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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-05-22

In Richmond, Va, short time ago,
one young gentlemen murdered another
young gentleman for a real or fancied in
suit to young lady. The murderer will
not be hung. but is to be deprived of the
companship of his friends for two years,
unless pardoned out before that time ex-
pires. The custom of carrying deadly
weapons will not receive much check
from this cas- I. --.s -rs =sz-.ssgr 81 Il /
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-05-22

The Austrian newspapers remark upon
the extraordinary diminution which has
taken place, in the number of marriages
concluded in Vienna. The Esinclination
on the part of the men TO marry has risen
to such a pitch that in the district of
Wiedcn marriage portions provided by
charitable foundations are now actually
going a-begglng. There are plenty of
female applicants to claim them, but they
can find no matos. aHETs ]o stl 's slgEz -
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-05-22

The high wind Of . few days since IL re-
pogted to have done considerable damage TO
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-05-22

A MISTAKE that occurred in a,Sumnlit
street SALOON, in Toledo, o., on late
evening took a peactical turn before its
conclusion. One Of the gentleman pres
ent wanted hack, and going to the
..A,nerican District Telegraph, box pulled
what he supposed to be call for Il car
riage. 1t proved to be a pull Of fire, and
the proprietor of the saloon was somewhat
astonished when the entire fire depart
ment came laundering to the door. An
Explanation followed, and free drinks all
Faround zzAE@ HsEsFs
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

PEOPLE in Eastern cities are greatly
distressed, in view of the universally
of plaques and epidemics and mystic
rious and numerous queer ways of get
ting out of this world, because it has
been shown that ice gttiered from
ponds and lakes and unclean country
drains ''contlins," the Popular Science
Monthly says, ''the germs of most dan
gerous Diseases" Ice in the East is
gathered from artificial ponds or from
streams penetrating densely populated
districts, and these are full OF foulness.
The learned writer insists that germs
of many diseases are kept froz!n and
full of destructive vitality in the ice
through the winter only to assume
forms of raging fevers and Incurable
diseases in spring and summer. Luck
ly for Austin, the ice we have is made
of pure water. Quite as fortunate is
the fact that ice is as cheap here as in
Eastern cities, and until the Idle C
Sunday law went into operation the
people were enabled to keep cool
through all the days of the eventful
year; but when the Legislature failed
to exempt dealers in ice from the ope-
raIions of the iniquitous law it made
Austin shot " for the Legislature, and
thirsty souls devote hours each Sunday
to the invention of heated execrations
directed at the asinine folly of Puri-
tanical lawgivers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
BOSTON GETTING INTO TEXAS.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad Company, having its domicil
in Boston, is a rich and powerful and
most prosperous corporation, controll-
ing about 5000 miles of railway lines.
Recently it has sought access to Ttx4p.
Its managers have been inquiring INTO
the resources of the Stlte, and mil
lion cost IN bales and more sugar than
is produced in Louisiana and more
wheat than is grown in any State, ex-
cept three, of the United States-these
facts have riveted the attention of Bos-
ton. Therefore the anxiety to receive
possession of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, terminating at Denisoa. But
this highway has passed, like the In
ternational, into the hands of its first
mortgage bondholders. On their in
vestment the road pays eight per cent,
and this is larger revenue than the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy pee
pie are willing to concede to these
bondhOlders, who are Amsterdam
bankers. Negotiations are still pend
ing, and intelligent Texans will readily
see how infinitely important to this
commonwealth Is the consummation of
the purposes of Norman c. Jones and
others representing the Chicago, Bar
lington and Q lincy Company. 1t must
needs extend railway line to connect
at Denison with the Texas and Pacific
and International roads on the east and
with the Sunset road on the west OF
the Texas Central. II Austin were not
beggarly capital, corrupted by public
pap and incapable of any public enter
prise, this Boston road would be in
duced to come down from Fort Worth
and Meridian even to Austin. But the
International may soon move west
ward, and this process Of dry rot, un-
less action is taken, will progress
more rapidly than ever before and the
old Micawbers saunterIng listlessly and
sadly and solemnly sdown the shady
side Of the Avenue will snuff the dust
and odOr of bat', sole inhab.tlnts of
silent, empty dOmicils of tradesmen
starved to death by that strange penu-
robustness which suffers beautiful city
TO die of inaction. Whatever the fate
of Austin, and Its people might easily
give 1t asplendid destiny, those Boston
people will accomplish their purposes.
They are not reared like ourselves in
an enervating climate. Whenever they
zee that it will pay there is no task
however herculean which they will not
undertake and they fail in nothing that
pays. They are not miserable pension
era upon States bounty. Boston has
outgrown. that vice Of State capitals,
and . splendid future will dawn upon
Western Texas whenever the Dutch |
bankers sell the Missouri, Kansas and |
Texas to the Boston owners of the Chi
cago, Darlington and Qaincy Railway.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

