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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-27
TEXAS FACTS AND FANClES.

There are $4,000 head of cattle In
Victoria county.
The Texas Press association Is
composed of 100 editors,
VIM. Clay, groceryman at Brown.
wood, has failed in business.
Corn is selling for so to 35 cents in
almost all parts of the State.
Pleasant Wilson, one of the first
settlers of Collin county, is no more.
The Texas and Pacific is completed
to Abilene, 1875 miles west of Dallas.
Forty Tonkaway Indians are
working upon farm near Graham.
\ committee is investigating the
financial condition of Comanche
county.
VIM Frost, charged with tho mur-
der of VIM Warden, is on trial al
Mckinney.
Galveston is making extensive
preparations for Mardi Gras, on the
lst of March.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
railway will cross the Texas and Pa
cific at Abilene.
San Antonio proposes a grand
celebration for March 16, the anni-
versity ofthe fall of the Alamo.
j. w. Beale, under indictment for
forgery, at Weatherford. suicided in
jail, by swallowing carbolic acid.
Ross, the man who played deputy
sheriff in Trinity county and thus
robbed two men, has been arrested.
Crawford, the negro. who was
elected assessor of Marion county,
could not give bond, and resigned.
In three months thirty-three mar
riage licenses have been issued by
the county clerk of Comanche
county.
Grass grows grcenest over the
grave OF the man who always
subscribed and paid for his home
newspaper.
Within the past three months not
less than 2500 German immigrants
have sailed from Europe for Texas,
direct, landing at Galveston.
The Texas and st. Louis road. has
been granted the right of way
through South Waco. 1t is expected
to reach the city by May "a.
The alcade, judging from his mes
sage, is one of those states
rights democrats who will never
spell nation with a capital IN"
Here's 10 the jury" was Abe
Rotbschild's toast at the banquet
given him in Cincinnati, on return
ing from his four years visit TO
Texas.
J. j. Franklin, Of Comanche, is the
inventor of new kind of wheel for
wagons, buggies, etc, that is said to
possess many advantages over any
thing yet made.
The track Of the Gulf Colorado
and Santa Fc railroad is laid TO
Temple Junction, Bell county, 21s
miles from Galveston, and eight
miles from Belton.
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RECIPROCAL OBLIGATIONS.

