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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16

limited States, decided what is known
as the aueue-cutting ordinance as in
yalid. being in conflict with the Four
teentn Amendment. The ordinance
prescribed that the queues of all Chi
namen imprisoned IN the county Jail
for petty offenses be cut off, and it was
sxpected to prove strong deterrent to
that class of criminals.
A New YORK special of July 10th
saws the largest number of Mormons
which has arrived this year was landed
at Castle Garden, yesterday, from the
steamer Wyoming, There were COZ
adults who came in the steerage and
seyentv-six in the second cabin. Of
his number 3Sl came from Scandina-
via. eighty from Switzerland and Ger
many, and the others from Englt md
and Scotland They were started for
Utah tonight. Among the number
was q young man % years old who
cave his name as Brigham Young.
He said he was no relative to the late
head OF the church at Salt Lake City.
Most of the men were farmers.
REPORTS from various parts of Mime
sofa, up to July 9TH Indicate that the
crops suffered less from the late storm
than was anticipated. Wheat that
was beaten down is rising, except
occasional very heavy pieces, and pre-
sents fine appearance. The single
serious exception is in Blue Earth and
Watonwan counties, where severe hail
storms preceded the rain. On strip
embracing two or three townships hail
fell AS large as hens eggs. beating down
all vegetation, stripping the bark from
large trees, and killing small animals.
A Madeia special to the Pjoner-Press
gives list of losses by farmers aggre-
eating 800 acres of grain totally destroy
ed, and says this is only small part OF
the loss.
A MILWAUKEE special Of July Sth
saws the general grain markets were
firm to-day, and as predicted in these
dispatches, another advance was gained
IN the price of wheat ranging from l
to ii cents. The rise to-day is osten-
sibly chargeable to the tone of European
dispatches. Advlces from the north
west are more favorable. The damage
by the recent storms has been local and
small, while much benefit has been de-
rived in other localities by the washing
of of rust and chinch bugs. An abund-
ant harvest is almost certain in the
west, and the long heads do not antici-
pate, after the present squeeze is finish
ed, rising market There was much
excitement to-day, but no immediate
indication Of a crash.
A CHICAGO report of July Sth says an
unsettled and rather nervous feeling
was developed in the grain markets
on Change yesterday, particularly in
wheat Prices ruled stronger and high
er all round, and fluctuations were
more frequent and severe. The rea-
sons assigned for the advancing ten.
dency were the encouraging tenor Of
market advices from other points, the re-
ported damage to the European crops,
caused by unsettled weather, and the
recent stormy weather throughout the
West and Northwest. shorts" were
somewhat alarmed at the situation, and
were buying freely against their out
standing contracts, and the urgent de-
mand from this source, besides the
regular speculative demand, materially
aided in forcing prices to the point they
nave reached.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16

COMMON black horse flies are the
plague OF the Russian army near the
Caspian Sea. Horses some times fall
dead, exhausted by the incessant perse-
cutions of the diminutive animals.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16

THE Sutro tunnel cost So 600. 900
and his taken ten years Of time. night
and day, for completion. It's purpose
is to discharge the water Of the Com
stock silver mines.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16
Steamships Lost.

rive steamships which sailed from
.us United States for Europe last win
vi with freight principally grain), but
ao passengers, and from England to
america, have never been heard from,
anu u, must have foundered. They were
-" English built, with water-tight com
Tr11flments,. and comparatively new.
nose bound from this country were
l u Herman Ludwig, fol Antwerp; the
Et'oher, for Liverpool; the Zanzibar. for
!. ! @SgoW; the Surblton. for Rotterdam
re- c,e iberlnesla' for Bristol, England. The
SSoP.o' from Barrow, England, sailed in
'epIember last for Montreal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16

