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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
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nusosne, ktENlrsn A Edwards and John - "a
na,os, ner hushSnd. v. he STATE az Texas
" Is lstssrer Of he state OF Texas;
clars, Mar ny Clark, CIV, Ia (sprt,s ,ohn 1.nr.
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Shss, .ts nSs .Hc Cisrs. Bsaiarn'n Csrk.
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Richard GGTruh. NJ .rs A vi 3.r,. n 49,,
Buueh, Re1oe CLARK. BrAx on ciAs /. 5sapdo,rS
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tbs. c. h. 6ar.is, Asrt,s R-k,r, G. vs. Rals.
Ssosge eiAIk, Nancy J. Clark Christina hoxIey.
John CiSis, Rsehei haeh's, RsnaUIrh
bpghes Nancy bunch. RsRaoipa Cisrk BoSsl.n
Cha K, Robert Clark 81 "a Thomas. Joho A
Ih,'mss, Christina will ans, Il. Williams,
Nancy j Mimss. Richard .. y. Mimks. Janes
II. Monkey. izs EiInore William Ei.ao.c.
Amsnd, j. Aoxl y wtlty b; CLARK HeaTy
Clark. Braxtoa q TX, Ncssie Baldwin, Isaac
Aaron Audsrsop, Mary Clark. Albert ozark
Alfred Clark, III, mas Glars, Fuget Clark Pam.
ela Wamplvr, Michael Wampier, Randolph
Saark, charity n Num-, WI. Ham Nnnn, Chester
y Clsrk, Bet ismin II. Clark Joseph W. Ciark.
John h. Glars, Reuben Clark, Henry ClAiHorn
SisFk, FnEe Clark and the State OF Texas,
+. Il. Laoeook. Treasurer OF the stzie Of
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caAr.es ". Ballard. Albert Horton. Nancy
4. ballsre, flessSi't A. Ballard. Nancy c J.
Iownsel. alas Nancy j. T. Townsel. Joseph
Iownsei. Dosh Virgins. Charles WigginS Al
pert Mlggns, Daniel Owens, LOUISA Owens,
Lethe loang, MelvinA Young, Stephen White
man, Robert T. WhitemAn, Joseph d WygAll,
lnonas Is. MygNh. James = Wy9al sarah
Hagerman, William G. Hage1man, John w.
We milan, Corella s. Hooper, Henry Ho per
". hSmolun, A. Pvtticolas Ava Barden,
Jackson Rust, administrator OF r q Franks
Matte A. Fulks, X. L Fulks, Thomas b. Nc.
Lnre, z. koeln, u Deting. G Dormzn, L. Wor-
mock. L. Nomaok, defendants.
PENDING In tue distrci court of Wharton
county, StSte OF Texss. No i0S1.
The above named defendants will take notica
lics ion hereof FOR thirty days, commissions win
Issue from the Office Of the clerk OF said district
urt To take the depos IONS Oh Peter j. Grisx.
OF Amelia County, Virginia; mamie NJ TAYLOR
and Elizabeth A. Edwards, of the city az kich.
mohd auc Safe Of Virgins, John Hamlet and
". A. Clark. OF Prince kdward county Virginia:
John j, Clarke, 81 Lincoln county, Tennessee;
illlam Nichols, OF Fort Bend county, Texas:
Sarah Bransford, Jacob Bransford, Ann Harroll.
& isha Belts and Sarah Gordon all OF Madison
county, Alahama; James Morris OF 81, Louis
county, Missouri; Samuel Miller OF Butler
county. hiesonri and Eliza Brown, OF the city
al -. Louis, Missouri, on the part OF the plain
ms On csrta inteuogatories nled IN said
Witness my hand and the seal OF said court
H. 81 this the seventh day of January, 1850
JAMES B. GoFF, CieIk.
Attorney OF Plaintiffs, ianis SOL
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