MIR. EDIToR-I have often heard it
asserted by yolr newspaper men
that the community in which you
establish your paper is under a
moral obligation to sustain you.
Now wish to ask: Do you think
there is any moral or legal obliga-
ton resting upon any one to sub
scribe for any paper unless he feels
inclined to do so?
1t is gratifying to have the above
question presented, since it affords
occasion to speak of this subject in
its different bearings. There is no
obligation. moral or otherwise, rest
ing upon any particular indi-
vidual to sustain neWspa-
per. AS a member OF socie-
ty, however, it becomes each
mans duty to contribute to the ex-
tent of his means to any enterprise
which is likely to improve that So
ciety in which he lives. The news
paper is now a great power in the
land. 1t is the great channel of
communication between different
aud remote parts of the world. Un-
der proper management it is the
friend and coadjutor of religion and
education. AS reformer it
takes the lead of all agencies.
Suppose, for a moment, that all
newspapers were initantly blotted
out what blank would exist. The
effect would be something like
the sudden extinguishment of
the lights of a great city
with its teeming population yet
upon the streets. Blank amazement
would seize upon all, and each, if
necessary would gladly contribute to
the re-establishment of the light
upon which all so much depend. Of
course among the scores of thou
sands of papers, which are published
there must be some whose influence
is not good. These, however, are
like the little eddies near the edge
of the river, which strive, in vain, to
flow back against the mighty stream
which sweeps irresistlbly onward.
The great influence of the press is to-
day in the main exerted in be-
half of law, good order, education,
religion, and humanity, and like
other agencies having this end in
view, the newspaper has a right
to expect the support of the
community in which it is published.
But the objection is reciprocal. In
return for the support of its patrons,
it is the duty of the journalist TO ex-
clude from his columns all that is
trashy, or impure, and 10 make his
paper the vehicle for disseminating
correct information and sound NOR
atty.
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in the year 1870, to that OF about IL 900 in
the year 1880. 1t is the capital of the
State, and will probably remain such al
ways, as il is central TO the territory
| of the State and il acknowledged TO
be most beautifully located and TO
be healthy, besides IL Is likely TO be
from its location n center ofrailroad COM
munication. Its advances in population
are steady, at no time decreasing, and as
the capital of the State. with State insti-
tut!ons and buildings located in or near
1t, II is likely to increase very largely in
population. and il would he unwise to
cripple the growth ofthe city by dimin-
ishing its area, and burdenIng it with the
care and charge ofthe contiguous popula-
tion as is proposed by the petitions afore-
said.
Third. And the undersigned show that
the said city OF Austin since the extern
sion of the area of the city further, the
territory in which the petitioners live has
contracted large debts for the mainten-
taking care of the sick, and in other ways
that could not be properly apportioned
in case of the reducing the limits of the
city.
Fourth. The undersigned believed the
area now enclosed in the city limits is
not too great, that in few years the
whole of 1t will be subdivided into lots
ahN " bc OCCuDlcu DN
and business houses. That within the last
ten years, large amounts of land in the
proposed disbursement have been so
subdivided and sold as additions to the
City of Austin, and that in the next ten
years as much more will be subdived and
sold. That these lands, by a provis-
ion of the present charter are pro-
tected against eXorbitant taxes,
inasmuch as, until the same
are laid off into lots and blocks, they can
only be appraised as agricultural lands.
and the undersigned believing tn at it is
for the well being of the community of
the city of Austin that the city bounda-
ries be kept as they now are, protest
against any law that will change the same.
j. L. Breckenridge, John NJ. Swisher,
a. Balm, VIM. III. Tobin, Herm. Schmidt,
Alfred Smith, r. NJ. Castleman. +. Raven,
+. &. Bartholomew, James Hickey, w. B.
Brush, George A. Brush, G. X. Johns,
John StelfoX, w. StelfoX, Ben Thompson,
city marshal, Alonzo Robinson. John Ii.
Robinson, Leslie Price, j. C. Petmecky,
A. Dohme, II. Hirshfeld, Don Wilson,
James b. Barron, EgglestOn Il Bro, j. W.
Hannig, f. Kuehne, W. w. Bissell, John
Bremond, John II. Robinson, Jr., Phil
Abahams Il Bro. Z. Bremond, Page Nc
Dannell, p. w. Jobe, c. w. Daniel, G.
Crow, NJ. Mas, John o. johnson, A.
Neill, George Levyson & Philipson, j.
b. Billeisen, Hugh A. Haralson, f. W.
Stands, b. Melasky & Son, Monroe Miller,
W. A. Pitts. j. A. Hooper, Jos. A. Nagle,
j. w. Stalnaker, Z. HuppertZ, VIM. j.
Sutor, s. Frledberger, Flavius Everett,
j. NJ. Morphis, City Water Company, II.
NJ. Andrews, j. II. Robinson.
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men that he would not obey orders
to turn bad men out of jails to eXer-
else lawlessness, and 10 commitcrime
at Will. His was an offense
against brute force, made in the in
terest of upholding constitutional
law and civil jurisdiction, and be-
cause of this he was removed from
the Office given him by the people,
and political and social chaos fol-
lowed. Irresistably impelled by con-
victions of right, in 1868, in spite
of military order to the con-
trary, he entered the fiel6
in canvass for Horatio Seymour
for the presidency, and thus he took
occasion to publicly defend Texas
and Texans against the calumnies
heaped upon them. AS a represen-
tative in Congress from the third
district Throckmorton command.
ed the respect and admira-
ton of the people of the
whole country. He is known
in every part of the Union
as a statesman of advanced ideas,
and his presence in the Senate of the
United States would secure the
friendship of all. His adhesion to
the interests and to the advancement
of Texas would make him a bold ad-
vocate of measures tending to en-
hance the development of the State,
and in furtherance of federal aid in
oast.improvemenIs no man could do
more than j. w. ThrOckmorton. The
ablest men in many sections of the
country have been led by his opin-
ions in Congress, and his influence
in the Senate would be great. The
questions for legislators to consider
are: Is he meritorious? Is he capable?
Is he devoted to Texas? Is he in6Uen
tial? His record gives an affirmative
reply TO all these points, and
should he be paced in the
Senate people from all sections
of the State will have occasion to
often reflect that these Legislators
acted most wisely.
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Senator Homan's bill. before the
Senate, if placed upon the statute
books, may stop the easy process
by which indictments are quashed
in this State. 1t provides:
"That an indictment for any of
fense against the penal laws of this
State shall be deemed sufficient.
which charges the commission of
the offense in ordinary and concise
language, in such manner as to en-
able person of common under.
standing to know what is meant,
and with that degree of certainty
that will enable the court, ON con-
viction, to pronounce the proper
judgment; and in no case are the
words force and arms or con-
trary to the forms of the statute"
necessary. The bill provides forms
of Indictment for various offenses,
that for murder being so simplified
as not to require more than a dozen
lines"
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also be included in the point of OF.
der, because they were directly in.
terested in keeping up any agitation
i'll regard to national banks.
SAVANNAH, Ga, January 49,
The spring meeting of the Savannah
Jockey Club opened yesterday at
Ten Brock course. The weather
was cold and drizzling rain fall
ing. The first race was the Ten
Brock stakes, mile heats. The first
race was won by Athos, King Nero
second, Georgia Boy third, May
Wilson fourth, Bob Sousser dis
tanced; time, LAG. In the second
heat Athos sulked and was distanc-
ed, and the heat and race won by
King; time, 1:494.
The second race was for the Sa-
yannah cup, twu-mile dash. Fair
Count won, Ella Warfield second,
King Duchman third, Momento
fourth, Vinita fifth; time S:4S.
The third race was a mile and a
half dash, won by Longtaw, Bonnie
Castle second, Lottery third, Fox
fourth time 2:55.
In consequence of to-day being
the great day with the military. in
honor of the anniversary of Gen.
Lees birth, the races were postponed
till Thursday.
ST LOUIS, January 19.-The Mis-
souri, Cotton Seed Oil Company
made an assignment. Assets S45,-
600. The liabilities are said TO be
about $4,000.
CINCINNATI, January 19.-G. & ii.
Henry, importers and iobbers in
straw goods and millinery, made an
assignment. Liabilities $65,000.
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To the Senate and House of Representa-