,,. a IEHAS Diana'S exploit is thus re
,,.yf1ed by the San Saba Ne,cs: Miss
Lyman, OF Menard county, owns a
~, ''la o. cattle and recently, while she
vas 2Nt herding, her dogs chased Mex
-. .'' =, N'og out of thicket, The young
l.. &. ..o1oWHed to see the fight and to pro.
~. ~, sIe dogs If necessary, for it is well
I'm IN mat wild Mexican hog is a
f. sefouS foe. The hog was getting
9a,i '3.'5,stSry OF the dogs, and probably
NJ. -'I =. nave yanquished them had not
,-rt dugaan come to the rescue with
.'@o and killed the beast
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

The speech made by Mr.. John II.
Cochran, of Dallas, when chosen
Speaker yesterday, was the more strik-
ing..and effective because the necessity
for its utterance was unforeseen. Il
was an unstudled outburst of feeling
and purpose; therefore truthful and
expressive OF the native intentions of
the man and of the people he repre-
seDts. The note winch he sent to the
Speakers desk and caused to be read,
which appears in another place, is IL
Illustrative of that generosity of pur-
pose and character that has ever dis
tinguished the representative of Dali
las. But in the brief speech thanking
the House for the honor done him and
his immediate constituents, Mr..
Cochran uttered sentiments that will
be applauded everywhere in Texas.
He quoted. with reference to
this broad commonwealth, the trite say
ing of an immortal patriot who de-
clared that when in office he forgot
sections and parties and executed the
laws or made them as best became the
interests Of the whole country. 81
shall know in this POSITION" said
Mr.. Cochran, mo South, no North,
no East or West, and but one
and an iHdigisible Texas" 1t is
needless to say that this asser-
ton of feeling and purpose was
greeted with prolonged applause, that
came alike from the floor and CALLER
les. The ruling sentiment of the
Speakers address, exhaled from every
utterance, was suggestive of that cos
mopolitanism which distinguishes the
heterogeneous and vigorous and intel
ligent population of Northern and
Northwestern Texas. Ten immigrants
go thither for each one that comes into
these central and southern or eastern
districts. Railways are extended there
in all directions. That from Denison
moves towards Ell Paso on the one
hand and towards Palestine on the
other. Weatherford invests money
and toll in the extension of the Texas
and Pacific, even as does Dallas in the
Wichita Railway. Of this Wig
orous, prosperous, toiling people,
resolved to grow intelligent and
powerful, the Speaker is an admi-
rable impersonation with which South
ern and Central Texas completes in
nothing. The Speaker is youthful, en-
ergetic, earnest and progressive, and
training will soon remedy any defects
developed ID his conduct as a presid-
ing officer. By the way, if we may
judge of the capacity of body of men
by their personal appearance, the House
over which Mr.. Cochran presides is in
ferior to none that has shaped the for
tunes of Texas since the Eepublic be-
came the State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THERE is TO be contest from the
FL Psso district between Mr.. J. p.
Hague, Of FL Paso, and Capt. Ike
Mullens, OF Tom Green. Hague holds
the straight certificate, while Mullens
holds one from the same returning
officer that he received more votes than
Hague, clerical error having placed
Mullens behind his opponent. Hague
is a lawyer of Ell Paso, and a man OF
much sprightliness. Capt. Mullen is an
old frontiermsn. Mullen's ranch, some
twenty years ago, was celebrated as the
beginning of Indian depredations,
which have not ceased. The rancho
was owned by Capt. Charles Mullen,
father of our legislator, aud was in
charge OF Mullen, Jun. Capt. Ike
moved from Lampasas to Brown, from
Brown to Coleman, and thence 10 Tom
Green county. He has spent over
twenty years on the frontier. He de-
clined = nomination rendered HIM on
the Democratic ticket in tins (the
Travis district to the Twelfth Legisla-
ture. His identity with the frontier
viii render him. in the event Of his
beng seated, useful member. The
clerk OF the House has the name of
Mr.. Hague upon the roll. but we men
ton these points in view of the pend
ing contest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Nero, with his thick neck, full round
chm, and cruel lips, had lost already
the beauty of his early youth. His
curling hair was bound by a wreath of
myrtle leaves, and his whole express
sion, as be presided on the Judgment
seat, was that of man driven nearly
out OF his mind with prosperity and
boundless power.
Before HIM stood Paul of Tarsus,
worn with long watchings and waiting
for trial, although he had received
every indulgence which Roman law
could permit. On his wrists were the
marks of the chains which he had worn
for two years, the scars which must
have hurt so much whilst they were
being made. There were also scars
about him of those fearful scourges in
which he gloried; and there were
traces of perils by sea and by land,
which do not leave man as they find
him.
There he stood, with undaunted
self-possession, facing the Emperor, as
he hsd faced many lesser ruler. He
had longed TO see Cesar, and now he
had his wish.
lie was at last face to face with the
man who had murdered his own
mother, destroyed his first wife and
his adopted brother. and whose heart
was full of every imaginable wicked
ness. He was face to face with man
whose blood-stained mind was eyer
bent on praise, and who so far forgot
his. dignity that, in spite of the tears of
his servants and counsellors, he pub
licly performed the stage as q mu-
slcian and IS charioteer in the circus.
1t was impossible even for the most
devoted adherent to the Roman law to
feel the least respect for this Emperor,
and the awful attribute which was
glven % him Of power equal to the
gods was incapable OF RAISING him in
the minds Of his subjects
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

