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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16
TEXAS POLITICS.

-Wethered. OF Sabine county, Is y
candidate for the state senate.
The Telegram says Col. John 4.
Brady will. secure u tremendous
majority in Harris county.
-Throckmorton and Mills are
going to speak Mt Hazel Dell, Co
manche county, September 18th.
-, c. kearby, Greenback candi-
date for Congress in the third dis
trict, has gone west for the purpose
of canYassing. rs.r $3.50, -.
,. Judge Goldthwaite will proba-
bly, be a candidate for the legislature
in Harris county. Democratic NOM
nations have already been made.
-E- L. Shropshire. chairman of
the tenth judicial district, has re-
fused to call a convention to, nolni-
nate q candidate for the district
indgship. ts,t.i15,.as sff ,,f5,a..
AT the judicial convention. held
in Paris, Judge r, Il. Gaines was
nominated BY reclamation. e. ID.
Grace was made chairman of the dis
trict committee. s. .ss
The C0rsicapa Observer SAYS, in
the way of retaliation on an ,ex-
change: Western Texas does not
contain all the opposition 10 Naxey,
not BY a blamed sight r
Joe +. Brown, of San Saba, has
been nominated as the Democratic
candidate for the legislature for the
counties of San Saba, Burnet, Nc
Culioch, LlaR0 and Conch0. 80
II. W. Walker, late editor of the
san Antonio Herald, announees
himself as a candidate Coz the legis-
latnre against Col. n. o. Green.
Walker lived some time Ina, Austin.
The 7sleqrRR, which has en-
tered the field of independent poll
tics. saws: sTheyl would find it- q
pretty awkward thing to shake the
bloody shirt at Gen. j. b. Robertson.
ThoY ran that splendid man, John
Hancock. clean away by getting AZ
Ter him withsthe bloody shirt But
they couldn't run old Jerome Il
worth q cent? slslls. -is.,id Il -iiii ).
The Corsicana Observer SAYS
Some of the newspapers claim thai
Governor Roberts il Swimming his
pegs for the United States Senate
Well. the people named him fol
governor. with nnanimity nlinos.
unprecedented, and they want him
70 remain governor. THEY'VE got
nlentv of United States Senator,
lying around handy. asnl
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xSesisstsd isEaHts of selenes.

Netaphysics-the science that
treats of being. in its nature, irre-
spective of its manifestations under
individual forms-engaged the at
tention of the ablest thinkers of the
human race for three thousand
years. and until about thirty years
ago. But now, in the prevailing re-
action in favor of physical science,
metaphysics is but little studied.
Great harm may not accrue TO the
ordinary student because of this new
departure. but there is reason for
believing that the scholarship of a
nation NAV suffer by the abandon
ment of a science that has hereto
fore given TO the world its ablest
thinkers. We may go further,
and say that the study of met
aphysics created many of the men,
tai aptitudes that enable the modern
intellect TO grapple successfully with
the problems of physical science.
And posterity, by its neglect, may
lose much of the mental discipline
that will be needed IN the future.
Besides, laugh as man may about
the distractions of metaphysics, the
science is the necessary complement
of physical science. In fact, there Is
no sharp line of distinction between
physics and metaphysics, and our
modern tendencies are, there
fore, in the direction of half
knowledge. The two branches of the
one great science are reciprocally de-
pendent and ought to be maintained
together. Then. again, it is difficult
to see how any one can excel in
some of the departments of medical
scince, law and divinity without a
thorough knowledge of meta
physics. And it is believed by many
great thinkers that the medical fac
ulty has lost ground in its treat
ment OF many complaints by its ig-
norance of the relations existing be-
tween mind and disease. That the
legal profession has deteriorated ON
account of this neglect of meta
physics is evident to any man who
will closely follow even distinguish
ed lawyers through an intricate and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16
TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