moral cauTsge T. clam rights that
hsd heen w.n by Their party. and
the Sole ;esson for this was that he had
lmbued 10 following With ideas of hi.
political honesty, aud being a moral
coward himself, the ssme characters
ties that belonged 10 the Euworthy
leader were transmitted 70 the follow
ere, AID The Democratic party, even
undsr the flash Of victory, was
led down into disgrace and 10 s.
honor. The fact that NJ. T.ldeu sgaiD
steps to the fraEt under these circum-
stances IS degrading 20 privileges Of
franchise ex ended American citizens,
and, feeling this, the Democratic party
will certainly be made to step down
and out, probably forever, with this
cunning machine worker as its standard
bearer. Democratic states of the
North are firm in the support of Mr..
Baysrd, while in the Republican states
there is evidently a combination to Sc
cure Endorsement Of Mr.. T,Iden, who
is the choice OF Republicans as the
Democratic nominee. They know that
should he be elected. which is utterly
impossible, he may be kicked about as
any cur, and besides this they know he
would just now come nearly destroy
ing the Democratic party than almost
any other candidate that could be
named
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
FITz JOHN PORTER.

The Senate bill in behalf Of Ger.
Fitz John Potter has been laid aside.
probably for the session. Gen. Porter
was an officer Of Us, Uainn army, and
enjoyed a brilliant military record.
Seventeen years ego he Was tried by a
courtmaEtisl snd csshierej, He hsd
been brave soldier aud an eminently
successful one up to the time of his
dismissal from the service. He was e
graduate at West Point, gallant and
distinguished soldier Of the Mexican
war, and soldier Of spotIess reputa-
ton, having always discharged his
duty with fidelity and intelligence.
At the breaking out of the late war he
was ct once assigned to important duty.
He commanded the fifth army corps
during the Peninsula campaign, and
was in all the memorable battles OF that
period. Shortly after he had rendered
signal service at the battle of Malvern
Hill be was charged with shameful
disobedience," ''retreating from the
presence of the enemy" being with
IN sound OF raging battle, and believ-
ing that comrades were being driven
snd defeated, shsmefully left them to
their fate" Though found guilty on
several charges - failing to move as
commanded on the morning of the 2Sth
of August, 1862; disobeying the com
mand of Mcdowell to move against
Gainesville; retresting on the twenty
fifth of August, not Knowing from
wha. force he retreated; disobeying
ing an order to move on the enemy a.
4:30 of the same day, and that he was
not heard from until $50; he was not
shot as the rules of war demanded,
but simply dismissed from the service;
and the board of review subsequently
found all these charges improperly
founded and some of them even false.
The purpose of the bill, before
Congress and taking up SO much of
the time of that body, is simply on the
ground of injustice to deserving Off
Ger, to restore him to the service with
the rank of Colonel since 1868, with
the pay and emoluments attaching
thereto for the time he has been de-
priYed of position. The bill origins-
ted in the report of the board OF in
quiry transmitted to Congress by the
President for such legislative action as
that body might deem proper. Dem
ocrats, therefore, were not responsible
for it, but when thus presented to
them they could not honorsbly avoid
giving it careful consideration and gen.
erous support. Porter, it has been
charged, was made the scape-gost for
military blunders of Lincoln, Stanton
and Halleck, and also that his personal
intimacy with Gen. Mcclellan was the
cause of his troubles. Besides three
distinguished Republican Generals
reviewed his case, found nothing
against him, and when these facts
were presented to Congress by
a Republican executive, there was
no reason why Democrats should refuse
justice IN the case, aud conse uently.
they espoused the cause of Porter and
made an effort to relieve him of an OSLO
guy resting SO long upon true mans
name and fame. Contrary to this
course the stalwarts haYe opposed the
bill, and its discussion has been main
ly distinguished by low-fung lnuen-
does from Senator Logan.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

