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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

THE Corsicana Courier objects to
Houston and favors Dallas as the place
for the meeting of the State Demo-
cratic Convention, in consequence of
Houston being in the yellow fever belt.
But let US understand about Dallas
f1eas. If they are half as voracious as
those of Corsicsna, Houston is preiera-
BILE upon the two questions. Houston
has many advantages over other cities
tor such meeting, and this reference to
yellow fever, when for years Houston
has been one of the most healthy of
all Texas cities is ungenerous in the
extreme. The Age says:
There has not been case of yellow
fever in Houston for thirteen years,
and there, very probably, will not be q
case for thirteen years to come. As to
being in the belt" so is Dallas and
Corsicana. Neither of those places Is
by latitude or altitude more favoraoly
situated than Holly Springs or Mem
phis, or than LAGRANGE, in the noun
tains on the Colorado. It ia not the
"belt," but rigid quarantine that
solves the yellow fever problem. DR..
Rutherford, as yellow fever pregen-
tive, is equal to three first class frosts,
Or to latitude of So 40.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

THERE are no bounds to the informal
ton of some men. They know all
that has been or could have been, and
many things that could not possibly
have been. We are called upon to re-
feet in this wise by the startling an
nouncement contained in the Fort
Worth Democrat that the court OF sp-
pesls has twice affirmed the Krebs &
Preston case. The court said: ''The
defendants were twice convicted by
jury OF their fellow men. The court of
last resort twice reviewed the cases and
conformed the verdicted of the iuries."
How the same jury got two chances at
the defendants is not explained, but it
is no doubt true, for the Democrat
knows. The Democrat ought by all
means to haYe explained how the court
happened twice to affirm the case.
The point Is new thing in the juris-
prudence of the state, and what the
second confirmation was for it is i'm
possible to understand. We must also
confess our Indebtedness to the Demo-
crat for the additional information,
that "the deficiency appropriations
which will be asked of the Seventeenth
Legislature will make the cash balance
in the State Treasury have gaunt and
attenuated appearance. 1t does not
explain how it is going to run the
present deficiency of $4,000 to up
wards of S35O,OOO. But of course it
can prove anything in some way.
When it tells what is coming to pass,
when it speculates in futuity, 1t is al
together as reliable as when it oracu-
larry announces what has occurred IN
the past, especially in the courts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20
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By postal card, other means being
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STATESMAN will be rendered accounts,
showing amounts due, or soon to be-
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Our friends, regarding this as bust
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

Tnn Telegram says, show funny
these partisan papers can be-" which
is Just what We think every time copy
of the Telegram Is taken up. It is the
Telegram $ pattisan duty to abuse Gov
ernor Raberts. and it makes itself SUI
pTemely ridiculous in the matter.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

system. Justice slould make Congress
deal fairly with all roads. 1t should
either divide the lands equally between
both roads, or since one does no.
ask a6ytb;ng. it should give thing,
aud it wall not, unless the lobby is the
more powerful of the two bodies.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

AND now the Galveston Ne,cs is run
ning an anti-Roberts week. Who it has
not favored, and who it has not OPP
posed IS not known. 1t adheres to
neither men or principle, and is ever
Inconsistent in it's utterances.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

THE Times predicts that in four years
the whole of Kaufman county will be
in cultivation. immigration il what's
the matter, and yet the Telegram is no.
tihed that Roberts Is governor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