To the Senate and House oil representa-
tives of the State of Texas, at Austin,
sitting:
The petition of the undersigned citi-
zens of the city of Austin, Texas, respect
fully shows TO your honorable bodies
that they have seen notice of the petition
of Geo. c. Red and others to your hon.
orable bodies to make East Avenue the
eastern boundary of the corporate limits
of the city of Austin, and of W. A. and
Ben. S. Pillow, A. J. Jernigan and others
to reduce the corporate limits of the city
of Austin aforesaid, on the west; and
they respectfully oppose the reduction of
the corporate limits of the said city for
the following reasons:
First. Because the limits of the city on
the east by East avenue would cut of
large contiguous settlements thickly in
habited by persons who are doing busi-
ness in said city of Austin, and would
exclude from the city the Central Rail-
road depot, and the cemeteries, which
are in charge of the city. That these set
Elements are within the protection of the
city and receive the benefits OF the corpo-
ration in full proportion to the taxes
paid by them in the building of bridges,
extending water works, opening streets
and in u daily police for the preservation
of order. That the settlements east and
west were originally included because of
their size and importance and the grow
ing wants of the city area That
1t was found necessary to do so for the
proper government OF the city and the
power to arrest offenders against the
public peace and the city ordinances, and
that IL would prove great injury to the
city and injustice to the inhabitants
thereof to allow these settlements to be
cut OF from the supervision of tn, police
of the city. That the petition Of those
occupying the western portion of the
city ought not to be allowed, because
almost without exception all the persons
rincluded have their business in the city
and are as much interested in its welfare
as any citizen within the limits OF the
city. That large improvements in build
ing bridges and making streets and other
improvements have been made for their
benefit and convenience, and the taxes as
sessed against them are no more than the
benefits received amount TO, and that IL
would be impossible to govern the city in
q proper manner by leaving out such
large communities near IL without gov
ernment- That such settlements would
be harbor for offenders against the city
and its ordinances, unless they were in
corporated in said city.
Second The city Of Austin has in
creased from population OF about 1000,
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THE BLESSED CREATURES

