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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
TEE SUNDAY LAWS OF NEW ENe1..nn

HE SUNDAY LAWS OF NEW ENGLAND.
AT all events the people OF New Eng
land have lived under these laws with
out serious Inconvenience for q good
many years, aud it may be fairly claim
ed that the Sabbath of New England,
the one days rest in seven, as q con-
SENATOR of force, smooth spot in the
wear and tear of the weeks work, has
done great deal toward preserving the
energy and vitality of her people. An
effort has bsen and will be made to re-
peal these laws an effort based on the
claim that the State has no right to en-
force any religious obsI rvance an effort
which has its origin in an immigrant
population. But it is not at all neces-
sary to defend the Sunday laws on the
ground of the sacred character of the
day. On purely secular grounds and
in view OF the advantage which has ac-
crued to the State from their mainten-
a1ce they may be defended and upheld /;
Ga advantage which no careful and
thoughtful observer will deny. Leay-
ing sentiment and religion entirely out
If the question, such legislation as will
enforce one day of rest in seven for
every mSn, rich and poor alike, may be
boldly advocated on the broad ground
OF public policy Good Company.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
She was wise woman and mother

She was wise woman and mother
who said to her daughters that a wo-
mans safeguard is to keep a mans
hand off of her. IT, you need his assist
ance in walking, take his arm
instead of his taking yours. Just tell
him in plain English ''hands off," He
may not like it at first but he will re-
spect you in the future ten-fold more.
Men will be and do just what women
allow them to do Men will not do to
trust. Give man your arm and you
will find him very confidential, and he
will take great many privileges he
would not take if he were not permit
ted to do 30. He will give your
arm many loving squeezes and sly
twists that he could have no opportu-
nifty of doing, and the opportunity is
just what he is after. A few more
words of aSvice,and I will close. Keep
your girls { fl the streets except when
on business. Teach them it is unnec-
essary to go to the posto flee every
time they go out. Your girls can walk
alone just as well as your boys. Don't
allow your girls, if they must have a
beau, to go with boys much older than
then selves. If possible, instill into
their nature that they are safer in their
own hands than they are in the hands
of any man-preachers not excepted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
AGRICULTURE is to be made

AGRICULTURE is to be made an OBJ
ligatory study in all the elementary
schools of France. This is recent
action of the French Senate, and was
adopted by majority of 254 votes.
How singular this requirement must
appear to majority OF the board
of the A. s. NJ. College of Texas,
who think that the agricultural and
mechanical fund should be used In
training men to become attorney
generals and such things.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
re Subscribers

BY postal card, other means being
too expensive, subscribers to the
erArRsMAH 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
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
ters closed, and prompt reply will
save further trouble in collecting bills.
Our friends, regarding this as busi-
ness, will not fail to respond.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

II does not necessarily follow that
oscause European governments have
bought and monopolize telegraph lines
hat 9 federal union of republican
States should own the same species of
property The example of these for
ei1n nonarchical States is worth little
shaping the conduct of ours. Our
hole philosophy Of government is
oAeed upon the idea that the house
4eld-the family--is the basis and CEN
..z and source Of power, while in Eng
land the crown is the origin and foun-
t.in Of al rights. We may not choose
- Invest the central authority 10 the
ttpneiie with that autocracy begot-
len Of the concentration of such
fa<t interests and the fate of so
He1y stipendiaries in the hands
oI axor greedy and ever grasping CEN
,f.i governments. Enormous patronage
given to our rulers is only vast cor
1ttion fund IS rulnous to people IS
Stockholders and it would De infinitely
t|.tsr for the whole people and coun-
|I|3 4 the Poslofice Department, like
- expEess companies, were managed
private citizene. It would cost the
zple vastly less and Lessen in a
..ler ratio the danrerous and cor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