MINISTERS, consuls and charges haYe
no Interstate or international ques-
tions to adjust, these matters being
consigned to the Secretary of State by
the ocean cable and swift steamships.
Therefore 1t is that the Secretary of
State has evinced strong disposition
to substitute tradesmeu for lawyers In
filling foreign missions. This is the
more strange since Mr.. Evarts himself
stands at the head of this profession
in the United States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
WHY TIRE YANKEES GROW
RICH AND WE POOR.

Some days ago the postmaster a.
Saratoga sent to Washington $500 in
three cent pieces. People were anxious
to know whence came such q sum con-
stituted Of such units. Three cent
pieces are rarely seen and yet such an
accumulation was made during single
season at the great American watering
place. Hotel keepers said that fashion
able hnbitues of the great caravansaries
have accommodated their expenditures
to changed financial and social condi-
tions of the country. Money has
grown scarce and valuable. Its pur-
chasing power has grewn steadily with
Its scarcity and even Northern fashion
able people, as seen in this substitu-
ton of three for ten and twenty-five
cent pieces, have adapted habits of
economy to the contracted volume OF
currency. Porters that received ten
and twenty-five cents for services were
paid, last summer, only three cents,
while Saratoga bootblacks were
made happy with single coppers.
Northern shrewdness is illustrated in
these simple facts and Southern dull
ness and slothfulness is discoverable
when the cost OF living has neither
been adapted in the South to palpable
financial facts nor conformed to our
poverty. When wealth was wrecked
vanity was at the helm. It still lives
and commands, even though the ship
went down. We have never learned
the use or value of coppers and never
dreamed OF the economy involved in
substituting one and three for five and
ten cent coins. A beefsteak costs as
much to-day as when money aboundeG
and there is nothing we buy or con-
sumo the price of which is less
than five cents. Yankees deride
our folly and practice the
profOundest philosophy. Farmers sell
cotton at seven cents and pay as much
for most of the trifies they buy as
when the staple was worth fifteen or
twenty cents. Yankees, it will be OBJ
served, are sellers in the one case and
buyers in the other, and are thus
pre6ted by our folly on the one hand
and misfortune on the other. Facts
like these irnpelled the shrewd Senator
Jones, of Nevada, to say of us when
he was recently in Texas that we are
infinitely sluggish and stupid.
But the time will come when we will
adopt habits shaped by our necessities.
Then we will begin to grow rich, and
not till then. Habits of Shareholders
and vanities they INDUCED and reck-
less wastefulness in little things will
be ultimately cured, and we will finally
discover that if our Northern fellow
countrymen are rich and we poor, that
the reason is found in the conduct OF
millionaires at Saratoga, who expended
in a few weeks 5000 in three cent
pieces among porters, bootblacks and
hOusemaIds.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
A FEARFUL WRONG,