A charming woman writes note
to the STATESMAN, appealing TO it
to take the side of woman along
with Senator Houston in his efforts
to have law passed requiring the
employment of women in the State
department. The appeals unneces-
sary. Who ever heard of the
STATESMAN turning its back upon
woman? 1t has ever been a warm
admirer of the sex, and has time
ard again, through all these
years of its existence, lent aid and
comfort and advice to the gentler
sex; and who would not protect
woman and love and defend her.
To love and defend,her does no
mean that man should make her his
subordinate, but his equal in all
things, his companion not only in
love but in all the occupations of
life for which her constitution and
her temperament fit her. The idea
which has long prevailed, that
woman belongs TO a subordinate
sphere in the relations of life has
been evicerated to a great degree
from the laws Of society, but il
finds slow recognition upon the
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NO 25

at Lynchburg is five feet above or
dinary level and still rising, and at
Columbia the river Is nine feet. The
river here has risen but slightly "a
yet. The Savannah river ut Char
louisville is up about six feet. Tho
streams in West Virginia arc also
reported much swollen.
CHICAGO, January PA fire hero
last night destroyed the three-story
brick furniture factory of +. Never.
at the corner of Clinton and Debar
streets. The building covered l4S
by 4S feet. 1t was filed with infiam-
mable material and in twenty min
utes after the first alarm the front
wall fell in. burying fourteen fire.
men and one policeman in the ruins.
After their rescue four were found
TO be fatally injured, namely: James
Conway, engineer of No. Is, both
legs broken and injured in
ternally, found buried under
five feet of brick; Edward Murphy,
captain of engine No. /, caught un-
der beam, picked out still clinging
to nozzle of pipe, shoulder blade
broken and chest caved in; W. V.
O'Don1ell, engine No. IL, very
badly cut about the head and in
jured internally; James Tobion,
pipcman of engine No. l, buried un-
der brick walls with chest
crushed in. Others escaped with
painful bruises. The loss is estima-
ted at $4,000; partly insured.
NEW York, January PA special
from Augusta, Georgia, SAYS two
culverts of the South Carolina rail-
road at Granitville, were washed
away last night, and trains are una
bic to pass. Fortunately he DAM
age was discovered before the train
attempted to cross. The Savannah
river is much swollen from recent
heavy rains, and fears are enter
tanned for the safety of railroad
bridges. Hamburg and Brooklyn,
of Augusta, are submerged.
New YORK, January 22.-Tha
weekly statements of associated
bankers shows the following
changes: Loans, increase $4,975.S SEQ,
specie increase &1 ,02I 900, legal ton
der increase S209.50O, deposits in
crease $655, ,1v0, circulation decrease
$4,000, reserve increase $g2, 1926.
The banks now hold $S,l46,725 in
excess of legal requirements.
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THE Galveston Neacs comes for
ward in aefensc of its scheme for
using the same forms of type twice
once to get money from the Senate,
and once to secure it, as per con-
tract made with the State Printing
Board for journals in book form,
and tries to make capital against the
STATESMAN. The Netcs should first
acknowledge the scheme. and then il
should get the two first bids pre-
sented to the printing committee
and publish them side by side to
show that the STATEsMAN,s
bid was much the lowest
1t could then show that
the proposition presented in fur
therance of its scheme, is higher
even than was the first proposition
oftheSTATEsMAN. The last bids were
enforced on this scheme, whereby
the STATESMAN was placed where il
could not compete, since il had nc
existing contract upon which II
could be enabled to secure double
profits by two payments upon the
same type setting.
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BRADsTREET estimates the cotton

This estimate falls short of antici-
patton in the beginning of the sea-
son about $4,000 bales, and the loss
is accounted for by the long rainy
seasons, which have retarded pick
ing, by which much of the yield was
destroyed. The area in cotton is
placed at 16,5O0,OOO acres, showing
an average of only little over one
bale to every three acres, or crop
yield of about $15 per acre.
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JOHN SHERMAN, it is thought,
would hardly give up the Ohio SEN
atorship to be his own successor in
the treasury department. Specula-
ton, at Washington, is in favor of
Senator Allison, of Iowa, who is in
favor of the silver dollar. The banks
may see, however, that such speeu-
Iation will never be reality. The
secretaryship of the treasury, for a
certainty, has been refused Senator
Morton, q New York banker.
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News from lEc People.
Especial to the Statesman !