TUE dangerous illness Of Col. James
president OF the Agricultural and Me-
ehAnicsl College. Just at this time Is to
be regretted. From the best informa-
ton At command we have been led to
infer that be Is imbued with the idea
that the institution should be made,
as speedily IS possible. one where the
agricultural and the mechanical arts
may be learned. and We had hoped 81
once 10 see steps indicating this line Of
action His recovery Is matter Of in
tsrest to the State and Il l. hoped this
wIl speedily take place.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

IT is proper to state, while the
STATESMAN criticizes the conduct of
the Agricultural and Mechanical COL
lege, that Governor Roberts has all the
time been an advocate of the sgricuI-
tural and mechanical feature being put
in force; but he has been everpowered
in the deliberations of the board, and
1t is strange to relate, that at the cleo
ton of trustees by the Legislature,
these who sustained him in this prop
osition were left out, and others put in
their places. The Old Alcalde's head
is generally level, and the people Will
find it out in the end, though per-
sistent attempt is made to lead them to
believe to the contrary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
Ex-SUReEoN GENERAL HAMMOND has

EX-SURGEoN GENERAL HAMMOND has
taken. the field as q champion of the
rights of the insane in the asylums OF
New York. He claims that, as a rule,
the superintendent are not fitted for
their duties. They are not conversant
with the great advances that have been
made in anatomy, physiology and pa
thology. Their work consists mainly
in attending to the financial matters of
the asylums, looking after the contracts
aud electioneeripg with members OF
the Legislature and politicians in gen.
eral to keep their places. Aside from
that, he asserts, the patients are badly
treated, not only in regard to their
medita' management, but also in their
physical and moral training, and, that
they are restrained and sometimes beat
en- by brutal and ignorant nurses.
Certainly the means are at command
for the greatest abuses in these lnstitu-
tione, and even when leoislatiuA-nnnr-
uneir conduct, the ln9uisltors become
so much dined and wined that proper
investigations are never made.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04


THE late speculations in wheat have
placed grain so high that mills have re.
fused to make flour, because 1t Is i'm
possible for them to make q profit out
OF It The prices OF all productions
are getting up so that expectation is
falling OF. Wheat is accommodating in
the ports-1o. 0OO. 600 bushels in New
york-eeeause it viii not pay to ship
it. Foreign exchange Is advancing
and may soon make the shippent of
gold profitable. Speculation has evil
IDENTITY gone too fsr and needs check
or the bottom will fall out of this
s'boom.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

THE Attorney General, it is reported.
will urge upon Congress an Increase in
the number of United States circuit
judges. II the stalwarts and briga-
diers can be brought down to questions
of State instead of arousing partisan
and sectional feeling, they will con-
suit the best Interests of the country in
decreasing the powers of the Federal
bench instead of increasing them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

This factory IS owned by four farm
ers, and is operated on a small stream
affording about six-horse power. By
increasing the power and machinery to
greater capacity, OF course the expenses
would lie reduced and the profits in
creased.
The great saving BY the Clement At
tachment is in doing away with the
expense of gins, ginhOuses, presses,
etc. The seed cotton, jlst as it comes
from the fiel1, is put into the hopper
of cotton cleaner and passes into the
attachment and then to the cards, CON-
ing out in form of sliveIs. The cost of
the ginhouses In this country would be
more than enough to pay for the erec-
ton OF one of these factories in every
neighborhood of three or four farms
if the farmers would combine and build
them. By dispensing with lintrooms
it lessons the risk of fires. 1t saves
the expense of bagging, ties, etc. 1t
saves the expense of handling the
cotton by spectators and pay
ing freights, storage, etc. 1t
would give employment to labor at
home. 1t will force capitalists to cot
ton fields, and it can't be utilized at
the North, as they have no seed cot.
ton. We believe that it will revolution
izs the whole industrial system of the
South, enabling it to hold the balance
of power in handling the cotton crop,
and hope at no distant day to see these
New Process Yarn Mills dotting all the
streams of the nth, affording EN-
ployment for skilled labor, which will
start the South upon new career of
prosperity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

II is reported that Regulator" are
extending their organization in Ken
lucky, sni threa enlng all judges and
attorneys with summary treatment il
they hinder, on legal ,echnIcaltits, the
triai of suy person in custody for felo-
ny. Too much technically in this
country has made the law farce and
justice ~ anus feed" The interest
of all lsw-sbiding citizens demands
that crime shall be spec dly and surely
punished.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
Humorous.