The Democratic party of Texas in con-
Yention assembled, declare:
list. We heartily approve the deelara-
lions of principles made by the National
Democratic Convention at Cincinnati,
and cordially endorse its nominees,
tic support of the Democracy of Texas.
ID. We favor the free coinage and full
reconciliation of silver.
3rd. We favor such actions by Con-
gress, within its constitutional power, as
will prevent unjust determinations and
eXtortionate rates of charges for the
transportation of Interstate commerce.
4th. We regard the maintenance of a
practical system of public free schools OF
the utmost Importance, and to this end
favor the largest appropriation within
constitutional limits justified by the finan-
cial condition of the state And we IA
vor the adoption by the next Legislature
of appropriate measures looking to the
fulfillment of the constitutional require
ments for the organization and mainten-
ance of ''The University of Texas"
5th. We repudiate as false the charge
that the Democratic party of Texas has
been opposed to immigration, and while
the constitution prohibits the use Of pub
lie money for the support of a bureau of
immigration, we urge the next Legislature
to make ample provision for the collec-
ton and dissemination of statistics per-
tanning to our agricultural and other re-
sources to the end that all seeking new
homes, knowing our great advantages,
may settle in our midst, extending to
them a most cordial welcome
9th. The suffering and losses of our
people on the frontier enlist our deepest
sympathy and we pledge our most ener-
getic efforts to afford them adequate pro-
lection in person and in property, and
demand of the general government that
protection for our people thus exposed TO
which they are entitled under the cOnsti-
tuition of the United States and which
they have never yet received.
u It'll. We enjOin upon the next legisla-
ture the duty of proposing such cOnstitu-
tional amendments as will secure a more
efficient judiciary system.
Sth. We favor the most vigorous en-
forcement of the law for the suppression
of all lawlessness and crime. and pledge
the Democratic party of Texas to hold all
officers to the fullest measure of duty and
responsibility in that behalf.
9th, We demand the most rigid ccOn-
omy, consistent with efficiency, in all the
departments of the government, and
favor The reduction of taxation as soou
as the same can be safely done.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

The law steps in to help She
printer. By the last postal decision
business men can actually make
money by getting their bills and
statements of accounts printed. The
law now SAYS in substance that if
these are made out on paperethat. Is
printed st the head, they can be sent
through the mai for one cent, the
envelope being unsealed, whereas if
made ont 0n imprinted paper they
cost three cents. Thus BY patreniz-
ing printers two cents can be saved
on every bin or statement sent
through the malls, and that win
more than pay for The cost OF the
blanks. ~ Fe} s-r ii,e4.. FL ssnt- is- :
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

Women, il seenis are fitted by ma
ture for performing certain tasks.
When = rain begins 10 fal one OF
them can dash out in the back yard
and strip q clothes line of every
garment on it before You can wink
three times. Can man do this ?
Not by a large amount He viii
dash out. fall over an ash barrel, tear
his pants, knock the skin or his
nose and then limp back into the
house and swear for two hours.
Woman are superior "a men in some
respects. and there is no use in de-
nying i.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

SENATOR NANCY is preparing to
make a tour through Austin, George
town, Bolton, Lampasas and other
places. for the purpose of addressing
the people upon the political issues
of the day. Mr.. Dudley G. Wooten.
of Austin, is corresponding and
making arrangements for his pres
ence at these various points.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Dallas Times wants the next
legislature to make a state railroad
Inspector, whose duty it shall be TO
regulate the condition of railways.
and when they are in dangerous
state stop them from trifiing with
life and property. There should
be such supervision.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

WHY could not Senator Bayard
be induced to visit Texas. His
presence in apolitical point of view,
say during the week of our state
fair, would probably be of some adj
vantage in the fifth congressional
district.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Houston Telegram predicts
that Hon. George Washington Jones,
two years hence, viii he. an indie
pendent Democratic candidate tor
Governor, and preparatory to this,
he deems it well to extend his fame
and personal acquaintance, and has,
therefore, been stumping Texas, and
win continue 10 stump it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

BOTH the morning dalies of Hous-
ton, the Post and the Telegram, are
independent in politics, which means
Republican, as is shown by the local
ticket put forward by independents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THEvotc in Arkansas for congress
men. in 1873, stood: Democratic.
1896 opposition, 27,203. The whole
vote of the state was east for Gar
land for Governor, he having no OPP
ponent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

JuDaE HANCOCK was suddenly
called away from home yesterday
morning on business in New York
city. He win be absent until 0c-
tober LIST, when he win return 10
make a canvass of the fifth con-
gressional district. In themeantime.
during his absence, we hope Judge
Hancock may find il convenient 10
answer Gov. Peasc, who is inflam-
ing tho public mind in Connecticut
against the South
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

On August %, eleven young men
stood examinations for admission to
West Point Military Academy. Six
failed, and five were successful
among the latter Beaumont Buck, of
trnyoS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