MARSHALL, January En- late
issue of the Galveston Ne,cs
its Marshall correspondent re-
ported that the people of Har-
rison county preferred Maxey
to Throckmorton for senator. On
seeing the dispatch several promi-
nent citizens of Marshall sent tele-
gram to the Nc'oS cnntradicting the
dispatch of the. Ne,oS correspond
ent. This dispatch the NeWs re-
fused to publish. A petition,
signed by large number OF the
prominent citizens of Harrison
county, has been forwarded to her
representatives in Austin, request
ing them to vote for IhrockmoTton.
This the News correspondent failed
to notice, although he knew the
facts. Z.
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NOTICE.

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Francis NJ. CocKRILL is the new.
ly elected Missouri senator.
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THE Terrell Times, one of the
leading papers of the twenty-second
representative district, saws:

The Hon. J. w. Throckmorton has
fair chance for the senate, dirty
filings at his supporters notwith-
standing. We undertake to say that
Hon. James s. Woods is not mis-
representing his constituency be-
cause he shows a decided preference
for Throckmorton.
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NOTICE

IL hereby given that an application will be
made to the Legislature at Its next sessIoS for
an act granting to the Mexican Telegraph CON-
pany parcel of land on the Island Brazos San
dago, In Cameron county, Texas, whereupon
TO erect the necessary buildings for the recep-
don of cable, connecting the city of Vera
Cruz, in the Republic of Mexico, with the tele
graph system in the United States.
Austin, December %, 1880. de24dltw3tt
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The ROfhschiIdS

The Rothschilds are richer and more
powerful than ever. They are men who
watch over estate and influence with in
cessant vigilance. They have not only
their own estates and the Bank of France
nd the Northern Railway at their backs,
ut they court every man who has the
least power, newspaper writer as well as
statesman, influential beauty as well as
powerful soldier. Their influence is felt
IN every rank of society, and they foster
this influence by assiduous attention.
NeaO Orleans Picay4yle.
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Shall We Meet Again 2

The following is one of the most
brilliant paragraphs ever written by
the lamented Geo. d. Prentice:
L" The fat of death is inexorable.
There is no appeal for relief from
the great law which doomed us to
dust. We all are destined to flour
~ ish and fade as the leaves of the for
est and the flowers that bloom, with
or and fade in a day have no Trailer
no d upon life than the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth
with his footsteps Generations OF
I'D men will appear and disappear as
e the grass, and the multitudes that
thrOng the world to-day win disap-
pear as footsteps on the seashore.
.--aa.rr Men seldom think of the great
event of death until the shadow falls
across their own pathway, hiding
9 from their eyes the faces of loved
: ones whose living smile was the
aaE sunlight of existence. Death is the
antagonist of life, and the thought of
the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts.
We do not want to go through the
dark valley, although the dark pas
sage nay lead to paradise; we do
not want 10 60 down into damp
graves, even with princes for bed
R.FfA--.
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me Nashville american.

This faithful and unwavering adj
Yocate of Democratic principles
views the result of the late Nationa
and State elections, as only an add
tional incentive to every sincere Low.
or Of his country and its institutions
to look more closely than ever into
the administration of pnblic affairs
.s By the peoples servants. 1t will be
w. the province of The american to APP
PreFeright Rd=denouneez error az
3 heretofore, and to give. the people
such information as viii lead then
to eorrecta conclusions The facts 1t
will give viii be without bias, upon
which its readers car. form their own
opinions. Time and the recurrence
Of popular elections, show that ave
ry large portion of the voters of the
Union act from the impulse of the
moment, rather than from settled
CONNECTIONS in regard to correct prini
ciples of government Hence the
greater necessity for the use of pub.
lie journals to obtain juster and more
settled views on governmental ques-
tons This The american viii en-
deavor, with the utmost pains, to
supply. Els E#