The worst land pirates are not OF
Hams sort and God knows he is bad
enough. But the most villalnous
thieves are they that were created and
organized under the Rutabaga Consti-
tuition that the property Uf every citi-
zen of Texas, il he do not live in the
county where bis land lies, may be
stolen The property Of these nom
residents is taxed at an assessment so
extravagant that the purposes OF assess-
oTs becomes ludicrous il it were not
knavish and disgracesul, and then the
Rutabsgas, by forcing everybody to
pay taxes in the county where the land
lies, established firms of land thieves
at each county seat. Money forwarded
is often not heard from, land is sold
for taxes and the late Law says il may
not be advertised, and it has come 70
this at last that the Rutabaga scheme
Of swindIIng has destroyed utterly the
salablc value of Texas land. II Cover
nor Roberts conYoke the legislature
again, by all means let rs have this
organized system Of stealing land under
infamous constitutional provisions,
terminsEsd. Nesnuhils the State and
honeal citizens q Texas should inter
rtno nn7 project o|1.no1Is no.,@.z
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
WHAT ARE WE GOING To DO
ABOUT Ira

The strangest fancy that ever pos
sessed diseased brain is that which
seems to guide Tilden and his para
sites. Because his party was cheated
and lost its chosen President, this in
dividual person is entitled to re cleo
ton. Tilden was honored, it hap
pened, as few men were ever honored.
He was really the President. There is
little left for him 10 AK. His name
will be As conspicuous in history as
that of Mr.. Hayes, and surely as inn
mortal. It was not Tilden that was
cheated. The mere man was nothing /;
but President elect was cheated, and
. great majority Of the American peo-
pie were bssely betrayed. These have
a right to complain, but Tilden has
none. His deprivation OF cfice excites
not the slightest emotion Of human
sympathy. Hendricks too, il Tilden
were, was also grieyonsly gronged,
md jet his manly good sense and SELF
rssrecl have never suffered him 10 60
&14<E'1E mi n griefs. II has never
c<tt..e@ 10 lin - 50 Hat be won the
right - <zttnlIn..,ea 1ecsuse he
r<' c1cs HeN'r..<s a U41t1 r's1.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

having no rival in his party might ex-
poet, but could not, because of one de-
feat, demand another candl6ature. On
the contrary, while there are thousands
more deserving of honor than Tilden
and as many who are his intellectual
peers or superiois, be has 10 right to
demand another coronation at S..
Louis. Ga the contrary, if his vanity
were not propped by heaps of gold he
would never have suggested or dreamed
of this second candidature. His char
acter smirched If not incurably be-
fouled by the conduct OF has nephew +;
his thorough identification with the
bondholders and hard money and high
tariff people; his assumption of the
right just before the election, to de-
clare that the South would never de-
mand or receive payment for slaves
liberated by q philanthropic (0 war !;
his assertion that we would not suffer
our generous Northern brethren, for
whose special qualification and delecta-
tion slaves were liberated, to pay even
one-half the cost ofsthis splendid bene-
ficence, are factsIhardly calculated to
make the South furious in its adhesion
to the cunning stufil,r.
But this is villainously corrupt,
age. Though the Democratic de-
feat gave Tilden no personal right
To a denomination, on the contrary,
the party paid hlm more than was his
due when it assented to his leadership,
yet pretext is as sound and substan
tial as a valid reason for the demand
if based up bal'ls of it. 1t only re-
mains TO ke seen, in the event of his
possible nomination, that a Texas
D-mocrat is the best of living or dead
Democrats. As against Grant or Sher-
man, who differ in reference to no
practical or financial question from
Tilden, Tilden is s,ill to be preferred.
He will at least never blunder by Civ.
ing offices to his enemies.
l. becomes us to suggest that while
Tilden's nomination will be especially
disagreeable to the ,uth and while
the South would still vote for him
when properly and fairly nominated,
we cannot help believing that lie would
not receive the votes of more than half
the Democr, t. of the South and West.
This result depends, of course, upon
the ability Of the Greenback party TO
gain strength in Texas and other
States. II it commit suicide in Ohio
by forcing the election of Foster and
def at of Ewing, and subj ct itself IN
Texas to the leadership of such men as
now think for it, the solldity of the
Democracy will remain unbroken.
Tilden will be supported grudgingly,
but still firmly upheld by the masses OF
the people of Texas. l. will not be
because they do not abhor Tilden, his
character and deeds and beliefs and in
stincts and impulses, but because they
detest Sherman a ID Eliza Pinkston and
the many little bulls of Bashan who
below in the lead of the new party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