Subscribers are trying 20 kill us with
kindness -uuremitting kindness.
The fIerencs between 8 hen and a
mousetrsp is thar the mousetrsp can't
set itself.
"Oae drop is all 1 ask" said the
burglar, as be dropped from the paIlnr
window and was off on the wings Of
night.
Starch is said to be explosive. 1,
causes explosions in the family when
the old msn finds it has been left out
of his collsrs.
He blew into his gun to see
II loading up was needed;
The jury, 10 man, sgree
That the gun blew ter be did.
The Oneids community has given
up complex marriages. They will find
that the simplest marriage is complex
enough when twenty-seven yards of
bombsz ne will hardly fill the fittings
To one flaunce.
A 6=late6 husband, hunting in the
dark for q match with which to light
the Pas, and sudibly expressing his
disappointment, was rendered insane
in sn install by his wife suggesting in
q sleepy voice that he had be t er light
one and look far them, and not GO
stumbling around in TIE dark breaking
things.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

It Is said that the Emperor Alexan-
der, OF Russia, has become Q complete
hypochondrac. He shuts himself mp
for days, and can with difficulty be
persuaded to take food, which must
be left at his chamber door. he fire.
quently bursts into tears and IL sffiict-
ed with strange dreams. On the nights
when these seize him two doctors sit
up in his bedroom. In short, 1t Is
supposed he il mentally affected, aud
his long seclusion It Livadis, Il is be-
lieved, Il to be devoted 70 system Of
treatment which wall either kill OF
cure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

The New York Sock Exchange, it
vas announced, would sell forty sddi-
tional seats to rsise money for build-
ing fund. The minimum price placed
uloa seat was sis, 900. Besides this
an Initiation fee of $1,000 is required,
and people readily pay these sums,
which shows that the Stock Exchange
8 still regarded as the place to strike
'sbig bonar zas.n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

Two weeks ago the creditors of III
Giasc, W bank received their third dry
liend, making 49, 4 /. on the pour d
out of the a.. The total is in round
numbers Gil 900. OOO If which e7 400, :
900 is paid, AMI s., $50, 900 Is still to
pay. There IS every probability that
the eli 600, 900 wilt b. liqusdated to
the f~- hing, but the interest is doubt
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

Gen. Grant was asked by q newsps-
per correspoR dent in Chicago recently,
ssHave you been correctly reported as
stating that you would accept the Pres
idency Of the Nicarseua Canal under
certain codItiohs." His reply vas:
s'In the main, yes. These conditions
would require that the scheme should
be put on 50 per1nanent financial basis
that IT'S failure would be impossible. /
have always had a deep interest in il !;
I believe il Of vital interest to al ma
lions that this Ncrk be eonsummsied.'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

Is our army there is an officer for
every twelve privates and third of .
private. This Is nearly IS bad - Peru,
where the proportion Is one officer 70
eight men.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

The Knights Of Honor have buried
twenty-three members Of their order in
Memphis since the present fever began.
Also twenty members Of fsmilles.
They have trestsd 166 persons and ex-
psndsd in al 81, e02. 20.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

THE Richmond Dispatch has made an
anAlysis of the full returns of the re-
cent vote for Senators in that State,
and has divided the vote as follows:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
PRICE OF WEEKLY REDUCED

In view Of the hard times the price of
the WEEKLY STATESMAN will hereafter
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Now Is the time to subscribe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
AusIan market Quotations.