The BrolpnscoOd County Banner is in
favor of the nomination of Col. Crsw-
ford, of Dallas, for the Lieutenant
Governor. he would suit the STATES.
NAN admirably, az heretofore stated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
World, writing from Boston, refers
most hopefully to the condition of De-
mocTacy in the Bay State. Certain it
is, says the writer, that there has been
g steady accretIon to the Democratic
ranks going on for 8 number of years
past. In 1867 the state cast q total
Democratic vote of about 40, 900, while
at the last state election, under the
pressure of sharp local excitement,
The vote in opposition to the Re-
publican machine mounsed to no.
900. With the single exception of
CASTOR, who went in on the
cry of snti-prohibition. Msssa-
chusetts has had a long series of
Republican rulers. There are many
plans of reform in the state law which
the Democrats look forward to accom-
plishing when the state shall fall into
their hands, and while some of the
leaders think 1t of small use to make
the grand struggle for the capture of
the'state in this presidential year, 9TH
ers, and majority of them, are in ia
vor of striking now, OF making the
present the accepted time, and psrticu-
larly of taking advantage of any mis-
take make by Republicans at Chicago.
As to preferences of the delegates to
the Cincinnati convention, he makes
an individual review Of each one of
them, and shows that out of twenty
one delegate, eighteen declare for
Baysrd, and it is even believed by
many that the nomination of the Del
aware statesman would so enthuse the
Democracy of Massachusetts as to give
them a victory at the coming election.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20
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In view of the hard times the price of
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Eow Is the time to subscribe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

ALI-is net lovely for Grant In his
own state, and Ex-Governor Davis is
supremely happy. He hopes to see
tho day when Grant is counted out
az be was turned ont in 1874.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

AND now what is going to befsll the
snobs, who have been preparing for
the presence of the King of Siam In
this country. He has announced that
his tour must be abandoned, at least for
q time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

THE Southern PacifcraiI~ay Is now
completed over fifty miles to the east
ward of Tucson, New Mexico, and 1t
Is said it will reach FL PAso IN less
than 800 DAYS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

CAPT r. NJ. HENDERSON, cashier of
bank in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins
county, is a candidate for comptroller.
Banks and the comperoller's Office are
not the best Of things to be mixed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

TIE 6TATEsaIAz job office prints Law
yer's briefs IN large, clear type, cheaper
than any other establishment csu pr1nt
IN smaller type. and with the u
most accuracy and pronpsnezs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20

II Is sportiveIy said IN Chicago that
'scOOk county hiss cooked GrAnts
gOOss."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20
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T,sTRAYED
d. HenFy Bond before r. O. sssch, J.P.T
ten ye1fs cd. branded es o. lefr efonidcr q -
rH1t see o. neck. undeEbit n ieft ear fourteen
and one ,oaif hercs nigh. appraised e e18 Alec
crossed diamond, fourteen aud a 80 - dr.
esnds high, sbo1t twelve yezrs old, epprnissd q
PRANK BROWN.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-05-20
.ustin, Teza
RAILROADS.
NEW TINE CARD:

Tn attention OF passengeIy lie invited to the
tine OF Arrival and Departure of Trains AZ the
ciffaa namfd In the fcliOwinON
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

A little girl in church, after the contribu-
tion plate had been passed, cOmplaccutly
and auGlhly said paid for four mamma,
was that right ?-Audrew-' Queen.
Utica was ten months subscribing 1000 TO
finish a church building, and only four days
raising S50,OpQ 70 establish a new brewery.
But il should be recollected that breweries
pay dividends.-BJstou Post
A foreign letter says: "Hr. Gilbert Is tie
busiest man without hustle boz London
with a hustle i'm London. We should think
a mau could be buster without than with
one anyhow.-NorristOwn Herald.
Grandfather: "You are stupid, Charlie;
the dulle.t boy / ever saw" Charlie: You
must not expect me I'd understand things
quickly - you DO, grandfather because you
don't have the trouble to get EN- through
your hair"
Glow came you to fail in your examiua-
tiou2" asked a Cambridge coach Of one of
his pupils 81 thought ! crammed YOU
thoroughly "Wel, you see, replied the
student "you crammed me 80 tight that
l couldn't get it OUT
Young men should take warain, from
the story OF the watchful mother. who think
ing that her daughter guests had stayed
long enough, walked out 1u the piazza and
inquired If the morning paper had come
Rochester Democrat.
Either we must make the ocean wider or
steamships narrower Something must be
done 70 enable two ships To pass without
going through each other. Society kind Of
demands it, and the comfort Of passengers
seconds the demand.-BGrlingto Hawkeye.
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