{ xable bonds. Wolld you feel that
to be an evidence of public prosperity 2
Would you throw up your hats for NJ.
Sherman and his funding scheme? Yet
that Is just what has been done all
over the United State. Silent mills,
fireless furnaces, scanty wages, wait
of work, swarms of tramPs, all a.
test the success of Mr.. Sherman in
80 shrinking and diminishing the br-
siness Of the country, the wages OF
workiDgnen, and the profits of csp.-
talists engaged in productive industry,
that money, accumulating in hordes
aud fearful OF sll other Investments,
was eager to tske the six and 8 half
r cent of interest and exemption Of
fered by the government, rathS than
than embark on the dead sea of indus
try. / venture to say that the people
of the Uait I'll States haze lost in sg-
gregatc wealth in the past five year,
through the prostratIOn OF industries,
brought about by the Republican finance
policy, three OF fCur hundred times
more than the nominal annual saving
of interest which MIR. Sherman will ac-
complish by his bOasted funding.
NO DININUTIoN OF PUBLIC BURDENS.
Furthermore, fellow citz=ns, | as
seit. and am able 10 prove, that, after
all of the forty.tlree hundred millions
Of taxes paid by the people since 1866,
after the nomu a reduction of the put
lie debt, live hundred and twehty-
eight millions, ami after the rounding
so far accomplished, the public debt OF
the Uniied States lay is a greater
Elective burden 0n the people than IL
was before the fist dollar of it was
paid. Measure it by the things which
have TO be sold to pay it-bY pork,
c RI, wheat, beef. horses, labor. 1t
takes fifty per cent more of labor, or
land, or products to pay the interest to-
day than it t, OK five years ago. How
is the C unlry ben, fitted 10y a nomiI
reduction of ten millions of Interest,",
when the reduction has been accom-
plished only hy adding fifty per cent.
I'd the amount of labor or property
which il takes to paw il?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GRNERAL BALL
writes of the Sunday law to goo d
Hebrew Of Wa6o: 81 have the honor to
say that the proyis;on referred to, only
relates to the articles prohibiting labor
and does not authorize such person 10
sell as merchants on Sunday"
Tie above is construed, says the
Telephone, to mean that person may,
If he chooses TO, observe some other
day than the Christian Sunday, and il
he secs fit, can enter his store or place
of business on the Sabbath and remain
there, engaging in work, but he must
net sell goods, even though he has OBJ
'erved some other day strictly. II
that is what the law cote nplates, it
makes the Hebrews who close on Sltur-
day, equally as liable to fue, as it
would the Chnstisn were he to throw
his doors open and transact bu .iness on
Sunday, and as many Hebrew firm
have observed their Sabbath instead of
the one recogniz, ID as Sunday by the
laws of the couatry, they viii no doubt
be called upon to answer before the
courts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

WHENEVER Tllden extends his ten
tscles and clasps a party-Ieador or
newspaper there is no escape. He is
the very devil-6sh Of American poll
tics. Cold, clAmmy, silent, he ajheres
to the pile of stone in Gramercy Park
and clutches first It one and then an
other leading tie mob. H. rarely
fails and once caught his victim is
helpless. Randall succumbed long
ago, and it is even suspected thai
E Sing was captured by suction when
recently he visited New York. Per-
haps, in accordance with the arrange
ment then made, Tilden expends $50, :
900 in Ohio. Don Piatt says that EW-
ing was seen hanging, seyeral dayr,
about Gramercy Park where the tracks
all lead inwardly aud nulLI retrOrsum.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14