NJ, XIX, lSdy II wear. old, liv-
ing on B,ssea's'cfe. k, fell from wsg-
on at San Marcos Aad or ke hsr arm
near she shoulder jeint, and the doc
tors of that place say tsey are unable
to set the broken limb.
The British consul ct Galveston ad-
dressed q letter to the Secretary Of
State with regard to the punishment
inflicted upon the Dow brothers by q
Bell county mob. The latter closes
with the iutimstIon that though the
mob may be punished by the Safe
suthoritles, this will not adequately
soothe the said sanctifcstionists. In
other words the state must psy them
for the outrage.
On the twenty-sishth John Henry,
alias Johnson, hangs st CorsicSna, and
Allen Towles, the wife killer, at Fair
field, the same day. Samuel II. Mey-
ere, who shot his step-mother, Mrs.
Hester, through her window at night
snd laid her cut corpse, steps of at
Cleburne, johnson county, on the nine
teenth. William Walker, murderer of
Major Monroe, stretches himself at
Calvert on the fourteenth proximo. On
the tEirueth Of the same month Noft-
singer, the murderer of Cline because
the latter married his sweetheart, hangs
on the same gallows at Gainesville,
Cock county, with Krebs and Preston,
who massscred Rev. Mr.. England and
his whole family IN Montague county
On the fourteenth of May Henry Shot,
e. = - e II
ton Heard, swings at Longview.
The Neps says that train of twenty
three wagons, with 153 negroes, passed
through Fannin county, intending to
stop in the vicinity of Red River City
aud make one meanwhile send
ing same of their leading men to
Kansas to investigate aud report on the
advantages ffered by that section. II
IN report is favorable, they will go on
to Kansas next year. The Ne,os wishes
them aud all their kind God-speed in
the emigration movement. "We are
firmly convinced" says the News, SIT
would be much better for Texas if
we had not single freedman
within our borders. No labor
is 80 utterly unreliable as that
of. the negro, and until all the
negroes leave this country we can have
no reasonable hope of supplanting
them with anything better. Once get
them out of the way, and we can sup
ply their places with foreign white la
bor-far more efficient and much less
costly after the expense of importing
it is repaid. And once accustom the
employers of this section to the faith
full, efficient service of white lsborers,
ana negroes cannot obtain work here
at any price.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
TEXAS FACTS AND FANCIES.

Small PIX has the best of Rio Graude
City.
Mr.. 8. NJ. Dana Stone of Waco is
dead.
Houston has completed its $35. 900
court house.
Cattle have been dying of starvation
in Llano county.
McLsnpan county has an active i'm
migration society.
Capps, the negro rapist, will be
hung st Fort Worth, May Z.
The cars will be running to Weather
ford by the fifteenth of April
Business is active at Terrell and many
new buildings are being erected.
The B elton Journal flies the name of
L G. Alexander for attorney general.
jefferson has compromised its
$50, 600 debt at twenty-five cents on
the dollar.
Alexander NJ Lowry, who was lately
found dead in Knoxville, is said to
have brother living in Waco.
The case of ] ,hn D. Hunt, charged
with the murder of Capt. ]. G. Kill
Tough, is progressing at Columbus.
The poverty of Mexicans about San
Antonio is the result OF ignorance,
drinking. gambling and cock-fghting.
The Denton Monitor says Capt Peery
has alfalfa growing ''exhuberautly."
Wonder if the late cold snap hasn's run
it into melancholy state.
The srtesian-well auger at Whitney
is going down into the bowels OF the
earth at the rate of ten feet per day.
1t has also discovered oil.
A band of Indians from Mexico have
been looking around among the.Chi-
natl mountain boomers to see If they
have anything worth taking.
The stockraisers OF Northwest Texas
have been consulting about their inter-
ests at Jacksboro. They pool against
the railroads, which have heretofore
pooled against them.
Among matters Of interest men.
toned by the Post, are the facts that
Col. Baker is going ct once into an
active canvass, and that there is pros
pect of a great revival In the hide BUSH
ness in Houston.
F. C. A. Kopke, late OF the Bolton
ssnctificationist band, has gone 10
Waco, and says he has been sent there
to drive the devil out of people Of that
burg. Naturally he went right after
the Telephone man.
The Marlin Ball is for the o. A., and
the Telegram just declares it may be
for Old Nick if it chooses. The Bal
has gotten out side OF the pale of the
Telegram, ani can henceforth only get
Is abuse, but 1t never will hurt any
body.
| A man was crested q few dsys ago
at Sherman and indicted by the grand
jury for forgery and theft. BE wst
under the name of Warren. Now u
turns out th, his name is Meeks, and
$1,000 reward is offered for him 10 Mis-
sissippi, where he is charged with muir.
der. Officers will come from Missis-
sippi after Meeks.
The Hesperian says that Ben. Krebbs,
James Preston, and Lucien MoffHnger,
were brought into court to receive
their death sentences. Krebbs and
Preston are convicted Of the murder
of the England family in Montague
county, IN 1876, but on this occasion
they denied their guilt Norftsinger,
Who killed his successful rival, while
| be was lying on the bed sleeping BY
the side of his wife, said nothing.
The men were all sentenced 10 die on
the thirtieth day Of April.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
THE Richmond (Vlrginia} Common