| Colored revivalists sing, 81 am going
home to Dinah Moore" That is their idea
of Heaven
The song, II VIII Stand by You Until
Morning" is peculiarly adapted for lamp
post serenading.
An Iowa county official walked five miles
to have some one explain to him what the
Goth prox," meant.
Fourth of July has no business to come
on Sunday, and it wouldn't if almanac-ma-
kers had any patriotism.
Two fashionable and wealthy women Of
Dubuque, Ia, weSe fined - each for taking
flowers from a cemetery.
The Boston Post congratulates the coun-
try on the fact that the poet never signed
himself H. Wadsworth Longfellow.
Pere Hyacinthe is of opinion that when
ever a man ceases to adore God he worships
himself under the ideal Of humanity.
The United States army chews up half a
million pounds of tobacco and two Indians
every year. This is the average.
"Closed for the summer" Is a familiar
sign, but it is never hung over the mouth
of an orator until after the Fourth of July.
The various dark horses can now be led
around to the stables and rubbed down and
packed away for the next emergency.
A Syracuse grocer used to smoke his pipe
while leaning against his kerosene barrel.
His mail now goes to the Dead Letter Office.
When a man keeps on talking 10 you
after he has said "a word to the wise is
sufficient - then the time to take summary
vengeance has arrived.
Since losing the attractions of the court,
Turin has turned its attention to business,
and is now the chief trading and manufsc-
turing center of Italy.
If the boom in favor of establishing the
whipping post in Pennsylvania is pushed
little bit harder It viii soon be as good
State Z live IN as Delaware.
The Boston Post has learned that "they
had to put off the dedication Of a church at
Leadville for a week, because the fireworks
ordered for the occasion failed to arrive.
Tie newspapers of Ireland say it is time
that the tide of emigration from the Emer-
aid Isle TO the United States be arrested, as
young laborers, at the present rate of out.
how, will soon become scarce.
The other day when the report was spread +
about in Rhode Island that Senator Burn /.
side had decided to clip his side whiskers
he received over twenty different petitions /
praying him not to do so,
Noman knows what he may come to vet I
We have seen candidate for United States /
Senator walking in the mud with political I
toreh-light procession while his hired man
paid fifty cents for window to see the /
show.
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07
The Negro And Slavery.

| New Orleans Christian Advocate.
| Is it not time that Northern Bishops anc
Others should cease their senseless drive
about the degrading influences of slavery
upon the character of the negro? But fol
slavery the negroes would be to>day stupid
savages in the iungles of Africa. 1t was
slavery that brought them here and that
has been the means of christianizing and
civilizing millions of them. 1t is due to
slavery that they are better than the bar
barous boards that were encountered By
Stanley on the Livingstone.
If previous to their enslavement the
American negroes had been civilized Christ
ian people, there might be some reason in
this talk about the untavorable influence of
slavery. But in fact, and in the order OF q
benefcent Providence, the ignorant and
brutal savage of Africa has been immeas-
uraby elevated and blessed by a means
which philanthropists denounce as "the sum
of all villiainies." The hand of God was
in it, and, when the mission of slavery was
accomplished the institution was abolished
AS between the heather in Africa and the
freedmen in the United States, the vast SUI
periorty of the latter ought to be evident to
the dullest comprehension.
Slavery was fastened upon the South
against her protest by English and North
ern influence, but, like the captivity of Jo-
seph, God meant it for good Instead of so
many naked sayages, it has given four or
five millions of t6lerably civilized people,
multitudes of whom are industrious and
we'll behaved Christians. By it they were
brOughtin contact with the very best type
of Anglo-Saxon character, and with the
purest form of the gospel Is preached by the
Southern MethOdIsts and others. The ne
gro, thus enlightened and saved by means
of slavery has reason to be thankful that
in this wonderful way he was brought up
out of savagery and made a Christian man.
OF course our philanthropists are not going
to see this plain truth, nor to acknowledge
it. Were they to do So much of their elo
quent and bitter denunciations of slavery
would appear to be the nonsense which it
really is.
Slavery is thing of the past, but why
may not fair-minded men review the matter
calmly, and concede that incalculable good
has come out of it for the negro? And
why should intelligent men continue to
write and speak of it as if the people en-
slaved had been originally anything but the
most degraded and brutalized people on the
face of the earth? The salvation of the
African continent is likely to grow out of
American slavery. God, who sees the end
from the beginning, had great and benevo-
lent purpose in it, and in time that purpose
will be made more and more clear. With
all the evils connected with slavery, it is
evident that the good greatly exceeded, and |
that the people enslaved were the chief
The English and Yankee /
slave-traders, we may well believe, had no
humane object in view, but we cannot now
shut our eyes to the fact that good to the |
negro and to Africa has come out of their |
,ordid traffic.
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07