WHEN political economists nave no
ticsd the fact that the people of towns
and cities made seats of government
were eviscerated of their manhood and
independence of feeling and character
and of public spirit they were not writ
ing a5cut Austin. Bat they told the
literal truth. A people living through
boarding houses, the men becoming
unsexed and the women men, all q, :
irving their substance from the drop
pings from the treasury, can no more
boast of public spirit or proper self
reliance than Neapolitau lazzaroni.
These capitals of S -ates are incapable
of tasks which little villages execute,
and therefore these cities always die Of
The dry rot. The moral effect of free
schools upon State Is the same upon
the whole people to whom the State
doles cut charity. Therefore VIC are
content with the meanest when capa.
BILE of having the best possible schools.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

If drunkenness was to be as universal as
81 present, if oaths and blasphcmicS
were 10 be heard on all sides. If their
La ion was TO 60 ON shedding the
blood of foreign countrics-inYading
those l4uds where she had no right to
place her foot-and il God then said, i
will fsmish them,' it was not for the
righteous men then to interpose snd
try to stay his hand"
II the people drink to madness, if
they blaspheme and murder and hsYe
VlllaInous instead of proper schools, il
they grow furious when blue
light Sunday law from godly New
England would kick US hesvenWard, If
we distribute Bibles by the score, IL
we bribe people to give their children
the meanest instead of the best intel
lectual and moral training, if we
make the church odious by holding it
responsible for the follies of a cranky
L ,gisla'ure, if we refuse-to cleanse the
SINKS and covered and uncovered pits
of our towns and cities, and God pun
ishes US by sending frightful plaques,
Spurgeon seems to think that it would
be criminal at that moment to ask
Gods interposition in our behalf.
Spasmodlc praising, when suffering or
danger inpels, and net the love of God,
is wholly in vain, thinks Mr.. Spurgeop.
But we only advert to these facts 10
show by what high Christian wisdom
and authority we were sustained when
asserting the futility of Governor Hub
bard's concentrations of fasting and
prayer. But who knows2 Even though
the acute and eloquent Spurgeon con-
cur with the STATESMAN, Governor
Hubbard's oily implorations may have
tided Texas oyer the tempestuous,
frghtful sea of yellow death, and
GoYernor Robots, since it costs little,
might well begin, following up the
spiut that dictated the Sunday law,
and give US rounng proclamation
fixing day for irrepressible humilia-
ton and earnest prayer for rain and for
the extinction of plaques.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

THE smoke NUISANCE Is sougt t to be
abated and people in Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh will be forced by law to
have fireplaces and chimneys so con-
structed that smoke may be wholly
consumed. Even now, in Austin,
smoke from cook stoves and fireplaces
often becomes nuisance, even as 1t is
a great loss of fuel that smoke is not
made to give out heat as by patented
aud other processes it is made to do in
other places. II u few more acres of
cedar forests be burned Austin will be
forced to pay such enormous prices for
fuel that manufacturing will be impos-
sible, the cost of living throughout
the winter greatly augmented and the
necessity for cheap railway, giving
cheap freights to Texas coal fields, a
matter Of life and death.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

EXCEPT to the extent that general
trade and business transactions are
suspended by reverence for feasts and
DEGREES of the Church, and except to
the extent that open bar-rooms render
good order and quletude impossible,
the Sunday code is an unmixed nuis-
ance and should be repealed. It can
not be literally or fairly or perfectly
executed and only brings all law and
those who make the laws INTO unut-
terable contempt. The judge on the
bench, compelled to execute such a
code, becomes odious, and juries, when
the law and facts are given in charge,
are ever induced to commit" perjury
rather than the prisoner at the bar.
Meanwhile farmers living upon pro-
ceeds of their own industry and not
buying each day the necessaries of life,
gathering fruits and vegetables with
out going to market, and having ac-
cess to deep wells or cool springs burst
ing from beneath lofty hills and never
dreaming that ice is indispensable to
life iE heated cities-these good peo-
pie discover no evil In law which
has accomplished all possible good
when it perfects every mans right
to worship God or not as he
chooses, and when it has given
industry holiday protected as
such by making business transactions
then executed voidable. But it would
hsrdly pay to have the Legislature con-
veRed to rectify blunders involved in
this 2uritanical, indefensable en-
actment. 1t is indefensable since il
restraints one mans acts in accordance
with the conscience of another, and in
reference to actions not mala in Sc and
about the moral qualities of which men
differ. The law is wholly barbarous and
tyrannical and unjust, and was never
made by men who comprehended the
philosophy of Him who made Sunday
for men and not men for Sunday.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

