eastern markets is
sold at sixty-fve cents per barrel, and
here in Austin We pay forty-five cents
per gallon for oil used IN cooking
stoves. The profit on a barrel of forty
gallons must be two or three hundred
thousand per cent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

TANrMANY HALL has finally forsworn
allegiance to .Tilden and Robinson /;
but it Is thought, if the old mau tap
his bar'l again, that Tammany may be
soothed and Kelly elected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

CoSGRKss appropriated, for the first
time in the country's history, more
money for government uses than was
asked for by the departments by $32.-
SOC. 600.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

A commercial traveller. w. D. Belt,
was stopped on the road from East
land 20 Albany, near Fort Grifiin, by
three highwaymen, two white men and
= AencAn. They robbed hum of t200
but let ham keep his team. They were
tax collecfoE All those nice young
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
Alta Vista Institute,
AUsTia CITY, TEXAS.
MRS. II. N. KIRBY, Principal.

This Institution, with new, commodities bnIld
iEg. modern improvements hnd healthy location.
eomEnends itself 10 parents Who fxHInibe fof
Themselves the merits Of the school fhe1 prtFon-
ize. The animal session 81 ten months viii
open September /, 1873. Board. with washing
fuei and bgbts, go; music. With nee Of plano
s.; lessons IN drawing. ~; oil psintine. ~ Ian
9uages, a.. naturalization fee. Is. Bsd linen,
fowrls, napkins and napkin finKs muet be fnf.
nished By the pupil.
PoF further information apply 70 Ihe Princl-
pal sr6timplt
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

In the West Indies, In desperate
cases of typhoid yellow fever, the
doctors used saltpeter hypodermicAlly
with great success.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

Ex-Governor Hubbard OF Connecti-
cut refuses 70 be Teconeiled 10 his
daughter, who married his eoschmsB.
Since her eiopement the family have
been travelling in Europe. but are a
present octupYing elegant quarters az
Newport. Thc runsWsys are sors-
where u Canada.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
WESLEYAN REMALE INSTITUTE,
srAusros. VIRGINIA.

Opens IL tilniefb session September -. 1874.
yne Of The afst sch0ols for Foane ladies Is f1s
Hfted states. Cdnf4le unsugpassed snrronu1
lnfs Des1tifal. Attended b pnpils from ketf4s
teen States. stricfefl economy eeQnifei- Atoo1s
The lowest terms in ibe Unf0n
Pupils received aDy time darine ms eaDnlel
TERMS :. Board, washing. if9hts. E1f'Ifa
eoafse. L1tln. fseneh. for e4ets h1i1 q 80
catalogue addres2
Hky. IN. a. HARRIS. D D. President
f24zs x2f Sfsnni1n. YifRinla
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07

In the Hist OF our exports cotton is no
longer king, corn--in the. European
sense OF the wofd-haVing srcceaded
to that dignity. The eight articles OF
merchandise which exceed $40. 600, 900
in the amount exported in 1879, are
Breads'ufTs, 1892. 7i3, 707; cotton,
$3.50, 800, 434 PROVISIONS, sos. 059 geo
mineral and other oils. $41, 925, G55 ;
tobscco, S27. 420, 775; iron and steel,
$l2, 075, l2S; living animals, $40, 0S5,-
Ell, and wood, and manufactures OF
wood, $l4, 426, 1872. The excess OF ex.
ports over Imports during period Of
fifteen years has been $126, 900, 900.
As the tide Of commerce Is steadily in
our favor year by year, the prcponder-
ance OF exports over imports during the
next fifteen years promises to be an
immense amount.
The record Of transactions in coin
between the United States and other
nations Is less favorable 10 the former,
apparently. During the last fiscal year
the coin exports were $24, 99g, G41. 10
$50, 293, 000 Of imports. leaving tal-
ance sgaiDst rs OF -. 703. GAL. The
balance against Us in the coin account
Of the last fifteen years amounts 10 $685.
600, 600. Il should be noticed. how
ever, that large part Of this sum was
bullion, and should be elAssad As meF-
chandiee. In recoDeliiDg the record oil
q merchandise balance in our favor
with the record Of coin balance sgaintt
as, Il il necessary 10 remember that IN
recent years vast quantities OF govern
ment bonds have been transferred from
FOREIGN ownership, 80 that our national
securities are roR chiefly held 81 home.
In payment Of our bill for 40 excess Of
merchandise exported over that receiy-
ed, We haye taken bonds in place Of 3
vast amount Of coin. Hereafter, IL 10
evident that the coin account must cor
respond more nearly with the tFansac-
tons In merchandise. Judged BIZ the
balance Of our foreign trade. fhel con-
dliion OF The United States & esflainIy
very snconF1Ging.