Butter, b C. Eggs, %.
Grain. = Corn. 10. Data,
Bright, Coo. :Whest, $1.20 Fod-
der, 81. % per hundred. Hay, $1.OO
Chickens, $3.50 per dozen. Pc
tatoes-Sweet, Sl.00 per buaheL IRISH,
50. so per barrel.
Hides, dry Tin, 8 to 12c.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04

THE oconee Georgia Clement At
tachment Thread Fastory is plain,
cheap building, just such as the ordi-
nary Aour and grist mills through the
country, and containing the following
machinery: O1e cotton cleaner, one
Clement attachment, one 30 inch top
fat card, one four-delivery DInforth
drawing frame, one IL bobbln Dan
forth speeder, two D4nlorth spinning
frames, 1872 spindles, one bunch press,
and ore bale press. Most of it is old
and secondhand machinery, and cost
$500. The building and other i'm
proyements cost $1,000; making the
total investment, $37OO. The capAcl-
~ of the factory is Only Is. 0e5 pounds
of seed cotton. They employ as su-
perinteudent lad "going on twenty
years, seven girls and one boy, with
the following results for twelve months
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
YL0UR.

Flour made from new wheat
at the Austin City MilIa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19
PERSONAL.


Mrs. ChIistiancr, the wife OF the Minister
70 Peru is ylus yeIy III al tine nome Oi mex p'ieitr IN
Washington.
The King and Queen Of Italy, il Is reported
by an II han ucwspapcr are 10 Visit Qlccu Victoria &c
Gayeuo and formally ask the hand u marriage oI Pm
cess Beatrice for tile IA!ua' Di othe ti!d'e AHa'''
Alexander Clark, II. D., editor OF The Methodist
P,c,y2 Pslur- PENN VIII a5drrs, abe literary sDcia-
trs of Yadn College North Carolina, jane >, and also
the similar societies OF Adrian College, Michigan jane
10.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster has been trying IN
vain To sci, 70 Congress Co the state Department the
portrait, # Daniel Webster and OK Lord Ashaurt"n
which were saved from the fire 10 Mars h.i. Possibly
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Iqtpt from The kn1,yledr Of lis family. and would
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19
I'VE HAINT DONE NOTHING."

Senator Morgan, OF Alabama, complains at
the course taken by the debate in the Senate
upon the political "riders" on the appropria-
ton bills. He said on Thursday that no
Senators from the lately rebelllous States had
taken part in the discussion, while the South
had been referred to often in terms Of great
severity, and almost always in the spirit of
complaint. Every question that comes before
the Senate. he says, is treated as if the
legislation proposed was at the instance of
the Southern States. But the pending
question was not brought forward by
Southern men, and he insists that "Sena-
" tors from the South are entitled TO all the
privileges enjoyed by any other section and
Z" that Southern counscls and votes should be
"receiyed with as much goodwill as from
"any other quarter" The Alabama Senator
is over-senStive, while lie is too modest by
half Ii may be true that the measures under
discussion were not introduced by Southern
men, and that the debate thus far in the
Senate has been confined TO Northern
and Border State Senators, but he
leaves out of sight the rather import
ant fact that the legislation proposed
is OF partisan character, brought
forward ny II party Ol Wulth thc SoulH Is tHe
predominant factor, and that 1t relates almost
exclusively to the condition of Southern affairs
Ii is the legislation growing out of the war
that is sought to be repealed. 1t is upon the
complaints of 4" the hardships and expressions
"of Radical misrule" that this business has
been brought forward. The drift of the dis
cussion under such circumstances has been
only what should have been expected.
The Northern allies of the Democratic party
South may be supeIserviceablo friends, or
they may be willing tools. If they run
before they are sent in this or any other
matter, it is easy for the Southern Demo
Gratis to put restraints upon them and hold
them III check. They may issue caucus orders
to that effect at any time and they will be
obeyed. But if they are either actually
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19