FACTS AND tlCUaN7 gaNeEHNIEH AMI
MAILS. Birds ANu lSsE.l
A Dauiei-auviIIe. tt. r.. 5. nursing two
gray squirrels
-
- ! ls5, "ti.n t,-15 ,.a- ....- l,'e.I M
Augusta. Ga. has been .sa. b..sl-e he pre-
vented the attendant from tA ..r-si.hiug the
lights at its base Iu the morning
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-, .,,,..,f,- L.lr3 80. -. '... -. .. '-.-
tt-E..L 49,. FL -s + .-',- -
rI,s a., s MAJ. -, ~, ,,-,..,f..-,,
Georgia paper gives this description of
a hummln1 birds ug-, recently brought To
lts Office 1T was set upon q tIUh of tree
me sic oi a m3u thumb ANA coated OUT
Stde "Ltu lie moss "i am cas-, ~f a7 perfectly
- represeu, q Nuot. = wa- about the -lzs
81 large hteAor| NUT. -u luth high, and
constructed or cotton ANA hatr. IL con-
la'Ae4 Two Hll't NAlle t4-s about lae ~iLa
OF common snap Dean.
4 white crane MAS r.....r... -,...r., ,.
Hickory Grove Ta ami .r -. t,.rI -i.-.-
was a vous turtle firmly fastened Tho MI
was "a huge specimen. ueasurine seven f,st
from tin 10 tin. but it wis almost starved
to death. While stalking around ON the
prairie lt mad stuck II bin completely
through "a 7mall turtle, ont could not gee
the turtle on again, anu ln this condition
hao remained ior days w hen discovered
II was FED but IL dlea Within two days.
In the opr.Eirt. af \.v. D,r.,.,. li,.....,
ald man who's, an, ,,,.,,,,;..., .- ~
If yerv San, s,.i' t,. A., as. ','ll7
tempted an accurst, cansfs brt h.. L,I,e,.g,
there are 500 or fng of tLor, gnj tf,.l.,;I
inr4 of his two rooms ars .,,,,,I.,,i,. biJJ,,,
bv tbe web. which rL., I,I, s,,,,., H..
tie mnst mart tbs.a .,r,y.... ...,. ,.,,I- ~
80, ~, -t ''"NS '"''i
throws handful of flies into the meshe- Of
the Iunumerabe webs, and delights to see
the spiders glide along the gos-amer and
seize their struggling victims.
The story OF "A mouse being huna Lv n
spider at Fort Wayne recently i.outI.us
by similar performance Witnessed -nnle
years ago i'm Albion. N y a young carter
snake, SIX or scve4 inches long, was di,coy-
cred under an old counter partially -us-
pended 10y a SPIDERS web. In q few hourz
1t was noticed that the snake was being
lifted from the floor. Whenever hc strug-
gIed the spider could Doe seem Igrffu,,. oI1rIt
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07
Spelling s. woman's Names.