1T is thought the perfect union of
heretofore discordant elements in
the Democratic party of New York
will give us two more congressman
from that state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Grand Lodge Of the World,
]. o. o. F., is in session at Montreal,
Canada.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

VERMONT election statistics for
Governor, 1873, show that Proctor,
Republican, received 1882 votes /;
Bingham, Democrat, 17,247; Martin,
Greenbacker, 1886: scattering, 763.
The legislature of 1879 stood: Re-
publicans. 204: Democrats, A;
GreenbackerS, 8; Independents. 8.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

SOME of VictOria's band, on the
9th instant, made an attack upon a
stage coach in New Mexico and
killed the passenger and driver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Greenbackers are beginning
to complain bitterly of Hon. George
Washington Jones, because of his
refusal to support their national
ticket.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Examiner, in its utterances OF
September s, reads very much like
an Independent paper. 1t advises
farmers to quit parties (the reading
farmers of Texas nearly all belong
to the Democratic partly and to or
ganize for u balance of power be-
tween contending political elements,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

IT is said the assessments on Fed
eral Office holders, for the Indiana
campaign, during the last few days,
has averaged in daily receipts $4,000.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE people of Arkansas have Il
nice little bonded Indebtedness
which they have been voting on,
something like that which posters
Tennesseeans so much.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Telegram has entered the
field of Independent journalism,
and no longer takes press dis
patches.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

Col. ROSE, the present Master of
the State Grange, is said to be n
gentleman Of considerable native
ability.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

REPUBLICANS of Scott county,
Missouri, have resorted TO the shot
gun policy in politics.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Maine election comes on the
18th inst. 1t is not expected that ii
will go otherwise than Republican,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

TELL it not above a whisper to
the file members of the Republican
party. that Iowa, a stalwart state, has
\ lawupon its statute books, which
prohibits any negro from becoming a
member of its legislature. The
passage of such a law in Texas
would raise a howl of Indignation
over the North, and especially in
Iowa.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE governor of Chihuahua offers
$1,000 for the scalp of Victoria, and
$500 each for those of his followers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THE Galveston and Camargo rail-
way enterprise spasmodically at
tacks the Galvestonian.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

THR Telephone says: cit is sur
missed that Governor Roberts viii
recommend a reduction Of the rate
of the state taxation in his next an
nnal message Everything has been
working towards such end for eigh-
teen months. The strange part of
the affair is that the Telephone has
been all the time working against
this interest
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

BEN. F. BUTLER voted fifty-seven
times in>the Charleston convention
for Jefferson Davis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

GOVERNOR HUBBARD has gone TO
Indiana to meet engagements in the
canvass of that state.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

INDEPENDENT journalism and pol
itics mean in Texas utilization with
the Radicals of 1870.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16

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As TO daies hsHSes anificts both personal aR gsgsra
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The Portland daily press., 1880-04-05
Poetry of the Multiplication Table.

From advanced sheets of III. p Hubbard's
Newspaper Directory of the World' publish
ed by him at New Haven, Conn, we are per-
mitted to extract the following highly inter-
estlng and instructive facts and figures in re-
gard to newspapers: There are 10,131 Ameri-
can Omitted States and Canada) newspapers
-o99 dailies, S,42S weeklies, tri-weeklies and
semi-WeeklieS, S04 monthlies and semi-mOnth-
lies. The total circulation of single issue of
each of these papers (omitting $40 not given)
reaches the enormous aggregate of 20,677 ,538
copies, divided as follows: Dailies, $3.50, 1855;
weeklies, tri-weeklies and semi-weeklies, 49,
oil ,424; monthlies and semi-monthles, $685.
95S. This is an average of 2,0i1 to each paper
for single issue, and taking all issues OF the
whole for one year grand total of 1,S36,473,-
592 copies. Taking ordinary forty Id. newspa-
per at its average measure of 600 sheets (sold)
to the foot, one issue of all these piled up would
measure 5,170 feet (nearly a mile) in height or
for whole year 49, JIG feet lover 81 miles)
high. Counting them all at the average size
of 27x41 inches and placed end to end, one is
sue would extend 70,64S, ,255 feet Q3,3SO miles);
for one year 27461S 106 feet q 1SS ,374 miles),
or over forty seven times around the earth and
five times the distance from the earth to the
moon. In thousand ems of type there are
nearly 1000 different pieces, and in an average
four page eight column paper, set in solid bre-
vier type, there are 14S,0O0 ems (about 450
poundS), or 296,000 types in one newspaper.
To print one issue of the total 0,13l papers of
this average size, there must be handled near
ly live million pounds of type, or 2,99S, ,T76,0O0
types. The total number of editions of all
these dailies, weeklies and monthlies for one
The Portland daily press., 1880-04-05