STURGEON has his own peculiar mo-
tons about the efficacy OF prayer.
Governors issuing proclamations COM
meDding fasting and prayer should
read Spurgeon, who is a very Pope in
the potent Baptist Church, Tor which
he thinks and reasons and is eloquent
beyond living men. In England rains.
for months psst, have been almost IN
cessant. Such foods were never
known. When SpurgeOn was asked
to pray for cessation Of rain storms.
he said:
ssHe could not wish IN to his conn
try but n his fellow country men
woald not remember God excepf n
thea ndvcrsity ought g., -
desired. T. e<.n< Tsl s,ill g a>stist.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

WHY does not the Examiner come to
the scratch like little man aud say
that the theory and fact of free schools
are founded in error and in wrong and
robbery, and result, when reduced to
practice, in unmlxed evil. But the E'e-
aminer says sit is difficult to tell what
Texas does need. But one thing GER
tain, our st tlte being yet thinly settled,
semi pastoral, and its people mainly
poor, she needs system essentially
different from that maintained at great
expense in the richer, the commercial
and manufacturing sections of the
country. A system adapted to the
wants and capacities of our peculiar
condition as a people will find in the
Examiner a steadfast friend" But why
discuss the question. The nuisance
was fastened en- us by the R1tabaga
Constitutional Convention, and we
cannCt shake it OFF. Democrats cannot
differ about it if they would.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
WE are told by one who GU

We are told by one who ought TO
know that wild hemp grows every
where about Austin. It is not argued
that Providence gave it that AXE and
his kind might be properly di posed Of,
since, in this event, the coul try about
Hampstead would be destroyed by this
redundant crop; but if hemp grow ur-
cultivated why not follow the example
of Kentucky and grow rich by its pro-
duction. Each bale of cotton requires
five yards of bagging or seventy-five
cents worth, and 10000 bales sold in
this market would pay for large share
of the hemp that might be made to
grow in the rich plains and in the gal-
ley of the Colorado. But farmers know
more of this matter than ourselves,
and it is only suggested, if hemp grow
luxuriantly uncultivated, it surely
would be profitable crop when it en-.
riches the best farmers Of Missouri and
Kentucky.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

read. 1t signifies nothing whether the
signs of language and its orthography
be changed, the plst goes down TO OBJ
livIon and in the boundlCss sea of let
ters there are few beacon lighs of cur
time that will rise above the pillows of
change and of resistless reform that
overwhelms everything that obstructs
its progress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

The new steamship, on her fourth
voyage. crossed the Atlantic IN seven
dsJs, eight hours and eight minut p.
beating her former trip one and 3 half
hours, the quickest passage ever made.
The AuzoSa can still do better. Hei
mAchiRery viii work more. smoothly
when the steamer Is older, and We may
Jtt cross the Atlantic as swiftly a. II
on q railway train.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14

EEsHr deaths in each 1000 people in
Austin is said 10 be the average annual
mortality OF tins city. In the peniten-
Iiary the aversge mortality is 100 per
1000 per annum. n the process Of
defamation continue Il viii not make
much difference uliimssely whether We
hang knaves OF sesd them 70 Hunts
S<lls
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
TAadiie

DO you want a pure, bloom
ing Complexion Ii 90, a
few applications Of Hagan's
MAGNOLIA BALM will grat-
ify you TO yOnr hearts con-
tei.t. Ii does away with Sal
l0wneSs, Redness. Pimpies,
Bl0tehes, ard eli diseases and
imperfecticns Of the skin. 1t
Gy6reemosthc flushed appear
aEee Of heat, fatigue and cx-
eitement. Ii makes g lady OF
THIRTY appear bat TWEEN
TY; and so natural, gradual,
and perfect are It's effects,
that il is impossible TO detect
its application.