1t is proposed to sell, even now, the
school lands. What robbery of pos
terityl What a crime by those that
live against those who are to live after
usl We would make Texas wise and
learned, and yet we provide for the
enduring ignorance and poverty of
Texas. We cannot suffer great hard
ships for brief period that an endless
future may be forever illumined by
MONDAY splendors of universal cultured
intelligence. Il is great pity that
lawmakers are not always statesmen,
that those welding the power of law
glvers have none of the virtues of pro-
phets. Statesmen, the prophets of our
time, we greatly fear, live no more
and those claiming the position and
fame of statesmen are content if they
may psnder to the exactions of I'M
thinking, reckless selfshness which
would crafty Its own insatiate greed
and sacrifice for penny to-day that
which will be worth untold millions
even before this generation ceases to
exist. Is there no statesman, no
true lover of the country, of its
future fame and power and glory, to
rise up and destroy these destroyers of
the fairest, brightest hopes of the COM
monwealth. The splendors and re-
sources and stores of learning of Ok
ford and Cambridge are due to the
fact that the land with which they
were endowed was never sold. The
fee was never aliened. Incomes of
these institutions were trlfling for al
most a century, and now enormous,
and all the English speaking nations
go to Oxford and Cambridge to gather
the ultimate fruits of the worlds
learning. These universities govern
England and thus the world. Texas
may achieve for her schools and col
leges and university these very results.
It is only necessary that we be patient.
Texas stands where England did one
hundred years ago, and = century is
only day in a nations lifetime. Let
us hold these invaluable possessions "a
single day" and then the people of
Texas will be the richest and proudest
and best educated in the world. He
who interpsses to prevent these re-
suits and achieves the sale of these
school and university lands will be
held infamous in the eyes of posterity
oitber 90 an idiot or n rubber.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
To Subscribers

BY postal card, other means being
too expensive, subscribers to the
STATESMAN will be rendered accounts,
showing amounts due, or soon to be-
come due, on subscription. 1t is a
time Of the year when all may settle
accounts, 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
tiers closed, and prompt reply will
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, 1879-01-16

THE aldermen of Cork refused to
receive eX-President Grant as the
city's guest because of Grants predi-
lections for Methodism and free
schools, and because Grant has shown
no special disposition to catch the
Irish vote by flattering the Irish peo-
pie. All Irish prejudices were I'M
corked in Cork, and it is the first time
that one was ever drawn forth that
Grant was not gracious and tickled
tremendously.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Hon. HENRY S. FooTE, In charge of
the mint in New Orleans, says he is
only seventy-eight years old. But the
rascally newspapers reverse the order
Of the figures and it is commonly
written eighty-seven, and thereupon
Mr.. Foote swears nightly. He walks
every morning from Alexandria to
Washington before breakfast. He
says he does.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
NOTICE.

Notice 10 hereby given, in accordance With
a", thst the nndersiRned will. after thirty dsfs-
shall have expired, make applIeafioa 10 *. ~
SeenLn Legislature for the passage OF Iolnt re-.
oInuon authorizing the changing OF the street
saiea Laurel street. between Ontlot NO 10 on
noIn. IN division y, city OF Austin, according
10 Inc original plat OF the city OF Austin
=. pegInnlpg al the west end Of said street where
hsavee the northwest corner OF Onflot No Isl
ana enanging u 80 ~ TO run II ~ right angles
Win the street running across the west end of
saIu i-Aufei street, making the new street run In
.eAsy An east direction 70 the vest Lire of Out
.o qs no. 10; thence nearly south with said line
wi talis INTO the street now running neariF
noIIh between Outlets Nos. IS and 81 on fhe
VEST o. SAID street, aud Outlots Nos T. 3 and
y on the east 81 sAld street, ali In division ID.
clty OF Anstin, according 10 the original piaf of
na,a CITY. MRS. FLORENCE WHfTlH
gardine the desired change Of the street iaiswfw
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THR high courts of Indians, our
Texas brethren should know, have
held that note given on Sunday,
even for piOus church purpOsesoAnnot
be collected at law. The better the
day in this case, the worse the deed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
SENATE CHAMBER,