| spurring their Northern associates on OF
tactly consentlng to their proceedings, they
must not complain of the perfectly Ioglcal
and natural consequences OF such poliey.
This discussion necessarily raises inc
questions of State Sovereignty ana state
| Rights. The Democratic party, WIN the
South either openly urging it or silently
acGniescing. forced it ON. Does Senator Nor
gan remember that on this question there has
been n great war fought, and that the South
which referred the issue to that stern arbltia-
ment lost its case And now, when the qucs-
tion once settled upon the field is reopencd
in the forum, with the consent II not upon the
urgency of Southern Senators and Representa-
tiycs, is it to be wondered at that the South
should be referred to IN the course OF the de-
bate i'm terms not always flattenngf Senator
Morgan is quite right in his assertion that
Southern Senators are entitled to all the prlNl-
leges enjoyed by any other section, ana that
their counscls and votes should receive just As
much consideration. But he and they must
remember that when they come into Congress
aud proclaim their purpose To repeal the legs
lation OF the past eighteen years, they open
discussion in which they are handicapped
heavily handcappcd-by their own record.
They cannot bar it ont nor throw it of And
what they do by their Northern allies, or allow
their Northern allies to do for them, they must
he held responsible for.
The political "fcnce" business il greatly
ovcr,lonc There has been too much OF this
babying-out of questionable transactions by
men who receive the profits without being
actively engaged in them. Respectable Demo
Gratis in this city have been in the habit for years
of shaking off responsibility for the crimes OF the
rascals who have given them their dishOnest and
stolen mai0ries. MIR. Iiden did 1t IN 1865.
He did the same sort of thing lately when his
wicked coparccncrS got found ont. Southern
Democrats have practlscd it repeatedly in dis
claiming sympathy with or responsibility for
the bulldozcrs and rilc-cubs whose crimes
and outragcs they proftcd by. Senator Wade
HAMPTON does it when he condemns fraud IN
elections and prctcnds not 10 he responsible
for the tssuc-ballot cheating, while he ac-
cepts the fruits of it and secretly assists in
defending the criminals To go further back,
these same politicians protested, IN le1l that
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
not their work. but was started by North
ern man. And now Senator Morgan COM
plains that the South IS brought into the dis
cusson of the pending question, when It was
opened 10y Northern men, and the South has
had nothing to do with 1t. 1t won't do. The
South runs the Democratic party and the
Democratic party Is running Congress The
Northern Democracy may be the cat that fur
ni,hes the paws, but the Solid South Is the
monkey that takes the chestnuts. The eat
being of 10 account, it is quite in order to
discuss the disposition, and Incidentally the
record, of the monkey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-19
GENERAL NOTES.

A complicated chicken case has taxed the
legal acuweu OF one judge ON the Georgia bench aud
two judges the no.r The party o. the hrst part
owned or assumed The hen. and the party OF the
second part was charged with having stolen the same
The hen Was introduced evidence and duly deutdcl,
but Wilde the two eNudges were agulng tie case On is
merits she lail egg IN court As soon ss her cachle
bad advertised ths complication, the Iary of the
first part claimed II a. the product Of his property the
parry OF the second part put IN counter bid; mo
fudge ON the bench disposed 10 REGARD 70 As ludi'
cAl perdutslto; and the JtultOr puLbled something
about the ulue points.
Canadians are getting more and more walked
up tho advantages OF protective turn Here sig
nincant passage IN rcceut letter from D. H. Nikc,
the Imperial Bank OF Canada TO Jay Cooke which shows
not only what Canadians think OF the rising tide OF pros
perty in the United states but what they hope 10 get Tor
themselves Your country is making such vast studies
in progress and development that think Il VIII be only
few years whom people will be going beyond ANYTHING
that ever you dared TO think practicable and profitable
when you undertook the n. p. Railway. On this sdo
VIC have n. r. policy. which think Is goins W ID