THE Richmond (Vlrginia} Common
s0ealth says:
We have no hesitation in saying that
we believe it would be great calamity
to the country for the Democratic
party to nominate MIR. TIlden. Inde-
pendent of the fact that he carries a
load in the way of charges against the
man which would be a serious burden
to the Democratic candidate, which is
regarded as almost pusillanImity in
him in failing to assert his right to the
Presidency, has driven away from him
the energetic and dashing men of the
party. His nomination would mean a
flabby campaign, in which those would
yell who were paid to yell, and those
Democrats would vote who look on it
as citizens duty to vote at all cleo
tions.
The same paper regards Mr.. Thur
man as having compromised himself IN
his connection with the spurious, re-
pudiating Greenback campaign" AS
to Mr.. Bayard, it thinks his chance a
poor one, since he has no machines
working and bar'ls rolling around.
But 1t says:
Mr.. Bsyard presents in himself every
thing which the people of tie South
could ask for in the chief magistrate
but, unhappily, this fact lessons the
chance Of his being acceptable to the
people of the North. We should be
delighted to think we could have
Thomas F. Baysrd for President.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18


THE price Of seats in the New York
Brokers Exchange has advanced, since
the boom In stocks began, from $500
to <f7, 500. Il Is said that the total
advance in railroad securities exceeds
the amount of the national debt. Rsil-
road securities representing what may
BE- duplicated to-day for SIS, coo Per
nile. are IN msRy Instances selling IS
high IS $50 oeo per mite. There is
sometsiiag 10 slis soss 81 speculation
that bodes1o good Il the country, and
there Is 20 telling WHEN . crash msy
come. TIE fcaaeas valaSsious in
:. oks have gwen origin 10 msny imam
ciai panlcs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

CART EADs. Of the st. Louis bri5ge
aad Mi-sissippi jz,ty fame, has teeE
before the same congressional coaiu..-
tee that listened TO NJ de LESSEE s, and
laid before its members the plan Of s
railway for transporting ships between
the two oceans. 1t is sscertained that
q railway by the Tehuantepec route is
practicable, and the advantage OF
rapid passage for ships between the
Gulf of NIX 20 and the Pacific Ocesn
Is beyond exsggeration. But the locs-
on of the railway is Of secondary i'm
portance. l. is the scheme itself that
dem ,nds Investigation. L. does not
seem unreasonable to suppose that a
railway built out into a harbor 5000
feet, at q depth of thirty feet below
the surface of the ocean, could be
used TO catch up into cradle laden
ship, and carry it upon the land, max
ing an ascent of only one :oot in q
hundred until level was resche6.
With twelve rails laid after the manner
of ordinary railways, and with wheels
three feet apart and having pressure
of only about three tons each-l,ss
than half that of q locomotive-the
transportation of the largest vessel
seems no difficult matter. With
well constructed road, the safety
as well IS the rapidity of the
passage of ships b.tween ocean
and ocean would seem assured.
Certainly out of all this agitation, first
N. de Lesseps, then Capt. Esds, and
last, but not least, Admiral Ammen,
who is now securing concessions from
the Nlcarauguan government for lock
canal, there will soon be provided
plan by which the old route around
the bleak coast of Patagonia must be
known no more. This is what the com,
mercial world needs, and 1t does not
care how it is done 20 it is done.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