Iusrrk, TExAs, January Il, 1879.
pursuance Of law the Senate Of
'5'xteenth Legislature met IN the
- chamber, at the city of Austin,
= o'clock n, and was called TO
7 " TIE Hon. Wells Thompson,
|ident pro tea.
layer By ths Rev. John Lovejoy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Never was q lawyer more lily requi-
ted for an able defense Of criminal
than was ex-Secretary Robson in the
case Of Benz. Hunter, who is soon
TO be hung in New Jersey. On Tues
day last Mr.. Robson called TO bid his
client farewell, and wss rather aston
ished at Mr.. Hunters remark that thei.
separation would be brief, as they
would meet in hell. It Is reassuriDg.
At least TO fad murderer once in \
while who realizes fhe sin offbe crime
he has csmmitted, and the retributi0n
that must follow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

MERCHANTS of the South, from New
Orleans to Louisville, declare that a
rigid quarantine against south ern ma
tions and ports would be more ruinous,
commercially, than yellow fever itself.
Ii the trade and business of the coun-
try is to be destroyed every year,
either by quarantine or by the plague it.
self, the sooner the people escape from
such country the better. There is
only one remedy; perfect drainage and
cleanliness of towns and cities and of
private houses, and we must trust to
providence for the rest. 1t will come
to this at last. Quarantine makes q
country uninhabitable even as the
hideous fever converts the inhabitants
into angels and transfers them into
the better land. The difference in the
two results is hardly appreciable by
devout money-getters. The world,
without money, is not worth Lying in.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
PRICE OF WEEKLY REDUCED

In view OF the hard times the price of
the WEEKLY STATESMAN will hereafter
be only 81 a year; $1.25 fo- SIX months.
Now Is the time to subscribe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
NEW ADvERrusEuESr
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Application win be made to tie present,
legislature for the passage OF al set approving
the claim OF Geo. w. Honey for services a. state
Treasurer from May "a, 1874, until legally rein
stated In 1873, at three Thousand dollars Der an.
mum.
NJ. D. MILLER.
jai5 d1tw4w Attorney Cor Geo. w. Honey.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Mr.. N. Dumont, of Charlotte, N. c.,
formerly of Springfield, Mass, has
proposed that convention of North
ern-born residents of the South, espe-
cially of the two Carolinas and Geor.
gis, be held in Charlotte about Jznu-
airy Is. He says: 1T is desired in
the convention TO prepare statement
for publication in Northern papers set
ting forth the soil, climate, prices.
ease of making q living and social
treatment of the individual Northern
men. 1t is not desired to cover any
question of politics or extreme views
Of any kind"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, has
abolished the tax on drummers. 1t
wao found uuwis1 aud wUrse than
urofitless.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

an. Me- Distrit Court Of The Uaitef
STATES fer he Reaern Disfrief n
10 the matter ~
.'H0E $3.50: ! ;si { Ia a...-s.,
western District Of Texas. 50.
1ne nndsrsigned heFebT gives nofice o. hia
appointmenf - assianee 81 fIholaen q niire ~
tcm areeD colHfy. State q Texes. within snId
e-.lriet Who hare BEEN a4ia6fed bankfnnle
$50 t1elf osn peiliion ~ lhe district coaEl x
A D. wooLDzIDez. As.lrn.s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Hornss so1ght snd sold % conni.>,o. A.
-. orseas so kesps % han6 for sale E-r,.eSE.
~ 49, s.,.le. aad pare bred bhephef1 dosr
A-..nns. fsanesses Sceso-iS
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1879-02-11
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