1t must have been tremendously embarrass-
ing to that nice young man in Bowling Green,
KY, who escorted the preachers fair daughter
to meeting and arrived late, to hear the rev.
erend gentleman read from the Bible as the
couple marched up the aisle, "My daughter is
grievously tormented with DEVIL" which
verse occurred in an account of New Testa-
ment miracle of which the preacher was read
ing. The whole congregation snickered, and
it would be hard to tell which felt worse, the
preacher, his daughter or her escort.
Deacon B. of Ohio, very pious man, was
noted for his long prayers, especially in his
family. One Monday morning, the Deacon
and his wife were alone, and as was his usual
custom after breakfast prayer was offered.
There being an unusual amount of work that
day, the Deacons prayer was short. He
seized his hat and milk-pail and started for
the barn. His wife being very deaf did not
notice his absence, but supposed him to be
still engaged in prayer On his return from
milking he was surprised to find her still
kneeling. He stepped up to her and shouted,
"Amen," when she Immediately arose and
went about her work as if nothing had hap
pened.
The Portland daily press., 1880-04-05
April.

The month of April, despite the mildness
proverbially ascribed to it, has been a stormy
one in history. The 1st is the birthday of
Prince Bismarck and the anniversary of Gen.
eral Sheridan's victory at Five Forks, which
virtually decided the fate of Richmond. The
general assault upon Lees lines before that
city took place on the I'd, and its occupation by
the Union armies on the Sd. The last-named
day has another and not inferior distinction as
the birthday of Washington Irving. Sir Henry
Havelock, the hero of Lucknow, was born on
the 5th The 9th witnessed one of the bloodi-
est struggles of modern times-the famous
storming of Badaioz, where fifty per cent of
the British attacking force perished in the as
sault. On the same day the French Terrorist,
Danton, was sent to the guillotine by
his former friend, Robespierre. DR.. w. E.
Charming was born on the 7th. The 9th is the
birthday of Lord Bacon, the anniversary of
Lees surrender to General Grant, and that OF
Admiral RodneY's famous sea fight with the
French Comte de Grasse, which, renewed
three days later, ended in the capture OF De
Grasse himself, and the greater part of his
fleet. On the 10th occurred sTellington's
victory at Toulouse and the great
ChartlSt demonstration IN London (lotSl.
Fort Pulaski was taken on the 11th,
Fort Sumter bombarded ON the 18th. The
14th, already memorable for the defeat and
death of Warwick, ''The King-maker" at
Barnet, during the Wars of the Roses, has
acquired a wider and sadder renown from
the murder of President Lincoln. On the 10th,
Gustavus Adolphus defeated and slew Count
Tilly. On the 10th, the Russian Nihilist, Kar-
akozoff, made his abortive attempt to shoot
the present car QS66), and Garibaldi landed
in Sicily: The 18th witnessed the execution of
Tantia Topee, one of the most prominent ac-
tors in the Sepoy mutiny of 1857. Tho 10th is
doubly famous for the battles of Lexington
and Concord and for the death of Byron. The
unjust condemnation by Louis XIV. of the he
roic Count Lally, the.last and bravest defender
of the French power in India, marks the
22d, which has the addional distinction of the
birth of Emanuel Kant, "the king of German
metaphysicians The 23d, by a singular CO.
incidence has the twofold renown of
being the birthday and the DEATH
day of Shakespeare. On the 26th, John Wilkes
Booth, the murderer of Lincoln, was oyertaken
and killed by the Union cavalry, and General
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Confed-
crate Army of South Carolina The 2Sth is
the birthday of Russia's greatest military en-
gineer, General Todleben. The 29th that
of the czar himself. To this list
may be added several of Napoleon's
ear lie victories over the Austrians in
1877, the departure of the Anglo-French arma-
ment for the Black Sea in 1854, the treaty by
which England, three years later, forced Per-
sia to restore Herat to Afghanistan, and Rus
sia's declaration of war against Turkey in 1877.
New York Times.