| New York sun.
Many, II not { majority, Of the names Of
the eight or nine hundred girls from the
public schools who have been examined fer
admission TO the Normal college, gave Us
| the impression that thev belong 10 mere
| household pets rather than TO young woman
who are approaching maturity, and who are
| engaged IN serious work. These girls appar~
| entity prefer the uicknames by which they are
| known in the family circle and to intimate
| friends 10 those with which they were chris
| tened. and therefore take pains 70 adopt
| them in their signatures.
In % doing the public school girls are not
exceptional among our young women, for it
/ is quite the fashion nowadays for them 70
grow - enamored of their nursery appela-
| tions that they cling TO them Is their fixed
| and"proper names. They may even be Of
| Tended when they are addressed by their cor
| rect names, which they imagine are less
pretty than these pet diminutives and some
grave, grown up woman will pur Hattie or
Gussie, Mamie or Sallie, on their cards, as if
they were in plna.ores still.
The fashion is American but our patri-
otism cannot make Us grow fond of it. The
nicknames which appe,- in so large share
OF those public school girls signatures would
DO very well for the pets of a dog show.
When they are used to express the affection
ate regard of their friends and relatives they
also may be prktty and appropriate, but
they look Cry silly in 4 formal signature,
aud surely DO not beht the dignity of wo-
manhood.
We had, for instance, among these 500
names, scores of Minnies, Mamies, and only
here and there a Mary, much more eupho-
nious as well a dignified name. Jane is
transformed usually into Jennie, Caroline
into Carrie, Ellen to Ella Elizabeth into
Lizzie and Bessie, Katherine into Katie,
Martha into Matte. Margaret into Maggie,
Anne and Anna into Annie, and Harriet
into Hattie. Such absurd names as these ap- /
pear quite frequently: Chattie, Lidie, Mil
lie, Tillie, kittie, Rosie, Sadie, Nettie, Bib
bic, Aggie and Margie.
This fashion is extending among women,
and girls are even named with nicknames
only, as if they were always 10 be nothing
more than nursery pets. And yet this is a
period when women are contendng for
higher consideration as rational beings and |
when the range of their occupations, outside |
of the domestic circle, Is constantly widen- |
ing and growing in Importance
The weekly clarion., 1880-07-07
A High Horse.

new L OEk INES
There arrived in this city yesterday by
way of the Hudson River railway from AL
bany and was conveyed directly to his head
quarters in Houston street, what is believed
to be the largest horse that has ever fallen
under the eye of anatOmist or iockey-a
veritable equine mOnster-beside which an
imals of the ordinary height are as dwarfs
The animal was bred in Ohio, from our ma
tive draughtstock, and certainly no region
except one of the limestone bases could
have developed such an enormous equine
anatomy His registered height is 20 hands
and ] inch, or 81 inches, being a foot taller
than an average man. His weight is stated
to be :, ,450 pounds but all these points will
probably be verified to-day by competent
veterinary surgeons. As standing in the
stable the color of the animal appears to be
a uniform dark bay, without spot or blemish..
1t should not be judged that this height, al
though extraordinary, Is not altogether un-
precedented in horses. At the Centennial
exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 a span of
horses was placed on exhibition, each Of
which was IS hands and inch high The
animals were bred in Canada, and became
the property of a Philadelphia brewer when
the exhibition closed. A veterinary sur
geon in this city formerly owned a horse
that was nineteen hands and one inch high
"a giant in anatomical structure-but he
found it impossible TO correct certain ten
dency to emaciation, and the creature was
useless for draught or road. The late Pope
Pho Mono was the fortunate possessor of one
Of the largest horses in European animal
2S hands and l inch high, and the Hano-
verian stables formerly contained another
of nearly equal height. So far as can be
judged the Ohio monster is in perfect health
and physical condition, and may live to
good old age notwithstanding his abnormal
One of the famous European
animals was living at thirty-six years Of age
"a longevity not often attained by horses.
The monster in Houston street is accom-
panied by his owner, but it is understood
that he has been secured by Barnum at a
price of 81 900, and will probably be placed
1n exhibition.