AND now the Telephone. in distress
full state, finds fault with Governor
Roberts, because he did not reduce the
interest on the state debt long ago.
How much more credItable it would
haye been to many people of Texas to
have gone on aiding the Governor In
doing good, than for them to have
used all their energy in trying to make
the world believe him worthless for
the purpose for which the people elect
ed him. The masses are highly salts
fed, and the machine grinders are
Laundering about at their wits ends.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

BY postal card, other means being
too expensive, subscribers to the
STATESMAN viii be. rendered accounts,
showing amounts aue, or soon to be-
come due, on subscription. 1t ia 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 frat of January it is
proposed TO have ali outstanding mat
ters closed, and q prompt reply will
save further trouble il collecting bills.
Our friends, regarding this as busi-
ness, win not fail to respond.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

NOTICE
For Regular Annual Meetings or
the Directors aHd stock b oidsrs OF
Ihe international and Great North
ern Railroad 0mpaay.
OFFICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND GREAT
NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY
PALEsTISE, TEXAS. February 10, 1850.
Notice II hereby given that tho regular annual
meeting OF tho Board OF Directors OF this Com
pany VIII be held nj the Office OF the Company,
in Palestine, Texas, ON Moldsy, April q, 1880, az
10 o'clotk A. NJ Pursuant 10 the bylaws Of the
Company, for the trinsaction of such business
as may come before the mseiing.
Notice Is also hereby given that the regular
annual meeting II he Stockholders Of this
Company VII bc held at the ofice OF the Com
pany. IL Palestine. Texas on Monday, April 0.
1851, al ii NJ. pursuant to the Sy-laws OF tho
Company, for the purpose OF electing Board
OF Directors to serve for the ensuing year and
for the Transaction Of such other business a.
may come before the meeting.
W iill ap5 IRA II. EVANS, Secretary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

In Howell county, Missouri, two
young ladies were murdered in their
beds at night by their own uncle, 3
neigtbor, for $500 which had been left
with them for safe keeping by their
father, who was awaylfrom home. A
stranger staying all night in the house
discovered the murderer too late to save
the girls. He was attacked and in de-
lending himself shot the murderer dead.
The neighbors were aroused and dis
covered the young ladies in their beds,
dead, with their threats cut, and theil
villsinous uncle's body on the fcol
with the $500 still in bis hand.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

The benson Herald wants to know
of the STATESMAN how it is shout that
$780, 600 paid on the state debt with
money arising from taxation. 1t is
net 5000, 900 now, but it has reached
$500. 900, as we showed the other day
in an article, giving figures IS to the
amount of liquidation of the states in
debtednese. The exact amount Is
1901, 25S so, and this is not the last of
such good work.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

THE reconstructed Legislature of
Maine is apt to have full investlga-
ton of the bribery business. The Flu
sionist members, who were paid a
thousand dollars each to desert from
their party, stick to their story and
bring corroborative evidence, besides
holding the money subject to Whites
order IS soon as he confesses that 1t is
his. But since Mr.. Hale Is chairman
of the investigating committee 1t is
scarcely conceivable that any state of
facts shown can prevent him from Civ
ing his ieuttnant a vindicstiop. He
is an adeptln the art of withdrawing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
Tribune, estimating that three million
Republican electors to whom the can
didature of Gen. Grant would be dis
tasteful, says, ''the man on horseback
has already appeared on the banks of
the forbidden Rubicon, impatient for
an invitation to plunge in. Under his
modest and meek demeanor there
q Cesaresn ambition that, unlike the
elevated patriotism of Cincinnatus or
the noble ambition of Washington,
lacks the heroic virtue to refuse illicit
power or an imperial crown if rendered
him. Against the first proposed step
leading to this imperial ambuscade
these three million Republican electors
do most emphatically protest and will
very generally vote"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18

TIE trial of Tllden for cheating the
government out of his income tax is set
down for April. 1t has been set down
for many previous occasions, but Til
denis lawyers have always managed to
have it postponed. Tie very last thing
Tlden appears to want Is to give fair
chance to justice. However, the de-
lay has not done any harm. It has
enabled the government to obtain 5
quantity Of additional evidence. which
indicates that he has defrsuded the
government Of about eighty thousand